
Joe Barrett returns to Tokyo after World War II where he once owned a bar, Tokyo Joe’s, and deserted his wife Trina. Read More »
Daily Archives: August 28, 2020
The Assassination of Trotsky (1972) Joseph Losey, Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider

After having been forced to leave the Soviet Union 1929 Trotsky has ended up in Mexico 1940. Read More »
Silver Streak (1976) Arthur Hiller, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh

A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. Read More »
Life in Emergency Ward 10 (1959) Robert Day, Christopher Witty, Rupert Davies, Dorothy Alison

A new registrar, with a revolutionary heart lung machine he has bought from America Read More »
Stranger on the Prowl AKA Imbarco a mezzanotte (1952) Joseph Losey, Paul Muni, Joan Lorring, Vittorio Manunta

A nameless, homeless and rejected man who is looking for a new life and a young boy from an impoverished family Read More »
I Am Cuba AKA Soy Cuba (1964) Mikhail Kalatozov, Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo

This study of Cuba–partially written by renowned poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko–captures the island just before Read More »
The Crime of Doctor Crespi (1935) John H. Auer, Erich von Stroheim, Harriet Russell, Dwight Frye

Dr. Crespi has a festering hatred for Dr. Stephen Ross, the man who married his ex-sweetheart. Read More »
Slaughters Big Rip-Off (1973) Gordon Douglas, Jim Brown, Ed McMahon, Don Stroud

Vigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps Slaughter in a car at a cliff Read More »
Time of the Hunt AKA Le temps d’une chasse (1972) Francis Mankiewicz, Guy L’Ecuyer, Marcel Sabourin, Pierre Dufresne

Willy, Richard, and Lionel, three blue-collar friends from Montreal East, leave the city and travel to the countryside for a weekend of hunting. Read More »
Zulu Dawn (1979) Douglas Hickox, Burt Lancaster, Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott

In 1879 South Africa, the administrators of the British Cape Colony have designs to eliminate the Zulus as a hindrance to their colonial economy. Read More »