We become intimate with the “Sordid Lives” of a family in a small Texas town preparing for the funeral of the mother. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
Daughter of Shanghai (1937) Robert Florey, Anna May Wong, Charles Bickford, Buster Crabbe, Crime, Drama, Romance
Set in San Francisco, ANNA MAY WONG stars as woman who is thrust into danger after her father is murdered by criminals involved with human trafficking. Read More »
Always Together (1947) Frederick De Cordova, Robert Hutton, Joyce Reynolds, Cecil Kellaway, Comedy
Millionaire Turner, on his deathbed, leaves a million to Jane Barker. A movie addict who believes life is like the movies, marries Donn without telling him about the bequest. Read More »
You Never Can Tell (1951) Lou Breslow, Dick Powell, Peggy Dow, Joyce Holden, Comedy, Fantasy
An ex-police/army dog (German Shepherd), named Rex inherits a fortune from an eccentric millionaire. Read More »
Fury at Gunsight Pass (1956) Fred F. Sears, David Brian, Neville Brand, Richard Long, Western
Part of an outlaw gang rides into town to rob the bank and their accomplice is the local undertaker. Read More »
Magnificent Obsession (1935) John M. Stahl, Irene Dunne, Robert Taylor, Charles Butterworth, Drama, Romance
The life of spoiled rich Robert Merrick is saved through the use of a hospital’s only resuscitator, but because the medical device cannot be in two places at once Read More »
Tender Comrade (1943) Edward Dmytryk, Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey, Drama, Romance
Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation. Read More »
Omar Khayyam (1957) William Dieterle, Cornel Wilde, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Adventure, Biography, Romance
Omar Khayyam was among the greatest of Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Read More »
Kitty (1945) Mitchell Leisen, Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, Patric Knowles, Drama, History
London, 1783: Kitty, a saucy wench of the slums, meets the painter Gainsborough by stealing his shoes. Read More »
A Romance of Happy Valley (1919) D.W. Griffith, Lydia Yeamans Titus, Robert Harron, Kate Bruce, Drama, Romance
John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city. Read More »