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The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
director: 威廉·惠勒 actor: 李·科布 / 安东尼·泽贝 …
other title: A Libertação de Lord Byron Jones / Die Glut der Gewalt …
Undertaker L.B. Jones, the richest black man in his county of Tennessee, is divorcing his wife for infidelity with a white policeman. Taking a stand against racism, he is greeted with a hostile bunch of Southern bigots and other various stereotypes.
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The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress
director: 威廉·惠勒 actor: Stanley Wray / Robert Morgan …
other title: 孟菲斯美女号：一架空中堡垒的故事 / 堡垒征空(港) …
Documentary about the 25th and last bombing mission of a B17, the "Memphis Belle". The "Memphis Belle" took part in a great bombing raid on sub-pens in Wilhelmshafen, Germany. On their way they encounterd heavy AA fire and interceptors. Written by Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
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The Cowboy and the Lady (1938) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Cowboy and the Lady
director: H.C. Potter / 威廉·惠勒 actor: 加里·库珀 / 梅尔·奥勃朗 …
other title: 牛仔与贵妇 / 牧童与贵妇 …
Poor Mary Smith can't go night-clubbing or have any other fun because any hint of scandal could damage her father's political career. She decides to rebel and convinces her two maids to let her go along with them on a blind date with some rodeo performers. She tells her date, Stretch, that she's a parlor maid and that she left home because her father beat her. The two fall in love and elope. Now Mary has a double dilemma: continuing her charade with Stretch and keeping her marriage a secret from her father.
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The Westerner (1940) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Westerner
director: 威廉·惠勒 actor: 加里·库珀 / 沃尔特·布伦南 …
other title: 西部人 / 草莽英雄(港) …
Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.
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The Shakedown (1929) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Shakedown
director: William Wheeler actor: 詹姆斯·默里 / 芭芭拉·肯特 …
other title: 欺诈 / 孤雏感遇(港) …
Dave Roberts is a professional boxer better at losing in fixed matches than in knocking out his opponents. He turns up in towns and is part of a group who sets up corrupt boxing matches. Dave's life on the margins changes after he meets a mother and son. As he begins to care for them, he ultimately has to decide whether to continue in his low-life ways or turn the tables on those who have been forcing him to participate in them.
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These Three (1936) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
These Three
director: 威廉·惠勒 actor: 米利亚姆·霍普金斯 / 梅尔·奥勃朗 …
other title: 三人行 / 学校风云(港) …
This first film version of "The Children's Hour" uses a heterosexual triangle rather than the play's lesbian theme. The plot concerns schoolteachers Karen Wright and Martha Dobie, both of whom are in love with Dr. Joe Cardin. The malicious lie of one of their students involves all three in a scandal which disrupts all their lives.
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Barbary Coast (1935) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Barbary Coast
director: 霍华德·霍克斯 / 威廉·惠勒 actor: 米利亚姆·霍普金斯 / 爱德华·罗宾逊 …
other title: 北非海岸 / 荆棘幽兰(港) …
Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s. She falls in love with miner Jim Carmichael and takes his gold dust at the wheel. She goes after him, Chamalis goes after her with intent to harm Carmichael.
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The Good Fairy (1935) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Good Fairy
director: 威廉·惠勒 actor: 玛格里特·苏利文 / 赫伯特·马歇尔 …
other title: 好心的仙女 / 彩楼择配(港) …
Young, naive Luisa Ginglebusher, who loves fairy tales, leaves the Budapest orphanage to become a movie usherette. Soon she befriends paternal waiter Detlaff and not so paternal Konrad, a meat-packing millionaire. Uninterested in Konrad's rich gifts, Luisa schemes to be a "good fairy" and divert some of this wealth to poor stranger Dr. Sporum. But it's not that simple...
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Friendly Persuasion (1956) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Friendly Persuasion
★ 6.2 (5 ratings) director: 威廉·惠勒 actor: 加里·库珀 / 多萝西·麦克吉尔 …
other title: 四海一家 / 亲切的劝告 …
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. Should they fight, despite their peaceful attitude?
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The Collector (1965) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Collector
★ 8.0 (15 ratings) director: 威廉·惠勒 actor: 特伦斯·斯坦普 / 萨曼莎·艾加 …
other title: 蝴蝶春梦 / 收藏家 …
Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money and buys himself a country house. Still unable to make himself at ease socially, he starts to plan on acquiring a girlfriend - in the same manner as he collects butterflies. He prepares the cellar of the house to be a collecting jar and stalks his victim over several days.
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Mrs. Miniver (1942) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Mrs. Miniver
★ 6.6 (17 ratings) director: 威廉·惠勒 actor: 葛丽亚·嘉逊 / 沃尔特·皮金 …
other title: 忠勇之家 / 战云鹃血(港) …
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
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Carrie (1952) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Carrie
★ 8.3 (7 ratings) director: 威廉·惠勒 actor: 劳伦斯·奥利弗 / 珍妮弗·琼斯 …
other title: 캐리 / 黄昏 …
Carrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly paid factory work—that is, until a traveling salesman named Drouet steps into her life and changes her outlook.