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Hôtel des Invalides (1952)
$15.00A tour of the Hotel des Invalides, and more particularly of the Army Museum and the Saint Louis Chapel. From François I’s armor to Guynemer’s airplane, to Napoleon’s and Marshall Foch’s tombs. But this is no ordinary tour,it is rather a chilling visit guided by Georges Franju and narrated by Michel Simon emphasizing – at times through biting humor -not the glory but the nonsense of wars, but their tragic aftermath.
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Above and Beyond (1952)
$15.00The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay, the bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Although unaware of the full potential of this new weapon, he knows that it is capable of doing tremendously more damage than any other weapon used before, and that the death toll resulting from it will be enormous. He is reluctant to be the person who will end so many lives, but if using it may bring an end to the war, then not doing so may result in even more lives being lost in continued ground assaults as the fighting goes on. At the same time, the intense secrecy surrounding this mission leaves him with no one he can express his thoughts and doubts to, not even his wife. As time goes on, the pressure upon him only increase.
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The Stooge (1952)
$15.00Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act with a stooge – Ted Rogers, a guy positioned in the audience to be the butt of Bill’s jokes. But Ted begins to steal the show. Bill’s girlfriend and his pals tell him to make Ted an equal partner. Complications occur, while Bill sings and Ted gets the laughs.
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Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952)
$15.00Two hapless waiters in a tavern on the Spanish Main play cupid between aristocratic Lady Jane and tavern co-worker Bruce Martindale, but the two bumpkins mix-up a love letter with Captain Kidd’s treasure map of Skull Island, leading to them being kidnapped and taken off to the notorious pirate’s island.
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The Member of the Wedding (1952)
$15.00Carson McCullers stage hit brought to the screen by Fred Zinnemann starring Ethel Waters and Julie Harris. Tomboy Julie Harris dreams of running away with her brother and new fiancee away from the Deep South.
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The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
$15.00Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer James Lee Bartlow, a star Georgia Lorrison and a director Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone – including the writer, star and director – on the way to becoming one of Hollywood’s top movie makers.
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My Cousin Rachel (1952)
$15.00Olivia de Havilland and Richard Burton star in this adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s gothic novel. In a reversal of Jane Eyre, it is the hero who arrives at the home of a mysterious woman. Rachel (de Havilland) is the widow of a Cornish man of property (John Sutton), who died in suspicious circumstances. Philip Ashley Burton is the dead man’s cousin, who in probing his relative’s demise immediately suspects Rachel — and goes on suspecting her even after he falls in love with her.
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Ruby Gentry (1952)
$15.00A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn’t love, but carries a torch for another man.
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No Time for Flowers (1952)
$15.00A young girl’s loyalty to the Communist Party is tested in Prague when she falls in love with an attache who has just arrived from the United States.
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Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
$15.00An emotionally remote recovering alcoholic and his dowdy, unambitious wife face a personal crisis when they take in an attractive lodger. Doc Delaney (Burt Lancaster) and wife Lola (Shirley Booth) had an indiscreet affair, she became pregnant and, compelled to marry her, he gave up his medical studies, forfeited his future and settled down to a life of quiet desperation with the simple, frumpy Lola, who lost the child but has remained Doc’s steadfast if slatternly wife. Now a chiropractor, recovering alcoholic, and active member of his town’s AA chapter, Doc’s sobriety is severely tested when Marie (Terry Moore), a young college student becomes their boarder, bringing new life and long-dormant hostilities to the surface of Doc and Lola’s troubled marriage.
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