Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks Read More »
Romance
The Shepherd of the Hills (1941) Henry Hathaway, John Wayne, Betty Field, Harry Carey
Young Matt Masters, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt’s mother and left her to die. Read More »
Don Giovanni (1970) Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli, Vittorio Bodini
In many respects a stylistic prototype for his masterpiece Salome, the film marks a move aware from real locations towards the baroque artifice of his later works. Read More »
Rumba (1935) Marion Gering, George Raft, Carole Lombard, Lynne Overman
A bored society girl sets her sights on a dancer in a Broadway show. Read More »
Alvin Purple (1973) Tim Burstall, Graeme Blundell, Abigail, Lynette Curran
Alvin is a quiet, urban Australian male who finds himself the unlikely object of female lust. Read More »
Blockade (1938) William Dieterle, Madeleine Carroll, Henry Fonda, Leo Carrillo
A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Read More »
Lord Jim (1965) Richard Brooks, Peter O’Toole, James Mason, Curd Jürgens
James Burke, after distinguishing himself as a midshipman in the British merchant marine Read More »
The House Across The Bay (1940) Archie Mayo, George Raft, Joan Bennett, Lloyd Nolan
An aircraft designer falls for the wife of an imprisoned gangster. Read More »
The Sea Hawk (1940) Michael Curtiz, Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains
Geoffrey Thorpe is an adventurous and dashing pirate, who feels that he should pirate the Spanish ships for the good of England. Read More »
The Birch Tree AKA Breza (1967) Ante Babaja, Manca Kosir, Velimir ‘Bata’ Zivojinovic, Fabijan Sovagovic
Beautiful but ailing girl is married to a harsh man who doesn’t care for her. Read More »