An old woman's disappearance during a train ride leads baffled young woman into a dizzying web of intrigue. Delicious mystery-comedy; Hitchcock at his best, with a witty script by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, and wonderful contribution by Naunto...
One of Hitchcock's most discussed films. Retired police detective Stewart, who has a fear of heights, is hired by old school chum in San Francisco to keep an eye on his wife (Novak), eventually falls in love with his quarry and that's just the beginn...
'If you had it all to do over again, would you have married me?' Yes, guys, there is a right answer. That's something David Smith learns the hard way when bubbly better-half Ann queries him over breakfast. Also right are radiant Carole Lombard and ea...
Perceptive Americana intertwined with story of young girl who slowly comes to realize her beloved Uncle Charley is really the Merry Widow murderer; Cronyn steals film as nosy pulp-story fan. Scripted by Thornton Wilder, Alma Reville, and Sally Benson...
An experimental film masquerading as a standard Hollywood thriller. The plot of Rope is simple and based on a successful stage play: two young men (John Dall and Farley Granger) commit murder, more or less as an intellectual exercise. They hide the b...
YOUNG AND INNOCENT was an interesting movie where a writer is accused of murder and attempts sereral daring escapes to find the real murderer and prove his innocence. This movie sort of reminded me of one that I saw but didn't review. MURDER. As the ...
What is the trouble with harry? well, it's the fact that he's dead, and which no one really minds, everybody thinks they are responsible, After several unearthings of the corpse, plenty of humor a la hitchcock, and love affairs between the major char...
13 years old tennis genius, Ryoma Echizen, returns from America after winning Junior Championships. He returns to his home country, Japan and attends the Seigaku High School, which is famous for its tennis club. Being a freshman and being able to bea...
Alfred Hitchcock's screen version of Frederick Knott's stage hit Dial M For Murder is a tasty blend of elegance and suspense casting Grace Kelly, Ray Milland and Robert Cummings as the points of a romantic triangle. Kelly won the New York Film Critic...
They were the terror of the sky, a small daring band of American mercenaries who soared into battle in defence of China's freedom. They were aces, adventurers and heroes, America's hottest fighter pilots - THE FLYING TIGERS! Possessing unmatched sk...
Judy Holliday won the 1950 Best Actress Oscar(r) for her brilliant and funny role as Billie Dawn, thedumb blonde girlfriend of Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford), a corrupt millionaire junk dealer. Brock, a man with social ambitions and a willingness t...
Directed by Richard Thorpe. Featuring Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield, Cheetah. "Civilized" folks clash over gold, a metal not worth a coconut to the
Ape Man. Jane and Boy are kidnapped bu an evil gang intent upon using thei...
Based on Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1914 novel, this film marked the beginning of the famous Tarzan series starring Olympic swimming champion Johnny Weismuller, who would go on to play the Ape Man in 11 subsequent films and remains the physical embodimen...
Stanley Kubrick's second feature film, Killer's Kiss, made the world take notice. The young moviemaker won acclaim for this dazzling film noir about a struggling New York boxer (Jamie Smith) whose life is imperiled when he protects a nightclub dancer...
Once a year the fair comes for one day to the little town 'Sainte-Severe-sur-Indre'. All inhabiters are scoffing at Francois, the postman, what he seems not to recognize. The rising of the flagstaff under his direction nearly leads into a catastrophy...
Jerry Kincade manages the area's water supply and is forcing the ranchers to sign a contract to secure expenmsive water rates. Sinning Sandy Saunders, a government agent, plots against Kincade to overthrow the contract and impress Fay Denton......
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Vittorio De Sica's (The Bicycle Thief) award-winning masterpiece Miracle in Milan is one of the watershed films of the Italian cinema renaissance. With fantasy, satire, and biting humor, the story of Toto, an abandoned newborn who is raised by a kind...
Hollywood legends Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons and Vivian Blain (from the original Broadway cast) are dazzling in this Frank Loesser (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) masterpiece, unleashing a "spectacular, song-and-dan...
Fa belongs to North of city in Casablanca Morocco,Hotel named Like is a luxurious night club,The boss is a American in the hotel,One night,Wekdo Lasdo and his wife named Lersha were trailedby Naziism,They come to the hotel,They hear of Like can make ...
