72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2024
72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Z365" or "Festival all year round" is the new strategic point of the Festival in which converge investigation, accompaniment and development of new talents (Ikusmira Berriak, Nest); training and cinematic knowledge transfer (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Zinemaldia + Plus, Filmmakers' dialogue); and investigation, disclosure and cinematic thought (Z70 project, Thought and Discussion and Research and publications).
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Anthony Mann
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Anthony Mann
Anthony Mann
Anthony Mann
USA
67 min.
Dr. Timothy Kane saves Connie, a chorus girl, from jumping off a building in a publicity stunt. He then gets tangled up in the murder of a killer he befriends. The killer asks him to deliver $100,000 to his long-lost daughter, but before he can do it the mob kills the killer and steals the key to his safe deposit box. The doctor is accused of the murder and, to prove his innocence, he helps catch the villains and saves Connie, who has been kidnapped by the mob.
Anthony Mann
USA
63 min.
Johnny Norton is a baseball player who can only sing when he has a cold. While his old team is in spring training in Havana, Johnny gets a job singing at a club. He is accepted back in his old team, the Blue Sox, that is going through financial difficulties and switches from the stage to the stadium, and from the arms of Patsy Clark, daughter of the owner of the team, to the arms of Gloria, a singer at the club and his true love. The nightclub opening is a great success and because of the publicity gained by Johnny the team gets financial backers.
Anthony Mann
USA
67 min.
Kitty O'Hara is a drugstore assistant who comes from a show business family. They try to get her on the stage as well, providing her with music written by budding composer Johnny McCloud. Kitty finally gives in and, as Johnny is a natural talent, she tries to find a backer for his show, finding it in the person of an eccentric Broadway producer. When Johnny has to join the Army, Kitty arranges for the revue to be performed at the Army camp where he is stationed.
Anthony Mann
USA
78 min.
Flamarion is a performer who makes his living as a vaudeville marksman. He hates women as a result of a failed love affair some 15 years before. He has an aide, Connie Wallace, whose husband also works for him. After Connie entraps Flamarion in a love affair, her husband is killed "accidentally", but she leaves him for Eddie, a man who does a bicycle act and whom she marries. Flamarion follows her to Mexico City.
Anthony Mann
USA
66 min.
After being knocked out, Ted Allison suffers from amnesia. He finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation and all clues point towards him as the probable killer. Patty, a cab driver, helps him to clear his name. After he is struck by a bullet, Ted's memory returns and his innocence is demonstrated.
Anthony Mann
USA
72 min.
Steve Kimball is an egotistical war correspondent heading back to New York after WW II ends in Europe. He is in charge of a group of teenagers who had been trapped for four years in Europe while entertaining during the war. Sneaking in with the group is Bridget Forrester, who became separated from her reporter father during the war. They are joined by Kay Lawrence, an American singer also returning home. Steve and Kay fall in love and the youngsters perform in the ship during the trip back.
Anthony Mann
USA
68 min.
Nora Goodrich is a chemical researcher who plans to try out her newly invented anesthesia on herself. She is injected with the drug and everything starts going wrong in her life. Her fiance, Stephan Lindstrom, runs off, she is blackmailed and a devastating explosion disfigures her face; but it is only a dream induced by the anesthesia.
Anthony Mann
USA
68 min.
Louise Anderson sings at a Manhattan night-club owned by Eddie Clark. There she meets B-29 pilot Patrick Ransom. After a one-night romantic interlude, Ransom goes off to the Pacific. As a prank, his crew paints Louise's picture on the nose of his plane, which sinks Japanese battleships and downs a lot of Zeros. The fame of the plane and its name, "The Bamboo Blonde", inspires Eddie to promote his club, singer and a line of products under that name, and he earns a fortune.
Anthony Mann
USA
73 min.
Steve Randall is a newly-wed truck driver who accidentally becomes involved with a gang that robs a fur warehouse and kills a cop in the process. One of the gang is captured, convicted and sentenced to die in the electric chair. Walt Radak, the leader of the crooks, plans to frame Steve into confessing the murder, and if he balks, the gang will kill his wife, Ann. Steve and his wife flee to the country, where they hide out in an isolated farm owned by relatives.
Anthony Mann
USA
72 min.
Duke Martin is a psychopathic killer who dips his bullets in perfume. There is a raid at a beauty shop that was really a front for a gambling den. In the robbery a policeman is killed and one of the robbers, Cowie, is apprehended. He is taken to a hospital and interrogated. Under pressure from the police he implicates his friend Steve Ryan who is innocent of any involvement in the crime. Steve's sister, Rosie, begs police detective Mickey Ferguson to reinvestigate the case because she is convinced her brother is innocent.
