“In a case like this, either the cons run the prison or the prison runs the cons.”
Synopsis:
A group of prisoners (led by Neville Brand) riot for better living conditions; meanwhile, their sympathetic warden (Emile Meyer) tries to keep the situation under control while negotiating with both Brand and his superiors.
Genres:
Don Siegel Films
Prisoners
Rebellion
Review:
This early film [...]
Posted on April 29th, 2008 by admin
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“They’re after something now that’s going to break us if they get it.”
Synopsis:
Detective Nick Carter (Walter Pidgeon) investigates espionage at the Radex Airplane Factory while courting a lovely female nurse (Rita Johnson) and dealing with an admiring amateur sleuth (Donald Meek).
Genres:
Detectives and Private Eyes
Jacques Tourneur Films
Spies
World War II
Review:
After acquiring the rights to adapt all [...]
Posted on April 29th, 2008 by admin
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“I stop wars, put out fires, feed people, give them hope and peace and prosperity — how can I be a traitor?”
Synopsis:
Dr. Lemuel Gulliver (Kerwin Mathews) is shipwrecked and lands on the shores of Lilliput, where he tries to help mediate a rivalry between the Lilliputians and their neighbors on Blefescu.
Genres:
Fantasy
Literature Adaptation
Rivalry
Royalty and Nobility
Review:
This [...]
Posted on April 29th, 2008 by admin
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“The only way to make a revolution is to take the university and recapture it for the students and for the people!”
Synopsis:
A college student (Bruce Davison) joins a revolutionary movement on campus in order to get closer to a girl (Kim Darby) he’s interested in.
Genres:
College
Coming-of-Age
Literature Adaptation
Revolutionaries
Review:
Loosely based on James Kunen’s non-fiction account of his [...]
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by admin
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“My experiment has shown some of the strange effects radiation can produce, and how dangerous it can be if not handled correctly…”
Synopsis:
A harried single mother (Joanne Woodward) struggles to raise her two daughters: boy-crazy, baton-twirling Ruth (Roberta Wallach) and quiet, science-loving Matilda (Nell Potts).
Genres:
Family Problems
Play Adaptations
Single Mothers
Review:
Paul Newman’s adaptation of Paul Zindel’s semi-autobiographical Pulitzer [...]
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by admin
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“We always meet again… In 16 years of friendship, in spite of births, sickness, travel, films, there always was room for you and me.”
Synopsis:
A renowned actress (Jeanne Moreau) and her friends (Lucia Bose, Caroline Cartier, and Francine Racette) deal with love and career choices in Paris.
Genres:
Actors and Actresses
French Films
Friendship
Review:
Jeanne Moreau’s directorial debut offers more [...]
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by admin
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“I know I’m not a tiger — but I don’t like to be thought of as a pussycat, either!”
Synopsis:
Professor Turner (Henry Fonda) is warned by his supervisor (Eugene Pallette) that he cannot read a letter by a controversial anarchist in his class or he will risk losing his job; meanwhile, his wife (Olivia de Havilland) [...]
Posted on April 17th, 2008 by admin
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“The others are confessing — the only chance to save your neck is to confess, as they are doing.”
Synopsis:
A high-ranking government official (Yves Montand) in Communist Czechoslovakia is taken prisoner and forced to confess to treason he never committed.
Genres:
Cold War
Costa-Gavras Films
Falsely Accused
Historical Drama
Prisoners
Review:
Costa-Gavras followed up his Oscar-nominated political thriller Z (1969) with this hopelessly [...]
Posted on April 14th, 2008 by admin
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“I’m getting tired of what’s right and wrong…”
Synopsis:
A drifter (Jack Nicholson) begins a steamy affair with the wife (Jessica Lange) of his new boss (John Colicos), and soon the two are plotting to commit murder.
Genres:
Bob Rafelson Films
Courtroom Drama
Infidelity
Literature Adaptation
Plot to Murder
Review:
Remaking a certified cinematic classic is always tricky business, given that the question “Why [...]
Posted on April 14th, 2008 by admin
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“With my brains and your looks, we could go places…”
Synopsis:
A drifter (John Garfield) falls for the beautiful wife (Lana Turner) of an older restaurant proprietor (Cecil Kellaway), and the two young lovers are soon plotting murder.
Genres:
Courtroom Drama
Femmes Fatales
Infidelity
Literature Adaptation
Plot to Murder
Review:
Although two foreign adaptations had already been made of James M. Cain’s 1934 novel [...]
Posted on April 13th, 2008 by admin
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