Shifting Sands (1918)
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연출 : Albert Parker
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Marcia Grey is wrongly convicted on trumped-up evidence of a German. After serving her term, she rebuilds her life and marries well.
A small-town girl who goes to New York hoping to become a Broadway star falls in with a fast crowd.
The daughter of a Chinese mandarin is sentenced to death for her secret marriage to an American. Their child, raised in the mandarin's palace, grows up and escapes to seek her father, now a high-ranking official in the Philippines.
Eve Mason, a white-passing black woman, moves to a remote cottage she inherited from her late father. She makes the acquaintance of her neighbor, a dashing black settler named Hugh Van Allen, and quickly falls for him. Trouble brews as the local cadre of racist hucksters want the valuable land Van Allen lives on, and will do anything to take it from him.
Raffles is an English gentleman with a secret life—he is the notorious jewel thief known as "The Amateur Cracksman." While sailing from India to England accompanied by his friend, Bunny Manners, it is rumored that the infamous cracksman is aboard ship. Raffles warns a lady passenger to keep an eye on her necklace, which is stolen soon afterward. Although a search reveals no evidence, the necklace is returned upon reaching London.
A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they steal each other's boyfriends.
Molly is a wife of wealthy Britisher Sam Thornhill. Though devoutly loyal to her husband, the capricious Molly can't seem to avoid getting herself into compromising situations. The limit comes when a pair of Molly's stockings find their way into the boudoir of another man.
Charles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife for another woman; When his other love interest becomes involved in a murder, he leaves for Paris.
Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the other convicts in a violent uprising. Walters gets caught up in the riot, while on the outside his friends are trying to find evidence of his innocence.
A young woman visiting in Mexico is kidnapped by a gang of bandits, who drag her through the rugged wilderness to their hideout. She manages to leave word for her friend Bill, who knows the country well. But when Bill cannot find a horse, his only available form of transportation is his roadster. Nevertheless, he is determined to come to her rescue, even though it means trying to drive the car across miles of rocky, broken terrain.
A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.
Bim (Buck Jones) seems to be his town's biggest loser, but when he takes a needy 13-year-old boy named Bill (George Stone) under his wing, it seems there may be some hope for Bim. After learning about Bill, a young teacher, Mary (Helen Ferguson), whom Bim secretly adores, helps get the young boy into school. And when Bim then helps Mary repay a loan, defaulted on by shifty boyfriend (William Buckley), it becomes evident that Bim can reform. As the plot in this captivating film twist and turns, the stakes get higher, the action gets more intense and hope for Bim bounds upward.
Five individuals from five nations, including the USA, USSR, and China, suddenly find themselves on an alien saucer, where an alien gives each a container holding three capsules. The alien explains that no power on earth can open a given container except a mental command from the person to whom it is given, then anyone may take a capsule and, by speaking a latitude and longitude at it, cause instant death to all within a given radius: thus each of the five has been provided with the power of life and death. Then, they are given 27 days to decide whether to use the capsules, and returned to the places from which each one came...
독일의 프랑스 점령기간 동안 우편물 수송에서 파업에 이르기까지 철도 노동자들의 참여와 1944년 6월 노르망디 상륙 작전 때 항독 지하 운동가들에게 중요한 지원을 하게 된 노동자들의 투쟁을 그린 연대기이다. 전쟁 종식 후 전문 배우가 아닌 실제 노동자들이 출연한 영화로 종전 후 클래식 영화의 진수로 꼽히고 있으며, 프랑스의 해방을 위해 투쟁한 모든 익명의 투쟁자들에게 경의를 표하는 영화라고 할 수 있다. 이 영화는 1940~ 1944년 독일 점령기에 반대하며 궐기했던 샬론 쉬르 사온 지역의 한 철도원에 대한 이야기이다. 전반부는 다큐멘터리 형식으로 철도 비밀 전쟁을 다루며, 나치스 당원들이 레지스탕스들을 처형하는 것으로 끝난다. 후반부는 납치와 상륙작전 당시 독일 압펠켄 호송 방해 사건을 재구성한다.
영국 빈민가에서 생활하던 전과자 윌슨은 딸 제니퍼가 미국에서 의문사했다는 소식을 접하고 LA로 향한다. 그곳에서 딸과 친분이 있었던 로엘이라는 남자의 도움을 받아 딸의 흔적을 추적해간다. 그러던 과정에 딸이 부유한 음반제작자이자 마약 암거래상이기도 한 테리 발렌타인과 치정관계로 얽혀 있었다는 사실을 알게 된다. 윌슨은 직감적으로 테리에 의해 딸이 살해당했을 것임을 알게 되고, 보복에 나서게 된다.
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A young baseball pitcher in the bush leagues is discovered by a big-league manager and given his chance in the major leagues.
A young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help about one of her fathers guests shortly before his planed departure. Her suspects about that guest were serious, this man tries to steal one of her fathers rubin, and she and her fiance are kidnapped and brought to a house, where strange things happen. The whole thing becomes a nightmare under the direction of a mysterious Mr. Satan.
The "true story" of baseball great Babe Ruth; Ruth plays himself.
A young man pursues a young lady with the same energy he applies to his other obsession in life, auto racing.