The Oscars 50' Collection - 5-DVD Set ( King Solomon's Mines / An American in Paris / Forbidden Games / Julius Caesar / Interrupted Melody ) ( Jeux interdits (The Secret Game) / William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar )

The Oscars 50' Collection - 5-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: King Solomon's Mines / An American in Paris / Forbidden Games / Julius Caesar / Interrupted Melody
Alternate Title: Jeux interdits (The Secret Game) / William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
501 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1950 - 1955 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Compton Bennett
Andrew Marton
Vincente Minnelli
René Clément
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Curtis Bernhardt

Written By:
Helen Deutsch
H. Rider Haggard
Alan Jay Lerner
Jean Aurenche
William Shakespeare
William Ludwig
Sonya Levien

Actors:
Deborah Kerr ..... Elizabeth Curtis
Stewart Granger ..... Allan Quatermain
Richard Carlson ..... John Goode
Hugo Haas ..... Van Brun aka Smith
Lowell Gilmore ..... Eric Masters
Kimursi ..... Khiva
Siriaque ..... Umbopa
Sekaryongo ..... Chief Gagool
Baziga ..... King Twala
Gene Kelly ..... Jerry Mulligan
Leslie Caron ..... Lise Bouvier
Oscar Levant ..... Adam Cook
Georges Guétary ..... Henri Baurel
Nina Foch ..... Milo Roberts
The American In Paris Ballet ..... Ballet Dancers
Georges Poujouly ..... Michel Dolle
Brigitte Fossey ..... Paulette
Amédée ..... Francis Gouard
Laurence Badie ..... Berthe Dolle
Madeleine Barbulée ..... Red Cross Nun (end of film)
Suzanne Courtal ..... Madame Dolle
Lucien Hubert ..... Dolle, the Father
Jacques Marin ..... Georges Dolle
Pierre Merovée ..... Raymond Dolle
Violette Monnier ..... Jeanne Gouard
Denise Péronne ..... Priest
Fernande Roy ..... Gouard, the Father
Louis Saintève
André Wasley
Marlon Brando ..... Mark Antony
James Mason ..... Brutus
John Gielgud ..... Cassius
Louis Calhern ..... Julius Caesar
Edmond O'Brien ..... Casca
Greer Garson ..... Calpurnia
Deborah Kerr ..... Portia
George Macready ..... Marullus
Michael Pate ..... Flavius
Richard Hale ..... Soothsayer
Alan Napier ..... Cicero
John Hoyt ..... Decius Brutus
Tom Powers ..... Metellus Cimber
William Cottrell ..... Cinna
Jack Raine ..... Trebonius
Glenn Ford ..... Dr. Thomas King
Eleanor Parker ..... Marjorie Lawrence
Roger Moore ..... Cyril Lawrence
Cecil Kellaway ..... Bill Lawrence
Peter Leeds ..... Dr. Ed Ryson
Evelyn Ellis ..... Clara
Walter Baldwin ..... Jim Owens
Ann Codee ..... Mme. Gilly
Leopold Sachse ..... Himself
Stephen Bekassy ..... Comte Claude des Vignaux

Synopsis:

King Solomon's Mines (1950)
Adventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon.

An American in Paris (1951)
Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. However, things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.

Forbidden Games (1952)
A young French girl orphaned in a Nazi air attack is befriended by the son of a poor farmer, and together they try to come to terms with the realities of death.

Julius Caesar (1953)
An all-star adaptation of Shakespeare's classic about Julius Caesar's assassination and its aftermath.

Interrupted Melody (1955)
The film chronicles Australian-born opera star Marjorie Lawrence's success, her battle with polio, and her eventual career comeback.

King Solomon's Mines (1950)
Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an effort to locate Elizabeth Curtis' husband Henry, who was searching for King Solomon's legendary treasure. Along the way they encounter a variety of wild animals including snakes, a leopard and a rhino. Quartermain isn't keen on having a woman on the expedition and he and Elizabeth quarrel regularly. Elizabeth and her husband were not very fond of one another and her expedition is driven by her own guilt. She and Quatermain fall in love but survival becomes their goal when they meet dangerous tribesmen.

