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The Benny Goodman Story (1956) Valentine Davies, Steve Allen, Donna Reed, Berta Gersten
Bio of swing band leader ‘Benny Goodman’ from age 10 (1919) to his landmark Carnegie Hall band concert in 1938. Read More »
Ladies Who Do (1963) C.M. Pennington-Richards, Peggy Mount, Robert Morley, Harry H. Corbett
The “Ladies Who Do” are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. Read More »
Knife Edge (2009) Anthony Hickox, Hugh Bonneville, Natalie Press, Matthieu Boujenah
A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son Read More »
Homecoming (1948) Mervyn LeRoy, Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Anne Baxter
Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it’s “the thing to do” rather than deep-seated patriotism. Read More »
Experiment in Terror (1962) Blake Edwards, Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers
When the bank clerk Kelly Sherwood arrives home after hours, she is intimidated by a stranger that knows her routine habit. Read More »
Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989) Howard Brookner, Josef Sommer, Madonna, Tony Azito
This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. Read More »
The Wild and the Willing (1962) Ralph Thomas
Harry Brown (Ian McShane in his introductory film role) is a somewhat rough student Read More »
The Out-of-Towners (1999) Sam Weisman, Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, John Cleese
The remake of the 1970 Neil Simon comedy follows the adventures of a couple, Henry and Nancy Clark, vexed by misfortune while in New York City for a job interview. Read More »
The Heroes (1973) Duccio Tessari, Rod Steiger, Rosanna Schiaffino, Claude Brasseur
Four soldiers and a beautiful Greek nurse, thrown together in North Africa during World War II, team up to pull off a heist of two-million pounds in boxes marked “plasma.” Read More »