Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
Eight married college friends plus one other non-friend (all of whom have achieved middle to upper class economic status) go to Colorado for their annual week-long reunion, but the mood shifts when one couple's infidelity comes to light.
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
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A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.
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Osaka Elegy / 浪華悲歌 (1936) (EN/BR/ES)
1936. Directed by Mizoguchi Kenji. Starring Yamada Isuzu Takegawa Sei'ichi and Okura Chiyoko. Subtitles in English Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish.
Osaka Elegy - Trailer
Bearing the burden of her father's debt a young woman becomes her employer's mistress. But this selfless act threatens to bring about her downfall.
Osaka Elegy (1936) Kenji Mizoguchi ending
"This final view of Ayako is the most powerful image in the film and is often cited as one of the most absorbing images in Mizoguchi's oeuvre. The image of ...
Osaka Elegy Theme (1936)
The opening theme from Mizoguchi Kenji's 1936 film Osaka music by Takagi Kôichi.
Osaka Elegy
Bem 05 anos antes do wellesiano Cidadão Kane em Mizoguchi já há o uso exemplar da profundidade de campo.
Mizoguchi Without People Pt. 3: Osaka Elegy
Within every Mizoguchi film a second film hidden between the moments.
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Chet Kasedon is after the Indians hidden gold mine but Chief Moya will not reveal it's location. He has also hired mining engineers Gale and Mortimer to locate the mine.
Oswald the Rabbit and his little brother catch the Slumberland Express and it carries the assorted animals to childhood's dream of paradise - an amusement park where all the games are free, and windows are provided just to be broken by an abundant supply of free rocks, and old men wear silk hats to provide targets for snowballs.