简介:Captain Ambrose comes from a long line of distinguished sailors...but is all too susceptible to seasickness. After the war, he buys himself a nautical command on shore; a decrepit amusement pier at the British resort town Sandcastle-on-Sea, whose prim town council has outlawed arcade games as a form of gambling! Running the pier like a naval vessel, the captain's determination to make it a modern, going concern meets steady opposition. But with an unexpected new ally, he pursues a remarkable scheme to liberate his ship from land authorities...
简介:A seasoned woman from the world of show business, recruits 11 Romanian dancers dreaming of fame and glory to take them to Paris. One of them decides to leave her husband, but he doesn't take it very well and starts on a journey to get back his wife and plenty of hilarious things happen along the way.
主演:弗雷德里克·马奇,伊夫琳·维纳布尔,盖伊·斯坦丁,凯瑟琳·亚历山大,吉尔·帕特里克,凯瑟琳·霍华德,肯特·泰勒,亨利·崔佛斯,G·P·亨特利,莫洛尼·奥尔森,赫克托·萨尔诺,菲利普斯·斯莫利,Helen Westley,Anna De Linsky,Otto Hoffman,Frank Yaconelli
简介:Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality” – Emily Dickinson If Death took a holiday, the guns would go silent in Iraq, the slaughter on our nation’s highways would cease, and the news media would be compelled to cover positive events in the humanities, arts, and sciences. Unfortunately, Death has not had a vacation in recorded history, but Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 fantasy, Death Takes a Holiday, allows us to consider the possibility. Co-written by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman and based on the play La Morte in Vacanza by Alberto Casella, Death Takes a Holiday stars Frederic March as the Grim Reaper who takes on human form in an attempt to discover why men fear him so much. Why he has waited 5,000 years to satisfy this curiosity is not explained. [Spoiler] After a brief tryout as a shadowy figure who scares the daylights out of those that cross his path, Death shows up at, of all places, an upscale party at an Italian villa, posing as the mysterious Prince Sirki. Only one person knows who he really is, the host Duke Lambert (Guy Standing), and he is sworn to secrecy. Sirki proceeds to fascinate the guests. Given to bursts of wit and poetry, he can just as quickly turn sullen and threatening, and some soon find out that it is better not to look too deeply into his eyes. During the three days in which the Prince is at the villa, however, people all over the world miraculously escape death and potential suicides are doomed to frustration. To see what’s behind all the conversation about love, the suave but naïve Prince Sirki falls for the irresistible Grazia (Evelyn Venable), the daughter of one of Duke’s friends. Grazia knows who Death is but does not fear him, much to the chagrin of her fiancé, Corrado (Kent Taylor) who has developed a strong disdain for Prince Charming. More sinister than Brad Pitt in the 1998 remake Meet Joe Black, March turns in a very convincing performance as the creepy yet strangely appealing guest. Although the ending is melodramatic, the emotions are very real and the suggestion that Death may in reality be a friend disguised as a foe is quite touching. (Howard Schumann, talkingpix.co.uk) In this wearisome and predictable plot line, Death falls in love and bores us to death talking about it. (Dennis Schwartz, homepages.sover.net) I've heard DRACULA was advertised with the tag line The Weirdest Love Story ever told! (this is probably a