Gustavo Serena (director/lead)
Alberto G. Carta (cinematographer)
Renzo Chiosso (writer)
Alexandre Dumas fils (author)
Ennio Morricone (music)
Francesca Bertini (lead)
Caesar (production)
Heartrending story of infantile infatuation and endless messaging among 19th century European bourgeois airheads. Viewers unfamiliar with the novel's story will likely be a bit puzzled by this concise film version, that carefully tiptoes around the central topic: the “scandal”. And nothing on the screen comes close to the intensity of Ennio Morricone's score, currently available om Youtube.
Cecil B. DeMille (director/producer)
Alvin Wyckoff (cinematographer)
Hector Turnbull (author/writer)
Jeanie Macpherson (writer)
Fannie Ward (lead)
Sessue Hayakawa (lead)
Jack Dean (lead)
James Neill (lead)
Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play (production)
Stone-cold yellow man burns hot for white flesh of loose lady. Interracial dating, theft, lies, flesh-peddling, brutal sadism, revenge, blood splatter, lynch mob, and the slickest eyebrow in showbiz - welcome to Pulp Paradise.
Emilio Ghione (director/lead)
Hesperia (lead)
Kally Sambucini (lead)
Tiber (production)
Yet another installment in Ghione's spaghetti Western series, For a Few Sheep More, documenting the untold story of the contribution of Italian immigration to Texas' early twentieth century boom in sheep ranching. Biggest mystery: how Za La Mort managed to say goodbye to his hometown's flashy shoes.
Lois Weber (director/producer/writer)
Stephen S. Norton (cinematographer)
Allen G. Siegler (cinematographer)
Stella Wynne Herron (author)
Jane Addams (author)
Mary MacLaren (lead)
Harry Griffith (lead)
Mattie Witting (lead)
Jessie Arnold (lead)
William V. Mong (lead)
Lina Basquette (lead)
Phillips Smalley (producer)
Eva is a young woman who works in a variety store for a meager salary, solely supporting her two parents and three sisters - while her father lies in bed reading dime novels, smoking his pipe, and drinking pails of beer. As her only pair of shoes disintegrates from long use, so does her hopes, her respect for her father, and her resistance against a leering cabaret singer.
Sun Yu/孫瑜 (director/writer)
Zhou Ke/周克 (cinematographer)
Li Lili/黎莉莉 (lead)
Gao Zhan-Fei/高占非 (lead)
Liu Ji-Qun/劉繼群 (lead)
Han Lan-Gen/韓蘭根 (lead)
Lianhua (production)
Story of Ling-Ling, a hick hottie in Shanghai who discovers she's a magnet for lechers when she is raped by her boss, and then (a few hours later) by his goon, and then (a few hours later) tricked into following a devious old man who sells her to a brothel - all this in a single night, before daybreak. Finally, she learns to utilize her God-given talent to uplift the economy and the general condition of the human race - who then rape her one last time - and also learns to make lots of flag-waving speeches along the way. Filmed shortly after Japanese bombing of Shanghai, which may account for its over-the-top vibe.
Wu Yong-Gang/吳永剛 (director/writer)
Hong Wei-Lie/洪偉烈 (cinematographer)
Ruan Ling-Yu/阮玲玉 (lead)
Zhang Zhi-Zhi/章志直 (lead)
Li Keng/黎鏗 (lead)
Lianhua (production)
Noir formula: a flawed hero, trapped in shadowy troubled nights, unable to escape. But here the hero(ine) is a prostitute, the setting is not America's night streets but Shanghai's, and the story is told as a silent melodrama, with few titles (until the social commentary kicks in). With a small cast and minimal sets, this work is proof that sometimes less is more.
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