Comic actor Gene Wilder made his debut as a writer and director in this period comedy in which he plays Sigerson Holmes Read More »
Musical
Honolulu (1939) Edward Buzzell, Eleanor Powell, Robert Young, George Burns
Movie star Brooks Mason tries to avoid his fans and spend some weeks on vacation. Read More »
Joy of Living (1938) Tay Garnett, Irene Dunne, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Alice Brady
Broadway star Margaret Garrett has spent her whole life working to support her sponging relatives. Read More »
Bright Road (1953) Gerald Mayer, Dorothy Dandridge, Philip Hepburn, Harry Belafonte
A young teacher helps a troubled student who’s fascinated by a caterpillar’s metamorphosis. Read More »
Porgy and Bess (1959) Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian, Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr.
In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina Read More »
Duchess Of Langeais (2007) Jacques Rivette, Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Bulle Ogier
In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. Read More »
Roustabout (1964) John Rich, Elvis Presley, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Freeman
Charlie Rogers is a leather-jacketed biker who’s fired from a singing engagement after getting into a fight with a group of college toughs. Read More »
The Hours and Time (1991) Christopher Munch, David Angus, Ian Hart, Stephanie Pack
A fictionalized account of what may have happened when John Lennon and Brian Epstein went on holiday together to Spain in 1963. Read More »
On Again-Off Again (1937) Edward F. Cline, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Marjorie Lord
This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company Read More »
The Girl and the Gambler (1939) Lew Landers, Leo Carrillo, Tim Holt, Steffi Duna
Learning of a certain cantina dancer, notorious outlaw El Rayo bets he can bring her back voluntarily that night. Read More »