Drama

Don’t Bother to Knock

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August 25, 2023August 25, 2023

Don’t Bother to Knock – an excellent drama, where babysitter Marilyn Monroe seduces Richard Widmark … before exposing her psychotic side.

Keeper of the Flame (1942) starring Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn

In Keeper of the Flame, a war correspondent stumbles on a little known fact: An honored American war patriot had in fact worked for the Fascists. His wife urges the writer to expose the facts for history. But others are willing to kill to prevent that.

Grand Hotel

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May 5, 2023May 5, 2023

Grand Hotel – the classic story of a single day in the famous Berlin hotel, where people’s lives interact to tell a great story …

All This and Heaven Too

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March 28, 2023March 22, 2023

All This and Heaven Too (1940) starring Bette Davis, Charles Boyer

Synopsis of All This and Heaven Too

All This and Heaven Too: In 1840’s France, a governess falls in love with a duke. This leads to disaster for her when the wife dies, and she becomes a suspect. In addition, the death turns out to have major political impact for the entire country.

Fog Island

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March 24, 2023March 24, 2023

Fog Island (1945) starring George Zucco, Lionel Atwill, Jerome Cowan

Fog Island – a man wrongly sent to prison plans a trap the people who framed him, and find out which were guilty. Very dangerous people …

Dangerous When Wet

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March 17, 2023February 23, 2023

Dangerous When Wet (1953), starring Esther Williams, Jack Carson, Fernando Lamas

Synopsis of Dangerous When Wet

In Dangerous When Wet, Esther Williams stars as a spirited member of a fitness-obsessed family who sets out to swim the English Channel and finds romance along the way.

The Founder

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February 17, 2023February 17, 2023

The Founder (2016) starring Michael Keaton

The Founder is a story about turning McDonald’s into a national, and international, restaurant chain. It’s a story that is very unflattering to Ray Kroc.

The Stranger (1964) starring David McLean, Victor Buono, Ellen Corby

The Strangler

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February 10, 2023February 10, 2023

The Strangler (1964) starring David McLean, Victor Buono, Ellen Corby

Victor Buono is “The Strangler” – a meek, quiet hospital technician, under the thumb of his shrewish mother. Who goes on a killing spree, and leaving the police baffled.

Stalag 17

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February 7, 2023February 3, 2023

Stalag 17 (1953) starring William Holden, Otto Preminger

[Opening narration]

Cookie: I don’t know about you, but it always makes me sore when I see those war pictures… all about flying leathernecks and submarine patrols and frogmen and guerillas in the Philippines. What gets me is that there never w-was a movie about POWs – about prisoners of war. Now, my name is Clarence Harvey Cook: they call me Cookie. I was shot down over Magdeburg, Germany, back in ’43; that’s why I stammer a little once in a while, ‘specially when I get excited. I spent two and a half years in Stalag 17. “Stalag” is the German word for prison camp, and number 17 was somewhere on the Danube. There were about 40,000 POWs there, if you bothered to count the Russians, and the Poles, and the Czechs. In our compound there were about 630 of us, all American airmen: radio operators, gunners, and engineers. All sergeants. Now you put 630 sergeants together and, oh mother, you’ve got yourself a situation. There was more fireworks shooting off around that joint… take for instance the story about the spy we had in our barracks…