Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester. His developing relationship with new colleague Deborah Brown promises happiness at last…thwarted by passive, then increasingly active opposition from one sister. Will Harry resort to desperate measures?

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THE SCREEN IN REVIEW; ‘ The Gay Sisters,’ Featuring Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Donald Crisp, at Strand
T. S.
Published: August 15, 1942
The New York Times

What a long, gray and pretentious film “The Gay Sisters” is! Another pointlessly caustic inquiry into the lives of the eccentric off-spring of a once grand family, the new film at the Strand not once offers the slightest reason to warrant the telling of its involved and trivial story. “We Gaylords are a queer lot,” says Barbara Stanwyck as the hard-hearted sister who brings the trio to ruin and then in the last reel quite inexplicably relents. That statement may serve as the nub of a theme which is expanded, repeated and proven for no less than 101 tortured minutes. If the screen must be visited by such a weird family group, not to mention the assorted neurotics entangled with it, let us at least have just and reasonable cause. Simply to prove that life produces a singularly large crop of disagreeable people is hardly enough.

Actually the author is playing at drama with the dice loaded in favor of a dour point of view. Aside from a brace of barristers who behave with decent decorum, hardly a character on the roster acts on normal impulse. Fiona with her tyrannical pride has contested a charitable clause in her father’s will for two decades with a man, who, it finally appears, is her husband and father of her child as the result of a sordid encounter. Evelyn marries an English baron but returns to allow her ungovernably promiscuous romantic impulses to alienate temporarily the affection of an “unhappy” modern painter for her younger sister, Susanna, who is nearly as hysterical after her own fashion.

And out of a story nearly as scrambled as the psyches of its assorted characters, George Brent, as the husband, seems mighty daft too. After long years of legal wrangling, after being paid off for a marriage he sincerely entered, after endless diatribe and hatred against him, he still loves Fiona with all the ardor of a spring buck at the finale. Certainly the rapprochement of the “lovers” is one of the more gruesome happy endings devised. “This room stinks like apple blossoms,” says Fiona as they embrace, thus causing considerable hilarity in the Strand balcony.

No, “The Gay Sisters” are neither significant in their viciousness, nor acute in their mockery of themselves. They are simply a bad lot and dull as well. Of the cast, Miss Stanwyck brings bite to her role, but flinches, as well she may, in the “big moments.” Geraldine Fitzgerald and Nancy Coleman are caricatures and Gig Young and George Brent are simply colorless and incomprehensible. All of them seem to be feeling their way around in the gloom.

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Synopsis:
According to a legend, if three strangers gather before an idol of Kwan Yin (the Chinese goddess of fortune and destiny) on the night of the Chinese New Year and make a common wish, Kwan Yin will open her eyes and her heart and grant the wish. In London 1938 on the Chinese New Year, Crystal Shackleford has such an idol and decides to put the legend to the test. She picks two random strangers off the street, and puts the proposition to them. They decide that an ideal wish would be for a sweepstakes ticket they buy equal shares in to be a winner. After all, everyone needs money and a pot is very easy to divide equally, right?

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Language:English
Subtitles:English, German, Portuguese (muxed)

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G.I. Nick Blake, a never charged con man in his pre-military life, has just received an honorable discharge from the army on medical reasons. Rather than return to his old life, he plans to settle down in New York, his hometown, with his girlfriend Toni Blackburn and the small cache of money he amassed prior to the war: $50,000. When that plan does not pan out, he decides to head to Los Angeles with his con man friend Al Doyle and live it up until he decides on a more permanent course for his life. He is informed by Pop Gruber, an aging mentor doing solely penny-ante street cons now in L.A., of a potential big mark. Doc Ganson, a former con associate, found the mark, lonely widow Gladys Halvorsen worth $2 million, but does not have either the bankroll or the charms to carry out the con on Gladys himself. With Al running interference for him, Nick agrees both to bankroll and carry out the con, he negotiating two-thirds of the take for himself, leaving Doc and his two associates a minimum of $30,000. Although Doc does not like the conditions, he feels he has no choice but to accept the offer as he is desperate for a score to get himself back on his feet. The con is complicated as Nick, using the alias Nick Lloyd, discovers that Gladys is accompanied in Los Angeles by her business manager, Charles Manning, who may be a little more careful than Gladys with her money. Further complications may ensue as Nick is recognized by others who know him as Nick Blake, as Toni comes looking for him to get her own cut in whatever he is doing, and most importantly as Nick and Gladys really do fall for each other. Nick has to decide how to handle the con knowing that a desperate Doc will not let him get away without his negotiated share, a violent Doc who may use harder tactics if he knows that Nick is wanting a life with Gladys and her $2 million.

1.70GB | 1h 39mn | 720×540 | mkv

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Berkeley Art Museum – Pacific Film Archive writes:
Ray Milland is both repellent and compelling in this Victorian thriller, directed with bleak panache by Lewis Allen (The Uninvited). Milland plays a charming thief, forger, and all-around blackguard who spots a prime mark in Ann Todd, a missionary’s widow and proprietor of a boarding house where Milland takes up residence. Under the influence of Milland’s advances, the straitlaced Todd abandons her inhibitions, eventually becoming complicit in larceny and blackmail—but her seducer will learn that a woman’s passion, once unleashed, can be difficult for even the most calculating con artist to control. A carefully drawn backdrop of British respectability heightens the drama of Todd’s decline: as so many English mysteries have proven, crime can be all the more thrilling when draped in crinoline.

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Synopsis:
In a poor neighborhood of New York, the bitter and lonely Jewish pawnbroker Sol Nazerman is a survivor from Auschwitz that has no emotions or feelings. Sol lost his dearest family and friends in the war and his faith in God and belief in mankind. Now he only cares for money and is haunted by daydreams, actually flashbacks from the period of the concentration camp. Sol’s assistant is the ambitious Latino Jesus Ortiz, who wants to learn with Sol how to run a business of his own. When Sol realizes that the obscure laundry business he has with the powerful gangster Rodriguez comes also from brothels, Sol recalls the fate of his beloved wife in the concentration camp and has a nervous breakdown. His attitude leads Jesus Ortiz to tragedy and Sol finds a way to cry.

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