The Iron Horse was John Ford's 50th film and remains his most celebrated of the silent era. Its theme of enterprise and achievement its open-air locations and setting in a vigorous and pioneering past proved just the subject to stimulate the young director's talent. The sheer scale of the film surpassed all other Westerns of the silent era and established Ford as one of the leading directors in the industry. The film combines a conventional tale of double-dealing vengeance and romance with a poetic sense of history and an epic theme - uniting a nation by building a transcontinental railroad and a great man's dream realised by the courage skill and labour of ordinary folk. This restored version features a new score composed and conducted by John Lanchbery performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic.
'The British Are Coming!' Britain's finest athletes have begun their quest for glory in the 1924 Olympic Games. Success brings honour to their nation. For two runners, the honour at stake is personal... and their challenge one from within. Winner of four 1981 Academy Awards including Best Picture, 'Chariots Of Fire' is the inspiring, true story of Harold Abrahams, Eric Liddell and the team that brought Britain one of its greatest sports victories. Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nigel...
After the visual fireworks of Sunrise and the now-lost splendour of 4 Devils F.W. Murnau turned his attention to this vivid painterly study of an impulsive and fragile marriage among the wheatfields of Minnesota. During a brief stay in Chicago innocent farmer's son Lem falls for and weds Kate a hard-bitten but lonely waitress. Upon bringing her home at the start of harvest time the honeymoon soon turns into a claustrophobic struggle as they contend with the bitter scorn of his father and the invasive leering jealousy of the farm's labouring community. Tenderly romantic and tough-minded in equal measure City Girl is one of cinema's great pastorals featuring some of the most delicate performances Murnau ever directed and influencing filmmakers such as Terrence Malick and Jean Vigo.
After the visual fireworks of Sunrise and the now-lost splendour of 4 Devils F.W. Murnau turned his attention to this vivid painterly study of an impulsive and fragile marriage among the wheatfields of Minnesota. During a brief stay in Chicago innocent farmer's son Lem falls for and weds Kate a hard-bitten but lonely waitress. Upon bringing her home at the start of harvest time the honeymoon soon turns into a claustrophobic struggle as they contend with the bitter scorn of his father and the invasive leering jealousy of the farm's labouring community. Tenderly romantic and tough-minded in equal measure City Girl is one of cinema's great pastorals featuring some of the most delicate performances Murnau ever directed and influencing filmmakers such as Terrence Malick and Jean Vigo.
Moonlight Sonata (1937 Feature Film)
Prison teacher Dr. Smart-Alec (Will Hay) steps up the career ladder to become headmaster of Narkover public school but his innate stupidity soon begins to create havoc. Will Hay dons a mortarboard on screen for the first time in the bumbling headmaster role that was to become his trademark.
In this romantic tale Paderewski the famed pianist and two other plane crash survivors are guests of a Swedish baroness. Interwoven throughout this gentle and charming story are exquisite piano solos performed superbly by the elderly pianist Paderewski.
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