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Daily Archives: May 8, 2022
Big Jack (1949) Richard Thorpe, Wallace Beery, Richard Conte, Marjorie Main

Wallace Beery’s final film was the curiously endearing “black comedy” Big Jack. Read More »
We Are Not Alone (1939) Edmund Goulding, Paul Muni, Una O’Connor, Jane Bryan

Warners’ publicity releases, intended for newspapers, on this film state that Paul Muni Read More »
Meet Nero Wolfe (1936) Herbert J. Biberman, Edward Arnold, Lionel Stander, Joan Perry

Rex Stout’s portly detective prides himself on solving crimes without venturing outside Read More »
The Sea / Il mare (1962) Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Umberto Orsini, Françoise Prévost, Dino Mele

A well known actor comes to off-season Capri to unwind and meets a teenaged boy. Read More »
The Whole Family Works / Hataraku ikka (1939) Mikio Naruse, Musei Tokugawa, Noriko Honma, Akira Ubukata

Father of nine children cannot find a job. Despite their aspirations, the children Read More »
Perfect Assassins (1998) H. Gordon Boos, Andrew McCarthy, Robert Patrick, Portia de Rossi

When Dr Ben Carroway (McCarthy) is involved in an assassination where the killers Read More »
Hideko, the Bus Conductor / Hideko no shashô-san (1941) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Kamatari Fujiwara, Daijirô Natsukawa

Okoma, a young lady working as a conductor with a bus company in Kofu Yamanashi Read More »
The Crucible (1967) Alex Segal, George C. Scott, Colleen Dewhurst, Melvyn Douglas

In the Puritan New England town of Salem, Massachusetts, a group of girls go dancing Read More »
Bungalow (2002) Ulrich Köhler, Lennie Burmeister, Devid Striesow, Trine Dyrholm

Paul is a German soldier who goes AWOL when the truck he is riding Read More »