The corpus callosum is a central region of tissue in the human brain which passes “messages“ between the two hemispheres. Read More »
Drama
My Bill (1938) John Farrow, Kay Francis, Bonita Granville, John Litel, Drama, Romance
The town of Colbrook, Massachusetts was founded by the family of the same name, and as such they are its leading family. Read More »
The Long Voyage Home (1940) John Ford, John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Drama, War
Aboard the freighter Glencairn, the lives of the crew are lived out in fear, loneliness, suspicion and cameraderie. Read More »
Day of Reckoning (1933) Charles Brabin, Richard Dix, Madge Evans, Conway Tearle, Drama
In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. Read More »
Iron Man (1951) Joseph Pevney, Jeff Chandler, Evelyn Keyes, Stephen McNally, Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
In Coaltown, Pennsylvania, miner Coke Mason hopes to better himself, buy a radio store, and marry Rose Warren. Read More »
From Here to Eternity (1953) Fred Zinnemann, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Drama, Romance, War
It’s 1941. Robert E. Lee Prewitt has requested Army transfer and has ended up at Schofield in Hawaii. Read More »
Am Abend nach der Oper / In the Evening After the Opera (1945) Arthur Maria Rabenalt, Gusti Huber, Siegfried Breuer, Robert Lindner, Drama, Romance
This totally forgotten film is adapted from a story by Franz Nabl who also provided the basis for Der verzauberte Tag. Read More »
La symphonie pastorale (1946) Jean Delannoy, Pierre Blanchar, Michèle Morgan, Line Noro, Drama
On Christmas Eve, Jean Martens, a Swiss minister, takes in a blind half-crippled orphan and brings her up with his four children. Read More »
Désirée (1954) Henry Koster, Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon, Biography, Drama, History, Romance
In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte Read More »
Gaolbreak (1962) Francis Searle, Peter Reynolds, Avice Landone, David Kernan, Crime, Drama
A family of burglars and safecrackers plan a heist at a jewelry store. When one of the family–who is the safecracking expert–gets arrested and jailed, they hatch a plan to break him out so he can take part in the robbery.
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