
Birthday:
12-23-1902
Deathday:
04-24-1979 (76 years)
Birthplace:
Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]
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Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
Act like Self (5 ep.)
event1975 star_border 9
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Based on extensive interviews, shot on 16mm in a series of static long takes, Filmemigration aus Nazideutschland, is one of the most fascinating examples of "Film history on film" ever produced. Straschek devoted years to researching the topic and accumulating both film and non-film materials. Apart from some radio features and articles, however, this 290-minute TV programme remains the only published trace of Straschek's lifelong work on the emigration of film personnel. He had intended to publish a three-volume book, encompassing all available data about 3,000 emigrants originating from the centre and peripheries of film production, but the book never materialised.
Reunion in France
Screenplay (5 ep.)
event1942 star_border 6.4
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Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
Moonfleet
Screenplay (5 ep.)
event1955 star_border 6.4
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Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.
That Forsyte Woman
Screenplay (5 ep.)
event1949 star_border 5.9
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Soames and Irene Forsyte have a marriage of convenience. Young Jolyon Forsyte is a black sheep who ran away with the maid after his wife's death. Teenager June Forsyte has found love with an artist, Phillip Bosinny. The interactions between the Forsytes and the people and society around them is the truss for this love story set in the rigid and strict times of the Victorian age.
Knights of the Round Table
Screenplay (5 ep.)
event1953 star_border 5.9
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In Camelot, kingdom of Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot is well known for his courage and honor. But one day he must quit Camelot and the Queen Guinevere's love, leaving the Round Table without protection.
The Lady in Question
Screenplay (5 ep.)
event1940 star_border 6.6
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When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
Town Without Pity
Screenplay (5 ep.)
event1961 star_border 6.9
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Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Grant.
Homecoming
Adaptation (5 ep.)
event1948 star_border 7
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Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it's "the thing to do" rather than deep-seated patriotism. On his first day, he's put into place by 'Snapshot', a sassy and attractive nurse. Their initial antagonism blossoms into romance. Lee then finds himself torn with guilt over being unfaithful to his wife, Penny, who's waiting for him back home.
The Story of Three Loves
Adaptation (5 ep.)
event1953 star_border 5.6
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Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.
Torch Song
Writer (5 ep.)
event1953 star_border 6
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Jenny Stewart is a tough Broadway musical star who doesn't take criticism from anyone. Yet there is one individual, Tye Graham, a blind pianist who may be able to break through her tough exterior.
The Dictator
Writer (5 ep.)
event1935 star_border 6
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The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort Caroline Matilda in Eighteenth century Copenhagen and the Queen's tragic affair with the royal physician and liberal reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee.
Young Bess
Screenplay (5 ep.)
event1953 star_border 5.8
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The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this rich tapestry of a film that traces the tumultuous, danger-fraught years from Elizabeth's birth to her unexpected ascension to the throne at a mere 25. Charles Laughton reprises his Academy Award®-winning* role as her formidable father Henry VIII. Deborah Kerr plays her last stepmother (and Henry's last of six wives), gentle Catherine Parr. And Simmons' then real-life husband, Stewart Granger, adds heroics as Lord Admiral Thomas Seymour. In a resplendent world of adventure, romance and court intrigue, Young Bess reigns.
The White Cliffs of Dover
Screenplay (5 ep.)
event1944 star_border 6.7
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American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. At the outbreak of World War I, John is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.
Bad Seed
Writer (5 ep.)
event1934 star_border 5.8
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A young man-about-Paris, cut off from his father's money, falls in with a picaresque gang of car thieves.
First Offence
Original Story (5 ep.)
event1936
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After his father sells his car, an immature playboy steals it back, and gets involved with a gang of professional car thieves. British remake of "Mauvaise graine" (1934).
Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious
Adaptation (5 ep.)
event1965 star_border 7
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A lonely German clerk captures two American flyers and keeps them as prisoners in his basement long after WWII has ended. Director Gottfried Reinhardt's 1965 comedy stars Alec Guinness, Robert Redford and Michael Connors.
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