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Matter Of Life And Death, A (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Court Of Appeal The Judge (Abraham Sofaer) and the set take center stage in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death, 1947, a.k.a. Stairway to Heaven.

Balalaika (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Tanya With grumbling from her brother and father (Dalies Frantz, Lionel Atwill), both musicians and secret anti-Czarist revolutionaries, Hungarian-born Ilona Massey’s first song (an original by Bob Wright and Chet Forrest for MGM) in her first starring role as singer Lydia, in a Petersburg cabaret, in Balalaika, 1939, also starring Nelson Eddy.

Balalaika (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Song Of The Volga Boatmen Posing as a student to gain access to Ilona Massey and her revolutionary friends and family, well-meaning Czarist prince Peter (Nelson Eddy) offers the traditional Russian song, with support from Dalies Frantz (on piano), Lionel Atwill, Abner Biberman et al, in MGM’s Balalaika, 1939.

Paradise Lagoon (a.k.a The Admirable Crichton, 1958) -- (Movie Clip) White Sands And Palm Trees In the South Seas, separated from their yacht, butler Crichton (Kenneth More) with maid Tweeny (Diane Cilento), employer Lord Loam (Cecil Parker), his daughters (Sally Ann Howes, Mercy Haystead, Miranda Connell) and suitors (Jack Watling, Gerald Harper), in Paradise Lagoon, 1958, better known as The Admirable Crichton.

Paradise Lagoon (a.k.a The Admirable Crichton, 1958) -- (Movie Clip) You're Doing Splendidly Sally Ann Howes as Lady Mary is gaining some nerve, though she’s the last holdout of the shipwrecked Loam family in recognizing that their butler Crichton (Kenneth More) is best equipped to lead their party, and her attempted swim brings her around, in Paradise Lagoon, 1958, better known as The Admirable Crichton, from the J.M. Barrie play.

Pandora And The Flying Dutchman (1952) -- (Movie Clip) With One Bloody Blow Writer-director Albert Lewin from contemporary to fantasy flashback, van der Zee (James Mason) imagining himself in the old legend, his wife (Ava Gardner) and Abraham Sofaer the imposing judge, in Pandora And The Flying Dutchman, 1952.

Naked Jungle, The (1954) -- (Movie Clip) There Must Be Something Wrong With You The end of a conversation in which forthright South American plantation owner Leinengen (Charlton Heston) discovers that his way-too classy mail-order wife Joanna (Eleanor Parker) has been married before, the piano a metaphor for her status, in producer George Pal’s The Naked Jungle, 1954.

Story Of Vernon And Irene Castle, The -- (Movie Clip) Yama Yama Man Stranded in the New Rochelle home of Dr. and Mrs. Foote (Robert Strange, Janet Beecher), vaudevillian Vernon Castle (Fred Astaire) is invited to watch daughter Irene (Ginger Rogers) perform, accompanied by family friend "Walter" (Brennan), early in The Story Of Vernon And Irene Castle, 1939.

Story Of Vernon And Irene Castle, The -- (Movie Clip) What Does Ham Mean? Ending his unplanned visit with her family, vaudeville comic Vernon Castle (Fred Astaire) is seen off by aspiring performer Irene (Ginger Rogers) at the New Rochelle train station, flashing his dance stylings, in The Story Of Vernon And Irene Castle, 1939.

Quo Vadis (1951) -- (Movie Clip) May A Traveler Interrupt? Arriving at the Roman home of Plautius (Felix Aylmer) and Pomponia (Nora Swinburne), saintly Greek Jew Paul (Abraham Sofaer), greets convert Lygia (Deborah Kerr) and meets amorous General Marcus Vinicus (Robert Taylor) in Quo Vadis, 1951.

Lion Has Wings, The -- (1940) -- (Movie Clip) This Is Britain The newsreader E.V.H. Emmett would have been familiar to any Britons watching this unbridled propaganda narrative, which continues at intervals throughout the film, opening The Lion Has Wings, 1940, directing credit shared by Michael Powell, Brian Desmond Hurst and Adrian Brunel.

Lion Has Wings, The -- (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Are We At War? The first scene in which actors emerge from the narration, Churchill's address as Merle Oberon (Newly married to the producer, as "Mrs. Richardson") and June Duprez (as "June") listen, Ralph Richardson (as "Wing Commander... Richardson") and Brian Worth (as "Bobby") arrive, in Alexander Korda's rush-job WWII propaganda effort, The Lion Has Wings, 1940.

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