Henry Roquemore
Oyuncu · 1886 – 1943 · Marshall, Texas, USA
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Film8.3KomediSavaşNazi Almanya'sının tıpkısının aynısı bir başka diktatörlükte, kararları ve yönetimi ile ülkesini kırıp geçiren Diktatör Adenoid Hynkel, ülkede kendisine ikizi kadar çok benzeyen son derece saf karakterli bir Yahudi berberin yaşadığından habersizdir. Hynkel'in askerleri Yahudileri teker teker toplama kamplarına götürmek üzere toplarken Yahudi Berber'in Hynkel'e olan benzerliği nedeni ile onu Büyük Diktatör zannederler ve bu benzerlik büyük bir karışıklık yaşanmasına neden olur. Charles Chaplin'in Nazi Almanya'sını ve Hitler'i hicvettiği bu eğlenceli komedi, sinema tarihinin en başarılı hiciv örnekleri arasında yer alıyor.
Film7.8KomediDramWashington'da senatörün ölmesinin haberi tüm eyalette yayılmıştır ve Senator Joseph Paine'in medya patronu Jim Taylor'dan istediği geçici göreve gelecek kişi için işlerine pek karışamayacak birini bulmasıdır. Jefferson Smith Boy Rangers'ın başkanı, dürüst ve idealleri olan biridir ve bu istek için biçilmiş kaftandır. Ne var ki, Washington entrikaları içinde Jefferson'ın dürüstlüğü ve kendini insanlara adaması bazı değişimlere sebep olur * İzlemeden önce sıkıcı bir politik film olduğunu zannediyordum.Kesinlikle sıkıcı değilmiş, aksine bir başucu filmiymiş. Kararında ilerleyen senaryo finaline doğru kalitesini hep arttırıyor. Zaten eski filmlerde en çok sevdiğim şey bu * Frank Capra neden filmlerinin son yarım saatini tüyleri havaya dikecek kadar etkileyici biçimde işliyor?
Film7.3DramRomantikOrson Welles‘in başyapıtlarından “Muhteşem Ambersonlar“, aynı zamanda yönetmenin en talihsiz filmlerinden birisi. Yapımcı firmanın marifetiyle yarısından çoğu kurguda yok edilerek (148 dakikadan 88 dakikaya indirildi) gösterime sokulan “Muhteşem Ambersonlar“, aristokrat bir ailenin çöküşünü ve güç dengelerinin bozulması yüzünden bir anda sınıf düşmesini anlatıyor. George Amberson Minafer (Tim Holt) aristokrat bir ailenin, güç-budalası haline gelmiş oğlu. Bir mucit olan Eugene Morgan (Joseph Cotten) George’un annesine aşık oluyor, ancak kadın çok daha zengin bir adam olan Wilbur Minafer’ın (Donald Dillaway) büyüsüne kapılıyor. Yıllar sonra Eugene şehre geri dönüyor, üstelik yeni bir icadın, otomobilin yaratıcısı olarak... Welles’in ölümünden sonra bilgisayarla renklendirilen filmin kurgusunu ileride birçok başarılı filme imza atacak olan Robert Wise yapmıştı.
Film7.0KomediRomantikRival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
Woman of the Year
1942 · 169 votes
Film7.3DramKomediAs a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
Meet John Doe
1941 · 290 votes
Film7.3DramRomantikGwynplaine babasının ihaneti üzerine kral tarafından suratı çizilerek kalıcı bir gülümsemeyle cezalandırılmıştır. Gezgin şovmen olan Gwynplaine kör kız Dea'ya aşık olur . Kral öldüğünde kötü şaklaban Gwynplain'i yoketmeye çalışır.
Film7.5DramRegina (Bette Davis), paraya olduğundan fazla değer veren bir kadındır. Soylu, güneyli bir ailenin bireyi olan Regina, iki erkek kardeşi ile birlikte bir fabrika kurmak istemektedir. Bu iş için kardeşlerinin parası olmasına rağmen Regina kocasına muhtaçtır. Karısının tam tersi bir insan olan Horace (Herbert Marshall) ise bu işe para yatırmak istemez. Bunun üzerine Regina, zaten kalp hastası olan kocasının ölümünü beklemeye başlar, hatta ölümüne biraz da yardımcı olur.
