Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
That Lucky Touch movie storyline. The generals are gathering for the NATO War Games in Belgium, so are the journalists and the salesmen. One of the first films to satirise NATO and the European Union in Brussels begins when a cynical arms dealer discovers he lives next door to an attractive pacifist from the ‘Washington Post’, whose best friend happens to be married to an American General.
That Lucky Touch (1975) Read More
Based on the novel by Franz Werfel, The Song of Bernadette is a venerative and sympathetic account of the life of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, a once pale and sickly (asthmatic) French peasant girl who claimed to have seen 18 miraculous visions of a “beautiful lady” (whom others, not Bernadette, per se, insist must have been the Virgin Mary) near her home village of Lourdes in 1858.
The Song of Bernadette (1943) Read More
Exodus movie storyline. Following World War II, the life of the Jewish nation is uncertain. The United Nations is contemplating taking a vote on creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Until then, many Jews are exiled from much of Europe – especially Germany – and as they have no where to go, they are sent to detention camps among other places Cypress.
Exodus (1960) Read More
How the West Was Won movie storyline. The story of how, over several generations, families opened up the Western U.S. to settlement.
How the West Was Won (1963) Read More
12 Angry Men movie storyline. In a hot summer courtroom in NYC, a teenaged Latino is on trial for murdering his father with a switchblade knife, and faces the electric chair if convicted.
12 Angry Men (1957) Read More
On the Waterfront is the authentic-looking, powerful film is concerned with the problems of trade unionism, corruption and racketeering.
On the Waterfront (1954) Read More