 28% (2) Arthur 2: On the Rocks 113 min PG [Comedy, Romance] [Bud Yorkin] [08 Jul 1988]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 44%, Rotten Tomatoes: 13%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win. Actors: Dudley Moore, Geraldine Fitzgerald, John Gielgud, Liza Minnelli Writer: Steve Gordon (characters), Andy Breckman External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: In this sequel to the 1981 hit movie, Arthur manages to lose his entire $750 million fortune. Will the former millionaire playboy be able to survive as a broke, unemployable alcoholic? To add to Arthur's problems, wife Linda's biological clock is ticking louder than ever, and she's pressuring him to start taking responsibility for himself. Rotten Tomatoes: In this sequel to the 1981 hit comedy Arthur, the story picks up where it left off with the bibulous millionaire hero (Dudley Moore) marrying poverty-stricken Linda Marolla (Liza Minnelli) instead of going through with a prearranged wealthy marriage. The vengeful father (Stephen Elliott) of the justifiably jilted bride begins pulling a few crooked strings, and before long, Arthur is broke. Worse still, Linda is pregnant. Will Arthur crawl back into a bottle, or will he save the day? John Gielgud makes a cameo appearance as the ghost of the family-retainer character he played in the first Arthur, while Dudley Moore's real-life wife Brogan Lane shows up in a minor role. 1 / 18 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  57% (3) Easy Money 95 min R [Comedy] [James Signorelli] [19 Aug 1983]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 63%, Rotten Tomatoes: 60%, Metacritic: 48%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Candice Azzara, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Joe Pesci, Rodney Dangerfield Writer: Rodney Dangerfield, Michael Endler, P.J. O'Rourke, Dennis Blair External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: The life of a young man about town suddenly reaches a turning point. Before this he led a life of debauchery. He will get 10 million dollars as an inheritance if his life has undergone a complete change within a year. It is a hard question: be rich and boring all day or be depraved and amusing... Rotten Tomatoes: The king of excessive behavior (Rodney Dangerfield) is working as a baby photographer when he finds that his mother-in-law's fortune is his--if only he stops drinking, smoking and gambling, while trimming down to under 200 lbs. 2 / 18 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 75% (3) Arthur 97 min PG [Comedy, Romance] [Steve Gordon] [17 Jul 1981]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, Rotten Tomatoes: 88%, Metacritic: 69%, External Reviews Awards: Won 2 Oscars. Another 9 wins & 6 nominations. Actors: Dudley Moore, Geraldine Fitzgerald, John Gielgud, Liza Minnelli Writer: Steve Gordon External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Arthur is a happy drunk with no pretensions at any ambition. He is also the heir to a vast fortune which he is told will only be his if he marries Susan. He does not love Susan, but she will make something of him the family expects. Arthur proposes but then meets a girl with no money who he could easily fall in love with. Rotten Tomatoes: The ads for Arthur suggested that this was an obnoxious film about an obnoxious man, an eternally drunken millionaire indulging his every whim. Instead, Arthur (Dudley Moore) is a sweet, somewhat pathetic character whose millions have left him lonely and with no motivation in life. When the film opens, Arthur is on the threshold of an arranged marriage with simpering socialite Susan (Jill Eikenberry), whom he does not love. Everyone expects Arthur to behave himself, but nobody truly cares for his well-being, with the exception of father-figure butler Mr. Hobson (John Gielgud, who won an Oscar for his performance) and blue-collar shoplifter Linda (Liza Minnelli). Arthur would prefer to marry the lowly Linda, but his iron-willed grandmother (Geraldine Fitzgerald) threatens to pull the plug on his huge inheritance if he doesn't honor his position in life and go through with his marriage to Susan. A sequel, Arthur 2: On the Rocks, followed in 1988. 