The Day the Sky Exploded 1958  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Foreign / Sci-Fi
aka: Death from Outer Space
Death Comes from Space
Director: Paolo Heusch
Cast: Paul Hubschmid, Fiorella Mari, Madeleine Fischer, Ivo Garrani, Dario Michaelis, Sam Galter, Peter Meersman, Jean-Jacques Delbo, Massimo Zeppieri, Annie Bernal, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Gerard Landry
A joint U.S./Russian/British mission to space goes bad, but one astronaut, John McLaren (Paul Hubschmid), is able to abandon the craft. The spaceship crashes into the Sun–immediately causing earthquakes, tidal waves, and other assorted problems on Earth. It also results in asteroids heading toward our planet. Can the world's scientists work together to save the Earth?
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 La Bete Humaine 1938  N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Human Beast
Judas Was a Woman
Director: Jean Renoir
Cast: Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Julien Carette, Fernand Ledoux, Blanchette Brunoy, Gerard Landry, Jean Renoir, Jenny Helia, Colette Regis, Claire Gerard, Charlotte Clasis, Jacques Berlioz
Emile Zola's novel is adapted into this excellent film about an unfaithful wife (Simone Simon) who plots her husband's (Fernand Ledoux) demise. Fritz Lang remade this story as "Human Desire."
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Trapeze 1956  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Carol Reed
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida, Katy Jurado, Thomas Gomez, John Puleo, Minor Watson, Sid James, Gerard Landry, Jean-Pierre Kerien, Gamil Ratib, Pierre Tabard
Circus performer Tino Orsini (Tony Curtis) wants to be the seventh trapeze artist ever to perform the feat of a triple somersault. To obtain his dream, he asks veteran trapeze artist Mike Ribble (Burt Lancaster) for help. Ribble agrees to work with Orsini, they become friends, and all goes well–until the circus' beautiful tumbler Lola (Gina Lollobrigida) enters the scene, and a love triangle threatens the friendship of Orsini and Ribble.
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| 1. The Day the Sky Exploded (1958)
aka: Death from Outer Space
aka: Death Comes from Space
2. La Bete Humaine (1938)
aka: The Human Beast
aka: Judas Was a Woman
3. Trapeze (1956)
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