In WWI dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
Cargo of Love (1968) Anton Holden, Sheila Britt, Gloria Irizarry, Tony Pascal
A young woman answering an ad for a traveling companion winds up drugged, kidnapped and in the clutches of a white slavery ring. Read More »
The Brother from Another Planet (1984) John Sayles, Joe Morton, Daryl Edwards, Rosanna Carter
The Brother is an alien who has crash-landed on Earth, in New York City. Read More »
Poison (1991) Todd Haynes, Edith Meeks, Larry Maxwell, Susan Norman
Three intercut stories about outsiders, sex and violence. In “Hero,” Richie, at age 7, kills his father and flies away. Read More »
The Crowning Experience (1960) Marion Clayton Anderson, Rickard Tegström, Muriel Smith, Ann Buckles, Louis Byles
Inspired by the accomplishments of Mary McCleod Bethune, who made and sold so many sweet potato pies that Read More »
Hills of Home (1948) Fred M. Wilcox, Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Tom Drake
William McClure is the villlage doctor in a remote Scottish glen. Read More »
Show Boat (1951) George Sidney, Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel
The “Cotton Blossom”, owned by the Hawk family, is the show boat where everyone comes for great musical entertainment down south. Read More »
Colt .45 (1950) Edwin L. Marin, Randolph Scott
Gun salesman Steve Farrell gets two of his new Colt .45 pistols stolen from him by ruthless killer Jason Brett Read More »
Jupiter’s Darling (1955) George Sidney, Esther Williams, Howard Keel, Marge Champion
Fabius loves his beautiful but vulnerable city, Rome, and he also loves his beautiful but invulnerable fiancée, Amytis. Read More »
White Ghost (1988) BJ Davis, William Katt, Rosalind Chao, Martin Hewitt
An M.I.A. US soldier nicknamed White Ghost lives in hiding in the jungles of communist Vietnam. Read More »