Gumshoe (1971)
Synopsis: Albert Finney (Tom Jones and The Dresser) plays Eddie Ginley, a nutty private dick with a Bogart complex who inadvertently gets embroiled in a web of murder and deceit. […]
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Hobson’s Choice (1954)
Synopsis: Henry Horatio Hobson (Charles Laughton, Witness for the Prosecution), a selfish and tyrannical businessman, has a hissy fit when his eldest daughter, Maggie (Brenda De Banzie, The Entertainer), decides […]
The Golden Arrow (1936)
Synopsis: A newspaper reporter (George Brent, Dark Victory) is assigned to interview a wealthy socialite (Bette Davis) only to find out that she might not be who she says she […]
Let It Ride (1989)
Synopsis: Richard Dreyfuss (The Goodbye Girl) plays a compulsive gambler who is always on the look out for that one chance for redemption that will help him win back the trust […]
The Petrified Forest (1936)
Synopsis: Vagabond Alan Squier (Leslie Howard, Of Human Bondage) stops at a rundown diner in the Arizona desert where he forms a special bond with waitress Gabby Maple (Bette Davis). […]
Summer of ’42 (1971)
Synopsis: In 1942, while spending the summer in a New England beach colony, a 15-year-old kid (Gary Grimes, Cahill U.S. Marshal) develops a crush on a 22-year-old woman (Jennifer O’Neill, […]
The Pursuit of Happiness (1971)
Synopsis: A sensitive college kid (Michael Sarrazin, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?) drives down the street and accidentally hits and kills a pedestrian. The young man’s wealthy relatives come to […]
Jacqueline Susann’s The Love Machine (1971)
Synopsis: John Phillip Law (Barbarella) plays an ambitious TV personality (nicknamed “The Love Machine”), who beds his way to the top. The TV star eventually finds out that fame and […]
Dangerous (1935)
Synopsis: Former stage star Joyce Heath (Bette Davis) has become a penniless alcoholic. Wealthy New York architect Dan Bellows (Franchot Tone, Mutiny on the Bounty) finds Joyce drunk at a […]
The Sound Barrier (1952, aka Breaking the Sound Barrier)
Synopsis: A British magnate, Sir John Ridgefield (Ralph Richardson, The Heiress), is determined to break the sound barrier. Ridgefield has already lost his son to his dream, and his daughter […]
Diary of A Movie Maniac 