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Daily Archives: April 28, 2020
Love and Larceny AKA Il mattatore (1960) Dino Risi, Vittorio Gassman, Dorian Gray, Anna Maria Ferrero

Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy Read More »
Whoopee! (1930) Thornton Freeland, Eddie Cantor, Ethel Shutta, Paul Gregory

Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Read More »
Higher Ground (1988) Robert Day, John Denver, Meg Wittner, David Renan

A retired F.B.I. Agent (played by country music star John Denver) becomes a bush pilot in Alaska. Read More »
Stanley and Livingstone (1939) Henry King, Otto Brower, Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene

When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars Read More »
Happy Here and Now (2002) Michael Almereyda, Karl Geary, Shalom Harlow, Clarence Williams III

In New Orleans, a young woman named Muriel goes missing. Read More »
Don’t Ever Leave Me (1949) Arthur Crabtree, Jimmy Hanley, Petula Clark, Linden Travers

In a pleasant variation on “The Ransom of Red Chief,” elderly crook Harry Denton Read More »
Days of Violence AKA I giorni della violenza (1967) Alfonso Brescia, Peter Lee Lawrence, Beba Loncar, Luigi Vannucchi

During the last months of the Civil War, Joe’s brother is unjustly killed by Clifford, a captain in the Northen army. Read More »
Code Name: Emerald (1985) Jonathan Sanger, Ed Harris, Max von Sydow, Horst Buchholz

In April 1944, an allied agent is sent to France in order to rescue an “overlord” captured by the Germans. Read More »
MacArthur (1977) Joseph Sargent, Gregory Peck, Dan O’Herlihy, Ed Flanders

The story of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander during World War II Read More »