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The Corn Is Green (1945)
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other title: 锦绣前程 / 前程万里
丽丽·摩法特(贝蒂戴维斯饰)是一个女教师,她生活在一个威尔士一个以采矿业为主的小镇上,因为当地人的观念十分陈腐,在教育方面非常落后。丽丽·摩法特不忍看到当地的孩子一代一代这样下去,觉得十分烦恼,她决心要改变这种现状。于是,她建立了一所学校,试图为村民们进行基本的读写教育。但是,当地的头头和他的女儿不愿意看到村民再有了知识之后,反抗对他们的压榨,不再遵循他们制定的规矩,处处阻挠丽丽·摩法特的计划。当地的乡绅也为了自己的利益,不愿意出租房子给丽丽·摩法特作为学校的场地。因此,摩法特决心是用自己的屋子,成立墨法特学校。她的学生之一摩根·伊凡(约翰道尔饰),从一个欺凌弱小者变成了一个非常有才华的人物。

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Marjorie Morningstar (1958)
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other title: 初恋 / 痴凤啼痕 …
While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew, but has fallen away from his roots, and Marjorie's parents object among other things to his lack of a suitable profession. Noel himself warns Marjorie repeatedly that she's much too naive and conventional for him, but they nonetheless fall in love.

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The Glass Menagerie (1950)
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other title: 玻璃动物园 / Die Glasmenagerie …
One of Tennessee Williams' best plays becomes a good but not great film despite a stellar cast. It's hard to pin exactly why this film doesn't soar but it's a solid screen version. Maybe it's just that the subject matter works better in a stage environment and that the camera is just too intimate. Familiar story of restless son, his crippled sister, and their manic mother, who seems to live in the golden past is great material for the stage. And this sad story of the mother's attempts to goad the son into bringing home a young man to meet the sister seems rather cruel. But even the forgotten and lost can lead lives of desperation as they cling to dreams and make wishes on silver moons. Arthur Kennedy stars as Tom, the son who tries to please his mother but longs to escape his dull job in St. Louis and see the world. Jane Wyman is the crippled sister who has shrunk from the world and collects tiny glass animals. Gertrude Lawrence is the mother who was abandoned by her husband and has been reduced to living in a dumpy apartment and selling magazine subscriptions. And Kirk Douglas is the "gentleman caller." All 4 actors are quite good, although none received Oscar nominations, despite the hype. Many great actresses have been associated with the role of Amanda Wingfield since this play made its Broadway debut in the 1940s: Laurette Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Joanne Woodward, Maureen Stapletobm Jessica Tandy, Julie Harris, and Jessica Lange have all played the role on stage, film, or TV. And I swear I remember Shirley Booth doing this on TV also. Ultimetaely the story is as fragile as the glass figures. If any one character dominates the story the whole play collapses. This film version works very well in balancing the roles. And while Wyman seems a tad old for the part, Lawrence was an even odder choice. I've also read that Bette Davis and Tallulah Bankhead were considered. But how they decided on Lawrence--a great musical comedy star in London and New York--is anyone's guess. She really is quite good but the film might have need the extra star power of Bette Davis.

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Another Man's Poison (1952)
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other title: 毒妇与恶汉 / Gift für den anderen …
Mystery writer Janet Frobisher lives alone in a dark English country house, when she's not philandering with her secretary's fiancée. At an extremely awkward moment, she has an unwelcome visitor: George Bates, who claims to be the partner in crime of Janet's estranged husband. George insinuates himself into Janet's home and life despite her efforts to get rid of him; the tangled relationships develop into a macabre, murderous cat-and-mouse game.

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The Brave One (1956)
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other title: 勇敢的人
勇敢的一个是一只名叫吉多诺(或吉卜赛)的公牛。一名墨西哥男孩迈克尔雷在暴风雨中拯救了这只动物的生命后,“收养”了吉多诺。当吉塔诺的合法主人声称这只动物是他所有并将它运送到斗牛场时,公牛和男孩之间的友谊受到了威胁。被这个男孩的困境感动,墨西哥总统为吉多诺签署了一项“赦免”,但并没有很快阻止这只公牛出现在墨西哥市的广场,在那里他面临着最重要的斗牛士Fermin Rivera。 根据一个真实的事件,这部电影为罗伯特·里奇得到了第29届奥斯卡最佳电影故事奖,让学院很尴尬(公民自由主义者喜悦)的是原来他是被列入黑名单的编剧达尔顿·特朗勃。

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风华永驻 (1953)
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欧文·拉帕尔 actor: 威廉·霍尔登 / 金杰·罗杰斯
other title: Forever Female / 女人万岁
碧翠丝(金格尔·罗杰斯 Ginger Rogers 饰)是一名已经过气的百老汇女明星,一次偶然中她邂逅了名为克劳恩(威廉·霍尔登 William Holden 饰)的作家。年轻气盛的克劳恩当着碧翠丝的面对她提出了诸多的批评,没想到这反而吸引了碧翠丝的注意,让她对其产生了好感。 碧翠丝的前夫哈里(保罗·道格拉斯 Paul Douglas 饰)是好莱坞知名的制片人,他于偶然之中读到了克劳恩所写的剧本,对其大加赞赏。碧翠丝和哈里找到了克劳恩,劝说他将故事里原本十九岁的女主角年龄改成二十九岁,以方便碧翠丝出演这个角色,最终克劳恩妥协了。莎莉(帕特·克劳蕾 Pat Crowley 饰)是初出茅庐的女演员,在读了克劳恩的剧本之后,她认为自己才是出演女主角的不二人选。