Enzo, an ex-con from the poor outskirts of Rome, puts his newfound superpowers to use furthering his career as a delinquent, a fact which makes the local crime bosses far from happy. When he falls in love with Alessia, an unstable girl who brightens her dark world with elements from a Japanese anime, Jeeg, Enzo learns the value of helping others. But what price must he pay to become a hero?
When a prostitute is murdered in San Francisco's ritzy Nob Hill district, an anonymoustip implicates minister and political crusader Reverend Logan Sharpe (Martin Landau). Lt. Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier), who has known Sharpe for many years, asks to beassigned to the case in hopes of clearing his friend's name. So begins the detective's journey through a twisted maze of baffl ing evidence, frantic chases, deadly gunfi reand bad alibis. Before long, Tibbs finds himself bitterly torn between...
In this provocative WW II drama, an American agent sneaks into a Nazi spy ring to learn the identities of certain double-agents. The stakes are raised as he sinks deeper into their ranks, putting a new love interest, his own life, and the fate of America at risk.
Casino dealer Tony Vincenzo knows how to figure the odds, and he figures the job he's planned is close to a sure thing. He knows about the route and the security measures taken to protect an armored car hauling cash from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. He knows no one will find the car after he's detoured it off the road and into a specially constructed subterranean desert vault. And yet he doesn't know enough. Gary Lockwood, Elke Sommer, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Palance and classic caper star Jean Servais...
The 7th Cavalry Regiment, Gen. George Armstrong Custer says, rides "to hell or to glory. It depends on one's point of view." The point of view of Raoul Walsh's spectacular They Died with Their Boots On decidedly favors glory. Errol Flynn portrays the famed cavalryman in this hoof-and-thunder chronicle tracing his career from dandyish West Point plebe to Civil War hero to frontier legend immortalized by the Battle of Little Big Horn. Olivia de Havilland, sharing the marquee with Flynn for the...
Lisa McGrath is an ordinary high school student until her spiritual rebirth gives her the ability to see angels and demons. Lisa is given this gift to rid her rural hometown of the demons that have overtaken it, but how can a 17-year-old girl stop these monsters that have lingered for thousands of years? With the help of a mysterious and handsome teenage boy, Lisa finds romance and danger as she fights alongside angels to rid her hometown of demons. Things do not always go as planned. Lisa is...
After ten years of the Great Depression, scrappy Joe and Paul Fabrini (Raft and Bogart) are still--just barely--in business. Paul dreams of spending more time with his wife, and Joe has his eye on waitress Cassie Hartley (Ann Sheridan). Then Paul loses an arm in an accident and can no longer drive. But when Lana Carlson (Ida Lupino), the wife of the Fabrini's main rival, falls in love with Joe, she murders her husband and offers an interest in the company to the Fabrini brothers. Joe refuses...
A fascinating film that starts out as a crime thriller, then veers into horror. A young man is falsely accused of murdering his former girlfriend. He and his female companion are pursued across the dark, rainy countryside only to find themselves in the creepy dwelling of a mad killer who sets out to murder them both. Discussed at length in Wm. K. Everson's MORE CLASSICS OF THE HORROR FILM. A must-see for 30s' horror and mystery fans.
George Raft and Humphrey Bogart share a driving ambition in They Drive by Night, a feisty tale of brothers trying to make it as independent truckers. Ann Sheridan plays a truck-stop waitress dishing both the daily special and the patter. And Ida Lupino is a headstrong executive mixing business and romance with murder. With Bogart again riding shotgun en route to leading-man stardom (which he would achieve the following year) and Raft at the wheel in one of his best roles, this fine example of...
When a group of gifted college students run a secret teleportation experiment, they accidentally open a portal to another dimension, trapping them in Hell. One by one they are hunted, tortured, and killed by the denizens of Hell who are bent on stealing their souls.
World War 1 battle action, gangster life, a love triangle and antiwar elements combine in They Gave Him a Gun, directed by WS. Van Dyke II (The Thin Man). As the story opens, worldly-wise Fred takes naive Jimmy under his wing at boot camp, helping the gun-shy youth he calls Hayseed adapt to the army. The two friends see action in the trenches, and Jimmy uses the marksmanship he developed to wipe out enemy machine gunners. Jimmy gets medals...and Rose, the nurse who agrees to marry Jimmy after...
