Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie’s sister Madge’s Read More »
Les Misérables (1935) Richard Boleslawski, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke
This is by far the best version of Les Misérables ever made in my opinion and the critics. Read More »
The Wall AKA Duvar (1983) Yilmaz Güney, Tuncel Kurtiz, Ayse Emel Mesci Kuray, Malik Berrichi
Teens in a Turkish prison struggle to survive under hideous conditions. Made by dying Yilmaz Guney in France Read More »
The White Viking AKA Hvíti víkingurinn (1991) Hrafn Gunnlaugsson, Gotti Sigurdarson, Maria Bonnevie, Sveinn M. Eiðsson
Norway in the 10th century. Askur, son of the powerful Thorgeir marries Embla Read More »
The Castle (1997) Rob Sitch, Michael Caton, Anne Tenney, Stephen Curry
A Melbourne family is very happy living where they do, near the Melbourne airport Read More »
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Tim Robbins, Paul Newman, Jennifer Jason Leigh
When Waring Hudsucker, head of hugely successful Hudsucker Industries, commits suicide, his board of directors Read More »
Aberdeen (2000) Hans Petter Moland, Stellan Skarsgård, Lena Headey, Jean Anderson
Kaisa is a Scot, a successful London lawyer, who snorts coke and has one-night stands with strangers. Read More »
Panhandle (1948) Lesley Selander, Rod Cameron, Cathy Downs, Reed Hadley
John Sands (Rod Cameron), formerly a Texas marshal whose talents with guns caused the law to turn against him, is a fugitive in Mexico Read More »
Million Dollar Ransom (1934) Murray Roth, Phillips Holmes, Edward Arnold, Mary Carlisle
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn’t like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con help him fake his own kidnaping. Read More »
Wheres Charley? (1952) David Butler, Ray Bolger, Allyn Ann McLerie, Robert Shackleton
From the popular Broadway show, a musical adaptation Brandon Thomas’s 1890’s farce about an Oxford Read More »
The Sea Hawk (1924) Frank Lloyd, Milton Sills, Enid Bennett, Lloyd Hughes
The adventures of Oliver Tressilian, who goes from English gentry to galley slave to captain of a Moorish fighting ship, all the while trying to regain his lady love. Read More »
Trouble Brewing (1939) Anthony Kimmins, George Formby, Googie Withers, Gus McNaughton
George has won a lot of money at the races but he’s paid with counterfeit money. Read More »
On Venom and Eternity AKA Traité de bave et d’éternité (1951) Isidore Isou, Jean-Louis Barrault, Blanchette Brunoy
In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement Read More »
Double Danger (1938) Lew Landers, Preston Foster, Whitney Bourne, Donald Meek
Robert Crane is a slick jewel thief who also doubles as a novelist writing Read More »
Last of the Badmen (1957) Paul Landres, George Montgomery, Keith Larsen, James Best
A Chicago detective takes a perilous undercover job in an attempt to capture a gang of crooks Read More »