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Song of the Thin Man (1947)La ruleta de la muerte
At a charity gambling benefit aboard the S.S. Fortune, the tables are hot, the jazz is hotter and before you know it, a bandleader's body is growing cold. They're playing your song, Nick and Nora Charles! William Powell and Myrna Loy return as the married sleuths, rousting suspects out of bed for 4 AM interrogations while trying to fathom the bebop argot of '40s jazz jive. Speaking of their renowned screen chemistry, Loy once said: "It wasn't a conscious thing. If you heard us talking in a room, you'd hear the same thing. He'd tease me, and there was a sort of blending which seemed to please people." Decades later, people are still pleased. The melody of Song Of The Thin Man and the entire beloved series lingers on. - Director:
- Edward Buzzell
- Cast:
- William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn
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Mozart: Don Giovanni (1979)Don Juan
Infamous womanizer Don Giovanni makes conquest after conquest, leaving seduced and abandoned women in his wake. When the ghost of the Commendatore he has killed appears he is given a final chance to change his philandering ways or face the terrors of hell. Joseph Losey's hugely successful adaptation of Mozart's greatest opera features wonderful performances from an excellent cast and stunning cinematography. - Director:
- Joseph Losey
- Cast:
- Ruggero Raimondi, John Macurdy, Edda Moser
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The Way to the Stars (1945)Johnny in the Clouds
In 1940, during the Battle of Britain, rookie pilot Peter Penrose (John Mills) is assigned to serve with Flight Lt. David Archdale (Michael Redgrave) at RAF Station Halfpenny Field. By 1942 David has become acting C.O. but Peter is beginning to show signs of combat fatigue - a situation that David cannot leave unresolved. - Director:
- Anthony Asquith
- Cast:
- Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Rosamund John
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David Graham (Michael Redgrave) is an alcoholic father who arrives in London after his release from an American sanatorium. His son has been sentenced to hang the next morning for murder, and Graham's lawyer, (Peter Cushing), stresses that they have just twenty-four hours to save him. Convinced of his innocence, Graham tries to unravel the twisted connections that his son had with the Stanford family and the murdered girl. But Graham's unwelcome interference drives the Stanfords apart and Robert Stanford (Leo McKern) forbids his wife (Ann Todd) from helping. As time ticks away and a last minute reprieve fails, Graham must battle his alcoholism, Robert Stanford and the entire British legal system if he is to save his son from the gallows. - Director:
- Joseph Losey
- Cast:
- Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Leo McKern
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British journalist Thomas Fowler (Michael Redgrave) comes under suspicion of murder when the body of a young American (Audie Murphy) is found floating in the river. Their story is told in flashback, as the American arrives in Vietnam looking to end the Indo-Chinese war being covered by Fowler. Fowler's girlfriend falls for the American, prompting the journalist to take part in a Communist plot to kill him. - Director:
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Cast:
- Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, Claude Dauphin
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Air Marshall Hardie is a guest at a society dinner party in Hong Kong on the eve of his flight to Tokyo. During the course of the night, another guest is persuaded to share the details of a strange dream he had, which involved a plane crash in the mountains of Japan. Hardie takes little notice of the story until the following day, when he discovers the plane he had been intending to fly has been swapped for a Dakota, the very plane that featured in the mysterious dream. Stranger still, two last minute passengers arrive, taking the number of passengers up to match with that which the dream foretold. Hardie begins to wonder if it was indeed merely a dream — or a premonition which is about to become a deadly reality. - Director:
- Leslie Norman
- Cast:
- Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim, Alexander Knox
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Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)La sombra de los acusados
A jockey who threw a race is murdered in the locker room. "My, they're strict at this track!" Nora Charles exclaims. With that, she (Myrna Loy) and hubby Nick (William Powell) are off to the races on another case of murder, mirth and perfect martinis. Highlights of this fourth Thin Man include a visit to the arena for the evening's wrasslin' and dinner at Mario's Grotto where, no matter what anyone wants, the waiter insists upon the sea bass. As in all films in the series, the supporting cast is extraordinary, with Sam Levene, Barry Nelson, Donna Reed, Henry O'Neill and Stella Adler among Shadow's heroes and possible villains. Red herrings abound. But we still recommend the sea bass. - Director:
- W.S. Van Dyke
- Cast:
- William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson
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'I See a Dark Stranger' is a suspense-filled, highly entertaining spy drama about a highly-strung Irish girl, Bridie Quilty (Deborah Kerr) whose father delights in spinning tall tales about his role in the 1916 uprising against the English. When Bridie comes of age she decides to leave her rural home and seek out the IRA, but she unwittingly falls in with a German spy called Miller (Raymond Huntley), believing that he is part of the IRA. Miller recruits Bridie and finds her a job working in a sleepy village pub near a British military prison. Aware of her stunning good looks, Miller asks Bridie to use her sex appeal in order to gather information from the servicemen that will allow him to spring a dangerous Nazi from prison. But when British Army Officer David Byrne (Trevor Howard) arrives in the village to recuperate, he falls in love with the quarrelsome Bridie. Suspicious that Byrne is an intelligence officer Miller decides that Byrne needs to be eliminated and asks Bridie to help him... - Director:
- Frank Launder
- Cast:
- Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley
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One of Britain's leading psychiatrists has committed suicide. His teenage daughter (Pamela Franklin) is convinced that her father was murdered - and enlists the help of one of her father's patients, news reporter Alex Stedman (Stephen Boyd) to uncover the truth. As Stedman delves into the lives of his three suspects - a tormented art dealer (Richard Attenborough), a beautiful, lonely woman (Diane Cilento) and one of Britain's most respected judges (Jack Hawkins) - he has to battle with his own, re-emerging psychological terrors - and unravel 'The Third Secret'... - Director:
- Charles Crichton
- Cast:
- Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough
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When Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) visits a country house, he finds himself trapped in his recurring nightmare that involves the manors guests sharing their experiences with the supernatural. With each bizarre tale told, whether it be about a haunted mirror or a ventriloquist tormented by his dummy, Craig hurtles closer and closer to the nightmare's end, where he knows something awful will happen... - Director:
- Alberto Cavalcanti
- Cast:
- Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Roland Culver
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Humphrey Bogart reunites with director Michael Curtiz and other key Casablanca personnel (including co-stars Claude Rains, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet) for a tension-swept 'Passage to Marseille'. Bogart plays Jean Matrac, a World War II French patriot who escapes Devil's Island, survives a dangerous freighter voyage and becomes a gunner in the Free French Air Corps. Passage sailed into theatres on stormy seas. Controversy surrounded the scene in which Matrac machine-guns the helpless survivors of a downed plane that attacked the freighter. That a soldier of freedom would act ignobly brought protests from religious and censorship groups. But, like Matrac facing a strafing dive-bomber, the studio held its ground. War could even dehumanise a hero. Domestic prints remained uncut. - Director:
- Michael Curtiz
- Cast:
- Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michèle Morgan
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Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series (2017)Twin Peaks: Series 3 / Twin Peaks: The Return
A quarter century after revolutionizing television, 'Twin Peaks' returns. Expanding the world you thought you knew, this limited event series takes you places wonderful, strange and farther out. This collection includes all 18 parts of the Showtime series, plus a wealth of exclusive, behind-the-scenes special features that will show you what's behind the "red curtain" and the making of this extraordinary television event. - Director:
- David Lynch
- Cast:
- Kyle MacLachlan, Kimmy Robertson, Sheryl Lee
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The Lady from Shanghai (1947)Take This Woman / Black Irish
Hired to work on a yacht belonging to the disabled husband of femme fatale Rita Hayworth, Welles plays an innocent man drawn into a dangerous web of intrigue and murder.- Director:
- Orson Welles
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- Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane
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While away on business, Harry Graham (Edmond O'Brien) hops a Hollywood tour bus. Sitting next to him is a tough-talking waitress, Phyllis Martin (Ida Lupino). He lights her cigarette and, a few more trips to Los Angeles later, Harry and Phyllis are wed. Back home in San Francisco, he and his wife, Eve (Joan Fontaine), are trying to adopt a child. Harry hesitates before granting the adoption agency permission to investigate their lives. - Director:
- Ida Lupino
- Cast:
- Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmund Gwenn
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Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart ride high in this superb comedic western, both a boisterous spoof and a shining example of its genre. As the brawling, rough-and-tumble saloon singer Frenchy, Dietrich shed her exotic love-goddess image and launched a triumphant career comeback, while Stewart cemented his amiable every-man persona, in his first of many westerns, with a charming turn as a gun-abhorring deputy sheriff who uses his wits to bring law and order to the frontier town of Bottleneck. A sparkling script, a supporting cast of virtuoso character actors, and rollicking musical numbers - delivered with unmatched bravado by the magnetic Dietrich - come together to create an irresistible, oft-imitated marvel of studio-era craftsmanship. - Director:
- George Marshall
- Cast:
- Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart, Mischa Auer
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