3 / 18 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  66% (1) Bye Bye Monkey 113 min N/A [Comedy, Drama, Fantasy] [Marco Ferreri] [24 Feb 1978]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 66%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination. Actors: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Gérard Depardieu, James Coco, Marcello Mastroianni Writer: Marco Ferreri (idea), Gérard Brach (scenario & adaptation), Marco Ferreri (scenario & adaptation), Rafael Azcona (collaboration) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: Italy, France Plot: A man walking on the beach near New York City finds the corpse of King Kong. He also finds Kong's orphaned son, and takes it to a friend who lives in the city, and they decide to raise it. Rotten Tomatoes: Lafayette (Gerard Depardieu), a young-ish misfit Frenchman and Nocello (Marcello Mastroianni), an older misfit Italian, live in a run-down section of New York City and are friends. Lafayette works for Flaxman (James Coco), an excitable antiquarian who owns and runs something called the 'Roman Museum,' by means of which he upholds the standards of a former age. Lafayette also works for a women's lib group, which one day decides to 'rape' him to see how the shoe fits on the other foot. Rather than being much bothered, Lafayette starts a liaison with the woman who actually had sex with him. In this rambling tale, these men are shown to have great difficulty enduring intense emotions, and the situations that arise force them to confront this difficulty repeatedly. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi 4 / 18 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 67% (1) Diary of the Dead 93 min PG [Drama, Thriller] [Arvin Brown] [01 Jan 1976]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 67%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Edward Binns, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Hector Elizondo, Joyce Ebert Writer: Ruth Rendell (novel), Robert L. Fish, I.C. Rapoport External Links: External Links: IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: An unemployed man who lives with his wife and overbearing mother-in-law sees an opportunity to relieve himself of the old bat, which tangles him in a maze of deception. 5 / 18 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  72% (3) The Last American Hero 95 min PG [Drama, Sport] [Lamont Johnson] [27 Jul 1973]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 64%, Rotten Tomatoes: 80%, Metacritic: 74%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win. Actors: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Jeff Bridges, Ned Beatty, Valerie Perrine Writer: Tom Wolfe (articles), William Roberts External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: A young hellraiser quits his moonshine business to try to become the best NASCAR racer the south has ever seen. Rotten Tomatoes: Lamont Johnson's subtle direction graces this true-life success story about racecar driver Junior Jackson (Jeff Bridges), based on stock-car champion Junior Johnson. As a child in North Carolina, Jackson stays one step ahead of reform school until his father (Art Lund) is thrown in prison for moonshining. Seeing the error of his ways, Jackson begins to concentrate his driving skills, hoping to become a professional stock car racer to raise money to get his father released from jail. Jackson rises from the ranks into the highest rung of professional stock car racing, but Jackson finds his independent nature is compromised by the corporate realities of the professional sports world. The real Junior Johnson served as technical advisor on the film. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi 6 / 18 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 89% (2) The Pawnbroker 116 min Approved [Drama] [Sidney Lumet] [20 Apr 1965]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 78%, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 8 nominations. Actors: Brock Peters, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Jaime Sánchez, Rod Steiger Writer: Morton S. Fine (screenplay), David Friedkin (screenplay), Edward Lewis Wallant (novel) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, Spanish, German Country: USA Plot: In a poor neighborhood of New York, the bitter and lonely Jewish pawnbroker Sol Nazerman is a survivor from Auschwitz that has no emotions or feelings. Sol lost his dearest family and friends in the war and his faith in God and belief in mankind. Now he only cares for money and is haunted by daydreams, actually flashbacks from the period of the concentration camp. Sol's assistant is the ambitious Latino Jesus Ortiz, who wants to learn with Sol how to run a business of his own. When Sol realizes that the obscure laundry business he has with the powerful gangster Rodriguez comes also from brothels, Sol recalls the fate of his beloved wife in the concentration camp and has a nervous breakdown. His attitude leads Jesus Ortiz to tragedy and Sol finds a way to cry. Rotten Tomatoes: 'The Pawnbroker' is the dark exploration into the soul of a man who is tortured by the unbearable pain of his past. In order to most effectively reveal his character, rather than relying on a traditional plot sequence, the film carefully extracts the events of a few days in the life of Sol Nazerman (Rod Steiger). A man who survived the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps