The Purple Plain 1954 N/R, 100 min. Genre: Adventure
Director: Robert Parrish Cast: Gregory Peck, Win Min Than, Bernard Lee, Maurice Denham, Brenda De Banzie, Lyndon Brook, Anthony Bushell, Jack McNaughton, Peter Arne, Dorothy Alison
After crashing his plane in Burma, a World War II Royal Air Force pilot (Gregory Peck) has time to contemplate how he lost confidence in himself as a wartime pilot and ended up in his predicament.
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Song Without End 1960 N/R, 141 min. Genre: Drama
Director: George Cukor, Charles Vidor Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Genevieve Page, Patricia Morison, Ivan Desny, Martita Hunt, Lou Jacobi, Albert Rueprecht, Marcel Dalio, Lyndon Brook
This biography of Franz Liszt takes many liberties with the facts but is still a good film with an Academy Award-winning musical score. Womanizer Liszt (Dirk Bogarde) falls for a married Russian princess (Capucine) who encourages him to shift from performing to composing.
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Surprise Package 1960 N/R, 100 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: Stanley Donen Cast: Yul Brynner, Mitzi Gaynor, Bill Nagy, Lionel Burton, Barry Foster, Eric Pohlmann, Noel Coward, George Coulouris, Warren Mitchell, Lyndon Brook
Based on Art Buchwald's novel, this is an amusing comedy about exiled mobster Nico March (Yul Brynner) who is deported to Greece where he meets King Pavel II (Noel Coward) and plans to get his hands on the royal jewels.
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| 1. The Purple Plain (1954)
2. Song Without End (1960)
3. Surprise Package (1960)
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