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A Letter to Three Wives (1949)Carta a tres esposas
The letter of the title is written with a poisonous pen: the three women (portrayed by Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, and Ann Sothern) receive a note stating that one of their husbands has run off with a woman named Addie Ross - which husband in particular, however, remains unmentioned, though each husband had their own affinity for Ross. And so amid the women's mounting anxiety commences a series of flashbacks, each telling the story of how the three individual marriages had come in their own way to be so strained at the present... - Director:
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Cast:
- Celeste Holm, Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell
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Gregory Peck stars as a doting husband and father who gives up his small time job and enters the thrilling world of advertising in Manhattan. With added tension at work and increasing problems at home with his wife (Jennifer Jones), the rising young executive must decide, as his boss (Frederic March) did, what is the most important thing in life - family or success. - Director:
- Nunnally Johnson
- Cast:
- Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Fredric March
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It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare. Captain Fred Derry (Dana Andrews) is returning to a loveless marriage; Sergeant Al Stephenson (Fredric March) is a stranger to a family that's grown up without him; and young sailor Homer Parrish (Harold Russell) is tormented by the loss of his hands. Can these three men find the courage to rebuild their world? Or are the best years of their lives a thing of the past? - Director:
- William Wyler
- Cast:
- Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Fredric March
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The Jessie Matthews Revue: Vol.4 (1938)The Good Companions / Sailing Along
Throughout the 1930's Jessie Matthews was Britain's best-loved musical film star, her dynamism and gamine charm beguiling audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. With a string of box-office hits spotlighting her unique talent, it's easy to see how she became so popular - and why she remains so to this day.
The Good Companions (1933)
Jessie shares a bill with John Gielgud and Edmund Gwenn in JB Priestley s famous tale of a failing concert party and the three 'angels' who come together by chance to rescue it.
Sailing Along (1938)
Kay is a star-struck young woman working on a Thames barge. When she s spotted by a producer her dream of fame comes true but will she still have time for her boyfriend?- Director:
- Victor Saville
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- Jessie Matthews, Edmund Gwenn, John Gielgud
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From director Frank Borzage (Desire) comes 'Little Man, What Now?', a romantic drama starring Margaret Sullavan (The Shop Around the Corner) and Douglass Montgomery (Little Women). In depression-era Germany, Hans (Montgomery) and his pregnant wife Emma (Sullavan) - affectionately known as 'Lammchen' - struggle to keep their heads above water. Their situation is complicated when Hans' boss, who believes him to be a bachelor, demands that he marry his daughter. Based on the best-selling novel by Hans Fallada (Alone in Berlin) that has been adapted on numerous occasions in its native Germany, 'Little Man, What Now?' is a heart-rending tale of life on the margins. - Director:
- Frank Borzage
- Cast:
- Margaret Sullavan, Douglass Montgomery, Alan Hale
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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)The Story of - - - - - - One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
"One of Our Aircraft Is Missing" is a dramatic and suspenseful story based on the actual methods by which the Dutch smuggled "crashed" British airmen back to England. Six such airmen parachute from their crippled plane into a wood and are discovered by children who take them to a farm where the Dutch question them at length before offering to help. They endure many narrow escapes from the Nazis before they reach a sea port. Their attempted journey across the Channel is fraught with many dangers and an unexpected turn of events. - Director:
- Michael Powell
- Cast:
- Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams
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A Woman Is a Woman (1961)Une Femme Est Une Femme
Godard's delightful romantic comedy tells the story of Angela (Anna Karina), an attractive nightclub stripper, who decides one day that she must have a baby. Her boyfriend, Emile (Jean-Claude Brialy) is resistant so suggests she approach his friend, Alfred (Jean-Paul Belmondo). What starts out as a harmless joke quickly escalates into a flurry of misunderstandings, petty jealousies and arguments. - Director:
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast:
- Jean-Claude Brialy, Anna Karina, Jean-Paul Belmondo
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Douglas Sirk directed thriller in which several people harbour a secret that could stop an innocent woman from being hanged. Convicted murderess, Valerie Cams (Ann Blyth), is being transported to Norwich to be executed when a flash flood strands her and her guards at a convent hospital. As Nurse Sister Mary (Claudette Colbert) grows to know Valerie, she becomes convinced of her innocence and sets out to find the real killer... - Director:
- Douglas Sirk
- Cast:
- Claudette Colbert, Ann Blyth, Robert Douglas
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Diary of a Country Priest (1951)Journal d'un curé de campagne
