
The frame story involves a powerful sultan who is unable to, um, rise to the occasion with a new harem girl (Femi Benussi) Read More »
Monthly Archives: August 2018
Le futur aux trousses (1975) Dolorès Grassian, Bernard Fresson, Claude Rich, Andréa Ferréol

The desire that many people have to live life with another more glamorous identity is the focus of this French satire. Read More »
Bon Voyage! (1962) James Neilson, Fred MacMurray, Jane Wyman, Michael Callan

The Willards from Terre Haute, Indiana, travels abroad for a once-in-a-lifetime vacation in Paris, France. Read More »
The Strange Woman (1946) Edgar G. Ulmer, Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Louis Hayward

Beautiful Jenny Hager finds she can always get what she wants from the men in the 1820’s port of Bangor, Maine. Read More »
South of St. Louis (1949) Ray Enright, Joel McCrea, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott

Produced by Milton Sperling’s United States Pictures, South of St. Louis was given a widespread release by Warner Bros. Read More »
Cavalcade (1933) Frank Lloyd, Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O’Connor

A cavalcade of English life from New Year’s Eve 1899 until 1933 seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Read More »
The Constant Nymph (1943) Edmund Goulding, Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Brenda Marshall

Fourteen-year-old Tessa is hopelessly in love with handsome composer Lewis Dodd, a family friend. Lewis adores Tessa, but has never shown any romantic feelings toward her. Read More »
Bell, Book and Candle (1958) Richard Quine, James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon

Gillian Holroyd is just your average, modern-day, witch, living in a New York apartment with her Siamese familiar, Pyewacket. Read More »
Pour le Mérite (1938) Karl Ritter, Paul Hartmann, Herbert A.E. Böhme, Albert Hehn

This Nazi propaganda film chronicles the rise of the German Air Force (“Luftwaffe”) from World War I until Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. Read More »
Knight Without Armour (1937) Jacques Feyder, Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Irene Vanbrugh

Because he can pass as a Russian, A.J. Fothergill is recruited to spy on the revolutionary movement in Russia in 1913. Read More »