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Examples of the Titles offered by Stellar Film Associates “Camille”
(1984) Greta Scacchi, Colin
Firth, Ben Kingsley John Gielgud, Billie Whitelaw. Camille is a courtesan
in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand
Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and
position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However,
when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Camille discovers that
Armand has not lost his love for her. Greta Scacchi is known for her role
in Brideshead Revisited. A young Colin Firth got good reviews for this
early performance. Legends Ben Kingsley and Sir John Gielgud
and great scenery are value added aspects. 1984 Color 100 minutes.
“Three Steps North”, Starring Lloyd Bridges, Lea Padovani, Aldo
Fabrizi. After a prison sentence an American GI stationed in Italy
discovers that his hidden loot has disappeared and goes searching for it.
Tag Line to advertise the film was ... “A man can wait just SO long ...
and when he strikes back, watch for the dramatic explosion!” Directed by
W. Lee Wilder. 1951 B&W 85 minutes. (AKA): Tre passi a nord (Italy) “Scaramouche”
is a 1952 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer romantic adventure film based on the 1921
novel Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini as well as the 1923 film version
starring Ramón Novarro. The film stars Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker,
Janet Leigh, and Mel Ferrer. The original music score was composed by
Victor Young and the cinematography by Charles Rosher. “Gentle
Ben” Dean Cain, Corbin Bensen, Jack Conley. When shady oil tycoon
Cal Stryker (Jack Conley) strikes a deal to drill for oil near a wildlife
preserve, ranger Jack Wedloe (Dean Cain from TV's 'Lois & Clark')
decides to do some investigating. He discovers that more than oil drilling
is going on, and finds that illegal toxic waste dumping is occurring and
is threatening the home of everyone's favorite bear, Gentle Ben. It is up
to Jack and his friends to right this wrong. Made for TV. 2002 “Dog
Gone” Jack Wagner, Daphne
Zuniga and Jack Wagner Kyle is
a police officer, and his partner is his dog, Hunter. Hunter gets killed
in the line of duty, and his spirit comes back in the body of a criminal
named Howie. Howie, with the spirit of Hunter in him, helps Kyle in
solving a dastardly plot. AKA Ghost
Dog, a Detective Story. 2003 85 Minutes “The
Hobbit” John Huston. Animated Fantasy. Hobbits are simple folk. Small
people with hairy feet, they are not cut out for adventure and prefer to
laze about and eat. A particular hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, is taken by
surprise one morning when the mighty wizard Gandalf
knocks at his door. Soon Bilbo finds himself inducted into a party
of dwarves bent on reclaiming their mountain from the deadly
fire-breathing dragon, Smaug. Insisting that the timid Bilbo is a master
thief, Gandalf insures the danger-loving dwarves that the quest will
include many mishaps and perilous encounters with goblins, trolls, and
dwarf-eating spiders. Among other things that the reluctant Bilbo
discovers on this amazing journey is an enchanted ring that turns its
wearer invisible, and soon the hobbit transforms from a master bumbler
into a master burglar. Based on the beloved novel by J.R.R. Tolkien. “Angel
Doll” Keith Carradine. This is a heartwarming Christmas tale about a
poverty-stricken family that lives with such daily troubles as an ailing
mother. Whitey, the son of the family, and his best friend Jerry set out
on a determined trek to find a present for Whitey's 4-year-old sister who
is awe of angels in story books. Their mission is to find an angel doll.
The story all comes together, ending with a warm holiday message. here is
a comment from one viewer, "Just as "It's A Wonderful Life"
shows the triumph of the human spirit over life's obstacles and
injustices, so "The Angel Doll" transports the viewer to a time
of loyalty and simplicity. At Christmas and beyond, the film reminds us
that what truly matters is choosing to care enough to go the extra
distance. We can recall that, like the Littlest Angel, giving that which
is dearest to our hearts -- our love -- is the greatest gift of all. 2003
Color 93 minutes. "The
Jazz Singer" Al Jolson, Warner Oland, May McAvoy. Cantor Rabinowitz
is concerned and upset because his son Jakie shows so little interest in
carrying on the family's traditions and heritage. For five generations,
men in the family have been Cantors in the synagogue, but Jakie is more
interested in jazz and ragtime music. One day, they have such a bitter
argument that Jakie leaves home for good. After a few years on his own,
now calling himself Jack Robin, he gets an important opportunity through
the help of well-known stage performer Mary Dale. But Jakie finds that in
order to balance his career, his relationship with Mary, and his memories
of his family, he will be forced to make some difficult choices. Jolson
has been hailed as one of the greatest entertainers of all times. For
decades, radio stations conducted a "battle of the record stars"
and into the 50's and 60's Jolson would win. Jolson's famous line
"you ain't heard nothin' yet" was an ad-lib. The intention was
that the film should only have synchronized music, not speech, but Jolson
dropped in the line (which he used in his stage act) after the song
"Dirty Hands, Dirty Face". The director wisely left it in.
