Quincy Drew and his black friend Jason O’Rourke have pulled off every dodge known for conning a well-heeled sucker Read More »
Comedy
Spider and Rose (1994) Bill Bennett, Ruth Cracknell, Simon Bossell, Max Cullen
Spider and Rose are on the road to Coonabarabran. It’s Spider’s last day working as an ambo, and he’s in a hurry. Read More »
Sparkle’s Tavern (1985) Curt McDowell, Marion Eaton, Peter Paskos, Melinda McDowell
A brother and sister who run a bordello worry that their conservative mother will find out what they do for a living. Read More »
Ginger in the Morning (1974) Gordon Wiles, Monte Markham, Susan Oliver, Mark Miller
An attractive young hitchhiker named Ginger meets and and takes up with a lonely Read More »
Belle of the Yukon (1944) William A. Seiter, Randolph Scott, Gypsy Rose Lee, Dinah Shore
Set in the days of the great Canadian Gold Rush, this rousing musical stars Randolph Scott as a “reformed” Read More »
Sumo Do, Sumo Don’t AKA Shiko funjatta (1992) Masayuki Suo, Masahiro Motoki, Misa Shimizu, Naoto Takenaka
Yet another tradition in the tradition of “ragtag misfits” in Japanese comedy…Sumo Do, Sumo Don’t tells the story of a university sumo club in Japan. Read More »
Plaza Suite (1971) Arthur Hiller, Walter Matthau, Maureen Stapleton, Barbara Harris
Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York’s Plaza Hotel Read More »
Charley and the Angel (1973) Vincent McEveety, Fred MacMurray, Cloris Leachman, Harry Morgan
Charley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his “number’s up” Read More »
Pack Up Your Troubles (1932) George Marshall, Ray McCarey, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Don Dillaway
The boys’ Army buddy, Eddie Smith, is killed in the trenches in France, leaving his baby girl an orphan. Read More »
George Who? AKA George qui? (1973) Michèle Rosier, Anne Wiazemsky, Alain Libolt, Denis Gunsbourg
This interrogation of famed 19th century French writer, proto feminist George Sand Read More »