2024-09-29
Good songs and nice production numbers tied to a plot about a ladies' man (Phil Harris) and his escapades. Pete: Charles Ruggles. Laurie: Helen Mack. Ann: Greta Nissen. Hickey: Chick Chandler. Zoe: June Brewster. Mrs. Wells: Marjorie Gateson. Pleasant vintage entertainment. Mark Sandrich directed.
A veteran outlaw who is freshly sprung from prison meets up with his old partners for one last train heist, falling for a dance-hall girl along the way in what would become a fateful robbery attempt for them both.
Allied soldiers disguised as Nazi officers infiltrate a seemingly impenetrable mountaintop castle in the Bavarian Alps to rescue a captured American general who knows the plans for D-Day.
Adaptation of Raymond Chandler's "Farewell, My Lovely" puts hard-boiled private eye Philip Marlowe in the middle of a case involving blackmail and murder when he's hired by a hulking psychotic to find his missing girlfriend. Movie crooner Dick Powell is cast against type as Marlowe. The story was first filmed in 1942 (as "The Falcon Takes Over," with George Sanders), then was remade (as "Farewell,
Fellini's Oscar-winning portrait of a film director struggling with a creative crisis. After admitting he's stumped for ideas about the film he's shooting, he holes away at a spa and retreats into reveries about his childhood and personal fantasies, much to the frustration of his impatient film crew and the exasperated women in his life.
The film is set during the late 1930s; the occasion is the first meeting between Mussolini and Hitler. Left alone in her tenement home when her fascist husband runs off to attend the historic event, Sophia Loren strikes up a friendship with her homosexual neighbor Mastroianni. As the day segues into night, they develop a very special relationship that will radically alter both of their outlooks on
A World War II veteran suffering from a recurring brain injury teams with a woman psychiatrist to prove himself innocent of his wife's murder.
Michelangelo Antonioni's portrait of a dying marriage, with Marcello Mastroianni as an unhappy novelist and Jeanne Moreau as his restless wife. Valentine: Monica Vitti. Tommaso: Bernhard Wicki.
Luchino Visconti directed and cowrote this stylized and poignant updating of Dostoyevsky's novel about a strange but alluring young woman and the two men who love her..
The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by conning an insurance company. But they don't count on the persistence of insurance man Rosmer Peck and his secretary Norma Perry.
Amalgam of mistaken identity, music and Busby Berkeley production numbers concerning three showgirls on the hunt for wealthy husbands.
A World War II veteran suffering from a recurring brain injury teams with a woman psychiatrist to prove himself innocent of his wife's murder.