When he completes his military service Walter Gulick returns to his birthplace, Cream Valley, New York. He was orphaned as an infant and grew up elsewhere but always wanted to return to where he was from. He hopes to be a mechanic but soon after his arrival finds himself working as a sparring partner at [...]
Tags: boxing, character-name-in-title, remake
As an inmate at Leavenworth prison, Robert Stroud has a series of confrontations with the guards and with the other convicts. When Stroud kills a guard, he is sentenced to be executed, and only his mother’s impassioned intervention gets his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, which he must serve in solitary confinement. As he serves [...]
Tags: 1910s, 1920s, 1950s, alcatraz, based-on-book, bird, convict, death-of-pet, deep-focus, epidemic, gallows, island-prison, kansas, leavenworth-penitentiary, life-sentence, marriage, medical, mother-son-relationship, murder, murderer, narration, ornithology, prison, reporter, riot, san-francisco-california, self-improvement, solitary-confinement, stabbed-in-the-chest, train, warden
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, his property confiscated and his mother and sister imprisoned. [...]
Tags: adoption, affection, ancient-rome, anti-semitism, based-on-novel, black-&-white-to-color, blockbuster, brother-sister-relationship, character-name-in-title, chariot-race, christianity, epic, female-nudity, hatred, jesus-christ, leprosy, male-nudity, miracle, mother-son-relationship, nudity, revenge, sea-battle, silent-film, two-strip-technicolor, vamp
Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a little spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna’s companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his [...]
Tags: 19th-century, adultery, based-on-novel, character-name-in-title, deliberate-cruelty, divorce, dysfunctional-marriage, extramarital-affair, family-abandonment, forbidden-love, horse-race, husband-wife-relationship, male-female-relationship, melancholy, military-official, obsession, obsessive-love, period-piece, reflection, russia, scandal, self-sacrifice, snow, social-outcast, star-crossed-lovers, suicide, train, unhappy-marriage, venice-italy
With the end of the North American Civil War, the manufacturers of repeating rifles find a profitable means of making money selling the weapons to the North American Indians, using the front man John Lattimer to sell the rifles to the Cheyenne. While traveling in a stagecoach with Calamity Jane and William “Buffalo Bill” Cody [...]
Tags: american-civil-war, army, assassination, bison, black-hills, buffalo-bill-cody, bugler, calamity-jane, cavalry, cheyenne-indian, chief-yellow-hand, deadwood-south-dakota, frontier, gambler, george-armstrong-custer, historical-fiction, little-big-horn, massacre, murder, native-american, newlywed, poker-game, pregnancy, rifle, saloon, scout, self-defense, settler, sioux-indian, sitting-bull, st.-louis-missouri, steamboat, torture, washington-d.c., wild-bill-hickok
When a mobsters wife decides to testify against his evil deeds she goes undercover to avoid being killed. Now that he’s coming to trial she has to be escourted across country via train in order to testify. Cop Walter Brown and his partner are assigned the task, but the mob are on their trail.
Tags: claustrophobic, criminal, dead-woman-on-bed, detective, disturbing, escort, film-noir, fistfight, gangster, grand-jury, hitman, investigator, lawyer, maniac, murder, nail-file, on-the-run, police, policewoman-killing, psychological-thriller, record-player, sleeping-car, stockings, telegram, tense, testimony, train, training, transportation, trial, undercover-cop, widow, witness, witness-protection, woman-in-jeopardy, woman-shot
Chain-smoking, wisecracking private eye Philip Marlowe drives a buddy from LA to the Tijuana border and returns home to an apartment full of cops who arrest him for abetting the murder of his friend’s wife. After Marlowe’s release, following the reported suicide in Mexico of his friend, a beautiful woman hires him to locate her [...]
Tags: alcoholic, arrest, assault, author, bar, based-on-novel, beach, betrayal, bribery, cat, chase, crime-boss, cult-favorite, disfigurement, dog, extramarital-affair, face-slap, faked-death, friendship, gay-slur, hospital, interrogation, jail, los-angeles-california, malibu-california, marriage, mexico, murder, neighbor, neo-noir, police-detective, private-detective, profanity, realtor, rehab, security-guard, stolen-money, suicide, supermarket, surveillance, topless, voice-impressionist
This warmhearted Yuletide tale tells the story of Grandpa Nichols (James Earl Jones) who is spending his first Christmas alone as a widower. His grandson Pete (Flex Alexander from SHE’S ALL THAT) is riveted by his grandfather’s story of St. Nick, and Pete decides that it is his desire to do all he can to [...]
Tags: based-on-novel
The island of Iwo Jima stands between the American military force and the home islands of Japan. Therefore the Imperial Japanese Army is desperate to prevent it from falling into American hands and providing a launching point for an invasion of Japan. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi is given command of the forces on the island and [...]
Tags: american-soldier, arm-blown-off, atrocity, baker, battle, battle-scene, bleeding-to-death, blood-splatter, bloody-violence, bomb, brutality, defeat, desertion, despair, disembodied-hand, disfigurement, dismemberment, dog, duology, expectant-father, expectant-mother, exploding-arm, exploding-body, extreme-gore, eye-gouging, fall-from-height, family, fire, flamethrower, flashback-sequence, friendship, gore, graphic-violence, gun, gunshot-wound, hand-grenade, hand-to-hand-combat, heroism, historical, hole-through-torso, honor, horse, insubordination, intense-violence, invasion, island, iwo-jima, japan, japanese-army, japanese-soldier, katana-sword, kill, kimono, knife, last-stand, letter, lost-cause, man-on-fire, military-officer, murder, mutilation, person-on-fire, place-name-in-title, pregnant-wife, prisoner-of-war, sadness, self-mutilation, severed-arm, severed-hand, shooting, shot-back-to-back, shot-in-the-head, shot-to-death, splatter, stabbed-to-death, star-spangled-banner, steel-helmet, suicide, suicide-attack, surrender, survival, tank, tunnel, turret, wwii
After a plane crash, a young therapist, Claire (Anne Hathaway), is assigned by her mentor (Andre Braugher) to counsel the flight’s five survivors. When they share their recollections of the incident — which some say include an explosion that the airline claims never happened — Claire is intrigued by Eric (Patrick Wilson), the most secretive [...]
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