Based on a novel by George Bernanos, 'Diary of a Country Priest' marked the first in Director Robert Bresson's so-called "prison trilogy" (followed by 'Pickpocket' and 'A Man Escaped'). The film begins with the arrival of a young, sickly priest (Claude Laydu) at the godless parish of Ambricourt in Northern France. Here he becomes drawn into the complex domestic life of a wealthy Count (Jean Riveyre), his tormented wife, his manipulative daughter and his mistress, Miss Louise (Nicole Maurey). Narrated by excerpts of the priest's diary, the film follows his efforts to awaken the villagers from their spiritual lethargy, with their struggles, suffering and triumphs representing in a microcosm those of humankind itself. Bresson's intensely personal style, minimalist approach to dialogue and music, and use of non-professional actors marked a new kind of filmmaking, which was to influence such diverse directors as Paul Schrader, Richard Linklater and Andrei Tarkovsky. - Director:
- Robert Bresson
- Cast:
- Claude Laydu, Nicole Ladmiral, Jean Riveyre
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1943 film version of Charlotte Bronte's gothic romance novel. After spending her childhood in an orphanage, young Jane Eyre (Joan Fontaine) becomes governess to the ward of an imposing older man named Edward Rochester (Orson Welles). Ultimately, Jane's gentle influence forces Rochester to drop his forbidding veneer, and he proposes to her. But the discovery that Rochester is already married, and further, that his volatile wife is locked in the attic, prompts Jane to leave as a series of tragic events unfold in this feature. - Director:
- Robert Stevenson
- Cast:
- Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien
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When Uncle Charlie comes to visit his relatives in the sleepy town of Santa Rosa, the foundation is laid for one of his most engaging and suspenseful excursions. Joseph Cotten stars as the charming Uncle Charlie, a beguiling killer who travels from Philadelphia to California just one step ahead of the law. But soon his unknowing niece and namesake, "Young Charlie" (Teresa Wright), begins to suspect her uncle of being the Merry Widow murderer, and a deadly game of cat-and-mouse begins. As his niece draws closer to the truth, the psychopathic killer has no choice but to plot the death of his favourite relative in one of Hitchcock's most riveting psychological thrillers. - Director:
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Cast:
- Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey
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Kitty Vane (Merle Oberon), Alan Trent (Fredric March), and Gerald Shannon (Herbert Marshall) have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty always knew that one day she would marry one of them, but she wanted to wait until the beginning of World War I before deciding on Alan. Gerald, somewhat hurt by the news, gives them his blessing, approving their desire to marry. But Alan is called up and they must postpone the wedding until he is granted a new permit. Kitty, who does not want to be separated, decides to accompany him. This fact will cause a misunderstanding between the two boys with terrible consequences that will change the lives of the three friends forever. - Director:
- Sidney Franklin
- Cast:
- Fredric March, Vesey O'Davoren, Merle Oberon
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Mississippi Mermaid (1969)La sirène du Mississipi / Waltz Into Darkness
This enthralling, erotic tale of a young millionaire and his mysterious bride is bewitching, exciting and beautiful. Written and directed by legendary cinematic genius Francois Truffaut and featuring European superstars Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo, 'Mississippi Mermaid' is nothing less than breathtaking. Beauty is by no means rare on the lush, tropical Isle de Reunion. yet when island resident and tobacco tycoon Louis Mahe first meets Julie Rouselle - his mail order fiancée - he's completely enraptured by her radiance. But it soon becomes clear that Julie is hiding a dark secret. And when she disappears without a trace, Louis vows to stop at nothing to find her - a resolution that lures him into a tangled web of relentless obsession, uncontrollable passion, and ultimately...cold-blooded murder! - Director:
- François Truffaut
- Cast:
- Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Nelly Borgeaud
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Set in 17th century London, Joan Fontaine stars in the swashbuckling adventure 'Frenchman's Creek'. As a beautiful, learned Lady of means, Dona St. Columb (Fontaine) had it all - wealth, nobility, children…and a loveless marriage. After years of being royally subjected to mistreatment, she retreats with her most prized possessions - her two children - to a secluded manor overlooking Britain's Atlantic shoreline. Once there, she is enthralled with the tall tales of a scoundrel of a pirate, who has been plundering nearby coastal villages. Full of adventure and fueled by years of neglect, she sets forth to seek him out, and it is not long before she finds him…to be quite an irresistible gentleman. She is soon swept into his arms, and out onto a high-seas adventure where she chances death to protect her children from a vengeful father, who is out to reclaim what he had never known and to destroy something he had never shown - love. - Director:
- Mitchell Leisen
- Cast:
- Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Córdova, Basil Rathbone
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Edmund Goulding directs this adaptation of Margaret Kennedy's story of a bohemian naif (Joan Fontaine) and a complicated sophisticate (Alexis Smith) locked in battle over the love of a poor, gifted composer (Charles Boyer). The naif, young Tessa (Joan Fontaine), has loved the composer Lewis (Charles Boyer) all her life - it's a love that is deep, selfless and all-encompassing. Lewis, meanwhile, meets and marries Tessa's cousin, Florence (Alexis Smith), whose love for Lewis is more flawed, and more human. Loyal to his bride, Lewis nonetheless finds himself drawn to Tessa more and more. Her boundless faith in Lewis transforms Tessa, first into Lewis muse and then into something more; while Florence's jealousies lock her into a mortal battle she can't hope to win. Rarely seen for nearly seventy years, the timeless tale of love, tragedy and inspiration returns at last. - Director:
- Edmund Goulding
- Cast:
- Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Brenda Marshall
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