Ramrod (1947)
Plot Summary
A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason (Veronica Lake) her fiance, but gains
her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank
Ivey, (Preston Foster) "boss" of the valley, whom her father Ben (Charlie Ruggles) wanted her to marry. She
hires recovering alcoholic Dave Nash (Joel McCrea) as foreman and a crew of Ivey's
enemies. Ivey fights back with violence and destruction, but Dave is
determined to counter him legally... a feeling not shared by his
associates. Connie's boast that, as a woman, she doesn't need guns
proves justified, but plenty of gunplay results.
The Saga of Hemp Brown (1958)
Plot Summary
Ex-army sergeant Jed Givens (John Larch) and his gang rob an army payroll shipment
led by Lt. Hemp Brown. (Rory Calhoun) Givens kills a civilian woman and all the
soldiers, leaving Brown alive to face a military tribunal in which he is
branded a coward, stripped of all insignia and drummed out of the army.
Brown sets out to track down Givens in an effort to clear his name.
Monsters University (2013)
Plot Summary
A look at the relationship between Mike (Billy Crystal) and Sulley (John Goodman) during their days at
Monsters University -- when they weren't necessarily the best of
friends.
The Left Handed Gun (1958)
Plot Summary
William Bonney - Billy the Kid - (Paul Newman) gets a job with a cattleman known as
'The Englishman,' (Colin Keith-Johnston) and is befriended by the peaceful, religious man. But
when a crooked sheriff and his men murder the Englishman because he
plans to supply the local Army fort with his beef, Billy decides to
avenge the death by killing the four men responsible, throwing the lives
of everyone around him - Tom (James Best) and Charlie, (James Congdon) two hands he worked with; Pat
Garrett, (John Dehner) who is about to be married; and the kindly Mexican couple who
take him in when he's in trouble - into turmoil, and endangering the
General Amnesty set up by Governor Wallace to bring peace to the New
Mexico Territory.
Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
Plot Summary
In the early 1950's, the threat of Communism created an air of paranoia
in the United States and exploiting those fears was Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin. However, CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) and his producer Fred W. Friendly (George Clooney)
decided to take a stand and challenge McCarthy and expose him for the
fear monger he was. However, their actions took a great personal toll on
both men, but they stood by their convictions and helped to bring down
one of the most controversial senators in American history.
The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1955)
Plot Summary
Mexico, 1915. US bank robber Tom Bryan (Rory Calhoun) hopes to retire to Mexico, where
the ever popular ex-revolutionary dictator, Pancho Villa, has been
deposed and driven to his home province by another tyrant. Colonel
Castro's (Gilbert Roland) band of loyal Villa-supporters hope to get him back in power so
rob a gold train. Aboard is Bryan, who was secretly paid to help.
Delivering the gold to Pancho by Yaqui country proves harder, as the
Indians help with the federales (government troops) in pursuit. More
dangers lurk.
Escape Plan (2013)
Plot Summary
Ray Breslin (Stallone) is a man who has devoted his life to making prisons
inescapable by going into a prison as an inmate and trying to see if he
can break out. And he has done a good job so far. A woman who says she
works for the CIA approaches Ray and says that a new maximum security
prison where the worst criminals are to be incarcerated, is about to be
launched. So she wants him to go and make sure no one can get out. He
agrees. So they make the necessary preps by telling Ray who the warden
is and they give him a code that the warden will know that he's not a
convict, and they plant him with a tracer. But when he's picked up, the
ones who pick him up remove the tracer. When he arrives at the prison,
he discovers that the warden is different from the one he was told and
when he tells him the code, he claims that he doesn't know what he's
talking about. He realizes that someone doesn't want him to get out. He
then tries to find a way out but he needs help. Another prisoner,
Rottmayer (Schwarzenegger) becomes friendly with him. And they decide to work together to
get out.
The Raid (1954)
Plot Summary
A group of Confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the
banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get
the lie of the land, their leader Neal Benton (Van Heflin) spends a few days in the town and
finds he is getting drawn into its life and especially into that of an
attractive widow named Katy Bishop (Anne Bancroft) and her son.
Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (1993)
Plot Summary
In response to Japan's request for a countermeasure against Godzilla, UN
engineers construct Mechagodzilla, a giant robotic version of Godzilla.
Nonetheless, Godzilla proves himself a force to be reckoned with
against this monstrosity and battle ensues. Meanwhile a research group discovers an ancient Pteradon egg AND a fully grown pteradon as well who turns out to be Rodan. The abscond the egg and it eventually hatches not a baby Rodan but a baby Godzilla! Baby as it's known attaches itself to the lead female scientist. Eventually Baby would be used as bait in taking Godzilla once and for all.
Pleasure Palace (1980)
Plot Summary
a womanizing, handsome gambler tangles with the feisty female owner of a large casino and ends up falling in love.
Godzilla vs Mothra (1992)
Plot Summary
The Earth is headed for disaster and when an archeological research team
visits Infant Island to find out why, they discover two tiny women who
reveal that the Earth is fighting back for all the harm humans have done
here and sends out the evil Battra to destroy us. The Cosmos, as the
girls are called, offer their help by calling Mothra to battle the
creature. Unfortunately, Godzilla also appears and a three way battle
begins that threatens to destroy Japan.
Beau James (1957)
Plot Summary
The story of Jimmy Walker (Bob Hope) who became mayor of New York in the '20s. Used
by professional politicians and money-grabbers, Walker himself was
"stupid but clean", although his open affair with Betty Compton (Vera Miles) cost him
dear.
