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  • Bill Condon – Deadly Relations (1993)

    Drama1991-2000Bill CondonCrimeUSA

    Leonard Fagot has four daughters and loves them so much, that he usurps his control over them. He lets them know how he feels about the men they date. And if he disapproves of them, he probably will have them killed to get them out of his daughters’ life.Read More »

  • Ray Nazarro – China Corsair (1951)

    1951-1960AdventureClassicsRay NazarroUSA

    Plot:
    In this exciting actioner a daring Eurasian woman gets involved with a shipwrecked engineer whom she rescues from a remote island. Together, they have many romantic and exciting adventures as they try to keep a crook from selling her uncle’s priceless collection of antique jade.Read More »

  • Melvin Van Peebles – Watermelon Man (1970)

    1961-1970BlaxploitationComedyExploitationMelvin Van PeeblesUSA

    An extremely bigoted white man finds out the hard (and somewhat humorous) way what it’s like being a black man, firsthand!Read More »

  • Frank Borzage – Man’s Castle (1933)

    1931-1940DramaFrank BorzageRomanceUSA

    Even though its release date in 1933 pre-dated the most rigorous version of Hollywood’s Production Code,Man’s Castle still ran into censorship problems over such material as a man and woman skinny-dipping, and an unmarried pregnancy. Cuts were made to the original print even before the film came out, and still more for a 1938 re-release. Director Frank Borzage was at the height of his career, and Spencer Tracy on the verge of becoming a major star, but the controversy surrounding Man’s Castle seemed to affect its box office appeal, and it faded into obscurity.Read More »

  • David Mamet – Homicide (1991)

    1991-2000CrimeDavid MametThrillerUSA

    Joe Mantegna stars as Bobby Gold, a detective with a gift for negotiation who, along with his partner Tim Sullivan (William H. Macy), accidentally stumbles upon a crime scene — the murder of an elderly Jewish woman in her corner store. When it turns out that the victim was politically well-connected and Jewish, Bobby’s superiors assign him the case because he’s also Jewish.Read More »

  • George Fitzmaurice – As You Desire Me (1932)

    George Fitzmaurice1931-1940ClassicsDramaUSA

    An officer tries to convince an amnesiac bar entertainer that she is his long-lost lover.Read More »

  • Ralph Senensky – Death Cruise (1974)

    1971-1980MysteryRalph SenenskyUSA

    Synopsis:
    Several couples are notified that they have won an ocean cruise, but they actually have been lured onto a ship so that they can be murdered.Read More »

  • Roberta Findlay – The Altar of Lust (1971)

    1971-1980EroticaExploitationRoberta FindlayUSA

    A sexually confused young woman in a session with her psychiatrist relates her tale of coming to New York City from Sweden after being raped by her stepfather, falling in love with a young man named Don and then realizing that she is finding herself attracted more and more to women.Read More »

  • P.J. Wolfson – Boy Slaves (1939)

    1931-1940DramaP.J. WolfsonUSA

    The lurid title is tabloid drama but the film is a surprisingly effective drama of teen hobos rounded up and shunted into working like prisoners on a rural turpentine farm by unscrupulous racketeers. Probably made as RKOs answer to The East Side Kids or The Little Tough Guys or (pre) Bowery Boys, this even has lookalikes to Huntz hall and Frankie Darro. The lead juvenile Roger Daniel is excellent and research reveals he almost immediately went straight into obscurity (maybe the War intervened as he was 15 in 1940) and only turned up in several Monogram teen/rural pix and later their JOE PALOOKA films of the mid 40s in a bit part. Pity, as he is a good young actor. The older teen Tim played by James Mc Callion is exactly like Frankie Darro but plays his part a lot like a young Cagney. Far more successful as an actor and can be seen briefly in NORTH BY NORTHWEST. He had a long film and TV career right up until 1990. One of the kids, Walter Tetley ended up being the voice of Sherman in the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons in the 60s. BOY SLAVES is a good small RKO drama worth catching. There is a very clever scene early in the film by a swamp with interesting model work using a model of a freight train ‘in the distance’.
    (from IMDB)Read More »

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