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The direction of The Sleeping Tiger was credited to Victor Hanbury, but this was actually a pseudonym for the blacklisted Joseph Losey, whose first British film this was. Alexander Knox stars as psychiatrist Clive Esmond, who believes that he can stem the criminal tendencies of young fugitive from justice Frank Clement…
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别名：La caduta degli dei nbsp; 影片讲述在1933年德国纳粹盛行时期一个钢铁家族的衰落和消失，一个家庭里充满仇恨和杀机，老主管被杀，继而各个家庭成员为了夺得这份财产，进行了你死我活的较量 hellip; hellip;该片是一部以一个家族来透视一个民族的磅礴史诗。维斯康提最成熟，气势最恢弘的一部作品。导演借用一个黑暗的时代背景，描述了家族…
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In a confused welter of artistic licence, this is the classical music biopic which makes 'Song to Remember'look like a masterpiece. Bogarde succeeds in diminishing the reputation of the musical colossus who spanned European music for most of the 19th Century. The absurdities of the plot, the sequoia-like quality of the…
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Unemployed Czech-speaking writer Nicholas Whistler thinks he's got a job visiting Prague for a bit of industrial espionage. In fact he is now in the employ of British Intelligence. His pretty chauffeuse on arrival behind the Iron Curtain, Comrade Simonova, is herself a Czech agent. Just as well she's immediately attrac…
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The last time Britain was a major force in world cinema was in the 1960s; a documentary of a few years back on the subject was entitled 'Hollywood UK'. This was the era of the Kitchen Sink, social realism, angry young men; above all, the theatrical. And yet, ironically, the best British films of the decade were made by…
