A young college girl becomes pregnant, and she and the baby’s father are targeted by a black-market adoption ring that is out to get the baby.
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Boots Malone (1952) William Dieterle, William Holden, Stanley Clements, Basil Ruysdael, Drama, Sport
Boots Malone is jockey’s agent and a bit of a wheeler-dealer who went from living at the Ritz to living in a room at the stables when his star jockey was killed in an accident. Read More »
The Deerslayer (1957) Kurt Neumann, Lex Barker, Rita Moreno, Forrest Tucker, Adventure, War, Western
In the wilderness of early Colonial days, trapper Tom Hutter lives with his two daughters in an isolated floating fort. Read More »
Duffy of San Quentin (1954) Walter Doniger, Louis Hayward, Joanne Dru, Paul Kelly, Crime, Drama
Based on the book and the reflections of San Quentin Prison Warden Clinton T. Duffy, the film is episodic and rambling in nature but, unlike most prison dramas, there are touches of humor. Read More »
The Bay Boy (1984) Daniel Petrie, Liv Ullmann, Kiefer Sutherland, Peter Donat, Drama
A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should he become a priest? Read More »
Safari Drums (1953) Ford Beebe, Johnny Sheffield, Barbara Bestar, Emory Parnell, Adventure
A bunch of movie makers arrive in Africa to make a film about jungle wildlife. One of their party kills a geologist and Bomba the Jungle Boy must find out whodunnit. Read More »
The Spiral Road (1962) Robert Mulligan, Rock Hudson, Burl Ives, Gena Rowlands, Adventure
An arrogant young doctor helps an eccentric older doctor care for natives in the Dutch West Indies circa 1936. Read More »
Copie conforme / Certified Copy (2010) Abbas Kiarostami, Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière, Drama
James Miller has just written a book on the value of a copy versus the original work of art. Read More »
Rivers and Tides (2001) Thomas Riedelsheimer, Andy Goldsworthy, Anna Goldsworthy, Holly Goldsworthy, Documentary
Andy Goldsworthy’s Rivers and Tides is a truly beautiful, Finnish-German 2001 documentary about artist Goldsworthy, a Scotsman whose medium is nature itself and whose preferred studio is the outdoors Read More »
Het dak van de Walvis / On Top of the Whale (1982) Raoul Ruiz, Jean Badin, Fernando Bordeu, Herbert Curiel, Fantasy
A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia Read More »
Pushover (1954) Richard Quine, Fred MacMurray, Kim Novak, Philip Carey, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
A bank heist yields $210,000. Soon, sultry Lona McLane, girlfriend of one of the robbers, meets Paul Sheridan and has a torrid affair. Read More »
Quelqu’un derrière la porte / Someone Behind the Door (1971) Nicolas Gessner, Charles Bronson, Anthony Perkins, Jill Ireland, Crime, Drama
Dr. Laurence Jeffries, a neurosurgeon, intent on his research, neglects his wife Frances. The frustrated woman accordingly takes a lover, Paul Damien, a French journalist. Read More »
Was nützt die Liebe in Gedanken / Love in Thoughts (2004) Achim von Borries, Daniel Brühl, August Diehl, Anna Maria Mühe, Drama, Romance
Weimar, Germany, in 1927. Best friends Günther and Paul ask themselves: is that really it, the highest point in life? Read More »
A Kiss Before Dying (1956) Gerd Oswald, Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Bud Corliss (Wagner) is an ambitious student who is wooing Dorothy Kingship (Woodward) purely for her father’s mining fortune. Read More »
Chicago Deadline (1949) Lewis Allen, Alan Ladd, Donna Reed, June Havoc, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
On Chicago’s South Side reporter Ed Adams finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Read More »