LaRochelle, a former pirate captain, is caught by the British. To get his ship back, he works as a spy against Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
Stingaree (1934) William A. Wellman, Irene Dunne, Richard Dix, Mary Boland
In 1874 Australia, newly installed Police Inspector Radford boasts to wealthy Hugh Clarkson Read More »
Hardly Working (1981) Jerry Lewis, Susan Oliver, Roger C. Carmel
In Jerry Lewis’s first film in a decade, he plays Bo Hooper, an unemployed circus clown who can’t seem to hold down a job. Read More »
I Shot Jesse James (1949) Samuel Fuller, Preston Foster, Barbara Britton, John Ireland
While the law hunts him, Jesse James lives quietly in a rented house on the corner of Lafayette Read More »
I Was an American Spy (1951) Lesley Selander, Ann Dvorak, Gene Evans, Douglas Kennedy
An American nightclub singer in 1940’s Singapore becomes a spy for America in an effort to get back at the invading Japanese army. Based on a true story. Read More »
The Belle of New York (1952) Charles Walters, Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen, Marjorie Main
In squeaky-clean New York at the turn of the century, playboy Charlie Hill falls so much in love that he can walk on air. Read More »
Delirium (2018) Dennis Iliadis, Topher Grace, Patricia Clarkson, Genesis Rodriguez
A man recently released from a mental institute inherits a mansion after his wealthy parents die. Read More »
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) Michael Curtiz, Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell
In London, sculptor Ivan Igor struggles in vain to prevent his partner Worth from burning his wax museum…and his ‘children.’ Read More »
Eight Hundred Leagues Down the Amazon (1993) Luis Llosa, Daphne Zuniga, Tom Verica, Barry Bostwick
Outlaw Joam Garral makes a clandestine journey down the crocodile and piranha infested Amazon river to attend his daughter’s marriage. Read More »
Ruby Gentry (1952) King Vidor, Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston, Karl Malden
Despite their different social class Ruby and Boake grew up together in the 1950s North Carolina. Read More »