
Brief vignettes about Lincoln’s early life include his birth, early jobs, (unsubstantiated) affair with Ann Rutledge, courtship of Mary Todd, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
Lansky (1999) John McNaughton, Richard Dreyfuss, Yosef Carmon, Mosko Alkalai, Drama, Crime

This is the telling of the life of organized crime boss, Meyer Lansky, as remembered by him as a very old man who is moving about the world looking for some country that will take him in since the US courts have put out an extradition order for him to stand trial. Read More »
F.I.S.T. (1978) Norman Jewison, Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. Read More »
Night of Dark Shadows (1971) Dan Curtis, David Selby, Grayson Hall, Kate Jackson, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

A painter and his wife move into a home and find themselves plagued by ghosts and spirits of his ancestors that used to be witches. Read More »
Screwball Hotel (1988) Rafal Zielinski, Michael Bendetti, Andrew Zeller, Jeff Greenman, Comedy

Three boys drop out of military school. They get jobs working at a hotel, but it’s about to go under. They decide to help the owner raise enough money to stay in business. Read More »
Tarzan and the Great River (1967) Robert Day, Mike Henry, Jan Murray, Manuel Padilla Jr., Action, Adventure

Tarzan is summoned to Brazil by an old friend to stop an evil tribal cult from destroying native villages and enslaving the survivors. Read More »
For Men Only (1952) Paul Henreid, Kathleen Hughes, Russell Johnson, Drama

A college professor begins to suspect that a student’s accidental death was tied to his refusal to take part in a traditional “hazing” and was no accident. Read More »
Valley of Hunted Men (1942) John English, Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Jimmie Dodd, Drama, Western

It’s 1941 and three Nazis escape from a Canadian prison. Two are killed but the third kills Paul Schiller and assumes his identity. Read More »
The Bat (1959) Crane Wilbur, Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon, Horror, Thriller, Mystery

Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called “The Oaks”, which not long ago had been the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as “The Bat”. Read More »
Dark Odyssey (1961) William Kyriakis, Radley Metzger, Athan Karras, Jeanne Jerrems, David Hooks, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Yianni Martakis, a sailor immigrant in New York City, is on a mission to find and kill the man who raped his sister. Read More »