Drama

Mildred Pierce

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October 11, 2022August 24, 2022

Mildred Pierce (1945) starring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Ann Blyth, Eve Arden

Synopsis of Mildred Pierce

In Mildred Pierce, a mother’s love can lead to murder! Joan Crawford delivers an Academy Award-winning performance as a woman clawing her way to success. In order to provide her daughters with everything she lacks. A woman named Mildred Pierce. Dying of gunshot wounds, Monte Beragon (Zachary Scott) croaks the name “Mildred”. The police believe he has named his murderer … and Pierce confesses to the crime. Now, as her story unfolds, the police learn of a woman who divorces her philandering husband. Then she takes a job as a waitress. And does anything to achieve success–only to be betrayed by the daughter she adores.

I Want to Live

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October 4, 2022September 27, 2022

I Want to Live (1958), starring Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland

In I Want to Live, a low-level criminal is convicted of beating an elderly woman to death. She’s then sentenced to die. But the question is, is she guilty? Can a reporter uncover enough evidence to overturn her conviction, before it’s too late? A truly great performance by Susan Hayward.

The Petrified Forest

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September 27, 2022September 19, 2022

The Petrified Forest (1936) starring Leslie Howard , Bette Davis , Genevieve Tobin, Humphrey Bogart

Synopsis of The Petrified Forest

In The Petrified Forest, Oscar-winner Humphrey Bogart stars as Duke Mantee, an escaped convict who holds customers hostage at a remote desert diner.

Secondhand Lions

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September 13, 2022September 13, 2022

Secondhand Lions is one of the truly great films. It’s about a young man, bonding with his cantankerous uncles. And learning that there’s much more to them …

Love Is a Many Splendored Thing

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September 6, 2022August 20, 2022

Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (1955) starring William Holden, Jennifer Jones

Love is a Many Splendored Thing. Newsman Mark Elliott is an American war correspondent in Hong Kong, separated from his wife. During the closing days of the Chinese Civil War, he meets and pursues a beautiful Eurasian doctor, the widow of a Nationalist general. But when they begin to fall in love, their friends and her Chinese family pressure them to stop the cross-cultural relationship

A Star is Born

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August 23, 2022August 23, 2022

A Star is Born (1954) starring Judy Garland, James Mason

As a band singer guided to heights of show-business success by an alcoholic ex-matinee idol, Judy Garland performs one superb song after another (most by Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin) in a production – also starring James Mason and directed by George Cukor – that exhilarates with its craft and style even as it moves toward a heartbreaking finale. Shortened after its 1954 premiere and reconstructed to near its original length in 1983, A Star Is Born endures as one of Hollywood’s supreme triumphs.

I Passed for White

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August 12, 2022August 30, 2022

I Passed for White (1960) starring James Franciscus, Sonya Wilde

In I Passed for White, a middle class girl, who looks white but is “secretly” black, marries a wealthy white man. This leads to conflict, as she tries to hide her past from his racist family.

The Juggler

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August 5, 2022August 6, 2022

The Juggler (1953) starring Kirk Douglas, Milly Vitale, Joseph Walsh

The Juggler is a powerful, touching story of a Holocaust survivor. Once a world-famous juggler, he’s made his way to Israel. He blames himself for the deaths of his wife and child in the Nazi death camps.

Death of a Scoundrel

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July 5, 2022June 12, 2022

Death of a Scoundrel (1956), starring George Sanders, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Yvonne DeCarlo

Synopsis of Death of a Scoundrel

Death of a Scoundrel – George Sanders stars with beautiful Yvonne de Carlo and Zsa Zsa Gabor in this torrid drama loosely based on the life and mysterious death of Serge Rubenstein.