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Sam and Felix are art thieves. Sam has just stolen a picture from a museum in Italy, but told Felix that it was lost in a boat accident. He wants copies made to sell while he will sell the original and get paid both ways. To find an artist, they pick the young, beautiful, naive Anna. When Anna has doubts, Sam strings her along and then marries her and go to Sicily on their honeymoon. Anna finds out that Sam is a thief and is very disappointed. Felix finds out that Sam has the original and is out to get it. The police are also waiting along with the buyer that Sam has for the painting.

The.Light.Touch.1952.TVRip.x264-Flipper.mkv

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When the wicked Marquis de Maynes (Mel Ferrer) kills Andre Moreau’s (Stewart Granger) best friend in a sword fighting duel and steals his love, Aline (Janet Leigh), the Frenchman vows revenge. While hiding out with a theatrical troupe and posing as the clown Scaramouche, Moreau works with the Marquis’ very own fencing instructor to hone his skill with the sword. Once he feels he’s up to task, he returns to the city to claim his revenge and win back Aline.

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The post George Sidney – Scaramouche (1952) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Adapted by F. Hugh Herbert from Andre Roussin’s risque stage farce that has become a staple of community theatres, The Little Hut is totally reliant upon the charms of stars Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger and David Niven. Granger is a businessman who is too busy to pay attention to wife Gardner (is he blind?) David Niven is the couple’s best friend, who harbors a secret longing for Gardner. All three are stranded on a desert island; you take it from there. Despite the much-touted scenes of Ava Gardner in a skimpy negligee, the film version of The Little Hut is about as racy as Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

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The post Mark Robson – The Little Hut (1957) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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John Wayne is generally credited with having directed only one picture, the 1960 version of The Alamo, but according to several reports, Wayne also “lent a hand” in getting his other 1960 film, the raucous if unfocused and overlong North to Alaska, shot as well. North to Alaska had a rather troubled pre-production history, which in fact included Wayne’s involvement with The Alamo, which delayed production of this film for several months. Those delays may have at least contributed to a rather convoluted revolving door of producers, directors and co-stars, and by many accounts, there was no completed script ready when North to Alaska finally started shooting in mid 1960. The film has serious structure issues, and indeed often seems to have been cobbled together out of set pieces, with no real thought given to through line or that oft-lamented concept of character arc. What remains, therefore, is a haphazard but highly enjoyable farce that has its fair share of laughs, some nice scenery (including then “hot” French starlet Capucine), and a big, gaping void at the center of the film that may leave some viewers wondering what all the noisy fuss in the film is all about. In fact, this is a film that is virtually all MacGuffin (to purloin Alfred Hitchcock’s famous concept of a meaningless idea that sets the plot in motion) without any real substance. A lot of films take their good time getting to “happily ever after”, but North to Alaska seems positively fixated on taking as long as humanly possible, offering a veritable obstacle course of travails before John Wayne and Capucine can finally enjoy a quick clinch before the final credits roll.

In a way, North to Alaska plays like the flip side or at least a companion piece to another recent Fox Blu-ray release, 1935’s Call of the Wild. Both films posit partners out to strike it rich in Alaska, with a female interloper joining them, but in the case of the 1960 film, the men, Sam McCord (John Wayne) and George Pratt (Stewart Granger), have already struck it rich and are simply looking to solidify their claim and move on to greater exploits, while George also wants reclaim something else—the fiancée he left in Seattle while he was in Alaska prospecting for gold.

Sam returns to Seattle to fetch some heavy machinery for their work up north, and he means to also retrieve George’s fiancée, but is momentarily thrown for a loop when he finds out she got sick of waiting for George and has already tied the knot with someone else. At a “saloon” called the Hen House (the name of the establishment may indicate it served more than simply libations), Sam meets a French floozy named Michelle (Capucine), whose nom d’amour is Angel, and decides he’ll take her back to George as a sort of consolation prize. Michelle is more than happy to oblige, especially once Sam indicates she’ll be “marrying money”, but Michelle’s more tender side is soon touched by how decent Sam treats her, something to which she’s been unaccustomed as a “working girl”.

There’s a rather strange set piece that then takes place, at a loggers’ gathering where Sam takes part in a tree climbing race, a sequence that’s visually quite impressive with a bunch of guys using belts wrapped around huge tree trunks to rapidly ascend and then return to ground. This sequence also allows Sam to defend Michelle’s honor, when she’s more or less attacked by a drunken logger. It’s at this point that Michelle begins to obviously have feelings for Sam, though he’s still determined to simply deliver her to George. That actually comes as a shock to Michelle, who had misunderstood Sam’s intentions toward her as being focused on him, not his best friend and business partner.

