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Daily Archives: February 7, 2021
The Cossacks (1928) George W. Hill, Clarence Brown, John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Ernest Torrence

Lukashka is the son of a fierce Cossack chief, but he would rather relax in the woods Read More »
The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956) Richard Quine, Judy Holliday, John Williams, Paul Douglas

Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York.  Read More »
The Devil’s Circus (1926) Benjamin Christensen, Norma Shearer, Charles Emmett Mack, Carmel Myers

The action begins in 1913, where our hero Carl (Charles Emmett Mack) is released from prison, where he served a sentence for stealing. Read More »
The Overcoat AKA Shinel (1959) Aleksey Batalov, Rolan Bykov, Yuriy Tolubeev, Aleksandra Yozhkina

The story centers on the life and death of Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, an impoverished government clerk and copyist in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. Read More »
The New Land AKA Nybyggarna (1972) Jan Troell, Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg

This film continues from where The Emigrants / Utvandrarna (1971) left off. Starting a new life in the New World from almost nothing is not easy. Read More »
The Puppetmaster AKA Xi meng ren sheng (1993) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Tian-Lu Li, Giong Lim, Kuei-Chung Cheng

This Hou Hsiao Hsien masterpiece is a portrait of the childhood and adolescence of octogenarian Taiwanese puppet master Read More »
The Office Wife (1930) Lloyd Bacon, Michael Curtiz, Dorothy Mackaill, Lewis Stone, Natalie Moorhead

Larry Fellowes of Fellowes Publishing wants Kate to write her next book about the ‘Office Wife’. Read More »
Treasure of Monte Cristo (1949) William Berke, Glenn Langan, Adele Jergens, Steve Brodie

This modern tale borrows from an old story in establishing Langan, who works on a ship that docks in San Francisco Read More »
The 10th Victim AKA La decima vittima (1965) Elio Petri, Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli

It is the 21st Century, and society’s lust for violence is satisfied by “The Big Hunt,” an international game of legalized murder. Read More »