Film6.5SuçDramNewspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
Stranger on the Third Floor
1940 · 109 votes
Film7.3DramAileÜnlü beyzbol oyuncusu Lou Gehrig'in kariyeri ve hayat hikayesini anlatan bir yapım. Gehrig’in yaşamından uyarlanan The Pride Of Yankees, Amerikan erkeği açısından "duygusal sinema" dendiğinde ilk akla gelen filmlerden biridir. Gary Cooper’ın kariyerinin en başarılı performanslarından biri ile Gehrig’i canlandırdığı film, Gehrig’in konuşmasını Cooper’ın ağzından aktararak yürek burktuğu kadar, gururlandıran muazzam bir final de sunmaktadır...
Film7.0KomediRomantikIt's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.
The More the Merrier
1943 · 102 votes
Film7.1WesternDrifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.
The Westerner
1940 · 139 votes
Film6.3DramTarihIn 19th-century England, German journalist Paul Julius Reuter and his partner, Max Wagner, utilize messenger pigeons to connect telegraph stations across Europe. As time passes and technology outdates his system, Reuter invents a wire system that transmits news stories directly to newspapers. But when a rival creates a faster means, Reuter must transmit high-profile news to stay on top of the industry.
A Dispatch from Reuters
1940 · 17 votes
Film5.3KomediThe wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
She Couldn't Take It
1935 · 3 votes
Film6.3WesternDramFast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
Honky Tonk
1941 · 19 votes
Film6.6KomediMüzikJimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between schools is coming up and they have a hard time raising money to go to Chicago for the contest.
Strike Up the Band
1940 · 27 votes
Film5.5MüzikRomantikIn order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
Naughty Marietta
1935 · 24 votes
Film6.7DramRomantikRomanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
Hold Back the Dawn
1941 · 51 votes
Film7.0GizemRomantikA charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris. He even goes so far as to threaten the Mona Lisa. But the police, led by the great Guerchard, think they know Arsene Lupin's identity, and they have a secret weapon to catch him.
Arsène Lupin
1932 · 22 votes
Film6.3KomediDramIn the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the party and visit his friend Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar. However, he flirts with the mysterious Concha Perez and they schedule to meet each other later. When Antonio meets Pasqualito, his old friend discloses his frustrated relationship with the promiscuous Concha and her greedy mother and how his life was ruined by his obsession for the beautiful demimondaine. Pasqualito makes Antonio promise that he would not see Concha. However, when Antonio meets Concha, she seduces him and the long friendship between Antonio and Pasqualito is disrupted
The Devil Is a Woman
1935 · 77 votes
Film6.2WesternYoung lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?
When the Daltons Rode
1940 · 23 votes
Film6.4WesternDramThis historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress appropriated the money to build the school, but opponents who believed it to be an illegitimate expansion of the powers of the federal government decided to sabotage the school. They put the hard-as-nails Major Sam Carter in charge of the academy, and he ruthlessly put the recruits through grueling training -- until only ten prospective soldiers remained. They include Dawson, a patriotic farm boy and Howard Shelton, a selfish playboy who has come to West Point only because of its prestige. The two vie for Carolyn Bainbridge, while they, along with the other eight, try convince Carter that the school is worth keeping.
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1942 · 8 votes
Film8.0SuçDramA cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
I Stole a Million
1939 · 2 votes
Film6.3KomediGizemSuper-sleuth Philo Vance faces the zaniest case of his career when Gracie Allen "helps" him try to solve the murder of an escaped convict. As she attempts to clear the name of a friend accused of the killing, her wacky, scatterbrained ways constantly impede the investigation.
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
1939 · 7 votes
Film5.6WesternKomediWith thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.
The Texas Rangers Ride Again
1940 · 7 votes