Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
Once Upon a Time in the West movie storyline. The beautiful Jill McBain, married in New Orleans a month ago, arrives at her new husband’s place to find him and his children dead.
Once Upon a Time in the West (1969) Read More
Isadora storyline. This biography of modern-dance pioneer Isadora Duncan details the performer’s life. The film reveals how beautiful, outspoken and graceful American-born dancer rejected ballet.
Isadora (1968) Read More
Cable Hogue is a prospector who is abandoned in the desert, with no water, by his so-called partners. Nearing death, he discovers a natural spring and he’s soon at the nearest town to register a land claim. There he meets a pretty local prostitute, Hildy. Back at his claim site, he christens it Cable Springs and opens a stagecoach station where the horses can be watered and the passengers fed.
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) Read More
Any Wednesday movie storyline. Wealthy middle-aged businessman John Cleves (Jason Robards) of Short Hills, New Jersey lies to his wife Dorothy once a week and stays in New York City to have an affair. Twentysomething art-gallery clerk Ellen Gordon (Jane Fonda) inadvertently aids him in his lies, to her disgust. But eventually she falls for his charms in his constant pursuit of her to become his exclusive Wednesday city liaison.
Any Wednesday (1966) Read More
Wild in the Country movie storyline. Glenn Tyler (Elvis Presley) gets into a fight with and badly injures his drunken brother. A court releases him on probation into the care of his uncle in a small town, appointing Irene Sperry (Hope Lange) to give him psychological counselling.
Wild in the Country (1961) Read More
The War Between Men and Women movie storyline. Two quirky Manhattanites crash into each other at an ophthalmologist’s office. Peter is a grouchy cartoonist/author whose vision is failing; divorced mother Theresa is also reluctant to plunge into a relationship right now.
The War Between Men and Women (1972) Read More
Melvin and Howard movie storyline. Melvin E. Dummar (Paul Le Mat) is a working class stiff who has been trying to find his professional place in life, he moving from job to job over his adult life as he hasn’t been able to find anything to which he can stick. This life does wreak havoc on his marriage to Lynda Dummar (Mary Steenburgen), the two who live in a trailer park in the Nevada desert with their daughter, Darcy (Elizabeth Cheshire).
Melvin and Howard (1980) Read More
Long Day’s Journey into Night movie storyline. One day in the early 20th century in the life of the outwardly “loving” yet dysfunctional Tyrone family – parents James and Mary, and their two surviving adult sons Jamie and Edmund – at their Connecticut seaside summer home is presented. Mary has recently been released from a sanatorium for addiction to morphine.
Long Day’s Journey into Night (1962) Read More
Julia movie storyline. From “Pentimento,” the memoirs of late playwright Lillian Hellman, JULIA covers those years in the 1930s when Lillian attained fame with the production of her first play “The Children’s Hour” on Broadway.
Julia (1977) Read More
A Big Hand for the Little Lady movie synopsis. A couple with a young son arrive in the town of Laredo, just as the five richest men of the area are settling down to play the biggest game of poker of the year.
A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966) Read More