Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
The newspaper baron Charles Foster Kane, one of the richest and most powerful men in America if not the world, dies. A newspaperman digs into his past seeking the meaning of his enigmatic last word: “Rosebud.” He finds evidence of a child torn away from his family to serve Mammon.
Citizen Kane (1941) Read More
Homecoming movie storyline. Ulysses Johnson (Clark Gable) is an American surgeon coming back from World War II. As he is sitting on the transport boat taking him back to America, he is asked by a reporter about his experiences during the war. Johnson begins to tell his story, beginning in 1941. Johnson is the chief surgeon at a hospital, a man free of emotional attachment to his patients.
Homecoming (1948) Read More
A Double Life movie storyline. The successful middle-aged Broadway actor Anthony “Tony” John is a dedicated lonely professional that still loves his former wife Brita. They are playing Othello for almost two years and Tony has a breakdown, beginning to lose his mind and sense of reality, confusing his identity with his characters.
A Double Life (1947) Read More
Leave Her to Heaven movie storyline. In this Technicolor noir, young novelist Richard Harland accepts an invitation to write on a friend’s remote ranch. On the train ride to his New Mexican retreat, he meets beautiful Ellen Berent, a devoted daddy’s girl on a mission to scatter her late father’s ashes.
Leave Her to Heaven (1945) Read More
Mexican Narcotics officer Ramon Miguel ‘Mike’ Vargas has to interrupt his honeymoon on the Mexican-US border when an American building contractor is killed after someone places a bomb in his car. He’s killed on the US side of the border but it’s clear that the bomb was planted on the Mexican side. As a result, Vargas delays his return to Mexico City where he has been mounting a case against the Grandi family crime and narcotics syndicate.
Touch of Evil (1958) Read More