The 1920s was a time of great change in Hollywood. This program tells the story of the advent of sound technology for movies Read More »
Daily Archives: July 24, 2022
Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct: Heatwave (1997) Douglas Barr, Dale Midkiff, Erika Eleniak, Paul Johansson
It is a very hot summer in the city as the well known detectives of the 87th Precinct investigate serial rapes Read More »
Algol: Tragedy of Power AKA Algol – Tragödie der Macht (1920) Hans Werckmeister, Emil Jannings, John Gottowt, Hans Adalbert Schlettow
An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that gives him superpowers. Read More »
Hotel Berlin (1945) Peter Godfrey, Faye Emerson, Helmut Dantine, Raymond Massey
Near the end of WW II, a member of the German underground (Martin Richter) Read More »
In the Shadow of the Vultures / A Sombra dos Abutres (1998) Leonel Vieira, Vítor Norte, Diogo Infante, José Eduardo
1962 in Tras-os-Montes, a miners’ strike begins to be repressed by the National Guard. Read More »
Chicago Confidential (1957) Sidney Salkow, Brian Keith, Beverly Garland, Dick Foran
An honest union official named Blane is framed for the murder of another union official. Read More »
The Sap from Syracuse (1930) A. Edward Sutherland, Jack Oakie, Ginger Rogers, Granville Bates
Ellen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken Read More »
The Sailor Takes a Wife (1945) Richard Whorf, Robert Walker, June Allyson, Hume Cronyn
While waiting in New York City to ship out to Europe, a sailor stops by a servicemen’s canteen and meets a USO hostess. Read More »
Small World / Je n’ai rien oublié (2010) Bruno Chiche, Gérard Depardieu, Alexandra Maria Lara, Françoise Fabian
Sixty year-old Conrad Lang has Alzheimer’s. Though he’s losing his short-term memory Read More »
Walking Shadow (2001) Po-Chih Leong, Joe Mantegna, Ernie Hudson, Marcia Gay Harden
As a favor to his longtime lover Dr. Susan Silverman, Spenser agrees to investigate Read More »