but lost his wife and children, Nazerman is now alone, cold, embittered, and completely without faith in God or humanity. With indifference, he operates a pawnshop in New York's Spanish Harlem as a front for Rodriguez (Brock Peters), a black pimp and slumlord. Despite the continued efforts of his assistant, Jesus Ortiz (Jaime Sanchez), and a determined social worker, Marilyn Birchfield (Geraldine Fitzgerald), to break through his impenetrable walls, Nazerman remains detached and emotionless. This total noninvolvement extends to his loveless affair with Tessie (Marketa Kimbrell), a woman who lost her husband in the camps and whose father, Mendel (Baruch Lumet) disapproves of their current relationship. Flashbacks triggered by current daily events provide more detail of Nazerman's past, some which are so quick and disturbing as to be borderline subliminal. The most explicit flashback occurs when Ortiz's girlfriend, a black prostitute (Thelma Oliver) enters the shop to pawn a gold locket and bare her breasts to him hoping to increase his offered price. For Nazerman this causes pain, as it only reminds him of being forced to watch his wife raped by Nazi officers. Ortiz, the young, exuberant, lovable Puerto Rican assistant, continues to wear away at Nazerman's defenses, seeking some kind of emotional response. When Nazerman snaps back in thoughtless cruelty, Ortiz retaliates by arranging a robbery of the pawn shop. Nazerman's refusal to submit to the robbers results in gunfire, with Ortiz selflessly taking the bullet meant for his employer. His dying breath in the arms of Nazerman is at last the only thing the young man has done which breaks the stone barrier around the older man's heart, and evokes an expression of tenderness. Filmed in stark black-and-white,'The Pawnbroker' is a harshly realistic vision. Steiger's portrayal of an insensitive miser was pegged as anti-Semitic, civil rights organizations objected to Peter's totally unscrupulous character, and the Legion of Decency condemned the film based on Oliver's partial nudity scene. Nonetheless, the film received recognition from numerous critics' groups and Steiger, in what was his first starring role, picked up 'Best Actor' honors from both the Berlin International Film Festival and the British Academy Awards. 7 / 18 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  70% (1) Ten North Frederick 102 min APPROVED [Drama, Romance] [Philip Dunne] [11 Jul 1958]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win. Actors: Diane Varsi, Gary Cooper, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Suzy Parker Writer: Philip Dunne (screenplay), John O'Hara (novel) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: At her father's funeral, Ann Chapin thinks back over the last five years of his life, years of apparent political and personal failure dominated by a selfish and dissatisfied wife and eased only by alcohol. But it starts to emerge that there was in fact one brief and unsuspected period of happiness and love. 8 / 18 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 69% (1) So Evil My Love 112 min Approved [Crime, Drama] [Lewis Allen] [06 Aug 1948]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Ann Todd, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Leo G. Carroll, Ray Milland Writer: Ronald Millar (screenplay), Joseph Shearing (novel), Leonard Spigelgass (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA, UK Plot: Olivia Harwood, missionary's widow, meets charming Mark Bellis, artist and rogue, on the ship taking them both back to 1890s London. When Olivia opens a lodging house Mark becomes her ... Rotten Tomatoes: Based on a novel by Joseph Shearing, this film focuses on charming scoundrel Mark Bellis. Escaping his latest criminal escapade by boat, Bellis falls victim to a malaria epidemic. Nursed back to health by young widow Olivia Harwood, Bellis repays the favor by plotting to deplete her bank account. 9 / 18 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  71% (1) Nobody Lives Forever 100 min NOT RATED [Crime, Drama, Film-Noir] [Jean Negulesco] [01 Nov 1946]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 71%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Faye Emerson, Geraldine Fitzgerald, John Garfield, Walter Brennan Writer: W.R. Burnett (original screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: G.I. Nick Blake, a never charged con man in his pre-military life, has just received an honorable discharge from the army on medical reasons. Rather than return to his old life, he plans to settle down in New York, his hometown, with his girlfriend Toni Blackburn and the small cache of money he amassed prior to the war: $50,000. When that plan does not pan out, he decides to head to Los Angeles with his con man friend Al Doyle