After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. Read More »
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Arabella (1967) Mauro Bolognini, Virna Lisi, James Fox, Margaret Rutherford, Comedy
A young woman uses her womanly wiles to seduce older men in order to aid her debt-ridden grandmother. Read More »
Girl Shy (1924) Fred C. Newmeyer, Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Daniels, Comedy, Romance
Harold Meadows (Lloyd) is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guide book for other bashful young men, “The Secret of Making Love,” chapters from which are portrayed as fantasy sequences. Read More »
The Love Epidemic (1975) Brian Trenchard-Smith, Michael Laurence, Rosalind Speirs, Peter Reynolds, Documentary, Comedy
This Australian educational documentary concerns venereal disease in the pre-AIDS era and reveals that it is a problem that should be taken seriously by everyone — whether young or old, gay or straight. Read More »
If I Had My Way (1940) David Butler, Bing Crosby, Gloria Jean, Charles Winninger, Comedy, Musical
Bridge construction worker Fred Johnson is raising his twelve year old daughter after his wife’s death, but when he is killed suddenly in an accident, responsibility falls to his two friends, Buzz Blackwell and Axel Swenson. Read More »
East Side of Heaven (1939) David Butler, Bing Crosby, Joan Blondell, Mischa Auer, Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Singer Denny Martin’s marriage to telephone operator Mary Wilson has been postponed several times already and is delayed once again when he changes jobs from singing telegrams to being a singing cab driver. Read More »
The Boy from Stalingrad (1943) Sidney Salkow, Tay Garnett, Bobby Samarzich, Conrad Binyon, Mary Lou Harrington, Drama, War
Russian children out in the fields gathering grain find themselves in the path of the invading German army making its way to Stalingrad, a target city of their onslaught. Read More »
Pal Joey (1957) George Sidney, Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Drama, Musical, Romance
Joey Evans is charming, handsome, funny, talented, and a first class, A-number-one heel. Read More »
Song of the Islands (1942) Walter Lang, Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Jack Oakie, Comedy, Musical, Romance
With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by transplanted Irishman Dennis O’Brien. Read More »
Mutiny (1952) Edward Dmytryk, Mark Stevens, Angela Lansbury, Patric Knowles, Action, Adventure
Early in the War of 1812, Captain James Marshall is commissioned to run the British blockade and fetch an unofficial war loan from France. Read More »