elasticpiriformis's - Favourites List
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Murder, My Sweet (1945)Farewell, My Lovely
They say crime doesn't pay. Private detective Philip Marlowe (Dick Powell) knows better. The fat wad of folding money warming his breast pocket is the kind of thing that keeps him going through thick and thicker as he wades chin deep into a mystery involving a missing necklace and a missing hoodlum's moll named Velma. - Director:
- Edward Dmytryk
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- Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)Les parapluies de Cherbourg
Guy Foucher (Nino Castelnuovo), a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Genevieve Emery (Catherine Deneuve), an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, the pair share a passionate night. Genevieve becomes pregnant and then must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an attractive offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant (Marc Michel). - Director:
- Jacques Demy
- Cast:
- Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Licari, José Bartel
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