Popular and respected in its day, Maurice Cloche’s sincere and moving award-winning 1947 French film Monsieur Vincent tells episodically the story of Vincent de Paul, the 17th century priest, charity worker, social worker and saint, […]
Director Frank Perry’s 1982 drama Monsignor is based on a novel by Jack-Alain Léger and stars Christopher Reeve as Roman Catholic priest Flaherty, the army chaplain who rises through the ranks of the Vatican, during […]
Director Stuart Heisler’s 1940 Paramount black-and-white horror film The Monster and the Girl is an interesting mixture of social melodrama and horror, combining the white slavery film and monster movie, with a sharp gear change […]
Director Hector Babenco’s 1991 epic adventure drama film At Play in the Fields of the Lord is based on the 1965 novel by American author Peter Matthiessen, and has a great cast, but was a […]
Director Hector Babenco’s controversial 1980 Brazilian documentary-like drama Pixote is an overwhelmingly powerful and depressing film about a young orphan boy Pixote (Fernando Ramos da Silva) who embarks on a career as a child criminal […]
Director Bruce Humberstone’s 1944 20th Century Fox Technicolor musical romantic comedy film Pin Up Girl provides the obvious title for top World War Two wartime pin-up Betty Grable in a modest, lightly amusing musical, in […]
Director Roy Del Ruth’s 1948 baseball film biography The Babe Ruth Story stars William Bendix as the famed New York Yankees slugger Babe Ruth, aka ‘The Sultan of Swat’, Claire Trevor as his wife Claire, Sam Levene […]
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