
‘Jumbo’ Johnson hires Steve Singleton (and his boat, the “Seeker”) to search for pearls on the coast of New Guinea. Read More »
Monthly Archives: July 2019
Objective, Burma! (1945) Raoul Walsh, Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince

A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. Read More »
The Dollmaker (1984) Daniel Petrie, Jane Fonda, Levon Helm, Amanda Plummer

Jane Fonda gives an Emmy-winning performance as Gertie Nevels Read More »
Beijing Watermelon (1989) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Bengaru, Masako Motai, Yasufumi Hayashi

The film is based on true events. It centers around Shunzo, a popular greengrocer who lives in a city near Tokyo. Read More »
Whistle Down the Wind (1961) Bryan Forbes, Alan Bates, Bernard Lee, Norman Bird

Little Kathy discovers a man wanted for murder hiding in her family’s barn. Read More »
Record City (1977) Dennis Steinmetz, Joe Abdullah, Jeff Altman, Sylvia Anderson

Lighthearted comedy chronicling the exploits of the employees at a record store. Read More »
The River Niger (1976) Krishna Shah, Cicely Tyson, James Earl Jones, Louis Gossett Jr.

An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet Read More »
The Death of Captain Pilecki (2006) Ryszard Bugajski, Marek Probosz, Marek Kalita, Andrzej Niemirski

Captain Witold Pilecki was a Polish intelligence officer during WWII who volunteered for a Polish resistance operation Read More »
The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982) Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli

The Night of San Lorenzo, the night of the shooting stars, is the night when dreams come true in Italian folklore. Read More »
The Happy Ending (1969) Richard Brooks, Jean Simmons, John Forsythe, Shirley Jones

The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife Mary Wilson (Jean Simmons) Read More »