A separate screenplay by Nigel Kneale for theaters, parallel to the 1979 Quatermass four part mini-series. Read More »
The Champion AKA Shôri-sha (1957) Umetsugu Inoue, Yûjirô Ishihara, Keiji Itami, Mie Kitahara
Intersecting circles of obligation link a former boxer, the youth he vows to make a champion Read More »
The King’s Thief (1955) Robert Z. Leonard, Hugo Fregonese, Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, David Niven
Lady Mary’s father is innocently accused of treason and is executed. It is the king’s evil chancellor, the duke of Brampton Read More »
Yukon Manhunt (1951) Frank McDonald, Kirby Grant, Chinook, Gail Davis
Canadian Mountie Rod Webb (Kirby Grant) has been assigned to the case where three messengers carrying Kenmore Mine payrolls have been robbed and murdered. Read More »
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008) Valerie Spencer, John Landis, Jonathan Kuntz
Various film historians, film makers, and cultural commentators discuss the cultural, political, economic Read More »
Double Wedding (1937) Richard Thorpe, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Florence Rice
Waldo and Irene have been living with Margit for the four years that they have been engaged. Read More »
The Last Hammer Blow AKA Le dernier coup de marteau (2014) Alix Delaporte, Romain Paul, Clotilde Hesme, Grégory Gadebois
A 13-year old boy who lives with his single sick mom in a trailer near the beach Read More »
Qivitoq (1956) Erik Balling, Poul Reichhardt, Astrid Villaume, Gunnar Lauring
In this visual masterpiece and first Oscar nominated Danish film, young teacher Eva arriving in Greenland Read More »
The Great Sioux Massacre (1965) Sidney Salkow, Joseph Cotten, Darren McGavin, Philip Carey
A look at what happened to Custer and his troops at the Battle of Little Big Horn. Read More »
How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor AKA Skaz pro to, kak tsar Pyotr arapa zhenil (1976) Aleksandr Mitta, Vladimir Vysotskiy, Aleksey Petrenko, Ivan Ryzhov
Loosely based on Peter the Great’s Negro, Alexander Pushkin’s unfinished novel based on his own great-grandfather, a black African brought to Russia. Read More »
The Invader (1936) Adrian Brunel, Buster Keaton, Lupita Tovar, Lyn Harding
A bumbling yachtsman sails to the South of Spain with a fiery seductress, only to become the pawn in her dangerous game of love. Read More »
The Year Long Road AKA La strada lunga un anno (1958) Giuseppe De Santis, Silvana Pampanini, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Massimo Girotti
The plot is set in an underdeveloped and remote area of a fictitious country Read More »
Violent Panic: The Big Crash AKA Bôsô panikku: Daigekitotsu (1976) Kinji Fukasaku, Tsunehiko Watase, Miki Sugimoto, Yayoi Watanabe
Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil. Read More »
The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes AKA Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war (1937) Karl Hartl, Hans Albers, Heinz Rühmann, Marieluise Claudius
Hans Albers and Heinz Rühmann play two confidence tricksters. They manage to stop a night train for nefarious purposes Read More »
Hans Christian Andersen (1952) Charles Vidor, Danny Kaye, Farley Granger, Zizi Jeanmaire
The inimitable Danny Kaye stars as famed storyteller Hans Christian Andersen in this charming fictionalized biopic that blends music Read More »