On Moonlight Bay (1951)

Suicide Kings directed by Peter O’Fallon attempts without very much success to present a kidnap caper in the manner of the brothers Coen, featuring a lot of crazy plot twists, wise-cracking and otherwise fantastical dialogue and lots of comic criminal incompetence. Christopher Walken plays what has long since become his typecast part, a sinister criminal…

The Blessed Virgin as drug smuggler? It’s OK, folks, as long as her own drug of choice is the blessed freedom — and wealth — of America

The gentle humor of this coming-of-age story is perhaps just a touch too gentle.

Another propaganda effort, along the lines of Pleasantville or American Beauty, against what could still be called, in the 1950s, middle class morality.

Happy, Texas, directed by Mark Illsley, is an intermittently funny tale of two escaped convicts who steal a recreational vehicle and find themselves forced to maintain their cover by impersonating a couple of gay organizers of little-girl beauty pageants. Jeremy Northam, an excellent British actor with a very good American accent, and Steve Zahn are…