(1960) Daliah Lavi, Gert Günther Hoffmann, Abraham Eisenberg, Uri Zohar.  A band of five adventurers get together on a treasure hunt.  Their quest is for a cache of priceless biblical scrolls, which—according to the legends—is supposed to be lying in the lost city Petra, located somewhere in ancient Jordan.  The challenge is that no man has supposedly ever survived the quest for this treasure...

(1965) Lex Barker, Gerard Barray, Rik Battaglia, Michele Girardon, Alessandra Panaro, Theresa Lorca.   What a surprise this film turned out to be!   It's a great, sprawling action epic with a climax much in the Indiana Jones vien.  Barker plays an American diplomat in the service of Benito Juarez during the Mexican civil war.  There are multiple avenues of intrigue throughout the film and the action is plentiful featuring pitched gun battles, indian raids, duels, betrayals, fistfights, etc...

(1948) William Eythe, Barbara Britton, Walter Catlett, Minna Gombell, Nestor Paiva, Lloyd Corrigan.  Eythe plays a rugged oil-well digger who barnstorms around the country and has a reputation for dangerous feats in the oil fields.  His girlfried is tired of waiting though  So when he finally decides to return home, he finds that his sweetheart has fallen...

(1942, PRC) Alan Baxter, Gertrude Michael, Ernest Dorian, Corrina Mura, Tommy Seidel.  How do you accurately describe this movie?  It's really awful, yet mesmerizing in its awfulness.  It's not a schlocky bad like Plan 9 from Outer Space, rather, it's like a really pitiful attempt at...

(1932) Rochelle Hudson, Walter Byron, Harry Myers, Ted Adams.  A jungle goddess is protected by a killer gorilla in this poverty row oddity.  A group of Americans and Brits come to the jungle to capture wild animals for a private zoo.  They are watched closely by wild girl Rochelle, who sets free most of the animals they capture.  Cheap, but fun in its own way. 16mm.  

(1929) Ramon Novarro, Ralph Graves, Anita Page, Bud Geary, Roscoe Carnes. For an early sound/silent film, this is really a pretty good movie; in fact it’s a lot of fun.  Six pals go through the Naval Academy to earn their pilot's wings. One by one, the group is whittled down to just two...

(1934) Tom Walls, Yvonne Arnaud, Leon M. Lion, Anne Grey, Hugh Wakefield. Walls is a wealthy Englishman who flies to a foreign country to recoup some stolen loot from a young troublemaker.  He lands smack dab in the middle of a revolution...

(1935) Andre Roosevelt, E. Erskine Loch, Carol Jeffries. Roosevelt was famed for his real-life safaris.  In this adventure thriller, he combines his documentary footage with live action footage that was shot to give the film a dramatic storyline.  He falls in with a pretty dame, whom he saves from a weird cult tribe... 

(1938, Monogram) Harry Carey, Judith Allen, Milburn Stone, Betty Compson.  Allen plays a nightclub singer who witnesses a murder and is forced by the killer to flee with him.  After escaping his clutches, she secretly boards Carey’s China-bound ship...

(1929, RKO) Rod La Rocque, Rita La Roy, Charles Byer, Ed Brady, Harry Semels.  La Rocque is a greased-back-hair rogue of a pirate who has sailed his stolen yacht into a port where he encounters a pretty American singer in an oceanfront honky-tonk.  The singer is already the subject of the affections of a jealous American, who soon finds himself in La Rocque’s clutches...

(1929, MGM) Condemned! Ronald Colman, Ann Harding, Louis Wolheim, Dudley Digges, William Elmer.  Colman, a suave thief, is sentenced to a stretch at Devil's Island.... Madame X.  Lewis Stone, Ruth Chatterton, Raymond Hackett, Holmes Herbert, Sidney Toler. A disgraced woman is forcibly parted from her young son...

(1929, MGM) Desert Nights. This was John Gilbert’s last silent picture, and it’s a good one.  He plays the somewhat roguish manager of a South African diamond company.  A couple of thieves, posing as English aristocrats kidnap him... Speedway. William Haines, Anita Page, Ernest Torrence, Karl Dane, John Miljan.  Grand fun as Haines and Torrence vie for best driver at the Indianapolis Speedway...

(1936) Pierre Fresnay, Danièle Parola, Michel Simon, Jacques Coopeau, Pierre Renoir.  This is a grand film about political turmoil in 19^th century Russia.  Fresnay plays a young student preparing for a long career working in the Czarist government.  His life is thrown into turmoil though...

(1959) Anthony Farrar-Hockley, Wilfrid Brambell, Ray Brooks, Mark Eden, Gerald Flood. This is a very grim tale about a group of British POWs, held by the communist forces in North Korea during the Korean war of the 1950s.  It deals with a small prison encampment...

(1949) Regina Linnanheimo, William Markus, Åke Lindman, Annie Mörk, Rauha Rentola, Heikki Savolainen.  This is a terrific Finnish action-drama film about two brothers: the eldest serious and dull, the youngest wild and full of life.  Their family is ruled with an iron hand by their aging, petulant mother.  Both men fall for the same girl.  When the youngest is framed for murder...