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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Le Amiche 1955 N/R, 104 min. Genre: Foreign / Drama aka: The Girlfriends
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni Cast: Eleonora Rossi Drago, Valentina Cortese, Franco Fabrizi, Gabriele Ferzetti, Yvonne Furneaux, Ettore Manni, Madeleine Fischer, Anna Maria Pancani, Maria Gambarelli, Luciano Volpato
This is one of Antonioni's better, early films as he brings out the problems that confront a woman who moves to Turin, Italy from Rome to work in a boutique. Her doomed relationships eventually result in losing her job and heading back to Rome.
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| 1. The Day the Sky Exploded (1958) aka: Death from Outer Space aka: Death Comes from Space
2. Le Amiche (1955) aka: The Girlfriends
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