Sammy Way-out Seal (1962) & For Love of Willadean (1964) Billy Mumy, Michael McGreevey

Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color: Season 9, Episode 6
Sammy, the Way-Out Seal: Part 1 (28 Oct. 1962)
"Disneyland" Sammy, the Way-Out Seal: Part 1 (original title)

TV Episode 89 min - Action | Adventure | Biography
Disney film about two young brothers who secretly bring home a seal from their summer vacation and try to hide it from Mom and Dad...

Stars: Jack Carson, Robert Culp and Patricia Barry, Elizabeth Fraser, Billy Mumy, Michael McGreevey
Director: Norman Tokar .... Writer: Norman Tokar

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For the Love of Willadean (1964) Roger Mobley, Michael McGreevey, Billy Mumy
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (TV series 1954–1990)
For the Love of Willadean: A Taste of Melon (#10.21)
"Disneyland" For the Love of Willadean: A Taste of Melon (original title)

Stars:
Terry Burnham, Roger Mobley and Michael McGreevey & Billy Mumy & Ed Wynn
Director: Byron Paul
Writers: Borden Deal (story), Arnold Peyser
Original Air Date: 8 March 1964
IMDB: Nostalgic tale of two brothers and their new neighbor, who all fight over the attentions of the pretty girl in the farmhouse down the road; the girl's name is Willadean. Prize winning watermelons and a house reputed to be haunted figure in the plot line. Written by Marta Dawes.

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Skaterdater (1965)
Skaterdater is a 1965 American short film.
Directed by Noel Black
Produced by Marshal Backlar, Noel Black
Written by Noel Black
Starring Michael Mel, Melissa Mallory, Gregg Carroll, Gary Hill, Bill McKaig, Gary Jennings,
Bruce McKaig, Ricky Anderson
Music by Mike Curb, Nick Venet
Cinematography, Michael D. Murphy
Distributed by United Artists
Release date: 1965
Country: United States

It was Produced by Marshal Backlar, and written and directed by Noel Black and was the winner of the Palme d'Or for Best Short Film at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. It was also nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Short Subject category. First prizes in international film festivals including Moscow and Venice.
The film tells a story with no dialogue. The group of boy skaters are suddenly at a point when one of the boys sees a young girl, and becomes interested in her. This causes a rift with the other boys, who challenges him to a skating duel that goes down a hilly street. The young boy loses, however, he gets the girl, and shortly, a few other girls are seen and become interested in the boys, too. The surf rock-esque soundtrack was composed by Mike Curb and Nick Venet with Davie Allan and the Arrows playing "Skaterdater Rock".
It was the first film on skateboarding. It was distributed theatrically, both domestically and internationally, by United Artists. It was reviewed extensively, including "Time Magazine".
The skateboarders were members of the neighborhood Imperial Skateboard Club from Torrance, California. Their names are Gary Hill, Gregg Carrol, Mike Mel, Bill McKaig, Gary Jennings, Bruce McKaig and Rick Anderson. Melissa Mallory played the girl of the interest of one of the boy skaters.
Most of the action shots were taken in Torrance, Redondo Beach, and Palos Verdes Estates. The final shot was Averill Park in San Pedro.

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Disney ~ Charley & the Angel (1973) Fred MacMurray

Charley and the Angel is a 1973 Disney family/comedy film set in an unidentified small city in the 1930s Depression-era Midwestern United States and starring Fred MacMurray in one of his final film appearances and his last movie for Walt Disney Pictures. The film, directed by Vincent McEveety, is based on The Golden Evenings of Summer, a 1971 novel written by Will Stanton.

Directed by Vincent McEveety Produced by Bill Anderson Written by Will Stanton (book author)
Roswell Rogers (film writer) Starring Fred MacMurray
Cloris Leachman & Harry Morgan, Kathleen Cody and Kurt Russell
Music by Buddy Baker
Cinematography Charles Wheeler
Editing by Bob Bring, Ray de Leuw
Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by Buena Vista Distribution
Release date: March 23, 1973
Running time 93 min.
United States
Language English

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Doris Day in "Midnight Lace" (1960) Rex Harrison, John Gavin

Midnight Lace (1960) is an American mystery-thriller film starring Doris Day and Rex Harrison, directed by David Miller. The screenplay by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts is based on the play Matilda Shouted Fire by Janet Green. Produced by Ross Hunter.

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Babette's Feast (1987) - Best Foreign Language Film

Babette's Feast (Danish: Babettes gæstebud) is a 1987 Danish film directed by Gabriel Axel. The film's screenplay was written by Axel based on the story by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), who also wrote the story which inspired the 1985 Academy Award winning film Out of Africa. Produced by Just Betzer, Bo Christensen, and Benni Korzen with funding from the Danish Film Institute, Babette's Feast was the first Danish cinema film of a Blixen story. It was also the first Danish film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.