An honored film. A milestone in movie acting. A landmark in the fight against censorship. Winner of four Academy Awards, an unprecedented three of them in acting categories. A Streetcar Named Desire is all of these. And now it's even more.
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Jose Ferrer has an astounding, almost unbelievable, performance as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, a painter from late-1800's Paris who was crippled in his childhood by a horse that ran over his legs. He now spends his days in the raunchy restaurant/dance...
Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his brilliant performance as the Southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, make...
Fanfan is a young handsome peasant. He joins the army to escape marriage and because a gipsy girl predicted he will get glory and the king's daughter as a wife. But the gipsy girl was in fact Adeline, the daughter of the recruiting officer. Once he h...
This is the film where audiences first heard the now classic Academy Award-winning song 'White Christmas.' This is the story about two talented pals, a singer and a dancer who compete for the affections of the same pretty lady. But when she dumps the...
Burt Lancaster plays the title role in this caution-to-the-winds adventure comdey filled to the top-mast with devilish derring-do and hearty goofiness. Possessed of keen acrobatic agility from his pre-acting circus days, Lancaster embodies all The Cr...
Leo Tolstoy's literary masterpiece come to life in this epic film classic, featuring the talents of some of the greatest names from Hollywood's Golden Age. Starring Audrey Hepburn as Natasha, Henry Fonda as Pierre, and Mel Ferrer as Prince Andrei, Wa...
Orson Welles, one of the greatest American Filmmakers, revered Shakespeare's works and was determined to bring his own vision to the bard's classic on screen, though the hollywood studio resisted the idea. His Othello (1952) was a daring and Visually...
On the pavements of the London theater district the buskers earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles, who recites dramatic monologues, sees that young pickpocket Libby also has a talent for dancing and adds her to his act. Harley, the theater patr...
Film noir, a classic film style of the'40s and'50s, is noted for its dark themes, stark camera angles and high-contrast lighting. Comprising many of Hollywood's finest films, film noir tells realistic stories about crime, mystery, femme fatales and m...
Roaring '20s songstress Ruth Etting had everything - the looks, the viles, the smokey jazz voice, the it. She also had Chicago racketeer Martin "The Gimp" Snyder who, even as he propelled her career, Afflicted her.
Laced with Doris Day's vibrant p...
A Star is Born marked Judy Garland's return to movies after a four-year absence, director George Cukor's first musical and first color film, and a showcase for great Harold Arden/Ira Gershwin songs in state-of-the-art stereo. One of the most beloved ...
Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. After meeting Gloria by accident, he is suddenly intent on making her his wife. He courts her until she agrees to marry him. Francisco, dedicated at first, becomes a pathologically...
Witty, heartwarming and utterly charming, The Bells of St. Mary's delivers all the entertainment of its predecessor, the Academy Award winning best Picture (1944), Going My Way. Bing Crosby recreats his Oscar winning role as parish priest Father O'Ma...
A guitar-picking good ol'boy. A clean-cut all-American. A Navajo. A bookworm. A lumberjack. A slum kid. All enter Marine boot camp to be trained, hardened, ready to answer their country's Battle Cry. Scripted by Leon M' Uris from his own novel, direc...
Clair's first English film is an odd charmer about a matchmaking ghost. When an American woman inherits a Scottish castle and decides to move it-lock, stock and barrel-to Florida, a 200 year old ghost goes along for the ride. Written by Robert E.Sher...
With Richard III, Laurence Olivier - as director, producer and star - transf gures Shakespeare's great historical drama into a mesmerizing vision of machiavellian villainy. Olivier's performance, viewed as the greatest of his career, charges Richard ...
Sir Alec Guinness delivers one of his most beloved performances as Sidney Stratton, an eccentric chemist who one day invents a fiber that never wrinkles, wears out or gets dirty. But when the mill owners and workers both realize that this miracle fab...
Famed practical joker Henry Russell leaves 50,000 pounds to each of his four surviving relatives. But his will has one last joke - they each have to undertake a task completely out of character within a month. As each sets out on their objective they...
Working together for the 12th time, John Wayne and director John Ford forged The Searchers into a landmark Western offering an indelible image of the frontier and the men and women who challenged it. Wayne plays an ex-Confederate soldier seeking his ...
