Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
A thought-provoking, emotional, melodramatic, ‘Peyton Place’-like film with a turn-of-the-century, small-town setting that reveals evil, sadism, cruelty, and depravity. Directed by Sam Wood and with James Wong Howe’s cinematography and Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s magnificently rich score, the tragic Warner Bros. film presents a compelling, penetrating and difficult story with eloquence and power.
Kings Row (1942) Read More
The Killing movie storyline. The tale is about a desperate gang of anti-hero misfits and lowlifes led by a grim, determined, and recently-released-from-jail con Johnny Clay.
The Killing (1956) Read More
Charlie Chaplin’s first full-length film (six reels) as a director. A sentimental, charming semi-autobiographical tale with both humor and pathos about Chaplin’s famous Little Tramp character adopting an abandoned infant from a woman “whose sin was motherhood.” An inter-title stated that it’s “a picture with a smile—and perhaps, a tear.”
The Kid (1921) Read More
Key Largo is about a fugitive gangster Johnny Rocco, who is on-the-run with fellow mobsters and his alcoholic lush moll and ex-nightclub singer, Gaye Dawn.
Key Largo (1948) Read More
JFK movie storyline. A controversial, historical epic surrounding onetime New Orleans DA Jim Garrison’s investigation of the John F. Kennedy assassination on November 22, 1963.
JFK (1991) Read More
Jailhouse Rock movie storyline. A great black and white B-film, and considered the best, most popular, and most famous of Elvis Presley’s musicals.
Jailhouse Rock (1957) Read More
In the Heat of the Night movie storyline. An intense whodunit detective story thriller set in the little town of Sparta, Mississippi during a hot summer.
In the Heat of the Night (1967) Read More
The Hunchback of Notre Dame movie storyline. Classic Victor Hugo ‘beauty and the beast’ novel about a deaf, hunch-backed, outcast bellringer in the Notre Dame Cathedral tower.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) Read More
Dinner at Eight movie storyline. A masterfully-directed, poignant melodramatic comedy by director George Cukor and producer David O. Selznick.
Dinner at Eight (1933) Read More
One of the seminal science fiction films of motion picture history, The Day the Earth Stood Still is based on Edmund H. North’s adaptation of the short story by Harry Bates.
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Read More