Directed by Richard Brooks, the film starring Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, and Richard Gere, all in top form is based on the novel of the same name by Judith Rossner, which was in turn based on the real life murder of New York City schoolteacher Roseann Quinn. The 1977 morality cautionary tale traces the sexual […]

This low-budget indie, charminly made by Philip Leacock from a screenplay by Neil Paterson, is set in Nova Scotia.  It centers on two boys, forbidden by their grandfather (Duncan Macrae) to have a dog,   who discover an abandoned baby whom they secretly raise in the wood. Oscar Awards: 2 Honorary Award to Jon Whitely […]

This low-budget indie, made in the tradition of the Italian neo-realism, centers on a young boy (Richie Abdrusco), who thinks he is responsible for the deatn of his brother.  As a result, he runs away to Coney Island and spends the day there. The husband and wife team of Morris Engel and Ruth Arkin also […]

The tale concerns two Dutsch children who are swept away in a houseboat by a flood, forcing them to look for safety.

One of the best-known gangster films is director Mervyn LeRoy’s Little Caesar (1930), made by Warner.