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Night Was Our Friend (1951)
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other title: La noche fue nuestra amiga / Die Nacht war unser Freund
Martin's plane crashes in the jungle of Brazil. Nobody believes he survived. In the meantime his wife, Sally, has fallen in love with another man, Dr. Harper. Martin is found and returns to Sally. Unable to face his demons, Martin considers ending his life. Or does Sally do it for him?

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Will Any Gentleman...? (1953)
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迈克尔·安德森 actor: 乔治·科尔 / 维罗妮卡·赫斯特 …
other title: 催眠世界 / Le Scandaleux Mister Sterling …
A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the world's greatest lover and becomes a terrorizing Casanova.

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Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958)
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other title: 海滨魅影
故事发生在西班牙加泰罗尼亚的Costa Brava的一幢别墅里。Kimberley Prescott(Anne Baxter饰演)是一位年轻的南非钻石公司的继承人。在她父亲自杀后,她继承了家族的财产和生意。一天晚上,一名男子(Richard Todd饰演)到来,自称是她已故的哥哥Ward Prescott。然而,她的哥哥Ward早已在一场车祸中丧生,而且是她认的尸体。Kimberley认为这个冒名顶替者是为了遗产里的这幢别墅。她报了警。但这名男子有护照,银行账户等身份证明自己就是Ward。警察 Vargas (Herbert Lom饰演) 表示不相信Kimberley。这名男子甚至还用照片详细描述他俩的童年等等来支持他的说法。这名男子很快就住进了Kimberley的别墅,更进一步融入了她的生活。随后,Kimberley发现,他们是为了她父亲公司金库里丢失的钻石而来。尽管Kimberley坚持否定这个陌生人不是她的哥哥Ward,但其他人都接受了他就是Ward,包括他们的叔叔。Kimberley 进而意识到她甚至很可能有生命危险。这时,Vargas 开始对事情有疑虑,站到了Kimberley的一边。Vargas让Kimberley拿到这名男子的指纹。Kimberley照做。结果,Vargas得到的验证结果是指纹属于Ward Prescott。所有人都怀疑是Kimberley疯了。这个自称是Ward的男子到底是不是Ward Prescott?情急之下,Kimberley爆出一个惊人的秘密...

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Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst (1957)
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迈克尔·安德森 actor: 理查德·托德 / 威廉·哈特奈尔 …
other title: 扬子江突围记 / 扬子江事件 …
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste river in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lieutenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn.

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Operation Crossbow (1965)
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other title: 爆破死亡谷 / 谍海三壮士 …
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.

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Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
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迈克尔·安德森 actor: 詹姆斯·卡格尼 / 唐·默里 …
other title: 和魔鬼握手 / 地下煞星
In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization...under his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.

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The Naked Edge (1961)
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other title: 天网记
一位名叫詹森(Martin Boddey 饰)的男子遭人杀害,他的同事克里夫(加里·库柏 Gary Cooper 饰)成为了警方怀疑的重点对象。为了洗清自己身上的嫌疑,克里夫指认了另一位名叫海斯(雷·麦克安利 Ray McAnally 饰)的男子,尽管他知道海斯是无辜的。最终,海斯锒铛入狱,而克里夫因此获得了巨额的资金,并且开始运营起自己的商业帝国来。 克里夫事业上的成功让他的妻子玛莎(黛博拉·蔻儿 Deborah Kerr 饰)感到十分的开心,但与此同时,玛莎的心里也开始隐隐约约的怀疑起丈夫来。为了弄清楚事件的真相,玛莎暗中展开了调查,在此过程中,对于丈夫的爱和对于真相的求索令玛莎倍感痛苦。

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The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
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迈克尔·安德森 actor: 安东尼·奎恩 / 奥斯卡·威内尔 …
other title: 风云英杰 / 渔民的鞋子 …
Set in a futuristic vision of the late 1980's, Ukrainian Archbishop Kiril Lakota is set free after two decades as a political prisoner in Siberia. He is brought to Rome by Fr. David Telemond, a troubled young priest who befriends him. Once at the Vatican, he is immediately given an audience with the Pope, who elevates him to Cardinal Priest. The world is on the brink of war due to a Chinese-Soviet feud made worse by a famine caused by trade restrictions brought against China by the U.S. When the Pontiff suddenly dies, Lakota's genuine character and unique life experience move the College of Cardinals to elect him as the new Pope. But Pope Kiril I must now deal with his own self-doubt, the struggle of his friend Fr. Telemond who is under scrutiny for his beliefs, and find a solution to the crisis in China.

