Lewis Allen
Рождение : 1905-12-25, Oakengates, Shropshire, England, UK
Смерть : 2000-05-03
История
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Lewis Allen (25 December 1905 – 3 May 2000) was an English film and television director. Allen worked mainly in the United States, directing 18 feature films between 1944 and 1959. From the mid-1950s he moved increasingly into television and worked on a number of the most popular shows of the time in the U.S.
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A short documentary profile of the Anthology Film Archives, shot on the eve of the move to the historic 2nd Avenue Courthouse. Staff and patrons are interviewed, and films preserved by Anthology are spotlighted.
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Adaptation of the play Music at Midnight, set in the Iron Curtain.
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The ex-girlfriend (Juliette Greco) of a German fugitive hides with the captain (O.W. Fischer) and crew of a ship on the Rhine.
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Действие фильма разворачивается в Англии в 1945 году, в самом конце войны. Американская журналистка Сара Скотт, работающая в Лондоне, знакомится с английским репортёром Марком Трэвором. У них завязывается бурный роман. Сара уже строит планы на их совместное будущее, когда Марк сообщает ей, что у него уже есть семья. Вскоре он погибает в авиакатастрофе. Пережив шок, Сара решает поехать на родину Марка, чтобы поближе узнать место, где он вырос и познакомиться с людьми, близкими ему.
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Действие фильма разворачивается в Англии в 1945 году, в самом конце войны. Американская журналистка Сара Скотт, работающая в Лондоне, знакомится с английским репортёром Марком Трэвором. У них завязывается бурный роман. Сара уже строит планы на их совместное будущее, когда Марк сообщает ей, что у него уже есть семья. Вскоре он погибает в авиакатастрофе. Пережив шок, Сара решает поехать на родину Марка, чтобы поближе узнать место, где он вырос и познакомиться с людьми, близкими ему.
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Beat cop Bragan is about to go off duty when he discovers a man standing on the ledge of a hotel more than a dozen stories up. Bragan tries to talk the man, Robert Cosick, down from his threatening perch and in the process learns the reasons for the Robert's suicide attempt.
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A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
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Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction, balks when he learns what is at stake and helps Leduc out instead.
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The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.
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France, 1648: Richelieu and Louis XIII are dead, the new king is a minor, and the Duc de Lavalle is in virtually open rebellion, scheming to seize power. As a last resort, Queen Anne summons the heirs of the original Musketeers to her aid...including Claire, daughter of Athos, who when she chooses can miraculously pass as a boy, and wields as fine a sword as any. All their skills will be needed for a battle against increasing odds. One for all and all for one! Written by Rod Crawford
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Italian immigrant Rudolph Valentino makes it big in silent Hollywood, but he ends up struggling between his career and the woman he loves.
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Правительственные агенты выслеживают убийц почтового инспектора и предотвращают похищение миллиона долларов. Лэдд хорош в роли крутого, немногословного инспектора, ведущего это дело. Хорошая игра Филлис Кэлверт в роли монахини. Расследуя убийство, инспектор раскрывает заговор, в результате которого похищаются большие суммы наличных денег при перевозке по железной дороге. Он представляется полицейским, которого можно подкупить, и вымогает деньги у банды, угрожая сорвать план ограбления.
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On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Ames comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.
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John Hoyt plays a high-ranking Nazi being prosecuted by an army tribunal in the aftermath of World War II. Sentenced to death, the general appeals to the American investigating Major (Ray Milland), claiming mitigating circumstances, and providing the names of witnesses who will clear his name. This sends the Major in a search through the ruins of post-war Germany to determine the degree of the general's guilt.
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In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several malaria patients, including Mark Bellis, a mysterious and tormented painter.
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Юная дочь владелицы игорного дома влюбляется в гангстера. Их отношения заходят слишком далеко, и уже никто не в силах предотвратить неминуемую беду…
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A couple celebrate their tenth anniversary by quarreling their way to divorce court.
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A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
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A soldier loses his girlfriend to his best buddy.
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David Fielding, who has recently lost his wife, moves into a new neighborhood under a cloud of suspicion. Many feel that his wife's death in a car crash was no accident. Elizabeth Howard, the governess he hires to look after his children, makes it her mission to find out the truth. When other murders seem to be following David to his new town, Elizabeth investigates with the help of David's son Barnaby.
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In 1923, two young ladies depart unescorted for a tour of Europe, meeting two eligible men aboard ship. Their great naïvité and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic misadventures.
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Брат и сестра переезжают в старый дом на побережье, который был заброшен в течение долгих лет. Сперва дом кажется им очаровательным и уютным, однако уже скоро в нем начинают происходить пугающие события…
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A young wife learns that freedom must sometimes be paid for in lives, when her husband's ship is struck during battle.
