A Cry in the Dark (1988) (MOD)

A Cry in the Dark (1988) (MOD)No body, motive or weapon. The facts in the Australian murder trial of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain didn't add up. But other things did: bigotry against the couple's religion. Scattershot forensic evidence taken as fact. And a hysteria that was the 1980s equivalent of a Salem witchhunt. For 1988's powerful, truth based A Cry in the Dark, Academy Award winner* Meryl Streep won Cannes Film Festival and New York Film Critics Best Actress Awards along

many Americans looked anxiously to their own nation's military readiness

and is funnier than ever

in this stirring tale of a tortured love affair set amid the wild excess of life in Imperial Russia

Thomas Jefferson O'Toole (james Cagney) knows all about flying

When news arrives that her brother Jack (Jimmy Stewart in one of his earliest screen roles) has been wounded in a prison escape

Would-be Broadway producer Doug Tyler (Gene Raymond) gets the bounce from his radio job after making moo-moo eyes at his favorite singer

handsome stranger takes up residence as a handyman

Filmed with a naughty wink-wink during the Swinging Sixties

With one foot up on a pile of rubble and his cape twisting in the wind

first came to Muggle readers' attention in the book known as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Memory warmly endures in So Goes My Love

the boys hitch a ride with two peppy ladies