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The Fortune Cookie (1966)Por dinero, casi todo
Harry Hinkle (Jack Lemmon) is one lucky guy! When he's accidentally clobbered by a 220-pound halfback, all Harry suffers is a slight concussion. All, that is, until Whiplash Willie (Walter Matthau) — a legal scoundrel of the first order — arrives on the scene! For if Harry follows shyster Willie's advice and feigns a crippling injury, the two charlatans can split a cool million in phoney insurance claims. But can Willie's world-class finagling dispel those ominous words that lie within the fortune cookie on Harry's hospital plate: You can't fool all of the people all of the time? - Director:
- Billy Wilder
- Cast:
- Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich
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Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)Sommarnattens leende
A middle-aged lawyer, Frederik Egerman (Gunnar Björnstrand), his inexperienced young wife, Anne (Ulla Jacobsson), and her step-son, Henrik (Björn Bjelfvenstam), are invited to spend the weekend at the country mansion of a beautiful actress, Frederik's ex-mistress, Desiree Armfeldt (Eva Dahlbeck). Amongst the guests are Desiree's current lover Count Malcolm (Jarl Kulle) and his wife Charlotte (Margit Carlqvist). During the course of the weekend these three couples meet, separate and exchange partners, providing some lively comedic action and illustrating. Bergman's sardonic attitude towards the vagaries of love. Behind the scintillating and witty approach to this charming period comedy of manners lie and illusions and pretensions of the haute bourgeois, which Bergman cleverly illustrates with his collection of fickle husbands and scheming women. - Director:
- Ingmar Bergman
- Cast:
- Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson
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Platinum Blonde (1931)Gallagher
Platinum Blonde is a glorious spoof of the newspaper business in New York City during the Depression; Ann Schuyler (Harlow), a wealthy socialite, meets reporter "Stew" Smith (Robert Williams) and the two fall madly in love. The comedy begins as she tries to transform him from a ruffian newsman into a convincing gentleman. "Stew," who is quick with wisecracks, is slow to realise the dangers of being a kept man. At first, he likes the idle life of the rich, but there's trouble in paradise. Soon is "Cinderella Man" turns the social register upside down with his mocking repartee. To his rescue is Gallagher (Loretta Young), a sympathetic friend and co-worker at the newspaper. She comforts and consoles Stew and, in classic Capra style, helps him right into Harlow's own arms - Director:
- Frank Capra
- Cast:
- Jean Harlow, Loretta Young, Robert Williams
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The Favourite (2018)Favorite
In early 18th-century England, a frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) occupies the throne, and her closest friend, Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz), governs the country while tending to Anne's ill health and volatile temper. When new servant Abigail (Emma Stone) arrives, Sarah takes Abigail under her wing as she cunningly schemes to return to her aristocratic roots, setting off an outrageous rivalry to become the Queen's favourite. - Director:
- Yorgos Lanthimos
- Cast:
- Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)Heaven Can Wait
A sophisticated supernatural Hollywood comedy whose influence continues to be felt, 'Here Comes Mr. Jordan' stars the eminently versatile Robert Montgomery as a working-class boxer and amateur aviator whose plane crashes in a freak accident. He finds himself in heaven but is told, by a wry angel named Mr. Jordan (Claude Rains), that his death was a clerical error, and that he can return to Earth by entering the body of a corrupt (and about-to-be-murdered) financier - whose soul could use a transplant. - Director:
- Alexander Hall
- Cast:
- Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes
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Nineteen-year-old Lauren Bacall makes her sizzling screen debut in the first of 4 films she made opposite Humphrey Bogart. he plays a cynical American expatriate swept up in the fighting of the French resistance - and swept off his feet by an alluring young drifter - Bacall. Set on the island of Martinique in 1940, the film features smouldering performances from the legendary couple. - Director:
- Howard Hawks
- Cast:
- Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan
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My Forbidden Past (1951)Carriage Entrance
A passionate romance, starring Ava Gardner as a beautiful heiress driven to extreme lengths when her dreams of true love are cruelly thwarted. New Orleans, the 1800's: Barbara Beaurevel (Ava Gardner) inherits a fortune from her grandmother, a woman with a notorious reputation. Barbara pledges to use the money for good works but her noble intentions are quickly tested... Barbara's in love with Dr. Mark Lucas (Robert Mitchum); when he returns to the city with a new bride, Corinne, Barbara becomes desperate. She pays her wicked cousin Paul to seduce Corinne, hoping Mark will then abandon his wife. But when Corinne is murdered, Mark is blamed. Only Barbara can save him but she could lose everything if she does. - Director:
- Robert Stevenson
- Cast:
- Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas
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No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948)Black Dice
