Radio singer Joan Abbott, known as the “Crunchy-Wunchy Thrush” Read More »
Daily Archives: November 22, 2021
Poor But Beautiful AKA Poveri ma belli (1957) Dino Risi, Marisa Allasio, Maurizio Arena, Renato Salvatori
Salvatore and Romolo are two young and poor young men that are neighbours and friends. Read More »
Bedelia (1946) Lance Comfort, Margaret Lockwood, Ian Hunter, Barry K. Barnes
Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. Read More »
H.M.S. Defiant (1962) Lewis Gilbert, Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Maurice Denham
Defiant’s crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Read More »
City Limits (1984) Aaron Lipstadt, John Stockwell, Darrell Larson, Rae Dawn Chong
Years after a mysterious plague has wiped out most of the adult population Read More »
Utu (1984) Geoff Murphy, Anzac Wallace, Bruno Lawrence, Tim Elliott
In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Maori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. Read More »
The Laser Man AKA Lasermannen (2005) Mikael Marcimain, David Dencik, Mats Blomgren, Sten Johan Hedman
Follows the Swedish serial killer and bank robber John Ausonius, nicknamed “the laser man”. Read More »
The Halfway House (2004) Kenneth J. Hall, Mary Woronov, Janet Tracy Keijser, Shawn Savage
Young girls are disappearing in and around the Mary Magdalen Halfway House for Troubled Girls. Read More »
Swing Parade of 1946 (1946) Phil Karlson, Gale Storm, Phil Regan, Moe Howard
In this 100% FICTIONAL film, in which no one plays “Self.” Carol Lawrence (Gale Storm) Read More »
Lovers, Happy Lovers! AKA Monsieur Ripois (1954) René Clément, Gérard Philipe, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood
From the Louis Hemon novel “M. Ripois and His Nemesis” about Andre Ripois, a philanderer Read More »