 The Day of the Triffids 1962  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Horror
Director: Steve Sekely, Freddie Francis
Cast: Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore, Mervyn Johns, Ewan Roberts, Alison Leggett, Janina Faye, Geoffrey Matthews, Gilgi Hauser
A meteor shower blinds all who look at it, but Bill Masen (Howard Keel) is spared. The shower also brought alien spores that quickly took hold on Earth, growing into huge, fast-spreading, carnivorous plants, and the blind people are easy targets. Bill searches for others who still have sight in order to save the Earth. Meanwhile, a couple (Janette Scott and Kieron Moore) works in a lighthouse on a scientific solution.
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 Diary of a Country Priest 1950  N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Robert Bresson
Cast: Claude Laydu, Jean Riveyre, Andre Guibert, Nicole Maurey, Nicole Ladmiral, Rachel Berendt, Martine Lemaire, Antoine Balpetre, Jean Danet, Gaston Severin, Jeanne Etievant, Bernard Hubrenne, Leon Arvel
When a young priest (Claude Laydu) arrives at his first parish in the town of Ambricourt, he lives the life of a martyr and finds himself isolated from the locals. This, in turn, forces him to question his faith. An excellent Robert Bresson film.
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Little Boy Lost 1953  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Seaton
Cast: Bing Crosby, Claude Dauphin, Christian Fourcade, Gabrielle Dorziat, Nicole Maurey, Georgette Anys, Henri Letondal, Peter Baldwin, Jean Del Val, Colette Dereal
While searching for the son he was separated from during World War II, Bill Wainwright (Bing Crosby) develops a deep relationship with a young boy, Pierre Fernier (Claude Dauphin), who may, or may not, be the son for whom he yearns.
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The Scapegoat 1959  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Robert Hamer
Cast: Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Nicole Maurey, Irene Worth, Pamela Brown, Geoffrey Keen, Peter Bull, Leslie French, Alan Webb, Eddie Byrne
John Barratt (Alec Guinness) is an Englishman on holiday in Paris when Jacque De Gue (also Alec Guinness), who looks exactly like Barratt, murders his wife and uses Barratt as the fall guy.
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Secret of the Incas 1954  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Jerry Hopper
Cast: Charlton Heston, Robert Young, Nicole Maurey, Yma Sumac, Glenda Farrell, Thomas Mitchell, Michael Pate, Leon Askin, William Henry, Earl Holliman
A race for Incan treasures involves plenty of action in this film that gets high marks for mountain location shots but low grades for its predictable story line.
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| 1. The Day of the Triffids (1962)
2. Diary of a Country Priest (1950)
3. High Time (1960)
4. Little Boy Lost (1953)
5. The Scapegoat (1959)
6. Secret of the Incas (1954)
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