Silent screen heartthrob Ramon Novarro (Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ) sounds off in his all-talking debut Read More »
Musical
The Story of Tosca AKA Tosca (1941) Carl Koch, Jean Renoir, Imperio Argentina, Michel Simon, Rossano Brazzi
Non-musical account of Puccini’s opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love Read More »
Music for Millions (1944) Henry Koster, Margaret O’Brien, José Iturbi, June Allyson
“Mike” goes to live with her pregnant older sister, Babs, who plays string bass in Iturbi’s orchestra. Read More »
Shipmates Forever (1935) Frank Borzage, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Lewis Stone
Dick is watching the fleet come in when he sees June. Dick has no intention of joining the Navy, which is a family tradition Read More »
Spring Parade (1940) Henry Koster, Deanna Durbin, Robert Cummings, Mischa Auer
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman(Deanna Durbin) attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. Read More »
It’s All Happening (1963) Don Sharp, Tommy Steele, Michael Medwin, Angela Douglas
Tommy Steele stars as a talent-spotter at a recording company who determines to organize a concert featuring Read More »
Movie Movie (1978) Stanley Donen, George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Red Buttons
Three movie genres of the 1930s are satirized in this spoof of the traditional double feature. Read More »
King Solomon’s Mines (1937) Robert Stevenson
Fortune hunter Patrick O’Brien has left his daughter Kathy Read More »
Ginger Baker in Africa (1973) Tony Palmer, Ginger Baker, Fela Kuti
The former Cream drummer travels to Nigeria to build a recording studio. Read More »
The Threepenny Opera AKA Die 3 Groschen-Oper (1931) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Rudolf Forster, Lotte Lenya, Carola Neher
In London at the turn of the century, the bandit Mack the Knife marries Polly without the knowledge of her father, Peachum, the ‘king of the beggars’. Read More »