Modern Movie Monday: Man of Steel (2013)
Plot Summary
As the planet of Krypton crumbles, General Zod (Michael Shannon)
stages a coup as concerned leader Jor-El (Russell Crowe) and his wife
send their infant son Kal-El (Henry Cavill) to a distant world called Earth. While the
young child travels through space with an object containing the DNA of
his home planet, General Zod and his cohorts are sentenced to an
eternity in a black-hole prison. Named Clark and raised by kindly
farmers Jonathan (Kevin Costner) and Martha Kent (Diane Lane),
young Kal-El lives in fear of what might happen should his neighbors
learn about his extraterrestrial origins, eventually exploring the world
in search of himself. In time, Clark's travels take him to a frozen
tundra, where the American government has discovered an 18,000-year-old
anomaly buried deep in the ice. Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane (Amy Adams)
has just come to investigate when, after venturing out with her camera,
she has a profound encounter with Clark. Convinced that his presence on
Earth is proof of life on other planets, Lois finds her attempt to
publish the story thwarted by her boss Perry White (Laurence Fishburne),
who rejects it outright. Later, the airwaves are hijacked by General
Zod, who threatens to obliterate the human race if they fail to hand
over Kal-El within 24 hours. Forced to embrace his otherworldly origins
for the first time in his life, Clark Kent dons the special suit from
Krypton and prepares to take a stand against an enemy far more powerful
than any he's ever known.
Godzilla vs King Ghidorah (1991)
Plot Summary
time-travellers from the future warn that Japan will ultimately be
destroyed if the monster Godzilla can't be neutralized. They reveal the
circumstances of Godzilla's origin: a dinosaur who survived into the
20th Century (and who inadvertently saved a group of Japanese soldiers
from American forces during World War II), only to be mutated by atomic
testing on his island home. The future people have an audacious plan: to
remove the pre-Godzilla dinosaur from his timestream and prevent his
mutation. However, things take an unexpected turn, resulting in the
creation of a new horror--the three- headed dragon King Ghidrah.
Breakaway (1955/6)
Plot Summary
In this thriller, a secret formula purported to prevent metal fatigue
during supersonic flight is stolen. Now, rival groups search for it. A
kidnapping is also involved.
(Delayed) Modern Movie Monday: The Wolverine (2013)
Plot Summary
Logan (Hugh Jackman) has become a hermit, living in the woods alone and haunted by
nightmares of Jean Grey (Famke Janssen). One day, Yukio, (Rila Fukushima) who is
skilled with a samurai sword, visits Logan and tells him that her master, the powerful businessman Yashida, (Hal Yamanouchi) is dying and wants to see
him for the last time. Yashida was a Japanese soldier that
Logan saved the life of in Nagasaki in World War II. Logan travels
Japan with Yukio and the moribund Yashida offers mortality to Logan but Logan does not accept the offer. While
sleeping, Logan has a weird dream involving Yashida's doctor Viper (Svetlana Khodchenkova) and soon
Yashida dies. Logan stays for the funeral and the Yakuza tries to abduct
Yashida's granddaughter Mariko (Tao Okamoto) during the ceremony. Logan saves and escapes with Mariko, but he is shot and does not heal from the wounds. Logan
protects Mariko and tries to find out what has happened to him.
Godzilla vs Biollante (1989)
Plot Summary
Following the events of Godzilla 1985, scientists collect genetic
material from the mutated dinosaur Godzilla's scales. A Middle Eastern
country wants the samples for their own purposes, but meanwhile, a
lonely scientist combines Godzilla's genetic code with those of a rose
and his own deceased daughter. The result is Biollante, an eerie plant
of titanic proportions. To make matters worse, a psychic woman detects
Godzilla stirring from his volcanic prison. The military sends the
flying Super-X2 to stop the beast from thrashing Japan, but eventually
Godzilla engages the rapidly mutating Biollante in a fight to the death.
Murder on Approval/Barbados Quest (1955)
Plot Summary
J. D. Everleigh, (Launce Maraschal) a wealthy American, purchases a rare stamp in London
from Geoffrey Blake, (Brian Worth) who says he represents Robert Coburn, (Campbell Cotts) a stamp
agent. Everleigh begins to suspect the stamp is a counterfeit and hires
private-detective Tom Martin (tom Conway) to investigate. In London, Martin, assisted
by Barney Wilson, (Michael Balfour) a reformed crook, learns that the real stamp is still
in the hands of Lady Hawksley (Grace Arnold) but she refuses to show it to him. Martin
gets friendly with Lady Hawksley's secretary, Jean Larson, (Delphi Lawrence) and learns
that Blake is a neer-do-well nephew of Lady Hawksley. Murder also rears
its ugly head as Martin finds clues that seem to indicate that everybody
he encounters is involved in one way or another with stamp
counterfeiting.
X-Men First Class (2011)
Plot Summary
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and
Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first
time. Before they were archenemies, they were closest of friends,
working together, with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop
the greatest threat the world has ever known. In the process, a rift
between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's
Brotherhood and Professor X's X-MEN.
The Return of Godzilla/Godzilla 1985 (1984/5)
Plot Summary
A reporter named Maki (Ken Tanaka) investigates the disappearance of a ship. He finds the ship
and discovers that all the hands have been killed by a giant sea louse
except for one. The lone survivor, Okumura (Shin Takuma) then tells the reporter that the ship
was attacked by Godzilla (Gojira). Fearing a panic, the Japanese
government then takes the survivor into custody to keep him from
revealing that Godzilla has returned. However, a Soviet nuclear
submarine is destroyed and the situation puts them and the United States
on the brink of nuclear war, until the Japanese decide to come clean
and admit that it was Godzilla. Soon Japan and the rest of the world
are on red alert as they wait for Godzilla to begin his rampage anew.
_05.jpg)
