Longshoreman Johnny Barnes (Burgess Meredith) is in love with Kitty Tracy (Irene Hervey) Read More »
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Tough As They Come (1942) William Nigh, Billy Halop, Paul Kelly, Helen Parrish
This entry in Universal’s “Dead End Kids and Little Tough Guys” series is minus “The Little Tough Guys” Read More »
Spawn of the North (1938) Henry Hathaway, George Raft, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour
Two Alaskan salmon fishermen, Tyler Dawson (skipper of the “Who Cares”) and Jim Kimmerlee of the “Old Reliable,” are lifelong pals. Read More »
The Big Street (1942) Irving Reis, Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Barton MacLane
Little Pinks is in love with a nightclub singer named Gloria. But it is a unrequited love as she does not know that he exists. Read More »
Tripoli (1950) Will Price, John Payne, Maureen O’Hara, Howard Da Silva
The U. S. Marine Corps hymn starts with “From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli” Read More »
Steal Big Steal Little (1995) Andrew Davis, Andy Garcia, Alan Arkin, Rachel Ticotin
Ruben and Robby are twin brothers, adopted by Mona, one of the wealthiest – and most eccentric – women in Santa Barbara. Read More »
Corvette K-225 (1943) Richard Rosson, Howard Hawks, Randolph Scott, James Brown, Ella Raines
In 1943, ‘Mac’ MacClain, Canadian Navy, has lost his ship and many men to a German torpedo. Read More »
A Room for Rent AKA Kashima ari (1959) Yûzô Kawashima, Furankî Sakai, Nobuko Otowa, Ikio Sawamura
The story follows the various tenants living in a multi-room tenement on a hill overlooking the city of Osaka. Read More »
Don’t Torture a Duckling AKA Non si sevizia un paperino (1972) Lucio Fulci, Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian
In the backward village of Accendura, the boy Bruno Lo Casio goes missing and the police inspector Read More »
Desperate Moves AKA Rollerboy (1981) Ovidio G. Assonitis, Steve Tracy, Eddie Deezen, Isabel Sanford
A naive young man from a small Oregon town travels to the big city–in this case San Francisco–to pursue his dream. Read More »
Casanova ’70 (1965) Mario Monicelli, Marcello Mastroianni, Virna Lisi, Marisa Mell
Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, a U.N. official and modern-day Casanova, cannot get aroused unless there’s danger in sex Read More »
Bloody Morning AKA Xuese Qingchen (1992) Shaohong Li, Zhaohui Gong, Yajie Hu, Lu Hui
The young teacher Li Mingguang is to be murdered in the north of China because Read More »
The Girl from 10th Avenue (1935) Alfred E. Green, Bette Davis, Ian Hunter, Colin Clive
When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds up married to a stranger, Miriam Brady. Read More »
Diary of a Mad Old Man AKA Fûten Rôjin nikki (1962) Keigo Kimura, Sô Yamamura, Ayako Wakao, Keizô Kawasaki
Diary of a Mad Old Man is the journal of Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke. Read More »
Death Row Woman AKA Onna shikeishû no datsugoku (1960) Nobuo Nakagawa, Miyuki Takakura, Tatsuo Terashima, Yôichi Numata
Arrested for the murder of her wealthy businessman father, convicted on false evidence Read More »