Richard Goldstone
Nacimiento : 1912-07-14, New York City, New York, USA
Muerte : 2007-03-07
Self
Una mirada nostálgica sobre las legendarias tres cámaras, tres procesos de proyección que revolucionaron la industria del cine: así comenzó la era de la pantalla panorámica. A través de clips de Cinerama real, curiosas imágenes detrás de cámaras y nuevas entrevistas, el espectador puede conocer una época ya superada del mundo del cine. Este documental aparece en la edición coleccionista de "La conquista del Oeste".
Director
An anniversary celebration of the stars and moments that made Warner Bros. what it is today.
Producer
Tish Gray had a baby and gave it up for adoption. She is contacted by a second childless couple who want her to have the husband's baby because of the wife's inability to have children. She accepts but finds that knowing the parents, and developing a relationship with them for the entire pregnancy complicates the simple arrangement.
Producer
Es la historia de la lucha interior del oscuro sargento Albert Callan para superar la abrumadora atracción que siente por uno de sus subordinados. En el entorno formal y asfixiante de un mundo posterior a la Segunda Guerra Mundial del ejército en Francia, Callan tiene una atracción profundamente reprimida por el apuesto Swanson. Más tarde, solo en su soledad, recuerda las experiencias aterradoras de la guerra y los acontecimientos que condujeron a esta encrucijada. Lleno de odio hacia sí mismo e incapaz de actuar por su atracción natural, realiza ataques verbales y castigos inmerecidos a Swanson.
Director
A selection of excerpts from the first Cinerama films.
Writer
La historia de George Tweed, el único marinero norteamericano en la isla de Guam que evitó ser capturado por los japoneses durante la II Guerra Mundial.
Director
La historia de George Tweed, el único marinero norteamericano en la isla de Guam que evitó ser capturado por los japoneses durante la II Guerra Mundial.
Producer
La historia de George Tweed, el único marinero norteamericano en la isla de Guam que evitó ser capturado por los japoneses durante la II Guerra Mundial.
Director
Cinerama takes you on a South Seas Adventure to tropical islands set like sparkling jewels in dreamy cerulean waters. Thrill to the lure of sunbrowned, luscious maidens and a paradise of coconut palms, coral strand and blue lagoons. Enchanted South Pacific archipelagos beckon with all the beauty and color of a painter’s palette. Stepping stones in the vast expanse of far-away seas, they promise romance, adventure, excitement—an irresistible blend of fascinating people and exotic places.
Producer
While in Havana, a musician gets involved with a crippled man and his beautiful wife... with deadly results.
Producer
El doctor Harrison, un científico que trabaja para la agencia espacial del gobierno de los EEUU en el desarrollo de cohetes espaciales, colabora con el profesor Nordstrom en la creación de un robot destinado a reemplazar a los astronautas humanos. El androide Tobor además de desarrollar sentimientos humanos hacia el nieto del profesor, parece ser la solución al problema. Pero los soviéticos verán en el robot un gran potencial bélico.
Producer
La trama cuenta cómo un ex militar experto en explosivos es solicitado por la policía para desactivar una bomba colocada por un terrorista en un tren de municiones.
Producer
Small-town gossips rage over the arrival of a mysterious stranger.
Producer
Abraham Lincoln viajará en tren a Washington con motivo de su investidura y, aprovechando la ocasión, se está tramando un complot para asesinarlo a su paso por Baltimore. El detective de Nueva York John Kennedy (Dick Powell) intenta alertar a sus superiores sobre el plan, pero sus sospechas se desestiman. Entonces decide subir al tren para intentar frustrar el asesinato él mismo. No está seguro en quién confiar, pero encuentra un aliado potencial en Ginny Beaufort (Paula Raymond), la hermana de uno de los conspiradores.
Producer
A tycoon rises to the top in 19th-century San Francisco through greed and corruption.
Producer
A killer holds the customers at a bar hostage.
Producer
Al final de la Guerra Civil, tres soldados confederados escapan de un campo de prisioneros de la Unión en Missouri. No tardaron en caer en manos de los invasores pro-confederados, que les obligan a actuar como "escoltas" para una caravana civil en la que se transporta en secreto oro de la Unión de Santa Fe, Nuevo México, a St. Louis, Missouri. Los tres hombres han de llevar los vagones hacia una trampa en Missouri, pero uno de ellos comienza a tener dudas...
Producer
Un maduro boxeador en decadencia, para demostrarse a sí mismo que todavía no está acabado, decide seguir boxeando, a pesar de la desaprobación de su mujer. Incluso su propio mánager, convencido de su derrota, apuesta contra él. Obtuvo excelentes críticas por las escenas de boxeo y por la vibrante interpretación de Robert Ryan.
Producer
Alfalfa and the gang decide to turn to a life of crime, but Spanky tries to trick them with a fake burglary.
Producer
To impress Darla, Alfalfa drinks a concoction of Butch's "dynamite" brew.
Story
Made just before America would be forced into the Second World War, this short subject is a brief dramatized history of American democracy. It targets a perceived threat to democracy from board room and soapbox fascists who advocated a government based upon contemporaneous European models.
Writer
For some unexplained reason, sales of waffle irons have plummeted. Evelyn Foster, president of the Magic Circle Waffle Iron Company, and Richard Wright, president of the Four Square Waffle Iron Company, decide to merge their companies and get married as well. When Richard insists that the new company make square waffle irons rather than round ones, Evelyn calls off the marriage and the company merger. Richard meets a Hindu yogi, who helps him win Evelyn back.
Original Story
The big Barber College competition between rivals Clipton and Beardsley is coming up and everything is on the line for professor and coach Kapouris. But thanks to a secret depilatory he developed, Clipton has the edge.
Screenplay
A magician's daughter falls in love with a reporter for a magazine. When the magazine publishes a story that exposes her father's methods, she dumps the reporter. He now must convince her that he had nothing to do with the magazine's exposé.
Writer
Romance of Radium is a 1937 American short film directed by Jacques Tourneur, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This short film tells the story of the discovery of radium and how it is used in medicine. In 1937, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (One-Reel) at the 10th Academy Awards
Story
In Chinese culture, live theater performances are attended by all classes of society. This short shows a performance of "The Rainbow Pass," a tale of a wife who challenges her husband's murderer to combat.
Screenplay
In this short, the janitor of a Paris museum's Egyptology department agrees to help a girl hide from the police.
Writer
A short biography of William Shakespeare that highlights the various jobs he worked at in the theater.
Screenplay
Starts with "Anderson Family" court trial where wife testifies on the murder of her husband, while the police investigation finds some interesting twists to the crime. Part of the Crime Does Not Pay series
Screenplay
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman, wanting a life of luxury, takes the "easy" way, and winds up in jail.
Screenplay
In this comedic short, two pie vendors discuss merging their businesses, but one of them may have an ulterior motive.
Story
Gypsies sing and dance around the fire while their children dream.
