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Arthur Blake is a Actor American born on 24 february 1914 at Altoona (USA)
Arthur Blake (né le 24 février 1914 à Altoona, Pennsylvanie, et mort le 24 mars 1985 (à 71 ans), à Fort Lauderdale, Floride) est un acteur américain.
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Girl Stroke Boy (1971)
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Joan Greenwood, Michael Hordern, Clive Francis, Patricia Routledge, Peter C. Bull, Rudolph Walker
Roles Ticket Collector (uncredited)
Rating60%
Diplomatic Courier (1952)
, 1h37Directed by Henry Hathaway, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Spy films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Tyrone Power, Patricia Neal, Stephen McNally, Karl Malden, Helene Stanley, Hildegard Knef
Roles Maximilian
Rating67%
Mike Kells is assigned by the State Department to fly to Salzburg and meet his old friend Sam Carew, who will pass a top-secret document to him. A passenger on the plane, Joan Ross, takes a liking to Mike and expresses a desire to see him again.
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
, 1h52Directed by Michael Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Swashbuckler, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince, Don Beddoe, Morris Carnovsky, Lloyd Corrigan
Roles Montfleury
Rating73%
In seventeenth century Paris, poet and supreme swordsman Cyrano de Bergerac (José Ferrer) stops a play from being shown because he cannot stand the bombastic style of the principal actor, Montfleury (Arthur Blake). An annoyed aristocratic fop, the Vicomte de Valvert (Albert Cavens), provokes him into a duel by tritely insulting Cyrano's enormous nose. Cyrano first mocks his lack of wit, improvising numerous inventive ways in which Valvert could have phrased it (much to the amusement of the audience). He then composes a ballade for the occasion on the spot and recites it during the swordfight. With the last line, he stabs his opponent.
Port of New York (1949)
, 1h22Directed by László Benedek
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Scott Brady, Richard Steven Rauber, K. T. Stevens, Neville Brand, Yul Brynner, Arthur Blake
Roles Dolly Carney
Rating59%
The film tells the story of a two federal agents, one from Customs and one from Narcotics, out to stop the distribution of opium that came in on a ship in the Port of New York but was smuggled off by drug dealers. The leader of the drug dealers is the suave Vicola (Brynner).
Unconquered (1947)
, 2h26Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Arthur Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance, Western
Actors Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff, Henry Wilcoxon, Cecil Kellaway
Rating68%
Based on Neil Swanson's Unconquered, a Novel of the Pontiac Conspiracy, the film focuses on "Abby" Hale (Paulette Goddard), who is condemned to death by a British court, then offered clemency if she will become an indentured servant in America. There is a bidding competition between Captain Christopher Holden (Gary Cooper) and Martin Garth (Howard Da Silva), which Holden wins. He then sets her free. Unfortunately, Garth is a sore loser; he kidnaps Abby and takes her to the western frontier, where he is involved in illegal arms sales to the Native Americans. Soon, Holden becomes involved in the conflict with the warring tribes and is reunited with Abby; he also has further confrontations with Garth and his henchman (Mike Mazurki).
Down to Earth (1947)
, 1h41Directed by Alexander Hall
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films based on mythology, Musical films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Rita Hayworth, Roland Culver, Larry Parks, James Gleason, Marc Platt, Edward Everett Horton
Rating60%
Hayworth stars as the Muse Terpsichore who is annoyed that popular Broadway producer Danny Miller (Parks) is putting on a play which portrays the Muses as man-crazy tarts fighting for the attention of a pair of Air Force pilots who crashed on Mount Parnassus (in mythology, the Muses lived on Mount Helicon). She asks permission from Mr. Jordan to go to Earth and fix the play. Jordan agrees and sends Messenger 7013 (Horton) to keep an eye on her.
The Man in Half Moon Street (1945)
, 1h32Directed by Ralph Murphy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Actors Nils Asther, Helen Walker, Paul Cavanagh, Konstantin Shayne, Edmund Breon, Morton Lowry
Roles Man
Rating60%
A scientist, Dr. Karell (Asther), has found a way to prolong life (he is 120 years old) with the help of Dr. Van Bruecken (Schünzel). However, Dr. Karell has now fallen in love, and has discovered that if he doesn't get new glands, he will die.
