Professor Peter Boyd's engagement to the Dean's daughter is upset by the revelation that his father was a habitual convict. To prove the Dean's genetic theory of inherited traits as wrong, Boyd starts a 'secret' experiment. He borrows the science department's chimpanzee with the goal of showing that it is one's environment that affects your reaction to right and wrong.
Sinbad is a story teller who weaves great adventures about - himself. Whether they are true or not, no one knows. For this is the story of the eight adventures of Sinbad - as told by Sinbad. A ship saved by Sinbad and Sabu. A treasure map to the treasure of Alexander the Great, which mysteriously disappears from the ship. The beautiful Shireen - the woman who has stolen the hea...
At the start of WWII, Katie O'Hara, an American burlesque girl intent on social climbing, marries Austrian Baron Von Luber. Pat O'Toole, an American radio reporter, sees this as a chance to investigate Von Luber, who is suspected of having Nazi ties. As country after country falls to the Nazis, O'Tool follows O'Hara across Europe. At first he is after a story, but he gradually ...
A fugitive is holed up in a foreign country.
I saw this at the London Film Festival in 1995 or 1996. The print had been lovingly restored from sections scattered around the world, including some from archives in Moscow. Somebody near me said "I'm really looking forward to this", which was understandable, since the director, as Michael Curtiz, later made some jolly swashbucklers and Casablanca, and the LFF had previously c...
On being demobbed at the end of the war, Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard returns to France to discover who ordered the killing of a group of Resistence fighters including his new bride. He identifies Vichy collaborator Marcel Jarnac, who is reported as dead himself. Not believing this, Gerard follows the trail to Argentina where it is apparent that Nazism is also far from dead.
英俊青年麦克尔（Walter Slezak 饰）是画家苏莱特的专属模特，以麦克尔为原型，苏莱特创作出了精美的艺术作品，名声大噪，登门求画的人络绎不绝，但苏莱特为了保存和麦克尔的美好回忆拒绝出卖杰作。年轻貌美的女伯爵拜访苏莱特，请求后者为自己画像，麦克尔默默注视着女伯爵，四目交投之下，情意暗生，苏莱特思量之后决定为女伯爵作画，但创作不久因苏莱特无法描画女伯爵的眼睛而陷入停滞，麦克尔提笔代劳，女伯爵美丽的神色跃然画上……麦克尔与女伯爵相爱并逐渐离苏莱特而去，苏莱特承受着年青人的欺骗和背叛，将内心的悲苦呈现在画作上，受孤独煎熬的生命之火渐渐熄灭……
本片根据赫曼·邦的同名小说改编，是电影史上最早涉及同性恋题材的作品之一。
