Treasure of the Sierra Madre

A historically dubious romp with a fun-loving FDR which nevertheless manages to get one or two big things right

An often funny, less-often satirical satire of the movie business which suffers from the usual weakness of its kind: it’s only kidding

Alas for Haiti! Its rulers are crooks and thugs, its religion is voodoo and its heroes are communists

Another example of Hollywood’s bizarre idea of what military life and education are like

When J.M. Synge’s Playboy of the Western World had its premiere in Dublin in 1907 there were riots in the streets because the play was thought to be a vicious slander on the Irish people. Synge had seemed to suggest that it was characteristic of the Irish blarney, at least among the rural folk that…

A girl who pretends to be deaf and a real bad dad don’t end up adding very much of interest to a routine high school melodrama