Nicholas Ray

Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director eBooks & eLearning

Posted by interes at Jan. 6, 2014

From award-winning biographer Patrick McGilligan comes an eye-opening life of the troubled filmmaker behind Rebel Without a Cause

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Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director (repost) eBooks & eLearning

Posted by libr at May 14, 2017

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American Stranger: Modernisms, Hollywood, and the Cinema of Nicholas Ray eBooks & eLearning

Posted by IrGens at May 7, 2020

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[Nicholas RAY] 55 Days at Peking [DVDrip] 1963 Movies

Posted by galmuchet at Dec. 31, 2008

[Nicholas RAY] 55 Days at Peking [DVDrip] 1963
RIP+UP | XviD-1187 | mp3@128 | 688x288 | English (French idx+sub in file) | DVD Cover & Sticker | 2h28 | 1.4 Gb
USA 1963
Director Nicholas RAY

Cast/Avec Charlton Heston (Major Matt Lewis), Ava Gardner (Baronne Natalie Ivanoff), David Niven (Sir Arthur Robertson), Flora Robson (Impératrice douairière Tzu-Hsi), John Ireland (Sergent Harry), Harry Andrews (Bearn's Father)

55 Days at Peking is a dramatization of the Boxer Rebellion which took place in 1900 China. Fed up by foreign encroachment, the Dowager Empress Tzu-Hsi uses the Boxer secret societies to attack the foreigners within China, culminating in the siege of the foreign legations' compounds in Peking (now Beijing). The film concentrates on the defense of the legations from the point of view of the foreign powers, and the title refers to the length of the defense by the colonial powers of the legations district of Peking.

Pékin, 1900. La révolte des Boxers prend de l'ampleur et les autorités chinoises sont divisées : le général Jung-Lu presse l'impératrice Tzu-Hsi d'arrêter les fanatiques, tandis que le prince Tuan lui conseille de les aider à chasser les étrangers. Face à la menace de conflit, les délégations étrangères organisent leur défense…

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«De Africa Romaque» by Julia Nikolaus, Niccolo Mugnai, Nicholas Ray eBooks & eLearning

Posted by Gelsomino at June 12, 2022

«De Africa Romaque» by Julia Nikolaus, Niccolo Mugnai, Nicholas Ray
English | EPUB | 7.7 MB

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Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground: Nicholas Ray in American Cinema eBooks & eLearning

Posted by arundhati at April 2, 2022

Steven Rybin, "Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground: Nicholas Ray in American Cinema "
English | ISBN: 143844981X | 2014 | 314 pages | PDF | 4 MB

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Bigger Than Life (1956) [The Criterion Collection #597] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at July 9, 2011

Though ignored at the time of its release, Nicholas Ray’s Bigger Than Life is now recognized as one of the great American films of the 1950s. When a friendly, successful suburban teacher and father (James Mason, in one of his most indelible roles) is prescribed cortisone for a painful, possibly fatal affliction, he grows dangerously addicted to the experimental drug, resulting in his transformation into a psychotic and ultimately violent household despot. This Eisenhower-era throat-grabber, shot in expressive CinemaScope, is an excoriating take on the nuclear family. That it came in the day of Father Knows Best makes it all the more shocking—and wildly entertaining.

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Ray Brown – Some of My Best Friends are… the Trumpet Players (2000) Music

Posted by Oceandrop at Feb. 13, 2010

Ray Brown did it again with the fourth installment in his Some of My Best Friends Are… series, spotlighting some of the hottest trumpet players around and producing one of the finest trumpet-fronted small group recordings to come down the jazz pike in a while. Featuring a six-pack of hornmen ranging from octogenarian Clark Terry to youngsters Roy Hargrove and Nicholas Payton, this CD alternately cooks and simmers, with the ballads especially standing out in their spaciousness and beauty.

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In a Lonely Place (1950) Movies

Posted by Someonelse at July 2, 2011

Screenwriter Dixon Steele (Humphrey Bogart) becomes a murder suspect when a hatcheck girl is murdered after leaving his apartment. His refusal to enact a show of emotion raises the suspicions of the Beverly Hills police, putting the main detective on the case, Brub Nicolai (Frank Lovejoy) in a tight spot, as he and Dix used to be Army buddies. Dix is initially overjoyed because the lovely neighbor who provides him with an alibi, Laurel Gray (Gloria Grahame), responds to his romantic overtures; he's a demanding man and the cool, intelligent blonde appears to be a perfect match. But Dix's background of petty brawls and his continuing streak of volatility frighten Laurel and make the cops more eager to trap him. He senses Laurel's anxiety and turns paranoid; either the strain of the investigation is ruining their chances as a couple, or perhaps, as Laurel is beginning to fear, he really is a dangerous maniac.

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55 Days at Peking (1963) Movies

Posted by Efgrapha at Dec. 12, 2013

Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.

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