Stan Brakhage uses his wife’s childhood backyard and depictions of the sea to create a meditation on memory, life, and consciousness. This 1991 film is part of his “Vancouver Island Quartet.”
Tag: USA
A warlord from Mars recruits an Earth industrialist with a Nazi past to manufacture weapons by means of which Mars can take over the Earth. Feature version of the 1951 movie serial “Flying Disc Man from Mars”.
A corrupt consortium of fruit growers exploit migrant workers out of their rightful wages, until Gerry Clayton, the son of one of the growers, decides to champion their cause.
Government undercover agents William Dennis and Joan Bradley are working to solve the disappearances of girls working as “taxi-dancers” from dance halls operated by Jack Miranda and his henchman Nifty. Dennis sets himself up as a theatrical booking agent, and shows his power by the opening and closing of Miranda’s Paradise Club at will.
Coralie, the daughter of an investment broker, faces a series of challenges when his father dies of a heart attack after losing all his money in poker.
Tim Reardon and Vince Barrows are partners in petty crime who fall out with each other. To escape the wrath of Barrows, Reardon enlists in the U.S. Army and so does Barrows and his two bodyguards Joe Scavenger and Mike Paradise All are sent to Trinidad, where a Nazi-spy operation brings the two partners together to pool their talents, for their sense of patriotism far outweighs their sense of outrage against each other. Cafe entertainer Patricia Dare provides the female attraction and distraction.
During the Civil War, a Confederate spy takes a job as marshal of a small western town as a cover for his espionage activities. However, he soon finds out that a local businessman is selling weapons to a band of rampaging Indians.