Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Rocketship X-M (1950)


77 min - Sci-Fi - 2 June 1950 (USA) 4.8/10


Astronauts blast off to explore the moon on. Because of craft malfunction and some fuel calculations, they end up landing on Mars.

Director:
Kurt Neumann
Writers:
Orville H. Hampton (additional dialogue), Kurt Neumann, and 1 more credit »
Stars:
Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen and John Emery

Saturday, March 5, 2011

The Brother from Another Planet (1984)



108 min - Comedy | Drama | Romance - 7 September 1984 (USA) 6.8/10


A mute alien is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through the streets of Harlem in this thought-provoking cult classic.

Director:
John Sayles
Writer:
John Sayles
Stars:
Joe Morton, Daryl Edwards and Rosanna Carter

Meet John Doe (1941)



122 min - Comedy | Drama | Romance - 3 May 1941 (USA) 7.7/10


A man needing money agrees to impersonate a nonexistent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a political movement begins.

Director:
Frank Capra
Writers:
Richard Connell (story), Robert Presnell Sr. (story), and 1 more credit »
Stars:
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward Arnold

The James Dean Story (1957)



81 min - Documentary | Biography - 30 December 1957 (Sweden) 6.4/10


This documentary, which was undertaken soon after James Dean's death, looks at Dean's life through the use of still photographs with narration...

Directors:

Robert Altman, George W. George
Writer:
Stewart Stern
Stars:
Martin Gabel and James Dean

The Wasp Woman (1959)



73 min - Horror | Sci-Fi - 30 October 1959 (USA) 4.1/10

A cosmetics queen develops a youth formula from jelly taken from queen wasps. She fails to anticipate the typical hoary side- effects.

Director:
Roger Corman, and 1 more credit »
Writers:
Leo Gordon (screenplay), Kinta Zertuche (story)
Stars:
Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley and Barboura Morris

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

The Flying Deuces (1939)



69 min - Comedy - 3 November 1939 (USA) 6.7/10

Oliver is heartbroken when he finds that Georgette, the inkeeper's daughter he's fallen in love with, is already married to dashing Foreign Legion officer Francois. To forget her, he joins the Legion, taking Stanley with him.

Director:
A. Edward Sutherland
Writers:
Ralph Spence (original story and screenplay), Charley Rogers (original story and screenplay), and 2 more credits »
Stars:
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy and Jean Parker

His Girl Friday (1940)



92 min - Comedy | Drama | Romance - 18 January 1940 (USA) 8.1/10


A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.

Director:
Howard Hawks
Writers:
Charles Lederer (screenplay), Ben Hecht (play), and 1 more credit »
Stars:
Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell and Ralph Bellamy

The Lost World (1925)



64 min - Adventure | Fantasy | Horror - 22 June 1925 (USA) 7.1/10

The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.

Director:

Harry O. Hoyt
Writers:
Arthur Conan Doyle (novel), Marion Fairfax (screenplay)
Stars:
Wallace Beery, Bessie Love and Lloyd Hughes

The House On Haunted Hill (1959)



75 min - Drama | Horror | Thriller - 17 February 1959 (USA) 6.8/10


Eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren and his 4th wife, Annabelle, have invited 5 people to the house on Haunted Hill for a "haunted House" party.

Director:

William Castle
Writer:

Robb White
Stars:

Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart and Richard Long