Stephane Audran plays Babette, a 19th century Parisian political refugee who seeks shelter in a rough Danish coastal town. Philippa (Bodil Kjer) and Martina (Birgitte Federspiel), the elderly daughters of the town's long-dead minister, take Babette in. As revealed in flashback, Philippa and Martina were once beautiful young women (played by Hanne Stensgaard and Vibeke Hastrup), who'd forsaken their chances at romance and fame, taking hollow refuge in religion. Babette holds a secret that may very well allow the older ladies to have a second chance at life. This is one of the great movies about food, but there are way too many surprises in Babette's Feast to allow us to reveal anything else at this point (except that Ingmar Bergman "regulars" Bibi Andersson and Jarl Kulle have significant cameo roles).. ~ Hal Erickson

with Stephane Audran, Birgitte Federspiel, Bodil Kjer

Release date- 28 August 1987 Running time - 102 minutes Country - Denmark

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"Best Picture" Madame Rosa (1977) "Brilliant" SIMONE SIGNORET

Madame Rosa (1977) La vie devant soi (original title)

Stars: Simone Signoret, Michal Bat-Adam and Samy Ben-Youb
Director: Moshé Mizrahi Writers: Romain Gary (novel), Moshé Mizrahi (adaptation)

Plot

Madame Rosa (Simone Signoret) is a frail, aging, retired Jewish prostitute and Auschwitz survivor who earns a meager living by caring for the children of younger female sex workers, as well as for Momo (short for Mohammed) (Sami Ben Youb), a young Arab boy on the verge of adolescence. Momo hasn't seen his parents in years. He and Madame Rosa struggle to make ends meet, and as her body and mind start to fail, it becomes clear that Momo is the only person she has left in the world. Despite his young age, he has to help Madame Rosa who refuses to be hospitalized. He will stay with her as she faces her ultimate fears and prepares for her last and most difficult voyage.

Background

The story of Madame Rosa and Momo unfolds in a multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural community. The profound emotional bond between the two main characters, one an old Jewish woman and the other a young Arab boy, is what drives the film emotionally from the beginning to the end.
 

The film also emphasizes the compassion and empathy that can be found in such a disadvantaged community context through the helping gestures of the secondary characters. Madame Lola, for example, while being bluntly described by Momo as "a transvestite" who had been "a boxing champion in Senegal" is depicted in both the book and the film without any sensationalism. To the contrary, she is presented as a compassionate human being who is concerned by the poverty of Madame Rosa and Momo giving them food and money without expecting anything in return.
 

Momo says of her that "she's really somebody", that he "likes her"; Madame Rosa declares, "She's a Saint, I don't know where we'd be without her". The dynamic represented between Madame Rosa, Momo and their transsexual prostitute neighbor, Madame Lola, stands as a good example of the type of deeply humanistic values and respect for human difference, whether that difference is of a sexual, religious, or racial nature, that is embedded in Romain Gary's written text and further successfully emphasized through Moshé Mizrahi's cinematographic representation of the story.
 

Awards

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (1977)

César Award for Best Actress for Simone Signoret (1978)

Release date: 2 November 1977 (France)

19 March 1978 (USA)105 min - Drama
French with English sub-titles
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Mustalaishurmaaja: Gipsy Charmer (1929) Teuvo Tulio DVD $8.59 Free Ship

Mustalaishurmaaja: Gipsy Charmer (1929) Teuvo Tulio

Is this Finland's answer to Rudolph Valentino? ("Manyardo" played by Teuvo Tulio)
Finnish silent movie from 1929 (original title "Mustalaishurmaaja"). English subtitles.
Svensk text. Suomenkieliset tekstit.



Mustalaishurmaaja (1929) 69 min - Drama | Romance - 4 November 1929 (Finland)
Stars: Teuvo Tulio and Meri Hackzell, Hemmi Hagert, Bruno Laurén
Director: Valentin Vaala ... Writers: Teuvo Tulio, Valentin Vaala

Original Score, Brian Pinette

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Iron Man (1931) Lew Ayres & Jean Harlow DVD $7.99 free ship

Iron Man is a 1931 drama film directed by Tod Browning and starring Lew Ayres, Robert Armstrong and Jean Harlow.[1] It is a bit of an anomaly for Browning, who is more associated with horror and melodrama than sports films.

In 1951, Universal remade it with Jeff Chandler, Evelyn Keyes and Rock Hudson, directed by Joseph Pevney.

　

Starring Lew Ayres, Robert Armstrong and Jean Harlow

Directed by Tod Browning

Produced by E. M. Asher, Tod Browning, Carl Laemmle Jr.

Written by W. R. Burnett (novel), Francis Edward Faragoh

Distributed by Universal Studios

Release date: April 30, 1931

Running time: 73 minutes

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