
In reality, the comedy-drama can be read as a commentary on the contemporary Polish scene in politics and society. Read More »
Daily Archives: September 21, 2020
Home, Sweet Homicide (1946) Lloyd Bacon, Peggy Ann Garner, Randolph Scott, Lynn Bari

Mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Read More »
Maisie Was a Lady (1941) Edwin L. Marin, Ann Sothern, Lew Ayres, Maureen O’Sullivan

Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family’s new maid. Read More »
Heart of a Dog AKA Sobache serdtse (1988) Vladimir Bortko, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Vladimir Tolokonnikov, Boris Plotnikov

Old Prof. Preobrazhensky and his young colleague Dr. Bormental inserted the human’s hypophysis into a dog’s brain. Read More »
Grand Ole Opry (1940) Frank McDonald, Leon Weaver, Frank Weaver, June Weaver

Abner Weaver, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks, through the music of performers from ‘The Grand Ole Opry,” Read More »
A Coffee in Berlin AKA Oh Boy (2012) Jan Ole Gerster, Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler, Justus von Dohnányi

This tragicomedy is a self-ironic portrait of a young man who drops out of university Read More »
Headline Shooter (1933) Otto Brower, William Gargan, Frances Dee, Ralph Bellamy

Roguish, cynical newsreel cameraman Bill Allen usually has a dame in one hand Read More »
Women Without Names (1940) Robert Florey, Ellen Drew, Robert Paige, Judith Barrett

Construction engineer Fred MacNeil meets waitress Joyce King at a hamburger stand and she accepts his invitation to see her home. Read More »
This Man’s Navy (1945) William A. Wellman, Wallace Beery, Tom Drake, James Gleason

Ned Trumpet (Wallace Beery), the chief pilot of a Navy blimp, is given to weaving accounts of the fighting prowess of his non-existent son. Read More »
A Guy Named Joe (1943) Victor Fleming, Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson

Maj. Pete Sandidge is a very able pilot who seems to have a streak of luck as far as flying goes. Read More »