Daniel Mann
Nascimento : 1912-08-08, New York City, New York
Morte : 1991-11-21
História
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Daniel Mann, also known as Daniel Chugerman (August 8, 1912 – November 21, 1991), was an American film and television director.
Daniel Mann was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was a stage actor since childhood, and attended Erasmus Hall High School, New York's Professional Children's School and the Neighborhood Playhouse. He entered films in 1952 as a director, evincing very little flair for visual dynamics but an excellent ear for dialogue. Most of Mann's films were adaptations from the stage (Come Back Little Sheba, The Rose Tattoo, The Teahouse of the August Moon) and literature (BUtterfield 8, The Last Angry Man).
Daniel Mann died of heart failure in Los Angeles, California in November 1991.
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The true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain gang, attempted two daring escapes.
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Due to her parents' divorce, a young lady named Judy begins to doubt herself and love in general as her wedding day approaches.
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Duas mulheres formam um conjunto de cordas no campo de concentração de Auschwitz e, graças à qualidade de sua música, são poupadas das câmaras de gás durante muito tempo pelos nazistas. Vanessa Redgrave está excepcional no papel da judia Fania Fénelon, uma musicista de talento, figura humana de extrema dignidade e sensibilidade, que orienta e presta apoio à mais jovem, esta inconformada com a situação e frágil diante da fome. Num cenário de horrores, uma visão concreta das duas faces da moeda da moral humana: A essência e a barbárie.
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A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping-stone into the big time.
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U.S geologist discovers something about Oil that proves VERY threatening to the Turkish and Arab business people.
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A black South African minister searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his son.
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When an African-American basketball star suffers sudden paralysis, his white friend and teammate assists in his rehabilitation.
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An emotionally fragile older woman (Merle Oberon) embarks on an ill-fated love affair with a handsome young artist (Robert Wolders) while traveling through Mexico's Yucatan peninsula...
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A television adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play about the Hubbards, a rich Southern family of greedy, ruthless individuals.
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Vaqueiro vê a família ser massacrada por bando de índios e ladrões de cavalos, liderados por dois homens brancos, que fogem para o México e escapam da polícia americana. O vaqueiro arregimenta seis fugitivos da prisão e parte para a vingança.
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Willard Stiles é um rapaz com problemas sociais. Ele se diverte com seus amigos, dois ratos, Ben e Socrates, e outros que se juntam. Quando um deles é morto por um colega de trabalho, ele se vinga, treinando os ratos contra quem o atormenta.
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A Greek American father of a dying boy decides to take his son to Greece to breathe the clean air of his ancestors, in an attempt to save the boy's life. However, money is a problem.
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A white family has had the same Black maid for many years. When she tells them she wants to go back to school and will be leaving soon, the 20ish year old son decides what she needs is a change and begins searching for a man to wine and dine her, but who won't marry her, thinking that this will distract her from her plans. The man he finds doesn't entirely cooperate.
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A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband.
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Catástrofes ecológicas estão acontecendo no mundo. Inundações, atividades vulcânicas, etc. Ninguém sabe porquê nem como. Alguém deve ser encontrado que possa dizer a todos os peritos porquê isto está acontecendo e como deter. O agente Derek Flint será chamado.
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TV star Jason Steel reluctantly becomes the sounding board for his best friends' bored wives, and must fend off their advances while managing his own fragile relationship.
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A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.
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The arrival of a young tutor triggers emotional crises for a wealthy family.
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A popular but naive country singer is elected governor of a southern state and, once in office, decides to dismantle the corrupt political machine that got him elected. Director Daniel Mann's 1961 political drama stars Susan Hayward, Dean Martin, Wilfred Hyde-White, Martin Balsam, Ralph Meeker, Connie Sawyer, William Walker, Ray Teal, Larry Gates and Kathryn Card.
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O filme conta a história de Gloria Wandrous, uma charmosa prostituta de Nova York que carrega um passado perturbador. Ela se apaixona por um homem milionário e casado, mas tem dúvidas sobre se poderá dedicar-se a um único amor.
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In 1944, in eastern part of China, U.S.Army Major Baldwin and his volunteer team of demolition engineers are left behind the retreating Chinese forces. Their task is to slow down the Japanese advance into eastern China by blowing up bridges, roads, airfields and munitions dumps. They start by blowing up an American airfield and ammo dump. They receive the order to destroy a vital bridge over a mountain pass.The team uses a few army trucks to move around. At the bridge, they encounter a Nationalist Chinese Army unit in charge of guarding the bridge. Thanks to an American soldier who speaks some Chinese, Major Baldwin requests the permission, from the Chinese commander, to blow up the bridge.The Chinese colonel agrees but asks the American Major to do him a favor by also destroying a munitions dump located at some distance away.He also requests that Madame Sue-Mei Hung, the widow of a Chinese colonel, be transported by the American demolition team to the nearest major town.
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Dr. Sam Abelman is a Jewish doctor contentedly spending his autumn years serving his own Brooklyn neighborhood. But when his nephew, would-be journalist Myron, writes an article about him, it draws the attention of a producer, Woodrow Thrasher, who believes Dr. Abelman a good candidate for a TV show. The doctor, however, is suspicious of the whole enterprise, thinking both Myron and Thrasher are simply out to make a fast buck.
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Alma Duval, a middle-aged housewife, trying to hide how much she suffers from her husband's amorous excursions while trying to help her children solve their problems and doing her best to keep her family together as it's slowly falling apart. Meanwhile, daughter Virginia is dumped by her boyfriend because she cannot help him with his career. Her cheating husband's birthday party is approaching and many lines will be crossed after that event.
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Logo após a Segunda Guerra Mundial, o capitão Fisby é enviado ao vilarejo Tobiki em Okinawa, interior do Japão, para ensinar democracia à população. O primeiro passo seria construir uma escola, mas os alunos, depois de explicar ao mestre suas tradições, tentam persuadi-lo a construir o que mais interessa a eles: uma casa de chá.
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Short promotional film for "The Teahouse of the August Moon". The cast and crew are shown arriving in Japan and being welcomed by the Japanese, and then shown in various clips around the set The location shooting is done at Nara, where a small town is constructed on approximately 11 acres of land. Local villagers watch the filming. MGM is praised for using Japanese locations, promoting international relations, etc. The short wraps up with construction of the Teahouse set and a clip of the feature film to show the result.
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Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic.
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A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on her.
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A lonely, unhappy owner of a Beverly Hills boarding house reflects on her lonely, unhappy life and the lonely, unhappy man she once loved.
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A mismatched couple's marital problems come to the surface when the husband develops an interest in their pretty boarder.