
Deborah Chandler’s rejected suitor, Selden Clark, manages the factory of her father, who dies: did he fall or was he pushed? Read More »
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The Hidden Hand (1942) Benjamin Stoloff, Craig Stevens, Elisabeth Fraser, Julie Bishop, Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Everybody seems to have had a good time making the overripe melodrama The Hidden Hand, especially cadaverous Milton Parsons as insane-asylum escapee John Channing. Read More »
Chatos Land (1972) Michael Winner, Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, James Whitmore, Western

Half-Apache Pardon Chato (Charles Bronson) finds himself in a bar fight with a bigoted sheriff and kills the man to save his own life. Read More »
Virginia (1941) Edward H. Griffith, Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray, Sterling Hayden, Drama, Romance

A New York chorus girl (Madeleine Carroll) comes home to claim her family plantation and must choose between two men (Fred MacMurray, Sterling Hayden), one rich, one not. Read More »
Meeting Venus (1991) István Szabó, Glenn Close, Niels Arestrup, Kiri Te Kanawa, Comedy, Drama, Romance

A deliciously biting satire about both the world of Grand Opera and United Europe. Read More »
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Elia Kazan, Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Drama

Blanche is in real need of a protector at this stage in her life when circumstances lead her into paying a visit to her younger sister Stella in New Orleans. Read More »
Unspeakable Acts (1990) Linda Otto, Jill Clayburgh, Brad Davis, Sam Behrens, Biography, Drama

Horrendous acts of sexual abuse were discovered at Miami’s Country Walk Day Care Center in 1984. Read More »
The Secret Heart (1946) Robert Z. Leonard, Claudette Colbert, Walter Pidgeon, June Allyson, Drama, Romance

Brillant pianist Larry Addams allows his frustrated ambitions to ruin his life and commits suicide, leaving his wife, Lee, and two small children Read More »
Remember the Day (1941) Henry King, Claudette Colbert, John Payne, Shepperd Strudwick

Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost. Read More »
The Gathering Storm (1974) Herbert Wise, Richard Burton, Virginia McKenna, Robert Hardy, Biography, Drama

The story of British prime minister Winston Churchill, focusing on his place in British life just prior to World War II. Read More »