ALIBI

ALIBI (director/writer: Roland West; screenwriters: C. Gardner Sullivan/based on the play Nightstick (1927) by John Griffith Wray, Elaine S. Carrington, Elliott Nugent and J. C. Nugent; cinematographer: Ray June; editor:…

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NADA

NADA (director/writer: Claude Chabrol; screenwriters: from the book by Jean-Patrick Manchette/Mr. Manchette/Antonietta Malzieri; cinematographer: Jean Rabier; editor: Jacques Gaillard; music: Pierre Jansen; cast: Fabio Testi (Diaz), Maurice Garrel (Epaulard), Michel…

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NAPOLEON

NAPOLEON (director/writer: Abel Gance; cinematographers: Jules Kruger/Joseph-Louis Mundwiller/Torpkoff; editors: Marguerite Beauge/Abel Gance; music: Carl Davis/Carmine Coppola/Arthur Honegger; cast: Albert Dieudonne (Napoleon Bonaparte), Yvette Dieudonne (Elisa Bonaparte), Suzanne Bianchetti (Marie-Antoinette), Marguerite…

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A MAN ESCAPED

A MAN ESCAPED (Un Condamné à mort s'est échappé) (director/writer: Robert Bresson; screenwriter: from the memoir of Andre Devigny; cinematographer: L.H. Burel; editor: Raymond Lamy; music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; cast:…

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