Warner Oland who plays the Rabbi and Jolson's father went on to play
Charlie Chan for Monogram Pictures. This is often described as the first
"sound" film which is not entirely true. There were sound
"shorts" and other synchronized presentations. But, for many
reasons, The Jazz Singer is a land mark film. 1927 B&W 89 Minutes "Blast
Off" aka "Those Fantastic Flying Fools," Burl Ives, Troy
Donahue, Gert Fröbe, Daliah Lavi and Terry Thomas. When P.T. Barnum (Burl
Ives) and friends attempt to send the first rocket to the moon, their
mission is rife with problems. Beginning with dire capital discrepancies,
the crew also finds itself the object of sabotage and espionage. It seems
impossible that they shall be able to launch their rocket from the massive
cannon they've built into the mountainside. Lavish color production with
lots of British tempered humor and sight gags. "Toby
McTeaque". An Alaska wilderness family keeps a string of sled dogs
for sport and survival. Described by critics as a ‘Disney like’ film.
Plenty of action with dog races and dramatic rescues. Toby McTeague (Yannick
Bisson) is a teen-aged boy, living in a flyspeck town in Northern Canada
with his father and younger brother. Toby's thriving livelihood, raising
and training sled dogs, is threatened by a dip in the local economy. His
problems are intensified by the ongoing hostilities between Toby and his
dad (Winston Reckert). Running away from home, Toby makes the acquaintance
of elderly Indian chief George Wild Dog (George Clutesi), who years
earlier had been "shaman," or spiritual advisor, to Toby's
father. It is Chief Wild Dog who mystically brings father and son together
at the film's climax, in addition to rescuing Toby's sled-dog business in
a near-miraculous fashion. . Color 1987 94 Canada PG "Life
and Death of Colonel Blimp" Stars
Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook The rotund Colonel Clive
Candy V.C. has fought in the Boer War and the first world war. He still
believes he can win any fight with honor and maintaining "gentlemanly
conduct". It takes an old German friend of his to point out how much
the rules have been changed when fighting the Nazis. We follow this
delightful gentleman through his life and the pursuit of his (various)
ideals. Filmed in 1943 and from the Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
studios. This is a brilliant two-part presentation “Molly
and Me”. Roddy McDowall Gracie
Fields Monty Woolley.
Molly, an actress desperate for work, decides to get it by
"playing the part" of an experienced housekeeper. It turns out
that the butler at her new household is doing the same thing. Their
employer, Mr. Graham, is a retired politician who, divorced from his wife
and estranged from his son, lives alone with a staff of servants. Graham's
life needs shaking up and, with her enthusiasm and acting talent, Molly is
just the one to help him do it when the opportunity arises. “Four Feathers” Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith This early color film about cowardice in war, is one of the great achievements of Producer/Director Alexander Korda (his brother Zoltan directed The Four Feathers" while Alexander produced and owned the studio that made the film) was making the first films in Great Britain that rivaled the technical (as opposed to cinematic) accomplishments of Hollywood. THE FOUR FEATHERS holds up admirably with most of the big budget films made in Hollywood in 1939. Thousands of extras were used, but unlike Hollywood, where whites were made up to look like Native Americans, Asian Indians, or Arabs, the extras in “The Four Feathers” clearly hailed from one or another part of Africa or the Middle East. A stand out is C. Aubrey Smith who made a career out of playing bombastic and self-important British Colonels or Generals. Ralph Richardson who appeared in several Korda productions is praised by critics for his performance. John Clements is the tormented Harry Faversham. 1939 Color 129 minute. “The
Munster’s Revenge” The owner of a wax museum has an exhibit dedicated
to the Munster’s. When he uses robots that look like Herman and Grandpa
to pull a jewelry heist, everyone thinks that the real Herman and Grandpa
did it. They must prove their innocence and uncover the real thieves. It
was hoped the TV release would spark a re-release of the TV series. “Rembrandt”
Charles Laughton, Elsa Lancaster, Gertrude Lawrence, Edward Chapman. We
are adding to our Charles Laughton and KORDA Collection. This character
study joins the painter at the height of his fame in 1642, when his adored
wife suddenly dies and his work takes a dark, sardonic turn that offends
his patrons. By 1656, he is bankrupt but consoles himself with the company
of pretty maid Hendrickje, whom he's unable to marry. Their relationship
brings ostracism but also some measure of happiness. The final scenes find
him in his last year, 1669, physically enfeebled but his spirit undimmed.
