David and Bathsheba
David and Bathsheba is a very un-Biblical Biblical epic. It tells the story of King David’s adulterous affair, resulting in murder …
Read More »David and BathshebaDavid and Bathsheba is a very un-Biblical Biblical epic. It tells the story of King David’s adulterous affair, resulting in murder …
Read More »David and BathshebaIn The Left Hand of God, at a Catholic mission in China, long-awaited “Father O’Shea” proves to be a tough guy, disturbingly attractive to mission nurse Anne.
Read More »The Left Hand of GodOf Mice and Men is an incredible portrayal of the famous novel by by John Steinbeck. Accurate, riveting, heartbreaking, highly recommended.
Read More »Of Mice and MenOnly Angels Have Wings – Jean Arthur is a stranded showgirl chasing Cary Grant in this tale of men who fly mail planes over the Andes.
Read More »Only Angels Have WingsIn 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.
Read More »Mildred PierceIn 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.
Read More »I Want to LiveIn The Petrified Forest, Oscar-winner Humphrey Bogart stars as Duke Mantee, an escaped convict who holds customers hostage at a remote desert diner.
Read More »The Petrified ForestSecondhand 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 …
Read More »Secondhand LionsLove 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
Read More »Love Is a Many Splendored ThingAs 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.
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