Paul Ivano

The Man You Loved To Hate blends revealing interviews, rare photographs, and clips from von Stroheim's legendary and lesser-known works to create a fascinating tribute to one of American cinema's most complex artists.

Chubasco es un joven rebelde que tras verse involucrado en una pelea, es arrestado. El juez le da dos opciones, o la cárcel o trabajar en un empleo honrado. El muchacho decide dejar todo atrás, a su padres Sebastián y a su novia Bunny, y embarcarse en un atunero.

A Doukhobor sect in Northern Alberta tries to prevent the wedding of a Russian girl to a Canadian.

There a'coming in one big blush

A weary sergeant in Korea commands military prisoners on a dangerous mission and is joined by a nun and a group of schoolgirls in enemy territory.

Una mujer llamada Elizabeth tiene unos fortísimos dolores de cabeza y dormir se convierte en un tormento. Recibe cartas amenazadoras escritas por una tal Lizzie, pero que en realidad escribe ella misma aunque sin saberlo. Acudirá a un psiquiatra para que le ayude y el doctor encontrará que en el interior de la paciente se encuentran tres personalidades: Elizabeth; Lizzie y Beth. El médico tendrá que lograr que sólo una permanezca.

En 1820, Big Eli (Burt Lancaster) y su hijo deciden abandonar Kentucky para empezar una nueva vida en Texas. Antes de llegar a su destino, se detienen en el pueblo, donde vive el hermano mayor de Eli, y surgen entonces ciertas dificultades. A pesar de ser un gran cazador, Eli no encuentra oportunidades. Además tiene un altercado con el sheriff, que lo encierra en prisión. (FILMAFFINITY)

A young deaf women confronts desperate crooks who are using one of her remote resort cabins for a hideout. Originally aired as episode 16 on the American TV series Screen Directors Playhouse.

Suicidal hooker Cleo Moore agrees to spend the night with condemned prisoner John Agar in this Hugo Haas film noir.

In 1841, in the small Morovian village of Skalni Hradec, a judge makes his much younger wife witness the public humiliation of an unfaithful wife who is bound with ropes to a wooden half-cross. He then tells her he'll kill her if he ever catches her being unfaithful. Things get tense when she falls for another man.

Susan Morrow, the secretary to Robert Clarke, a model photographer, is upset when her boss pays too much attention to model Noreen Nash. Morrow's younger sister takes a candid photo of her sister in her underwear, with face hidden, and sends it to Clarke. He is intrigued and tries to locate the mystery girl but, meanwhile, enters the photograph in a contest. It wins, provided Clarke can identify the girl. He offers a reward and hires a friend to search for her. Meanwhile, back the agency, Nash offers to pose as the missing girl, but she and Clarke quarrel and she walks out. Rather than leave her boss in a fix, Morrow admits she is the girl in the picture.

Cleo Moore stars as Mary Adams, whose first step on the road to ruin is a $25,000 robbery. Mary hides the money, then confesses to the crime, secure in the belief that she can dig up the loot upon her release from prison.

In post-apocalyptic New York, three tribes of survivors (the Norms, the Mutates and the Upriver People) vie for the right to exist. When the treacherous Upriver People attack the Norms, kill their chief and take their people captive, two Norm refugee men must find a way to ally with the Mutates, who have previously kidnapped Norm women in an effort to reproduce healthy children, to rout the Uprivers, who also seek to kill off the Mutates.

A homely middle-aged man falls hard for a much younger woman leading to disaster.

A boxer (William Bishop) jailed for murder proves his girlfriend's (Ann Richards) wealthy father and a ward boss framed him.

Lieutenant Johnson, a U. S. Air Force pilot, on the tip of Alaska, a few miles from the Bering Straits from Siberia, helps foil a Soviet plot to test a new secret weapon by loyal Alaskan Eskimos. He is aided by Sergeant Koovuk, an Alsaka native Eskimo also in the U.S. military service. Along the way there is an ice-floe evacuation, an air-ice rescue and a fight with a polar bear.

A college professor begins to suspect that a student's accidental death was tied to his refusal to take part in a traditional "hazing" and was no accident.

A young woman's suicide attempt is stopped by an old man passing by. The two fall in love -- but the relationship between the young girl and old man is threatened when a blackmailer from her past shows up.

Low-budget, tabloid-lurid story with high camp value of older man falling for much younger beauty who's busy figuring out how she can kill him now that they're married. Nasty verbal encounters and above all, Beverly Michaels, spike up this flick.

A homely girl is seriously injured in a car crash. When she eventually wakes up in the hospital, she's astounded to see that plastic surgery has transformed her into a world-class beauty. When she finds out that a mysterious "benefactor" has paid for her surgery, she sets out to find out who he is and why he did it.

When jobless genius Beauregard Bottomley interviews with Burnbridge Waters for a position at Waters' soap company, the owner rudely turns Bottomley down. As revenge, Bottomley enters a TV quiz show that Waters' company sponsors, with the goal of winning until he bankrupts the businessman. When Bottomley keeps acing the questions, becoming a media sensation, Waters desperately calls on vixen Flame O'Neal to uncover Bottomley's area of weakness.

