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Tombolo, paradiso nero is a 1947 film directed by Giorgio Ferroni. Inspired by an article by Indro Montanelli, the film depicts the undergrowth of smugglers, prostitutes and deserters from the post-war Pineta del Tombolo, when the US military was stationed in the area.Read More »
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Giorgio Ferroni – Tombolo, paradiso nero (1947)
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Ford Beebe – Enter Arsene Lupin (1944)
Ford Beebe1941-1950CrimeFilm NoirUSAA rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She doesn’t realize it, but a gang of jewel thieves does.Read More »
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Jules Dassin – Brute Force (1947)
Jules Dassin1941-1950250 Quintessential Film NoirsCrimeFilm NoirUSAPLOT: At overcrowded Westgate Penitentiary, where violence and fear are the norm and the warden has less power than guards and leading prisoners, the least contented prisoner is tough, single-minded Joe Collins. Most of all, Joe hates chief guard Captain Munsey, a petty dictator who glories in absolute power. After one infraction too many, Joe and his cell-mates are put on the dreaded drain pipe detail; prompting an escape scheme that has every chance of turning into a bloodbath.Read More »
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Hiroshi Shimizu – Utajo oboegaki AKA Notes of an Itinerant Performer (1941)
1941-1950ClassicsDramaHiroshi ShimizuJapanUta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother died, and now she is a dancer and part of a family of actors who travel from town to town, setting up street performances. A way of escape from this marginal existence arises when she gets the chance to move to tea merchant Hiramatsu’s place, where she is asked to teach his daughter to dance.Read More »
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Michel Khleifi – Urs al-jalil AKA Wedding in Galilee (1987)
1981-1990DramaMichel KhleifiPalestineA Palestinian seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. The military governor’s condition is that he and his officers attend. The groom berates his father for agreeing. Women ritually prepare the bride; men prepare the groom. Guests gather. The Arab youths plot violence. One Israeli officer swoons in the heat and Arab women take her into the cool house. A thoroughbred gets loose and runs to a mined field; soldiers and Arabs must cooperate to rescue it. As darkness falls, tensions between army and villagers rise, and the groom’s wedding-night anger and impotence threaten family dignity and honor. Can cool heads prevail?Read More »
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Rune Carlsten – Eviga länkar (1946)
1941-1950DramaRune CarlstenSwedenHilda Granström runs a ladies’ tailoring shop. Her husband Richard is a cellist in the Opera Orchestra. Their three daughters help out in Hilda’s shop. Richard’s 80-year-old mother, who once was a dancer, also lives with the family.Read More »
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Tito Davison – Que Dios me perdone AKA May God Forgive Me (1948)
1941-1950DramaFilm NoirMexicoTito DavisonLena is a spy who manages to seduce rich men only to obtain information.Read More »
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István Szöts – Emberek a havason AKA People on the Alps (1942)
István Szöts1941-1950DramaHungaryQuote:
Arguably the most gifted Hungarian filmmaker of his generation, István Sz ts has been compared by critics to Ford, Vigo and Renoir. His forgotten masterpiece, People of the Mountains, is the story of a woodcutter and his family who live high in mountains of Transylvania. Forced out of their home, they are enticed into working for the very company that ejected them, only for their lives to begin to unravel one tragic misfortune after another.Read More » -
William A. Seiter – A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)
William A. Seiter1941-1950ComedyRomanceScrewball ComedyUSASynopsis:
A New York bank clerk,Mollie Truesdale (Jean Arthur), in the late 1930s, finds that her cherished dream of making a 17-day all-expenses-paid bus trip to the Pacific Coast and back, isn’t all she thought it would be…until she reaches Oregon and a bucking broncho tosses a rodeo performer on top of her and knocks her flat. Duke Hudkins (John Wayne), by way of apology, shows her the sights of Fairfield, Oregon, and she misses her bus, quarrels with the bewildered Duke, hitchhikes across a lot of desert…and a romance is born.Read More »