Drama

Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Three Stripes in the Sun was based on The Gentle Wolfhound, a New Yorker article written by E. J. Kahn Jr. Set in postwar Japan, the film concerns the activities of three U.S.-occupation soldiers: Sergeant Hugh O’Reilly ( Aldo Ray), the Colonel (Phil Carey) and Corporal Neeby Muhlendorf (Dick York). Though he hates the Japanese with a passion, Sergeant O’Reilly softens as he gets to know the local citizenry. Soon, the hard-bitten sergeant is sneaking food provisions to Japanese children and donating his GI pay towards the building of an orphanage; he also falls in love with lovely interpreter Yuko (Mitsuko Kimura). Meanwhile, the Colonel handles his responsibilities with slick, military precision, while Corporal Muhlendorf spends his time looking for “action.” Serving as technical advisor on Three Stripes in the Sun is Master Sergeant Hugh O’Reilly, the real-life model for the Aldo Ray character.Read More »

A promising undercover agent assigned to lure and arrest gay men defies professional orders when he falls in love with a target.Read More »

Set in the newly-pacified Phnom Penh, Cambodia, this film is about the return to civilian life of Cambodian soldiers. Initially following three such returnees, the plot narrows to focus on Savannah (Narith Roeun), one ex-soldier trying to make sense of his new situation. He finds a home with his uncle, and they are the only remaining survivors of his once-large family. Despite its attraction and ubiquity, he decides not to turn to a life of petty crime, and instead tries to make his way as a kickboxer. Along the way he meets Srey Poeuv (Chea Lyda Chan), a 19 year-old bargirl who dreams of being rich and is ashamed of her status, in a dancehall. Initially, she resists his advances, but is swayed by the strength of his devotion and perseverance. His is the story of a damaged country trying vigorously to renew itself.Read More »

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After the huge critical and box-office acclaim of the allegoric, iconoclast political satire “Macunaíma” (1969), director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade raised funds in Brazil and Italy (through RAI-TV) to make “Os Inconfidentes”, a politically and artistically ambitious (though low budget) film that tries to reassess historically the most important political event in colonial Brazil – the ill-fated plotting of a coup d’état by a group of Brazilian military officers, poets and intellectuals aiming to overthrow the Portuguese Crown and establish a Brazilian Independent Republic in 1789, inspired by the success of the U.S. independence.Read More »

A prosecutor on his last case deals with a colleague to exonerate a suspect, making the law just.Read More »

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Every country has its peculiarities (Germans like dark atmosphere, Japanese like trains and Britons like tea…), so consequently these were reflected in their old silent pictures; with the French, it’s rivers and barges. This led to a kind of subgenre in that country, the “barge films” of which there are excellent examples during the 20s.Read More »

A lady fugitive on the run from corrupt government officials is joined in her endeavors by an unambitious painter and skilled Buddhist monks.Read More »

Simon is a young man who has decided to make quick money by smuggling narcotics. At a meeting with his contact they are ambushed by the police. Simon runs away but loses his wallet and so supposes that his identity must now be known to the police. Kalpak, the unscrupulous man who organizes this group of smugglers insists that he and Simon to leave at once. Simon agrees to cross the border illegally. Simon’s girl-friend Lena and his brother Cvetko are involved in this operation by chance. They all leave together. Lena tries to persuade Simon to give himself up to the authorities, but the arguments of Kalpak, who uses the lost wallet as a threat, are stronger. In the attempt to cross the lake in a stolen boat they are chased by the police. Kalpak gets killed, Simon is wounded and the girl Lena drops the narcotics into the lake.Read More »

Disgraced detective Tony fakes evidence in divorce cases, implicates wife in Stasio affair. Stasio and wife shot dead in hotel. Tony’s ex-partner Frank investigates, suspects inheritance-seeking mistress Angeline and inconsistent Tony.Read More »