
A woman who owns a boarding house winds up being the “mother hen” to the assorted mobsters and racketeers who live there. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
Bullfighter and the Lady (1951) Budd Boetticher, Robert Stack, Joy Page, Gilbert Roland

Johnny Regan, a U.S. citizen, goes to Mexico and takes up bullfighting as a lark Read More »
The Picture of Dorian Gray (2004) Dave Rosenbaum

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty Read More »
The Big Chance (1933) Albert Herman, John Darrow, Merna Kennedy, Natalie Moorhead

Frankie, a young prizefighter, wins a fixed boxing match as part of a crime boss’s plan Read More »
The Milagro Beanfield War (1988) Robert Redford, Rubén Blades, Richard Bradford, Sonia Braga

In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. Read More »
The Mayor of 44th Street (1942) Alfred E. Green, George Murphy, Anne Shirley, William Gargan

In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency Read More »
Sister Kenny (1946) Dudley Nichols, Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger

Elizabeth Kenny, as a young nurse out in the Australian bush discovers an effective treatment for polio Read More »
Children Underground (2001) Edet Belzberg, Cristina Ionescu, Mihai Alexandre Tudose, Violeta ‘Macarena’ Rosu

One of the most astonishing and engaging cinematic works of the past decade Read More »
Mexican Spitfires Elephant (1942) Leslie Goodwins, Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Walter Reed

A pair of shipboard smugglers have a large diamond hidden inside a small elephant statuette Read More »
Mademoiselle Fifi (1944) Robert Wise, Simone Simon, John Emery, Kurt Kreuger

One of the few failures for RKO Radio’s resident “prestige programmer” producer Val Lewton Read More »