"The Blue Bird" is a fantasy movie where Shirley Temple plays a cheerless girl on a search for the Blue Bird of Happiness. Director Walter Lang ("The Little Princess" 1939) put together a motion picture with colorful sets and beautiful filming in Technicolor, which earned two Oscar nominations: [..]

Adam Sandler plays an aspiring hockey player who discovers he actually has quite a talent for golf - and can make a lot of money going on the pro golf circuit in "Happy Gilmore." Director Dennis Dugan ("Problem Child" 1990) does a good job at the [..]

"Twister" is a disaster film about a college professor and her underfunded team of students preparing a ground-breaking tornado data gathering devise developed by her estranged husband. When it is revealed that a privately funded rival is about to join the tornado-hunting season, the hubby rejoins [..]

"Louisa" is a comedy film where Ronald Reagan plays an architect whose senior citizen mother begins dating two men at the same time, the local grocer and his boss, much to the consternation of the family. Director Alexander Hall ("The Great Lover" 1949) put together a [..]

Alfred Hitchcock's fingerprints are all over "Stage Fright," a murder mystery set in the London theater district. The film was shot in England, with screenwriters Whitfield Cook, Alma Reville (Mrs. Hitchcock) and James Bridie providing excellent dialogue. The talented cast includes [..]

"Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town" and get involved with gangsters! Our favorite hillbillies win a trip to New York City and travel by train from their home in Cape Flattery, Washington. A fleeing bank robber runs into Pa and agrees to baby-sit their fourteen children if [..]

"Summer Stock" is a musical film about an actress with a theater group who returns home to her family farm in Connecticut, and decides to convert the barn into a venue for plays and musicals. This rubs her sister the wrong way, who has been working [..]

The musical version of the life of Annie Oakley moves from stage to screen in "Annie Get Your Gun." Director George Sidney ("Bye Bye Birdie" 1963) did an outstanding job at the helm of the picture, after replacing Busby Berkeley, who had numerous conflicts with star Judy Garland. [..]

"My Blue Heaven" is a musical film featuring Dan Dailey and Betty Grable as radio stars who decide to adopt a baby after she suffers a miscarriage. This engrossing dramatic storyline keeps the audience engaged in between the wonderful song-and-dance segments. Director Henry Koster ("Harvey" 1950) kept the [..]

"King Solomon's Mines" has everything: Action, adventure, romance, fantastic scenery. It is the story of a veteran explorer who agrees to help an Englishwoman and her brother search for her long-lost husband on a trek through unexplored Africa. The filming in Technicolor on location in Uganda, Kenya, Tanganika, [..]