
Non-musical account of Puccini’s opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love Read More »
Daily Archives: July 14, 2020
Stand by for Action (1942) Robert Z. Leonard, Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevy, Charles Laughton

U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman (Robert Taylor), of THE Harvard Read More »
Under Ten Flags AKA Sotto dieci bandiere (1960) Duilio Coletti, Van Heflin, Charles Laughton, Mylène Demongeot

In 1941, the British Admiralty is worried about the large number of Allied ships Read More »
Forest of Oppression AKA Assatsu no mori (1967) Shinsuke Ogawa

The Oppressed Students focuses on the phenomenon of the struggle of university students Read More »
Captain Clegg (1962) Peter Graham Scott, Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen

In this engaging costume melodrama of skulduggery on the low seas set back in the 18th-century Read More »
Tamango (1958) John Berry, Dorothy Dandridge, Curd Jürgens, Jean Servais

A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango. Read More »
Appointment with Murder (1948) Jack Bernhard, John Calvert, Catherine Craig, Jack Reitzen

The Falcon is hired by an insurance company to recover two stolen paintings, a job that takes him across the country and then across the Atlantic to Italy. Read More »
Bulldog Drummond (1929) F. Richard Jones, Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant

Hugh ‘Bulldog’ Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. Read More »
Hook, Line and Sinker (1969) George Marshall, Jerry Lewis, Peter Lawford, Anne Francis

Man (Lewis) is told by his doctor (Lawford), and best friend, that he has a terminal illness. Read More »
McLintock! (1963) Andrew V. McLaglen, John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Patrick Wayne

George Washington McLintock, “GW” to friends and foes alike, is a cattle baron and the richest man in the territory. Read More »