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Pope Joan (1972)
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迈克尔·安德森 actor: Liv Ullmann / 杰瑞米·坎普 …
other title: 女教宗琼安 / Papst Johanna …
SHE…WHO WOULD BE POPE I really enjoyed this film as a real aficionado of historical faction and legends. Movie buffs who yearn for renowned actors whose sex appeal and charisma fill up the screen, as soon as they appear without uttering a word, would also find this motion picture enthralling. Franco Nero as Prince Louis, with blazing blue eyes brimming over in sensuality , becomes Emperor, conquering both Infidels and the Vatican. Although Jeremy Kemp, has a small role, whose pockmarked face, as handsome as it is rugged and scarred with life, makes him so credible as Joan's bible thumping father. Maximilian Schell, in his part as Brother Adrian is yet another from this large cast of famous faces who are a pleasure to watch as they captivate and capture the audience as they embrace their characters. The beautiful Lesley-Ann Downe although very young, is not as innocent or virtuous as she looks. No less are any of the remarkable cast such as the enchanting hero/heroine Liv Ullman, whose transformation from a nun to a priest is seamless, that makes the two hours of SHE..WHO WOULD BE POPE such compelling viewing. Although the setting is in the Dark Ages, there is a lightness in the way the unpleasant events are portrayed that make the reality of the harshness of life in that time, acceptable to all, from rape, pillage, murder and forbidden love. The Evangelicals haven't changed their book or mantras and the flowing robes and costumes of the clergy have all remained the same in authentically reproduced settings and lavish scenery. This story had to be retold in its original uncut form, sliding in and out of millennia, to fully understand how the world has turned despite that we, as individuals remain the same. The psychologist analysing a woman claiming a former life as Pope, ensures a multifaceted film that would appeal to a wide audience.

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Orca (1977)
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other title: 杀人鲸 / 复仇的鲸 …
After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at the hands of a reckless Irish captain, a vengeful killer whale rampages through the fisherman's Newfoundland harbor. Under pressure from the villagers, the captain, a female marine biologist, and an Indigenous tribalist venture after the great beast, who will meet them on its own turf.

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997)
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other title: 海底两万里
In the 19th century, an expert marine biologist is hired by the government to determine what's sinking ships all over the ocean. His daughter follows him. They are intercepted by a mysterious captain Nemo and his incredible submarine.

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The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
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other title: 谍海群英会 / 奎勒备忘录 …
《谍海群英会》是一部电影,影片以第二次世界大战为背景,讲述了一个孤胆英雄英国间谍奎勒只身和德国纳粹残余斗争的勇闯虎穴、智斗群魔式的故事,主人公具有007的个人英雄主义,情节惊险、悬疑、趣味十足,是间谍片里的经典之作。曾荣获英国电影学院奖最佳影片、最佳编剧、最佳男主角、最佳摄影、最佳服装等多项提名。

