• David Bradley – Talk About a Stranger (1952)

    1951-1960David BradleyDramaFilm NoirUSA

    Quote:
    When his dog dies, apparently from being poisoned, the young son of the owner of a small orange orchard in California immediately suspects an unfriendly, mysterious stranger who has just moved into the area, who recently had a quarrel with the boy’s father. The boy’s suspicions grow and also influence other townspeople who begin to believe that the stranger may also be a wanted killer. Unwarranted assumptions and wild speculations lead to several problems before the truth is revealed.Read More »

  • Maminihaina Jean Aimé Rakotonirina – Ho ela velona ny razana AKA Longue vie aux morts (2016)

    2011-2020DocumentaryMadagascarMaminihaina Jean Aimé RakotonirinaShort Film

    For Malagasy people who honor their ancestors, when the deceased are in the grave, their spirits are always alive and present, they maintain their individualities and their kinship connections. At Alasora, in the Central Highlands of Madagascar, Marie takes care of a royal tomb that was entrusted to her and welcomes visitors who have come to ask a favor from the ancestors.Read More »

  • Mark Sandrich – Top Hat (1935)

    1931-1940ClassicsMark SandrichMusicalUSA

    Synopsis:
    Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace’s hotel, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.Read More »

  • Nelly Kaplan – Plaisir d’amour aka The Pleasure of Love (1991)

    France1991-2000ComedyNelly Kaplan

    Plot :
    Guillaume de Burlador is a private tutor who hits a low point sufficiently severe for him to
    contemplate a somewhat theatrical suicide. Instead he is taken off by flying boat to a mad French colonial possession bedecked by mad servants and crazy decor. Three rather gorgeous women live there,and old Guillaume is a randy old stoat.Read More »

  • Max Nosseck – The Hoodlum (1951)

    1951-1960Film NoirMax NosseckUSA

    UCLA Film & Television Archive writes:
    This briskly paced, low-budget, B film noir features quintessential tough guy, Lawrence Tierney, in a most fitting role as Vincent Lubeck, an angry, brooding, habitual criminal, who after five years in the joint is released on parole to live with his mother and brother Johnny (played by Tierney’s real life brother, Edward). Sent to work at the family gas station, Vincent grows bitter and restless, and begins plotting his escape from the menial labor of his humdrum life. Completely void of fear, pain and compassion, Vincent has no qualms about destroying everyone and everything in his path.Read More »

  • Brian Desmond Hurst – Sensation (1936)

    1931-1940Brian Desmond HurstCrimeDramaUnited Kingdom

    John Lodge plays a reporter who is one of what is known as the Murder Gang.As soon as a murder occurs he and journalists from other papers descend on the town where the homicide occurred and prey like vultures on the surrounding populace in order to feed their editors the scraps of information.Lodge professes to dislike his ocucpation but nevertheless participates in it fully.He goes to the wife of one of the suspects and manages to extort love letters out of her in return for legal assistance.He witholds evidence from the police.Read More »

  • Anthony Mann – The Glenn Miller Story (1954)

    1951-1960Anthony MannClassicsDramaUSA

    Synopsis:
    Glenn Miller (James Stewart) is a poor trombone player with dreams of fame. Eventually, through years of hard work and determination, he is able to start his own band, and they become one of the most successful groups of the big-band era. With a beautiful wife (June Allyson) and one of the biggest songs in America, “Moonlight Serenade,” Miller has it all. But at the onset of World War II, Miller enlists, giving up his fame and success to help entertain the troops stationed in Europe.Read More »

  • Joseph L. Mankiewicz – The Barefoot Contessa (1954)

    1951-1960CrimeDramaJoseph L. MankiewiczUSA

    Synopsis:
    At Maria Vargas’ funeral, several people recall who she was and the impact she had on them. Harry Dawes was a not very successful writer/director when he and movie producer Kirk Edwards scouted her at a shabby nightclub where she worked as a flamenco dancer. He convinces her to take a chance on acting and her first film is a huge hit. PR man Oscar Muldoon remembers when Maria was in court supporting her father who was accused of murdering her mother. It was Maria’s testimony that got him off and she was a bigger star than ever. Alberto Bravano, one of the richest men in South America, sets his sights on Maria and she goes off with him – as much to make Edwards angry as anything – but he treats her badly. When she meets Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini they fall deeply in love. They are married but theirs is not to be a happy life.Read More »

  • Giuliano Carnimeo – Buon funerale, amigos!… paga Sartana AKA Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay (1970)

    1961-1970CultEuro WesternsGiuliano CarnimeoItalyWestern

    Synopsis:
    After witnessing a brutal massacre, the legendary hero Sartana is ready to do some investigating. Almost everyone in the tiny town of Indian Creek seems eager to buy up the property left behind by the murder victims, and one of them could well be behind the killings. The sheriff himself is not above suspicion, so Sartana must uncover the culprit all on his own.Read More »

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