Captain Donald King of the British Army goes to India just as World War I breaks out, convincing his comrades that he is a coward. In reality, he is on a secret mission to rescue British soldiers held prisoner there.
Tag: USA
When Larry Larkin’s comic strip needs some freshening up, he calls in ghost-writer Francis X. Dignan to help him with the strip. Things get complicated when Francis rekindles his love for his ex-wife, who happens to be Larkin’s secretary and soon-to-be wife.
A post-WWII romantic comedy that explores the effects of the war on American marriage, this film stars Fred MacMurray and Paulette Goddard as Peter and Mary Morley, a pair of constantly fighting attorneys. They are on the verge of breaking up their marriage when the war breaks out.
In this adolescent-oriented comedy, a head camp counselor is traumatized after he and his staff take their nine-year-old campers out for a little nature hike.
A young African-American streetfighter rises to win the Golden Gloves and become a championship fighter in this boxing drama that stars fighter Joe Louis. The trouble comes when he proves unable to find a balance between the hedonism that comes with success and the discipline it takes to stay in shape.
The movie takes place behind the scenes of a fictional vaudeville play. The story centers on a recently divorced woman. She decides to use her alimony settlement to produce her own show. Unfortunately her chief backer insists on starring in it. She is saved by a talented man, who puts everything on risk to replace the talentless chief backer.
Nicollette Sheridan plays a stripper in the made-for-TV Somebody’s Daughter. Together with her bodyguard/lover Nick Mancusco, Sheridan becomes involved in a murder. The subsequent official cover-up and the attendant police corruption places Nicollette’s future seriously in doubt.