In the summer, they belt the ol' horsehide. In the winter, they belt out songs. They're Jerry Burke and Jack Glennon, stars on the baseball field and the vaudeville circuit. Real-life vaudevillians Gus Van and Joe Schenck, whose piano act carried them to fame in the Ziegfeld Follies footlights and on early-radio airwaves, headline this spirited 1930 musical that combines World Series heroics with the quest for romance (The Broadway Melody's Bessie Love plays the female lead). The film's...
Seeking inspiration for a new writing project, a man spends Halloween night in a notoriously haunted house. He soon realizes he is living in his own horror story.
A boxer flees believing he has comitted a murder while he was drunk.
Haunted by the death of his kid brother, Tom Durling leaves Chicago behind for a fresh start in California. Hoping to sell his car, Tom arranges a meeting with a fast-talking woman named Betty and her boyfriend, Jack. Betty and Jack aren't really interested in buying the car, though... they just need a patsy with a fast ride to help them escape the scene of a violent bank robbery. The thieves flee the crime scene, leaving a policeman dead and Tom unconscious with a pistol in his hand. The law...
A small town doctor (Jean Hersholt) turns his concern towards the plight of Bob Webster (Barton Yarborough), a lowly bank clerk accused of stealing three thousand dollars. Tragically widowed, Bob is now the sole parent to little musical protege Jane (Anne Bennett). Unable to cope with the recent death of her mother and now faced with a long separation from her father, the little girl's chances of musical theater glory are surely dashed unless Dr. Christian can prove his hunch to the Governor...
Ambitious young Texan oilman Tim Kelly (James Ellison) fails in his bid to secure a desired parcel of land in Argentina for his employer, oil baron George Hastings (Robert Middlemass). When he runs into fellow Hastings employee Duke Ferrel (Buddy Ebsen) at the racetrack on Pan-America Day, the two hatch a scheme to impress their boss by giving him the prize Argentinian racehorse, Lucero. More importantly, Tim may have just met the girl of his dreams, Lolita O'Shea (Maureen O'Hara), who just...
Gerald Meldrick (Clark Gable) and Anya Von Duren (Rosalind Russell) have a lot in common. They're both jewel thieves. And they're both after the same rock, the fabulous Star of Asia. So they team up -- in crime, in love, and in comic adventure that has them jumping on a tramp steamer to elude cops, swindling a Hong Kong merchant prince to nab some cash and battling advancing Japanese troops to strike a blow in World War II. Buoyed by a top cast, Gable and Russell handle quips, kisses and...
George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward star in the touching comedy They Might Be Giants about a retired judge who believes he is Sherlock Holmes. Set in modern-day New York City, Justin Playfair (Scott) is committed by his brother and sister-in-law who believe him to be delusional. He is put under the care of Dr. Mildred Watson (Woodward) who, to her own amazement, finds there is something very real in Justin's beliefs. The unlikely pair take to the streets of Manhattan on an adventure of a...
A down-trodden warehouse worker commands the forces of evil to do his bidding. Training the flesh-eating ghouls to devour those that stand in his way to becoming a "normal" citizen of society. But, will his thirst for vengeance be enough to control the group of demons' ever growing thirst for human flesh?
A big city doctor vacationing in a small Island off of Main, discovers that the island is infested with a malicious and deadly breed of flying cockroaches that root inside their victims. While battling the insects he must convince the skeptical townspeople of the killer infestation. Will they realize the truth before it's too late?
Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan breaks his arm during a bout, and the injury ends his career. Trying to restart his life, he takes a job as a bouncer at Jerry Filmore's nightclub. The club's star attraction, beautiful dancer Adele Landon, catches Jimmy's eye immediately, and the feeling is mutual. Their budding romance is cut short when jealous Filmore frames Jimmy for stealing $500. After serving six months in prison for a crime he didn't commit, Jimmy is more than ready to settle some old scores....
Murphy's been charged with a savage murder, condemned to die, then given a reprieve when the autopsy of the victim reveals startling new evidence. Murphy is a Doberman Pinscher. James Garner portrays affable lawman Abel Marsh, who takes possession of the dog and of the case that's disrupted the tiny California coast town of Eden Landing. Marsh will interview suspects. Suffer a knock or two to the noggin. See the corpse count grow. And realize that good ol' Murphy may be the biggest clue to the...