A biographer researching a book on a pilot who died during the test flight of a new plane falls in love with the pilot’s sister. Read More »
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Brighton Rock (1947) John Boulting, Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Pinkie Brown is a small-town hoodlum whose gang runs a protection racket based at Brighton race course. Read More »
The Honeymoon Killers (1969) Leonard Kastle, Donald Volkman, Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Mary Jane Higby, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
In the early 1950s, Martha Beck, who lives with her slightly senile mother, is the head nurse in a Mobile, Alabama hospital. Read More »
Hound-Dog Man (1959) Don Siegel, Fabian, Stuart Whitman, Carol Lynley, Comedy, Drama
A rustic drama set in the early 20th century, Hound Dog Man is the simple story of a young man, Spud Kinney (Dennis Holmes) constantly in hot water for disobeying his mother (Betty Field). Read More »
The Mother (2003) Roger Michell, Daniel Craig, Anna Wilson-Jones, Anne Reid, Drama, Romance
Toots and May’s marriage is one of Toots being dependent on his wife. Shortly after Toots and May arrive in London to visit with their grown children Bobby and Paula and their respective children, Toots falls ill and dies. Read More »
The Fighting Kentuckian (1949) George Waggner, John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Philip Dorn, Adventure, Romance, War, Western
Following Napoleon’s Waterloo defeat and the exile of his officers and their families from France, the U.S.Congress, in 1817, granted four townships in the Alabama territory to the exiles. Read More »
The Big Bluff (1955) W. Lee Wilder, John Bromfield, Martha Vickers, Robert Hutton, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When scheming fortune hunter and erstwhile Latin lover Ricardo De Villa learns that a wealthy but sickly widow has terminal heart disease, he seduces and marries the vulnerable millionairess. Read More »
The Adventures of Tartu (1943) Harold S. Bucquet, Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson, Walter Rilla, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Stevenson, a British soldier fluent in Rumanian and German, goes undercover to sabotage a German poison-gas factory. Read More »
South (1919) Frank Hurley, Ernest Shackleton, Frank Worsley, J. Stenhouse, Documentary, Adventure
The story of the 1914-1916 Antarctic exploration mission of Sir Ernest Shackleton. The ship sails south, breaking the ice, and ultimately getting trapped by the fast-changing weather. Read More »
Finger Man (1955) Harold D. Schuster, Frank Lovejoy, Forrest Tucker, Peggie Castle, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Treasury agents, desperate to get evidence on syndicate kingpin Dutch Becker, give ex-con hood Casey Martin a choice…life in prison or courting sudden death as a government ‘finger man.’ Read More »