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Thursday, July 15, 2010

The lost weekend (1945) - Ray Milland and Jane Wyman starring in Billy Wilder's Oscar winning drama

Rating 8.2/10
Runtime: 97 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Billy Wilder
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037884/

Cast

Ray Milland ... Don Birnam
Jane Wyman ... Helen St. James
Phillip Terry ... Wick Birnam
Howard Da Silva ... Nat
Doris Dowling ... Gloria

Description: The unsuccessful writer Don Birnham is an alcoholic. Only his brother Wick and girlfriend Helen managed to keep him sober for 10 days and plan a little vacation on the countryside for the weekend. But Don manages to send them both away the evening before. In flashbacks we see past events, all gone wrong because of the bottle. Alone at home, without any money, he's desperate for something to drink.

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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

The Glass Menagerie (1950) - Kirk Douglas, Jane Wyman

Rating 7.2/10
Runtime: 107 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Irving Rapper
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042509/

Cast

Jane Wyman ... Laura Wingfield
Kirk Douglas ... Jim O'Connor
Gertrude Lawrence ... Amanda Wingfield
Arthur Kennedy ... Tom Wingfield
Ralph Sanford ... Mendoza
Ann Tyrrell ... Clerk

Description: Amanda's husband left the family long ago, and she remains stuck in the past. Tom works in a factory, doing his best to support them. He chafes under the banality and boredom of everyday life and spends much of his spare time watching movies in cheap cinemas. Amanda is obsessed with finding a suitor for Laura, who spends most of her time with her glass collection. Tom eventually brings Jim home for dinner at the insistence of his mother, who hopes Jim will be the long-awaited suitor for Laura. Laura realizes that Jim is the man she loved in high school and has thought of ever since. He dashes her hopes, telling her that he is already engaged, and then leaves. Tom leaves too, and never returns to see his family again.

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Thursday, September 11, 2008

Hitchcock Collection - Stage Fright (1950) - Marlene Dietrich, Richard Todd, Jane Wyman

Rating 7.0/10
Runtime: 110 min
Language: English
Country: UK
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042994/

Cast

Jane Wyman ... Eve Gill
Marlene Dietrich ... Charlotte Inwood
Michael Wilding ... Det. Insp. Wilfred 'Ordinary' Smith
Richard Todd ... Jonathan Cooper
Alastair Sim ... Commodore Gill
Sybil Thorndike ... Mrs. Gill
Kay Walsh ... Nellie Goode

Description: Eve Gill (Jane Wyman), an aspiring young actress, shelters a fellow acting student, Jonathan Cooper (Richard Todd), from the police. He is suspected of murdering the husband of his mistress, Charlotte Inwood (Marlene Dietrich), a famous singer. Jonathan claims that he became implicated when he tried to help Charlotte destroy the evidence. Eve's eccentric father, Commodore Gill (Alastair Sim), agrees to hide Jonathan in his house while she proves his innocence. To do this, Eve becomes Charlotte's temporary maid. Eve's Father devises a plan to force Charlotte to confess in front of the inspector investigating the case, Wilfred Smith (Michael Wilding). When the plan doesn't work, Eve tries blackmailing Charlotte into a confession while the police listen outside her dressing room. Charlotte agrees to pay, but insists that Jonathan is the real killer.

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