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Lift to the Scaffold (1958)Ascenseur pour l'échafaud / Elevator to the Gallows
Malle's a debut feature, made when he was only 25 is a tense thriller starring Jeanne Moreau as Florence and Julian Tavernier as Maurice, a pair of lovers who conspire to murder Florence's husband in the most ingenious manner. However, not everything goes quite as planned. Lift to the Scaffold is arguably the first film of the French New Wave with its arresting camerawork by cinematographer Henri Decae, who also shot the debut film of Truffaut and Chabrol. With its sultry black and white palate, Paris locations and an improvised jazz score by the legendary Miles Davis, Lift to the Scaffold is an unforgettable slice of 50s French cool. - Director:
- Louis Malle
- Cast:
- Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly
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Mad About Music (1938)Pesem sreče
Gloria (Deanna Durbin) is the loneliest girl at her boarding school. Her mother (Gail Patrick) is a glamorous Hollywood star - but if anyone knew she had a secret teenage daughter it would ruin her career. Forbidden to talk about her mother, Gloria invents an imaginary dad who's a famous explorer. When her classmates start to see through her elaborate charade, however, her fantasy world starts to come tumbling down. In desperation, she approaches a complete stranger (Herbert Marshall) at a railway station and begs him to pretend to be her daddy! Luckily, he agrees - and is soon regaling all her school friends with the wildest of tall tales! Now, Gloria decides it's time for a grand reunion - with her real mother. - Director:
- Norman Taurog
- Cast:
- Deanna Durbin, Herbert Marshall, Gail Patrick
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Millionaire Jonathan Reynolds, Jr. (Charles Laughton) is dying. He tells his son Johnny (Robert Cummings) that he has just one wish - to meet the woman Johnny will marry. When he can't get hold of his real fiancee, Johnny 'borrows' a pretty young hatcheck girl named Anne Terry (Deanna Durbin) for his father to meet in her place. Now fate takes a hand. Old Mr Reynolds' health starts to improve - and he's really taken a shine to his 'future daughter-in-law' Anne! He even throws a house party just so that Anne can sing for famous conductor Leopold Stokowski. How can Johnny and Anne tell the old man the truth? Will they have to follow through on their fake relationship - or can they stage a convincing break up? - Director:
- Henry Koster
- Cast:
- Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, Robert Cummings
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Barbara Stanwyck plays a nightclub singer whose snappy street slang attracts the attention of bookish encyclopaedia editor Gary Cooper and his aged bachelor colleagues who devote their lives to compiling the perfect encyclopeadia. At first, their interest in her is strictly professional, but she soon charms the old men into letting her hide from the police (and her gangster boyfriend) in their mansion, Initially, she resents her forced stay, but after a while she falls for the charm of bookworm Cooper, and makes him realise there is more to life than books. - Director:
- Howard Hawks
- Cast:
- Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka
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Is there someone who lingers in your memory - someone who makes you wonder what might have been? Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy make magic again, reprising their 'Before Sunrise' roles of Jesse and Celine and reuniting with director Richard Linklater (School of Rock) in this engaging tale of love and renewal. When Jesse and Celine first met in the mid 90's, their few hours together in Vienna were spontaneous and life-altering. Nine years later, lightning strikes twice. They unexpectedly meet in Paris...and have only one fading afternoon to decide if they should share their tomorrows. Smart, witty, real and unfolding largely in real time to heighten its immediacy, 'Before Sunset' glows with the moments that are every heart's greatest adventure. - Director:
- Richard Linklater
- Cast:
- Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff
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Yesterday strangers, today inseparable soulmates. But separate they must in just a few hours. Jesse and Celine are making every moment count, pouring as much living as they can into the time 'Before Sunrise'. From Richard Linklater comes another smartly observed tale of young people at a crossroads. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy play twenty-somethings who meet on a train in Europe, sense a connection and explore after-hours Vienna together. The people, places and allure of the city become their sudden itineraries. Love is their destination. On the way there's the mutual sharing of hopes, jokes, dreams, worry and wonder. It's a day to linger in their memories. And a valentine to young love forever. - Director:
- Richard Linklater
- Cast:
- Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Andrea Eckert
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Eric Stanton (Dana Andrews), a press agent down on his luck, drifts into a small Californian coastal town. He meets June (Alice Faye), a wealthy but reclusive woman, and has his eye on Stella (Linda Darnell), a sultry waitress. In love with Stella but broke, Eric marries June for her money, planning a rapid divorce. However when Stella is murdered, the story takes an unexpected turn. - Director:
- Otto Preminger
- Cast:
- Dick Haymes, Alice Faye, Dana Andrews
