Michael Latham Powell — Director (31)
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The Fire Raisers (1934) [Movie] Douban IMDb
The Fire Raisers
director: Michael Powell actor: Leslie Banks / Anne Grey …
other title: 纵火者
Jim Bronton is an insurance investigator, but he's unhappy with his work and gets involved with a gang of arsonists. His conscience is troubling him ...
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Bluebeard's Castle (1963) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Herzog Blaubarts Burg
director: Michael Powell actor: Norman Foster / Ana Raquel Satre
other title: Herzog Blaubarts Burg / 蓝胡子的城堡 …
Based on the Béla Bartók opera, Duke Bluebeard reluctantly and gradually uncovers the secrets of his psyche to his fourth wife, Judit, opening the seven doors of his castle to ultimately reveal his still living previous wives, among whom Judit must take her place.
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Honeymoon (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Luna de miel
director: Michael Powell actor: Anthony Steel / Ludmilla Tchérina …
other title: Strahlender Himmel - Strahlendes Glück / Lune de miel …
Australian famer Kit Kelly and his new bride Anna are driving through Europe when they help a stranded motorist. They discover he is Antonio, a famous dancer. Upon learning that Anna was a ballerina before she married, Antonio attempts to persuade her to join his company.
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The Edge of the World (1937) [Movie] Douban
The Edge of the World
director: 迈克尔·鲍威尔 actor: 约翰·劳里 / Belle Chrystall …
other title: 天涯海角 / 世界边缘
历经四个月的野外艰苦拍摄，在海风吹拂的设得兰岛，迈克尔•鲍威尔在其第一部独立作品中大胆运用了创新的技术和实验，这些后来成为他职业生涯中为人熟知的标志。
《世界之缘》讲述了一个动人的故事，一个偏远岛屿及其岛上居民的传统和生活发生正在面临快速工业化世界的威胁。为了解决岛上的居民是否应该放弃当地生计移民岛内地去上的争论，两个儿时的朋友，沿袭着古老的传统，登上了岛上最高的悬崖。结果破坏了岛上的和平，并造成两个部族的分裂。
BFI国家档案馆在1990年对其进行了修复，2004年发行的DVD版对其画面和声音进行了进一步修复。《世界之缘》得到众多导演的喜爱，其中包括马丁•斯科塞斯。
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1955) [Movie] Douban
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
director: 迈克尔·鲍威尔 actor: Sonia Arova
other title: 魔法师学徒
Originally intended to be a standalone short film, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" wound up becoming arguably the most memorable sequence of Fantasia, Disney's innovative and experimental third feature film. Following a 45-second introduction by Maltin calling this "the pinnacle of Mickey's screen career," the famous segment is presented in its entirety. Set to the Paul Dukas' classical piece, Mickey's use of magic to clean up results in disaster, to the dismay of his master. Unlike the Fantasia DVD's dual 5.1 tracks, the clip is merely Dolby Surround here.
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Gone to Earth (1950) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Gone to Earth
director: 迈克尔·鲍威尔 / 埃默里克·普雷斯伯格 actor: 珍妮弗·琼斯 / 大卫·法拉尔
other title: 谪仙记 / Gypsy Blood …
Hazel Woods, a beautiful and young Welsh girl, lives a wild, rustic life and loves animals — in particular, her pet fox. She is hotly desired by Jack Reddin, a fox hunting squire who vies for her affection and pursues her, despite the purer amorous intentions of the local pastor.
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Age of Consent (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData Douban TMDB
Age of Consent
director: 迈克尔·鲍威尔 actor: 詹姆斯·梅森 / 海伦·米伦 …
other title: 沙滩上的夏娃 / 에이지 오브 컨센트 …
Michael Powell teamed with actor James Mason (who also co-produced) to make a film loosely based on the life of controversial Australian artist Norman Lindsay. Age Of Consent stars Mason as a jaded painter who heads Down Under looking for a way to revitalize his creative soul. His self-imposed exile is interrupted by Cora, an uninhibited young woman on her own journey of self-discovery. The Age of Consent (1969), is Powell's final film, centers on James Mason as a disenchanted painter who finds a new muse in a tropical island model (a radiant and sensual, often nude Helen Mirren, in her first movie role).
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The Lion Has Wings (1939) [Movie] Douban IMDb
The Lion Has Wings
director: Adrian Brunel / 布赖恩·德斯蒙德·赫斯特 … actor: 梅尔·奥勃朗 / 拉尔夫·理查德森 …
other title: 有翼的狮子
Alexander Korda's bit for the British war effort shows the world both at peace and on the verge of Nazi domination. Spliced together to form a documentary-style movie of both newsreel and acting. This first of its kind in propaganda films of World War II, shows the might of the English Empire and its eagerness to stand up to the oppressors of morality and free will. Crude, but effective propaganda cinema that sets the tone for things to come. With its stiff upper lip attitude that pays tribute to the nation's pride and shows the black plague of Nationalism spreading across Europe that England shall be motivated, ready, and willing to retaliate.
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They're a Weird Mob (1966) [Movie] Douban
They're a Weird Mob
director: 迈克尔·鲍威尔 actor: 沃特·奇亚里 / Clare Dunne …
other title: 登陆蛮荒岛
Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant who arrived in Australia with the promise of a job as a journalist on his cousins magazine, only to find that when he gets there the magazine's folded, the cousins done a runner & the money his cousin sent for the fare was borrowed from the daughter of the boss of a local construction firm. So Nino tries to get a job & finishes up ... laying bricks. Nino works hard & friends with lots of locals, Nino & Kay argue a lot, Nino & Kay fall in love ... Kay takes Nino to meet 'Daddy' but daddy hates journalists, immigrants and bricklayers (he's now BOSS of a construction firm). Nino starts to win him over with his charm & determination to marry Kay.
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49th Parallel (1941) [Movie] Eggplant.place TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
49th Parallel
8.0 (7 ratings) director: 迈克尔·鲍威尔 actor: 莱斯利·霍华德 / 劳伦斯·奥利弗 …
other title: 魔影袭人来 / 49平行线 …
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as a French-Canadian fur trapper, Johnnie, a leader of a Hutterite farming community, Peter, an author, Philip and a soldier, Andy Brock.