A Volta da Noiva (1943)
The thrilling secret of a soldier's sweetheart!
Gênero : Drama, Crime, Mistério
Runtime : 1H 29M
Director : Willis Goldbeck
Escritor : Martin Berkeley, Harry Ruskin, Lawrence P. Bachmann
Sinopse
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.
O filme conta a história de Franck, um assaltante de bancos que foge da prisão para perseguir o seu antigo companheiro de cela, um serial killer que o incrimina pelos seus crimes hediondos. Agora considerado injustamente o inimigo público nº 1 e também perseguido por uma inspetora particularmente tenaz, Franck entra num jogo perigoso de gato e rato onde já não se distingue a presa do caçador.
Prisoners battle each other -- and the police -- when they escape the Colorado State Penitentiary.
Lynn Markham moves into her late husband's beach house the morning after former tenant Eloise Crandall fell from the cliff. To her annoyance, Lynn finds both her real estate agent and Drummond Hall, her beachcomber neighbor, making themselves quite at home. Lynn soon has no doubts of what her scheming neighbors are up to, but she finds Drummond's physical charms hard to resist. And she still doesn't know what really happened to Eloise.
Manuel vive com a esposa Rosa e a mãe, numa vida muito pobre no sertão brasileiro. Numa discussão com o Coronel que controla sua região o rapaz se revolta e mata o poderoso. Sua única opção é fugir deixando o pouco que tem para trás e seguindo o beato Sebastião que promete a bênção de Deus aos seus fiéis. Manuel pode, sem querer, estar novamente entrando em problemas, pois a oligarquia local encomendou a morte de Sebastião e seus seguidores a João das Mortes, com medo que uma situação como a de Canudos se repita.
Mahmoud is a simple young man, who is barely making ends meet working as security guard at a parking garage. Little did he know that doing the right thing upon witnessing a murder would drastically change his whole life.
Cheyenne Rogers (Ford), um caçador de recompensas, viaja até Red Valley, onde conhece e enamora-se de Allison MacLeod (Evelyn Keyes). Tentará então, de levar uma vida fastada do seu passado, porém não será fa´cil. Western que se passa em 1860 e tem como protagonista o xerife Upton (Randolph Scott), que tenta manter a lei numa pequena cidade de Utah. Seu principal problema e com seu amigo Cheenne (Glenn Ford), que durante algum tempo foi um deliquente, mas se aposentou há muitos anos. Quando o banco é roubado, Cheyenne se converte, diante dos olhos da comunidade, no principal suspeito. Somente seu amigos parece estar convencido da sua inocência. Um dos primeiros filmes rodados em Technicolor, e também a primeira pareceria entre o ditador Charles Vidor e Glenn Ford, que depois alcançariam a glória com Rita Hayworth, em Gilda (1946) e Os Amores de Carmen (1948). O conflito entre a lei e a amizade.
Zé do Burro e sua esposa Rosa vivem em uma pequena propriedade rural próxima de Salvador. Um dia, o burro de estimação de Zé é atingido por um raio e ele acaba indo a um terreiro de candomblé, onde faz uma promessa para salvar o animal. Com o restabelecimento do bicho, Zé põe-se a cumprir a promessa e doa metade de seu sítio, para depois começar uma caminhada rumo a Salvador, carregando nas costas uma imensa cruz de madeira. Mas a via crucis de Zé ainda se torna mais angustiante ao ver Rosa se envolver com o cafetão Bonitão e ao ser impedido por Padre Olavo de entrar em sua igreja, pela razão de Zé ter feito sua promessa em um terreiro.
Ismaël, a young thirteen-year old boy, is taken aback by the suicide of his best friend. Not only did he not have any idea that this dramatic act was a possibility, neither did his other friends. Perhaps it had something to do with his having an unrequited love for a beautiful young neighbor, an attraction Ismaël also feels. Perhaps it had something to do with drugs, or a problem with a universally disliked teacher. Throughout most of the film, the young survivors discuss their departed classmate.
Two women who have been unjustly confined to a prison planet plot their escape, all the while having to put up with unhinged guards, crazed wardens and mutant rodents.
Street Life documents the lives of Chinese migrants in Shanghai, one of the world’s largest and most vibrant cities, now symbolic of China’s economic might. The film centers on Nanjing Road, one of China’s oldest commercial streets and today a popular destination for tourists and moneyed Chinese. The street has also become a Mecca for uprooted and homeless Chinese, who make ends by collecting garbage and recyclables. These characters and their stories are the focus of the film. The central character in Street Life is a migrant known as “Black Skin.” Black Skin faces numerous pressures in the course of the film, including police violence. In the end, these pressures are too much for him to bear and he goes mad. Black Skin’s story intersects with those of fellow bottle collectors, enterprising thieves and even a young boy who has been abandoned.
Mitch Wayne e Kyle Hadley são amigos desde criança. A irmã de Kyle, Marylee, pretende se casar com Mitch. Mas este considera a jovem praticamente uma irmã e na verdade está apaioxonado por Lucy. O problema é que Kyle também está e é ele quem acaba se casando com Lucy, antes mesmo que Mitch pudesse expressar seus sentimentos. Kyle, antes um playboy e bebedor, com o tempo passa a ter mais responsabilidade. Mas então descobre que é estéril e mergulha com tudo na bebida. Marylee, movida pelo ódio de ter sido rejeitada, sugere ao irmão que Mitch e Lucy são amantes. E quando Lucy revela estar grávida, Kyle acusa o amigo Mitch de ser o pai.
Young boxer Michel Maudet is sacked by his manager after a series of match defeats and is forced to look for a new job. He is engaged as secretary to a millionaire named Ferchaux who is in a hurry to flee the country when he discovers he has been implicated in a high-profile fraud.
Professor Ramadan is a feared and well respected teacher in a village, forced to take a job in the city teaching at a private school. He soon realizes that most of his students are infatuated with a famous singer whom he tries to ban all mention of within the school, only to fall in love with her himself.
A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria Candelaria, a young Indian woman who was rejected by her own people for being the daughter of a prostitute. She is protected by a young Indian man, Lorenzo Rafael, who has fallen in love with her.
The story of the great train robber Ronald Biggs.
Isa is blamed for a robbery. He is badly beaten and given twenty four hours to return the money. Instead of finding the money, Isa finds a gun.
A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community petition the governor for clemency but all pretense of law and order are soon shattered by an incoming tropical storm.
Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.
Osvaldo and Mabel, an Argentine couple exiled for political reasons in the United States, travel to their country of origin after ten years to reconnect with their family and friends, including Mabel's brother and his wife. Mabel offers her brother the possibility of working in New York in order to improve their economic situation, but his wife is opposed to that idea.