★★★★ (4 out of 4 stars) - A Madison Avenue advertising man, run-of-the-mill if unusually tanned with his grey flannel suit an impeccable fit, stands up at the wrong moment in the Oak Room of the Plaza Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Roger Thornhill has theatre tickets. He wishes to send a wire to his mother, but by summoning the wrong waiter and ostensibly responding to the wrong call, he gets mistaken for George Kaplan, a government agent.
Starting around 1910, film distributors began to print what came to be known as lobby cards as a means of advertising currently showing pictures. Typically issued in sets of eight, they featured...
Starting around 1910, film distributors began to print what came to be known as lobby cards as a means of advertising currently showing pictures. Typically issued in sets of eight, they featured...
Starting around 1910, film distributors began to print what came to be known as lobby cards as a means of advertising currently showing pictures. Typically issued in sets of eight, they featured...
His Girl Friday 92 minutes | 18 January 1940 | United States Setting the standard for screwball comedy and rapid-fire dialogue, this second adaptation of The Front Page by the playwrights Ben...
Bringing Up Baby, which appeared in 1938, directed by Howard Hawks, and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, is one of the greatest of all films. A screwball comedy, which sees Katharine...