"The Philadelphia Story" is a top rate romantic comedy that also served as a vehicle for Katherine Hepburn to return to the top of the box office after several years of a career slump. The witty screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart, based on the 1939 play [..]

"Broadway Melody of 1940" is a classic MGM movie musical starring Fred Astaire and George Murphy as a dance team down on their luck and unemployed. A Broadway producer (Frank Morgan) decides to hire Astaire to dance with Eleanor Powell, but a mix-up sends Murphy to be her [..]

A musical vehicle for Tony Martin. A showcase for cinematic beauty Rita Hayworth. A light and breezy Depression Era comedy. All are accurate descriptions of the romantic musical "Music in My Heart." Director Joseph Santley ("The Family Next Door" 1939) put together a pleasant film with high quality [..]

"Foreign Correspondent" is an exciting spy thriller from the Master of Suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock. It tells the story of an American reporter sent to Europe in the years before the U. S. involvement in World War II. Joel McCrea [..]

"20 Million Miles to Earth" is a science fiction story about a U. S. manned space ship returning from Venus that crash lands near Sicily. It contains an egg that hatches, with the creature growing rapidly into a reptilian-like monster that terrorizes Italy. Director Nathan Juran [..]

"His Girl Friday" is a screwball comedy about a newspaper editor who is about to loose his ace reporter, who also happens to be his ex-wife, so he puts her on a top story in hopes of keeping her, both as a wife and as an employee. [..]

"Santa Fe Trail" is a western film telling the story of two U. S. Army officers commissioned to hunt down abolitionist John Brown and stop his unauthorized raids. The pair are played by Errol Flynn as Jeb Stuart and Ronald Reagan as George Custer. A [..]

"Once Upon a Time in Mexico" is a neo-western action film about a man name El Mariachi who is hired by a CIA officer to kill a corrupt general out to assassinate the President of Mexico. Director Robert Rodriguez ("Spy Kids" 2001) put together a film that [..]

The Great Depression era has been vividly depicted in the drama film "The Grapes of Wrath." The story follows the trials and tribulations of the Joad family from the eviction from their Oklahoma farm to their journey west and eventual arrival in California, "the land of milk [..]

"Torrid Zone" is an adventure film about the owner of a banana plantation in Central America having problems with employees, stirred up by a local revolutionary. The supervisor who can handle them is quitting to return to the U. S., but is distracted by an attractive singer, [..]