87% (2)  Belle de Jour  100 min,  R,  [Drama]  [Luis Buñuel]  [10 Apr 1968]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 78%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 96%,   External Reviews
Awards:  Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 5 wins & 2 nominations.
Actors:  Catherine Deneuve, Geneviève Page, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli
Writer:  Joseph Kessel (novel), Luis Buñuel (adaptation), Jean-Claude Carrière (adaptation)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  French, Spanish, Mongolian    Country:  France, Italy
Plot:  Severine is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him. She indulges instead in vivid, kinky, erotic fantasies to entertain her sexual desires. Eventually she becomes a prostitute, working in a brothel in the afternoons while remaining chaste in her marriage.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Belle de Jour dramatizes the collision between depravity and elegance, one of the favorite themes of director Luis Buñuel. Catherine Deneuve stars as a wealthy but bored newlywed, eager to taste life to the fullest. She seemingly gets her wish early in the film when she is kidnapped, tied to a tree, and whipped. It turns out that this is only a daydream, but her subsequent visits to a neighboring brothel, where she offers her services, certainly seem to be real. This illusion/reality dichotomy extends to the final scenes, in which we are offered two possible endings. Thanks to a question of copyright and ownership, Belle de Jour disappeared from view shortly after its 1967 release, not even resurfacing on videotape. When it was reissued theatrically in 1994, many critics placed the perplexing but mesmerizing film on their lists of that year's best films.
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82% (2)  El Cid  182 min,  Approved,  [Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War]  [Anthony Mann]  [14 Dec 1961]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 73%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 92%,   External Reviews
Awards:  Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 10 nominations.
Actors:  Charlton Heston, Geneviève Page, Raf Vallone, Sophia Loren
Writer:  Fredric M. Frank (story), Philip Yordan (screenplay), Fredric M. Frank (screenplay), Ben Barzman (screenplay)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English, Latin, Italian    Country:  Italy, USA
Plot:  Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.
Rotten Tomatoes:   This film version of Pierre Corneille's El Cid focuses on the life of 11th-century Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar. The triumphs of his military life are not matched by his private affairs; he is betrayed by his bride and is made a political pawn by the avaricious Spanish landowners.
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81% (2)  The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes  125 min,  PG-13,  [Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller]  [Billy Wilder]  [29 Oct 1970]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 71%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 92%,   External Reviews
Awards:  3 nominations.
Actors:  Christopher Lee, Colin Blakely, Geneviève Page, Robert Stephens
Writer:  Arthur Conan Doyle (characters), Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English, Russian, French, German    Country:  UK, USA
Plot:  Director Billy Wilder adds a new and intriguing twist to the personality of intrepid detective Sherlock Holmes. One thing hasn't changed however: Holmes' crime-solving talents. Holmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a beautiful woman whose husband has vanished. The investigation proves strange indeed, involving six missing midgets, villainous monks, a Scottish castle, the Loch Ness monster, and covert naval experiments. Can the sleuths make sense of all this and solve the mystery?
Rotten Tomatoes:   'Private Life' is both an elegiac evocation of late Victorian England and a boldly modern take on the dark side of the "real" Sherlock Holmes.
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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
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English    Country:  USA
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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67% (1)  The Day and the Hour  110 min,  [Action, Drama, Romance]  [René Clément]  [19 Feb 1964]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 67%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Geneviève Page, Michel Piccoli, Simone Signoret, Stuart Whitman
Writer:  René Clément (adaptation), Roger Vailland (adaptation), André Barret (screenplay), Roger Vailland (dialogue), Clement Biddle Wood (English dialogue)
External Links:  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  French    Country:  France, Italy
Plot:  It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from the village where she has gone to visit her father's grave and to fill two suitcases with food. Some British and American planes have been shot down and the Germans want to know where the pilots are hiding. An acquaintance has clearance to drive to Paris with a truckload of goats. After she is in the truck Therese discovers that two British pilots and an American pilot are back there with the goats. She must get the men on a train to Paris and to a safe house there, where there is no room for the American. Can she leave him at the Metro station trying to figure out the map?
Rotten Tomatoes:   This French/Italian effort travelled under the titles Le Jour Et L'Heure, Il Giorno e L'Ora and Viviamo Oggi in Europe. In Great Britain, it was known as Today We Live. No matter the title, the film stars Simone Signoret as a world-weary French aristocrat who finds a purpose in life by joining the World War II Resistance. She is ordered by her fellow undergrounders to hide allied paratrooper Stuart Whitman in her own country estate. At first resenting this intrusion in her life, Signoret falls in love with Whitman, and together they try to escape into Spain. The Day and the Hour was based on a story by Andre Barret.
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62% (1)  Youngblood Hawke  137 min,  UNRATED,  [Drama]  [Delmer Daves]  [04 Nov 1964]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 62%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Eva Gabor, Geneviève Page, James Franciscus, Suzanne Pleshette
Writer:  Delmer Daves, Herman Wouk
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English    Country:  USA
Plot:  Youngblood Hawke is a truck driver from Kentucky who comes to New York City to become a hot-shot writer. Almost immediately, he meets editor Jeanne Green. She sees great promise in Hawke's writing and falls for the handsome Kentuckian while helping him put together his first book deal. His first novel is moderately successful, but it is soon transformed into a Broadway play by a has-been stage actress. Jeanne discovers that Youngblood has an effect on a great many women, so she takes a job at a new publishing company. Soon after, Hawke's second novel is heralded and he becomes the toast of the town. He then has an affair with a married socialite. His third novel bombs and is also panned by critics...Hawke's financial state declines into hard times. Returning to Kentucky to work on his next book, he contracts pneumonia before realizing that his first editor Jeanne was his ideal woman.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Youngblood Hawke (James Franciscus) is a Kentucky truck driver who comes to New York City to make it as a writer. He meets editor Jeanne Green (Suzanne Pleshette), who sees talent in Hawke's work. Jeanne falls for the handsome Kentuckian and helps him put together a book deal. His first book is only moderately successful, but his confidence is lifted when veteran actress Irene Perry (Mary Astor) wants to make his story into a Broadway play. Hawke soon discovers he is desired by many women, and the heartbroken Jeanne takes a job at another publishing company. His second book makes Hawke the toast of the town and the New York social elite. When Hawke has an affair with the married socialite Frieda Winter (Genevieve Page), her husband Paul (Kent Smith) discovers his wife's infidelity and sets out to ruin Hawke's career. His third book bombs, Frieda's son kills himself over his mother's affair, and Hawke's financial fortune takes a severe nosedive. He returns to Kentucky to work on his next book, but he contracts pneumonia before realizing that Jeanne is the woman he really loves. Good supporting performances from Werner Klemperer, Don Porter, Eva Gabor, and Edward Andrews along with the principle characters make this sentimental melodrama a success. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
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48% (1)  A Talent for Loving  110 min,  R,  [Comedy, Western]  [Richard Quine]  [01 Jan 1969]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 48%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Cesar Romero, Geneviève Page, Richard Widmark, Topol
Writer:  Richard Condon (novel), Jack Rose (screenplay)
External Links:  IMDb     Language:  English    Country:  USA, UK
Plot:  A professional gambler is trapped into marrying within a Mexican family under an Aztec curse.
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