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Romance, treachery, intrigue and spiritual awakenings abound in the Biblical film adaptation of Solomon and Sheba. Trouble begins between two brothers when poet Solomon (Yul Brenner) is chosen to be next in line to the throne by King David of Israel. His warrior brother Adonijah (George Sanders) is livid when Solomon becomes king. While Israel prospers under Solomon, Sheba (Gina Lollobrigida) conspires with the Egyptians to topple Israel.

Solomon.And.Sheba.1959.BDRip.x264-FuFu.mkv

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Like Carole Lombard, the glorious British comedienne Kay Kendall was one of those rare actresses who successfully combined high glamour and low comedy. By all accounts, Kendall, like Lombard, was daffy and boisterous in real life, a charming madcap. And, like Lombard, she died tragically young. Kendall’s last film, Once More, with Feeling! (1960) showcases her gift for knockabout physical comedy, as well as her sophisticated elegance in the story of the tempestuous relationship between an egocentric conductor and his common-law wife. Yul Brynner plays the maestro Victor Fabian, who’s caught in flagrante delicto with a worshipful fan by his harpist partner, Dolly (Kendall). After Dolly leaves him, his career suffers, and many professional and personal complications ensue before they realize they can’t live without each other.

The film was based on a play by Harry Kurnitz, which had opened on Broadway in late 1958, starring Arlene Francis and Joseph Cotten. Brynner, then one of the biggest movie stars in the world, was offered the part of the conductor in the film version. He agreed, if Stanley Donen could be persuaded to direct. By the late 1950s, Donen, who had directed some of MGM’s greatest musicals of the decade, had left the studio and had signed a four-film deal with Columbia. He had recently made the sophisticated comedy, Indiscreet (1958) in London, and Donen liked the city so much he decided to move there. Donen agreed to direct Once More, with Feeling!, and changed the film’s setting from Chicago to London, making plans to shoot there once again. Donen and playwright Kurnitz, who was adapting his own play, agreed to offer the female lead to Kendall, a close friend of Kurnitz’s. “I’ve never had a picture shape up so fast and smooth,” Donen later recalled. But production would be anything but smooth. Kendall, newly-married to Rex Harrison, refused to film in London for tax reasons, and Donen was forced to scrap his plans for location shooting in London. The film was shot in Paris instead, with a Paris theater standing in for London’s Festival Hall. Production began in Paris in April of 1959.

Kendall had been diagnosed with leukemia in early 1957 and given only two years to live, but as was the custom at the time, she was not told of her condition. Instead, her doctor gave the bad news to Harrison, who was then living with Kendall, but still married to actress Lilli Palmer. Harrison got a quick Mexican divorce, and he and Kendall were married in June. Although Kendall apparently didn’t know of her condition, Harrison confided the news to several friends, and her illness was something of an open secret. It’s unclear how Kendall managed to pass the insurance physical examinations for her next film, The Reluctant Debutante (1958), and for Once More, with Feeling!

By the time production began on Once More, with Feeling! Kendall no doubt had some inkling about how sick she was, but she carried on in her usual madcap manner. Kurnitz recalled a story conference in a noisy Paris restaurant, as Kendall talked on the phone to Harrison. “I’m being a very good girl, darling,” Kurnitz heard her say. “I’m in the Christian Science Reading Room with Harry.” But her role required a lot of physical comedy, and it was clear how difficult it was for her. “She was very brave,” Donen recalled, “but it was poignant to watch her. Everything was now an effort. You could see her fragility getting more and more pronounced as we screened each day’s set of rushes.” After a few weeks of shooting, Kendall collapsed and was hospitalized. Production shut down while the studio decided whether to replace her. Brynner reportedly told Columbia executives, “If she goes, I go.” Since the film was already two-thirds completed, Donen shot around her in Paris while Kendall recuperated in London. By this time, rumors of the severity of her illness had reached the media, and Harrison told the press she had a “lung infection,” complicated by “anemia,” but that she was “feeling enormously better.” Somehow, Kendall managed to rally enough to complete a final week of shooting. After the production wrapped, she and Harrison spent the summer at their home in Italy, but by the end of August, her condition was grave. They returned to London, and Kendall was immediately hospitalized. She died a few days later.

Once More, with Feeling! opened in March of 1960, and the reviews were, inevitably, elegiac. Time Magazine, after describing some of Kendall’s funniest bits in the film, noted her “delicious wit and berserk precision of gesture that only Bea Lillie…can match. Like Lillie, Kay Kendall was not really so much a comedienne as clown, and her last picture should leave no doubt in anybody’s mind that she was a clown with a touch of genius.”

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The post Stanley Donen – Once More, with Feeling! (1960) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

An outlaw tries to avoid interference as he journeys to Mexico to pull off a $2,000,000 gold robbery.

The film is based on a novel by Louis L’Amour.

Catlow.mkv

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Subtitles:Spanish

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Could an amnesiac refugee named Anna Anderson (Ingrid Bergman) truly be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, purported sole survivor of the execution of Czar Nicholas II and his family during the Bolshevik Revolution of 1918, and therefore the rightful heir to the Czar’s fortune? Backed by a group of White Russian exiles led by General Bounine (Yul Brynner), she faces her possible grandmother, the imperious Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna (Helen Hayes), and the fortune-hunting Prince Paul (Ivan Desny).

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Mrs. Anna Leonowens and her son Louis arrive in Bangkok, where she has been contracted to teach English to the children of the royal household. She threatens to leave when the house she had been promised is not available, but falls in love with the children. A new slave, a gift of a vassal king, translates “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” into a Siamese ballet. After expressing her unhappiness at being with the King, the slave decides to make an attempt to escape with her lover. Anna and the King start to fall in love, but her headstrong upbringing inhibits her from joining his harem. She is just about to leave Siam but something important she finds out makes her think about changing her mind.

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In order to flee from powerful enemies, young Mayan king Balam leads his people north across the Gulf of Mexico to the coast of what will become the United States. They build a home in the new land but come into conflict with a tribe of Native Americans led by their chief, Black Eagle, while both Balam and Black Eagle fall in love the beautiful Mayan princess Ixchel.

2.55GB | 1 h 47 min | 1024×436 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/F8235A29293C814/Kings.of.the.Sun.1963.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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A remake of “The Seven Samurai.” Seven men are picked to defend a Mexican village from banditos that come every now and then to take whatever the town has grown since their last visit. When they are hired, they go to the town and teach the villagers how to defend themselves. When the leader of the bandits comes, they fight him and his men off. The second time he comes, the villagers give the seven to them, due to a heated argument. The leader of the bandits takes their guns and throws them out of town. He gives them horses and gives their guns back to them when they are far out of town. The seven decide that they aren’t going to run, and head back to the village for a final showdown.

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https://nitro.download/view/CA16E75A40CD93E/The.Magnificent.Seven.1960.576p.BDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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