In the meantime, a comedy subplot has also been brewing involving a conman named Frankie Canon (Ernie Kovacs). Frankie had already conned Sam in a bit of a swindle in Seattle, but once he hears about the Alaska gold, he decides there are even bigger fish to fry, and decides to head off north in pursuit of greater riches. The film finally segues to Alaska, where George and his rambunctious little brother Billy (Fabian, who also sings) are attempting to keep claim jumpers from marauding onto their find, and where Sam attempts to hook George up with Michelle, with a number of complicating factors getting in the way. These include Billy, who develops amorous intentions of his own, as well as even more machinations courtesy of Frankie, who it turns out has a history with Michelle of his own.

North to Alaska is never less than fun, but it’s also too chaotic to ever amount to much. It has a lot of the same spirit as another comedic Wayne entry, McLintock!, without the overt chemistry that Wayne enjoyed with his co-star in that film, Maureen O’Hara. Henry Hathaway, always a dependable director, keeps things moving at a relatively decent pace, and the opening and closing fight sequences are real highlights, but a lot of what comes between them frankly seems like filler, designed to do little more than merely pass the time. Wayne is very good in this role, as he tended to be in these action-comedy hybrids, and Granger makes for an appealing, if awfully low key, co-star. Kovacs is always good for a laugh, and Capucine is certainly fetching, even if her performance amounts to little more than eye candy.

The film is ultimately probably too predictable for its own good, a predictability which is exacerbated by the fact that things could have easily been trimmed by at least twenty to thirty minutes without much being lost in the process. But this is big, glossy entertainment that offers some really appealing scenery and charismatic stars. Getting there may take a bit too much time, but the journey is mostly pleasant.

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Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an effort to locate Elizabeth Curtis’ husband Henry, who was searching for King Solomon’s legendary treasure. Along the way they encounter a variety of wild animals including snakes, a leopard and a rhino. Quartermain isn’t keen on having a woman on the expedition and he and Elizabeth quarrel regularly. Elizabeth and her husband were not very fond of one another and her expedition is driven by her own guilt. She and Quatermain fall in love but survival becomes their goal when they meet dangerous tribesmen.

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In 1886, the gunman and gambler Tom Early returns to his homeland to settle down, but he is rejected by his community. He rides to his farm, where he finds that his wife Alice has recently died and his son Tom Early Jr., who disagrees with taking up arms, is working alone. The next morning, Tom rides into the town to buy supplies and sees Sam, the grocer, humiliating his employee Jo. At the same time the cattle lord Grimsell arrives in town with two gunfighters, Gunn and Blondie, and tells the Preacher that he will be crossing 20,000 head of cattle through their lands and their town. Although the preacher tries to explain that the people own the land, Grimsell is not interested in their rights. When Blondie sees Tom Early, he draws his gun but is shot by Tom, in self defense, and kills the gunman. He then invites Jo to work on the farm. While the Preacher wants to send an emissary to Laramie to bring the law to his town, Grimsell summons more than thirty gunfighters to work for him. When the emissary is murdered by Gunn, the naive Preacher organizes a posse to unsuccessfully fight against Grimsell. The farmers are ambushed and attacked and the survivors return to the town. But Tom Early decides to provoke a stampede and fight against Grimsell.

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The post Roy Rowland – Gun Glory (1957) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Movie producer Max Poulton is having an on again, off again affair with Gina Bertini, the temperamental leading lady in his latest movie which is filming in the French Riviera. Gina and Max’s current off again status is due to Max vowing to make a go of his marriage to his loving wife, Carol Poulton, with who he has had a sometimes strained relationship. Gina and Max’s relationship moves into another realm when she threatens to tell Carol of the the affair. That’s why Max is hesitant to divulge the full nature of his relationship to Gina when she is found murdered. He is certain that the murderer is a man named Carliss, who introduced himself to Max earlier as being with Scotland Yard, he assisting the local French authorities in the investigation into Gina’s murder, this before Gina was actually murdered. Carliss seemingly is trying to frame Max for the murder. Max understands more when he learns who Carliss is. Despite the authorities being after him, Max does whatever he can both to clear his name and protect Carol, who he believes is in danger herself.

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