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Witness ForThe Prosecution - Original Trailer 1957

Having just recovered from a heart attack, fabled British barrister Sir Wilfred Robards (Charles Laughton) has been ordered by his doctor to give up everything he holds dear-brandy, cigars and especially courtroom cases. Robards' already shaky resolve to follow doctor's orders flies out the window when he takes up the defense of Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power), a personable young man accused of murdering a rich old widow. The case becomes something of a sticky wicket when Vole's "loving" German wife Christine (Marlene Dietrich) announces that she's not legally married to Robards' client-and she fully intends to appear as a witness for the prosecution! At the close of this film, a narrator implores the audience not to divulge the ending; we will herein honor that request. A delicious Billy Wilder mixture of humor, intrigue and melodrama, Witness for the Prosecution is distinguished by its hand-picked supporting cast: John Williams as the police inspector, Henry Daniell as Robards' law partner, Una O'Connor as the murder victim's stone-deaf maid, Torin Thatcher as the prosecutor, Ruta Lee as a sobbing courtroom spectator, and Charles Laughton's wife Elsa Lanchester as Robards' ever-chipper nurse (a role especially written for the film, so that Lanchester could look after Laughton on the set). And keep an eye out for that uncredited actress playing the vengeful-and pivotal-cockney. Adapted by Wilder, Harry Kurnitz and Larry Marcus from the play by Agatha Christie, Witness for the Prosecution was remade for television in 1982. Tyrone Power - Leonard Stephen Vole Marlene Dietrich - Christine "Helm" Vole Charles Laughton - Sir Wilfrid Robarts Elsa Lanchester - Miss Plimsoll Una O'Connor - Janet MacKenzie Henry Daniell - Mayhew Ian Wolfe - Carter Torin Thatcher - Mr. Meyers John Williams - Brogan-Moore Francis Compton - Judge Norma Varden - Mrs. Emily French Philip Tonge - Inspector Hearne Ruta Lee - Diana Molly Roden - Miss McHugh Ottola Nesmith - Miss Johnson Marjorie Eaton

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I Classici: "La morte corre sul fiume"

Il film di Charles Laughton a distanza di anni continua ad entusiasmare i critici di tutto il mondo e di tutte le età...

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Merry Christmas From Abbott and Costello

this is an advertisement from 1952 featuring Charles Laughton, Abbott and Costello asking you to purchase Christmas seals to fight TB HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

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La noche de cazador.wmv

La noche del cazador (the night of the hunter, 1955), obra maestra dirigida por el actor Charles Laughton y protagonizada por Robert Mitchum. Más allá de su mensaje moral, destaca su fantástica fotografía, con un rico juego de luces y sombras. Y, por supuesto, su apartado musical, que inquieta y tranquiliza a partes iguales.

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AVA GARDNER: Situation Wanted

Whos hiring? This is prime Ava; prime noir. THE BRIBE (1949) is one of MGMs best film-noir movies. This video offers some persuasive glimpses why—concentrating on its luscious leading lady. THE BRIBE is a production of veteran talents: Produced by Pandro S. Berman (producer of Astaire/Rogers film fame in the 1930s) Directed by Robert Z. Leonard (his directing career dates back to 1913) Screenwritten by Marguerite Roberts (sixteen years of experience) Cinematography by Joseph Ruttenberg (his 4-time-Oscar-winning career dates back to 1917) Original music by Miklos Rozsa (composing regularly for films since 1937) Actor Robert Taylor (15-year veteran) Actor Charles Laughton (over two decades of experience) Actor Vincent Price (nearly a dozen years in cinema and 25 pictures to his credit) Actress Ava Gardners film career had only just begun, in a high-profile way, with 1946s THE KILLERS, though she had appeared—since 1941--in a variety of movies in mostly uncredited roles. She contributes to THE BRIBE like a veteran. As Elizabeth Hintten, Ava moonlights as an expatriate American singer at Pedros Café on a fictional Latin American island known as Carlota. The torchy song Situation Wanted (Brown/Katz)—although dubbed by vocalist Eileen Wilson—is nothing less than a musical match for Ava to strike, light, and then use to smoke and smolder up the joint. And she does it so damn well. According to Ava, her leading man Robert Taylor—at the time of the films production—thought that THE BRIBE was the worst film hed ever made. I find that hard to believe. Taylors Rigby calls for a strong male lead, challenged both morally, physically, and romantically. Taylor craved rugged-male roles like Rigby; he excels, investing his portrayal with characteristic intensity and conviction. The Taylor/Gardner on-/off-screen chemistry was potent, and the two were re-teamed in the films RIDE ,VACQUERO! (1953) and KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE (1953). Ava biographer Lee Server flatly declares that THE

