72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Jack Conway, Jacques Tourneur
USA 
95 min.
The difficulties inherent in bringing to the screen a novel with such diluted, episodic action were overcome by Jack Conway. The spectator reads Dickens without losing the narrative thread in any of the chapters. Conwy did not empli the comfortable resource od adapting a work of literature, that is of omitting that which soesn't fit the medium of film. 
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
87 min.
Anne Providence, an implacable filibuster, falls in love with a French official that betrays her. at first, she can only think of revenge, but in the end decides to sacrifice herself to save her beloved.
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
79 min.
An American with a cause becomes owner of a boat and temporarily associates himself with a group of drug traffickers while on his way to Honduras to deliver funds to a revolutionary movement.
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
86 min.
In the desolate Germany of the immediate postwar period, four men (American, English, Russian and French) come together by accident on the Berlin Express and join forces to save a German scientist threatened by a group of Nazis. One of the four men is a traitor, but the Allies win out just before the falling of the Iron Curtain which divides Western Europe into two hostile camps, only one now supported by its former Eastern allies.
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
92 min.
Portland, Oregon, 1856. Gold prospectors figth among themselves and against the Indians. Via his relations with both, an aventurer discovers that he's not made for a sedentary life, rather he and his female partner must forever roam. She shares the anxieties that his adventures produce. 
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
73 min.
A young fashion designer is convinced that she has inherited, from her Balkan ancestors, the evil power to become a panther.
Jacques Tourneur
United Kingdom 
104 min.
An american investigates why his brother, a British commando during the war, was killerd by a British bullet.
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
86 min.
A young figher joins Russian partisans continually harasing German troops. By dispersing, the partisans contribute to the victory of the Russian regulars.
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
65 min.
Two young doctors have diffculty obtaining a clientele. One of them hopes to get rich so that he can marry a night-club singer and so starts working for a gangster. When this client is implicated in a murder, the doctor provides him with a new face, but also finds it necessary to go into hiding himself.
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
77 min.
A famous footbal player discovers that he has a cardiac problem. He can't give up playing, however, until he wins back the love of his wife, for which readon he also keeps his disease a secret. She returns to his side once she has learned the truth. 
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
91 min.
Set in New York in the year 1900. Allida Bedereaux is married to a man much older thatn herself, and who is trying to drive her mad. She's in love with the young Dr. Huntington Bailey, who little by little realizes that the crazy one is Allida's husband. 
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
92 min.
Shortly before the American Civil War, a strange Southerner, Owen Pentecost, prefers to complete his mission (detour a gold shipment for the benefit of the Confederate cause) than take up the love offered to him by two female adventurers. 
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
68 min.
Betsy, a Canadian nurse, moves to Haití to take over the care od Jessica Holland, an invalid that appears to suffer a rare form of mental paralysis. Betsy falls in love with Paul, Jessica's husband, and at the same time is being courted by Paul's brother-in-law. Believing that Paul is still loved by his wife, Betsy takes Jessica to a voodoo ceremony in hopes of curing her. 
Jacques Tourneur
Italy - France 
92 min.
Philippides, champion of the Olympic Games, and the young warriors of the Sacred Guard help Militades defeat the persians at Marathón. 
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
60 min.
Nick Carter solves a mystery concerning some boats which explode on the open sea after being insured for large sums of money. The guilty man confesses in order to save his life.
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
26 min. Series
Episode of the series "The Twilight Zone".
Jacques Tourneur
USA - United Kingdom 
83 min.
An American scientist goes to England to attend a congress on witches, and invetigates, via a series of accidental events, the reality of demons and those who follow them. With the help of the police, he defeats the leader of a sect of demonists, although he doesn't end up proving that his ibservations and activities really took place. 
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
78 min.
An American involuntarily comes into possession of a great deal of money, the loot, it turn out, from a bank robery. The protagonist is chased by both the police and the crooks. Finally, he succeeds in demonstrating his innocence. 
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
97 min.
A detective is contracted to find the girlfriend of a thug who left him after he tried to kill her. The detective finds the gir and falls in love with her. 
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
70 min.
Nick Carter solves a case involving the robbery of some plans from an aeronautics factory. Aeroplane chases, machine-gun strafings, kidnappings.
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
11 min. Short film
This is a documentary about the United States Army Cadet Nurse Corps, which shows the apprentinceship of nursing students starting with anathomical studies and how they do with patients in the hospital, and practical training in the operating theatre. The film ends with the presentation of a diploma to new graduates, members of the Nurse Corps.
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
52 min. Series
"Follow the sun" telesailaren atala.
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
89 min.
A young pastor establishes himself, his wife and little son in an isolated village where he must confront various problems: an epidemic, a family of troublemakers, and a lynching by the Ku-Klux-Klan. The film is narrated in first person by the son. 
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
66 min.
An intrepid judge brings order to a city totally under the control of the Bannerman clan. 
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
88 min.
With the help of an assistant, the owner of a bankrupt funeral parlor procures "clients" which he can help pass from life to death. 
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
83 min.
Upon his return to the United States, a veteran of the Korean War confronts an instiuttion which polls the public on its opinions and twists the results to create a climate of anguish, this creating a perfect political milieu for the activities of an extremist organization. 
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
88 min.
Lombardy during the Middle Ages; rebels fight against the oppression of Federico de Barbarroja's local lieutenant, the Duke of Ulrich de Hesse. The leader of the rebels, Dardo, is been betrayed by his wife, who abandons him for Ulrich. However, Dardo hasa the love of the Duke's niece, Anne de Hesse, on his side. Finally, the rebels dressed as fools, get into Ulrich's castle and overpower his troops, thus liberating the country form German domination.
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
10 min. Short film
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
66 min.
A small city in New Mexico endures a series of horrible crimes after the accidentla freeing of a leopard.
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
26 min. Series
"General Electric Theater" telesailaren atala.
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
70 min.
A gang of bank thieves is arrested by the police. Its members are sent to different prisons. This flm describres the life inside these prisons. It was produced in collaboration ith the Deparment of Justice and with the participation of Home S. Cummings (General Attorney) and James V. Bennet (Director of the Federal Prison Office).
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
86 min.
A trafficker of American arms in the Frech Sudan of 1940 and a colonel of the Foreign legion liberate a religious leader that is being held prisoner by an arab emir. The holy man and his followers are the only ones that can bring peace between warring groups of the Tuareg tribe. 
Jacques Tourneur
USA - United Kingdom 
85 min.
It is said that a submerged city exists off the extreme western coast of England, near Cornwall. During the very low tide of the equinox, two men and a woman are trapped, by accident, in a kind of tunnel which leads to the submerged city, which leads is governed by a man similar to Captain Nemo. The protagonists have exactly three hours to get back to the surface before the tide begins to rise again. 
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
91 min.
A gaucho decides to resist the occupation of the pampa by Americans in the act of installing a railroad. He becomes the leader of a band or partisans. A young Aristocrat that's in love with him makes him see the futility of his struggle and convinces him to turn himself in to the police. 
Jacques Tourneur
USA 
81 min.
An episode from the life of Sheriff Wyatt Barp: he establishes law and order in Whichita, a city ruled by violence and with inhabitants that seem more preoccupied with money than justice. 
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