Monthly Archives: May 2019

Big Jim McLain John Wayne 1952

Jim McLain (John Wayne) and his partner, Mal Baxter (James Arness), are investigators for the House Un-American Activities Committee, who are sent to Hawaii to find the leaders of a local Communist Party. They visit Dr. Gelster (Gayne Whitman), a

Casablanca Humphrey Bogart 1942

Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), who owns a nightclub in Casablanca, discovers his old flame Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) is in town with her husband, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid). Laszlo is a famed rebel, and with Germans on his tail, Ilsa knows

Move Over Darling 1963 Doris Day James Garner

Nicholas Arden (James Garner) has struggled to get over the absence of his wife, Ellen (Doris Day), but when it seems clear that she’s perished in a plane crash, he decides to move on. Nicholas remarries to Bianca Steele (Polly

Best Foot Forward Lucille Ball 1943

Beloved actress Lucille Ball plays herself in this lively musical comedy, based on the Broadway play and featuring the music of popular bandleader Harry James. When young military cadet Bud Hooper (Tommy Dix) invites Ball to be his date at

Samson And Delilah Hedy Lamarr 1949

Samson (Victor Mature), the hero of the Israelites, wins the hand of a Philistine woman, Semadar (Angela Lansbury), in a contest of strength. When she is killed during a conflict on her wedding night, however, Samson becomes a hunted man

Reunion in France John Wayne 1942

When wealthy Michele de la Becque (Joan Crawford) returns to Paris from her sunny holiday on the Riviera in 1939, she finds that the invading Nazi forces have commandeered her home. Worse, her industrialist fiancé, Robert Cortot (Philip Dorn), has

Lover Come Back Doris Day, Rock Hudson 1961

Jerry (Rock Hudson) is a slick adman who uses women and booze to woo his clients. One day, his tactics draw the ire of Carol (Doris Day), an executive at a rival agency, who reports him to the Ad Council.

Unconquered Gary Cooper 1947

To avoid execution on a trumped-up charge, Abby (Paulette Goddard) agrees to be enslaved in the British colonies of North America. The captain of the transport ship, Martin Garth (Howard da Silva), has his eye on her, but he is

Jamaica Run Ray Milland Arlene Dahl 1953

Cargo ship owner Pat Fairlie (Ray Milland) loves Ena Dacey (Arlene Dahl), but her unconventional mother (Carroll McComas) and supercilious brother, Todd (Wendell Corey), don’t approve of their relationship. Real estate developer William Montague (Patric Knowles) engages Pat to help

All Mine To Give Glynis Johns 1957

In this fact-based drama set in the 1850s, the Eunsons move from Scotland to the American Midwest, where they live happily and run a successful business — until the untimely deaths of both the father (Cameron Mitchell) and the mother

The High and the Mighty John Wayne 1954

On a flight from Hawaii to California, the engine dies on the plane Dan is flying. As he prepares for a crash landing, the passengers reassess their lives. The template for disaster movies with an Oscar-winning score and a cast

Black Widow Ginger Rogers George Raft 1954

At a party, Broadway producer Peter Denver (Van Heflin) meets Nancy Ordway (Peggy Ann Garner), a young writer struggling to make it in New York City. Taking pity on her, Denver offers Nancy his apartment as a place to write