and live it up until he decides on a more permanent course for his life. He is informed by Pop Gruber, an aging mentor doing solely penny-ante street cons now in L.A., of a potential big mark. Doc Ganson, a former con associate, found the mark, lonely widow Gladys Halvorsen worth $2 million, but does not have either the bankroll or the charms to carry out the con on Gladys himself. With Al running interference for him, Nick agrees both to bankroll and carry out the con, he negotiating two-thirds of the take for himself, leaving Doc and his two associates a minimum of $30,000. Although Doc does not like the conditions, he feels he has no choice but to accept the offer as he is desperate for a score to get himself back on his feet. The con is complicated as Nick, using the alias Nick Lloyd, discovers that Gladys is accompanied in Los Angeles by her business manager, Charles Manning, who may be a little more careful than Gladys with her money. Further complications may ensue as Nick is recognized by others who know him as Nick Blake, as Toni comes looking for him to get her own cut in whatever he is doing, and most importantly as Nick and Gladys really do fall for each other. Nick has to decide how to handle the con knowing that a desperate Doc will not let him get away without his negotiated share, a violent Doc who may use harder tactics if he knows that Nick is wanting a life with Gladys and her $2 million. Rotten Tomatoes: A disillusioned soldier returns from WW II to find himself unable to resume his dubious career as a con-man and gambler. He is also flat broke as his girl friend has stolen all his cash and taken up with another. Alone, disenfranchise and utterly broke, his thoughts turn to vengeance. After forcing those who commandeered his gambling operation to pay for his portion, the vet heads for sunny California. There he meets his former mentor who tries to interest the youth in an elaborate new con involving a wealthy young widow. The deal is that he will seduce he out of her money and then split the money with his partners. But the plan changes when the soldier falls in love with the girl. Unfortunately, his femme-fatale of an ex-girl friend shows up to complicate matters by telling the vet's partners that he is planing a double-cross. 10 / 18 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 70% (1) Three Strangers 92 min APPROVED [Crime, Drama, Film-Noir] [Jean Negulesco] [28 Jan 1946]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Joan Lorring, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet Writer: John Huston (original screenplay), Howard Koch (original screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: According to a legend, if three strangers gather before an idol of Kwan Yin (the Chinese goddess of fortune and destiny) on the night of the Chinese New Year and make a common wish, Kwan Yin will open her eyes and her heart and grant the wish. In London 1938 on the Chinese New Year, Crystal Shackleford has such an idol and decides to put the legend to the test. She picks two random strangers off the street, and puts the proposition to them. They decide that an ideal wish would be for a sweepstakes ticket they buy equal shares in to be a winner. After all, everyone needs money and a pot is very easy to divide equally, right? Rotten Tomatoes: On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The threesome agree to purchase a sweepstakes ticket and share whatever winnings might accrue. Alas, the pact brings little more than misfortune for all concerned. 11 / 18 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  78% (2) Wilson 154 min Passed [Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance] [Henry King] [01 Aug 1945]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, Rotten Tomatoes: 88%, External Reviews Awards: Won 5 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 7 nominations. Actors: Alexander Knox, Charles Coburn, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ruth Nelson, Thomas Mitchell Writer: Lamar Trotti (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States. During his terms in office, Wilson must deal with the death of his first wife, the onslaught of German hostilities leading to American involvement in the Great War, and his own country's reticence to join the League of Nations. Rotten Tomatoes: This film tells the life story of Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States. The story begins in 1912, with Wilson as the head of Princeton University. Urged into running for Governor of New Jersey by the local political machine, Wilson soon proves that he is his own man 12 / 18 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 74% (2) The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry 80 min Approved [Drama, Film-Noir] [Robert Siodmak] [17 Aug 