paraphrase), but at heart, I've never felt that you could honestly call that movie a love story. The tag line would be much more appropriate for this one, since it ultimately boils down to what amounts to a love story. This movie is very good indeed, particularly if you consider that it is built around a concept that could have easily been handled in a cute or facile manner. Instead, it is handled as seriously as possible, with some real thought put into how death would try to come to terms with a life and an outlook that was to that point totally unfamiliar to him; much of the credit does go to Fredric March in the title role. It's quite scary when it needs to be, particularly during the first twenty minutes. From then on, it deals with its themes with subtlety, a quiet wit, an enduring sadness, and an everpresent tension on how Death might react if crossed. It's not perfect; some of the dialogue is self-conscious and artificial, as if the writers knew they were dealing with weighty issues and were trying to be profound. But I am certainly glad they didn't try to turn it into a musical comedy of sorts. (Dave Sindelar, scifilm.org) See also the remake Death Takes A Holiday (1971)
主演:丽莎·泰格,Fabian Svegaard Tapia,艾伦·多丽特·彼得森,菲利普·安德瑞·波铁洛,Morad Aziman,Bao Andre Nguyen,Christine Grace Szarko,Georgia May Anta,Bboy Junior,Léa Djyl,Keiona,Salah Benlemqawanssa,Adeline Tayoro,Martine Mbock,Kevin Staincq
简介:Amalie's dance crew advances to the global finals in France. Torn between the love of Mikael, the longing for her absent mother, and her fire for dance, Amalie must choose. Who is she to become
主演:索菲娅·迪·马蒂诺,埃拉-雷·史密斯,乔·哈特利,塞缪尔·安德森,斯戴凡·辛尼德,William Andrews,Tabitha Byron,Anna Antoniades,Nell Barlow,Spike Fearn,Celeste De Veazey
简介:Marley Morrison’s knockout debut feature is a sharply observed coming-of-age story that will make you wince and laugh in painful recognition of universal truths. 17-year-old AJ (Nell Barlow) is not one of life’s shiny, happy people. A family holiday at a caravan park in Dorset is her idea of hell. A moody misfit, she dresses for concealment and lets everyone know that she would rather be anywhere else. Then she spies flirty, free-spirited lifeguard Isla (Ella-Rae Smith) who might just be the girl of her dreams. Can AJ dare to take a first step on the road to happiness
简介:Michael (or Fresh as he's well known) is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded house with his cousins and aunt. His father has become a street bum,but still meets with fresh on occasion to play chess. Fresh is rather quiet in a crazy world. Fresh' sister is a junkie who sleeps with the dealers that fresh sells for. As the story progresses Fresh realizes that he doesn't want to sell drugs anymore, he wants revenge.
简介: Toni Zweyer过着自己想要的生活。她是卡车司机Andy的贤妻,13岁孩子Lea的慈母,和丈夫共同经营自己家的货运生意。但当得知丈夫Andy死于车祸时,一切都改变了。公司债务日益沉重,她与孩子已别无他路,Toni只能自己握住了18吨卡车的方向盘。她很快意识到,跑国际长途货运对一个新手来说,是多么的残酷艰难。Toni一直觉得他的丈夫尚存人间,随着调查愈加深入,她便愈加确信这一点。她从一个声名狼藉的商人那得知了真相,但这个真相让她被劫持、被绑架,目睹军火走私,走上了被警察追缉的逃亡之路。这可能不是她想要的生活,但Toni永远不会放弃抗争。
简介:艾伦(贝特西·德雷克 Betsy Drake 饰)在旅途中结识了名叫杰夫(罗伯特·杨 Robert Young 饰)的建筑师,杰夫曾经就差一点要和未婚妻携手步入婚姻的殿堂了,在这个节骨眼上,他的未婚妻因为意外去世了。自此之后,杰夫性情大变,喜怒无常,宛如患上了精神分裂症一般。 不仅如此,厄运似乎从此就跟上了杰夫,他接二连三的失去了人生中他认为非常重要的东西,还丢掉了工作。艾伦认为这一切是有人在背后捣鬼,当她想要找出幕后的罪魁祸首时,杰夫的心理医生告诉她,杰夫也许患上了非常严重的妄想症,如果继续和他接触的话,艾伦会有生命危险。
主演:莉莉·柯林斯,康妮·尼尔森,西蒙·佩吉,切斯·克劳福,马克·理查德森二世,迈克尔·比奇,克里斯·加恩,何塞·埃雷拉,克莉丝缇娜·德萝莎,哈里森·斯通,帕特里克·沃伯顿,艾米丽·托尔斯,塔利·拉夫拉米,Rebecca Adams,Mariyah Francis,Lucas Alexander Ayoub,Jim E. Chandler,Warren McLemore