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Battle Hymn
Battle Hymn (1957) on 14 february 1957
, 1h48
Directed by Douglas Sirk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography
Themes Films about children, Politique, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Rock Hudson, Anna Kashfi, Dan Duryea, Don DeFore, Martha Hyer, Richard Loo
Rating62% 3.149063.149063.149063.149063.14906
Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dean Hess (Rock Hudson) was a minister in Ohio. The attack prompts him to become a fighter pilot. Hess had accidentally dropped a bomb on an orphanage in Germany during World War II, killing 37 orphans. At the start of the Korean War, Hess volunteers to return to the cockpit and is assigned as the senior USAF advisor/Instructor Pilot to the Republic of Korea Air Force, flying F-51D Mustangs.
Funny Face
Funny Face (1957) on 13 february 1957
, 1h43
Directed by Stanley Donen, Gary Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes La mode, Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films
Actors Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson, Michel Auclair, Robert Flemyng, Bess Flowers
Rating69% 3.4994353.4994353.4994353.4994353.499435
Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson) is a fashion magazine publisher and editor, for Quality magazine, who is looking for the next big fashion trend. She wants a new look for the magazine. Maggie wants the look to be both "beautiful" and "intellectual". She and famous fashion photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire) want models who can "think as well as they look." The two brainstorm and come up with the idea to find a "sinister-looking" book store in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan. They subsequently find a bookstore named "Embryo Concepts."
The Gold of Naples
The Gold of Naples (1954) on 11 february 1957
, 2h18
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Silvana Mangano, Sophia Loren, Paolo Stoppa, Totò, Vittorio De Sica, Giacomo Furia
Rating72% 3.644483.644483.644483.644483.64448
The film is a tribute to Naples, where director De Sica spent his first years, this is a collection of 6 Neapolitan episodes: a clown exploited by a hoodlum; an unfaithful pizza seller (Loren) losing her husband's ring; the funeral of a child; the impoverished inveterate gambler Count Prospero B. being reduced to force his concierge's preteen kid to play cards with him (and regularly being defeated); the unexpected and unusual wedding of Teresa, a prostitute; the exploits of "professor" Ersilio Micci, a "wisdom seller" who "solves problems".
Hot Summer Night
Hot Summer Night (1957) on 15 february 1957
, 1h26
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Leslie Nielsen, Edward Andrews, Colleen Miller, Jay C. Flippen, James Best, Paul Richards
Rating60% 3.046813.046813.046813.046813.04681
A reporter on his honeymoon goes to dangerous lengths to interview a notorious bank robber.