National Velvet (1945)
, 2h3Directed by Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Horse sports in film
Actors Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor, Anne Revere, Angela Lansbury, Reginald Owen
Roles rôle non spécifié
Rating72%
National Velvet is the story of a 12-year-old girl, Velvet Brown (Elizabeth Taylor), who lives in the small town of Sewels in Sussex, England, who wins a spirited gelding in a raffle and decides to train him for the Grand National steeplechase. She is aided by a penniless young drifter named Mi (or Michael) Taylor (Mickey Rooney), who found Mrs. Brown's name and address among his late father's effects, but is unaware of what it was doing there. Hoping to gain some money from the association, Mi stays at the Browns' home, but Mrs. Brown is unwilling to allow Mi to trade on his father's good name and remains vague about how she knew him. Nevertheless she convinces her husband (Donald Crisp) to hire Mi over his better judgment, and Mi is brought into the home as a hired hand. It is revealed that Mi had been a jockey in Manchester, but his career ended in a collision which resulted in the death of another jockey. Since then Mi has not held a job, and he has come to hate horses. Velvet's horse is named "The Pie," short for "Pirate," the epithet given him by his owner due to the horse jumping clear of his paddock and wrecking things in the village. The man decides to be rid of the Pie, and offers him up in a raffle. Velvet wins The Pie, and on realizing the extent of the horses natural talent, she pleads with Mi to train the horse for the Grand National. He believes it a fools errand, not because of the horse, but because they have no real way to support the effort. He makes his case to Mrs. Brown, but she consents to Velvet's desire to train the horse. Velvet and Mi train the horse and enter him into the race. An experienced jockey is hired to ride him. The night before the race Velvet senses that the jockey hired to ride The Pie has no faith in him, and doesn't believe the horse can win. Velvet convinces Mi to fire the jockey, leaving them without a rider. That night Mi determines to overcome his fears and ride The Pie himself. Instead, he discovers that Velvet has slipped on the jockey's colors, and intends to ride the horse in the race herself. Aware of the dangers of such a race, Mi pleads with Velvet but is unable to dissuade her. As the race unfolds Velvet and The Pie avoid a number of falls, clear all the hurdles and win the race. Elated by their win, Velvet faints and falls off her mount at the finish. As she is revived the race doctor realizes she is not a young man, but a young woman. As such she and The Pie are disqualified, but Velvet knows The Pie proved himself. Velvet becomes a media sensation, declining an offer of £5,000 to travel to Hollywood with The Pie to be filmed. She ran the Pie at the Grand National because he deserved to have a chance. He wasn't an oddity to be stared at. In refusing the offer she states simply: "He wouldn't like being looked at." At the close of the film Mi takes his leave, and Mrs. Brown gives Velvet permission to reveal to him the nature of her relationship with his father. Velvet rides off to catch up with Mi and tell him that his father had been Mrs. Brown's coach when she won the prize as the first woman to swim the English Channel, many years before.
Ministry of Fear (1944)
, 1h26Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Spy, Noir, Crime
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond, Dan Duryea, Hillary Brooke, Alan Napier
Rating70%
In wartime England during the Blitz, Stephen Neale (Ray Milland) is released from Lembridge Asylum. While waiting for a train to London, Neale visits a village fête hosted by the Mothers of Free Nations charity. He guesses the weight of a cake for a shilling, and is urged to go to the palm reader's tent to have his fortune told by Mrs. Bellane (Aminta Dyne), an older woman. He asks her to ignore the past and tell the future, which startles her. She cryptically tells him to take another guess at the weight of the cake at 4 pounds 15½ ounces. Neale does so and wins the prize. Then a young blond man hurries to see Mrs. Bellane. People try to persuade Neale to give the cake to the blond man, but he refuses.
Gaslight (1944)
, 1h54Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, May Whitty, Angela Lansbury, Maude Fealy
Roles Butler (uncredited)
Rating77%
World-famous opera singer Alice Alquist has just been murdered. The perpetrator bolted, without the jewels he sought, after being interrupted by a child—Paula (Terry Moore)—Alice's niece, who was raised by her aunt following her mother's death.
Souls at Sea (1937)
, 1h32Directed by Henry Hathaway, Hal Walker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about slavery, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee, Henry Wilcoxon, Harry Carey, Robert Cummings
Roles Le premier ministre
Rating67%
The story is based on two distinct early 19th-century themes, including the attempts by abolitionists (Cooper and Raft) to end the slave trade. Although the U.S. Constitution ended the importation of slaves in 1808, slaves were still being brought into the country under foreign flags. The abolition of slavery by Great Britain helped reduce legal trade in slaves by putting the British navy into action against slave traders, but even Britain had its supporters of the trade (here represented by Wilcoxon, as a British naval officer acting for the slave interests). The collision between Cooper and Wilcoxon is complicated by Wilcoxon's sister (Dee) falling in love with Cooper.
Madame X (1937)
, 1h12Directed by Sam Wood, Gustav Machatý
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Gladys George, Warren William, John Beal, Reginald Owen, William Henry, Henry Daniell
Roles Ferguson
Rating70%
A woman who cheated on her loving husband is thrown out of her home by said husband. Twenty years later, she finds herself accused of murder for saving her son, who does not know who she is as he was raised without her. He finds himself defending her without knowing her background.
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
, 1h38Directed by John Cromwell
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children
Actors Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello, C. Aubrey Smith, Henry Stephenson, Mickey Rooney, Constance Collier
Rating72%
Young Cedric "Ceddie" Errol (Freddie Bartholomew) and his widowed mother, whom he calls "Dearest" (Dolores Costello), live frugally in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's prejudiced English grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt (C. Aubrey Smith), had long ago disowned his son for marrying an American.