1945]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, Rotten Tomatoes: 80%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Ella Raines, George Sanders, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Sara Allgood Writer: Thomas Job (play), Keith Winter (adaptation), Stephen Longstreet (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester. His developing relationship with new colleague Deborah Brown promises happiness at last...thwarted by passive, then increasingly active opposition from one sister. Will Harry resort to desperate measures? Rotten Tomatoes: Fabric designer Harry Quincey (George Sanders) has the unhappy task of caring for his tiresome unmarried sisters, Lettie (Geraldine Fitzgerald) and Hester (Moyna MacGill). When Harry falls in love with Deborah Brown (Ella Raines), Hester is delighted, but Lettie smolders with jealousy. Upset at Lettie 's opposition, Harry would like nothing better than to do her in. Does he? And what has really happened here? When originally presented on Broadway, Thomas Job's play +Uncle Harry utilized a complex flashback technique in unfolding its story, which was capped by a grimly ironic ending. Stephen Longstreet's screenplay not only takes a more linear approach, but also radically alters the ending to conform with the censorship strictures then in effect. The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry was one of several Universal film noirs of the 1940s produced by longtime Alfred Hitchcock associate Joan Harrison. 13 / 18 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  77% (2) Watch on the Rhine 114 min Approved [Drama] [Herman Shumlin, Hal Mohr] [27 Aug 1943]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 74%, Rotten Tomatoes: 80%, External Reviews Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 3 nominations. Actors: Bette Davis, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Lucile Watson, Paul Lukas Writer: Dashiell Hammett (screen play), Lillian Hellman (additional scenes and dialogue), Lillian Hellman (from the stage play by) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, German Country: USA Plot: A German-born engineer, his American wife and their children travel from Mexico to the United States to visit her family but their plans are complicated by a Romanian count. Rotten Tomatoes: An expansion of, and improvement upon, Lillian Hellman's stage play of the same name, Watch on the Rhine stars Paul Lukas, recreating his Broadway role of tireless anti-fascist crusader Kurt Muller. As the clouds of war gather in Europe in the late 1930s, Muller arrives in Washington DC, accompanied by his American wife Sara (top-billed Bette Davis) and their children Joshua (Donald Buka), Bodo (Eric Roberts) and Babette (Janis Wilson). The Mullers stay at the home of Sarah's wealthy mother Fanny Fannelly (Lucille Watson), who lives in her own world of society get-togethers and can't be bothered with politics. Also staying with Fanny is Rumanian aristocrat Teck de Branovis (George Coulouris) and his American wife Marthe (Geraldine Fitzgerald). To protect his family, Muller keeps his 'underground' activities a secret from Fanny and her guests, but de Branovis is suspicious of the mild-mannered visitor. It turns out that de Branovis is actually a Nazi sympathizer, willing to betray Muller for a price. Using blackmail as one of his weapons, de Branovis threatens to destroy all that Muller has been fighting for. To prevent this, Muller kills de Branovis in cold blood. Now technically a murderer, Muller bids his family a reluctant goodbye, heading back to Europe to continue his vital work. If ever there was a justifiable homicide in a motion picture, it was the killing of the odious de Branovis in Watch on the Rhine. Still, the Hollywood production code dictated that a murderer must always pay for his crimes, thus a coda is added, alluding to Muller's death-providing a golden opportunity for a nifty smiling-through-the-tears curtain speech by Bette Davis. Scripted by Lillian Hellman's lover Dashiel Hammett, Watch on the Rhine earned several Academy Award nominations, as well as a 'best actor' Oscar for Paul Lukas. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi 14 / 18 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 77% (1) Shining Victory 80 min APPROVED [Drama] [Irving Rapper] [07 Jun 1941]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 77%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Barbara O'Neil, Donald Crisp, Geraldine Fitzgerald, James Stephenson Writer: Howard Koch (screenplay), Anne Froelich (screenplay), A.J. Cronin (from a play by) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia precox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistant and they begin a passionate tragic relationship. Rotten Tomatoes: In this melodrama, a loyal research psychologist escapes from Budapest after the nature of his work is discovered. He resettles in Scotland and soon resumes his work. His benefactors provide him a female assistant, and at first the stubborn scientist is not pleased. Eventually the two fall in love. Not long after the research is finished, they marry and for a time the two are happy. But then a terrible fire erupts and the assistant/wife dies trying to protect the researcher's valuable notes. The distraught doctor dedicates the rest of his work to her memory and then heads to China to work as a medical missionary. