
In the jungles of the Amazon, a group of Western adventurers and two local native guides try to locate a lost treasure buried beneath an ancient Incan city.Read More »
In the jungles of the Amazon, a group of Western adventurers and two local native guides try to locate a lost treasure buried beneath an ancient Incan city.Read More »
A group of travellers find themselves stranded for the night at a deserted train station which, according to the old stationmaster, has been haunted for the last 20 years.Read More »
A red-haired boy is his mother’s punching bag ; only his father’s presence is a great comfort to him,but this weak man is under the shrew’s thumb. His pain is so great he feels suicidal.Read More »
A nightclub singer refuses to “date” customers, so she’s framed for the murder of her aunt, convicted of the killing and sent to prison. However, her friend, who is a police detective, doesn’t believe she did it and sets out to prove her innocence.Read More »
The pioneering Industrial Britain shows a wide range of labourers in Britain in the interwar period.Read More »
Marcia Harper (Sleeper) sets out to send a group of racketeers, headed by villain John Hart (Blackmer), to prison after they cheat her out of a small inheritance from her father by claiming that her father owed them money. She is aided in her venture by industrious reporter Phil Stewart (Toomey), who acquires a mysterious old Roman coin that becomes the key to bringing down the racketeers.Read More »
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Wooden Crosses (1932) – Hailed by the New York Times on its Paris release as “one of the great films in motion picture history,” Raymond Bernard’s Wooden Crosses, France’s answer to All Quiet on the Western Front, still stuns with its depiction of the travails of one French regiment during World War I. Using a masterful arsenal of film techniques, from haunting matte paintings to jarring documentary-like camerawork in the film’s battle sequences, Bernard created a pacifist work of enormous empathy and chilling despair. No one who has ever seen this technical and emotional powerhouse has been able to forget it.Read More »
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Wooden Crosses (1932) – Hailed by the New York Times on its Paris release as “one of the great films in motion picture history,” Raymond Bernard’s Wooden Crosses, France’s answer to All Quiet on the Western Front, still stuns with its depiction of the travails of one French regiment during World War I. Using a masterful arsenal of film techniques, from haunting matte paintings to jarring documentary-like camerawork in the film’s battle sequences, Bernard created a pacifist work of enormous empathy and chilling despair. No one who has ever seen this technical and emotional powerhouse has been able to forget it.Read More »