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The Comedians
This is an all-star adaptation of Graham Green's novel about the political nightmare that was Haiti under "Papa Doc" Duvalier. The film follows the observations of a white hotel owner and his increasing depression as he watches the Caribbean country decline into barbarism. The characters in his world include a rebel leader, politically "charged" hotel guests, an European ambassador (who he's having an affair with), and a British opportunist arms dealer.
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Oscar-vinner Elizabeth Taylor og Richard Burton leder et stjernespekket ensemble i romanforfatter Graham Greenes fortelling om lidenskap, utroskap og grådighet under Papa Doc Duvaliers tyranniske styre av Haiti.
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Verdens villeste poker
Academy Award-vinnerne Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward og Jason Robards har hovedrollene i denne lure komedien om et skjebnesvangert pokerlag i det gamle Vesten. Texas, 1966: Da bosetterne Meredith (Fonda), Mary (Woodward) og deres 10 år gamle sønn (Gerald Michenaud) stopper på et hotell i Laredo, ankommer gamblere fra hele verden, inkludert den urokkelige millionæren Henry Drummond (Robards), hotellet for et årlig pokerlag - det største i Vesten! Spilleavhengige Meredith trygler om å få se på. Og snart spiller han kort og taper familiens penger. Da han får hjerteinfarkt, må Mary gripe inn og spille med hans kort mot de andre mennene, eller miste alt. Med en pott på mer enn 20 000 dollar er det ingen tvil om at Mary trenger A Big Hand For The Little Lady.
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Who's Got the Action?
Lawyer Dean Martin's gambling habit is beginning to get on the nerves of his wife Lana Turner. To keep the money in the family, Lana talks Dino's law partner Eddie Albert into acting as Martin's bookie. Not only does this plan not work, but it also rouses the ire of Runyonesque gangster Walter Matthau. In the cutest of the film's cute twists, Lana saves herself and her husband by solving Matthau's financial and domestic problems.
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Advise and Consent
Allen Drury's best-selling novel is transformed into this probing examination of the lust for power in the halls of Congress. An all-star cast is paced by Henry Fonda (in a perverse bit of casting) as the shady politico who's nominated for U.S. Secretary of State. Don Murray plays the head of the committee reviewing the nomination, an honest Senator with a homosexual skeleton rattling in his closet. George Grizzard is the strident McCarthyite who leads the attack against Murray in support of Fonda. Walter Pidgeon gives a nuanced performance as the virtuous Majority leader, Charles Laughton is the 'Southernsmooth rebellious solon" and Franchot Tone plays the ailing, testy president of dubious virtue who allows cheap conniving and lies told under oath (shades of Richard Nixon). Add Gene Tierney, Peter Lawford, Lew Ayres and Burgess Meredith to make a stunning cast complete. This probing examination of the seedy underbelly of politics is arguably one of the best films of its genre ever made, and certainly one of the most important and effective of Otto Preminger's career.
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Hver tar sin
In this lively adaptation of Thornton Wilder's play, matchmaker Dolly Levi sets her sights on marrying the cold-hearted store owner Mr. Vandergelder, bringing along a charming cast including Anthony Perkins and Shirley MacLaine, in a delightful comedy filled with schemes and romance.
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