Teenager Ben Mockridge feels life in a Wild West farm town has nothing better to offer than horse-cart racing with other hicks, so he naively begs cattle company owner Frank Culpepper to engage him as the youngest cowboy for a long cattle trail to a fort. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
Enemy Agent (1940) Lew Landers, Richard Cromwell, Helen Vinson, Robert Armstrong, Adventure, Mystery
A man is framed for being a spy. After he is released, he sets out to find who the real spies are. Read More »
Crimewave (1985) Sam Raimi, Louise Lasser, Brion James, Paul L. Smith, Comedy, Crime, Horror
A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder, who tells the story in flashback from the electric chair. Read More »
Voice in the Wind (1944) Arthur Ripley, Francis Lederer, Sigrid Gurie, J. Edward Bromberg, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A concert pianist has lost his memory, the result of his being arrested and tortured by the Nazis during the war for playing a banned song. Read More »
Girl, Interrupted (1999) James Mangold, Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Drama
Susanna is depressed and directionless after finishing high school in the late 1960’s. A suicide attempt lands her in Claymore, a mental institution. Read More »
London Blackout Murders (1943) George Sherman, John Abbott, Mary McLeod, Lloyd Corrigan, Crime, Drama, Thriller
During the dark days of World War II, young Mary Tillet is bombed out of her home and forced to seek lodgings upstairs from a tobacconist. Read More »
Kiss the Girls (1997) Gary Fleder, Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Cary Elwes, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Alex Cross, a Washington D.C. cop and forensic psychologist learns that his niece who is going to college in North Carolina is missing. Read More »
Winter Carnival (1939) Charles Reisner, Ann Sheridan, Richard Carlson, Helen Parrish, Comedy, Drama
This romance is set during the Dartmouth College Winter Carnival and follows the exploits of a woman recently divorced from a count who has returned to her alma mater for the annual carnival. Read More »
Brubaker (1980) Stuart Rosenberg, Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Morgan Freeman, Crime, Drama
When the new Warden comes in disguised as an inmate, he sees first hand all the corruption and scams the guards and prison officials and running. Read More »
The Young One / La Joven (1960) Luis Buñuel, Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton, Key Meersman, Drama
Game warden Miller lives on an isolated island off the Carolina coast. The only other inhabitant is Evvie, an naive young girl to whom Miller is attracted. Read More »