About a male hustler who talks with and sleeps with a series of women. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) Sidney Franklin, Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton
In 1845 London, the Barrett family is ruled with an iron fist by its stern widowed patriarch, Edward Moulton-Barrett. Read More »
Babes in Toyland / March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934) Gus Meins, Charley Rogers, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Virginia Karns
Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep’s Read More »
The Decks Ran Red (1958) Andrew L. Stone, James Mason, Dorothy Dandridge, Broderick Crawford
Danger and suspense sail the high seas in this nautical thriller that some commentators call uncommonly fierce for its time. Read More »
Sparrows (1926) William Beaudine, Tom McNamara, Mary Pickford, Roy Stewart, Mary Louise Miller
Evil Mr.Grimes keeps a rag-tag bunch orphans on his farm deep in a swamp in the US South. Read More »
Clive of India (1935) Richard Boleslawski, Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Colin Clive
In the mid-1700’s the East India Company has power over commerce on the sub-continent, with the blessings of the British government. Read More »
Take a Girl Like You (2000) Nick Hurran, Sienna Guillory, Rupert Graves, Robert Daws
The novel opens with Jenny Bunn’s arrival at her lodging-house. Read More »
A Royal Scandal (1945) Otto Preminger, Ernst Lubitsch, Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Coburn, Anne Baxter
In 18th century Russia,a naive and idealistic lieutenant,Alexei Chernoff, deserts his unit Read More »
The Legacy (1978) Richard Marquand, Katharine Ross, Sam Elliott, John Standing
A millionaire and a million-dollar prostitute, a star-maker and a nation-killer, a woman whose lusts are as cold as graveyard snow… Read More »
The Voice of the Turtle (1947) Irving Rapper, Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Parker, Eve Arden
Budding actress Sally Middleton agrees to a date with Bill Page, a soldier on a weekend pass, after he’s stood up by her worldly friend, Olive. Read More »