Near the end of WW II, a member of the German underground (Martin Richter) Read More »
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Hotel Reserve (1944) Lance Comfort, Mutz Greenbaum, James Mason, Lucie Mannheim, Raymond Lovell
An Austrian medical student living and working in France is hauled in by the police Read More »
In the Shadow of the Vultures AKA 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 »
I Stole a Million (1939) Frank Tuttle, George Raft, Claire Trevor, Dick Foran
A grizzled cabbie is scammed out of his life savings by a fake finance company. 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 AKA 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 »
Dear Wife AKA Cara sposa (1977) Pasquale Festa Campanile, Johnny Dorelli, Agostina Belli, Lina Volonghi
Alfredo, jailed for theft and fraud, after having served the sentence Read More »