Kay Hammond

Görkem ve şaşaa bakımdan çok az film, Cecil B. De Mille'nin 1956 yapımı destansı "On Emir"iyle karşılaştırılabilir. En büyük film setlerinden biri kurularak Mısır ve Sina Yarımadası'nda çekilen filmde, Firavun'un (Yul Brynner) evinde ayrıcalığı olmasına rağmen insanları özgürlüğe kavuşturmak için bundan vazgeçen Musa'nın (Charlton Heston) hayatı anlatılıyor. Hem de Cecil De Mille'in bizzat kendisinin az rastlanır takdimiyle... Mısır Prensi, Musa, bir Musevi olarak gerçek mirasını ve halkının kurtarıcısı olarak büyük misyonunu öğrenir. Tüm yeni doğan erkek Musevileri ele geçiren Mısır Firavunu 1. Ramses'ten kaçmak için bebek Musa Nil üzerinde kamış sepetle yolculuğuna başlar. Firavunu kızı Bithiah tarafından kurtarılır, evlat edinilir ve erkek kardeşi Firavun Seti'nin sarayında büyütülür. Musa Seti'nin beğenisini ve veliaht prenses Nefertiri'nin sevgisini kazanırken Seti'nin oğlu Rameses'in de nefretini üstüne çeker...

Medyumlarla ilgili kitap yazan Charles ile komşusu "emekli medyum" Madam Arcati’nin öyküsü. Araya yazarın ikinci eşi girince işler karışacak.

A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under suspicion. However, the husband's father, an amateur detective, believes in their innocence and sets out to find who really killed the blackmailer.

A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about.

An aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search of good fortune. Unfortunately, the agitator soon finds himself in trouble with the cops. Meanwhile the writer attempts to become a Greenwich Village Bohemian type. She and her new friends are all starving for their art until a kindly gent offers them financial assistant. They refuse on principle. Tragedy pays a call when the writer learns that her boyfriend has been untrue.

An episodic dramatization of the 18th President of the United States' life, including his early years, affair with Ann Rutledge, courtship of Mary Todd, debates with Stephen A. Douglas, the election of 1860, his presidency during the Civil War, and finally his assassination at Ford's Theater in 1865.

A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives birth to a child. Her former boss helps her out to ensure the child's welfare, which starts gossip that she is a "kept woman."

After tricking him into marriage, a woman tries to win the love of her philandering husband.

Story of a vampish actress who comes between a happily married couple in this light-hearted melodrama.

Impoverished aristocrat's daughter Tommy Tucker is in love with radio announcer Bill Coverdale, but he is engaged to her more glamorous sister Angela, who he does not love. Seeking escape from this hopeless situation, and her life of genteel poverty, Tommy flees abroad to Biarritz to become a nightclub singer.

A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all about get-rich-quick schemes.

Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is love with cabaret star Cora Mellish. She in turn has run up steep gambling debts and has paid off the Club's blackmailing owner with a stolen necklace. As things heat up Cora seeks help from the easy-going Tope.

The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a beautiful singing voice, and when that fact comes to the attention of a movie studio, it begins to turn her and her family's lives upside down.

A casual date at a high-class hotel leads Binnie, an aspiring showgirl, to be mistaken for model and actress Lia de Marita – landing her an audition for the producer of a new musical stage show. Marvelling at her good fortune, what Binnie doesn't know is that Lia is also the wife of a notorious jewel thief and that she's already fled the country in possession of a valuable, ill-gotten necklace!

A young man's passions are stirred by a beautiful Sicilian after his physician-wife is called away on an emergency.

Based on Aimee Stuart's play. Little Scots girl decides to use her inheritance for a "grand tour" of the Continent.

Joe Tomasso is an Italian-American bookmaker and gambler who, outwardly, is hard but soft-hearted inwardly. He becomes fond of a homeless waif, Jackie Curtis, and begins to look upon him as the son he never had. But when Jackie's mother appears, Joe has a hard decision to make.

A married society woman accidentally kills her would-be lover and blackmailer and then suffers a crisis of conscience when his disgruntled butler is charged with the crime.

Two women of different social backgrounds work together in a dressmakers.

A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married. What he doesn't know is that she married him because she wants to stay in France. Complications ensue.

A man poses as a boxer to impress a woman, but then is forced to fight a real champion.

'Farcical comedy of matrimonial complications in which a bibulous man almost wrecks his friend's marriage.' (British Film Institute)

During a performance of Othello a jealous actor attempts to strangle his wife who he believes has committed adultery..

Two thieves are released from prison; one of them has an umbrella with jewels hidden in its handle.

Look at Life was a regular British series of short documentary films of which 507 were produced between 1959 and 1969 by the Special Features Division of the Rank Organisation for screening in their Odeon and Gaumont cinemas. The films always preceded the main feature film that was being shown in the cinema that week. It replaced the circuit's newsreel, Universal News, which had become increasingly irrelevant in the face of more immediate news media, particularly on television with the launch of ITN on the Independent Television service, which began broadcasting in parts of the United Kingdom in 1955.