4 Movies Starring Sam Jaffe

The Scarlet Empress

The Scarlet Empress

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1934-09-15

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (3960 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Catherine II (based on the diary of)

Manuel Komroff (diary arranged by)

Fullplot:

Young Princess Sophia of Germany is taken to Russia to marry the half-wit Grand Duke Peter, son of the Empress. The domineering Empress hopes to improve the royal blood line. Sophia doesn't like her husband, but she likes Russia, and is very fond of Russian soldiers. She dutifully produces a son -- of questionable fatherhood, but no one seems to mind that. After the old empress dies, Sophia engineers a coup d'etat with the aid of the military, does away with Peter, and becomes Catherine the Great.

Gunga Din

Gunga Din

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1939-02-17

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

117 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (8280 Reviews)

Director:

George Stevens

Genres:

AdventureWar

Cast:

Writer:

Joel Sayre (screen play)

Fred Guiol (screen play)

Ben Hecht (story)

Charles MacArthur (story)

Rudyard Kipling (poem)

Fullplot:

Based loosely on the poem by Rudyard Kipling, this takes place in British India during the Thuggee uprising. Three fun loving sergeants are doing fine until one of them wants to get married and leave the service. The other two trick him into a final mission where they end up confronting the entire cult by themselves as the British Army is entering a trap. This is of the "War is fun" school of movie making. It has the flavour of watching Notre Dame play an inferior high school team.

The Day the Earth Stood Still

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1951-09-28

Languages:

English, French, Hindi, Russian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

92 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (61109 Reviews)

Director:

Robert Wise

Genres:

Sci-Fi

Cast:

Writer:

Edmund H. North (screen play)

Harry Bates (based on a story by)

Fullplot:

An alien (Klaatu) with his mighty robot (Gort) land their spacecraft on Cold War-era Earth just after the end of World War II. They bring an important message to the planet that Klaatu wishes to tell to representatives of all nations. However, communication turns out to be difficult, so, after learning something about the natives, Klaatu decides on an alternative approach.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1971-12-13

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

USA, UK

Runtime:

117 min

Rated:

G

IMDB Ratings:

(23941 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Ralph Wright (animation story)

Ted Berman (animation story)

Bill Walsh (screenplay)

Don DaGradi (screenplay)

Mary Norton (book)

Fullplot:

During WWII in England, Charlie, Carrie, and Paul Rawlins are sent to live with Eglantine Price, an apprentice witch. Charlie blackmails Miss Price that if he is to keep her practices a secret, she must give him something, so she takes a bedknob from her late father's bed and places the "famous magic traveling spell" on it, and only Paul can activate it. Their first journey is to a street in London where they meet Emelius Browne, headmaster of Miss Price's witchcraft training correspondence school. Miss Price tells him of a plan to find the magic words for a spell known as Substitutiary Locomotion, which brings inanimate objects to life. This spell will be her work for the war effort.

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