Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
Portrait in Black movie storyline. In San Francisco, shipping magnate Matthew Cabot, though fatally ill, watches over his fleet and remains controlling and cruel to his wife Sheila and second-in-command, Howard Mason. As he does each day, Dr. David Rivera, who is secretly having an affair with Sheila, arrives to administer Matt’s injection of ether to control the pain, a procedure Howard considers suspicious.
Portrait in Black (1960) Read More
Heller in Pink Tights movie storyline. 19th century Wyoming: the wild West. Mild-mannered Tom Healy has a two-wagon theater troupe hounded by creditors because Angela, his leading lady and the object of his affection, constantly buys clothes. In Cheyenne, they meet with applause, so they hope to stay awhile: the theater owner likes Angela, and she keeps him on a string.
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The Greek Tycoon movie storyline. Theo Tomasis, from humble beginnings, is an aging Greek shipping magnate who works on his own moral (or amoral as the case may be) code, both professionally and personally, to get what and who he wants in life. The “who”s include a bevy of bed partners who don’t generally include his wife, Simi Tomasis.
The Greek Tycoon (1978) Read More
The Marseille Contract movie storyline. Steve Ventura, the French station head of Drugs Enforcement Administration, is unable to find a way to expose and arrest a drug baron named Jacques Brizzard, whose henchmen were responsible for killing one of Ventura’s undercover agents in Marseilles.
The Marseille Contract (1974) Read More
The Black Orchid movie storyline. Rose Bianco (Sophia Loren) a florist widowed by a famous gangster, looks for happiness with widower Frank Valente (Anthony Quinn). Rose is dealing with her son Ralph in a work farm for troubled boys, though Ralph is warned that if he runs away one more time he will be sent to reform school.
The Black Orchid (1958) Read More
A Walk in the Spring Rain movie storyline. Professor Roger Meredith and his wife, Libby, journey to rural Tennessee, where Roger hopes to spend his sabbatical writing a law text. Arriving on a snowy winter night, the middle-aged couple stops for the key to their rented house at the home of farmer-mechanic Will Cade, Cade’s loquacious wife, and their profligate son, Boy.
A Walk in the Spring Rain (1970) Read More
Barabbas movie storyline. In times of great upheaval during Passover in early-first-century Jerusalem, the fifth governor of the Roman province of Judaea, Pontius Pilate, finds himself before a pressing dilemma.
Barabbas (1962) Read More
Handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the prophet Mohammed — who, in accordance with the tenants of Islam, is never to be depicted (as this is against certain Islamic schools of thought). In Mecca in the 7th century, Mohammed is visited by a vision of the Angel Gabriel, who urges him to lead the people of Mecca to cast aside the 300 idols of Kaaba and instead worship the one true God, speaking out against the corrupt political and military leaders who rule Mecca.
Mohammad, Messenger of God (1977) Read More
The Guns of Navarone movie storyline. With the battle of Stalingrad turning the war against them, the Germans are attempting to bully neutral Turkey into joining the Axis.
The Guns of Navarone (1961) Read More
The Secret of Santa Vittoria tells the tragicomics of the townspeople hiding 1 million bottles of wine from German soldiers.
The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969) Read More