
Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a French contract assassin hired by a Los Angeles crime family, ostensibly to perform a hit on some other mafia target. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
Schlock (1973) John Landis, Saul Kahan, Joseph Piantadosi, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

A monkey-type monster falls in love with a blind girl, which thinks that he’s a giant dog. Read More »
The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933) Archie Mayo, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon, Romance, Drama

Prizefighter Jimmy Dolan accidentally kills a man at a party and escapes. Read More »
Backfire (1950) Vincent Sherman, Virginia Mayo, Gordon MacRae, Edmond O’Brien, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Bob Corey, recovering from a series of operations in a Veterans’ hospital, learns that his friend, Steve Connelly, with whom he intended to buy a ranch Read More »
Zaza (1923) Allan Dwan, Gloria Swanson, H.B. Warner, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Romance, Drama

Zaza (Gloria Swanson) is an actress and the favorite at an theater in a small French town and she dreams of performing in Paris. Read More »
Goodbye Charlie (1964) Vincente Minnelli, Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds, Pat Boone, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Shot by a jealous husband, Charley falls out a porthole and is lost at sea only to find himself returned as an attractive blond woman. Read More »
The Look of Silence (2014) Joshua Oppenheimer, Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan, Documentary, Biography, History

An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the “Communist” purge occurred in 1965. Read More »
The Prize (1963) Mark Robson, Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer, Crime, Drama, Mystery

For some reason, this year’s Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the young author Andrew Craig, who seems to be more interested in women and drinking than writing. Read More »
Lady with Red Hair (1940) Curtis Bernhardt, Miriam Hopkins, Claude Rains, Richard Ainley, Biography, Drama

A messy divorce leaves Mrs. Leslie Carter shunned by Chicago society for being an adulteress and forbidden from having custody of her son. Read More »
Downstairs (1932) Monta Bell, John Gilbert, Paul Lukas, Virginia Bruce, Drama, Romance

At the wedding of Albert and Anna, Karl, the new chauffeur, arrives. Albert is the head butler, second generation to the Baron. Read More »