Su grata compañía (1961)
He came 8000 miles to attend his daughter's wedding-and then tried 8000 ways to break it up
Género : Comedia
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 55M
Director : George Seaton
Escritor : Samuel A. Taylor
Sinopsis
Jessica Poole va a casarse con Roger Handerson, un ganadero del Valle del Napa. Mientras se ocupa de los preparativos de la boda, se pregunta si asistirá al enlace su padre, un vagabundo al que no ve desde hace años.
Un piloto de aviones de la I Guerra Mundial que no cuenta con demasiadas amistades entre sus compañeros entablará una complicada relación con un joven e inexperto aviador.
Tanto Nini, una guapa chica que trabaja en una lavandería, como otras atractivas jóvenes son contratadas por Monsieur Danglard para unirse a su compañía de teatro. Danglar tiene previsto abrir un nuevo cabaret en París, el Moulin Rouge, donde la gran atracción será el cancán. A pesar de que tiene novio, Nini es seducida por Danglard, pero su principal admirador es el príncipe Alexandre. Tras 15 años de estancia en los Estados Unidos, "French Cancan" supone el regreso de Renoir a su país.
In 1915, in the atmosphere of a French village during the First World War, we follow a teen boy who discovers the reality of war and leaves for the front in order to restore the sullied honor of his father who was executed for desertion.
Wrongly suspecting her husband of being unfaithful, a young mother leaves him alone for a week with their three unruly children.
A village in the French Alps is rocked by a series of crimes, including the theft of a sacred ring and the murder of a man dressed as Père Noël (Father Christmas).
Adaptación de la célebre novela de Somerset Maugham. Los horrores de la guerra hacen que Larry Darrell (Tyrone Power) lo abandone todo, incluso a los que han formado parte de su vida. Viaja a Europa y después a la India con la intención de encontrar un sentido a su vida.
Mientras se ocultan de las autoridades en un lujoso trasantlántico, los hermanos Marx se convierten en guardaespaldas de dos gángsteres rivales y, como siempre, provocan situaciones caóticas y delirantes.
Dos estrellas del vodevil están rodando una película, pero el director no está satisfecho con ella. Para contentarle, deciden contratar a un guionista joven de desbordante imaginación.
The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town, where the Baron's seafaring companion leaves for more attractive scenery offered by a wealthy local man. Meanwhile, there is a certain charming cafe owner that the Baron finds irresistible -- at least for awhile.
Todor, a Serbian smuggler in Trieste, Italy, earns his daily bread by smuggling fake brand cigarettes. He sails out in a small boat to collect his freight if there is enough mist to make his illegal mission possible. One day he reluctantly accepts a much larger cargo. In the crate he finds a wounded and drugged woman. Todor decides not to deliver the freight and takes the woman home with him. He takes a chest full of stones to his client and it soon becomes apparent that he has got himself into big trouble with this manoeuvre. Todor takes care of the woman, who slowly but surely overcomes her fear of him. By the time he manages to get her a passport, an unbreakable bond has silently grown between them and he asks her to go away with him. Fate decides otherwise.
Three young soldiers who participated in a military operation that went wrong, and where one of their comrades had been killed before their eyes, are placed in a luxury hotel to prevent a scandal. Despite the help of a young military psychiatrist, the young trio denies any trauma suffered, but they seem to hold a very different secret truth.
Michel es un carterista que no roba por necesidad como tampoco lo hace por vicio, no es cleptómano, roba para darse a sí mismo un valor, porque el robo es el medio de expresar sus sentimientos.
Ponzi, from his arrival in Boston in 1903, to hi death in Rio in 1949. He made himself famous in inventing the first fraud of modern times on a large scale, and inspired Bernard Madoff.