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Elsa Lanchester - The Rat Catcher's Daughter (1957)

A popular London street song from the late mid/late 1800's, as explained in the song's introduction, by husband Charles Laughton. Here are the lyrics to this HiFi Vinyl cut from the 1957 LP "Songs For A Smoke Filled Room": (Probable period of publication: 1860-1880) THE RAT-CATCHER'S DAUGHTER. In Westminster, not long ago, There lived a rat-catcher's daughter- She was not born in Westminster, But on t'other side of the water. Her father kill'd rats, and she sold sprats; All round and over the water, And the gentlefolks they all bought sprats Of the pretty rat-catcher's daughter. Of the pretty, &c. She wore no hat upon her head, No cap, or dandy bonnet- Her hair it hung about her neck, Just like a bunch of carrots, If she cried sprats in Westminster, She'd such a loud sweet voice, sirs, You might hear her all down Parliament street, As far as Charing Cross, sirs. As far, &c. The rich and great came far and near, To marry her all sought her, But at friends and foes she cock'd her nose, Did the pretty rat-catcher's daughter. For there was a man cried lily white sand, In Cupid's net had caught her, And over head and ears in love, Was the pretty ratcatcher's daughter. Was the, &c, Now lily white sand so run in her head, When coming along the Strand, sirs- She forgot she'd got sprats, so 'tis Said, And cried, "buy my lily white sand O!" The folks amaz'd all thought her craz'd, All along the strand O- To hear a girl with sprats on her head, Cry, "buy my lily white sand, O!" Cry, &c. The rat catcher's daughter so run in his head, He didn't know what he was arter- 'Stead of crying, buy my lily white sand, Cried, "d'ye want any rat-catcher's daugh- ter?" The donkey cock'd his ears and bray'd- Folks wonder'd what he was arter- To hear a lily white sand-man cry, "Do you want any rat-catcher's daughter?" Do you, &c. Now they agree'd to married be Upon the Easter Sunday- But the rat catcher's daughter had a dream, She shouldn't be alive on the Monday, To buy some sprats once more

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Elsa Lanchester - Please Sell No More Drink To My Father

With an opening introduction by husband Charles Laughton; this song is from the late 1880's and was very popular at the time, as explained by Charles. Here are the lyrics to this HiFi Vinyl track from the 1957 LP "Songs For A Smoke Filled Room": PLEASE SELL NO MORE DRINK TO MY FATHER S Words by Mr. Frank B. Pratt, music by C. A. White Copyright 1885 Please sir, will you listen a moment I've something important to say my mother has sent you a message receive it in kindness I pray 'tis of father, poor father, I'm speaking you know him he's call'd ragged Gore but we love him and hope we may save him if you'll promise to sell him no more (chorus) Please sell no more drink to my father it makes him so strange and so wild heed the prayer of my heart-broken mother and pity the poor drunkard's child My father came home yester even reeled home thro' the mud and the rain he upset the lamp on the table and struck my sick mother again then all of the hours till morning he lay on the cold kitchen floor and this morning he's sick and he's sorry oh, promise to sell him no more (chorus) When sober he loves us so dearly no father is kinder than he he wishes so much to stop drinking but this is the trouble you see he cannot withstand the temptation he feels when he passes your door as he goes to his work in the morning please promise to sell him no more (chorus)

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