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关于美国作曲家西格蒙德·隆伯格的传记电影。

富有的克鲁上校和她的女儿萨拉（利塞尔•马修斯 Liesel Matthews 饰）在印度度过了一段幸福美好的时光。直到战争爆发，因为萨拉的母亲在她出生的时候就去世了，上战场前，克鲁上校不得不把萨拉送到了纽约著名的米切恩女子学校，将女儿委托给了米切恩夫人代为照顾，并留下了一笔不菲的报酬，以便自己走后女儿生活无忧。米切恩夫人看在这笔丰厚酬劳的面子上，给萨拉安排了最大最好的房间，即使是在违背校规的情况下也默许萨拉带着母亲留给她的项链。天真活泼的萨拉总是有一些奇思妙想的小故事，让她很快和其他孩子融洽的相处起来。在大家的簇拥下，萨拉俨然过着小公主一般的生活。但天有不测风云，就在她生日那天，前线却突然传来了她父亲阵亡的消息，萨拉成了孤儿，米切恩夫人开始暴露出她贪婪势利的本性，萨拉的生活轨迹开始发生变化…　　本片改编自弗朗西斯•霍奇森•伯内特同名小说《小公主》。

三个美国年轻友人，相邀到欧亚边境国乔治亚旅行，不料在行经偏僻的野地，其中一人误踩到当地国境战时期遗留下来的地雷，正忧心身处险地的当下，竟爆出两男一女友人间不可告人出轨关系，而正当三人争论是否彼此原谅，彼此背弃和寻求当地救援之时，一个外出打猎乔治亚住民出现，让原本站在地雷上急如热锅蚂蚁的青年，从此面临情爱与生死交关的抉择，倒底他的抉择能否获得老天的眷顾，脚踩地雷的他是否还有扭转局势的奇蹟？

Nostalgic for his glory days, a frustrated stay-at-home dad invites all of his high school Facebook friends to an 80s-themed surprise party for his exhausted corporate wife.

女孩吉赛尔美丽的歌声飞遍森林，小动物们轻轻的和着，王子被深深地吸引。于是，王子和女孩一见倾心，正准备着他们盛大的婚礼。谁知，坏王后为了保住自己的权利，从中作梗，把吉赛尔送到了21世纪的纽约街头。　　吉赛尔（艾米•亚当斯 饰）无所适从的游走在喧嚣的纽约，没人知道她是真的公主，她害怕极了，找不到能够帮她的人。幸好，好心的律师罗伯特（帕特里克•德姆西 饰）收留了她。渐渐的，公主纯真的心打动了原本刻板的律师，机缘巧合，相遇的两个人互生情愫。而这时，爱德华王子（詹姆斯•麦斯登 饰）也不顾一切地，穿越时空，来到了纽约，营救他心爱的公主。　　公主真爱的天平，将倾向何处…

Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality” – Emily Dickinson　　If Death took a holiday, the guns would go silent in Iraq, the slaughter on our nation’s highways would cease, and the news media would be compelled to cover positive events in the humanities, arts, and sciences. Unfortunately, Death has not had a vacation in recorded history, but Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 fantasy, Death Takes a Holiday, allows us to consider the possibility. Co-written by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman and based on the play La Morte in Vacanza by Alberto Casella, Death Takes a Holiday stars Frederic March as the Grim Reaper who takes on human form in an attempt to discover why men fear him so much. Why he has waited 5,000 years to satisfy this curiosity is not explained.　　[Spoiler] After a brief tryout as a shadowy figure who scares the daylights out of those that cross his path, Death shows up at, of all places, an upscale party at an Italian villa, posing as the mysterious Prince Sirki. Only one person knows who he really is, the host Duke Lambert (Guy Standing), and he is sworn to secrecy. Sirki proceeds to fascinate the guests. Given to bursts of wit and poetry, he can just as quickly turn sullen and threatening, and some soon find out that it is better not to look too deeply into his eyes. During the three days in which the Prince is at the villa, however, people all over the world miraculously escape death and potential suicides are doomed to frustration.　　To see what’s behind all the conversation about love, the suave but naïve Prince Sirki falls for the irresistible Grazia (Evelyn Venable), the daughter of one of Duke’s friends. Grazia knows who Death is but does not fear him, much to the chagrin of her fiancé, Corrado (Kent Taylor) who has developed a strong disdain for Prince Charming.　　More sinister than Brad Pitt in the 1998 remake Meet Joe Black, March turns in a very convincing performance as the creepy yet strangely appealing guest. Although the ending is melodramatic, the emotions are very real and the suggestion that Death may in reality be a friend disguised as a foe is quite touching.　　(Howard Schumann, talkingpix.co.uk)　　In this wearisome and predictable plot line, Death falls in love and bores us to death talking about it.　　(Dennis Schwartz, homepages.sover.net)　　I've heard DRACULA was advertised with the tag line The Weirdest Love Story ever told! (this is probably a paraphrase), but at heart, I've never felt that you could honestly call that movie a love story. The tag line would be much more appropriate for this one, since it ultimately boils down to what amounts to a love story. This movie is very good indeed, particularly if you consider that it is built around a concept that could have easily been handled in a cute or facile manner. Instead, it is handled as seriously as possible, with some real thought put into how death would try to come to terms with a life and an outlook that was to that point totally unfamiliar to him; much of the credit does go to Fredric March in the title role. It's quite scary when it needs to be, particularly during the first twenty minutes. From then on, it deals with its themes with subtlety, a quiet wit, an enduring sadness, and an everpresent tension on how Death might react if crossed. It's not perfect; some of the dialogue is self-conscious and artificial, as if the writers knew they were dealing with weighty issues and were trying to be profound. But I am certainly glad they didn't try to turn it into a musical comedy of sorts.　　(Dave Sindelar, scifilm.org)　　See also the remake Death Takes A Holiday (1971)

