Released Date:
1952-05-09
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
115 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (565 Reviews)
Director:
Laslo BenedekGenres:
DramaArthur Miller (play)
Stanley Roberts
Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy's long-suffering wife Linda, and Biff and Happy, his troubled sons and his life.
Released Date:
1953-06-29
Languages:
English, German
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (599 Reviews)
Director:
Elia KazanNeil Paterson (story)
Robert E. Sherwood
In 1950s Czechoslovakia circus manager Karel Cernik is planning an escape from Communism to freedom.His idea is to force his way across the guarded border using his entire circus.Three years in the making his idea is ready to be tested when he's suddenly summoned to a Secret Police routine questioning about his circus' program.To Cernik it's clear that he has an informer among his staff who reports his activities and private talks to the Secret Police. The Americans are just across the river in a nearby border village but Cernik needs a special permit from the Secret Police allowing his circus freedom of movement in the border areas to perform his shows.This hard to get permit is vital to his escape plan.To make matters worse his wife is being unfaithful, his daughter has fallen in love with the new stables boy,his circus is falling apart and his longtime rival, Barovik, wants to take over Cernik's circus.
Released Date:
1954-02-06
Languages:
English, French, Italian, German
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
103 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (975 Reviews)
Director:
Samuel FullerJesse Lasky Jr. (screenplay)
Samuel Fuller (screenplay)
David Hempstead (story)
A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese anti-American plot that may lead to World War III. Mixes deviously plotted schoolboy fiction with submarine spectacle and cold war heroics.
Released Date:
1955-06-10
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
122 min
Rated:
PASSED
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (2558 Reviews)
Director:
Charles VidorDaniel Fuchs (screenplay)
Isobel Lennart (screenplay)
Daniel Fuchs (story)
In 1920's Chicago, Ruth Etting wants to be a renowned singer, which is a far step away from her current work as a taxi dancer. Upon walking into the dance hall and seeing her, Chicago gangster Marty Snyder immediately falls for Ruth, and works toward being her lover, which he believes he can achieve by opening up singing opportunities for her. Ruth is initially wary of Marty, but makes it clear that she is not interested in him in a romantic sense. Regardless, he does help her professionally, and through his opportunities, which are achieved through intimidation and fear, Ruth does quickly start to gain a name as a singer, which she is able to do because of her talent and despite Marty's intimidation tactics. However, the greater her success, the more reliant she becomes on him. This becomes an issue in their relationship as she believes he can take her only so far before he becomes a liability, however he will never let her go that easily. The one person who tried and tries to get Ruth away from her unhappy life with Marty is Johnny Alderman, the musical advisor Marty hired for Ruth at the first gig he got for her, and who also loves Ruth himself.
Released Date:
1956-02-16
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
128 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (4197 Reviews)
Director:
Henry KingPhoebe Ephron (screenplay)
Henry Ephron (screenplay)
Oscar Hammerstein II (book)
Ferenc Molnèr (from the musical play based on "Liliom" by)
Benjamin Glazer (adapted by)
Billy Bigelow has been dead for fifteen years, and now outside the pearly gates, he long waived his right to go back to Earth for a day. But he has heard that there is a problem with his family, namely his wife Julie Bigelow nèe Jordan and the child he never met, that problem with which he would now like to head back to Earth to assist in rectifying. Before he is allowed back to Earth, he has to get the OK from the gatekeeper, to who he tells his story... Immediately attracted to each other, he and Julie met when he worked as a carousel barker. Both stated to the other that they did not believe in love or marriage, but they did get married. Because the shrewish carousel owner, Mrs. Mullin, was attracted to Billy herself, and since she believed he was only of use as a barker if he was single to attract the young women to the carousel, she fired him. With no other job skills and unwilling to take just any job, Billy did not provide for Julie but rather lived off Julie's Aunt Nettie. But Billy figured he could be the breadwinner through his association with a criminal lowlife named Jigger Craigin, which led to his death. In going back to Earth, Billy not only hopes to help his child, but "tell" Julie of his true feeling for her.
Released Date:
1971-10-09
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
74 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (71 Reviews)
Director:
William A. GrahamA professional thief tries to break with his past but has to pull off one last job to pay off a gambling debt.
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