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Tag Archives: USA
The Killers (1964) Don Siegel, Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Don Siegel directed this intensely pessimistic re-make of Robert Siodmak’s 1946 film noir masterpiece The Killers, based upon a story by Ernest Hemingway. Read More »
The Killers (1946) Robert Siodmak, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

Two professional killers invade a small town and kill a gas station attendant, “the Swede,” who’s expecting them. Read More »
Screamers (1995) Christian Duguay, Peter Weller, Roy Dupuis, Jennifer Rubin, Sci-Fi, Thriller

(SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078) On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding Read More »
Rogue River (1951) John Rawlins, Rory Calhoun

The story of two step-brothers, raised by their father, the chief of police, in a small Oregon lumber town. Read More »
The Producers (1967) Mel Brooks, Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Estelle Winwood, Comedy

Down-on-his-luck theatrical producer Max Bialystock is forced to romance rich old ladies to finance his efforts. Read More »
Mountains of the Moon (1990) Bob Rafelson, Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant, Adventure, Drama, History, Mystery

The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton and Lt. John Hanning Speke’s expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria’s British Empire. Read More »
Ulysses (1967) Joseph Strick, Milo O’Shea, Barbara Jefford, Maurice Roëves, Drama

Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship and a father figure in Leopold Bloom Read More »
Quo Vadis (2001) Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Pawel Delag, Magdalena Mielcarz, Boguslaw Linda, Drama

Marcus Vinicius meets Lygia in Rome and falls in love. But she is Christian and doesn’t want anything to do with him. Read More »
Search for Beauty (1934) Erle C. Kenton, Buster Crabbe, Ida Lupino, Robert Armstrong, Comedy, Crime, Romance

Three shady characters – Larry, Jean, and Dan – want to make money legally by resuscitating a fitness magazine with cheesecake and beefcake photos and salacious stories with tacked-on morals. Read More »