As writer Harry Street lays gravely wounded from an African hunting accident he feverishly reflects on what he perceives as his failures at love and writing. Through his delirium he recalls his one true love Cynthia Green who he lost by his obsession for roaming the world in search of stories for his novels. Though […]
Great Guy - 1936
James Cagney stars in this great movie with an utterly useless title about the department of Weights & Measures always looking out for the regular Joe Shmoes. More specifically they are after the crooked alderman Marty who is in the midst of an insidious plot to cheat consumers out of their product by shorting them […]
The Amazing Adventure - 1937
A bored millionaire, played by Cary Grant, makes a wager with his doctor that he can live for a whole year in the working class, working a regular job, without touching his fortune.
Captain Kidd - 1945
Captain Kidd is a merchant captain / pirate who slyly convinces the king of England into commissioning him as an escort to protect a ship full of treasure. He has dishonest intentions for the mission of course, but he later finds out another dishonest person is on board, someone from his past he thought dead. […]
Missouri Traveler - 1958
A 15 year old orphan played by Brandon De Wilde comes upon a small town where he struggles to live and feel at home. A couple people in the town take him in and help him though, and he eventually becomes a part of the community. He even trains horses for the upcoming annual race.
Kid Monk Baroni - 1952
“Kid” Monk Baroni, the leader of a street gang, becomes a professional boxer to escape his life in Little Italy, New York. Kid Monk Baroni is a 1952 American film noir sport film directed by Harold D. Schuster. It is also known as Young Paul Baroni in the United Kingdom and is noted for being […]
A Farewell To Arms - 1932
A classic movie from Ernest Hemingway’s also classic novel of the same name. Starring Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes, it’s a love story set in WWI between an ambulance driver and a nurse in Italy.
Scrooge - 1935
This is the fist movie adaptation with sound of the classic story of three ghosts visiting a crotchety and down-spirited old man on Christmas Eve. Scrooge hates Christmas. He finds the cheer deplorable and a waste of time. His nephew Fred and employee Cratchit, the only two people that could be considered Scrooge’s friends at […]
Algiers - 1938
Beautiful Gaby meets a romantic jewel thief in the mysterious Casbah.