72% (3) The Pink Panther 115 min, Not Rated, [Comedy, Crime, Romance] [Blake Edwards] [20 Mar 1964]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 72%, Rotten Tomatoes: 90%, Metacritic: 55%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations.
Actors: Capucine, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner
Writer: Maurice Richlin (screenplay), Blake Edwards (screenplay)
External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, Italian Country: USA
Plot: The trademark of The Phantom, a renowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Clouseau, an expert on The Phantom's exploits, feels sure that he knows where The Phantom will strike next and leaves Paris for Switzerland, where the famous Lugashi jewel 'The Pink Panther' is going to be. However, he does not know who The Phantom really is, or for that matter who anyone else really is...
Rotten Tomatoes: In the first in a series of detective comedies from director Blake Edwards starring Peter Sellers as bumbling French Inspector Jacques Clouseau, the mishap-prone snoop is actually a supporting player. David Niven stars as Sir Charles Litton, a suave jewel thief known as "The Phantom." Vacationing in a deluxe Alpine resort, Litton's real purpose is to purloin the Pink Panther, a gem of enormous worth owned by a princess (Claudia Cardinale). On his trail for years, Inspector Clouseau keeps losing his quarry, perhaps because his wife Simone (Capucine) is Litton's lover and alerts him every time her husband draws near. Also after the Panther is Litton's American nephew, George (Robert Wagner). At a posh costume ball at the princess' villa, the bauble is stolen and Clouseau, still trying to determine the bandit's identity, is framed for the crime himself. The Pink Panther made Sellers and his Clouseau act so popular that the character moved to center stage in a series of farcical sequels.
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70% (2) Song Without End 141 min, Not Rated, [Biography, Drama, Music] [Charles Vidor, George Cukor] [05 Sep 1960]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 60%, Rotten Tomatoes: 80%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 3 nominations.
Actors: Capucine, Dirk Bogarde, Geneviève Page, Patricia Morison
Writer: Oscar Millard
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Plot: The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt (Dirk Bogarde), whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.
Rotten Tomatoes: This is the film biography of the gifted classical composer Franz Liszt. He loves a bevy of women as his arrogance infuriates his fellow musicians and composers.
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60% (2) The Honey Pot 150 min, Not Rated, [Comedy, Crime] [Joseph L. Mankiewicz] [29 Sep 1967]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, Rotten Tomatoes: 50%, External Reviews
Actors: Capucine, Cliff Robertson, Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward
Writer: Frederick Knott (play), Thomas Sterling (novel), Ben Jonson (play), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (written for the screen by)
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Plot: Inspired by a performance of his favorite play, "Volpone," 20th-century millionaire Cecil Fox devises an intricate plan to trick three of his former mistresses into believing he is dying. Although the women are wealthy in their own right, all have good reason to covet his fortune. To assist him in his scheme, Fox hires William McFly, a gigolo and sometime actor, to act as his secretary/servant. Fox is soon visited at his "deathbed" by the three former mistresses: Merle McGill, a fading Hollywood sex symbol; Princess Dominique, who once took a cruise on Fox's yacht; and Lone Star Crockett, a Texas hypochondriac who travels with an enigmatic nurse/companion. As Fox and McFly act out the charade, things take an unexpected turn from comical farce to full-blown murder mystery.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this Joseph Mankiewicz comic mystery, a performance of Ben Jonson's Volpone inspires playboy Cecil Fox (Rex Harrison) to pretend he is terminally ill in order to gauge the reactions of his ex-girlfriends. Also titled It Comes Up Murder.
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45% (2) What's New Pussycat 108 min, Approved, [Comedy] [Clive Donner] [22 Jun 1965]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 62%, Rotten Tomatoes: 29%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 nominations.
Actors: Capucine, Peter O'Toole, Peter Sellers, Romy Schneider
Writer: Woody Allen (original screenplay)
External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, French Country: France, USA
Plot: Michael James, a notorious womanizer, desperately wants to be faithful to his fiancée Carole, but runs into serious problems since every woman he meets seems to fall in love with him. His psychoanalyst Dr. Fassbender can't help him either since he's busy courting one of his patients who in turn longs for Michael. A catastrophe appears on the horizon as all the characters check into the Chateau Chantelle hotel for the weekend not knowing of each other's presence.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this comedy, fashion editor Michael James sees psychiatrist Dr. Fritz Fassbender to seek help with his inability to have a serious relationship with any of the women he meets. While James is fighting off the women, Victor Shakapopulis is desperately trying to find a way to attract even one.
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68% (1) Walk on the Wild Side 114 min, Approved, [Drama, Romance] [Edward Dmytryk] [23 Mar 1962]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, External Reviews
Actors: Anne Baxter, Capucine, Jane Fonda, Laurence Harvey
Writer: Nelson Algren (novel), John Fante (screenplay), Edmund Morris (screenplay)
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Plot: At the Doll House, a 1930's New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction both for clients and for Jo, the madame. Her comfortable if tedious life is disrupted by the arrival in town of Dove Linkhorn, her true love of three years before who is now searching for her. When Linkhorn learns the truth of her profession he triggers a chain of events involving a number of people, including the young Kitty with whom he travelled from Texas and who is now the Doll House newest recruit.
