
Pete and Ellen have reared Meg as their own, ever since she was a baby and her parents took off. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
The Champ (1931) King Vidor, Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper

Dink Purcell loves his alcoholic father, ex-heavyweight champion Andy “Champ” Purcell Read More »
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957) Herbert L. Strock, Whit Bissell, Phyllis Coates, Robert Burton

Professor Frankenstein, a university lecturer with an alligator pit under his house Read More »
Wisdom (1986)

Unable to find work after a past felony, graduate John Wisdom and his girlfriend (Moore) embark on a cross-country Read More »
The High and the Mighty (1954) William A. Wellman, John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day

One disaster after another happens on this trans-Pacific flight. Read More »
Go Tell the Spartans (1978) Ted Post, Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, Jonathan Goldsmith

A unit of American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the major U.S. involvement find similarities between their Read More »
Journal of a Crime (1934) William Keighley, Ruth Chatterton, Adolphe Menjou, Claire Dodd

A wife shoots her husband’s mistress. Afterwards, she is tormented by guilt when someone else is blamed for the crime. Read More »
Navy Blues (1941) Lloyd Bacon, Ann Sheridan, Jack Oakie, Martha Raye

On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets Read More »
Pine Flat (2006) Sharon Lockhart, Amy Bates, Jessica Blain, Matthew Blain

Set in a small town in the Sierra Nevadas, Pine Flat is a look at youth and a meditation on nature, socialization, and solitude. Read More »
Captain January (1924) Edward F. Cline, Hobart Bosworth, Baby Peggy, Irene Rich

A lighthouse keeper finds a little girl who is washed ashore tied to some wreckage. Read More »