Tag: USA

April 15, 2018 / TV Movie

In this parody of western tropes set in 1875, a powerful cattle rancher wants to get small folks’ land. Fortunately, a mysterious stranger shows up to help the meek.

April 14, 2018 / Drama

Two Coast Guard pilots fall in love with the same woman. She chooses the more macho of the two, but soon tires of his hyper-masculine behavior. She leaves him. He tries to win her back by showing off in a Navy plane, but ends up crashing and losing his pilot’s wings. When his buddy is lost in the Arctic, the wingless pilot begs for the chance to redeem himself and find him. 

April 14, 2018 / Drama

As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a “stop the presses!” yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is top-billed as a cynical reporter with a penchant for sticking his neck out too far. Frank Albertson costars as a cub reporter fresh out of journalism school, whose presence is resented by Nolan and his fellow workers. But it is Albertson who, after running afoul of the law, is instrumental in breaking up a ring of racketeers. 

April 12, 2018 / Comedy

A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family’s pretty older daughter.

April 12, 2018 / Comedy

Suzanne, a waitress, comes up with a sure-fire method for winning at the racetrack and, later, when she inherits a fortune from a customer of the restaurant, she use the same system for investing her money. Her stuff broker tries to dissuade her, but she persists and her investments increases her wealth.

April 12, 2018 / Drama
April 11, 2018 / Pre Code

In this wartime drama, a French POW during WW I is held captive at a German prison camp. At the same time, an aristocrat sits in a nearby castle proudly daydreaming about seeing his four German sons marching victoriously into Paris. One of those sons is engaged to a pretty woman who is really in love with the POW.

April 10, 2018 / Drama

In anticipation of Airport 34 years later, womanizing pilot Jack Gordon is called upon to safely guide his plane through a blinding blizzard. His task is complicated by a trio of crooks who are escaping from the law after pulling a jewel heist, and by a shady nobleman who offers Gordon a large amount of money if he will land the plane before San Francisco. In the climax, one of the passengers hijacks the plane, only to be foiled by — of all people — an obnoxious brat of a youngster.