Seven weeks after Pearl Harbor, volunteers form the new 2nd Marine Raider Battalion whose purpose is to raid Japanese-held islands. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
Air Mail (1932) John Ford, Pat O’Brien, Ralph Bellamy, Gloria Stuart
Level headed Mike Miller runs Desert Airport, an air mail base full of daring young pilots risking Read More »
Show Boat (1929) Harry A. Pollard, Arch Heath, Laura La Plante, Joseph Schildkraut, Emily Fitzroy
The film begins with Magnolia, daughter of Captain Andy Hawks and his domineering wife Parthy Read More »
Upstream (1927) John Ford, Nancy Nash, Earle Foxe, Grant Withers
Among the residents of a theatrical boarding house is the last member of a once great acting family, down on his luck. Read More »
Tanganyika (1954) André De Toth, Van Heflin, Ruth Roman, Howard Duff
In 1903 Kenya, tough colonist John Gale is leading a safari to bring in escaped murderer Abel McCracken Read More »
Five Easy Pieces (1970) Bob Rafelson, Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush
Following Jack Nicholson’s breakout supporting turn in Easy Rider, director Bob Rafelson devised a powerful leading Read More »
Heat (1972) Paul Morrissey, Joe Dallesandro, Sylvia Miles, Andrea Feldman
Joey, an unemployed ex-child actor, uses sex to get his landlady, Lydia, to reduce his rent Read More »
On the Line (1984) José Luis Borau, David Carradine, Scott Wilson, Victoria Abril
A Border Patrol Agent is determined to catch his old nemesis Read More »
Miracle on Main Street (1939) Steve Sekely, Margo, Walter Abel, William Collier Sr.
On Christmas Eve in the Spanish quarter of L.A. police try to arrest a couple running a shady floor show. Read More »
The Crowd (1928) King Vidor, Eleanor Boardman, James Murray, Bert Roach
Born on the fourth of July, 1900, the future holds unlimited potential for newborn John Sims. Read More »