Set in Europe during World War I, the plot focuses on the tragic romance between Frederick Henry (Gary Cooper), an American ambulance driver serving in the Italian Army, and English Red Cross nurse Catherine Barkley (Helen Hayes). Major Rinaldi envies their relationship and has Catherine transferred to Milan. When Frederick is wounded in battle, he [...]
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Sep 09A Walk in the Sun is a war film released in 1945 (reissued in 1951 as Salerno Beachhead), based on the novel by Harry Brown. It was directed by Lewis Milestone and starred Dana Andrews and Lloyd Bridges.
In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to [...] -
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Dec 09This is one of my favorite John Wayne Movies. Quirt Evans gets introduced to Quakers, who take him in after he gets shot over a land deal. He likes the Quakers, especially the farmers daughter played by Gail Russell.
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Oct 09Beneath the 12-Mile Reef is a 1953 adventure film about a family of Greek-American sponge divers and their rival with a family of W.A.S.P divers. The film was made in Tarpon Springs, Florida, a town famous for it’s Greek community. It starred Robert Wagner, Terry Moore and Gilbert Roland.
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May 09A city boy arrives in his late mother’s birthplace to discover the locals have been pestered by drought, old feuds and “the Big Cat”. A cougar with a bad attitude.
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Sep 09Black Brigade is also known as Carter’s Army, which aired on January 27, 1970. The movie is a war drama. It starred a host of prominent African-American film actors including Richard Pryor, Rosie Grier, Robert Hooks, Billy Dee Williams and Moses Gun.
A redneck officer (Stephen Boyd) is put in charge of a squad of [...] -
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Sep 09Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to transmit steal war secrets for Germany. Starring Boris Karloff. This is a spy movie that you should like, if you like that genre. Boris Karloff plays a domestic servant involved in espionage [...]
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Sep 09Bud Spencer plays Hiram Coburn ; a drifter. Jack Palance plays Sunny ; a gunfighter who wants him to marry his sister. A little boy (Renato Cestie) and Jack Palances gun save him from hanging, but the boys uncle gets killed so Bud Spencer adopts the waif. I don’t want to give [...]
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Oct 09In 1993, Cat People was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
At a city zoo, Serbian-born fashion designer Irena Dubrovna (Simone Simon) makes sketches of a black panther. She catches the attention of American naval construction designer Oliver Reed (Kent [...] -
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Aug 09Charles Bronson plays Joe Martin. Joe has a jaded past, but has settled down and become a fisherman married to Lee Remick Liv Ullman. Some of his old army buddies look him up and want him to smuggle heroin in his fishing boat. Joe isn’t too happy about this. This is a [...]
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Sep 09D.O.A. (1950), a film noir drama film directed by Rudolph Mata, is considered a classic of the genre. The frantically-paced plot revolves around a doomed man’s quest to find out who has poisoned him – and why – before he dies.
Leo C. Popkin produced the film for his short-lived Cardinal Pictures, but failed to renew [...] -
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Sep 09Tommy Thompkins is a pilot who’s not really a superhero, sometimes takes bad advice, falls into stupid traps, and fails to win any fights he’s in. This story follows some dark shady character’s attempt to steal the payroll shipment that Tommy is delivering. In the first half, we have a nifty story about how a [...]



