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Directed by Douglas SirkOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
BiographyThemes Films about children,
Politique,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Political filmsActors Rock Hudson,
Anna Kashfi,
Dan Duryea,
Don DeFore,
Martha Hyer,
Richard LooRating62%
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., 1h43
Directed by Stanley Donen,
Gary NelsonOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Musical theatre,
Romantic comedy,
Musical,
RomanceThemes La mode,
Films about music and musicians,
Films about classical music and musicians,
Jazz films,
Musical filmsActors Audrey Hepburn,
Fred Astaire,
Kay Thompson,
Michel Auclair,
Robert Flemyng,
Bess FlowersRating69%
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.", 2h18
Directed by Vittorio De SicaOrigin ItalieGenres Drama,
ComedyActors Silvana Mangano,
Sophia Loren,
Paolo Stoppa,
Totò,
Vittorio De Sica,
Giacomo FuriaRating72%
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".