In 1947, a smart-mouthed Brit working in L.A. as a private eye (or peeper) is on a case to find the long lost daughter Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
A Dispatch from Reuters (1940) William Dieterle, Edward G. Robinson, Edna Best, Eddie Albert
Starting with a small flock of carrier pigeons, nineteenth-century entrepreneur Julius Reuter Read More »
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly AKA Le scaphandre et le papillon (2007) Julian Schnabel, Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze
Forty-three year old Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby – Jean-Do to his friends – awakens not knowing where he is. Read More »
Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940) Norman Taurog, Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. Read More »
Bathing Beauty (1944) George Sidney, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone
Songwriter Steve Elliott is about to marry Caroline Brooks. A strange woman who’s been paid by Steve’s agent Read More »
China O’Brien (1990) Robert Clouse, Cynthia Rothrock, Richard Norton, Keith Cooke
China O’Brien; big city police woman; martial arts trainer, is forced to hand in her badge Read More »
Dark Star (1974) John Carpenter, Dan O’Bannon, Dre Pahich, Brian Narelle
Low-budget story of four astronauts in deep space, whose mission is to destroy unstable planets Read More »
Ride in the Whirlwind (1966) Monte Hellman, Jack Nicholson, Cameron Mitchell, Millie Perkins
Wes, Vern and Otis are three cowhands on the way to a cattle drive. Read More »
The Foxes of Harrow (1947) John M. Stahl, Rex Harrison, Maureen O’Hara, Richard Haydn
Frank Yerby’s Foxes of Harrow was one of those long historical novels so popular in the 1940s. Read More »
The King Steps Out (1936) Josef von Sternberg, Franchot Tone, Grace Moore, Walter Connolly
Princess is destined to marry the Emperor, until her sister steps in. Read More »