Charles Buck Jones, normally a heroic Western star, takes a surprising turn by playing a
shiftless rural character in this romance. ZaSu Pitts also makes an impression in her tragic role (she was better known as a comedienne than as ...
Based on a play by George Abbott and John V.A. Weaver, Love 'Em and Leave
'Em stars Evelyn Brent and Louise Brooks as sisters in competition over the affections of Lawrence Gray. One sister covers for the other when a ...
It's hard to believe that Darryl F. Zanuck, producer of such anti-prejudice films of the
1940s as Gentleman's Agreement and Pinky, wrote the incredibly racist screenplay of Old San Francisco. After a lengthy prologue detailing the establishment and settlement of ...
In this horror sequel, the younger brother of the murderer in the previous film takes
up his sibling's unfinished business. Dressed up as Santa Claus, the young man goes on a killing spree, murdering the innocent townsfolk in a variety ...
Offended parents and others protested this slasher film when it was released in 1984 because
it portrays Billy (Robert Brian Wilson) as a toy-store Santa Claus who goes on a rampage and axes people to death while still in his ...
When the on-campus accommodations are all taken, a group of college students are forced to
take rooms in the spooky house of Mrs. Engels (Yvonne De Carlo) and her strange son, Mason (Brad Reardon). When one of the kids turns ...
This characteristically grim Lon Chaney/Tod Browning collaboration stars The Man of a Thousand Faces in
two distinct characterizations. By day, the crippled Bishop of Limehouse (Chaney) is a kindly, beneficent figure, ministering to the needs of the poor and destitute. ...
An early directorial effort by King Vidor, The Jack Knife Man is based on a
sentimental story by Ellis Parker Butler. Vidor avoids many of the obvious Pathos pitfalls of the Butler original, turning out a story that is as ...