Rotten Tomatoes: This moody and controversial drama takes place in Depression-era New Orleans. Dove (Laurence Harvey) has traveled by bus from Texas to find his wayward lover Hallie (Capucine). He meets young Kitty Twist (Jane Fonda) as the two get off in the crescent city. Teresina (Anne Baxter) gives him a job at her small cafe. In his free time, Dove searches for Hallie and finds her at work as a prostitute in the Doll's House. Dove implores Hallie to return to him but she refuses. When the lecherous lesbian madame Jo (Barbara Stanwyck) discovers Dove's intentions towards Hallie, she has him beaten to a bloody pulp by her hired goons. He is found by Kitty, now a happy hooker at the Doll House, and is taken back to the cafe where the compassionate Teresina heals his physical and emotional wounds. The film taken from the novel by Nelson Algren is much tamer than the original text. The title track, sung by Brook Benton, was nominated for an Academy Award. The "black-cat stalking" opening and closing sequences (by designer Saul Bass) is a perfect little "film-within-a-film." This footage, with its superb lighting, framing, panning, and editing, should be appreciated by anyone who wants to know more about the art of cinematography.
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65% (1) The 7th Dawn 123 min, [Adventure, Drama, War] [Lewis Gilbert] [13 Aug 1964]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 65%, External Reviews
Actors: Capucine, Susannah York, Tetsurô Tanba, William Holden
Writer: Michael Keon (novel), Karl Tunberg (screenplay)
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Plot: The end of WW2 finds Major Ferris fighting alongside guerrilla groups in the jungles of Malaysia. Major Ferris is an American who was attached to the Australian 8th Army and stayed behind to co-ordinate native guerrilla groups. When the Japanese unconditionally surrender, everyone is rejoicing but a British officer pertinently comments that although the Malaysian people aided the British to defeat the Japanese their allegiance will shift and they might not be so friendly towards the British in the near future. Malaysia is a British colony and like many other colonies it struggles to gain its independence from the European powers. Major Ferris' closest friend and comrade during the war, Malaysian colonel Ng, is asked by Ferris to join him into a business venture. Ferris has purchased a few acres of land rich in rubber trees and tin mines. He offers Ng an equal partnership in the venture but colonel Ng refuses. He explains that he has to go to Moscow to study at a school for political cadre. The two friends part ways. Eight years later, the British already have major problems in Malaysia. Many guerrilla groups openly attack the British army convoys, kill British officers, raid local plantations and businesses, rob the payroll of local companies, kidnap the European colonists and destroy British colonial property in the region. The British government is negotiating a peaceful withdrawal of British colonial forces from Malaysia promising total independence to the country. But the guerrilla leaders do not trust the word of the British. Therefore, they continue the guerrilla war against the colonial authorities. Many European colonists, plantation and business owners, sell their companies and assets and leave Malaysia. The only one not concerned by the violent events surrounding him is Major Ferris. His plantations and tin mines are not attacked by the rebels. When he drives in his convertible on local roads, the guerrilla groups laying in ambush do not harm him. One day, the English-language local newspapers, quoting a Soviet propaganda newspaper, indicate that former Malaysian guerrilla leader, colonel Ng, has returned from Moscow to co-ordinate all guerrilla groups in Malaysia. The chief of police and the British Army commander in the region arrive at Major Ferris' house to confirm the fact that during the war, Ferris worked closely with Ng against the Japanese forces. When Ferris confirms the fact, the two British officials ask him to go into the jungle and contact Ng with a message from the British. They want to convey to the guerrilla leader that the British have sincere intentions of withdrawing from Malaysia and allowing the country to become fully independent. They also want the guerrillas to cease their attacks on the British military and the colonists in order to allow them time to organize their departure from Malaysia. The officials hope that Major Ferris can persuade Ng and the rebel guerrillas to co-operate. A few days later, Ferris sneaks into the jungle, alone, in search of his old war buddy, colonel Ng.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this drama, William Holden plays Ferris, an American soldier who led troops in Malaya during World War II. After the end of the war, Ferris opts to stay in Malaya to seek his fortune. He invests in land there and does quite well, but soon his new life with his girlfriend, a local girl named Dhana (Capucine), is disrupted by local politics. Candace (Susannah York), the daughter of Malaya's British governor, is infatuated with Ferris, which puts a crimp in his relationship with Dhana. And one of his old buddies from the war, Ng (Tetsuro Tamba), reemerges with some disturbing news -- following the war, he spent several years in the Soviet Union and is now working with Communist-backed guerilla forces. Ferris doesn't want to help the British capture his old friend, but his friend seems to have no such scruples about framing his buddy Ferris. The Seventh Dawn was adapted from the novel The Durian Tree by Michael Koen.
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64% (1) The Exquisite Cadaver 108 min, R, [Crime, Thriller] [Vicente Aranda] [01 Jan 1973]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 64%, External Reviews
Actors: Capucine, Carlos Estrada, Judy Matheson, Teresa Gimpera
Writer: Vicente Aranda (screenplay), Antonio Rabinad (screenplay), Gonzalo Suárez (story "Bailando para Parker"), Mariana Alcoforado (love letters)
External Links: IMDb Language: Spanish, French Country: Spain
Plot: A grumpy publisher receives a parcel containing a hand that may or may not be fake. A woman is following him. Someone from his past? Reality and fantasy begin to intermingle.
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