This was to be the first in a series on famous painters, but was not
widely embraced by the mass audience in 1936. While not a box office hit,
this film is regarded as one of the Korda families best efforts and a
superb acting achievement by Laughton and his wife, Elsa Lanchester.
Directed by Alexander Korda 1936 B&W 85 minutes. "Great Expectations" John Mills, Valery Hobson, Jean Simmons. Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, lives with kind blacksmith Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife 'Mrs. Joe'. When the boy finds two hidden escaped galley convicts, he obeys under -probably unnecessary- threat of a horrible death to bring the criminals food he must steal at peril of more caning from the battle-ax. Just when Pip fears to get it really good while they have guests, a soldier comes for Joe who takes Pip along as assistant to work on the chains of escaped galley-convicts, who are soon caught. The better-natured one takes the blame for the stolen food. Later Pip is invited to became the playmate of Estelle, the equally arrogant adoptive daughter of gloomy, filthy rich Miss Havisham at her estate, who actually has 'permission' to break the kind kid's heart; being the only pretty girl he ever saw, she wins his heart forever, even after a mysterious benefactor pays trough a lawyer for his education and a rich allowance, so he can become a snob in London, by now 'ashamed' of simple Joe. Only after years in idle wealth, Pip learns Havisham is not his benefactor as he assumed, and both her story and those of his real sponsor and Estelle. From a stellar 35mm print. 1946 B&W 118 minutes. “Marooned”
Gregory Peck, Richard Crennam David Jansen ,James Franciscus, Gene Hackman,
Lee Grant, Mariette Hartley, Scott Brady . The tag line used to advertise
this film was ..."Three marooned astronauts. Only 55 minutes left to
rescue them. While the whole world watches and waits....". Three
American astronauts are stranded in space when their retros won't fire.
After initially thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit,
NASA decides to launch a daring rescue. Their plans are complicated by a
Hurricane headed towards the launch site and a shrinking air supply in the
astronaut’s capsule. Directed by John Sturges.1969 Color 134 minutes. "Hangmen
Also Die” Starring Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Gene Lockhart. After
the Nazi administrator of Czechoslovakia is shot, his assassin tries to
elude the Gestapo and struggles with his impulse to give himself up as
hostages are executed. The idea for the film was inspired by the
assassination of Gestapo official Reinhard Heydrich by Czech guerrillas
and the subsequent reprisals taken by Nazi occupation forces. During the
Joseph McCarthy-inspired "Red Scare" era in the 1950s, this was
one of the films labeled "subversive" by the HUAC (House
Un-American Activities Committee) because it was alleged to have contained
dialog that might be construed as pro-communist. Writer John Wexley was
even "blacklisted". It wasn't seen again in the United States
until the mid-'70s. Directed by Fritz Lang. 1943 B&W “The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer” Walter Brennan
Margaret Hamilton, May Robson. Misadventures of a mischievous boy
in 1850 Missouri. This version from the
United Artists release includes most of the sequences familiar to
readers of the book, including the fence-whitewashing episode; a wild raft
ride down the Mississippi River; Tom and Huckleberry Finn's attendance at
their own funeral, after the boys, who were enjoying an adventure on a
remote island, are presumed dead; the murder trial of local drunkard Muff
Potter; and Tom and Becky Thatcher's flight through a cave as they try to
escape from Injun Joe, who is revealed to be the real killer. This was the
fourth screen adaptation of the Twain novel, following versions released
in 1907, 1917, and 1930, and the first filmed in Technicolor. Tommy Kelly,
a Bronx fireman's son, was selected for the title role through a national
campaign waged by producer David O. Selznick, who later would conduct a
similar search for an actress to portray Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the
Wind. According to a 1937 memo he sent to story editor Katharine Brown, he
originally hoped to cast an orphan as Tom, feeling such a stunt would
receive "tremendous attention and arouse such a warm public feeling
that it would add enormously to the gross of the picture, Kelly, while
charming, failed to achieve the star status of fellow child actor Freddie
Bartholomew, and was out shown. Kelly, after an inconsequential career he
retired and later became a school teacher. Directed by Norman Taurog. 1938
Color Approx 93 minutes. "The
