Following Napoleon’s Waterloo defeat and the exile of his officers and their families from France, the U.S.Congress, in 1817, granted four townships in the Alabama territory to the exiles. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
The Big Bluff (1955) W. Lee Wilder, John Bromfield, Martha Vickers, Robert Hutton, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When scheming fortune hunter and erstwhile Latin lover Ricardo De Villa learns that a wealthy but sickly widow has terminal heart disease, he seduces and marries the vulnerable millionairess. Read More »
Finger Man (1955) Harold D. Schuster, Frank Lovejoy, Forrest Tucker, Peggie Castle, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Treasury agents, desperate to get evidence on syndicate kingpin Dutch Becker, give ex-con hood Casey Martin a choice…life in prison or courting sudden death as a government ‘finger man.’ Read More »
Breaking In (1989) Bill Forsyth, Burt Reynolds, Casey Siemaszko, Sheila Kelley, Adventure, Comedy
Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has “larceny in his heart”, it will take him a long time to get as good as Ernie. Read More »
The Big Fisherman (1959) Frank Borzage, John Saxon, Howard Keel, Susan Kohner, Drama, History
Howard Keel stars as a stalwart Simon-Peter, the apostle of Christ called “the fisher of men” and the “Rock” upon whom the Christian Church was founded. Read More »
The Young Warriors (1966) John Peyser, James Drury, Steve Carlson, Jonathan Daly, Drama, War
In World War II, a tough sergeant is put in charge of a squad of young recruits and assigned to lead them on a mission against the Germans. Read More »
The House on Garibaldi Street (1979) Peter Collinson, Topol, Nick Mancuso, Janet Suzman, Drama
Nazi’s, in places not seen, almost invisible to the naked eye, travel to Bologna Italy starting a concentration kamfp there and discover a secret underground group Read More »
Remember My Name (1978) Alan Rudolph, Geraldine Chaplin, Anthony Perkins, Moses Gunn, Thriller, Drama
Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to “start a new life”, but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and eventually terrorizing him and his wife. Read More »
Bible! (1974) Wakefield Poole, Bo White, Caprice Couselle, Georgina Spelvin, Fantasy, History, Romance, Erotic
An anthology film crafted from three stories from The Bible: First story is, of course, Adam & Eve. Read More »
The Goodbye Girl (1977) Herbert Ross, Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings, Comedy, Drama, Romance
A divorced woman and her daughter come home to find that her boyfriend has left for an out of town job with no warning. Read More »