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  • Roy Boulting – Soft Beds, Hard Battles AKA Undercovers Hero (1974)

    1971-1980ComedyRoy BoultingUnited Kingdom

    In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always bumbling in inspector Clouseau-style. As British Major Robinson he is hidden in Madame Grenier’s Parisian brothel, right under the nose of the Nazi clients, such as Gestapo agent Herr Schroeder (again him). As Général Latour he leads the French resistance, which includes the brothel madam -made a colonel in charge of her sexy ‘troops’- and a priest, and is joined by young US diplomat Alan Cassidy. As Japanese imperial Prince Kyoto he becomes a target for the resistance in a monastery on his way to Hitler (again him). At the end he decorates the heroes as French president.Read More »

  • Roger Vadim – Chateau en Suede AKA Nutty, Naughty Chateau (1963)

    Roger Vadim1961-1970ArthouseComedyFrance

    Frederic, a student, gets himself invited by a Swedish family, living in an isolated castle. The scene takes place in cold winter, the castle being surrounded by snow. Frederic slowly depicts one after another, each member of that strange family: Hugo, the castle’s master, 40 years old, married to Eleanore whom Frederic begins to be attracted to; Sebastien, Eleanore’s incestuous and dandy brother; Agathe, Hugo’s old fashioned sister; and Ophelie… Who is Ophelie actually? That is one among several mysteries that Frederic will try to solve out. Who is manipulating whom? Frederic’s rising love of Eleanore and the truth about the gorgeous Ophelie will lead to unpredictable consequences.Read More »

  • Henri-Georges Clouzot – Les espions AKA The Spies (1957)

    Henri-Georges Clouzot1951-1960CrimeFranceMystery
    Les espions (1957)
    Les espions (1957)

    PLOT: Short of cash for his private clinic, a French psychiatrist accepts money from a NATO Intelligence agent to shelter a defecting Soviet-bloc scientist but enemy spies are closing-in.Read More »

  • Roger Vadim – Château en Suède aka Nutty, Naughty Chateau (1963)

    1961-1970ArthouseComedyFranceRoger Vadim

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    An old castle in Sweden inhabited by a family of 18th-century-costumed eccentrics holds secrets, deception, and rumors of murder.Read More »

  • Gerd Oswald – Schachnovelle AKA Brainwashed (1960)

    1951-1960DramaGerd OswaldGermanyWar

    Synopsis:
    In 1938 Austria shortly after the Nazi occupation, a prominent Viennese intellectual, Werner von Basil, is arrested for smuggling art treatures out of the country and imprisoned by the Gestapo in a hotel room without any mental sustence of any kind to break him down to make him talk while a young ballerina, named Irene Adreny whom is the lover of the SS officer Berger playing mind games on von Basil, tries to intervene and help the poor intellectual keep his mind intact.Read More »

  • Robert Siodmak – Katia AKA Adorable Sinner (1959)

    Robert Siodmak1951-1960DramaFranceRomance

    The Tsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her and try to send her away but they end up seeing each other again and becomes his mistress. With the help of Katia, Alexandre prepares a liberal constitution, but these reforms make him hostile to the more privileged subjects without satirising the revolutionaries against the regime.Read More »

  • Nicholas Ray – Bitter Victory (1957)

    USA1951-1960ClassicsNicholas RayWar

    Synopsis:
    In North Africa during World War II, Major David Brand is assigned to lead a British commando raid into German-held Benghazi to retrieve whatever documents they can lay their hands on at the German headquarters. His number two will be Capt. Jimmy Leith who speaks Arabic fluently and knows Benghazi well. Brand also learns that his beautiful wife Jane and Leith were lovers before the war, creating tension between the two. Brand is untested in battle and freezes at a critical moment, losing the respect of his men. After the raid, the trek back is arduous and takes its toll on the men. It also results in only one of the two senior officers surviving.Read More »

  • Dick Powell – The Enemy Below (1957)

    1951-1960Dick PowellThrillerUSAWar

    Synopsis:
    During World War II, the USS Haynes, an American destroyer escort discovers a German U-boat in the South Atlantic. A deadly duel between the two ships ensues, and Captain Murrell must draw upon all his experience to defeat the equally experienced German commander.
    Set during the Battle of Atlantic during the Second World War, “The Enemy Below” tells the story of the cat and mouse Destroyer escort/U-Boat hunt. For the Americans, a former Merchant Mariner who saw his wife killed when his freighter was torpedoed by the Germans. For the Germans, a veteran U-Boat commander who sees no honor in the German aims of the war. Both of these highly experienced men must now battle each other, knowing that only one will survive.Read More »

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