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Living on Velvet (1935) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Living on Velvet
director: Frank Borzage actor: Kay Francis / Warren William …
other title: Sur le velours / 鄉住温柔 …
A lay-about falls for his best friend's fiancee. The two of them run away from a life of privilege to one of middle-class normalcy. When an influx of money enters their life, their differences come to light.
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Take a Giant Step (1959) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Take a Giant Step
director: Philip Leacock actor: Johnny Nash / Estelle Hemsley …
other title: 少年心 / Spring über Deinen Schatten
After African-American teenager Spence Scott gets expelled from his private school for arguing with a teacher, he turns to his grandmother for advice. Spence, who lives in a genteel white area and has mostly white friends, feels like an outsider. He visits a bar in a black neighborhood, where he meets a few prostitutes, which doesn't help. Eventually, Spence starts a friendship with the housekeeper, Christine, who tells him her own difficult story.
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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) [Movie] Min reol
Arsenic and Old Lace
director: Frank Capra actor: Cary Grant / Priscilla Lane …
other title: Arsenic et vieilles dentelles / Arsen und Spitzenhäubchen …
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
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Why We Fight, 2 (1945) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Nazis Strike
director: 弗兰克·卡普拉 / 安纳托尔·李维克 actor: 爱德华·贝奈斯 / 安瑟维·内维尔·张伯伦 …
other title: 纳粹的入侵 / The Nazis Strike …
The second film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series. It introduces Germany as a nation whose aggressive ambitions began in 1863 with Otto von Bismarck and the Nazis as its latest incarnation.
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My Foolish Heart (1950) [Movie] Douban
My Foolish Heart
director: 马克·罗布森 actor: 达纳·安德鲁斯 / 苏珊·海沃德 …
other title: 芳心蒙昧 / 一厢情愿 …
My Foolish Heart is an Academy Award-nominated 1949 film which tells the story of a woman's reflections on the bad turns her life has taken. It was directed by Mark Robson and stars Dana Andrews and Susan Hayward. Adapted from J. D. Salinger's 1948 short story "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut," it remains the only authorized film adaptation of Salinger's work; the filmmakers' infidelity to his story famously precluded any possibility of film versions of other Salinger works, including The Catcher in the Rye.
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Kiss Them for Me (1957) [Movie] Douban
Kiss Them for Me
director: 斯坦利·多南 actor: 加里·格兰特 / 简·曼斯费尔德 …
other title: 香吻盟 / 为我亲吻他们
二次大战结束后，海军战争英雄指挥官安迪.奎森（加里.格兰特）和两名同僚开展了一个为期四天的旧金山之旅。在这里，安迪爱上了造船大亨的未婚妻格温妮丝（苏兹.帕克）；而另一名海军英雄麦卡南（雷.沃斯顿）则想利用自己的身份巩固自己的政治地位。同时，造船大亨的女儿爱丽丝（简.曼斯菲尔德）也凭着一腔爱国责任渗透进来。
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War Comes to America (1945) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
War Comes to America
director: 弗兰克·卡普拉 / 安纳托尔·李维克 actor: Dean Acheson / General Bergeret …
other title: 美国的参战 / 我们为何而战7 …
In this final installment of the "Why We Fight" propaganda series, the subject focuses on the United States of America. We learn of its good qualities and the things worth fighting for. With that established, we learn of the history of the United States' population shifting opinion towards siding with the Allies against the Axis until the attack on Pearl Harbour which brought America into full scale involvement in the war.
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The Battle of Britain (1943) [Movie] Douban IMDb
The Battle of Britain
director: 弗兰克·卡普拉 / Anatole Litvak actor: Douglas Bader / Arno Breker …
other title: 不列颠之战 / 大不列颠保卫战(港) …
In this installment of the "Why We Fight" propaganda film series, we have the account of Great Britain's last stand against the forces of Nazi Germany. This mainly focuses on the desperate, but successful, battle to maintain their vital air superiority over the British Isles and the morale of the people to prevent invasion.
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Why We Fight, 3 (1943) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Divide and Conquer
director: 弗兰克·卡普拉 / 安纳托尔·李维克 actor: 诺克斯·曼宁 / 温斯顿·丘吉尔 …
other title: 分而治之 / Divide and Conquer …
In this episode of the Why We Fight propaganda series, the events from the English and French declarations of war against Nazi Germany to the conquest of France by the Nazi. In detail, we learn of how a combination of innovative Nazi military tactics and the work of traitors allowed the conquest of much of Central Europe.
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Four Daughters (1938) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Four Daughters
director: 迈克尔·柯蒂兹 actor: 克劳德·雷恩斯 / 杰弗瑞·林恩 …
other title: 春闺四凤 / 续四千金 …
Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. However, the arrival of a cynical, slovenly young composer named Mickey Borden turns the household upside-down, and romantic and tragic complications ensue.