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 …
Man in the Attic: Starring Jack Palance, Constance Smith and Byron Palmer (1953 Movie)
DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Man in the Attic is a 1953 mystery film directed by Hugo Fregonese. It was released in the United States on December 23 by Twentieth Century Fox. The movie, based on the novel The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes, fictionalizes the Jack the Ripper killings. The story takes place in London, 1888. On the third night of the Jack the Ripper killings, a man rents out an attic from an older couple in need of extra income. The man (Jack Palance), a research pathologist, begins working on his experiments in the rooms. Helen Harley, the landlady (Frances Bavier), becomes suspicious of the man, especially when her niece shows an interest in him. Cast * Jack Palance as Slade * Constance Smith as Lily Bonner * Byron Palmer as Insp. Paul Warwick * Frances Bavier as Helen Harley * Rhys Williams as William Harley Hugo Fregonese (April 8, 1908, Mendoza, Argentina — January 17, 1987, Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an Argentine film director who worked both in Hollywood and in Argentina. A former sports journalist, he attended Columbia University in 1935, then was hired to be a technical advisor for films with Latin American themes. By 1938, he was again living in Argentina. There he worked as an editor, assistant director and short film director. He made his directorial debut in 1943. In 1949, he directed Apenas un delincuente. Most of Fregonese’s American films were westerns and crime melodramas, for example Man in the Attic (1953) and Black …
CIA Archives: Vietnam War – Battle of Ia Drang Valley (1965 Documentary Film)
DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org The Battle of Ia Drang was the first major battle between the United States Army and the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) (referred to by US fighting units as the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) during the Vietnam War). The two-part battle took place between November 14 and November 18, 1965, at two landing zones (LZs) northwest of Plei Me in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam (approximately 35 miles south-west of Pleiku). The battle derives its name from the Drang River which runs through the valley northwest of Plei Me, in which the engagement took place. “Ia” means “river” in the local Montagnard language. Representing the American forces were elements of the 1st Battalion and 2nd Battalion of the 7th Cavalry Regiment, and the 5th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. The North Vietnamese forces included the 66th and 1st battalion/33rd Regiments of the NVA as well National Liberation Front (NLF) (known world wide as the Viet Cong) of the H15 Battalion. The battle featured close air support by US bombers. Both sides suffered heavy losses and both claimed victory. The US lost 234 dead, with 242 wounded; November 17 was the deadliest ambush for Americans in the entire Vietnam War, with 155 men killed and 126 men wounded. The battle is the subject of the critically acclaimed book We Were Soldiers Once… And Young by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway. In 2002, Randall Wallace depicted the first part of the battle in the film …
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