Soak the Poor (1937)
ジャンル : 犯罪
上映時間 : 16分
演出 : Harold S. Bucquet
シノプシス
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with racketeers shaking down small grocers and horning in on the relief tickets, forcing prices up with the consumers paying the freight.
Paris, 1960s. Momo, a resolute and independent Jewish teenager who lives with his father, a sullen and depressed man, in a working-class neighborhood, develops a close friendship with Monsieur Ibrahim, an elderly Muslim who owns a small grocery store.
ジョン・ル・カレ同名小説の映画化。
イギリス情報部のリーマスが密命を帯びて東ドイツに潜入した。彼への指令は、東ドイツ諜報機関の実力者、ムントを失脚させることだった。リーマスは、ムントに敵対するフィードラーに接触、ムントが二重スパイであると告発する。任務は上手くいき、ムントは査問機関にかけられることになったが……。重厚なタッチのスパイ・スリラー。
Marcel Marx, a former bohemian and struggling author, has given up his literary ambitions and relocated to the port city Le Havre. He leads a simple life based around his wife Arletty, his favourite bar and his not too profitable profession as a shoeshiner. As Arletty suddenly becomes seriously ill, Marcel's path crosses with an underage illegal immigrant from Africa, who needs Marcel's help to hide from the police.
An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irritable and unsentimental aristocrat, his grandfather.
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