Sadist": with Arch Hall Jr. Richard Alden, Marilyn Manning, Don
Russell, Arch Hall Sr., Joan Howard, Vilmos Zsigmond and introducing Helen
Hovey. A group has traveled
from Lancaster, California to go to a ball game in LA get stuck in a
desert town when the fuel pump breaks on the car. They pull into a garage
but no one seems to be around so they hang around a Coke machine for a
while. When help doesn't show they decide to fix the car themselves. Then
suddenly The Sadist (Arch Hall Jr) makes his appearance known, and with a
gun. He continues to terrorize them for the rest of the film. Arch Hall
Jr. is credited with a convincing performance as Charles Tibbs, the
killer. Produced in 1963 it was directed and written by James Landis. “Dan
Candy’s Law” Donald Southerland, Chief Dan George, Kevin Mc Carthy
Donald Sutherland as Dan Candy, a Royal Canadian Mountie who tours the
plains of Saskatchewan with his partner, Malcolm Grant (Kevin McCarthy).
AKA "Alien" Thunder" Directed
by Claude Fournier 1974 Color 93 Minutes “Sea
Devils” Stacy Keach, Antoine Stip, Charlotte de Turckheim, Gus Scharr.
Ship Captain falls for an activist who wants to save children from the
Chinese policy of allowing only one child to family and use his ship to
rescue victims from a cruel Chinese orphanage. Directed by Neil Hollander.
1998 115 minutes. “Man
in the Attic”, Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Francis Bavier London,
1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr.
Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including
a gloomy attic room for "experiments." Mrs. Harley finds Slade
odd and increasingly suspects the worst; her niece Lily (star of a
decidedly Parisian stage revue) finds him interesting and increasingly
attractive. Is Lily in danger, or are her mother's suspicions merely a red
herring? Francis Bavier, who played Aunt Bea on Andy of Mayberry, appears.
1953 B&W “Destination
Moon” John Archer, Warner
Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson, Erin O'Brien-Moor. This is a fondly
remembered pioneer American science fiction feature film produced by
George Pal, who later produced When Worlds Collide, The War of the Worlds,
and The Time Machine. Pal commissioned the script by James O'Hanlon and
Rip Van Ronkel. The film was directed by Irving Pichel, was shot in
Technicolor. "Destination Moon" was the first major
science-fiction film produced in the United States dealing seriously with
the prospect, problems and technology of space travel. Science-fiction
writer Robert A. Heinlein contributed significantly to the script and
served as a technical adviser. The film was promoted through an
unprecedented onslaught of publicity in the print media. Seven years
before Sputnik, 19 years before the actual moon landing, the movie clearly
spells out a rationale for the space race: unnamed enemies (clearly
understood at the time to be the Soviets) are sabotaging the American
space program, and unless the West beats them to the moon, they will
establish a strategic advantage to conquer the world. Destination Moon
includes an animated segment of Woody Woodpecker illustrating the basics
of space flight. The segment serves to educate not only certain characters
in the story, but the audience as well. As a narrative device, this
technique has been employed in subsequent films, such as Jurassic Park.
1950, Color, 91 Minutes. “The
Christmas Stallion” Sian Maclean, Daniel J. Travanti. Filmed against the
exquisite vistas of the Welsh countryside, Gwen Davies is a sixteen
year-old orphan girl who lives on her grandfather's beautiful farm. Her
happy life is suddenly shattered when her beloved grandfather is thrown
from a horse and killed. Gwen must confront the loss of her family's farm
and her beloved horse, the great stallion Mabon. She's left to handle the
family farm and all the horses on it until her uncle enters the picture,
wanting to sell the property to a greedy land developer. One possible way
to keep the farm is for Gwen to enter her beloved black stallion Mabon
(named for a Pagan holiday) in the Christmas Costume Race. The climactic
scene showing Gwen as an angel riding against Father Christmas and an elf,
among others, is certainly one of the more unique racing scenes ever in
the movies Also known as The Winter Stallion 2002 Color 94 minutes “Silver
Wolf”, Michael Biehn, Roy Scheider, Shane Meier. A ranger (Michael Biehn)
and his 16 year old nephew (Shane Meier) struggle to save a wolf. A
boy learns to deal with personal loss by making friends with the wolf in
this drama for the family. Jesse is a 16-year-old who is trying to put his
life back together after the death of his father, who died while trying to
rescue him in the wilderness. Jesse goes to live with his Uncle Roy.
.Jesse rescues a wolf who has been wounded; The teen bonds with
the animal, and while Roy understands the dangers of trying to taking care
of a wild animal. Uncle suggests the
wolf be given to to a zoo.. However, Jesse, who is fond of
snowboarding, teaches the wolf to be his partner in skijoring, a sport in
which a dog is used to haul a man on skis. John Rockwell (Roy Scheider),
the owner of a ranch, sees the wolf as a threat to his stock and is
determined to see the wolf killed. This is a Family Film Festival selection.
Filmed in Vancouver, BC. 1989 Color “BMX
Bandits” is a 1983 Australian children's adventure film featuring one of
Nicole Kidman's earliest appearances. The film follows the exploits of two
young BMX experts, P.J. (Angelo D'Angelo) and Goose (James Lugton), and
their friend Judy (Nicole Kidman) after stumbling upon a box of
police-band walkie talkies. A small group of incompetent bank robbers were
hoping to use the walkie talkies to snoop on police traffic and they will
now do anything to get them back. The film boils down to a wild chase
across opportunistic sites around Sydney, including a memorable escape
down the Manly Waterworks water slides, complete with BMX bikes. Available
for TV, Cable and Internet from Stellar Film Associates. “The
Brave One” Michael Ray, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Elsa Cárdenas,
Carlos Navarro, Joi Lansing. This is the story of a bull named
Gitano (or Gypsy). A Mexican boy Michael Ray "adopts" Gitano
after saving the animal's life during a storm. The friendship between bull
and boy is threatened when Gitano's legal owners claim the animal and ship
it off to the bullring. Moved by the boy's plight, the President of Mexico
signs a "pardon" for Gitano - but not soon enough to prevent the
bull's appearance at the Plaze de Mexico at Mexico City, where he faces
top matador Fermin Rivera. Based on a true incident, the film earned a
"best story" Academy Award for one Robert Rich - who, much to
the embarrassment of the Academy (and the delight of civil libertarians)
turned out to be blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. "The Brave
One' won the Oscar for Best Screenplay. 1956 Color 100 Minutes “The
People That Time Forgot” Starring Patrick Wayne, Doug McClure. A sequel
to “The Land That Time Forgot”. Major Ben McBride organizes a mission
to the Antarctic wastes to search for his friend (Doug McClure) who has
been missing in the region for several years. McBride's party find
themselves in a world populated by primitive warriors and terrifying
prehistoric creatures, all of whom they must evade in order to get back
safely to their ship. Directed by Kevin Oconner. 1977 Color 90 minute. "True
Women" Angelina Jolie, Annabeth Gish, Dana Delany Set on the Texas
plains in the 1800s, this drama takes you from the Texas Revolution
through the Civil War. The story is brought to life through two sisters
and their families and friends and they experience love, war and adventure
with each other and help each other through the deep bonds of friendship
during their personal struggles for survival. 1997 Color Mini Series Cable “Mister
Johnson” Pierce Brosnan, Edward Woodward, Maynard Eziashi. In 1923
British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black
man who doesn't really fit in with the natives or the British. He works
for the local British magistrate, and considers himself English, though he
has never been to England. He pretends to be something he isn't and has to
face himself and a deadly outcome. Brosnan
is splendid as the stiff upper lip officer who must carry out the
sentence. 1990 Color 97 Minutes. Cable “Widow's
Peak” Mia Farrow, Joan Plowright, Natasha Richardson. A sparkling comedy
with a murder mystery foundation. Richardson moves to the Irish town of
Widow's Peak in the 1920's where she stirs things up in a big way with her
knack at seduction and her talent of jealousy provoking. She tells all
sorts of scandalous secrets and lies, but all the while it's part of a
bigger plan. The scheme is exposed after a series of startling
revelations, but the final scheme could be much bigger, and deadlier. The
movie's writer, Irish playwright Hugh Leonard, originally wrote the part
of Miss O'Hare especially for Maureen O'Sullivan, but she gracefully
reneged because of her advanced age and dwindling stamina. Her daughter
Mia Farrow ultimately took over the role. 1994 Color 98 min. Cable “Bells
of Innocence” Chuck Norris, Mike Norris, Marshall Teague. Deep in the
desert of Texas, three men find themselves stranded in a bizarre town
called Ceres. The only communication with the outside world is one man's
short-wave radio. The possessed townspeople plan to use the outsiders as a
sacrifice and the three friends are forced to face evil itself armed only
with hope. Religious overtone in a horror film setting. 2003 color 97
minutes. “The
Gorgon” is a British Horror films from the Hammer Studio. It stars
Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley and Richard Pasco.
For haunting and unique musical score
James Bernard combined a skilled soprano with a little-known
electronic instrument called the Novacord.. The film marks one of the few
occasions when Hammer turned to Greek Mythology
for inspiration; this time it is the legend of the GORGON
that is respun for the Hammer audiences. The year is 1910, in the
rural German village of Vandorf, seven murders have been committed within
the past five years, each victim having been petrified into a stone
figure. Rather than investigate it, the local authorities dismiss the
murders for fear of a local legend having come true. When a local girl
becomes the latest victim and her suicidal lover made the scapegoat, the
father of the condemned man decides to investigate and discovers that the
cause of the petrifying deaths is a phantom. The very last of the
snake-haired Gorgon sisters haunts the local castle and turns victims to
stone during the full moon. Directed by Terrence Fisher. 1964 Color 83
Minutes. Cable “God's
Little Acre” Robert Ryan, Buddy Hackett, Jack Lord, Michael Landon,
Fay Spain, Aldo Ray. A
poor farmer is obsessed with finding gold on his land supposedly buried by
his grandfather. To find it he conveniently moves a marker out of his way
that designates the land on which it rests as God's Little Acre, where
anything that comes from the ground will go to God's work. Eventually he
abducts an albino to help him find the gold. Meanwhile, his
daughter-in-law is suspected of fooling around with a labor activist out
of work since the mill closed, and a local political hopeful actively
seeks his daughter's hand in marriage. Based on Erskine Caldwell's novel.
1958 B&W 118 minutes. “And
Then There Were None” Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward.
Agatha Christie's mystery thriller Ten Little Indians. At first glance,
René Clair might seem an odd match for Agatha Christie's mystery thriller
Ten Little Indians, but his buoyant touch is exactly what is missing from
so many overly solemn remakes. Ten strangers gather for a mysterious
gathering on a secluded island. It turns out to be a farewell party, for
they all have been sentenced to die for crimes in their past by a
self-appointed judge, jury, and executioner who may be one of them. One by
one, the guests are systematically dispatched in the manner described in
the lyrics of the children's rhyme "Ten Little Indians," while
the survivors nervously eye one another, splintering into tenuous
alliances until the next murder throws suspicion on someone new. The
terrific cast of character actors has a ball with Dudley Nichols's witty
script. The flamboyant sparring of Barry Fitzgerald (whose paternal Irish
lilt takes a sinister dimension) and Walter Huston is almost upstaged by
Roland Young's deadpan drollery. Romantic leads Louis Hayward and June
Duprez come off as arch and stiff in august company that includes a
sinisterly detached Judith Anderson, a dotty and distracted C. Aubrey
Smith, and a hilariously flippant Mischa Auer. The story has been remade
numerous times under the title of Christie's novel, Ten Little Indians,
but never as well. Clair's effervescent, lively little gem is a fatal
drawing-room comedy with a body count and a surreal mood of doom. This is
one of the best Classic Mystery presentations from Stellar Film
Associates. 1945 “To Kill a Mockingbird” Gregory Peck, Robert Duvall, Brock Peters, Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical novel was translated to film. Set a small Alabama town in the 1930s, the story focuses on scrupulously honest lawyer Atticus Finch, played by Gregory Peck. Finch puts his career on the line when he agrees to represent a black man accused of rape. This film won Academy Awards for Best Actor (Peck), Best Adapted Screenplay. and Best Art Direction. 1962 B&W 129 Minutes. Notice: Not
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