Written by Sean Walsh
After 18 years as a friar, Peter is no longer sure of his vocation. It is a happy life, maybe too much so, and now he has met Clare. Will his doubts run away with him? Runaway friars are officially “fugitives” who must be persuaded back to their order.Read More »
Ray Milland plays a safe-cracker sprung from jail when England needs him to crack a Nazi safe containing spy secrets.
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An outlaw tries to avoid interference as he journeys to Mexico to pull off a $2,000,000 gold robbery.
The film is based on a novel by Louis L’Amour.
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This chapter in the Schoolgirl Report series revolves around a “morality class” at a girls’ school, in which a number of the students’ experiences factor into the lessons to be learned.Read More »
“A mysterious woman, claiming to be a nurse who had disappeared during the bombing of Nagasaki, communicates with an atomic plant engineer by means of his TV set…
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A man working in a nuclear center mysteriously receives a television broadcast feed which is intended for him alone. Soon a strange woman appears on the screen. He falls madly in love with her and is decided to reach her wherever she is.Read More »
Burt Lancaster’s megawatt grin and acrobatic athleticism light up this grandly entertaining swashbuckler. He tumbles, vaults, and swings his way through the role of a Robin Hood-esque rogue who executes dazzling feats of derring-do as he and his rough-and-ready band of mountain men launch a rebellion against the occupying German gentry in 12th-century Italy. The filmmaker’s powers as an aesthetician are on full display in the exquisite Technicolor compositions, including one particularly striking moment of Tourneurian shadow play: a climactic duel in the dark wrought in finely shaded chiaroscuro.Read More »
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Banned in Spain and denounced by the Vatican, Luis Buñuel’s irreverent vision of life as a beggar’s banquet is regarded by many as his masterpiece. In it, novice nun Viridiana does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism. Winner of the Palme d’or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, Viridiana is as audacious today as ever.Read More »
The famous geologist Haroun Tazieff films the craters of active volcanoes in Europe, Indonesia, Japan, Central America and South America.
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Les Rendez-vous du Diable is a most unusual documentary that quickly reveals it is not a horror story at all, but a round-the-world look at volcanoes. Some of our planet’s most spectacular volcanoes — whether active or extinct — provide the unusual footage. Haroun Terzieff, also the director, and a team of three other men are responsible for the photography, as the crew traveled around the globe filming even on the edge of some active craters. The majesty of an erupting volcano is captured both on film and in the excellent narrative.Read More »
