Original Air Date: November 7, 2003 Starring: Reba McEntire, Melissa Peterman, Scarlett Pomers, Steve Howey, JoAnna Garcia Directed by: Will Mackenzie Synopsis: Kyra (Scarlett Pomers) brings home a cat and begs Barbra Jean (Melissa Peterman) to let her keep it. Barbra believes Brock is allergic to cats but says they can hide her in the attic. As it turns […]
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Mga Pusang Gala (2005)
English Title: Stray Cats Erasto Productions Starring: Ricky Davao, Irma Adlawan, Reggie Curley, Lauren Novero, Alcris Galura Directed by: Ellen Ongkeko-Marfil Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A quirky, interesting independent film made in the Philippines and based on the play written by Jun Lana. Boyet (Ricky Davao) is a […]
Music in My Heart (1940)
Columbia Pictures Corporation Starring: Tony Martin, Rita Hayworth, Edith Fellows, Alan Mowbray, Eric Blore Directed by: Joseph Santley Synopsis: Robert Gregory (Tony Martin) is an aspiring actor / singer who faces deportation just as he’s on the brink of finding success on the stage. Right after a breakout performance he rushes to catch a boat to comply with […]
Single Room Furnished (1966)
Crown International Pictures Starring: Jayne Mansfield, Dorothy Keller, Fabian Dean, Martin Horsey Directed by: Matt Cimber Synopsis: Jayne Mansfield (in her final screen appearance) plays three incarnations of the same woman who deals with being single in a big city in different ways, going from a wide-eyed innocent child looking for love to a prostitute. The film, which […]
Cairo (1942)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Starring: Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Young, Ethel Waters Directed by: W.S. Van Dyke Synopsis: In this spy thriller comedy, Homer Smith (Robert Young) is an ambitious small-town newspaper reporter from California who gets the opportunity to go abroad to report on the war. He ends up shipwrecked and comes in contact with a British Intelligence Officer, who imparts […]
The Three Musketeers (1948)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Starring: Gene Kelly, Lana Turner, Vincent Price, June Allyson, Van Helfin Directed by: George Sidney Synopsis: A fun, colorful adaptation of Alexander Dumas’ classic story about D’Artagnan, a young nobleman who hopes to join the King’s Musketeers and his adventures in and around the French Court with his fellow swordsmen, Athos (Van Heflin), Porthos (Gig Young) and […]
Fingers at the Window (1942)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Starring: Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Basil Rathbone, Walter Kingsford Directed by: Charles Lederer Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains minor spoilers for this film. Synopsis: The city of Chicago is gripped with fear after a series of unexplainable axe murders committed by seemingly insane random men on seemingly random unsuspecting women. Edwina Brown (Laraine Day) […]
Lassie – “The Cat That Came to Dinner”
Original Air Date: February 22, 1959 Starring: Lassie, Jon Provost, June Lockhart, Hugh Reilly, George Chandler Guest Starring: Mustard Directed by: Franklin Adreon Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this episode. Synopsis: The Martin family find a stray cat on the doorstep, soaked through by a rainstorm and with a lame paw. They take the […]
Hets (1944)
English Title: Torment Svensk Filmindustri (SF) Starring: Alf Kjellin, Stig Järrel, Mai Zetterling Directed by: Alf Sjöberg Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: An early screenplay by Ingmar Bergman, Torment is the story of Jan-Erik Widgren (Alf Kjellin), a student pushed to the brink by a sadistic and cruel Latin professor […]
The Great Dictator (1940)
Charles Chaplin Productions Starring: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner Directed by: Charles Chaplin Synopsis: Charlie Chaplin’s bitingly sarcastic condemnation of fascism and the Hitler regime, presented brilliantly as comedy. Chaplin’s story takes place in the fictional country of Tomainia where a Jewish barber (Charles Chaplin), suffering from twenty years of amnesia after World War I, […]