A bored automobile industry tycoon assumes a false identity, buys a half interest in a gas station, and plays matchmaker for his daughter. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
Story of a Bad Boy (1999) Tom Donaghy, Jeremy Hollingworth, Christian Camargo, Stephen Lang
17-year-old Pauly is a closeted high school kid who wants it all. Read More »
Ellery Queen’s Penthouse Myster (1941) James P. Hogan, Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay, Charley Grapewin
Like the first entry in Columbia’s “Ellery Queen” series, Ellery Queen’s Penthouse Mystery depicts its amateur-criminologist hero as an oafish ignoramus. Read More »
The Greek Tycoon (1978) J. Lee Thompson, Anthony Quinn, Jacqueline Bisset, Raf Vallone
Theo Tomasis, from humble beginnings, is an aging Greek shipping magnate who works on his own moral (or amoral as the case may be) code Read More »
Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970) Frank Perry, Richard Benjamin, Frank Langella, Carrie Snodgress
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous Read More »
The Reckless Moment (1949) Max Ophüls, James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks
In the charming community of Balboa 50 miles from Los Angeles, middle-class housewife Lucia Harper Read More »
Alice Goodbody (1974) Tom Scheuer, Colleen Brennan, Daniel Kauffman, Keith McConnell
Sharon Kelly plays a naive waitress who sleeps her ways to bigger and bigger roles in a musical adaptation of Julius Caesar Read More »
My Past (1931) Roy Del Ruth, Bebe Daniels, Lewis Stone, Ben Lyon
A stage star finds herself torn between a wealthy older man and a handsome younger one. Read More »
Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers (1968) Russ Meyer, Anne Chapman, Paul Lockwood, Gordon Wescourt
Paul, the owner of a topless go-go bar on the Sunset Strip, isn’t having a good day. Read More »
Men in War (1957) Anthony Mann, Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Robert Keith
In Korea, on 6 September 1950, Lieutenant Benson’s platoon finds itself isolated in enemy-held territory after a retreat. Read More »