Released Date:
1955-06-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
90 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
(984 Reviews)
Director:
Arthur LubinDorothy Davenport (screenplay)
Lenore J. Coffee (screenplay)
Arthur Pierson (adaptation)
W.W. Jacobs (original short story "The Interruption")
To his Victorian London friends, Stephen Lowry is a heartbroken widower. Only his housemaid Lily knows that far from dying of gastroenteritis his wife was slowly poisoned by her husband - information she is happy to use to improve her position in the household and to make sure she stays close to Stephen. As his own prospects improve with a business partnership and a romance more of his own class, Stephen decides that Lily must go. Unfortunately for him, his first attempt gives her even more of a hold over him.
Released Date:
1959-09-23
Languages:
Italian, German
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
132 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (265 Reviews)
Director:
Francesco RosiSuso Cecchi D'Amico (story)
Francesco Rosi (story)
Suso Cecchi D'Amico (screenplay)
Giuseppe Patroni Griffi (screenplay)
Francesco Rosi (screenplay)
Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after loosing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to follow Totonno to Hamburg. In Hamburg, Totonno and his friends have to sell Mayer's cloth but they meet with the hostility of a Polish gang and Mario falls in love with Paula Mayer.
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