Jack La Rue

This romantic comedy opens with a resounding warning: its chief concerns are passion, bloodshed, desire, and death. "Everything," exclaims the narrator, "that makes life worth living." Irma La Douce (Shirley MacClaine) wise, endearing, and compulsively clad in green rules the rue Casanova as Paris' most prosperous prostitute. She exultantly works the most coveted corner as cops gladly look the other way and the naughty johns leave tips. Her street is a content community of live and let live and good-natured desire, an Augean stable of human understanding. However, to the area's new policeman, upright Nester Patou (Jack Lemmon), genial wrongdoing is still wrongdoing. Newly promoted from day patrol at a children's playground, the scrupulous Nestor arrests Irma and her colleagues in a bumbling, unauthorized raid. He takes pity on Irma, but harasses the guilty johns including the police captain. Promptly unemployed, Nester returns to the scene of his crime, the rue, and to Irma. Nester u
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Length: 02:22:59
Posted: 7/4/2008

From the Studio The son of stage actors, Pennsylvania-born Karl Brown was far more intrigued by the technical aspects of show business; while still in his teens, he became a lab assistant, then a still photographer. Brown turned director in the mid 1920s. The classic feature film 'Under The big Top' is one of his most celebrated directional ventures, in which his eye for detail is evident. THE PLOT: The Post Combined Circus draws the biggest crowd ever when pretty Penelope (Anne Nagel) does her heart-stopping blindfolded trapeze act In the course of events she falls in love with Pablo (Grant Richards) , her co-artist. Pablo and his brother Ricardo (Jack La Rue) are shown the door when Sara Post (Marjorie Main) , the tough talking owner of the show and Penny's aunt, finds out. The show goes on, but it is never the same without the daredevilry of the famous aerial trio..
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Length: 59:00
Posted: 3/17/2008

From the Studio The son of stage actors, Pennsylvania-born Karl Brown was far more intrigued by the technical aspects of show business; while still in his teens, he became a lab assistant, then a still photographer. Brown turned director in the mid 1920s. The classic feature film 'Under The big Top' is one of his most celebrated directional ventures, in which his eye for detail is evident. THE PLOT: The Post Combined Circus draws the biggest crowd ever when pretty Penelope (Anne Nagel) does her heart-stopping blindfolded trapeze act In the course of events she falls in love with Pablo (Grant Richards) , her co-artist. Pablo and his brother Ricardo (Jack La Rue) are shown the door when Sara Post (Marjorie Main) , the tough talking owner of the show and Penny's aunt, finds out. The show goes on, but it is never the same without the daredevilry of the famous aerial trio..
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Length: 59:00
Posted: 3/17/2008