
A down-on-her-luck San Francisco woman, turning in desperation to jewel robbery, barely escapes getting nabbed in a heist and moves to Los Angeles where she gets an honest job as a waitress. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
Never Weaken (1921) Fred C. Newmeyer, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Roy Brooks, Short, Comedy, Thriller

Our hero (Lloyd) is infatuated with a girl in the next office. In order to drum up business for her boss, an osteopath, he gets an actor friend to pretend injuries that the doctor “cures”, thereby building a reputation. Read More »
That Touch of Mink (1962) Delbert Mann, Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young, Comedy, Romance

Cathy Timberlake is an old fashioned country girl who meets the man of her dreams, Philip Shayne, after his Rolls Royce splashes her with mud on her way to a job interview. Read More »
Oliver Twist (1922) Frank Lloyd, Jackie Coogan, James A. Marcus, Aggie Herring, Drama

Oliver’s mother, a penniless outcast, died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse, later apprenticed to an uncaring undertaker Read More »
A Sailor-Made Man (1921) Fred C. Newmeyer, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young, Comedy

When The Girl’s father insists that, before he will agree to The Boy’s marrying his daughter, he must first prove that he can do something more worthwhile than act the playboy. Read More »
Follow the Leader (1930) Norman Taurog, Ed Wynn, Ginger Rogers, Stanley Smith, Comedy, Musical, Romance

Crickets is the cheery, lovable chef at gangland’s favorite restaurant and, inadvertently ( and barely explainable), he becomes a hero in their eyes and becomes their unwilling leader. Read More »
Best Man Wins (1948) John Sturges, Edgar Buchanan, Anna Lee, Robert Shayne, Drama

Edgar Buchanan stars as a man who abruptly leaves his wife (Anna Lee) to “find himself”. Read More »
FTA (1972) Francine Parker, Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Pamela Donegan, Documentary, Comedy, Music

A documentary about a political troupe headed by actors Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland which traveled to towns near military bases in the US in the early 1970s. Read More »
Salt (2003) Bradley Rust Gray, Brynja Þóra Guðnadóttir, Davíð Örn Halldórsson, Melkorka Huldudóttir, Drama, Romance

A young girl from a tiny fishing village in a remote corner of Iceland falls in love with her sister’s boyfriend. Read More »
Maidstone (1970) Norman Mailer, Rip Torn, Paul Austin, Drama

Over a booze-fueled, increasingly hectic five-day shoot in East Hampton, Norman Mailer and his cast and crew spontaneously unloaded onto film the lurid and loony chronicle of U.S. presidential candidate and filmmaker Norman T. Kingsley debating and attacking his hangers-on and enemies. Read More »