Mission to Moscow was made at the behest of F.D.R. in order to garner more support for the Soviet Union during WWII. It was from the book by Joseph E. Davies, former U.S. Ambassador To Russia. The movie covers the political machinations in Moscow just before the start of the war and presents Stalin's Russia in a very favorable light. So much so, that the movie was cited years l...
Karl is the workaholic adopted son while Stephan is the lazy one. They both go to Munich to study medicine and Karl is at the top of the class while Stephan is barely passing. When Stephan's actions causes the death of Anna, Karl is the one who takes the wrap and three years in prison. When he gets out, he finds Stephan is dead and a sick child needs an operation and he does br...
The films of Michael Curtiz have come to symbolize Warner Brothers Studios of the 1930s and 1940s. Curtiz directed many favorites from that era, including Captain Blood, The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Sea Hawk, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing, and Mildred Pierce. He helped guide Bette Davis as her popularity rose in the 1930s, and helped establish ...
Five members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Soon, Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner as a political favor, arrives complete with hip flask and blonde. Gargan falls for activist nurse Dorothy and, inspired by her, takes over the administration ...
Sent to Sing Sing prison, influential crook Spencer Tracy is unregenerate and refuses to adhere to the rules. While in solitary confinement, Tracy reconsiders his attitude. Thanks to the correctional facility's compassionate warden (Arthur Byron), Tracy becomes a model prisoner, even refusing to participate in a jailbreak. The warden sets up a special program permitting selecte...
柯尔波特是早期美国流行乐坛最著名的作曲家，从二十年代后期即已在娱乐圈崭露头角，在三十年代的"黄金时代"更有不少名曲出自他的手笔。然而波特的祖父一直不同意他走作曲家的路，甚至在波特成名后仍加以排斥。他在壮年的事业高峰期1937年坠马受伤，双腿不利于行，对他的身心造成甚大影响。幸而波特克服困扰，继续发挥其作曲才华，并扬名好莱坞。
无论是导演迈克尔．柯蒂兹的处理手法，或是卡里．格兰特的表演技巧，都只是平平而已。这部音乐传记片最值得欣赏的还是多位著名歌星密集亮相，演唱多首悦耳动听的插曲，让人了解到柯尔波特为何能够在美国乐坛大放异彩。2004年的影片《小可爱》讲述的也是这位音乐家的故事。
音乐家生平：
柯尔·波特于1891年6月9日出生在印第安纳州的秘鲁，他在很小的时候就接受了小提琴和钢琴的训练，在10岁的时候就写出了自己的第一首歌曲--《鸟儿之歌》(Song...
At the West Point Military Academy in 1854, the villain Cadet Carl Rader (Van Heflin), a disciple of the fanatic abolitionist John Brown, is dishonorably discharged for spreading anti-slavery pamphlets. His classmates Jeb Stuart (Flynn) and George Custer (Ronald Reagan) become second lieutenants and are posted to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, the most dangerous duty in th...
里克（柯克·道格拉斯 Kirk Douglas 饰）是一个整日里游手好闲，对自己的前途感到非常迷惘的年轻人，一次偶然的机会，让他发掘出了自己在音乐方面的天赋，他爱上了吹号。里克的才华惊动了传奇号手哈萨德（华诺·埃尔南德斯 Juano Hernandez 饰），他收了里克为徒，并且将自己的毕生所学都传授给了他。
在哈萨德的悉心栽培下，里克的吹号技艺飞速成长，并且很快就在圈内打出了名气。然而，就在里克逐步走上人生高峰时，他过于轻浮的性格和急于想要表现自己的强烈表演欲望令他和乐队里的其他音乐家们之间产生了巨大的矛盾和分歧。
