46 years ago:
A Bridge Too Far (GB,US)
Operation Market Garden, September 1944. The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.
1977-06-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/5902
#ABridgeTooFar #RichardAttenborough #DirkBogarde #JamesCaan #MichaelCaine #UnitedArtists #ClassicMovies
#abridgetoofar #richardattenborough #dirkbogarde #JamesCaan #michaelcaine #unitedartists #classicmovies
65 years ago:
The Vikings (CH,US)
Einar, brutal son of Ragnar and future heir to his throne, tangles with Eric, a wily slave, for the hand of a beautiful English maiden.
1958-06-11
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/42661
#TheVikings #RichardFleischer #KirkDouglas #TonyCurtis #ErnestBorgnine #UnitedArtists #ClassicMovies
#thevikings #richardfleischer #kirkdouglas #tonycurtis #ernestborgnine #unitedartists #classicmovies
76 years ago:
Copacabana (US)
A talent agent sells his girlfriend to a nightclub -- as two separate acts. The deception and constant costume changes are too much for his girl.
1947-05-30
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/46955
#Copacabana #GrouchoMarx #SteveCochran #UnitedArtists #ClassicMovies
#copacabana #grouchomarx #stevecochran #unitedartists #classicmovies
#nowWatching "Fanchon the Cricket" (1915) based on a George Sand novel. Its star #MaryPickford thought this a lost film; it is the only one in which her two siblings Jack and Lottie co-star.
A nice bonus is the opening excerpt of the #UnitedArtists creation, Mary Pickford signing, and Chaplin standing behind her in the centre of the frame. #silentCinema #SilentFilm
#nowwatching #MaryPickford #unitedartists #silentcinema #silentfilm
34 years ago:
Road House (US)
The Double Deuce is the meanest, loudest and rowdiest bar south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and Dalton has been hired to clean it up. He might not look like much, but the Ph.D.-educated bouncer proves he's more than capable -- busting the heads of troublemakers and turning the roadhouse into a jumping ...
1989-05-19
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10135
#RoadHouse #PatrickSwayze #KellyLynch #SamElliott #UnitedArtists #ClassicFilm
#Roadhouse #PatrickSwayze #kellylynch #SamElliott #unitedartists #classicfilm
THE HUSTLE | Official Trailer | MGM https://www.wacoca.com/videos/1740657/global-beauties/
#AlexSharp #annehathaway #ChrisAddison #comedy #comedyMovie #EmmaDavies #GoldwynPictures #Hustle #HustleMovie #HustleMovieOfficialTrailer #IngridOliver #LouisB.MayerPictures #MetroMGM/UA #MetroPicturesCorporations #Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer #MGM #MGMPictures #MGMStudios #movietrailers2019 #Movies2019 #rebelwilson #TheHustle #TheHustleMovie #TheHustleOfficialTrailer #TimBlakeNelson #UnitedArtists #アン・ハサウェイ
#alexsharp #annehathaway #chrisaddison #comedy #comedymovie #emmadavies #goldwynpictures #hustle #hustlemovie #hustlemovieofficialtrailer #ingridoliver #louisb #metromgm #metropicturescorporations #metro #mgm #mgmpictures #mgmstudios #movietrailers2019 #movies2019 #rebelwilson #thehustle #thehustlemovie #thehustleofficialtrailer #TimBlakeNelson #unitedartists #アン・ハサウェイ
102 years ago:
Through The Back Door (US)
A young Belgian girl, raised by her longtime nanny, flees Europe at the advent of World War I and travels to America to find her real mother.
1921-05-05
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/104664
#ThroughTheBackDoor #JackPickford #MaryPickford #UnitedArtists #PreCode #Film
#throughthebackdoor #jackpickford #marypickford #unitedartists #precode #film
44 years ago:
Last Embrace (US)
Secret agent Harry Hannan suffers a mental breakdown when a botched mission in Mexico results in the death of his wife. He is sent to a mental asylum, after which he eventually returns to work. But, once again, he begins to doubt his sanity when he receives a bizarre death threat written in Hebrew. ...
1979-05-04
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/37923
#LastEmbrace #JonathanDemme #RoyScheider #JohnGlover #CharlesNapier #UnitedArtists #ClassicMovies
#lastembrace #JonathanDemme #royscheider #johnglover #charlesnapier #unitedartists #classicmovies
64 years ago:
The Hound of the Baskervilles (UK)
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
1959-05-04
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11791
#TheHoundoftheBaskervilles #PeterCushing #AndréMorell #ChristopherLee #UnitedArtists #Horror #Movies
#thehoundofthebaskervilles #petercushing #andremorell #christopherlee #unitedartists #horror #movies
76 years ago:
Ramrod (US)
A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, "boss" of the valley, whom her father Ben wanted her to marry. She hires recovering alcoholic Dave Nash as foreman and a crew of Ivey's enemies. Ivey f...