An American in Paris (1951)
Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam (Oscar Levant) is a struggling concert pianist who is a long time associate of a French singer, Henri Baurel (Georges Guétary). A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts (Nina Foch) takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in Jerry more than his art. Jerry remains oblivious to her feelings, and falls in love with Lise (Leslie Caron), a French girl he meets at a restaurant. Lise loves him as well, but she is already in a relationship with Henri, whom she feels indebted to for having saved her family during World War II.At a raucous masked ball, with everyone in black-and-white costumes, Milo learns that Jerry is not interested in her, Jerry learns that Lise is in love with him, but is marrying Henri the next day, and Henri overhears their conversation. When Henri drives Lise away, Jerry daydreams about being with her all over Paris, his reverie broken by a car horn, the sound of Henri bringing Lise back to him.

Forbidden Games (1952)
A girl of perhaps five or six is orphaned in an air raid while fleeing a French city with her parents early in World War II. She is befriended by a pre-adolescent peasant boy after she wandered away from the other refugees, and is taken in for a few weeks by his family. The children become fast friends, and the film follows their attempt to assimilate the deaths they both face, and the religious rituals surrounding those deaths, through the construction of a cemetery for all sorts of animals. Child-like and adult activity are frequently at cross-purposes, however.

Julius Caesar (1953)
Brutus, Cassius, and other high-ranking Romans murder Caesar, because they believe his ambition will lead to tyranny. The people of Rome are on their side until Antony, Caesar's right-hand man, makes a moving speech. The conspirators are driven from Rome, and two armies are formed: one side following the conspirators; the other, Antony. Antony has the superior force, and surrounds Brutus and Cassius, but they kill themselves to avoid capture.

Interrupted Melody (1955)
Despite her humble background as the daughter of an Australian sheep farmer, Marjorie Lawrence travels to Europe to study opera after she wins a regional opera contest in Geelong. Against the odds of even getting noticed by a vocal coach, she manages to train under the tutelage of renowned Madame Gilly. From there, with her brother Cyril at her side as her manager, Marjorie goes from one operatic success to another through Europe. When she goes to New York for her debut at the Met, she reconnects with obstetrician Dr. Thomas King, the man who helped a then lonely Marjorie celebrate her first ever opera success in Monte Carlo years earlier. Despite their competing professional priorities - Tom is just starting his medical practice - Tom and Marjorie decide to marry, with Marjorie forgoing touring. The focus of their lives change when Marjorie is stricken with polio, the disease which confines her to a wheelchair. Marjorie retreats not only from singing but from life. It isn't until she is shown others less fortunate than herself that she begins to work toward a life as a singer again.

King Solomon's Mines (1950)
Guide Allan Quatermain helps a young lady (Beth) find her lost husband somewhere in Africa. It's a spectacular adventure story with romance, because while they fight with wild animals and cannibals, they fall in love. Will they find the lost husband and finish the nice connection?

An American in Paris (1951)
Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in Paris, is 'discovered' by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry's art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. Jerry jokes, sings and dances with his best friend, an acerbic would-be concert pianist, while romantic complications abound.

Forbidden Games (1952)
In 1940, the five years old Paulette loses her parents and her dog under a Nazi attack in the country while escaping from Paris. The eleven years old peasant Michel Dolle sees the girl wandering with her dead dog in her hands and brings her to his home. She is welcomed and lodged by his simple family and she becomes a close friend of Michel. They bury her dog and decide to build a cemetery for animals and insects, stealing crosses in the cemetery, bringing problems to Michel's family with their neighbors.

Julius Caesar (1953)
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.

Interrupted Melody (1955)
Marjorie Lawrence (Eleanor Parker) crowds her life with excitement and achievement from the day she leaves her Australian home and goes to Paris to study voice. After a triumphal debut at the Paris Opera she becomes famous overnight, and her debut at the Met in New York establishes her as one of the great singers of her time. With all her dreams come true, tragedy strikes in the form of infantile paralysis and she faces a life of confinement to a wheel chair. Although she reaches the depths of despair, she manages through the love and devotion of her husband, Dr. Tom King (Glenn Ford), she begins to build a new career by singing to servicemen who, like herself, are confined to wheel chairs.

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