奥利弗（马克·莱斯特 Mark Lester 饰）是一名孤儿，从小在教会中长大。九岁时，奥利弗被派遣到工厂做工，之后又来到殡仪馆成为了学徒。奥利弗的聪慧和机敏让他很快就在殡仪馆里站稳了脚跟，但与此同时，他亦遭到了同伴们的妒忌，他们故意挑衅激怒奥利弗，最终奥利弗离开了殡仪馆。　　无家可归的奥利弗过起了四处流浪的生活，经过漫长的旅途，他来到了伦敦。一个名叫道奇（杰克·瓦尔德 Jack Wild 饰）的扒手将奥利弗带到了匪首费金（朗·穆迪 Ron Moody 饰）的面前，就这样，奥利弗成为了他们中的一员。一次意外中，奥利弗被警察逮捕了，但随后，他被证实是无辜的，当事人布朗罗先生（Joseph O'Conor 饰）对奥利弗感到十分愧疚，于是收留了他，奥利弗的生活能够从此走上正轨吗？

The Saphead is a 1920 comedy film featuring Buster Keaton. It was the actor's first starring role in a full-length feature and the film that launched his career.　　The plot was a merging of two stories, Bronson Howard's play The Henrietta and the novel The New Henrietta by Victor Mapes and Winchell Smith, which was meant to be an adaption of Howard's play.

故事发生在十九世纪的英国，贝姬（瑞茜·威瑟斯彭 Reese Witherspoon 饰）出生于贫寒家庭，但是，野心勃勃的她做梦都想要能够跻身上流社会，为此，贝姬来到了爵士彼得考利（鲍勃·霍斯金斯 Bob Hoskins 饰）家中，担任起了家庭教师的职务。聪明伶俐的贝姬很快就获得了姑妈玛蒂尔达（艾琳·阿特金斯 Eileen Atkins 饰）的认可和信任，之后，贝姬跟随玛蒂尔达来到了梦寐以求的伦敦。　　在伦敦，贝姬同曾经的好友艾米利亚（萝玛拉·嘉瑞 Romola Garai 饰）重逢了。艾米利亚深爱着军官乔治（乔纳森·莱斯·梅耶斯 Jonathan Rhys Meyers 饰），为了同他结婚不惜背弃了家庭，与此同时，贝姬亦同考利家的继承人罗顿（杰姆斯·鲍弗 James Purefoy 饰）秘密踏入了婚姻的殿堂。然而，等待着他们的并非光明的前程，而是残酷的战争。

孤儿海蒂（Shirley Temple 秀兰•邓波 饰）和黛特阿姨（Mady Christians 饰）生活在一起，然而黛特不愿继续在照顾外甥女，于是千里迢迢将海蒂送到偏远的善终——海蒂爷爷（Jean Hersholt 饰）的隐居之处。因失去儿子而沉浸悲伤之中爷爷阿道夫 起初无视这个从未见过面的孙女，但随着时间推移，祖孙俩的感情日益加深。　　但是贪婪的黛特再次返回，骗走海蒂欲将其卖给他人作女佣。天使般的海蒂和主人家的病弱女儿安娜（Helen Westley 饰）培养出亲密的友情；另一方面，阿道夫也踏上寻找孙女的旅程……