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English : The Big Combo is a 1955 American film noir crime film directed by Joseph H. Lewis, written by Philip Yordan and photographed by cinematographer John Alton, with music by David Raksin.
English : Presentation of a Luxembourgish folk dance by the folklore group "Vallée des Sept Châteaux" in the Neimünster Abbey, as part of the "Day of Intangible Cultural Heritage 2023"
English : A film made by Centron Corporation, USA, to teach children about Advertising and media. This is a new transfer of an original faded 16mm print. Some color correction has been applied to remove the red cast.
English : A Coach for Cinderella is a 1936 Technicolor animated cartoon sponsored film based on the Cinderella fairy tale for promoting Chevrolet automobiles. Nicky Nome builds a modern day coach that turns into a Chevy in the last 20 seconds, thus laying way for a sequel cartoon in which Cinderella does attend the ball and her new coach.
English : The Chase is a 1946 American film noir directed by Arthur Ripley. The screenplay by Philip Yordan is based on Cornell Woolrich's 1944 novel The Black Path of Fear. It stars Robert Cummings as Chuck Scott, a veteran who suffers from hallucinations. When he returns a lost wallet to violent mobster Eddie Roman (Steve Cochran), Eddie offers to hire him as a chauffeur. Chuck becomes mixed up in a plot to help Eddie's wife Lorna (Michèle Morgan) run off to Havana to escape her cruel husband.
English : The Deadly Companions is a 1961 American Western and war film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Steve Cochran, and Chill Wills. Based on the novel of the same name by A. S. Fleischman, the film is about an ex-army soldier who accidentally kills a woman's son, and tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous Indian territory.
English : Dementia 13, known in the United Kingdom as The Haunted and the Hunted, is a 1963 independently made black-and-white horror-thriller film, written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Roger Corman, starring William Campbell and Luana Anders with Bart Patton, Mary Mitchell, and Patrick Magee.
English : The Devil Bat is a 1940 black-and-white American horror film film produced by Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) and directed by Jean Yarborough.
English : Destination Earth (1956) is an industrial cartoon produced by John Sutherland and directed by Carl Urbano. Fanciful, funny cartoon about a Martian flying to Earth to discover the power source of our mobile vehicles—gasoline!
English : Fox Pop is an American traditional animated short film part of the Merrie Melodies series directed by Chuck Jones, written by Tedd Pierce, and produced by Leon Schlesinger. This is a restored HD version.
English : The New Moscow (Russian: Новая Москва, romanized: Novaya Moskva) is a 1938 Soviet sci-fi comedy film directed by Aleksandr Medvedkin and Aleksandr Olenin. It was banned from showing by Joseph Stalin.
English : In the skin of the fingertips, around 150 receptors per square centimeter register mechanical stimuli. Four different cell types share the work. The fine skin sensors make fingers a universal tactile organ.