Sentences with phrase «1940s setting of the film»

The song's style doesn't try to match the 1940s setting of the film, but does capture the power of the story, and the hope that comes when people learn how to love one another.

Not exact matches

But when a Second Lifer who calls himself Nimrod Yaffle tried to log in to the community earlier his year, he discovered his avatar had been sequestered in a surreal, isolated landscape: infinite rows of corn, spread out under a dark sky, with nothing else in sight except a small red tractor and a black - and - white television set playing the 1940 film Boy in Court.

The movie is set up as the kind of tart, battle - of - the - sexes picture that reached its pinnacle in the 1930s and 1940s, but Zeta - Jones's character, Marylin, remains remote and inscrutable throughout the film, a femme fatale who's wandered into another genre altogether.

One of the landmarks of silent cinema, this adaptation of Gaston Leroux's novel was also the film that firmly cemented Lon Chaney's standing as a superstar as well as set the stage for Universal Pictures to continue producing definitive horror classics throughout the 1930s and 1940s.

Caleb Deschanel's cinematography is its greatest achievement; the first half of the film unfolds almost silently against the backdrop of a rocky desert island and the rolling seas, while the latter half is set in upstate, 1940s New York.

Agent Carter is set in the late 1940s after the close of World War II and into the burdgeoning Cold War following up on the original Captain America film, but focusing on the character's longevity - and looping in her ties to S.H.I.E.L.D. and it's predecessor, S.S.R. - provides a potential framework for a device to tell the untold backstory of the MCU, a currently favored conceit in Marvel comic books.

Set in 1940s America with war raging in Europe, this zany story of hypnosis and looted jewels is one of Allen's most decidedly average films.

Her dedication endears her to many during the film's 1940s setting, however, and the smart money's on «Florence Foster Jenkins» ending on a moment of triumph.

The film is an intense, rescue story set in 1940 at the beginning of WWII.

From the distinct character parallels — most notably those connecting the two films» respective «phantom» characters, Reynolds's mother and the titular Rebecca — to the isolated manor setting to the thematic obsession with food and control, Phantom Thread functions in many ways as a remix of Hitchcock's 1940 Best Picture winner, the director's only film to take that honor.

In this film noir comedy, set in a 1940s Hollywood where cartoon characters are real, private investigator Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) is hired to prove the innocence of the accused murderer and uncontrollably crazy «toon» Roger Rabbit (voiced by Charles Fleischer), with memorable appearances by Roger's voluptuous wife, Jessica Rabbit (voiced by Kathleen Turner) and the chillingly evil Judge Doom (Christopher Lloyd).

This film is set in Los Angeles in the 1940s, where part of the city is the fictional Toontown, where all of the famous (and not so famous) cartoon characters (called «Toons») reside.

The six - disc set also features Cagney in Picture Snatcher (1933) and Mayor Of Hell (1933), Cagney co-starring with Edward G. Robinson in Smart Money (1931), Robinson in Brother Orchid (1940), and Humphrey Bogart in Black Legion (1937), which is more social drama than gangster film but can fit the bill in pinch.

Set in 1940, the film culminates with Churchill (a transformed Gary Oldman) delivering his «We shall fight on the beaches» speech, rousing and reassuring the British government and people on the eve of the Battle of Britain.

Enjoy the nostalgia of Carnforth station, which has been restored to its 1940s glory when the refreshment room was used as a film setting.

Set in a 1940's film - noir era, Shadows of Evil introduces four unwitting characters — The Magician, The Femme - Fatale, The Cop and The Boxer — into an unraveling experience masterminded by the mysterious Shadow Man.

The set of 69 images of self - portraits recreated the scenes as film stills taken from Italian neorealism or American film noir of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.