A young girl in a bombed-out part of London wants to make something beautiful, so she plants a garden in a ruined church with help from her friend. None of the adults in her life understand why she wants to do this.
Tag: 1950s
The first film dealing with dope addiction made with the prior approval of the industry’s self-governing Production Code, A Hatful of Rain is more than a story of a junkie. It touches knowingly and sensitively on a family relationship. Michael V. Gazzo has converted his Broadway play into a provocative and engrossing film drama.
Brulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in a remote Swedish village, meets Ina, who has been raised in forested isolation by her haggish mother and believes herself to be a witch. He falls in love with her and tries to convert her to civilization; but in the meantime, his female boss, Kristina, has fallen in love with him, while the villagers turn against him for consorting with someone they believe is cursed by the Devil.
Felix Krull loves the women and the women love him. The charming and good looking young man from a respected but bankrupt family is not only using his charm to win the women’s heart. His acting talents allow him to cheat everyone. Thanks to his erotic affairs and his intelligent frauds he soon becomes a member of high society and climbs up the stairs to honor and wealth. As a wrong Marquis he starts on a journey around the world which bring s him back to the ground. But Felix Krull will start a new adventure right again.
Carlos, a former factory worker of humble origins, has made millions – but the upper class refuses to accept him as one of their own. Meanwhile, Barbara, the spoiled daughter of an industrialist, is to enter into a loveless marriage of convenience. Tensions arise when the two fall madly in love.
A beautiful 18-year-old orphan escapes from a reformatory and hooks up wth a gang of jewel smugglers, and decides on a life of crime. However, she falls for and marries a policeman, putting a crimp in her criminal career.
This animated short outlines the problems with alcohol consumption despite its social acceptability in western society. It provides a cursory look at how easily alcohol is produced, and the physiological effects of alcohol on humans, especially when it enters the bloodstream. It delves further into the process of drunkenness. Although few people die from overdosing on alcohol, it describes other direct and indirect dangerous effects of alcohol consumption, such as drinking and driving. It also lists the many reasons why people drink for good and bad.
Just paroled from a prison term for manslaughter, ex-Marine Jim Hughes makes a new start with his wife Ellen and ten-year-old son Paul, on a ranch given him by his old Corps commander. Krivak, a vicious neighbor, threatens to take the land away from him after Jim refuses to sell. He instigates a fight between his dog Thunder and Paul’s much smaller dog, which is killed. Later, the grieving Paul finds a wild puppy, half dog and half wolf, and Jim lets him keep it. Preparing to take his herd to market, Jim finds his fences cut and his herd stolen. He is accosted by two escaped convicts, Trent and Hawkins, who knew Jim in prison, and they force him to take them in.