This is the first sound version of George Kelly’s THE SHOW OFF. There was a silent version starring Ford Sterling a few years earlier and two MGM versions later on, one starring Spencer Tracy and the other Red Skelton. Read More »
Lo smemorato di Collegno (1962) Sergio Corbucci, Totò, Nino Taranto, Erminio Macario, Comedy
The story takes inspiration from a real case (Bruneri/Canella, Italy 1926). A man is hospitalized in a neurological clinic. Read More »
Mokey (1942) Wells Root, Dan Dailey, Donna Reed, Robert Blake, Drama
Mokey is an eight-year-old boy whose father gives him too little attention and whose stepmother misunderstands him. His misdeeds are due to neglect and misunderstanding on the part of his elders.
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Psychic Killer (1975) Ray Danton, Paul Burke, Jim Hutton, Julie Adams, Thriller, Horror
Mental patient Arnold Masters, hospitalized for a murder he didn’t commit, learns astral projection–the art of leaving one’s physical body Read More »
Ratboy (1986) Sondra Locke, Robert Townsend, Christopher Hewett, Comedy, Crime, Drama
A physically deformed and somewhat feral teenager whose face looks like the snout of a rodent lives in solitude and misery in a city dump. Read More »
Shûu / Sudden Rain (1956) Mikio Naruse, Setsuko Hara, Shûji Sano, Kyôko Kagawa, Comedy, Drama
Setsuko Hara plays Fumiko, whose unsuccessful marriage has made her become more and more cynical. When her niece, Ayako visits and complains about her own marriage, she is unsurprised. Read More »
Border Cafe (1937) Lew Landers, Harry Carey, John Beal, Armida, Music, Romance, Western
Easterner Keith Whitney, son of a wealthy Senator, heads west where he ends up a drunk at a border cafe. Read More »
Hitler’s Madman (1943) Douglas Sirk, Patricia Morison, John Carradine, Alan Curtis, Howard Freeman, Drama, War
Somewhat fictionalized account of the destruction of the village of Lidice in Czechoslovakia and the events leading up to it. Read More »
Femmes femmes (1974) Paul Vecchiali, Hélène Surgère, Sonia Saviange, Huguette Forge, Comedy, Drama
The fantasies and dreams of two over-the-hill actresses are intertwined with their realities, as the two roommates struggle to survive their day-to-day lives Read More »
A Summer Place (1959) Delmer Daves, Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee, Drama, Romance
The Hunter family has long owned a mansion on Pine Island, a summer resort located off the Maine coast. Read More »