Arts patron Mrs. Claypool intends to pay pompous opera star Lassparri $1,000 per performance. Hey, maybe that's why they call it grand opera! Grand comedy, too, as Groucho, Chico and Harpo cram a ship's stateroom and more than wall-to-wall gags, one-...
Like a matador confronting a bull, the artist approaches his easel, his eyes blazing. As he wields his brush, we see through the canvas as the artwork unfolds, erupts, dances into being before our eyes. Pablo Picasso, the most influential artist of t...
Paul Czinner and Alfred Travers directed this recording of one of the popular Da ponte Mozart opera's. Mind you: for 1955 it's quite good. Some good camera work and this in spite of the limited possibilities that filming this art form unfortunately h...
Two best friends find their bond tested by the trials of postwar Italy's street crime and prison life in this neorealist classic from legendary director Vittorio De Sica (The Bicycle Thief). While shining shoes for a living and dreaming of buying a h...
Becker's tribute to the exhuberance of youth concerns a circle of friends, spearheaded by struggling filmmaker Lucien, who struggle to find true love in postwar Paris. Romantic tensions, as well as parental influences, threaten to foil Lucien's plan ...
Academy Award® winner Humphrey Bogart stars in one of his most memorable performances as Eddie Willis, a sportswriter who joins forces with a corrupt boxing promoter named Benko (Rod Steiger). Together, they scheme to deceive Toro Moreno (Mike L...
Michael Powell and the Hungarian Emeric Pressburger created numerous other odes to the power of art and the imagination, always going against the realist strain of British cinema. Known by the name of their production company, the Archers, Powell and...
In their final film collaboration, director Roberto Rossellini and star Ingrid Bergman create a compelling drama of an unhappily married woman who enters into an affair, only to be blackmailed by her lover's ex-girlfriend.
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Oscar nominee Tony Curtis "blends hard-hitting toughness with humor" (Los Angeles Times) as a Marine who must battle Japanese soldiers, private demons and fellow Marines in this "gripping" (Variety) World War II saga. "Bristling with suspense and rug...
A lavish and beautifully-produced Hollywood confection of the high silent screen, this star vehicle for premier actor John Barrymore follows the adventures of peasant soldier Markov, who becomes an officer in the Imperial Russian Guard and falls in l...
Tiger and the Flame was one of the few India-produced films to enjoy distribution in the US (courtesy of United Artists). Producer-director Shrab M. Modi also plays the sizeable role of Rajguru, the advisor to 19th century Indian queen Rani Lakshmiba...
Deputized by U.S. Marshal George Higgins (George "Gabby" Hayes), singing cowboy John Weston (John Wayne) infiltrates the Dalton Valley Rodeo, a crooked outfit run by Spike Barton (Edward Peil). The gang uses a snake venom-tipped needle stuck in the s...
Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean Renoir’s delirious romantic comedy Elena and her Men (Elena et les hommes) stars a radiant Ingrid Bergman as a beautiful, but impoverished, Polish pri...
Richard Basehart and Gary Merrill star in a film that?s ?as stirring a drama as any you'll want to see? (The New York Times). Adapted by Jack Rollens and Peter Viertel from George Howe?s novel Call It Treason, and directed by Anatole Litvak, this riv...
The actual mystery of the half-brig Mary Celeste is a true and tragic tale of the sea. Under her experienced master, Benjamin Briggs, she sailed from New York with a crew of eight on November 5, 1872. A month and a day later, she was found under full...
An exciting rediscovery from the studio vaults, The Long Night is an emotionally gripping, visually dynamic film noir, in which Henry Fonda, at the peak of his career, delivers an unforgettable performance. Presented in an intricate web of flashbacks...
Secret People is concerned with a political theme. The making of Thorold Dickinson's penultimate, and last British, film was followed closely by Lindsay Anderson, who had been a co-founder of the Oxford film magazine Sequence, and who later became a ...
As hard-hitting as its title, Brute Force was the first of Jules Dassin’s forays into the crime genre, a prison melodrama that takes a critical look at American society as well. Burt Lancaster is the timeworn Joe Collins, who, along with his fellow ...