During prohibition in Chicago, the town was split between the north side run by the Irish Mafia, and the south side which was held by the Italians. Johnny Lovo (Osgood Perkins) is content with his domain, but his right hand, Tony Camonte (Paul Muni) has his eyes set on expansion. Defying Lovo and encroaching onto…
Category: Classics
Picnic
After falling on hard times, Hal Carter (William Holden) hops a freight train east to a small Kansas town where Alan Benson (Cliff Robertson) lives; an old friend from the fraternity and heir to a grain processing company. Alan offers his prodigal friend a job at the plant as a laborer – a position which…
Rouge
In an opulent flower house in the 1930s, Fleur (Anita Mui), one of the premiere courtesans, falls in love with Chan Chen-Pang (Leslie Cheung), known colloquially as The Twelfth Master, a wealthy heir to a large pharmaceutical company. Forbidden by the family to marry, the two star-crossed lovers forge a suicide pact rather than live…
Hawaii
After hearing an appeal by Prince Keoki Kanakoa (Manu Tupou), Rev. Abner Hale (Max von Sydow) volunteers to bring Christianity to the island nation of Hawaii. Dr. Thorn (Torin Thatcher), the head of the Divinity College at Yale, insists that all missionaries to the island must be married lest they fall into lustrous temptation by…
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
High above the streets of Paris, in the lonely bell tower of Notre Dame, Quasimodo (Lon Chaney) is hidden away and looks down with disgust and contempt toward the people of the city. He is convinced one night by his master, Jehan (Brandon Hurst), to help him kidnap the beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda (Patsy Ruth…
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Jonathan Harker (Bruno Ganz) is a real estate agent in the employ of Renfield (Roland Topor) tasked with making the four-week journey from Wismar to Transylvania to review the sale of a large, empty estate home back in Germany with Count Dracula (Klaus Kinski), coincidentally enough the neighboring lot to Jonathan’s own home. Despite the…
The Greatest Show on Earth
Come one, come all, to The Greatest Show on Earth! Brad Braden (Charlton Heston) is the manager of the Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey Circus. To secure a full season run, he brings in The Great Sebastian (Cornel Wilde), who is known just as much for his prowess on the trapeze as he is for his womanizing. His introduction to…
Purple Noon
Tom Ripley (Alain Delon) is on a mission to bring back playboy Philippe Greenleaf (Maurice Ronet) back to his home in San Fransisco. Philippe, however, has other plans as he galivants through Italy. He invites Tom on a boating trip with himself and Marge (Marie Laforêt), his girlfriend, but as Philippe’s antics grow more and…
Polyester
Francine Fishpaw (Harris Glen Milstead as Divine) would have you believe she is a quintessential housewife to an upstanding, Chrisitan family in the suburbs of Baltimore. The illusion fades, however, when her husband, Elmer (David Samson), goes against the wishes of the community and continues to screen pornographic films at his cinema, her daughter Lu-Lu…
The Marquee Topic 