There are many films that are about Christmas, but not as many that are related to our nation’s birthday or just have a feel for the American spirit. Here are five movies that should be viewed on this patriotic day. Five- Casablanca Humphrey Bogart stars as American expatriate Rick Blaine, living in Casablanca and running […]

James Cagney is cast in the title role of Danny Kenny, a boxer, who loves Peggy Nash, played by Anne Sheridan. He climbs to the top of the boxing world, but Peggy, wants to be a singer, and leaves him for Murray Burns, played by Anthony Quinn, who can help her career. Danny gets a

A concert pianist named Stephen Orlac, played by Colin Clive is involved in a train wreck. The result is that his talented hands are maimed. His wife Yvonne, played by Frances Drake, finds a famous surgeon, named Dr. Gogol, played by Peter Lorre, to perform an operation, to repair his hands. Dr. Gogol, transplants Orlac’s

Gary Cooper and Charlton Heston star in The Wreck of the Mary Deare. Heston plays John Sands a salvage expert, who finds the ship, The Mary Deare adrift. He goes aboard and finds only the first officer Gideon Patch, played by Gary Cooper. He finds out from Patch, that there was a fire, and the

Steve McQueen specialized in playing tough guys. His role as Lt. Frank Bullitt a San Francisco police detective, is no exception. In this movie, he is tough, but cool when facing danger and political pressure. Bullitt involves a mob witness, who is being guarded by McQueen’s character, and other police officers around the clock, until

The greatest generation won World War II. The movie, The Longest Day, based on the book, by Cornelius Ryan, gives an account of their bravery on D-Day, June 6, 1944.The film not only gives the allied perspective of the invasion, but also the German one. It shows in detail, the planning, the execution, and ultimate

The Oxbow incident is a movie about frontier justice. It shows how people can lose all sense of reason, when they become a mob. It stars Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn and Henry Davenport. It was directed by William Wellman. Gil Carter, played by Henry Fonda, comes into town with his friend, Art Croft,

Niagara stars Marilyn Monroe as Rose Loomis. It also stars Joseph Cotton as George Loomis and Jean Peters as Polly Cutler. It was directed by Henry Hathaway. It has good acting and beautiful shots of Niagara Falls. The movie is about a disturbed and jealous man, George Loomis and his wife Rose, vacationing in Niagara

The beginning of The Magnificent Seven, sets the tone for the rest of the movie. A funeral director refuses to bury an Indian, because the townspeople are against it. Chris Larabee Adams, played by Yul Brynner, steps in. He says he’ll take the Indian up to be buried. He takes the hearse to the cemetery,

High Sierra is the movie that gave HumphreyBogart his first starring role. It was his last one as a bad guy, until he played Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Bogart plays Roy Earle, a convict paroled from prison, by his boss, so he can help some criminals, rob a resort