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Directed by Melville ShavelsonOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
War,
Comedy,
Action,
AdventureActors Danny Kaye,
Dana Wynter,
Wilfrid Hyde-White,
Margaret Rutherford,
Diana Dors,
Allan CuthbertsonRating63%
Le soldat de 2e classe Ernie Williams a du mal à se faire à la discipline militaire. Peu avant le débarquement, il s'échappe d'un campement mais est repris aussitôt. On lui propose alors de prendre la place d'un général dont la vie est menacée par les nazis. Ernie accepte à contre-cœur. Maggie, l'épouse du général malheureuse dans son couple, arrive à l'improviste et commence à s'attacher à ce mari de remplacement. Mais Ernie est capturé par les Allemands puis emmené à Berlin où il est interrogé par la Gestapo. Après avoir fourni de fausses informations, Ernie parvient à s'évader avant d'être poursuivi par des agents nazis., 1h43
Directed by Melville ShavelsonOrigin USAGenres War,
ComedyThemes Films about animals,
Military humor in film,
Spy films,
Films about birds,
Political filmsActors Charlton Heston,
Elsa Martinelli,
Haya Harareet,
Jack Hawkins,
Harry Guardino,
Hugh GriffithRating59%
In 1944, during the last stages of the war in Europe, American officers Paul MacDougall (Heston) and Joseph Contini (Guardino) are sent to Italy to act as spies for the Allies, even though they have no experience in espionage. Working with Partisan resistance soldier Ciccio Massimo (Baccaloni), MacDougall and Contini send regular reports to their superiors by carrier pigeon., 2h26
Directed by Melville ShavelsonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Action,
HistoricalThemes Films set in Africa,
Political filmsActors Kirk Douglas,
Senta Berger,
Angie Dickinson,
Yul Brynner,
James Donald,
Frank SinatraRating62%
The film is a fictionalized account of the experiences of a real-life Jewish-American military officer, Colonel David "Mickey" Marcus, who commanded units of the fledgling Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War., 1h40
Directed by Melville ShavelsonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
BiographyThemes Political filmsActors Bob Hope,
Vera Miles,
Paul Douglas,
Alexis Smith,
Darren McGavin,
Joe MantellRating66%
In 1925, New York's governor, Al Smith, persuades state senator James J. "Jimmy" Walker that the Democratic Party needs him to run for mayor of New York City. A concern on Jimmy's part is his estrangement from wife Allie, but he discovers that she is willing to go along with his political aims., 1h37
Directed by Lewis GilbertOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
War,
Action,
HistoricalThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
La bataille de l'Atlantique,
Political filmsActors Kenneth More,
Peter Burton,
Dana Wynter,
Carl Möhner,
Laurence Naismith,
Edward R. MurrowRating70%
In 1939, Nazi Germany's largest and most powerful battleship, Bismarck, is launched in a ceremony at Hamburg with Adolf Hitler attending. The launching of the hull is seen as the beginning of a new era of German sea power., 1h55
Directed by Orson WellesOrigin EspagneGenres Drama,
War,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
HistoricalThemes Political films,
Films based on plays,
Films based on works by William Shakespeare,
Films about royaltyActors Orson Welles,
Keith Baxter,
John Gielgud,
Jeanne Moreau,
Margaret Rutherford,
Marina VladyRating75%
The film opens with Sir John Falstaff and Justice Shallow walking through the snow, then to a warm fire inside the Boar's Head Tavern as the two reminisce. After a main credit sequence, the narrator explains that King Henry IV of England has succeeded Richard II, whom he had killed. Richard II's true heir, Edmund Mortimer, is a prisoner in Wales, and Mortimer's cousins Northumberland, Worcester and Northumberland's son Hotspur demand that Henry rescue Mortimer. Henry refuses and Northumberland, Worcester and Hotspur begin to plot his overthrow., 1h57
Directed by Melville ShavelsonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Biography,
MusicalThemes Films about music and musicians,
Musical filmsActors Danny Kaye,
Barbara Bel Geddes,
Harry Guardino,
Bob Crosby,
Tuesday Weld,
Bobby TroupRating70%
Red Nichols (Kaye) is a small-town cornet player who moves to New York City in the 1920s and finds work in a band led by Wil Paradise (Crosby). He meets and marries singer Willia Stutsman, a.k.a. "Bobbie Meredith" (Bel Geddes), and the two form their own Dixieland band called "The Five Pennies" (a play on Nichols' name, since a nickel equals five pennies). As their popularity peaks, their young daughter Dorothy (Susan Gordon) contracts polio and the family leaves the music business, moving to Los Angeles. When Dorothy becomes a teen (Tuesday Weld) she learns of her father's music career and persuades him go on a comeback tour. The tour borders on failure until several notable musicians from Nichols' past appear to save the day., 1h46
Directed by Henry KosterOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Action,
RomanceThemes Political films,
Children's filmsActors Robert Taylor,
Richard Todd,
Dana Wynter,
Edmond O'Brien,
John Williams,
Jerry ParisRating58%
A few hours before D-Day, Special Force Six embarks to destroy an especially well-defended German gun emplacement on the Normandy coast. As the ship steams towards it, the officers and men recall what circumstances brought them there, especially Wynter and Parker., 1h49
Directed by Peter GlenvilleOrigin USAGenres War,
ComedyThemes Political films,
Films based on plays,
Buddy filmsActors Danny Kaye,
Curd Jürgens,
Nicole Maurey,
Françoise Rosay,
Akim Tamiroff,
Martita HuntRating69%
In Paris during the World War II invasion of France by Nazi Germany, Jewish refugee S. L. Jacobowsky (Danny Kaye) seeks to leave the country before it falls. Meanwhile, Polish diplomat Dr. Szicki (Ludwig Stössel) gives antisemitic, autocratic Polish Colonel Prokoszny (Curt Jürgens) secret information that must be delivered to London by a certain date., 1h43
Directed by Norman Panama,
Melvin Frank,
Alvin GanzerOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
ActionThemes Spy films,
Medical-themed films,
Psychologie,
Films about psychiatry,
Political filmsActors Danny Kaye,
Mai Zetterling,
Torin Thatcher,
David Burns,
Leon Askin,
Abner BibermanRating66%
Jerry Morgan (Kaye) is a ventriloquist who is having trouble with love: just when his relationship with a woman gets around to marriage, his dummy turns jealous and spoils everything. Jerry's manager Marty threatens to quit unless Jerry sees a psychiatrist, Ilse Nordstrom (Zetterling), who tries to discover the source of his problem. The two of them eventually fall in love.