6.6

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

1982, USA

• Actors: Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Alan Ladd, Carl Reiner, Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Veronica Lake, Bette Davis, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold, Kirk Douglas, Fred MacMurray, James Cagney, Joan Crawford, Reni Santoni, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price, George Gaynes, Francis X. McCarthy, Adrian Ricard, Charlie Picerni, Gene LeBell, George Sawaya, Britt Nilsson, Jean Beaudine
• Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
• Director(s): Carl Reiner
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are "The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta." Searching for answers, Rigby encounters assorted low-lifes: dangerous men and women who were the hallmarks of the classic detective movies of the 40's and 50's. Filming in black and white allows scenes from old movies to be cut into this film. It is through this process that Rigby's assistant is none other than Philip Marlowe himself.

  5.8

The Bible: In the Beginning...

1966, USA, Italy

• Actors: Michael Parks, Ulla Bergryd, Richard Harris, John Huston, Stephen Boyd, George C. Scott, Ava Gardner, Peter O'Toole, Zoe Sallis, Gabriele Ferzetti, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Franco Nero, Pupella Maggio, Robert Rietty, Peter Heinze, Roger Beaumont, Gianluigi Crescenzi, Maria Grazia Spina, Angelo Boscariol, Claudie Lange, Anna Orso, Adriana Ambesi, Eric Leutzinger, Michael Steinpichler, Gabriella Pallotta, Alberto Lucantoni, Rossana Di Rocco, Luciano Conversi, Giovanna Galletti, Paola Ambrosi
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): John Huston
• Available languages:
  • English English.

An elaborate Hollywood retelling of the Bible stories narrated by the film's director John Huston. We open with the Creation of the World and arrive at the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve and continue on to Cain and the murder of Abel. Next, we visit Noah and his ark with its spectacular flood sequence. Then we come to the story of Nimrod, King of Babel, the emergence of man's vanity and the heights to which it could aspire if unchecked. Finally we cover Abraham, a mystic who spoke personally with God, a leader of men, a builder of nations, a pioneer and a warrior and Sarah. At the time she conceived her first child, the event being forecast by an Angel of the Lord. Three such Heavenly Messengers appeared in the course of events which befell Abraham and Sarah.

  7.0

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

1951, UK

• Actors: James Mason, Ava Gardner, Nigel Patrick, Sheila Sim, Harold Warrender, Mario Cabré, Marius Goring, John Laurie, Pamela Mason, Patricia Raine, Margarita D'Alvarez, La Pillina, Abraham Sofaer, Francisco Igual, Guillermo Beltrán, Lilli Molnar, Phoebe Hodgson, Gabriel Carmona, Antonio Martín, Lolita Allergria, John Carew, Helen Cleverley, Pepe de la Isla, Christiana Forbes, Eddie Leslie, Ricardo Valle, Gerald Welsh
• Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
• Director(s): Albert Lewin
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Albert Lewin's interpretation of the legend of the Flying Dutchman. In a little spanish seaport named Esperanza, during the 30s, appears Hendrick van der Zee, the mysterious captain of a yacht (he is the only one aboard). Pandora is a beautiful woman (who men kill and die for). She's never really fallen in love with any man, but she feels very attracted by Hendrick... We are soon taught that Hendrick is the Flying Dutchman, this sailor of the 17th century that has been cursed by God to wander over the seas until the Doomsday... unless a woman is ready to die for him...

  6.4

The Bribe

1949, USA

• Actors: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price, John Hodiak, Samuel S. Hinds, John Hoyt, Tito Renaldo, Martin Garralaga, Fernando Alvarado, Robert Cabal, David Cota, Peter Cusanelli, Marcel De la Brosse, Joe Dominguez, Juan Duval, Nacho Galindo, Charles Gonsales, Phyllis Graffeo, William Haade, Pepe Hernández, Richard Lopez, Bob Lugo, Frank Mayo, Walter Merrill, Alex Montoya, Ernesto Morelli, Alberto Morin, George Navarro, Alfonso Pedroza
• Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
• Director(s): Robert Z. Leonard
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In pursuit of stolen aircraft engines on a Central American island, federal agent Rigby meets chief suspect Hintten and his wife Elizabeth, a sultry cafe singer; and is watched by Bealer, a "pie-shaped man" with sore feet. Rigby knows he's on the right track when Bealer offers him money to leave Carlota. When Rigby and Elizabeth are drawn to each other, the gang realizes there's more than one kind of bribe. Everybody sweats.