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The original French title of the film, Le Voyage à travers l'impossible, comes from a stage spectacular of the same name, written in 1882 by Jules Verne and Adolphe d'Ennery. Méliès was probably inspired by memories of this play, but otherwise the film bears little connection to it; the plot structure appears to be inspired more closely by a ...
The Sitting Duck received an average rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars on the French website AlloCiné, based on 29 reviews. [19] Fabrice Leclerc of Paris Match wrote, "This gripping thriller, a moral study on the mysterious strings of power and the CAC 40, delivers a successful indicment of the elites, never clumsy". [20]
Westinghouse Works, 1904, a collection of 21 short films directed by Billy Bitzer – The Widow and the Only Man, directed by Wallace McCutcheon Sr. – The Wonderful Living Fan (Le Merveilleux Éventail vivant), directed by Georges Méliès –
Richie Ling (October 18, 1867 – March 5, 1937) was an English singer and actor, whose career was mainly in the United States. He was originally an operatic tenor, became a stage actor, and later made some silent films.
Cast Genre Notes Alligator Farm: Documentary: Shot during the summer of 1903 at Atlantic City, New Jersey: The Automobile Race: The Chicago Fire: Live documentary: Captured a fire in Chicago filming firefighters on the roofs of buildings throwing streams of water on the burning structure with black smoke The Child Stealers: Decoyed: A Ferry in ...
Christopher Columbus (French: Christophe Colomb), also known as The European Idea of Christopher Columbus Discovering America, is a 1904 French silent short film directed by Vincent Lorant-Heilbronn. The film is one of the oldest surviving example of the historical drama genre .
South of St Louis is a 1949 American Technicolor Western film directed by Ray Enright and starring Joel McCrea, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott and Dorothy Malone.It chronicles the friendship between three ranchers after their ranch is destroyed by raiders led by the infamous Luke Cottrell. [4]
In Montauban in 1944, during the Invasion of Normandy, Julien Dandieu a pacifist surgeon and convinced humanist, leads a comfortable middle class life with his wife Clara and his daughter Florence, born from a previous union. As a member of the French Resistance, he provides treatment to the maquisards in his hospital and is regularly ...