Virginal young heiress Miss Blandish (Linden Travers) is kidnapped by a couple of small time hoods, only to find herself seized from them by gangster Slim Grissom (Jack LaRue). He isn't just interested in her for the ransom money - and neither are the other members of the Grissom gang. Despite her terrifying ordeal, Miss Blandish finds herself perversely attracted to the gang leader. They plan to run off together, but amongst gangsters life is cheap - and a double cross is always just around the corner... - Director:
- St. John Legh Clowes
- Cast:
- Jack La Rue, Hugh McDermott, Linden Travers
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Notorious (1946)Tuyo es mi corazón
Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman) gains notoriety when her father, a Nazi spy is convinced of treason against the US following World War II. At a party thrown soon after, Alice meets a handsome stranger named Devlin (Cary Grant) who reveals after a clash of wits and temperament that he is a U.S. Intelligence Agent. Because she has fallen in love with the dashing FBI Agent, Alicia is persuaded into helping Devlin trap and catch Nazi mastermind Alex Sebastian. The more she gets involved in her work, the more at risk she becomes... - Director:
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Cast:
- Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
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Magnificent Doll (1946)Frank Borzage's Magnificent Doll
Written by Irving Stone, whose popular biographical novels would inspire such films as Vincente Minnelli's 'Lust for Life' and Carol Reed's 'The Agony and Ecstasy'; 'Magnificent Doll' traces Madison's journey to the White House from her youth in Virginia at the end of the Revolutionary War to the famed episode in which, during the Battle of Bladensburg, she refused the leave her exalted residence without a portrait of George Washington. In between she is wooed by two great men of American politics, Senator Aaron Burr (David Niven) and his colleague, James Madison (Burgess Meredith). - Director:
- Frank Borzage
- Cast:
- Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Burgess Meredith
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Saskatchewan (1954)O'Rourke of the Royal Mounted
On their return from a hunting trip in the Canadian mountains, Mountie Thomas O'Rourke (Alan Ladd) and his Cree half brother Cajou (Jay Silverheels) stumble upon a burned out wagon train and its sole survivor, Grace Markey (Shelley Winters). Indian tensions are running high as the warring American Sioux cross the border from the United States in an attempt to enlist the help of the Cree to fight the U.S. Cavalry. To prevent the alliance between the two Indian nations, the Canadian troops embark on a march to Fort Walsh, a dangerous journey with death stalking their every move. Caught between his duty as a soldier and his beliefs as a man raised by the Cree, O'Rourke must decide where his loyalties lie. - Director:
- Raoul Walsh
- Cast:
- Alan Ladd, Shelley Winters, J. Carrol Naish
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In this sweeping pioneer adventure, a courageous young scout (John Wayne) leads hundreds of settlers across treacherous cliffs, through brutal snowstorms, Indian attacks and buffalo stampedes to their destiny out west. Along the way, he loses his heart to a beautiful pioneer woman (Marguerite Churchill) and never stops trying to win her love. - Director:
- Raoul Walsh
- Cast:
- John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, El Brendel
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The Devil’s Eye (1960)Djävulens öga
When the Devil (Stig Järrel) decides that a young woman has been a virgin for too long he sends Don Juan (Jarl Kulle) up from hell to rob her of her virginity. Despite his charms the young woman resists the temptation to give in to him, but events become further complicated when Don Juan falls for her, experiencing love for the first time. - Director:
- Ingmar Bergman
- Cast:
- Jarl Kulle, Bibi Andersson, Stig Järrel
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They Died with Their Boots On (1941)To the Last Man
The 7th Cavalry Regiment, Gen. George Armstrong Custer (Errol Flynn) says, rides "to hell or to glory. It depends on one's point of view". The point of view of Raoul Walsh's spectacular 'They Died with Their Boots On' decidedly favors glory. Errol Flynn portrays the famed cavalryman in this hoof-and-thunder chronicle tracing his career from dandyish West Point plebe to Civil War hero to frontier legend immortalized by the Battle of Little Big Horn. Olivia de Havilland, sharing the marquee with Flynn for the eighth and final time, plays Custer's devoted wife Libby. And composer Max Steiner's stirring music trumpets gallantry and sacrifice. Seventh Regiment: Charge! - Director:
- Raoul Walsh
- Cast:
- Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Arthur Kennedy
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Objective Burma! (1945)Objective, Burma!
Mission accomplished! Errol Flynn, who brought boyish bravado to 'The Adventures of Robin Hood', 'Dodge City', 'Gentleman Jim' and other screen yarns, turns in a mature, acclaimed performance as the leader of a paratrooper patrol stranded in Burma. 'It's one of the few features of which I am proud' Flynn later said. Raoul Walsh directs the hard-hitting action, shot in rugged California locations so similar to Burma that veterans of that campaign refused to believe the crew hadn't somehow sneaked into Asia. - Director:
- Raoul Walsh
- Cast:
- Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince
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