Under Capricorn

Under Capricorn (1949) doesn't require the leap of faith its reputation suggests. Headlined by Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten, it's a costume melodrama directed by the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock. It was a notion that audiences b...

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Vanishing Point 1971

For some, a road is just a road. Asphalt or gravel, it leads you from A to B, nothing more. But check out any crummy car flick of the last few decades, and it will seem to say roads are metaphors for life, a series of endless paths you alone are re...

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Where Eagles Dare

No other type of film defines the action genre quite like the "guys on a mission" movie. With a minimum of plot development and characterizations, these flicks dive right into the adventure from the get-go. Yet 1968's Where Eagles Dar...

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Yakuza, The

With the tagline, "A man never forgets. A man pays his debts," and starring Robert Mitchum and Ken Takakura, The Yakuza (1975) is surprisingly an entertaining crime drama that layers the intrigue so delicately we hardly realize we're ...

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Young Man With A Horn

Although Young Man With A Horn, directed by legendary Michael Curtiz who directed more than 170 movies in a stellar, half-century career, is not by definition a musical, the best thing about the film is the music. Standards such as "The Man I ...

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Young Philadelphians, The

In The Young Philadelphians (1959) love, mistrust, greed, humor and even murder abound in this intriguing film with its excellent cast including Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Brian Keith and Robert Vaughn. When a struggling law student (Paul Newman) f...

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