Archive for January, 1954
Suddenly
The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw’s unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can’t abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen’s household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town… and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.
Suddenly DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.00 out of 10 (832 votes)
Director: Lewis Allen
Actors: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason, Nancy Gates, Kim Charney, Paul Frees, Christopher Dark, Willis Bouchey, Paul Wexler, James O’Hara, Kem Dibbs, Clark Howat, Charles Martin Smith,
Tags: Film-Noir, Mystery, Drama, Crime, Thriller, assassination-attempt, cult-favorite, electric-shock, gun, hitman, hostage, mother-son-relationship, police, secret-service, single-mother, small-town, sniper, train, u.s.-president
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Barefoot Contessa, The
While in the burial of Countess Torlato-Favrini, her friend Harry Dawes and her acquaintance Oscar Muldoon recalls parts of her past. When the wealthy Kirk Edwards hires director and screenplay writer Harry Dawes, they travel to Spain with the public relations Oscar Muldoon to see the dancer of a nightclub Maria Vargas and invite her for an audition, since they need a new face for their next movie. Maria, a naive woman with simple origins, is convinced by Harry to go to Hollywood and becomes a famous star and a close friend of Harry and his girlfriend Jerry. Along her successful career, Maria lives personal dramas including lack of adaptation for her new lifestyle, is unable to love and is disputed by the powerful millionaires Kirk Edwards and Alberto Bravano. When she meets the noble and handsome Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini in the French Riviera, she believes that she found her prince charming and her life becomes a fairy tale. But after the wedding, she sees that her Cinderella’s castle of dreams has become a pumpkin.
Barefoot Contessa, The DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.90 out of 10 (1813 votes)
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Marius Goring, Valentina Cortese, Rossano Brazzi, Elizabeth Sellars, Warren Stevens, Franco Interlenghi, Mari Aldon, Bessie Love, Diana Decker, Bill Fraser, Alberto Rabagliati, Enzo Staiola,
Tags: Mystery, Romance, Drama, Crime, actress, affair, barefoot, beach, beautiful-woman, beverly-hills-california, brother-sister-relationship, cemetery, champagne, contessa, count, courtroom, crying, cynicism, dancer, dancing, death, death-of-mother, director, drinking, fairy-tale, father-daughter-relationship, film-fan, film-making, film-premiere, flashback-sequence, friend, friendship, funeral, gypsy, hollywood, impotence, inside-joke, italian, judge, kiss, lawyer, love, madrid-spain, male-female-relationship, millionaire, monte-carlo, mother-daughter-relationship, murder, nightclub, posing, press-agent, producer, publicist, rain, rome-italy, satire, screen-test, screening-room, screenwriter, self-defense, sexuality, shoes, slap, spanish, statue, sweat, swimming, trenchcoat, trial, voice-over-narration, war-wounds, wealth, wedding, wedding-night, wedding-reception, yacht
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Rear Window
In 1950-something New York, an adventuresome free-lance photographer finds himself confined to a wheelchair in his tiny apartment while a broken leg mends. With only the occasional distraction of a visiting nurse and his frustrated love interest, a beautiful fashion consultant, his attention is naturally drawn to the courtyard outside his “rear window” and the occupants of the apartment buildings which surround it. Soon he is consumed by the private dramas of his neighbors lives which play themselves out before his eyes. There is “Miss Lonelyhearts,” so desperate for her imaginary lover that she sits him a plate at the dinner table and feigns their ensuing chat. There is the frustrated composer banging on his piano, the sunbathing sculptress, the shapely dancer, the newlyweds who are concealed from their neighbors by a window shade, and a bungling middle-aged couple with a little yapping dog who sleep on the fire escape to avoid the sweltering heat of their apartment. …And then there is the mysterious salesman whose nagging, invalid wife’s sudden absence from the scene ominously coincides with middle-of-the-night forays into the dark, sleeping city with his sample case. Where did she go? What’s in the trunk that the salesman ships away? What’s he been doing with the knives and the saw that he cleans at the kitchen sink?
Rear Window DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 8.70 out of 10 (63962 votes)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr, Judith Evelyn, Ross Bagdasarian, Georgine Darcy, Sara Berner, Frank Cady, Jesslyn Fax, Rand Harper, Irene Winston, Havis Davenport, Marla English,
Tags: Mystery, Thriller, amateur-detective, anonymous-phonecall, apartment, arrest, based-on-short-story, blackmail, blockbuster, broken-leg, camera, claustrophobic, composer, courtyard, dancer, dating, dead-dog, death-of-pet, director-cameo, dismemberment, dog, dog-killed, face-slap, fall-from-height, fall-from-window, fire-escape, flashbulb, friendship, gender, girlfriend, hearing-aid, heat-wave, helicopter, house-breaking, injury, invalid, leg-in-cast, long-take, marriage, massage, meta-film, murder, murder-of-wife, neighbor, new-york-city, newlywed, nurse, photographer, photography, photojournalist, police-detective, psychological-thriller, rainstorm, recovery, romance, salesman, sculptor, single-set-production, socialite, spectator, spying, suicidal, suspicion, tense, theft, twist-in-the-end, urban, voyeur, voyeurism, wedding-ring, wheelchair, window, witness, wwii-veteran
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