Bagdad (1949)Starring Maureen O'Hara, Paul Christian A Bedouin princess returns to Bagdad after being educated in England, only to find that her father has been treacherously murdered by the head of the Black Robes, a group of renegades. She is hosted by the Pasha, who is the corrupt representative of the national government. She is also [...]
Aloha Summer (1988)Starring Chris Makepeace, Yuji Okumoto It's the 60s and a bunch of crazy teenagers meet in the beautiful island of Hawaii during their summer holidays. Although they come from different backgrounds, they hang out together and shake up the island! They surf, dance, drink, fight and fall in love. As the summer approaches its [...]
Kitty (1945)Starring Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland Kitty is the "Pygmalion" legend, 18th century style. London aristocrat Ray Milland takes it upon himself to make a lady of a guttersnipe (Paulette Goddard, complete with a cockney accent not to be believed). Milland and fellow conspirator Constance Collieraren't bothering with the girl out of the goodness of their [...]
The Revolt Of Mamie Stover (1956)Starring Jane Russell, Richard Egan Set in the early '40s, a San Francisco prostitute is run out of town just as the second World War has begun to intensify. Mamie settles down in Hawaii, hoping to start a new life. Though her prospects look good when she falls in love with [...]
History Is Made At Night (1937)Starring Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur History is Made at Night has been described as a romantic tragedy, which it indeed is, up to a point. The film begins deceptively in screwball-comedy fashion with socialite Jean Arthur and handsome head waiter Charles Boyer "meeting cute." But there's nothing cute about Arthur's estranged [...]
Five Graves To Cairo (1943)Starring Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter Five Graves to Cairo is the third take on Lajos Biro's theatrical tale of romance and espionage, Hotel Imperial. This time, the action is transplanted from World War I Galicia to World War II Egypt as Rommel's Afrika Corps viciously forces the British Army to retreat towards [...]
Bliss (1985)Directed by Ray Lawrence After suffering a near-death experience, an executive realizes that his seemingly ideal life has become a horrifying nightmare in this dark Australian satire. Based on the novel by Peter Carey, who also penned the screenplay, the film begins with a deceptively calm, idyllic day in the life of ad man Harry [...]
Sherlock Holmes And The Voice Of Terror is now available at ZeusDVDs.com. Here is the original New York Times review from 1942:Here we were thinking all the time that Sherlock Holmes was dead, or, at best, but a doddering relic of a past and more peaceful age. Not at all! Up he pops, as youthful [...]
The Tall Men is now available at ZeusDVDs.com. Here is the original New York Times review from 1955: SIGNIFICANTLY, Jane Russell seems to have a lot of trouble with her feet in Twentieth Century-Fox's "The Tall Men," which came to Loew's State yesterday. Several times in this ambling Western she makes occasions to get out [...]
A Girl In A Million is now available at ZeusDVDs.com. Here is the original New York Times review from 1949:The producing and writing team of Muriel and Sydney Box, a pair of expert hands who have given ample proof that they know how to manipulate a story and dialogue apparently found the situations in "A [...]