Jack Whittingham — Playwright (13)

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The Birthday Present (1957)
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other title: 哀樂夫妻 / Das Geburtstagsgeschenk
Returning from a business trip, toy salesman Simon Scott is caught attempting to smuggle a wristwatch bought for his wife's birthday through Customs. He is arrested and, due to a bungled defence by his solicitor, obliged to serve a three-month prison sentence. It is only the beginning of his woes; his employer, Colonel Wilson, is understanding, but he is ultimately forced to sack Simon, who discovers that finding another job under such circumstances is extremely difficult. But Colonel Wilson is determined to help his former employee find a solution.

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The Dancing Years (1950)
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other title: 維也納戀曲 / Au temps des valses …
The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in in old Viennese days, and the two women in his life; Maria Zeitler, his sweetheart, later mistress, lost love, an operetta star, and his first patron, and the mother of a son he did not know he had; and of Greta, his first love and companion in later years

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Kiss the Bride Goodbye (1945)
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Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter's social status, Gladys arranges for Joan to wed her boss Adolphus Pickering while Jack is away at war. Jack arrives home to discover his love is engaged to another man. Who will Joan decide to marry?

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The Prince and the Pauper (1962)
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other title: 더 프린스 앤 더 포퍼 / Der Prinz und der Bettelknabe …
In the London of 1537, two boys resembling each other exactly meet accidentally and exchange "roles" for a short while. After many adventures, the prince regains his rightful identity and graciously makes his "twin" a ward of the court.

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Cage of Gold (1952)
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巴兹尔·迪尔登 actor: 简·西蒙斯 / 大卫·法拉尔 …
other title: 金笼彩凤
A young bride believes her husband has been killed. After a suitable period of mourning, she re-marries. But then her "dead" husband comes back and tries to extort money from her.

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The Divided Heart (1954)
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Charles Crichton actor: 康奈尔·博彻斯 / Yvonne Mitchell …
other title: 十年离乱孤血泪 / 分裂的心 …
During World War II, a German woman, Inga, goes missing and is presumed dead. Her infant son is placed in an orphanage where, years later, he's adopted by a childless couple. The adoptive parents' happiness is shattered when Inga reappears and insists on custody of her son.

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Mandy (1952)
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亚历山大·麦肯德里克 / 弗雷德·F·西尔斯 actor: 菲利丝·卡沃特
other title: 无声的崩溃 / 曼迪 …
Mackendrick introduced a new strain of realism into his films with this moving story of a deaf child whose refusal to reach outside her cocoon of silence traumatizes her middle-class parents and threatens to destroy their unstable relationship. The first in Mackendrick's trilogy about precocious and destructive children, Mandy is an absolutely fascinating melding of The Miracle Worker's semi-documentary theater and Brief Encounter's fractured and intensely first person melodrama of marital dissatisfaction.