The murders of a suspected thief and a rival private eye draw the attention of The Falcon.

A stock broker embezzles a million bucks and plans to take off to Shanghai. A number of obstacles stands in his path, however.

Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakdown as his big plans begin to crumble. Beautiful Belita is the slumming society girlfriend who only fuels his paranoia.

Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth simply by creating an aura of success, the outgoing Nancy convinces Peter to join her in impersonating a confident and eccentric wealthy couple. The experiment works, and the couple secure a stunning wardrobe and a lavish room at a resort. Peter panics, however, when he gets a fantastic job offer.

Hollywood, años 40. La policía encuentra en un apartamento el cadáver de la cantante y "femme fatale" Mavis Marlowe. El principal sospechoso es Kira Bennett, antiguo amante de la mujer. Cuando la policía averigua que Mavis había estado chantajeando a Bennett, éste es arrestado y condenado a muerte. Su esposa y el marido alcohólico de Mavis son los únicos que creen en su inocencia y se unirán para descubrir al auténtico culpable en una auténtica carrera contrarreloj.

This 1946 film stars Phillip Terry as a war veteran, who is persuaded by machine politico Donald MacBride to run for alderman. Ann Savage plays the "honest government functionary" with whom the hero falls in love. Terry finds that disreputable politicians are using his war record to push through some shady legislation, so he renounces these hacks.

A young girl goes to work as a live-in caretaker for a spooky old woman. She doesn't know that every night, the woman drains some blood from her to feed her strange plant.

A wealthy eccentric women escapes from a mental institution and finds refuge with a financially strapped barber and his two daughters

A bordo de un trasatlántico, Holmes y Watson cumplen una misión: escoltar al príncipe Nicolás, que es el heredero del trono; pero en el mismo barco viajan también unos asesinos que intentan acabar con la vida del príncipe.

En un tranquilo pueblo de los Estados Unidos, Harry Quincey, un soltero amargado por su fracaso como artista, vive con sus dos hermanas, Hester y Leite, y una sirvienta. De manera inesperada Harry anuncia que va a casarse. (FILMAFFINITY)

When a man dies of a heart attack, a stage and radio mentalist believes he has willed him to die because he was angry with the man. Riddled with guilt, the mentalist cancels further shows, breaks off his engagement to his female partner, who can read minds while in a hypnotic trance, and takes refuge in the eerie wax-museum-cum-home of another woman friend.

When the prison choir loses its leader, the boys try to get him back in.

Ole and Chic are comedians employed in a nightclub, but seeking to be released from their contracts to take a better job. But the prissy nightclub owner, B. J. Wagonhorn, refuses to let them go. In reprisal, they start hurling insults at the nightclub patrons… a ploy that soon has them facing multiple lawsuits… to the delight of three struggling attorneys, Charlie Rodman, Bettty Wilson and Arthur Lane.

Charles Laughton ofrece una magistral interpretación en este obra del cine negro en la que da vida a un hombre casado que se enamora de una joven.

Framed for two crimes he didn't commit, and betrayed by his girl, Cliff Banks finds himself on the run from the police. Now distrustful of everyone, he finds a safe haven hiding out at a quaint country cottage under the care of a kindly old farmer and his daughter, a Cinderella-like blind woman who seems to be able to communicate with nature. There he is forced by their love to question his misanthropy.

Artist David Stuart is blinded by a jealous assistant / model. His fiance's father generously offers his eyes for a sight restoring operation. There's only one hitch: Stuart has to wait until after the man dies. Not surprisingly, when the benefactor dies a very premature death, suspicion falls on the artist.

Narra tres historias con un marcado aire sobrenatural en los que el destino tiene vital importancia. En la primera una mujer no muy agraciada físicamente recibe una máscara que la convierte en una bella dama, en la segunda un hombre recibe un trágico augurio, y en la última un trapecista presiente su propio final.

A young woman marries a soldier to fulfill the conditions of a will. However, when she gets ready to divorce him, she realizes that she actually loves him, and determines to find a way to keep him.

A former bootlegger is now the prosperous owner of a popular nightclub. A hustling promoter manages to pass off a young singer as the heir to a fortune and gets her booked at the club.

A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her new hubby is tired of hiding the truth and creates all kinds of problems when he decides to spill the beans.

Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-ditch attempt to avoid their legal breakup by restaging their mountain-resort honeymoon. Things get complicated when a rancher named Big Boy (Rod Cameron, in a Ralph Bellamy-style "sap" role) shows up at the resort in ardent pursuit of Carol, while Lorraine Logan (Harriet Hilliard) sets her cap for Bob.

Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark, who of course is unaware of it. But unknown to Jean, Mark has become engaged to singer Val. When Jean finds out she tries to save face by saying that she is also engaged, and then uses a little social blackmail to get psychiatrist Bill Perry to pretend to be her fiancé for an evening out with Mark and Val.

Un grupo de matones es contratado por un millonario para que, nada menos, vayan a Alemania y maten a Hitler.

