Pert and precocious Nancy Barklay (Jane Powell) is up for the leading role in ...Pert and precocious Nancy Barklay (Jane Powell) is up for the leading role in a Broadway musical set in Brazil but her seasoned stage-star mother Frances (Ann Sothern) thinks she s got the part! A sticky situation becomes impossibly complicated...more
Ziegfeld made em big. So the film version of his Rio Rita matched the showman ...Ziegfeld made em big. So the film version of his Rio Rita matched the showman s grandeur with a musical that adhered to the source and earned kudos as one of the best of the [Talkie Era s] Broadway adaptations (Ethan Mordden the Hollywood Musical)....more
Ziegfeld made em big. So the film version of his Rio Rita matched the showman ...Ziegfeld made em big. So the film version of his Rio Rita matched the showman s grandeur with a musical that adhered to the source and earned kudos as one of the best of the [Talkie Era s] Broadway adaptations (Ethan Mordden The Hollywood Musical)....more
The concluding chapter to director John Ford s Cavalry trilogy that also inclu...The concluding chapter to director John Ford s Cavalry trilogy that also included Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon stars John Wayne as the hardened commander of a remote Army outpost along the Mexican border faced with two crises: marauding...more
Medieval England exerted a strong influence on Johann Simon Mayr especially du...Medieval England exerted a strong influence on Johann Simon Mayr especially during his final proto-Romantic period. Alfredo il Grande was to be one of his last operas with a narrative that takes us to a land under threat of war with the Vikings....more
This groundbreaking western was voted at the 33rd greatest film of all time by...This groundbreaking western was voted at the 33rd greatest film of all time by the AFI (100 Years 100 Movies). Gary Cooper won the Oscar for Best Actor in this classic tale of a lawman who stands alone to defend a town of cowardly citizens against a...more
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top but eventually alienates all o...An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up. Unlike Charlie (John Garfield) in Body and Soul Midge (Kirk Douglas) is not the basic good guy corrupted by the sweet science...more
Sean Thornton (John Wayne) in an American boxer who swears off fighting after ...Sean Thornton (John Wayne) in an American boxer who swears off fighting after he accidentally kills an opponent in the ring. Returning to the Irish town of his youth he purchases the home of his birth and finds happiness when he falls in love with...more
Screen legends Cary Grant (FATHER GOOSE) and Tony Curtis (SOME LIKE IT HOT) sh...Screen legends Cary Grant (FATHER GOOSE) and Tony Curtis (SOME LIKE IT HOT) ship out for laughs and adventure in one of the most hilarious comedies to ever hit the high seas. The U.S.S. Sea Tiger is on it s last legs until the handsome skipper...more
Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello are back on the beach in Beach Blanket Bi...Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello are back on the beach in Beach Blanket Bingo. Frankie (Avalon) and Dee Dee (Funicello) hit the beach for fun and sun with a supporting cast that includes Paul Lynde (TV s Bewitched Bye Bye Birdie Send Me No...more
Returning to the themes of his classic SUNSET BOULEVARD director Billy Wilder ...Returning to the themes of his classic SUNSET BOULEVARD director Billy Wilder weaves a noir thriller of an aging Hollywood goddess and her impossible pursuit of youth in FEDORA. William Holden stars as a film producer who travels to the Greek isles...more
This warm-hearted romantic comedy stars Phoebe Cates (Fast Times at Ridgemont ...This warm-hearted romantic comedy stars Phoebe Cates (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) and Bridget Fonda (The Godfather: Part III) as young girls on the loose in Myrtle Beach circa 1963. Carson McBridge (Cates) who s counting down the days until her...more
Between 1951 and 1952 director Byron Haskin (I Walk Alone) and star Edmond O B...Between 1951 and 1952 director Byron Haskin (I Walk Alone) and star Edmond O Brien (The Wild Bunch) collaborated for three westerns. In Silver City O Brien plays a mining expert Larkin Moffatt who decides to protect mining prospectors Dutch (Edgar...more
An abused housewife works as a nude model in order to satisfy her desires. Und...An abused housewife works as a nude model in order to satisfy her desires. Under the influence of a depraved English professor she eventually turns to prostitution. Elsewhere a female cop investigates a grisly murder in which the victim s body was...more