Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune Read More »
Zero for Conduct AKA Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège (1933) Jean Vigo, Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Louis Lefebvre
Bruel, Caussat and Colin are three students at a boarding school. Read More »
The Millionaire (1931) John G. Adolfi, George Arliss, Florence Arliss, David Manners
Automaker James Alden is told to retire by his doctors and does so in deference Read More »
The Remarkable Andrew (1942) Stuart Heisler, Brian Donlevy, William Holden, Ellen Drew
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget Read More »
The Life of Reilly (2006) Frank L. Anderson, Barry Poltermann, Charles Nelson Reilly
If, in 1940, you had a lobotomized aunt, an institutionalized father, a racist mother, and were the only gay kid on the block Read More »
The Lambeth Walk (1939) Albert de Courville, Lupino Lane, Sally Gray, Seymour Hicks
When Bill Snibson, a Lambeth cockney, discovers that he is a descendant Read More »
R.P.M. (1970) Stanley Kramer, Anthony Quinn, Ann-Margret, Gary Lockwood
R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor Read More »
Such a Pretty Little Beach AKA Une si jolie petite plage (1949) Yves Allégret, Madeleine Robinson, Gérard Philipe, Jean Servais
During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and Read More »
Our Mother’s House (1967) Jack Clayton, Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Leclere, Pamela Franklin
Raised by their Bible-obsessed, invalid mother, seven children care for her and one another in a gloomy Victorian house. Read More »
Blonde Alibi (1946) Will Jason, Tom Neal, Martha O’Driscoll, Donald MacBride
A blackmailing physician is taken and stumbles to the road and is immediately run over by a taxicab. Read More »