Jimmy Owens (Russell Hayden) is a driver for a taxicab-fleet trying to scrape together $300.00 in order to buy a small Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
Movie Movie (1978) Stanley Donen, George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Red Buttons
Three movie genres of the 1930s are satirized in this spoof of the traditional double feature. Read More »
First Cousin Once Removed (2012) Alan Berliner, Eli Berliner, Stuart Blazer, Susan Brown
Acclaimed filmmaker Alan Berliner chronicles the deeply personal story of his mother’s first cousin–well-known poet/translator/professor Read More »
A Man Called Peter (1955) Henry Koster, Richard Todd, Jean Peters, Marjorie Rambeau
Based on the true story of a young Scottish lad, Peter Marshall, who dreams of only going to sea Read More »
Critic’s Choice (1963) Don Weis, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Marilyn Maxwell
Parker Ballantine is the most respected and forthright of the New York theater critics. Read More »
Why Me? (1990) Gene Quintano, Christopher Lambert, Kim Greist, Christopher Lloyd
A jewel thief, his wacky sidekick, and his girlfriend are chased around Los Angeles by cops, the Cia Read More »
The Falcon’s Brother (1942) Stanley Logan, George Sanders, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
Gay Lawrence, amateur detective known as The Falcon, learns that his brother Tom Read More »
Diminished Capacity (2008) Terry Kinney, Matthew Broderick, Virginia Madsen, Alan Alda
Cooper is a Chicago journalist with post-concussion memory loss. Read More »
Chinatown at Midnight (1949) Seymour Friedman
Clifford Ward is a thief working San Francisco’s Chinatown district, and his stolen goods are fenced through an interior-decorators shop ran by Lisa Marcel. Read More »
The Mercenaries AKA Dark of the Sun (1968) Jack Cardiff, Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Peter Carsten
British commando, Captain Curry, is hired by President Ubi of war-torn Congo, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds Read More »