[The film's title only appeared in the end credits.] The film opened outside the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes in the year 3067 BC. A narrator (in voice-over) explained the legend of the Scorpion ...
The Scarlet Empress (1934) is director Josef von Sternberg's startling, dark, visually opulent, hauntingly expressionistic, semi-erotic and mostly fictional biopic of one of 18th century Russia's most ...
This slow-drawling, womanly, wised-up housekeeper tells the incorrigible Paul Newman she'd have happily had sex with him if he'd asked her instead of trying to rape her. Suffice it to say, this takes ...
To see Napoleon with a full orchestra performing Carl Davis' score is an almost unimaginably thrilling experience. The 'concert' aspect heightens the sense of occasion, and the Beethoven-based score ...
The Tanis digs, marked by excavation platforms and equipment, are swarming with Nazis and hundreds of Arab workers. Belloq pursues a frustrating search for the Well of the Souls on a ridge-top.
This Marx Brothers' musical comedy has one of the most celebrated scenes in all screen comedy - the classic, slapstick crowded stateroom scene. Seedy entrepreneur and swindler Otis B. Driftwood ...
The film opened with a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche: "Do you know the terror of he who falls asleep? To the very toes he is terrified, because the ground gives way ...
(voice-over) "We spoke often of Narnia in the days that followed. And when my cousins left, after the war ended, I missed them with all my heart as I know all Narnians will miss them till the end of ...
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) is a classic example of a Warner Bros. gangster/crime melodrama of the 1930s - a slick, action-packed, hard-hitting studio film layered with a touch of social conscience ...