A group of social misfits at a summer camp.for boys run away to save penned-in buffaloes from a rifle club’s slaughter.
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Tag Archives: USA
The Big Noise (1944) Malcolm St. Clair, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Doris Merrick, Action, Adventure, Comedy
Although they are only janitors at a detective agency, the boys pass themselves off as sleuths and are engaged to guard an inventor delivering a new bomb. They outwit enemy agents after the bomb and wind up sinking a Japanese submarine.
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They Came to Cordura (1959) Robert Rossen, Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, Van Heflin, Adventure, Drama, History
After a cavalry charge during the 1916 U.S. “war against Pancho Villa,” unheroic awards officer Tom Thorn (who is obsessed with the nature of courage) recommends 4 men for the Medal of Honor. Read More »
Pendulum (1969) George Schaefer, George Peppard, Jean Seberg, Richard Kiley, Crime, Drama, Thriller
On the evening of his decoration for bringing a murderer to justice, Washington DC Police Captain Frank Matthews’ wife, and her lover are murdered in bed. Read More »
Broad Daylight (2004) John Michael McCarthy, Teri Geary, Rita D’Albert, Dirty Martini, Documentary, Music, Erotic
Blood Alley (1955) William A. Wellman, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Paul Fix, Action, Adventure
A merchant marine captain, rescued from the Chinese Communists by local villagers, is “shanghaied” into transporting the whole village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer. Read More »
War of the Buttons (1994) John Roberts, Gregg Fitzgerald, Gerard Kearney, Darragh Naughton, Adventure, Drama, Family
The children of Ballydowse & Carrickdowse engage in battles in which they cut off the buttons, shoe-laces, belts and braces of their captured opponents. Read More »
The Sore Losers (1997) John Michael McCarthy, Jack Yarber, Kerine Elkins, Mike Maker, Action, Sci-Fi
Set in present day Northeastern Mississippi and Memphis, Blackie (Jack Oblivian) returns to Earth 42 years after his first visit to complete a mission Read More »
The Bamboo Saucer (1968) Frank Telford, Dan Duryea, John Ericson, Lois Nettleton, Sci-fi
A flying saucer hidden in a Red Chinese peasant village is sought by teams from the United States and U.S.S.R. On finding it, they band together to explore the saucer and take a trip into space.
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Go for Sisters (2013) John Sayles, LisaGay Hamilton, Yolonda Ross, Edward James Olmos, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Fontayne is enlisted by Bernice – her estranged old friend and current parole officer – along with a disgraced cop to search for Bernice’s son, who went missing on the Mexican border.
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