Archive for February, 2007
Movie Title: Honeymoon in Bali (1939)
Movie Plot Summary: Beautiful Madeleine (Gail Allen) is an ambitious up and coming department store executive. She believes firmly that anyone, including a woman, can achieve success in their chosen career field. She is then less than amused when a fortune teller predicts a domestic life, with marriage and a baby, are her future. She becomes adamant that her career will come first, but then meets the casual and suave Bill Burnett (Fred McMurray) and her world begins to change. Is the fortune teller correct?
Add comment February 28, 2007
Movie Title: Hammett (1982)
Movie Plot Summary: The novel writter Dashiell Hammett is involved in the investigation of the mysterious disappearance of a beautiful chinese cabaret actress in San Francisco.
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Movie Title: Justice League (2001)
Movie Plot Summary: Forces of evil, chaos, and destruction await. Not even protectors like Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, the Flash, Hawkgirl or the Martian Manhunter may have a chance alone. But together as the Justice League, they are a metahuman force (and a hope) to be reckoned with.
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Movie Title: Shake ‘Em Up (2001)
Movie Plot Summary: After prematurely concluding that they have lost the grand prize, 3 of the 4 friends leave the bingo game only to learn that the fourth friend [Chips] and rival of Irene has played their bingo card, and won the money. She also starts an affair with the lounge singer and is confronted by a mob of the townspeople in her beaty salon. She gives the money back and the ladies head to Las Vegas with one of the friends [Millie] succumbing to cancer.
Add comment February 27, 2007
Movie Title: Product Placement (2004)
Movie Plot Summary: A director and his star / lover are on their way to Miami International to catch a flight to New York to sign a product placement deal for their new indie movie, Invasion of the Biscayne Babies when the drawbridge on the Venetian Causeway suddenly goes up, blocking their way. There’s nothing to do but … talk
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Movie Title: Hier irrt Schiller (1936)
Movie Plot Summary: Hermann Krullmüller (Rudolf Platte) möchte tapezieren. Die Hilfe des Freundes (Hans Henninger mit bayrischem Akzent) des Hausmädchens (Ursula Herking mit sächsischem Akzent) lehnt er ab, wobei dann natürlich alles schief geht. Sohn Paulchen (Wolfgang Kieling in einer frühen Rolle), der stets im Weg steht und das albern kichernde Hausmädchen vergrößern die allgemeine Verwirrung.
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Movie Title: Friends of God: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi (2007) (TV)
Movie Plot Summary: Documentary filmmaker Alexandria Pelosi tours red state America examining the practices, politics and beliefs of fundamentalist evangelical Christians. Interviewees include Jerry Falwell (who kicked her out on learning that her mother is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi) and Ted Haggard, disgraced former leader of the National Association of Evangelicals, and members of the Christian professional wrestling circuit.
Add comment February 26, 2007
Movie Title: Baywatch (1989) {Heat Wave (#1.2)}
Movie Plot Summary: During the hottest days of the summer, Mitch’s old friend, Steve, and his young son, Mike, show up for a surprise visit. But when Mike is trapped with Hobie in a storm drain and is in danger of drowning, Steve is forced to admit to Mitch that the reason he’s in Los Angeles: Mike kidnapped his son over losing a custody battle with his ex-wife, while a private investigator is on his trail. Meanwhile, Craig is forced to decide by his law firm boss between being a lifeguard, or staying at the law firm. But Craig’s wife, Gina, offers him a third option to open up his own law firm.
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Movie Title: Wagon Wheels (1934)
Movie Plot Summary: The trio of Belmet, Burch, and O’Meary are leading a wagon train west and Murdock is out to stop them. The settlers fight off his initial Indian attack and reach the mountains. With the wagon train vulnerable as it crosses a river, Murdock has the Indians make a final attack.
Add comment February 25, 2007
Movie Title: Chato’s Land (1972)
Movie Plot Summary: After Pardon Chato, a mestizo, killed a US marshal in self-defense, a posse pursues him, but as the white volunteers advance deep in Indian territory they become more hunted then prey, leading to internal strife. They rape Chato’s squaw, and are hunted down to the last man by the unrelenting warrior.
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