Anthony Mann
USA
92 min.
Dennis O'Brien and Tony Genaro are two treasury agents determined to crush a successful counterfeiting ring after a fellow agent is killed during the investigation. The agents pose as underworld thugs and infiltrate a powerful Detroit mob family. They discover that ?The Schemer?, a sleazy little hood who operates in Los Angeles, may hold the key to the counterfeiting ring and O'Brien travels west to find him. O'Brien manages to get into the ring by passing off a phony bill for which he claims to have the plates.
Anthony Mann
USA
78 min.
Joe Sullivan is serving time for a crime of which he was innocent. His one-time associates framed him and he is determined to get even with them when he breaks out of jail. With the help of his lover, Pat, Sullivan flees prison. While he was inside he was visited by Ann Martin, a social worker, and he decides that she might be a very good hostage in case the police finds him, so he kidnaps her and the three begin a trip to get Rick Coyle and his gang.
Alfred Werker, Anthony Mann (kreditatu gabe/uncredited/sin acreditar)
USA
79 min.
Davis Morgan is an electronic wizard with psychopathic tendencies who robs electronics stores and warehouses to obtain equipment that he modifies and sells to Paul Reeves. The Los Angeles police are in a quandary about this successful burglar since Morgan listens in on their radio network, knowing where they are looking for him. He cleverly alters his modus operandi so that his work appears to be that of another burglar, and is also a master of disguise. But Sgt. Marty Brennan and Capt. Breen manage to trap him at Reeves's factory.
Anthony Mann
USA
92 min.
Jack Bearnes, an American agent, and Pablo Rodríguez, a Mexican agent, go undercover to a ring smuggling Mexicans into California to work in the fields of rancher Owen Parkson. Bearnes pretends to be a small-time hood joining Parkson's gang while Rodríguez gets himself smuggled in as one of the workers. Bearnes is found out and run over by a tractor while Rodríguez watches helplessly.
Anthony Mann
USA
89 min.
In 1794, the exiled Marquis de Lafayette sends his emissary Charles D'Aubigny to stop Maximilien Robespierre from assuming dictatorial powers. D'Aubigny murders Duval, the new public prosecutor, whom Robespierre has never met, and assumes his place. A lovely woman named Madelon is D?Aubigny's contact with Barras, a leader of the opposition party. Robespierre tells "Duval" that he has written a death list that includes several members of his own committee in a small black book, but has misplaced it and threatens him to death if he does not recover it within twenty-four hours.
Anthony Mann
USA
83 min.
Joe Norson is a postman who?s wife, Ellen, is pregnant. He wants to give her a better life but does not have the means for it. In desperation, he steals an envelope with cash that he finds lying in an office on his mail route. But this money is a blackmail payoff connected to some murders. Joe uses part of the money to build up his life style but eventually feels guilty and tries to return the money. He takes it back to where he stole it but no one seems to know anything.
Anthony Mann
USA
92 min.
Lin McAdam, who is pursuing the murderer of his father, rides with his friend High Spade into Dodge City while the town celebrates the 4th of July. Wyatt Earp collects pistols from strangers and keeps them in his office until they leave. Lin enters the saloon where he sees Dutch Henry Brown and both men grope for their sidearms, only to find empty holsters. The two men square off again in a shooting contest where a brand new Winchester '73 is the first prize. Lin is finally awarded the rifle but before he can leave town Brown attacks him and takes it from him. McAdam pursues Brown with maniacal intensity.
Anthony Mann
USA
84 min.
Lance Poole is a Shoshone Indian who has won the Congressional Medal of Honor at Gettysburg. He goes home to Wyoming and has trouble with Verne Coolan, a prejudiced lawyer who threatens to take away the Indians' traditional lands under a new homesteading law. Poole attempts to assuage matters between his tribe and the settlers by appealing to the authorities for help, but it is useless. The tribe is trounced in the courts and on the battlefield.
Anthony Mann
USA
109 min.
T.C. Jeffords is a widowed New Mexico rancher about to marry Florence Burnett. His daughter Vance tries to convince him not to do it, but to no avail. Vance attacks her stepmother and when T.C. hangs an old ranchhand, Juan, Vance's only friend, she vows revenge on him. She and her lover Rip Darrow, a mercenary saloon owner whose father was killed by T.C., force Jeffords into bankruptcy. Impressed by his daughter's shrewdness, T.C. accepts his defeat. As the three walk into town to celebrate, Juan's mother shoots T.C. in the back.
Anthony Mann
USA
78 min.
