
Ballet dancer Sanine may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he’s not the only one. Sanine is charming, if a little peculiar. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
Special Inspector (1938) Leon Barsha, Charles Quigley, Rita Hayworth, George McKay, Crime, Drama, Romance

Filmed in Canada as part of the UK-Quota System: U. S. Customs Agent Tom Evans is given the assignment of running down a smuggling ring which hijacks Canadian fur-shipper’s trucks and sells the loot in the United States. Read More »
Missing Women (1951) Philip Ford, Penny Edwards, James Millican, John Gallaudet, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Sport

Claudia Rankin’s husband of one hour is murdered after they stop on an isolated road. When the police appear, to her, to be taking their time about finding the killer, Claudia changes her name and appearance and starts her own investigation. Read More »
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935) Stuart Walker, Claude Rains, Douglass Montgomery, Heather Angel, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance

John Jasper, a brooding, moody choirmaster at a finishing school in Victorian England, maintains a secret life that includes frequenting an opium den. Read More »
Mystery of Marie Roget (1942) Phil Rosen, Patric Knowles, Maria Montez, Maria Ouspenskaya, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

A detective tries to unravel the strange circumstances surrounding the death of a young actress. Read More »
Allotment Wives (1945) William Nigh, Kay Francis, Paul Kelly, Otto Kruger, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Story of women who marry GIs just so they can receive the soldiers’ pay and their life insurance if they are killed in action. Read More »
The Wild and the Innocent (1959) Jack Sher, Audie Murphy, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland, Romance, Western

Charming tale of mountaineer-trapper Murphy’s first taste “big city” life with young, sweet Sandra Dee in tow. Read More »
The Sisters (2005) Arthur Allan Seidelman, Elizabeth Banks, Maria Bello, Erika Christensen, Drama

Based on Anton Chekov’s “The Three Sisters” about siblings living in a college town who struggle with the death of their father and try to reconcile relationships in their own lives. Read More »
Farewell to the King (1989) John Milius, Nick Nolte, Nigel Havers, Frank McRae

An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo Read More »
So Red the Rose (1935) King Vidor, Margaret Sullavan, Walter Connolly, Randolph Scott, Drama

SO RED THE ROSE is King Vidor’s quietly affecting Civil War romance, starring Margaret Sullavan as a Southern aristocrat, the mistress of a Southern plantation Read More »