Showing posts with label José Ferrer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label José Ferrer. Show all posts

March 03, 2015

Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) Trailer

Cyrano de Bergerac


Fabulous Hero! Famous Nose!

Cyrano de Bergerac is a 1950 black-and-white feature film based on the 1897 French Alexandrine verse drama Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand.

Watch the Trailer!


1951-Oscar; Best Actor Joseph Ferrer Noted swordsman and poet Cyrano De Bergerac is madly in love with Roxanne but is ashamed of his deformed nose and feels he cannot tell her face to face. She in turn is hopelessly smitten by the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. Cyrano chivalrously writes love poems for Christian to give Roxanne that eventually win her affection.

November 17, 2014

Moulin Rouge (1952) Trailer

Moulin Rouge


The most startling and daring love story ever told! 

Moulin Rouge is a 1952 British drama film directed by John Huston, produced by John and James Woolf for their Romulus Films company and released by United Artists.

Watch the Promo!



Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec frequently visits the Moulin Rouge, where he drinks cognac and draws sketches of the dancers and singers. Though the son of a French count, Henri's legs were badly deformed by a childhood fall, and his personal life is often unhappy as a result. While he is going home one night, a spirited young woman of the streets, Marie, asks him for help. He falls in love with her, and the two become involved in a tumultuous relationship. It becomes increasingly difficult for Toulouse-Lautrec to balance his personal feelings, his artistic abilities, and his family name and position. Written by Snow Leopard

November 11, 2014

Joan of Arc (1948)

Joan of Arc


 A cast of thousands


Joan of Arc is a 1948 American epic historical drama film directed by Victor Fleming, and starring Ingrid Bergman as the French religious icon and war heroine.

Watch the Movie!



In the Fifteenth Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen years old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army and conquerors Orleans. When her army is ready to attack Paris, the corrupt Charles sells his country to England and dismiss the army. Joan is arrested, sold to the Burgundians England and submitted to a shameful political trial in Rouen castle.Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Rumble

Unordered List

PageRank Checker