It Happens Every Spring (1949), Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (1987), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), King of the Hill (1993), What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), The Jerk (1979), The Spirit of St. Louis (1957), The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best St. Louis movies.
Storyline: A professor (Ray Milland) becomes a World Series pitcher with his secret formula for wood-repellent screwballs.
Plot Keywords: baseball pitcher, baseball catcher, chemist, fiancée, professor, outlandish, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: St. Louis, Missouri. For Chuck Berry's 60th birthday, Keith Richards assembles a pickup band of Robert Cray, Joey Spampinato, Eric Clapton, himself, and longtime pianist Johnnie Johnson. Joined on stage by Etta James, Linda Ronstadt and Julian Lennon, Berry performs his classic rock songs. His abilities as a composer, lyricist, singer, musician and entertainer are on display and, in behind-the-scenes interviews, are discussed by Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, the Everly Brothers, Bruce Springsteen and others. There's even a rarity for Berry, a rehearsal. Archival footage from the early 1950s and a duet with John Lennon round out this portrait of a master.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: rock star, celebrity, musician, guitarist, spirited, rousing, st. louis ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: St. Louis 1903. The well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. 17-year old Esther has fallen in love with the boy next door who has just moved in, John. He however barely notices her at first. The family is shocked when Mr. Smith reveals that he has been transfered to a nice position in New York, which means that the family has to leave St. Louis and the St. Louis Fair.
Plot Keywords: sister, mother, father, boy, grandfather, tailor, airy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A boy whose mother is forced into a sanitarium and father gets a job as a traveling salesman. The boy fends for himself in a seedy SRO hotel.—Mark Allyn <allyn@netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: young boy, mother, father, brother, charming, emotional, winsome ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Anna Mae Bullock always had a special voice. Soon after arriving in St. Louis to live with the mother who had walked out when she was small, she soon attracts the attention of pop group leader Ike Turner. She becomes his band's singer, his wife, and mother to his children - not all hers. In love with him and determined not to leave in the way her mother had, she finds herself the target of increasing violence from him who can't see who is making his band such a success.
Plot Keywords: singer, abusive husband, wife, musician, manager, dark, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Navin is an idiot. He grew up in Mississippi as adopted son of a black family but on his 18th birthday he feels he wants to discover the rest of the world and sets out to St. Louis. There everyone exploits his naivety, but then a simple invention brings him a fortune.
Plot Keywords: adopted son, killer, gas station owner, filmmaker, carnival worker, woman, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Biography of Charles Lindbergh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviation's infancy to his design of a small transatlantic plane and the vicissitudes of its takeoff and epochal flight from New York to Paris in 1927.—Paul Emmons <pemmons@wcupa.edu>
Plot Keywords: pilot, friend, inspiring, spirited, positive, st. louis, long island, n.y. ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.
Plot Keywords: mother, son, daughter, gentleman, disheartening, emotional, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Setting off on a journey to the west in the 1830s, the Prescott family run into a man named Linus, who helps them fight off a pack of thieves. Linus then marries daughter Eve Prescott (Carroll Baker), and 30 years later goes off to fight in the Civil War with their son, with bloody results. Eve's sister, Lily, heads farther west and has adventures with a professional gambler, stretching all the way to San Francisco and into the 1880s.
Plot Keywords: gambler, fur trapper, singer, frontiersman, captain, lieutenant, striking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When the small criminal Macklin is released from prison, he learns that his brother was shot by two mob killers. He didn't know that the bank he robbed was owned by the syndicate. When he's almost offed by a killer too, he pays the mobster Jake Menner a visit and demands reparation. His friend Cody helps him to gratify his thirst for revenge.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: convict, bank robber, mobster, brother, partner, suspenseful, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the "black sheep" of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.
Plot Keywords: father, wife, sister, brother, son, daughter, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "Jigger' Lane forms a band that includes singer Ginger 'Character' Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powell, and Nickie Haroyen and Peppi. All of them dedicate themselves to work as a unit and to play 'blues' music. The dedication isn't paying off in money and, while riding the rails in a boxcar, they meet and befriend a gangster named Del Davis. He offers them a job at a New Jersey roadhouse, where Powell falls in love with Kay Grant, a former 'real-good friend' of Davis. But when Powell learns that 'Character' is about to have a baby, he returns to her. "Jigger" tries to make Kay the band's singer and, when this fails, runs off with her. She leaves him with nothing to show for him except a nervous breakdown.Back at the roadhouse, after his recovery, Kay shows up, has a quarrel with Davis, shoots and kills him and plans to take back up with "Jigger", who knows better but just can't help himself. While she is waiting in a car for him, along comes cripple Brad Ames, who she put in that condition, and he gets in and drives the car over a cliff, leaving no survivors in the two-passenger crash. The band is back together at the end, still using boxcars as their transportation, but happy playing the blues.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: convict, jazz musician, jazz singer, femme fatale, pianist, dark, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Vivian, Ed and Harry steal jewels in Paris. In New York government agent McBride accompanies Vivian riding across the country with the loot. She falls in love with him and gives up crime; he finds the stash and arrests her. Rival crooks Doc and Steve, who had already stolen the stolen jewels once, attempt to take them once again.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: racketeer, partner, moll, federal agent, mobster, henchman, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1917, in the red light district Storyville, New Orleans, the prostitute Hattie lives with her twelve year-old daughter Violet in the fancy brothel of Madame Nell, where she works. Photographer Ernest J. Bellocq has an attraction to Hallie and Violet and he is an habitué of the whorehouse. One day, Madame Nell auctions Violet's virginity and the winner pays the fortune of US$ 400 to spend the night with the girl. Then Hattie marries a wealthy client and moves to Saint Louis, leaving Violet in the brothel alone. Violet decides to marry Bellocq and she moves to his house. Until the day that Hattie, who has overcome her past, comes to Bellocq's house with the intention to take Violet with her.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: prostitute, photographer, daughter, madam, husband, melodramatic, moving ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A film biography of American humorist Will Rogers of Oklahoma. It captures the highlights of his life from Oklahoma ranch life to traveling the world in search adventure and a life as a performer in vaudeville. Portrayed by Will Rogers, Jr. He has the sound and character to be his father--the Cherokee Kid, Will Rogers.
Plot Keywords: vaudevillian, cowboy, actor, comedian, wife, woodrow wilson, inspiring ...
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