Heiress Carol Owen learns to fly from aeronautical engineer Jim Leonard who begins Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
The Big Shakedown (1934) John Francis Dillon, Charles Farrell, Bette Davis, Ricardo Cortez
Former bootlegger Nick Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate drugs. Read More »
Beau James (1957)
The story of Jimmy Walker who became mayor of New York in the ’20s. Read More »
The Best of Walt Disney’s True-Life Adventures (1975)
The film opens with a salute to Walt Disney, a pioneer of nature films and animal lover Read More »
The Glass Wall (1953) Maxwell Shane, Vittorio Gassman, Gloria Grahame, Ann Robinson
Peter is a refugee who wants to make a better life for himself in America Read More »
American Dreamer (1984) Rick Rosenthal, JoBeth Williams, Tom Conti, Giancarlo Giannini
Frustrated housewife/writer Cathy Palmer ghostwrites a story about Rebecca Ryan Read More »
Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1952) Edmund Goulding, William Lundigan, Jane Greer, Mitzi Gaynor
World War II is over but Captain Willoby and his men must “occupy” remote Midi Island. Read More »
Bad Men of Tombstone (1949) Kurt Neumann, Barry Sullivan, Marjorie Reynolds, Broderick Crawford
During the gold-rush days, Tom Horn is jailed for an assay office holdup at Gold City Read More »
Frisco Waterfront (1935) Arthur Lubin, Joseph Santley, Ben Lyon, Helen Twelvetrees, Rod La Rocque
As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes Read More »
Moonlight Murder (1936) Edwin L. Marin, Chester Morris, Madge Evans, Leo Carrillo
Opera star Gino D’Acosta (Leo Carrillo), due to perform in the open air of the Hollywood Bowl Read More »