James Cagney stars in this Oscar-winning smalltown drama as an ex-reporter turned drifter who arrives in a town where corruption is rife. Jailed for vagrancy, on release he meets up with Vinnie McLeod, editor of the local paper and one of the few honest citizens in town.Read More »
A star-studded cast headlines this outlandish spoof on disaster films in which a gigantic nuclear powered bus–containing a swimming pool, a bowling alley, and a piano bar–and goes out of control and nearly crashes while making a coast-to-coast journey. With a cannibalistic driver (Joseph Bologna) and an oil company man who is working overtime to sabotage the bus, the passengers (Stockard Channing, Richard Mulligan, Ruth Gordon, Rene Auberjonois, and more) assured a bumpy ride. Director James Frawley’s (TV’s The Monkees) is an obvious influence on 1980’s AIRPLANE!.Read More »
A murder investigation in her hometown triggers deep-seated emotions in an Ohio police chief who came from the Amish community.Read More »
After a strange storm in the Carribean causes a boat to sink, a family finds itself stranded on an island in the “27th dimension”.Read More »
Darlene’s into going fast, Hoover’s into Darlene, but when they both get into a red-hot race car, the reckless fun accelerates into a trunk-full of hot pursuits.Read More »
A tragic story of a teen prostitute as seen through the eyes of her neighbor, a Buddhist monk.Read More »
Considered by many to be the first great American horror film, John S. Robertson’s DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE allowed stage legend John Barrymore to deliver his first virtuoso performance on film. Blending historic charm with grim naturalism, this version of DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE is one of the more faithful of the many screen adaptations of Stevenson’s story (though greatly influenced by T.R. Sullivan’s popular stage treatment), recounting a visionary scientist’s ill-fated attempts to unleash the human mysteries that dwell beneath the shell of the civilized self.Read More »
The movie follows Henry, a cynic, and Loribella, a romantic, as they try to get through this thing called life together. The movie features very little spoken dialog and instead relies primarily on an interplay between the great visuals and the voice over narration performed by Burgess Meredith. It is sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, but in the end it stands as a great humanist work that I think serves as a very sober view of the lives that many of us live. While the film is rather short at just over 70 minutes you feel at the end as if you have witnessed their entire existence.Read More »
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A man takes his frigid wife to an institute where technology that arouses people through music had been developed. However, she gets turned into a hooker and the headmistress of the institute develops personal interest in her.Read More »