The Big Trees (1952)
MAMMOTH REDWOOD WILDERNESS -- TREASURE PILED TO THE SKY!
ジャンル : ロマンス, 西洋
上映時間 : 1時間 29分
演出 : Felix E. Feist
脚本 : John Twist, James R. Webb
シノプシス
In 1900, unscrupulous timber baron Jim Fallon plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions off California redwood. Much of the land he hopes to grab has been homesteaded by a Quaker colony, who try to persuade him to spare the giant sequoias...but these are the very trees he wants most. Expert at manipulating others, Fallon finds that other sharks are at his own heels, and forms an unlikely alliance.
医師のトミーは、脳腫瘍に冒された妻イジーを救うため、新たな治療法を発見しようと必死の研究を続けていた。だが仕事に没頭するあまり、彼は残された時を2人で過ごしたいというイジーの願いに気づけずにいた。イジーはそんな彼に本心を知って欲しいと、16世紀スペインの女王イザベルの命により、不死の秘薬を求める騎士トマスの物語を綴り始める。イジーは空白の最終章を完成させて欲しいと、その物語をトミーに託す。
かつては泥棒だったが、子どもが生まれてからまっとうになり、妻と息子の3匹で平穏な穴暮らしをしてきた、キツネのMr.FOX。だが、窮屈な穴ぐら生活を疑問に感じ、心機一転とばかりに丘の上の大木の家に引っ越す。実は丘の反対側には悪名高い人間の農場主3人が住んでいた。農場を見て野性の本能に目覚めたMr.FOXと動物仲間たちは、思わず農場から家畜を盗みだすように。怒った農場主たちはキツネ狩りを始める。
ブラッド・ピットとショーン・ペンの2大スター共演で描くヒューマンドラマ。厳格な父と慈愛に満ちた母の狭間で常に葛藤しながら成長したジャックは、深い喪失感の中、自分の人生や生き方の根源となった少年時代に思いを馳せ、自らの行き方を振り返る。
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
平和な一時を過す悟空たちであったが、地球にはサイヤ人戦士ターレスの軍団が人知れず潜んでおり、不穏な空気が流れていた。ターレス一行は宇宙を暴れまわるクラッシャー軍団として恐れられ、近いうちには銀河を手中に収めんとするならず者の集まりであった。彼らは、星の生命を吸い上げて成長する神精樹を使い、その実を食べることで絶大な力を手にする。その神精樹の拠り所として選んだのが地球であった。神精樹の種が蒔かれた地球には次々と天変地異が起こる。北の界王から地球が衰退していくことを知らされた悟空たちZ戦士は、神精樹を破壊して地球を救うため、ターレスたちに戦いを挑む。
David Attenborough takes us on a guided tour through the secret world of plants, to see things no unaided eye could witness. Each episode in this six-part series focuses on one of the critical stages through which every plant must pass if it is to survive:- travelling, growing, and flowering; struggling with one another; creating alliances with other organisms both plant and animal; and evolving complex ways of surviving in the earth's most ferociously hostile environments.
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks custody of the child. One day Mr. Brink, an agent of Death, arrives to take Gramps "to the land where the woodbine twineth." Through a bit of trickery, Gramps confines Mr. Brink, and thus Death, to the branches of a large apple tree, giving Gramps extra time to resolve issues about Pud's future.
Dr. Tremayne is an enigmatic psychiatrist running an asylum that houses four very special cases. Visited by his colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains his amazing and controversial theories as to why each of the four patients went mad.
The O'Neills lived happily in their house in the Australian countryside. That was until one day fate struck blindly, taking the life of Peter, the father, leaving his grief-stricken wife Dawn alone with their four children. Among them, eight-year-old Simone denies this reality. She is persuaded that her father still lives in the giant fig tree growing near their house and speaks to her through its leaves. But the tree becomes more and more invasive and threatens the house. It must be felled. Of course, Simone won't allow it.
Henry Roubier, a French promoter, and Enrico Mazzini, an Italian, have signed an agreement guaranteeing them a stranglehold on European highways. While driving on the roads of the south, Roubier takes two young hitchhikers, but an unfortunate swerve the car rushes by Henri and its occupants on the top of a pine tree onto the side of a cliff.
Set in mid-70's, 12-year old Dvir Avni navigates between the equality values of his home-born Kibbutz and the relationship with his undermined mother, whom the Kibbutz members will to denounce.
When Charlie Brown complains about the overwhelming materialism that he sees amongst everyone during the Christmas season, Lucy suggests that he become director of the school Christmas pageant. Charlie Brown accepts, but it is a frustrating struggle. When an attempt to restore the proper spirit with a forlorn little fir Christmas tree fails, he needs Linus' help to learn the meaning of Christmas.
ミツバチがアメリカからいなくなり、突然人々が自殺を始めた。髪留めで自らの首を刺す女性、工事現場で次々と飛び降りる作業員たち。果たしてこの行動の原因は何なのか?テロか、放射能汚染か、環境汚染か。
アリス・シーボルトのベスト・セラー小説をピーター・ジャクソンが映画化。14歳で殺害されてしまった少女・スージー。事件がきっかけでバラバラになってしまった家族と、天国から見守るスージーの絆を事件の顛末を絡めスリリングに描くファンタジー。
Juraj Jakubisko's first feature film after a forced nine-year-long break is a story about an unconventional man, Jozef Matúš. He arrives to a small village in eastern Slovakia to settle down and start a family. He is ready to subordinate everything to his goal. It all starts with stealing building material and ends with him disregarding those close to him to a point where his ambitions are turning against him. Build a House, Plant a Tree is a viewer-friendly film with a plot resembling a western, including several attractive action sequences.
Donald is a park ranger, assigned to protect the giant tree Old Sequoia from a pair of beavers that bear a striking resemblance in their tactics and speech to Chip 'n' Dale.
Donald has a ride-on sized train layout in his backyard. There's a large tree (home to Chip 'n Dale) that's out of scale, so Donald moves it while they're out; they come back to see their tree moving. No problem; one of Donald's model houses is just their size.
Charlie, a small boy living in a big city, is content with lying in the top of a big tree and dreaming, for example about Emma. On the ground beneath it sits his big fat grandpa and he reads the newspaper over and over. Once in a while Charlie climbs down the tree and experiences all kinds of adventures.
A stand of birches. Sunlight brightens and dims, revealing more or less of the woods. A little grass is on the forest floor. Is there a shape in the shadows? Something green is out of focus. The light flashes, and the screen goes dark from time to time. We look up close at the bark of trees. Is the god of the forest to be seen?
Mad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Roe awaits death under a tree with her body beside him. She begins to haunt him because he won't bury her. His father, who bought him the wife, thinks her sister might reason with Roe.