High school student Jill Johnson is traumatized over an evening of babysitting by a caller who repeatedly asks, “Have you checked the children lately?” Read More »
Crime
He Laughed Last (1956) Blake Edwards, Frankie Laine, Lucy Marlow, Anthony Dexter
In this amiable imitation Guys and Dolls, Alan Reed plays a big-time 1920s gangster who is rubbed out by his enemies. Read More »
Power of the Press (1943) Lew Landers, Guy Kibbee, Lee Tracy, Gloria Dickson
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper’s policy and support the US war effort. Read More »
Panic in the Streets (1950) Elia Kazan, Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes
When a body is found in the New Orleans docks, it’s pretty obvious that he died from gun shot wounds. Read More »
Glamour for Sale (1940) D. Ross Lederman, Anita Louise, Roger Pryor, Frances Robinson
An undercover man (Roger Pryor) recruits an escort-service rookie (Anita Louise) to inform him of scams. Read More »
Pistol Opera (2001) Seijun Suzuki, Makiko Esumi, Sayoko Yamaguchi, Hanae Kan
Did you know that there is a ranking of the best assassins of Japan? In the spirit of 1967’s Branded To Kill, also by director Suzuki Seijun, comes Pistol Opera. Read More »
Remains to Be Seen (1953) Don Weis, June Allyson, Van Johnson, Louis Calhern
June Allyson plays a band singer working in New York City; Van Johnson is the manager of a fancy apartment house where a murder is committed. Read More »
The Green Glove (1952) Rudolph Maté, Glenn Ford, Geraldine Brooks, Cedric Hardwicke
In World War II France, American soldier Michael Blake captures, then loses Nazi-collaborator art thief Paul Rona Read More »
Something for Everyone (1970) Harold Prince, Angela Lansbury, Michael York, Anthony Higgins
Konrad, a handsome country boy in post-war Austria, charms his way into a butler position at the castle of a widowed countess that lost her fortune. Read More »
One Way Street (1950) Hugo Fregonese, James Mason, Märta Torén, Dan Duryea
Shortly after a bank robbery, gangster John Wheeler and his henchmen hide in a small apartment, awaiting for the rest of the gang to arrive. Read More »