DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org The President’s Mystery is a 1936 American film directed by Phil Rosen. The film is also known as One for All in the United Kingdom. Directed by Phil Rosen Produced by Burt Kelly (associate producer) Nat Levine (producer) Albert E. Levoy (executive producer) Written by Franklin Delano Roosevelt (story concept) Samuel Hopkins Adams (story) Lester Cole (screenplay) John Erskine (story) Rupert Hughes (story) Fulton Oursler (story) SS Van Dine (story) Rita Weiman (story) Nathanael West (screenplay) Starring See below Music by Hugo Riesenfeld Cinematography Ernest Miller Editing by Robert L. Simpson Release date(s) 28 September 1936 Running time 80 minutes 53 minutes (edited US version) Country USA Language English Cast Henry Wilcoxon as James Blake Betty Furness as Charlotte Brown Sidney Blackmer as George Sartos Evelyn Brent as Ilka Blake Barnett Parker as Roger Mel Ruick as Andrew Wade Boteler as Sheriff John Wray as Shane Guy Usher as Police Lieutenant Robert Homans as Sergeant Si Jenks as Earl Arthur Aylesworth as Joe Reed Henry Wilcoxon (September 8, 1905 — March 6, 1984) was an actor born in Roseau, Dominica, British West Indies, and best known as a leading man in many of Cecil B. DeMille’s films, also serving as DeMille’s associate producer on his later films. Elizabeth Mary Furness (3 January 1916 — 2 April 1994) was an American actress, consumer advocate and current affairs commentator. Sidney Alderman Blackmer (13 July 1895 …
Sophia Loren and Jean-Paul Belmondo in Two Women (1960 Movie)
DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org Two Women (Italian: La ciociara, roughly translated as “[The Woman] from Ciociaria”) is a 1960 Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It tells the story of a woman trying to protect her young daughter from the horrors of war. The film stars Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi and Andrea Checchi. The film was adapted by De Sica and Cesare Zavattini from the novel of the same name written by Alberto Moravia. The story centers on Cesira (Loren), a widowed Roman shopkeeper, and Rosetta (Brown), her devoutly religious twelve-year-old daughter, during World War II. To escape the Allied bombing of Rome, Cesira and her daughter flee southern Lazio for her native Ciociaria, a rural, mountainous province of central Italy. After they arrive at Ciociaria, Cesira attracts the attention of a young local intellectual with communist sympathies named Michele (Jean-Paul Belmondo). However, Michele is eventually taken prisoner by a company of German soldiers, who hope to use him as a guide to the mountainous terrain. Later, Cesira and Rosetta learn that he has been shot and killed by the same soldiers who took him hostage. After the Italian liberation, mother and daughter decide to go back to Rome. After experiencing mild harassment and propositioning throughout their journey, they fall subject to an unexpected tragedy. As they rest in a bombed-out church, they are captured and gang raped by Goumiers (Moroccan allied …
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