A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
The Immortal Story of Love and Intrigue During the French Revolution!
ジャンル : ドラマ, アクション, ロマンス, 履歴
上映時間 : 2時間 6分
演出 : Jack Conway
脚本 : W.P. Lipscomb, S. N. Behrman
シノプシス
The exciting story of Dr. Manette, who escapes the horrors of the infamous Bastille prison in Paris. The action switches between London and Paris on the eve of the revolution where we witness 'the best of times and the worst of times' - love, hope, the uncaring French Aristocrats and the terror of a revolutionary citizen's army intent on exacting revenge.
This Lost World is a splendid BBC TV dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous adventure story. Bob Hoskins makes an unusually genial Professor Challenger, far less of a bully than Doyle's character, but his slightly stereotyped companions are nicely filled out by a solid cast. James Fox is Challenger's more timid but still covertly adventurous rival, Tom Ward is the moustachioed big game hunter who faces an Allosaurus with an elephant gun, and Matthew Rhys plays the tagalong reporter hoping to impress his faithless fiancée.
Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to sell off them to get some money. Afterwards he gets to know that one of them contains documents worth a lot of money. So he begins an adventurous trip to regain possession of the chair. On the way he meets many strange people who would like to help or to swindle him.
Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.
Abbott and Costello, two bumbling American cops on exchange in London, hunt for Mr. Hyde—the monster that has been terrorizing the city.
In this Dan Curtis production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, Jack Palance stars as Dr. Henry Jekyll, a scientist experimenting to reveal the hidden, dark side of man, who, in the process of his experiment, releases a murderer from within himself.
After a series of scientific experiments directed towards freeing the inner man and controlling human personalities, the kindly, generous Dr Henry Jekyll succeeds in freeing his own alter ego, Edward Hyde, a sadistic, evil creature whose pleasure is murder.
An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.
フランケンシュタイン男爵家の嫡男である若き科学者ヘンリーは、生命創造の研究に没頭していた。ヘンリーは助手のフリッツと共に墓地から盗み出した死体を接合し、彼に恩師であるウォルドマン教授の研究室から人間の脳を盗んでくるように指示する。同じ頃、行方不明になったヘンリーの身を案じる婚約者のエリザベスは、共通の友人ヴィクターと共にウォルドマンの元を尋ね、ヘンリーが生命の創造を行っていることを聞き出す。三人はヘンリーが籠る山奥の塔に向かい、彼の実験に立ち会うことになる。嵐の雷光を利用して高圧電流を浴びせられた死体は生命を得て目覚め、ヘンリーは狂喜する
エディ・マーフィ主演のハートフル・コメディ。動物と会話の出来る能力を持つ医師と、多種多様な動物たちとの心温まるふれあいをユーモラスに描く。『ベイブ』のSFXチームによる、アル中の猿や自殺志願のトラなど、100種類以上の動物たちが喋る“名演技”。そしてそんな彼らと見事な掛け合いを繰り広げるエディ・マーフィの妙演が見どころ。美しい妻と2人の娘に囲まれ、幸せな生活を送っていた医師ドリトル。ある日、車で接触した野良犬の怒鳴り声を聞いた彼は、それがきっかけで幼い頃持っていた動物と会話出来る能力を取り戻す。やがて彼の下には、悩みを持つ動物たちが続々と訪れ始めるが…。
In New York City, bright but naive New Englander Anne Welles becomes a secretary at a theatrical law firm, where she falls in love with attorney Lyon Burke. Anne befriends up-and-coming singer Neely O'Hara, whose dynamic talent threatens aging star Helen Lawson and beautiful but talentless actress Jennifer North. The women experience success and failure in love and work, leading to heartbreak, addiction and tragedy.
An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.
Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature with a horrid face — and a tendency to kill.
Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.
日本でもなじみ深いエミリー・ブロンテによる名作文学を基にした映画。名作『ローマの休日』のウィリアム・ワイラー監督が、ローレンス・オリヴィエを主役に据え、切なくも甘美な愛の物語を見事なまでにスクリーンに焼き付けている。
1925年のメキシコ。黄金探しに夢をかける老人ハワードと出会い、金鉱掘りに乗り出したアメリカ人のドブズとカーティン。運良く砂金を発見する3人だが、いつしか強欲な本性を現したドブズが仲間の裏切りを疑い始める。
黄金をめぐる男たちの欲望と葛藤をジョン・ヒューストン監督が骨太に描いた力作。アカデミー監督賞、脚色賞を受賞したほか、ハワードを演じた、名優で監督の父・ウォルターが助演男優賞に輝いた。
Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asthmatic husband, Billy. In an attempt to enhance her credibility as a psychic, Myra hatches an elaborate, ill-conceived plot to kidnap a wealthy couple's young daughter so that she can then help the police "find" the missing girl.
Jessie Wallace stars in this BBC drama based on the turbulent life and times of Marie Lloyd, known as the 'Queen of the Music Hall', who was famous at the turn of the 20th century not just for her performances on stage but also for her riotous behaviour off it. Lloyd's love life and outrageous conduct made her a target for the rising tabloid newspapers of the time. The film includes some of Lloyd's most famous songs, including 'My Old Man Said Follow the Van' and her theme song 'A Little of What You Fancy Does You Good'.
A deformed tormented girl drowns herself after her lover is framed for murder and guillotined. Baron Frankenstein, experimenting with the transfer of souls, places the boy's soul into her body, bringing Christina back to life. Driven by revenge, she carries out a violent retribution on those responsible for both deaths.
Victor Frankenstein witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his associate, Dr. Polidori.