John Kennedy, bodyguard of newly elected President Lincoln, finds out there is a plan to kill the latter. Kennedy informs his superiors of this, but they laugh at him and tell him the idea is nonsense. On a train going to Baltimore he finds out that one of the would-be killers is also on board. Kennedy fights all of the assassins one-on-one and slowly unravels the plot.
Anthony Mann
USA
91 min.
Cole is about to be lynched as a horse thief when Glyn McLyntock, once a border raider from Missouri, saves his life. McLyntock is now working as a guide for a group of farmers on their way to Oregon. Cole joins him and they lead the wagon train. They are attacked and repel a band of Shoshone Indians, then arrive at their destination. Jeremy Baile, the farmers' leader, gets Tom Hendricks to take care of transportation for the group. When Hendricks's promised supplies fail to get to the newly built village, McLyntock and Baile race into Portland to see what went wrong.
Anthony Mann
USA
103 min.
Steve Martin and Johnny Gambi are a pair of daring oil riggers who are convinced there is "black gold" at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. The wealthy Kermit MacDonald financially supports Martin's construction of a stormproof oil platform. The town of Port Felicity relies on shrimp fishing and the local fishermen are already going through hard times. The disruption caused by the drilling is not going to improve the situation. Tensions come to a breaking point when the two daughters of fisherman Dominique Rigaud -Stella and Francesca- fall for, respectively, Martin and Gambi.
Anthony Mann
USA
115 min.
Glenn Miller is a bright young man with a love for the trombone and a desire to create music. He encounters Helen Burger at the University of Colorado and they fall in love. On his wedding night Helen finds him at a hot jazz session in Harlem with Krupa, Satchmo and several more. Soon he forms his own group and becomes famous. The war breaks out and he joins the Army, spending most of his time entertaining the troops. His life is cut short when his plane mysteriously disappears over the English Channel in December 1944.
Anthony Mann
USA
94 min.
When Howard Kemp, a Civil War veteran, returns home, he finds that he has lost his land. To raise the money needed to regain it he becomes a bounty hunter and enters the Colorado territory in search of escaped killer Ben Vandergroat, who has a $5,000 reward on his head. Vandergroat is accompanied by Lina Patch, a lonely young woman who wants to escape to California with him.
Anthony Mann
USA
97 min.
Jeff Webster and Ben Tatum are partners bringing a herd of cattle up to Canada from Wyoming to sell them for a fortune in the gold-boom towns. They arrive in the town of Skagway, where the self-proclaimed law man Gannon, takes the herd from them. Jeff steals his cattle back and goes to the town of Dawson. The saloon keeper, Ronda, helps Jeff against Gannon and his men, who are out to recover the herd.
Anthony Mann
USA
114 min.
Robert Holland is a baseball player who is called into the Air Force. He has already served in World War II and thinks the authorities have singled him out because he is an athletic star. Nevertheless, he must do his country's bidding. He is an experienced pilot and they need men like him for the new B-36 and B-47 jets that can deliver the atomic bomb. Sally, his wife, is expecting a baby. But Holland is so impressed by what the SAC is doing that he decides to put an end to his baseball career in favor of the Air Force.
Anthony Mann
USA
104 min.
Will Lockhart leaves Laramie to uncover the men responsible for selling rifles to the Apaches who had killed his brother and arrives at the town of Coronado, New Mexico. Most of the territory is ruled by Alec Waggoman. While riding through some salt flats owned by Waggoman he is confronted by the rancher's son, Dave. Unaware that he has done anything wrong, Dave?s men beat him, burn his wagons and shoot his mules. Soon after, Waggoman discovers that his sons have been selling rifles to the Apaches.
Anthony Mann
USA
98 min.
Jed Cooper is part of a trio of trappers who lose a year's worth of skins to marauding Indians. The three arrive at a cavalry outpost and take jobs as scouts. But those living at the fort fear an Indian attack and fear the new commander, Colonel Marston, who has been posted out west for having lost 1,500 men during a Civil War battle. Jed falls in love with Marston's wife, and Marston orders the entire fort's complement, totally unprepared for combat and outnumbered, to march out against the experienced Indian warriors.
Anthony Mann
USA
121 min.
Damon Vincenti works in a California vineyard when wealthy Kendall Hale hears him sing and decides that she can make him a star. She is soon bored by Vincenti and leaves with a sculptor. Meanwhile Vincenti has fallen in love with her and when she abandons him he blows his big chance for success at the Metropolitan Opera. Vincenti goes to Mexico where he gets sick. The attractive daughter of an ex-bullfighter, Juana Montes, helps him get well. They get married and he returns to fame, but Juana has to win him from Kendall.
