A north-country chimney sweep standing for Parliament is opposed by a local bigwig. Read More »
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Man of Flowers (1983) Paul Cox, Norman Kaye, Alyson Best, Chris Haywood
An eccentric elderly man tries to enjoy the three things in life that he considers real beauty: collecting art, collecting flowers, and watching pretty women undress. Read More »
American Madness (1932) Frank Capra, Walter Huston, Pat O’Brien, Kay Johnson
It’s the 1930s, the Depression era, and the Board of Directors of Thomas Dickson’s bank want Dickson to merge with New York Trust and resign. He refuses. Read More »
Wicked Woman (1953) Russell Rouse, Beverly Michaels, Richard Egan, Percy Helton
A blonde floozy drifts into town and gets a job as a waitress at a local bar. Read More »
Hue and Cry (1947) Charles Crichton, Alastair Sim, Frederick Piper, Harry Fowler
A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip’s wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. Read More »
Come Back, Africa (1959) Lionel Rogosin, Zacharia Mgabi, Vinah Bendile, Miriam Makeba
Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959. Read More »
Mr. Rock ‘n’ Roll: The Alan Freed Story (1999) Andy Wolk, Judd Nelson, Mädchen Amick, David Gianopoulos
This is the story of Alan Freed. He was working as a DJ in Cleveland, Ohio Read More »
Westward the Women (1951) William A. Wellman, Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, Hope Emerson
In a time when “The West” pretty much ends in Texas and only California is slowly being populated by the white men Read More »
The Southerner (1945) Jean Renoir, Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish
Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. Read More »
The Gun (1974) John Badham, Stephen Elliott, Jean Le Bouvier, Wallace Rooney
The “life” of a handgun is followed from its manufacture to its ultimate fate Read More »