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Daily Archives: February 17, 2021
What Price Hollywood? (1932) George Cukor, Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton

Brown Derby waitress Mary Evans befriends seldom-sober director Max Carey and is soon in the big-time. Read More »
The King of Wild Horses (1924) Fred Jackman, Charley Chase, Rex the Wonder Horse, Edna Murphy

A stallion known as “The Black” is the leader of a band of wild horses. Read More »
The Satan Bug (1965) John Sturges, George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis

A germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the nasty germs has gotten free and killed several scientists. Read More »
Leave of Absence (1994) Tom McLoughlin, Brian Dennehy, Jacqueline Bisset, Blythe Danner

When a married man’s mistress falls seriously ill, he must make the toughest choice of his life. Read More »
The River with No Bridge AKA Hashi no nai Kawa (1992) Yôichi Higashi, Naoko Ôtani, Tamao Nakamura, Tetta Sugimoto

Though ethnically and culturally identical to the average Japanese, the burakumin have been an underclass in Japanese society Read More »
I Am Guilty AKA Falscher Bekenner (2005) Christoph Hochhäusler, Constantin von Jascheroff, Manfred Zapatka, Victoria Trauttmansdorff

Armin Steeb is adrift: just finished with school, living with his middle-class parents, clueless about finding work. Read More »
Dino (1957) Thomas Carr, Sal Mineo, Brian Keith, Susan Kohner

A rebellious young man, just released from reform school, returns home only to come into conflict with his father. Read More »
Desire (1936) Frank Borzage, Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, John Halliday

Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses US engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain Read More »
Pornography and the Holocaust AKA Stalags (2008) Ari Libsker

Documentary film about pornographic Stalag fiction books popular in Israel until the time of the Adolf Eichmann trial. Read More »