Thursday, 28 February 2013

Tulsa

Tulsa 
Year: 1949
Director:  Stuart Heisler
Cast: Susan Hayward / Robert Preston / Pedro Armendáriz / Chill Wills / Ed Begley / Jimmy Conlin / Roland Jack / Harry Shannon / Lola Albright
It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil expert Brad Brady and childhood friend Jim Redbird. When the oil and the money start gushing in, both Brad and Jim want to protect the land but Cherokee has different ideas. What started out as revenge for her father's death has turned into an obsession for wealth and power.

Always Goodbye

Always Goodbye 
Genres: DramaFilm-Noir
Year: 1938
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck / Herbert Marshall / Ian Hunter /Cesar Romero / Lynn Bari  / Binnie Barnes / Johnny Russell / Mary Forbes / Albert Conti  
Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston  is left pregnant and unmarried. A former doctor Jim Howard  helps the desperate Margot. When her son is born, Jim helps her find a home for the baby with Phil Marshall  and his wife. Margot insists that neither the Marshalls nor the child can ever know that she is his mother.
Five years later, while working as a well-paid buyer Harriet Martin (Binnie Barnes), Margot meets Jim Howard again, and the two begin to fall in love. When Margot is sent to Europe on a business trip for Harriet, she meets and is wooed by the charming but carefree Count Giovanni Corini (Cesar Romero). While in Paris, she happens to meet her son Roddy (Johnnie Russell), who is traveling with his aunt, who has been taking care of the boy since his adoptive mother died.

Monday, 18 February 2013

Marquis de Sade: Justine

Marquis de Sade: Justine
Genres:  Drama / Horror
Year: 1969
Director:  Jesús Franco
Cast:  Klaus Kinski / Romina Power / Maria Rohm / Rosemary Dexter /  Carmen de Lirio / Akim Tamiroff / Mercedes McCambridge / Serena Vergano / José Manuel Martín / Mike Brendel / Harald Leipnitz

A woman named Justine is used and abused by all manner of perverts, freaks and sexual deviants. 


The Young One

The Young One
Genres :  Drama
Year : 1960
Director: Luis Buñuel
Cast : Zachary Scott / Bernie Hamilton / Key Meersman / Crahan Denton / Claudio Brook
Game warden Miller lives on an isolated island off the Carolina coast. The only other inhabitant is Evvie, an naive young girl to whom Miller is attracted. Traver, a black musician on the run from a lynch mob after falsely being accused of rape, lands on the island. Miller wants to turn him in and remove him from the tryst, but Evvie likes Traver and protects him. A preacher arrives from the mainland to rescue Evvie from her situation, and Traver's presence is discovered. Miller is now forced to decide whether to turn him over to the mob and lose standing in the girl's eyes.


Saturday, 16 February 2013

Sofies verden

Sofies verden
Genres : Drama  / Fantasy  / History
Year : 1999
Director: Erik Gustavson
Cast : Silje Storstein / Tomas von Brömssen / Andrine Sæther /
Bjørn Floberg / Hans Alfredson / Nils Vogt / Arne Haakonaasen Dahl / Sullivan Lloyd Nordrum
Sofie is an ordinary Norwegian girl. One day she recieves a video tape on which a certain Alberto Knox talks directly to her from ancient Greece. They then start to meet at different occasions and throughout the film, Alberto takes Sofie on an odyssey of the history of philosophy, from ancient Greece, over the Roman empire, the Middle ages, the renaissance, the enlightenment, the big revolutions and up to today. Throughout this journey, they start to realise that they are only fictions of a story writer's imagination and start conceiving a plan for escaping into reality. 
    

The Indian Fighter


The Indian Fighter 
Genres : Western
Year : 1955
Director: André De Toth
Cast : Kirk Douglas / Elsa Martinelli / Walter Matthau /
Diana Douglas / Walter Abel / Lon Chaney Jr. /  Eduard Franz
Johnny Hawks, a former Indian fighter, returns to the West after the Civil War. He reacquaints himself with the Indian band led by Red Cloud. Red Cloud's beautiful daughter has now grown into womanhood... Unscrupulous whisky traders are after the gold on Indian land. Hawks averts serious bloodshed by convincing Red Cloud to make a treaty... Hawks leads an Oregon-bound wagon train through Indian territory. When he slips away to see the chief's daughter, trouble between braves and whisky traders flares up anew, putting the wagon train and the nearby fort in peril...

Monday, 11 February 2013

Tonight and Every Night

Tonight and Every Night
Genres: Musical 
Year: 1945
Director: Victor Saville
Cast: Rita Hayworth / Lee Bowman / Janet Blair / Marc Platt  / Leslie Brooks  / Dusty Anderson  /  Stephen Crane
A photographer for Life magazine comes to London to do a story on a local theater troupe which never missed a performance during World War II. Flashbacks also reveal the backstage love affair between star Rosalind Bruce and a British flyer. 



Salome


Salome  
Genres:  Drama  / History
Year: 1953
Director: William Dieterle
Cast:  Rita Hayworth / Stewart Granger / Charles Laughton /  Judith Anderson  /  Cedric Hardwicke  / Alan Badel  /  Basil Sydney  / Maurice Schwartz
In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias. The latter wants John dead, but Herod fears to harm him due to a prophecy. Enter beautiful Princess Salome, Herod's long-absent stepdaughter. Herodias sees the king's dawning lust for Salome as her means of bending the king to her will. But Salome and her lover Claudius are (contrary to Scripture) nearing conversion to the new religion. And the famous climactic dance turns out to have unexpected implications...


Salome Where She Danced


Salome Where She Danced 
Genres:  Drama  / Music  / War
Year: 1945
Director: Charles Lamont
Cast:  Yvonne De Carlo / Rod Cameron / David Bruce / Walter Slezak / Albert Dekker / Marjorie Rambeau / J. Edward Bromberg / John Litel 
The film opens in Virginia in 1865, shortly after General Lee's surrender at Battle of Appomattox Court House. A war correspondent Jim Steed exchanges comments with Count Von Bohlen, an arrogant Prussian army officer serving as a military attaché during the American Civil War. A year later Steed is in Vienna shortly before the outbreak of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. There he encounters a famous dancer, Anna Marie, who he persuades to spy for him on Von Bohlen, now a member of the Prussian General staff, who has become infatuated with her.

Saturday, 2 February 2013

The Red Baron

The Red Baron
Genres: Biography / Adventure / Action
Year: 2008
Director: Nikolai Müllerschön
Cast: Iveta Jirícková / Jirí Wohanka / Ondrej Volejník / Lena Headey / Lukás Príkazký / Steffen Schroeder / Joseph Fiennes / Richard Krajco / Til Schweiger / Hanno Koffler / Maxim Mehmet / Matthias Schweighöfer / Albert Franc / Tomás Ibl / Tomás Koutník
Baron Manfred von Richthofen is the most feared and celebrated pilot of the German air force in World War I. To him and his companions, air combats are events of sporty nature, technical challenge and honorable acting, ignoring the terrible extent of war. But after falling in love with the nurse Käte, Manfred realizes he is only used for propaganda means. Caught between his disgust for the war, and the responsibility for his fighter wing, von Richthofen sets out to fly again.