During wartime, a man guided by his humanistic convictions struggles under the brutal machinery of war. Despite his moral stance, he becomes engulfed and crushed by the impersonal forces of conflict.
Tag: 1970s
In a film based on Neil Simon’s hit play, Walter Matthau portrays three unconnected roles. Sam Nash reluctantly joins his wife, Karen, in the suite where they spent their honeymoon, hoping to revive their flagging marriage. Then Jesse Kiplinger, an aging movie producer, is determined to seduce his old flame, Muriel. Finally, Matthau is beleaguered father Roy Hubley who, with his wife, Norma, struggles to get their daughter to her own wedding.
A bookseller from “rive gauche” (de la Seine, Paris) wants to meet the friends of his son who committed suicide. This search is the prelude to an immersion in the imaginary and the ghosts of the father, whose identity is multiple. Argentine writers Jorge-Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy-Casares participated in the writing of this film.
An amateur photographer watches a beautiful woman emerge from a beach hut and disappear into the sea.
The Bononnos were one of the Five Families organized after the Castellammarese War. Headed by Joe Bonanno. Joe later lost his capo regime status to Gaspar DiGregorio this caused the “Banana Split,” aka the Bonanno War. In 1964 Joseph Bonanno mysteriously disappears from the streets of NYC. Joseph’s son Salvatore takes leadership of the family business. Following a family feud, the family split into two factions. A bloody war breaks out, and Salvatore and his family faces treats from former friends and allies in the struggle for power.
Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told that Abe is dead, dead by natural causes, the doctors tell him. When Emile insists that they were attacked, his relatives try to give him psychiatric help. Emile decides to try to find the killers himself, but someone is watching his every step…
A rising tennis star falls for an older woman engaged with a wealthy man she doesn’t love. Will he become the next John McEnroe? Will she choose love over financial security?