A group of youthful soldiers stationed in the Philippines prepare to fight after they learn about Pearl Harbor. One disgraced soldier redeems himself by heroically crashing his plane into a ship carrying Japanese troops.
Tag: USA
Spoof of TV crime dramas. Someone is murdering all the great detectives and cops, and it’s up to the remaining few to find the killer and stop him.
PERSONAL FOUL looks at the relationship between three people. Jeremy is a grade school teacher who loves to nurture students but abhors the bureaucratic activity that accompanies his job. He’s pretty much a loner, but he does notice a new arrival, Lisa, a pretty, personable young woman to whom he is attracted. Ben, an introverted drifter who lives in a van and sells handmade paper flowers, is befriended by Jeremy. While Lisa is attracted to Jeremy, she cannot cope with his emotional instability. And Ben is no more emotionally fit than Jeremy to handle a relationship.
Skid Johnson is a former soldier turned band leader finds his fortunes rise as his fame increases. Unfortunately, with the fame comes arrogance and Skid takes all the credit but forgets those friends who helped him along the way. The person most slighted by Skid’s new attitude is Maggie King, his faithful girlfriend and band vocalist. When Skid’s drinking problem causes him professional and health problems, he slips into the bowery as a derelict where Maggie, now a star in her own right, finds him.
Daniel Moulin goes to New York on a business trip and decides to take advantage of his time in the Big Apple to try and locate the father he never knew. The only thing he has to go on however is an address in the Bronx that is 25 years old.
Charles Colson was involved in the infamous Watergate scandal that brought down the administration of former President Richard Nixon. Colson was sentenced to prison for the crimes he committed in the name of “national security”, and while in prison he underwent a religious conversion. This film tells the story of his life up to, including and after his conversion.
A young woman and her mother, victims of the mob, accept help from the girl’s former classmate, who’s now a private eye.
The story of men at war and that of the esteemed Pulitzer prize winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle. Soon after the U.S. entry into World War II, Pyle joined C Company, 18th Infantry in North Africa. There he got to know the men and often wrote about them in his columns mentioning them by name, something both the soldiers and their families back home appreciated. Pyle moved to other units but as C Company is the first he went into combat with, he considers them “his” company and rejoins them in Italy. Many will die but his reporting brings a human face to war.