
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper’s policy and support the US war effort. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
Panic in the Streets (1950) Elia Kazan, Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes

When a body is found in the New Orleans docks, it’s pretty obvious that he died from gun shot wounds. Read More »
Higher and Higher (1943) Tim Whelan, Michèle Morgan, Jack Haley, Frank Sinatra

Formerly rich Mr. Drake is broke…with his household staff’s wages seven months in arrears. Read More »
Cass Timberlane (1947) George Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, Zachary Scott

Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. Read More »
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) Charles Barton, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr.

The world of freight handlers Wilbur Grey and Chick Young is turned upside down when the remains of Frankenstein’s monster and Dracula arrive from Europe to be used in a house of horrors. Read More »
Wings (1927) William A. Wellman, Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast, Clara Bow, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, Richard Arlen

Two young men from the same town but different social classes end up as fighter pilots in WW1. Read More »
Rose-Marie (1936) W.S. Van Dyke, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Reginald Owen

Opera singer (Marie de Flor) seeks out fugitive brother in the Canadian wilderness. Read More »
Shanghai Express (1932) Josef von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong

Many passengers on the Shanghai Express are more concerned that the notorious Shanghai Lil is on board than the fact that a civil war Read More »
Halloween (1978) John Carpenter, Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Moran

The year is 1963, the night: Halloween. Police are called to 43 Lampkin Ln. only to discover that 15 year old Judith Myers has been stabbed to death, by her 6 year-old brother, Michael. Read More »
Red Dawn (1984) John Milius, Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson

From out of the sky, Soviet, Nicaraguan, and Cuban troops begin landing on the football field of a Colorado high school. Read More »