Skip to content

In the Good Old Summertime

  • by

In the Good Old Summertime (1949) starring Van Johnson, Judy Garland, S. Z. “Cuddles” Sakall, Buster Keaton

Synopsis

In the Good Old Summertime is the story of two clerks in a turn of the 20th century Chicago sheet-music store. They’re intensely antagonistic toward each other at work. But unknown to them, they’re getting very chummy as pen pals. It’s a musical remake of The Shop Around the Corner.

Read More »In the Good Old Summertime

The Quartermass Xperiment

  • by

The Quartermass Xperiment (1955) starring Brian Donlevy, Richard Wordsworth

In The Quartermass Xperiment, the only surviving astronaut of Britain’s first manned rocket returns to Earth. But he’s changed, possibly infected, by … something. And it may doom all life on earth.

Read More »The Quartermass Xperiment

Battling Butler

  • by

Battling Butler (1926) starring Buster Keaton, Sally O’Neil, Francis McDonald

Synopsis

Buster Keaton remarked that Battling Butler was his favorite of all his films. Based on a Broadway play, the story revolves around a case of mistaken identity between two Alfred Butlers. One is an effete millionaire (Keaton), the other the heavyweight champion of the world (Francis McDonald). Coincidence brings them to the same backwoods Kentucky neighborhood, where Keaton finds love with a mountain girl. But not before antagonizing Butler-the-brute into a Madison Square Garden grudge match.

Read More »Battling Butler

Swing Fever

  • by

Swing Fever (1943), starring Kay Kyser, Marilyn Maxwell, Nat Pendleton

Synopsis

In Swing Fever, a country boy (Kay Kyser) comes to the big city and gets entangled with a crooked fight manager.

Read More »Swing Fever
Exit mobile version