Anthony Mann
USA
104 min.
In the Korean War, Lt. Benson is a tough, grizzled officer who is trying to save his weary platoon, and Montana is a sergeant who has to get his shell-shocked colonel back to a field hospital where he can be treated. Benson's transportation is wrecked so he takes Montana's jeep, with the colonel in it, to carry the needed ammunition and other equipment to help his stranded platoon repel the enemy. They discover that almost all the men have died and that the Koreans have taken the hill where Benson left the platoon. Montana and Benson take the hill again and pay homage to their dead companions.
Anthony Mann
USA
93 min.
Morg Hickman is a bounty hunter, and former sheriff, who rides into town to collect a reward. The sheriff is Ben Owens, who still has to learn his job. After Hickman gets Owens out of one trouble after another, the two become friends, the elder acting as a teacher to the sheriff until he musters the confidence needed for his job. Their main adversary is Bart Bogardus who takes the law into his own hands when a posse is formed to hunt down two murderers and, once they are caught, wants them handed over to him to be lynched.
Anthony Mann
USA
110 min.
Ty-Ty Walden is a Georgia farmer who believes there is a treasure buried somewhere on his farm. With the help of his sons Buck and Shaw he tries to find it. Only one spot is not touched: an acre of land with a cross on it, set aside for tithing. However, the acre is changed around constantly during the search. Bill Thompson, Ty-Ty's son-in-law, tries to re-start the local cotton mill, with no success.
Anthony Mann
USA
100 min.
Link Jones boards a train to go to Ft. Worth to hire a teacher with a large sum of money he has been given by the people of the small Texas town where he lives with his wife and two children. On the train he meets Sam Beasley, a con man, and Billie Ellis, a saloon singer and they tell Jones that she is a schooteacher. The train is robbed by the Tobin gang. After the robbery, Link, Sam and Billie are stranded when the train leaves without them.
Anthony Mann
USA
147 min.
Yancey Cravat brings his young bride Sabra to the wild Oklahoma territory and they take part in the land rush. Yancey later establishes a newspaper. When the West becomes too settled, Yancey disappears, leaving Sabra to become a successful newspaperwoman, and ultimately a politician. Yancey is later found as a down-and-outer working in the oil fields as a driller. In a last act of heroism, he is killed saving the lives of co-workers. Sabra arrives in time to embrace him before he dies.
Anthony Mann
USA-Spain-Italy
176 min.
In 11th-century Spain, the Christian kingdoms face the constant threat of the warring Moors. Following one particular battle, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (El Cid) liberates some Moorish emirs on their vow never again to attack Castile. His act of mercy is misinterpreted as treason by Count Gormaz, the father of his beloved Chimene, and to protect the family honour El Cid is forced to slay the Count in a duel. Although Chimene vows to have her revenge, she is obliged to marry El Cid upon the bidding of King Ferdinand, but they do not consummate the marriage, and Chimene enters a convent.
Anthony Mann
USA-Spain-Italy
180 min.
Emperor Marcus Aurelius calls a meeting of his family and supporters at his fortress in Germany. He confides to daughter Lucilla that he intends to make his adopted son, Livius, the new emperor upon his death instead of his legal heir, Commodus. Cleander, a blind soothsayer and one of Commodus's friends, overhears Marcus Aurelius and poisons him. Lucilla tells Livius of Marcus Aurelius's wishes, but he rejects the throne and allows Commodus to become Rome's new Caesar. The empire begins to erode and there is mounting revolt against Commodus's tyrannical ways.
Anthony Mann
USA-UK
131 min.
In Nazi-occupied Norway, underground leader Knut Straud smuggles a microfilm message from an agent in a Nazi factory hidden in a Norwegian valley to university professor Rolf Pedersen. The Nazis are producing "heavy water", essential in the manufacture of atomic bombs. Straud and Pedersen bring the message to the Allies in England, who decide to destroy the factory. Straud and Pedersen are parachuted with some men back into Norway to lay the groundwork for an attack on the factory by British commandos.
Anthony Mann, Laurence Harvey (kreditatu gabe/uncredited/no acreditado)
USA-UK
107 min.
Russian secret agent Alexander Eberlin has infiltrated British Intelligence, and is ordered to kill a Russian double agent responsible for the deaths of three British spies. Although the double agent is Eberlin himself, the security heads believe it is Pavel, his London contact. After warning Pavel, Eberlin realizes that he must eliminate him in order to preserve his own cover, but he has already been murdered by the Russians. After participating in a mission in Berlin, he discovers that his true identity has been known from the start and that he has been used to uncover the Russian network in that city.
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