After rock musician Randall Pritchard’s fatal car accident, his wife and band mate Delia Byrd drags their unwilling daughter Cissy from his California home to her own, a Georgia backwater. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
High Pressure (1932) Mervyn LeRoy, William Powell, Evelyn Brent, George Sidney, Comedy
Gar Evans is a “high pressure” promoter who tends to be unrealistically optimistic about his projects and exaggerates the chance of success. Read More »
Carrie (1952) William Wyler, Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins, Drama, Romance
Carrie boards the train to Chicago with big ambitions. She gets a job stitching shoes and her sister’s husband takes almost all of her pay for room and board. Read More »
Cameo Kirby (1923) John Ford, John Gilbert, Gertrude Olmstead, Alan Hale, Drama
Wrongfully blamed for the death of Col. John Randall, Cameo Kirby (Gilbert) must find the true villain and clear his name before he can declare his love for Adele (Olmstead), the dead man’s daughter. Read More »
Submarine Raider (1942) Lew Landers, Budd Boetticher, John Howard, Marguerite Chapman, Bruce Bennett, Drama, War
On December 6, 1941, Captain Yamanada of the Japanese aircraft carrier “Hiranamu”, orders full steam ahead for Pearl Harbor. Read More »
The Woman in the Window (1944) Fritz Lang, Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
Gotham College professor Wanley and his friends become obsessed with the portrait of a woman in the window next to the men’s club. Read More »
Ruggles Of Red Gap (1935) Leo McCarey, Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles, Comedy, Romance
While visiting Paris in 1908, upper class Lord Burnstead loses his butler playing poker. Read More »
I Was Framed (1942) D. Ross Lederman, Tod Andrews, Julie Bishop, Regis Toomey, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A newspaperman out to get the goods on a crooked politician winds up in jail, framed for a killing he didn’t commit. Read More »
At Sea (2007) Peter B. Hutton, Documentary
A haunting meditation on human progress, both physical and metaphorical, At Sea charts a three-year passage from twenty-first-century ship building in South Korea Read More »
The Midnight Story (1957) Joseph Pevney, Tony Curtis, Marisa Pavan, Gilbert Roland, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few clues. Read More »