Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
The Great Escape movie storyline. Nazi Germany, 1942. With the Germans forced to spend time and resources hunting down escaping Allied officers, the Third Reich opened a maximum-security, POW camp.
The Great Escape (1963) Read More
The Thomas Crown Affair movie storyline. A private-eye looking man arrives to a deserted hotel corridor. He softly knocks on the door of a room, but waits with the jitterbug in his stomach when one of the cleaning ladies appears, and he won’t do anything else until she has gone away to her duties.
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) Read More
Le Mans movie storyline. Throngs of race car media, fans and drivers are making their way to Le Mans, France for the annual 24-hour Grand Prix race. One of those attending this year is American driver Michael Delaney, despite his involvement in a horrific crash the previous year which claimed the life of fellow driver, Piero Belgetti. Delaney would admit to himself that the crash is still on his mind.
Le Mans (1971) Read More
Love with the Proper Stranger movie storyline. Italian-American Macy’s shop-girl Angie Rossini still lives at home with her widowed mother and her three protective brothers in a small apartment. Angie considers her life to resemble living in a fishbowl: her brothers control everything, from what she does to who she sees and to whom she should marry.
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Bullitt movie storyline. Chicago, Illinois, hoodlum Johnny Ross defrauds his Mafia associates and escapes to San Francisco, California, where he agrees to testify before a Senate subcommittee on crime headed by ambitious politician Walter Chalmers.
Bullitt (1968) Read More
In 1930’s New Orleans, Eric Stoner, better known as the Cincinnati Kid in the circles in which he travels, is an up and coming gambler, most specifically in back room games of stud poker. When the older Lancey Howard comes to town, he who is known as the best in the game, the Kid wants to play him and win so that his reputation will rise in gambling circles.
The Cincinnati Kid (1965) Read More
Baby the Rain Must Fall movie storyline. With her infant daughter Margaret Rose in tow, Georgette Thomas pulls up stakes from Tyler, Texas to head to Columbus,
Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965) Read More
The Towering Inferno, one in a string of disaster movies of the 1970s, was promoted as a tribute to firefighters and their heroic work.
The Towering Inferno (1974) Read More
Carter “Doc” McCoy is a career robber, currently in his fourth year of a ten year prison sentence at the Texas State Penitentiary. After his request for parole is denied despite he being a model prisoner, Doc, unable emotionally to endure life inside, asks his loving wife Carol McCoy to contact crooked businessman Jack Beynon, a man with political connections, to secure his release in return for he being “for sale” to Beynon.
The Getaway (1972) Read More
Papillon movie storyline. A semi-fictional account of Henri Charrière’s time in the penal system in French Guyana – some of it spent on infamous Devil’s Island – is presented.
Papillon – Butterfly (1973) Read More