Barbara Steffek-Hill Five-Star Films Matinee

Teacher and student become deeply involved with the tango and then - each other.

Teacher and student become deeply involved with the tango and then - each other.

Teacher and student become deeply involved with the tango and then - each other.

Teacher and student become deeply involved with the tango and then - each other.

Young Martha (Barbara Stanwyck) inadvertently causes the death of her cruel, authoritarian aunt. Martha lies to the cops, and Walter (Kirk Douglas), who saw the crime, corroborates the girl’s story. Eventually, they wed out of convenience; the meek Walter is genuinely in love, and Martha thinks that her secret is safe since she has married […]

The hours leading up to a lavish New York society dinner party reveal the hopes and heartaches of an all-star cast featuring Jean Harlow, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery and Billie Burke. Director George Cukor serves up equal helpings of comedy and drama in this 1933 pre-Code film, Dinner at Eight.

In pre-World War II London, a desperate middle-aged English governess, Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances McDormand), has just been fired from her fourth job. She manages to finagle her way into a new assignment, but instead of a governess, she becomes entangled in the personal love life of a glamorous American entertainer, Delysia Lafosse (Amy Adams). Before […]

James Coburn stars as the dapper spy-extraordinaire, Derek Flint, a comic send-up of James Bond in Our Man Flint. Zonal Organization World Intelligence Espionage (Z.O.W.I.E.) calls upon ex-spy Flint to come out of retirement to save the human race from a group of deranged scientists with the customary plan to rule the world.

Duel in the Sun follows a young, orphaned Mestiza woman who experiences prejudice and forbidden love while living with her white relatives on a large Texas ranch. From 1946, this psychological Western film stars Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lillian Gish, Walter Huston and Lionel Barrymore.

With the famous promotion “Garbo Talks!”, Anna Christie, was Greta Garbo’s first “talkie” film.

Mao’s Last Dancer is based on the autobiography of Li Cunxin. Cunxin was plucked from a poor Chinese village at the age of 11 by Madame Mao’s cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, […]