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Monthly Archives: August 2024
The Remarkable Andrew (1942) Stuart Heisler, Brian Donlevy, William Holden, Ellen Drew

When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget Read More »
The Life of Reilly (2006) Frank L. Anderson, Barry Poltermann, Charles Nelson Reilly

If, in 1940, you had a lobotomized aunt, an institutionalized father, a racist mother, and were the only gay kid on the block Read More »
The Lambeth Walk (1939) Albert de Courville, Lupino Lane, Sally Gray, Seymour Hicks

When Bill Snibson, a Lambeth cockney, discovers that he is a descendant Read More »
R.P.M. (1970) Stanley Kramer, Anthony Quinn, Ann-Margret, Gary Lockwood

R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor Read More »
Such a Pretty Little Beach / Une si jolie petite plage (1949) Yves Allégret, Madeleine Robinson, Gérard Philipe, Jean Servais

During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and Read More »
Our Mother’s House (1967) Jack Clayton, Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Leclere, Pamela Franklin

Raised by their Bible-obsessed, invalid mother, seven children care for her and one another in a gloomy Victorian house. Read More »
Blonde Alibi (1946) Will Jason, Tom Neal, Martha O’Driscoll, Donald MacBride

A blackmailing physician is taken and stumbles to the road and is immediately run over by a taxicab. Read More »
The Farm of Seven Sins / La ferme des sept péchés (1949) Jean Devaivre, Jacques Dumesnil, Claude Génia, Aimé Clariond

In 1825, Paul-Louis Courier, a Republican writer known for publishing pamphlets against the French monarchy Read More »
Lightnin’ Crandall (1937) Sam Newfield, Bob Steele, Lois January, Charles King

Gunfighter Lightnin’ Crandall puts away his gun and heads west posing as a tenderfoot. Read More »