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi 15 / 18 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  69% (1) 'Til We Meet Again 99 min APPROVED [Drama, Romance] [Edmund Goulding] [20 Apr 1940]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Merle Oberon, Pat O'Brien Writer: Warren Duff (screen play), Robert Lord (from an original story by) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, French, German Country: USA Plot: Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another. Rotten Tomatoes: 'Til We Meet Again is an inflated remake of 1932's One Way Passage. As in the original, the hero is a convicted murderer en route to the death house by way of a merchant ship; the heroine is suffering from a terminal illness. Once more, hero and heroine fall in love, each keeping the facts of his or her imminent doom from the other. The principal difference this time is that instead of William Powell and Kay Francis, the stars are George Brent and Merle Oberon. This cast change does no damage to the basic storyline, but the decision in 'Til We Meet Again to expand upon the secondary romance between the arresting detective (Pat O'Brien) and an accomplice of the condemned man (Geraldine Fitzgerald) throws the focus of the film completely out of kilter. One decided benefit to both One Way Passage and 'Til We Meet Again is the comic presence of Frank McHugh, who plays the same role--a tipsy pickpocket--in both pictures. 16 / 18 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 81% (2) Dark Victory 104 min Approved [Drama, Romance] [Edmund Goulding] [22 Apr 1939]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 76%, Rotten Tomatoes: 86%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination. Actors: Bette Davis, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Humphrey Bogart Writer: Casey Robinson (screen play), George Emerson Brewer Jr. (from the play by), Bertram Bloch (from the play by) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Judith Traherne is at the height of young society when Dr. Frederick Steele diagnoses a brain tumor. After surgery she falls in love with Steele. The doctor tells her secretary that the tumor will come back and eventually kill her. Learning this, Judith becomes manic and depressive. Her horse trainer Michael, who loves her, tells her to get as much out of life as she can. She marries Steele who intends to find a cure for her illness. As he goes off to a conference in New York failing eyesight indicates to Judith that she is dying. Rotten Tomatoes: Bette Davis earned an Oscar nomination for her role in this classic four-hanky tearjerker. Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) is a very wealthy Long Island heiress whose life is a constant whirl of cocktails, parties, and wild living. Despite her hedonistic lifestyle, Judith derives little pleasure from life except for her horses, cared for by stable master Michael O'Leary (Humphrey Bogart). When Judith begins suffering from headaches and dizzy spells, Dr. Frederick Steele (George Brent) gives her the bad news: she has a brain tumor that could threaten her life if not treated immediately. Judith consents to surgery, and Frederick informs her that the operation was a success. A grateful Judith quickly falls in love with Frederick, and they plan to marry. However, the tumor returns, and when Judith discovers that she has only a few months to live, she calls off the wedding, convinced that Frederick is marrying her only as an act of pity for a dying woman. A major success and perennial favorite, Dark Victory was later remade as Stolen Hours with Susan Hayward and as a TV movie starring Elizabeth Montgomery. 17 / 18 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  72% (1) Turn of the Tide 80 min N/A [Romance, Drama] [Norman Walker] [20 Apr 1936]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 72%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Geraldine Fitzgerald, J. Fisher White, John Garrick, Wilfrid Lawson Writer: J.O.C. Orton, L. du Garde Peach, Leo Walmsley (book) External Links: External Links: IMDb Language: English Country: UK Plot: Rivalry between two fishing families. 18 / 18 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |