Director: Herbert Brenon
Writers: Percival Christopher Wren (by), Elizabeth Meehan (adapted by)
Stars: Frank McCormick, Ralph Forbes, Lester Vail
Plot: An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The plot of this silent movie is loosely based on the novel by Victor Hugo. Quasimodo, the hunchback bell-ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris sees the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda at the Paris Festival of Fools and is fascinated by her. Esmeralda falls in love with the handsome Captain Phoebus, but also the unscrupulous Judge Frollo falls in love with the beauty. Frollo can kidnap Esmeralda by Quasimodo. But Captain Phoebus and the Royal Guard can liberate her. Quasimodo is captured, but Frollo escapes. On the next chance he kills Captain Phoebus, but Esmeralda is under suspicion. She is captured and she is about to be executed. Quasimodo frees and brings her into the church of Notre Dame. From now on the plot diverges from the novel in substance. In the novel, Esmeralda and Quasimodo die. In this silent movie version, where also Phoebus remains alive and gets happy with Esmeralda, only Quasimodo dies.
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Beneath the 12 Mile Reef (1953) ROBERT WAGNER
Stars: Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Gilbert Roland
Director: Robert D. Webb
Writer: A.I. Bezzerides
Mike and Tony Petrakis are a Greek father and son team who dive for sponges off the coast of Florida. After they are robbed by crooks, Arnold and the Rhys brothers, Mike decides to take his men to the dangerous 12-mile reef to dive for more sponges. Mike suffers a fatal accident when he falls from the reef leaving Tony to carry on the business. But now he has a companion, Gwyneth Rhys.
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Father Brown The Detective 1954 (Alec Guiness)
A great Catholic movie for those who wish we had a Catholic cinema and also just a great movie. Watch this if you want to watch a movie without being compromised by the Hollywood immorality producers. I do not own this. No copyright infringement intended.
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“The Detective (1954 film)”
Father Brown
Directed by Robert Hamer
Produced by Paul Finder Moss
Written by G. K. Chesterton (stories)
Thelma Moss
Maurice Rapf
Robert Hamer
Starring Alec Guinness
Joan Greenwood
Peter Finch
Cecil Parker
Bernard Lee
Music by Georges Auric
Cinematography Harry Waxman
Editing by Gordon Hales
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) 8 June 1954
Running time 91 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Father Brown (The Detective in the United States) is a 1954 British mystery comedy film. Technically, the film is a remake of the 1934 Paramount picture Father Brown, Detective, starring Walter Connolly, Paul Lukas and Gertrude Michael, which was likewise based on “The Blue Cross”, a short story by G. K. Chesterton, but confined the action to London.
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Anthony Quinn – The Naked Street (1955) Farley Granger, Anne Bancroft – Full Movie
Film noir directed by Maxwell Shane. In order to save his sister Rosalie (Anne Bancroft) from social embarrassment, crime lord Phil Regal (Anthony Quinn) gets the father of her unborn baby, condemned murderer Nicky Bradna (Farley Granger) paroled so he can marry her.
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DANTE: “Dante’s Dilemma” Season 1, Episode 4. 10/31/1960.
DANTE: “Dante’s Dilemma” Season1, Episode 4. Airdate (31 Oct. 1960). Starring, Howard Duff, Alan Mowbray, and Tom D’Andrea. Guest Cast, Maureen Leeds, William Hudson, Richard Hale, Roxanne Arlen, Robert F. Hoy, Robert Nash, Isabel Withers, Jimmy Cross, Ralph Gary, and Mark Tapscott.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The plot is loosely based on the novel by Victor Hugo. Quasimodo, the hunchback bell-ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris sees the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda at the Paris Festival of Fools and is fascinated by her. Esmeralda falls in love with the handsome Captain Phoebus, but also the unscrupulous Judge Frollo falls in love with the beauty. Frollo can kidnap Esmeralda by Quasimodo. But Captain Phoebus and the Royal Guard can liberate her. Quasimodo is captured, but Frollo escapes. On the next chance he kills Captain Phoebus, but Esmeralda is under suspicion. She is captured and she is about to be executed. Quasimodo frees and brings her into the church of Notre Dame. From now on the plot diverges from the novel in substance. In the novel, Esmeralda and Quasimodo die. In this silent movie version, where also Phoebus remains alive and gets happy with Esmeralda, only Quasimodo dies.
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Vanity Fair (1932) – Myrna Loy
Based on the Thackeray novel of the same name; Myrna plays Becky Sharp, who schemes to attain wealth and position — only things don’t turn out so well. ….. I’ve read that it was shot in 10 days, and that feels just about right. ….. Cast includes Conway Tearle, Barbara Kent, Billy Bevan, Montagu Love, and Lionel Belmore. Screenplay by F. Hugh Herbert.
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The Beast of Borneo (1934) JUNGLE ADVENTURE
Stars: Mae Stuart, John Preston, Eugene Sigaloff
Director: Harry Garson
A crazed scientist needs primates to conduct experiments to prove his own theory of evolution, so he organizes an expedition into the jungles of Borneo to capture the animals he needs.
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Monster from a Prehistoric Planet
Mr. Funazu wants to turn a tropical island called Obelisk island into a resort. Therefore, he leads an expedition from Tokyo to start develop the plan. Despite of the warnings of the native boy Saki two members of the expedition go into a forbidden area where they find a giant egg. The “bird-lizard”, also referred to a “Gappa” is taken away by the scientists to a zoo in Japan. But the two parents of Gappa rise and destroy everything in their way in order to look for their baby — even so far as Japan. Mr. Funazu is finally convinced to let go of the baby and return him to his parents to save Japan. But is this too late?
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