1950s

The Ringer’ is an elusive criminal, reported dead in Australia but now thought to be alive in London. Scotland Yard know the Ringer had left his sister in the care of unscrupulous lawyer Maurice Meister and that she was later found drowned, so they warn Meister that the Ringer is in London. A police guard is set up around his house and, surrounded by burglar alarms, he waits for further news; no intruder could possibly enter. As tension mounts, it seems increasingly clear that the Ringer is one of the people in the close circle around Meister… but which one?Read More »

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JIM BOWIE…a man with his name on a knife – and a woman with a weapon all her own!
In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse’s murder, but Judalon takes up with another man. Jim eventually has another romantic interlude with Judalon and is forced to kill one of her suitors in self-defense. Jim leaves town, and falls for the daughter of a Texas politician, but his entanglement with Judalon continues to bedevil him.Read More »

Flaming love found in the savage heart of the jungle!

On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley’s cheating wife Linda.Read More »

Two noble Scottish brothers deliberately take opposite sides when Bonnie Prince Charlie returns to claim the throne of Scotland in order to preserve the family fortune.Read More »

This season in Paris, Red is all the rage! Red Skelton headlines a joyful Technicolor® remake of Roberta as a New York producer who inherits a failing Parisian fashion house. His partners are Howard Keel and Gower Champion and the lovelies they look at are Kathyrn Grayson, Ann Miller and Marge Champion. Which means the zippy story (everyone falls in love with everyone else as they scramble to save the salon) is in masterful hands. But the talent doesn’t stop there. Jerome Kern provides 10 classics, including Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Yesterdays, I Won’t Dance and the title song. And Vincente Minnelli directs the finale, a razzling, dazzling, riotous-with-color Broadway-style fashion show featuring fabulous Adrian couture. From Warner Brothers!Read More »

An ill-behaved, lovably scruffy painter, Gulley Jimson searches for a perfect canvas, determined to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision.Read More »

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Ryosuke Fujimura, an immoral man who has committed every crime except murder, is suddenly attacked by his old robbers, Ohno and Kojima, in front of the prison gate on the day he is released from prison for the umpteenth time for marriage. . The two planned to get revenge on Fujimura, who ran away with a large amount of stolen money. However, Fujimura successfully threw them away and gave them a shot. He jumped on the train that just happened to arrive. He discovers a man who looks just like him who was sitting with the big star Reiko Otsuki, and attacks the man as he falls asleep and changes his clothes. Read More »

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Pedro Armendariz plays Igricheff, an undisciplined soldier who opts for the life of a mercenary. Operating out of the North African desert, Igricheff offers his services to a French arms smuggler (Paul Meurisse). Betrayed by his “partner,” Igricheff is left to face his fate alone, which he does with a philosophical shrug. A dash of feminine interest is provided by Anna-Marie Sandri as a native lovely whom Igricheff purchases during his journey across the desert.Read More »

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On New Year’s Eve in 1956 the artist couple, the actor János and the dancer Viki are hastily packing. While they are waiting for the car, which is to take them across the border, their entire life is replayed in front of their eyes.Read More »