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Young Catherine (1991)
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other title: 俄宫情怨 / 凯瑟琳女皇 …
Julia Ormond was swept off to Hollywood to become a star - but somehow it didn't happen. Now she's in London to appear in David Hare's new play. She tells Harriet Lane why she came back Five years ago, the smart Hollywood money was on Julia Ormond becoming the new Julia Roberts or the new Meg Ryan. Instead, she went off at a different angle and became the new Geena Davis. Like Davis, Ormond enjoyed a spectacular launch in Hollywood, buoyed by gallons of publicity rocket fuel: a dazzling ascent swiftly followed by a tumble back to earth at the end of a blackened stick. There is something rather Hilaire Belloc about Julia Ormond's story, something a little cautionary. Or rather, there would be if she would only play along with it, cast herself as The Fallen Star, or The Girl From Surrey Who Thought She Was Audrey Hepburn. But one role she's simply not interested in is that of victim. 'For sure, you don't believe the good stuff,' says Ormond, referring to the hullaballoo that surrounded her in 1995 when Legends of the Fall , First Knight and Sabrina all opened more or less simultaneously. 'I mean, the good stuff is just insane - wacky. If you don't take it too much to heart, it does help when the negative stuff hits. And you know the negative stuff is coming. It's got to! What comes up must come down.' Article continues -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And it's true: she did know it was coming. At 29, Ormond hadn't submitted rapturously to the star machine. There were sacrifices she didn't want to make. On-set admirers called her 'formidable' and 'flinty' and 'honest'; unnamed sources grumbled about 'attitude'. Looking back at her earliest interviews, conducted amid a swarm of excitable movie execs and publicists, with superagent Michael Ovitz himself on hand to fetch her glasses of water, you note a rich seam of ho-hum scepticism. 'They seem to be very sure things are going to be a success,' Ormond told Vogue in 1995. 'I'm not being negative about it, but I'm hedging my bets.' Certainly, the timing was unfortunate. Legends of the Fall, where she played the love interest, was quickly followed by First Knight, a hilarious turkey in which a trumpet-sleeved Ormond was Guinevere, torn between Sean Connery and Richard Gere. Then came a remake of Sabrina, in which director Sydney Pollack misguidedly steered her into Audrey Hepburn's ballet pumps. Though she knows Sabrina was a mistake, Ormond has no regrets. 'It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn... but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough. But I was hungry for the learning experience and didn't feel secure enough to say no. You need to be bloody secure to say no.' She knew she was lucky, but she also knew she was out of her depth - not with the acting, but with the stuff that surrounded it. 'The odd thing for me is the focus on looks which happened in the States. I'd always felt that was not going to be a strong point. That made me feel very disturbed, because it never seemed to be about how much hard work was involved. Ever. It was about... "hazel eyes". It does help if you can brush that stuff off.' Billed by the publicists as an ingénue, Surrey-born Ormond was no such thing, and this may have saved her bacon. After drama school and an advert for cottage cheese, she had spent a decade as a jobbing actor in the UK, carving out a strong reputation on stage (in 1989, she'd won the London Critics' Award for Best Newcomer, in Christopher Hampton's Faith Hope and Charity at the Lyric Hammersmith) and television (in particular, as a drug addict in Traffik) before landing Legends. 'I found it all very scary. This fairytale gets built around you - as if you've been walking through the streets and then Sydney Pollack sees you and goes, "I'll put you in something!" When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions... and you've worked, solidly, for years. But that all gets forgotten. At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, "No, that's what people want, so that's what is given." But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.' The roles, on the other hand, were a gas. In the UK, 'I'd seemed to play a lot of people who'd slit their wrists or cut off their hair or shot themselves or died of the plague. And if you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death. And so for me what I needed was to get my head out of my bottom, and so to go off and do First Knight - gallivanting around on a horse, with a cape, and knights in blue corduroy - was quite fun.' So Ormond gallivanted for a bit, airing her famous, transfixing smile as required ('You watch her just to wait for it to happen,' wrote one journalist), and then... vanished, at least from the mainstream. Stepping off the red carpet, she took bigger risks. A doomed film version of Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow , directed by Bille August. A three-hour Russian epic, The Barber of Siberia, directed by Nikita Mikhalkov. When she was white-hot she'd been offered the Holy Grail of movie-star accessories, her own production company, and Ormond actually did something with hers, making a documentary about Bosnian women in Serbian detention camps, and working with Harold Pinter on a Karen Blixen short story that she hopes to direct. Last year she married an American who works in e-commerce. For her next trick, she's coming back to the London stage for the first time in nine years. At the Royal Court, in a break from rehearsing David Hare's new play My Zinc Bed , Ormond looks very London, very theatre. She's wearing a black jersey, chinos and navy flipflops, and her hair is rather tangled, as if it hasn't been brushed for days. No make-up. Her face has more character, more shade, than I was expecting. You do find yourself staring at her, just so you won't miss the wild energy that surges across it when she laughs. Ormond hasn't turned her back on film (the marital home is in LA, and The Prime Gig, a comedy co-starring Vince Vaughn and Ed Harris, is in post-production) but the Hare project was too good to miss. What swung it for her? 'The fact that David had written it and David was directing it at the Royal Court and it was a new three-hander. Plus, it's a brilliant play. I'm not making any comment on how we execute it or what we achieve through doing it, but reading it, it's a phenomenal play.' Since there's some sort of unofficial embargo about My Zinc Bed, neither Ormond nor her co-stars Tom Wilkinson and Steven Mackintosh will spell out what actually happens in the play, other than saying that it's about an entrepreneur who recruits a young poet to jazz up his internet empire. Ormond, who plays Elsa, the entrepreneur's wife, says the Hare script outshone every film script that was coming her way. In any case, she'd been keen to get back to theatre. 'I ride,' says Ormond, who has a way with analogies, 'and doing theatre after doing film is a bit like doing dressage or showjumping after you've been out for endless hacks, having just a wild old time. You're put through your paces in a different way. And it's not that going out for a hack is wrong or bad, I certainly don't view it as that; it's just that there's something about the dressage, being put through your paces, that makes you better.' Yes, she feels the stakes are high this time around. 'I feel that David took a risk with me. I have a sense that by starting off in the theatre and going off to do films you are seen to sell out in some way. I don't hold truck with that, but you can't stop people from feeling it. So I think people are a little guarded about me. Oh, God! It's never just about the piece. Something else always washes over it.' She's anxious that her own trajectory, her own reputation, should not obscure Hare's work. When she adds, 'But then, my sense is that that' s all something in the past - I've escaped it', she sounds like she really means it. •

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The Dam Busters (1955)
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迈克尔·安德森 actor: 迈克尔·雷德格瑞夫 / 厄休拉·杰尼斯 …
other title: 敌后大爆破 / 轰炸鲁尔水坝记 …
1954年的英国电影《轰炸鲁尔水坝记》 (The Dam Busters),这部电影几乎以纪录片的形式记录了第二次世界大战中1943年5月16日晚上英国皇家空军执行的“惩戒行动”。 This film, details the Allied efforts to target German dams during World War Two. In very methodical, but also enthusiastic fashion, they figured out what plane, what bomb, what angle, what altitude, etc., were necessary to inflict maximum damage to the dams, while minimizing losses to the planes. The answer they came up with, sounds absurd, but it worked: very large, cylindrical bombs rotating backwards at a high rate of speed, causing them, when dropped, to skip along the sureface of the water, right up to the base of the dam. 要炸掉水坝,可不是容易的事情,电影详细介绍了炸弹设计者的设计过程,以及英国军方采纳这个计划的过程(因为乍听起来实在像是天方夜谭),这个片子看起来决不乏味,甚至是相当令人激动地。该片获第28届奥斯卡最佳效果奖提名及第9届英国电影学院最佳电影,最佳英国电影和最佳编剧3项提名。