Jerilee Randall, a simple schoolgirl living in the San Fernando Valley, dreams of becoming a famous screenwriter. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
The Long Summer of George Adams (1982) Stuart Margolin, James Garner, Joan Hackett, Alex Harvey, Drama
James Garner stars in a lighthearted tale about the vices and virtues of small-town life, based on the novel by Weldon Hill. Read More »
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1954) Luis Buñuel, Dan O’Herlihy, Jaime Fernández, Felipe de Alba, Adventure, Drama
On 30 September 1659, the aristocratic British Robinson Crusoe’s ship sinks and he miraculously survives on a deserted island somewhere in South America. Read More »
High, Wide and Handsome (1937) Rouben Mamoulian, Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Dorothy Lamour, Musical, Western
The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show Read More »
Girls in the Night (1953) Jack Arnold, Harvey Lembeck, Joyce Holden, Glenda Farrell, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A morbid and rugged look at life in the tenements of New York City. Chuck Haynes and his girl friend, Georgia Cordray, plan to rob a fake beggar of a supposed fortune Read More »
Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976) Robert Altman, Paul Newman, Joel Grey, Kevin McCarthy, Comedy, Western
Buffalo Bill plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. Read More »
Brewster McCloud (1970) Robert Altman, Bud Cort, Shelley Duvall, Sally Kellerman, Comedy, Fantasy
Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. Read More »
The Falcon in San Francisco (1945) Joseph H. Lewis, Tom Conway, Rita Corday, Edward Brophy, Crime, Mystery
On vacation, Tom Lawrence–The Falcon–and his Brooklyn-born sidekick ‘Goldie’ Locke meet cute with a little girl named Annie whose nurse has just been murdered. Read More »
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) Norman Taurog, Tommy Kelly, Jackie Moran, Ann Gillis, Adventure, Family
Sentiment rules in this version of the Twain tale of boyhood in 1850 Missouri, reasonably faithful except for minor details and making the character Jim a boy instead of a man. Read More »
Come September (1961) Robert Mulligan, Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee, Comedy, Romance
Wealthy industrialist Robert Talbot arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa to find three problems lying in wait for him. Read More »