It’s 1901. At 19, tough, stubborn Christopher Leiningen came to South America and built levees to claim thousands of acres of Rio Negro river land for a chocolate plantation. Read More »
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Topkapi (1964) Jules Dassin, Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell
A small-time con-man with passport problems gets mixed up with a gang of world-class jewelry thieves plotting to rob the Topkapi museum in Istanbul. Read More »
Sweethearts on Parade (1953) Allan Dwan, Ray Middleton, Lucille Norman, Eileen Christy, Drama, Music, Romance
Cam Ellerby (Ray Middleton) brings his traveling medicine show to town and it spells glamor and excitement to young Sylvia Townsend (Eileen Christy). Read More »
Her Sisters Secret (1946) Edgar G. Ulmer, Nancy Coleman, Margaret Lindsay, Phillip Reed, Drama
A WWII tale of romance that begins during New Orlean’s “Mardi Gras” celebration when a soldier and a girl meet and fall in love. Read More »
Not Tonight, Darling (1971) Anthony Sloman, Luan Peters, Vincent Ball, Jason Twelvetrees, Drama
A lonely ‘Stay-at-Home’ Housewife is being watched every night through the bathroom window by a ‘Peeping Tom’, who is being put up to it by his friend. Read More »
Zaza (1938) George Cukor, Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Bert Lahr, Drama, Romance
A sexy singer in a French music hall falls in love with a handsome, but married, aristocrat. Read More »
Lady in a Jam (1942) Gregory La Cava, Irene Dunne, Patric Knowles, Ralph Bellamy, Comedy, Romance
Jane Palmer is suspected of insanity after squandering her inheritance, and a young psychiatrist, Dr. Enright, is assigned to her case. Read More »
Thunderhoof (1948) Phil Karlson, Preston Foster, Mary Stuart, William Bishop, Crime, Drama, Romance, Western
Texas rancher Scotty Mason goes into the Mexican desert-country in search of a wild horse, and takes his young wife, Margarita and his hired-hand, The Kid, whose life Scotty had saved a few years earlier. Read More »
Operation Bikini (1963) Anthony Carras, Tab Hunter, Frankie Avalon, Scott Brady, War, Drama
With posters featuring a stylized-drawing of Eva Six in a bikini, a tagline reading…”Temptation in Paradise…neither hell nor high heels could stop them” Read More »
War Arrow (1953) George Sherman, Maureen O’Hara, Jeff Chandler, John McIntire, Romance, War, Western
Major Howell Brady and two non-coms are assigned to go to Indian territory and recruit peaceful Seminoles relocated from Florida to aid the army in fighting the larger, rampaging Kiowa tribe. Read More »