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Tag Archives: USA
We’re Not Dressing (1934) Norman Taurog, Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, George Burns

Beautiful high society type Doris Worthington is entertaining guests on her yacht in the Pacific when it hits a reef and sinks. Read More »
House of Women (1962) Walter Doniger, Crane Wilbur, Shirley Knight, Andrew Duggan, Constance Ford

Sentenced to 5 years in prison, Erica Hayden is most worried about her unborn child’s future. Read More »
Moana (1926) Frances H. Flaherty, Robert J. Flaherty, Ta’avale, Fa’amgase, T’ugaita

Filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty presents a docufictional account of a family living in a Samoan village in the early 1920s. Read More »
Golden Girl (1951) Lloyd Bacon

Against the background of the Civil War, sixteen-year-old song-and-dance artiste Lotta Crabtree Read More »
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (1979) Allan Arkush, Joe Dante, P.J. Soles, Vincent Van Patten, Clint Howard

Vince Lombardi High School keeps losing principals to nervous breakdowns because of the students’ love of rock ‘n’ roll Read More »
Phase IV (1974) Saul Bass, Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy, Lynne Frederick

Desert ants suddenly form a collective intelligence and begin to wage war on the desert inhabitants. Read More »
Kill Me If You Can (1977) Buzz Kulik, Alan Alda, Talia Shire, John Hillerman

The story of Caryl Chessman, a convicted California rapist who spent 12 years on death row before finally being executed. Read More »
The Cuban Love Song (1931) W.S. Van Dyke, Lawrence Tibbett, Lupe Velez, Ernest Torrence

In 1917, an American ship is about to leave San Francisco for Cuba and marines Terry, Romance and O. O. Jones Read More »
The House on 92nd Street (1945) Henry Hathaway, William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso

Preface: a stentorian narrator tells us that the USA was flooded with Nazi spies in 1939-41. Read More »