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Mary Smith (Jean Arthur) is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier (Edward Arnold) tosses a sable coat out of a window and it lands in her lap! Everyone automatically assumes shes his mistress, and soon her fairy-tale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter (Ray Milland). - Director:
- Mitchell Leisen
- Cast:
- Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland
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The rape she suffered as a teenager continues to haunt young Italian girl Maddalena (Phyllis Calvert), so much so that she develops a split personality. Her double life as the wife of a successful wine merchant and a Gypsy woman leads her into a treacherous relationship with a criminal ringleader (Stewart Granger) preying on tourists visiting the city of Florence. - Director:
- Arthur Crabtree
- Cast:
- Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger, Patricia Roc
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Mary Justin is secure in her rather placid marriage to Howard. But when she meets her old lover, Steven Stratton, she starts to fall in love again. Torn between real love and security. Mary remains with her husband, who is willing to forgive her affair on the understanding that she and Steven never meet again. Nine years later, Mary accidentally meets Steven and her life lakes a dramatic turn. - Director:
- David Lean
- Cast:
- Ann Todd, Claude Rains, Trevor Howard
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It started like any other night...Ambulance driver Frank Jessup (Robert Mitchum) gets a call from the house of Catherine Tremayne (Barbara O'Neil), little realising where this routine call will take him. Mrs Tremayne has a beautiful, willful stepdaughter Diane (Jean Simmons); she's attracted to Frank and insists he take a job as the family chauffeur. Frank's wary of getting too close to the kid, however, especially when he realises she's not as sweet as she looks. But Diane has a habit of getting what she wants and it doesn't matter what - or who - it costs... - Director:
- Otto Preminger
- Cast:
- Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
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Smarmy, psychotic fortune hunter Edward "Teddy" Bare (Dirk Bogarde) has a penchant for the older woman... and for murder! Having plied his elderly wife (Mona Washbourne) with alcohol, the modern day Bluebeard leaves her to die from gas poisoning by the fireplace of their stately home. Having done the nasty however, his wife's fortune soon turns out to be far smaller than Edward realised, and what there is has been entailed away to a distant sister. He sets his greedy sights on the heavily insured barkeeper Freda (Margaret Lockwood). Edward soon grows restless with his crass new wife, who refuses to give him a penny, and instead targets a third wealthy matron (Kay Walsh). She, however, is no fool and has plenty of her own secrets. Secrets that could expose Teddy. Has he finally met his match? - Director:
- Lewis Gilbert
- Cast:
- Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh
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Based on the best-selling novel by Daphne du Maurier (author of the peerless Rebecca), My Cousin Rachel (1952) weaves an eerie tale of Gothic romance, set against the backdrop of the wild, rock-ribbed Cornish coast. Richard Burton, in his first American film role, stars as an anguished young Englishman, torn between dark suspicion of and an uncontrollable passion for his guardian's widow, the alluring and mysterious Rachel (Olivia de Havilland). With atmospheric direction by Henry Koster (The Robe) and a darkly romantic score by Franz Waxman (Sunset Boulevard), 'My Cousin Rachel' is a seductive entry in the annals of cinematic ambiguity. - Director:
- Henry Koster
- Cast:
- Olivia De Havilland, Richard Burton, Audrey Dalton
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Fanny by Gaslight (1944)Man of Evil
Returning to 1870's London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny (Phyllis Calvert) witnesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke (James Mason). She then finds that her family has for many years been running a bordello next door to their home. When her mother dies shortly after, she next discovers that her real father is in fact a well-respected politician. Meeting him and then falling in love with his young adviser Harry Somerford (Stewart Granger) leads to a life of ups and downs and conflict between the classes. Periodically the scoundrel of a Lord crosses her path, always to tragic effect. - Director:
- Anthony Asquith
- Cast:
- James Mason, Ann Stephens, Gloria Sydney
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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)El cartero llama dos veces
The sign outside the roadside diner says "Man Wanted." Drifter Frank Chambers knows the sign has more than one meaning when he eyes pouty, luminous Cora, the much-younger bride of the diner's proprietor. Based on the same-titled novel by James M. Cain (Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce), this quintessential film-noir classic combines studio-system gloss with Cain's hard-bitten tale of murderous attractions. John Garfield and Lana Turner give career-benchmark performances as Frank and Cora, illicit lovers who botch a first attempt to bump off Cora's hubby, pull it off, betray each other at trial and yet wriggle free. But their volatile tale does not end there. As the film's metaphorical title indicates, fate is sure to ring again. - Director:
- Tay Garnett
- Cast:
- Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
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