Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
The Oscar movie storyline. It’s Oscar night. Frank Fane, who is in the audience, has been nominated for his first ever Oscar for Best Actor. Hymie Kelly, perhaps Frankie’s oldest friend and confidante and who is also in the audience, recounts Frankie’s rise from their humble and what may be seen as unsavory beginnings to this night.
The Oscar (1966) Read More
The Poseidon Adventure movie storyline. At midnight on New Year’s Eve, the SS Poseidon is struck by a 90-foot tidal wave and is capsized. Reverend Frank Scott leads nine survivors; an elderly couple, Manny and Belle Rosen headed to Israel to see their grandson.
The Poseidon Adventure (1972) Read More
Convoy movie storyline. While driving through the Arizona desert, Albuquerque based independent trucker Martin Penwald – who goes by the handle “Rubber Duck” – along with his fellow truckers “Pig Pen” and “Spider Mike”, are entrapped by unscrupulous Sheriff Lyle “Cottonmouth” Wallace using a key tool of the trucker’s trade, the citizens’ band (CB) radio.
Convoy (1978) Read More
The Black Hole movie storyline. An Earth exploratory ship, the USS Palomino, discovers a black hole with a lost ship, the USS Cygnus, just outside its event horizon. Deciding to solve the mystery of the Cygnus are: the Palomino’s Captain, Dan Holland; his First Officer, Lieutenant Charlie Pizer; journalist Harry Booth; scientist and ESP-sensitive Dr. Kate McCrae, whose father was the Cygnus’s First Officer; Dr. Alex Durant, the expedition’s civilian leader; and the robot known as V.I.N.CENT.
The Black Hole (1979) Read More
Dax Xenos (Bekim Fehmiu), a 10-year old boy in the South American country of Corteguay, witnesses the rape and murder of his mother by government soldiers and runs to his father, Jaime (Fernando Rey), who is with a band of revolutionaries. Jaime’s men capture the government soldiers, give Dax the privilege of personally executing his mother’s murderers, and then take the boy to their hideout in the mountains where he meets Amparo (Leigh Taylor-Young), the daughter of revolutionary leader Rojo.
The Adventurers (1970) Read More
Go Naked in the World movie storyline. Nick Stratton (Anthony Franciosa) is attempting to find his own way in the world after returning home to San Francisco following a stint in the Army. His father Pete (Ernest Borgnine) is a self-made millionaire and important in the Greek immigrant community.
Go Naked in the World (1961) Read More
Hannie Caulder movie storyline. With the Mexican Federal Police hot on their trail after a botched bank robbery, the Clemens Brothers – the vicious gang of the bloodthirsty outlaws, Emmett (Ernest Borgnine), Rufus (Strother Martin), and Frank (Jack Elam) – find refuge in Jim and Hannie Caulder’s (Raquel Welch’s) secluded relay station.
Hannie Caulder (1971) 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
Escape from New York movie storyline. The year is 1997. New York City has been turned into a maximum security prison colony, when the American crime rates grows high.
Escape from New York (1981) Read More
The Wild Bunch movie storyline. After a botched robbery attempt in Texas, Pike Bishop and his gang head south across the Rio Grande and into Mexico.
The Wild Bunch (1969) Read More