Two Army sergeants disrupt a bar, a party and an Army-Navy dance.

El gobernador de la decadente y cosmopolita Shanghai notifica a Madre Gin Sling, dueña de un famoso casino, que el local será derribado para remodelar el distrito. La dama averigua que detrás de ese movimiento especulativo está el acaudalado Sir Guy Charteris. Con motivo de la celebracion del Año Nuevo Chino Sir Guy y otros invitados se sientan a la mesa de Madre Gin Sling. Allí, el oscuro pasado del especulador se pondrá al descubierto.

Two young hoods from the city are sent to a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in the mountains to try to turn them away from the life of crime they're headed for.

Clay Morgan kills Joel Potter and Marshal Manning has to arrest the brother of the girl he plans to marry.

Two brothers are separated when young. One becomes the pony express rider Clint Knox and the other the outlaw Ace Carter.

A Chinese-American aviator falls in love with an opera star named Fan in San Francisco. A jealous theater manager named Jung intervenes, threatening to send the opera star back to China

Buck Bonner, posing as the recently deceased Morning Glory Kid, is sent to round up the Mort Ringer gang. Buck finds Ringer and joins up with his gang. But he is in trouble when Slim and Bud who buried the Kid arrive and expose him as a Marshal.

A documentary about what happened to the Great Plains of the United States and Canada when uncontrolled farming destroyed the soil and led to the Dust Bowl.

Weaves a Gothic spell with its account of love and death on an isolated farm, including a startling passage of sunstruck eroticism.

En Kronberg, capital de un antiguo reino centroeuropeo, la cruel y caprichosa reina Regina V castiga a su primo y prometido, el príncipe Wolfram, a ir de maniobras bajo el sol durante todo el día por su escandalosa escapada de la noche anterior. Por el camino de Kambach, el príncipe y su escuadrón se cruzan con un grupo de monjas y de jóvenes novicias de un convento cercano. Cuando las muchachas se inclinan ante el príncipe, los leotardos de una de ellas, Patricia Kelly, se deslizan hasta el suelo. El príncipe y su escuadron comienzan a reirse, y la muchacha, indignada, se los arroja a la cara. Enamorado locamente de ella desde ese momento, el príncipe decide raptarla conduciéndola a sus habitaciones en palacio, a pesar de que la Reina ya ha anunciado su boda para el día siguiente. (FILMAFFINITY)

Helen es una cantante de cabaret que decide abandonar su profesión para contraer matrimonio con Edward Faraday, un abnegado científico entregado a su trabajo y cuya situación económica no es muy boyante. Durante un viaje a Alemania, Edward contrae una grave enfermedad, debido a sus investigaciones, y se ve obligado a seguir un costoso tratamiento. Para sufragar los gastos, Helen vuelve a su antiguo trabajo. Así conoce a Nick Towsend, un playboy que la enamora y con el que inicia una nueva vida. Cuando Edward regresa y descubre la infidelidad de su mujer, decide quitarle a Helen el hijo que tuvo con ella.

El doctor Henry Von Frankenstein acomete un experimento tenebroso: construir, a partir de fragmentos de cadáveres, un nuevo ser humano. Con la ayuda de su criado Fritz, se adentra durante la noche en los cementerios de la localidad para arrancar a los cadáveres las partes que necesita. Lo que ignora es que el cerebro que ha utilizado en su experimento había pertenecido a un criminal.

Clive, un humilde trabajador, está a punto de conquistar a una rica heredera, cuando Roberta, su antigua novia, le comunica que está embarazada; Roberta se ahoga en circunstancias extrañas y él es acusado de asesinato.

This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized. He is identified by the number 9413 written on his forehead.

Ralph Ince stars as Brute Shane, a South Pacific trader who has adopted native girl Saina (Olive Broden). When Shane rescues English lass Nona Deering (Claire Adams) from white slavers, the jealous Saina begins plotting Nona's demise.

Joan and Magdalen are the daughters of a fisherman. Magdalen leaves her fiancé, Peter, to run off to the big city. Joan and Peter marry. Magdalen's return years later causes trouble for the marriage, but Joan and Peter remain together in the end.

Un supuesto dentista se casa con una mujer a la que le ha tocado la lotería. El frustrado novio de ésta le acusa de no tener licencia para ejercer como tal. A causa de ello, el matrimonio vive pobremente, pero la mujer ahorra compulsivamente. La avaricia y los celos conducirán a una tragedia. Existen dos versiones: la censurada, de dos horas y media, y la completa, de cuatro horas.

Millie vive con su abuelo en una remota isla de Florida, a la que su abuelo se vio obligado a ir por motivos políticos. Pero no están solos. Un prisionero fugado de la cárcel, llamado Nicholas, los está acosando debido a su interés por Millie. Por otro lado, un marinero llamado John Woolfolk, quien ha perdido a su esposa recientemente, navega con su yate para desquitarse de sus penas, y es así como llega a la isla para interceder involuntariamente en esa situación.

Tres ancianos solteros adoptan a una niña que es hija de la mujer de la que se enamoraron en su juventud.