1947-05-02
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/60541
#Ramrod #JoelMcCrea #VeronicaLake #DonDeFore #UnitedArtists #Western #ClassicMovies
#ramrod #joelmccrea #veronicalake #dondefore #unitedartists #western #classicmovies
46 years ago:
The White Buffalo (US)
In this strange western version of Moby Dick, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Hickok moves through a variety of uniquely authentic western locations - dim, filthy, makeshift taverns; freezing, slaughterhouse-like frontier towns and beautifully desolate high country - b...
1977-05-01
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/47914
#TheWhiteBuffalo #JLeeThompson #CharlesBronson #JackWarden #WillSampson #UnitedArtists #Western #Film
#thewhitebuffalo #jleethompson #charlesbronson #jackwarden #willsampson #unitedartists #western #film
61 years ago:
War Hunt (US)
Dispatched to the front lines during the Korean War, an idealistic American soldier discovers the horrors of combat and comes at odds with a psychopathic member of his platoon.
1962-05-01
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/32071
#WarHunt #JohnSaxon #CharlesAidman #SydneyPollack #UnitedArtists #ClassicMovies
#warhunt #johnsaxon #charlesaidman #sydneypollack #unitedartists #classicmovies
78 years ago:
The Southerner (US)
Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle disease, a flood, and a jealous neighbor. Can they make it as farmers?
1945-04-30
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/45219
#TheSoutherner #JeanRenoir #BettyField #JCarrolNaish #BeulahBondi #UnitedArtists #ClassicFilm
#thesoutherner #jeanrenoir #bettyfield #jcarrolnaish #beulahbondi #unitedartists #classicfilm
52 years ago:
Bananas (US)
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
1971-04-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11302
#Bananas #WoodyAllen #LouiseLasser #CarlosMontalbán #UnitedArtists #ClassicFilm
#bananas #woodyallen #louiselasser #carlosmontalban #unitedartists #classicfilm
79 years ago:
Lumberjack (US)
Julie's husband has been murdered and land agents want her to sign away her property rights. Hoppy warns against this but she does so anyway. It looks as though she will be unable to deliver the timber called for in her agreement. Hoppy has to make the lumber deal happened and solve the murder.
1944-04-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/51666
#Lumberjack #LesleySelander #FrancisMcDonald #CharlesMorton #UnitedArtists #Western #ClassicMovies
#lumberjack #lesleyselander #francismcdonald #charlesmorton #unitedartists #western #classicmovies
66 years ago:
The Ride Back (US)
A troubled sheriff, a failure at everything in his life, tries to redeem himself by extraditing a popular gunfighter from Mexico to stand trial for murder.
1957-04-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/150456
#TheRideBack #AnthonyQuinn #WilliamConrad #UnitedArtists #Western #ClassicMovies
#therideback #anthonyquinn #williamconrad #unitedartists #western #classicmovies
59 years ago:
Woman of Straw (UK)
Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him.
1964-04-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4999
#WomanofStraw #GinaLollobrigida #SeanConnery #RalphRichardson #UnitedArtists #ClassicFilm
#womanofstraw #ginalollobrigida #seanconnery #ralphrichardson #unitedartists #classicfilm
68 years ago:
Kiss Me Deadly (US)
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both fo...
1955-04-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/18030
#KissMeDeadly #RalphMeeker #AlbertDekker #PaulStewart #UnitedArtists #ClassicMovies
#KissMeDeadly #ralphmeeker #albertdekker #paulstewart #unitedartists #classicmovies
78 years ago:
Blood on the Sun (US)
Nick Condon, an American journalist in 1945 Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japanese provides the action, but this is overshadowed by the propaganda of the time.
1945-04-26
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/75888
#BloodontheSun #JamesCagney #SylviaSidney #WallaceFord #UnitedArtists #Film
#bloodonthesun #jamescagney #sylviasidney #wallaceford #unitedartists #film
45 years ago:
F.I.S.T. (US)
Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob.
1978-04-26
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/28932
#FIST #NormanJewison #SylvesterStallone #RodSteiger #PeterBoyle #UnitedArtists #Film
#fist #normanjewison #sylvesterstallone #rodsteiger #peterboyle #unitedartists #film