備注：已完結
類型：劇情片
導演：塞西爾·B·戴米爾
語言：英語
年代：未知
簡介： 把羅馬焚城后，慘無人道的暴君尼祿（查爾斯·勞頓 Charles Laughton 飾）將矛頭指向基督徒，開始大規(guī)模肆意捕殺基督徒。不僅如此，尼祿更頒布了法令把抓獲的基督徒送往競技場。羅馬最高軍事軍官馬庫斯（弗雷德里克·馬奇 Fredric March 飾）奉命殘殺這些捕獲的基督徒。被抓的基督徒中有兩名老者準備逃跑，馬庫斯本欲逮捕他們，然而當馬庫斯看到他們的繼女麥西卡（愛麗莎·蘭迪 Elissa Landi 飾）時，情不自禁地一見傾心。楚楚動人的麥西卡，馬庫斯很快與她墜入愛河不能自拔，隨之下令釋放了所有基督徒。馬庫斯的這一舉動，不僅激怒了暴君尼祿，更讓一直暗戀他的皇后帕亞（克勞黛·考爾白 Claudette Colbert 飾）醋意大發(fā)，心生嫉妒。
備注：已完結
類型：愛情片
主演：弗雷德里克·馬奇 伊夫琳·維納布爾 蓋伊·斯坦丁 凱瑟琳·亞歷山大 吉
導演：米切爾·萊森
語言：英語
年代：未知
簡介： 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 na?ve 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)
備注：已完結
類型：劇情片
主演：瑙瑪·希拉 弗雷德里克·馬奇 查爾斯·勞頓 莫琳·奧沙利文
導演：西德尼·富蘭克林
語言：英語
年代：未知
簡介： 本電影講述了英國著名詩人勃朗寧夫人與其丈夫相遇相戀的故事。伊麗莎白·巴雷特（瑙瑪·希拉飾）由于腿疾一直被困在自己的房間中，父親的嚴厲與病痛的折磨讓她對生活失去興趣，只希望自己早日步入死神的懷抱。某日，一直與她書信來往的年輕詩人羅伯特·勃朗寧（弗雷德里克·馬奇）突然登門拜 訪，二人一見如故，迅速對雙方產生極大好感，伊麗莎白也因此重燃生的希望，她的腿疾開始漸漸好轉，最后終于能夠自由行走，她與羅伯特的感情也日益濃厚，可就當一切都朝好的方向發(fā)展的時候，伊麗莎白的父親開始介入其中橫加阻攔，并告知伊麗莎白她一輩子也不能離開這個家。
備注：已完結
類型：劇情片
導演：塞西爾·B·戴米爾
語言：英語
年代：未知
簡介： 把羅馬焚城后，慘無人道的暴君尼祿（查爾斯·勞頓 Charles Laughton 飾）將矛頭指向基督徒，開始大規(guī)模肆意捕殺基督徒。不僅如此，尼祿更頒布了法令把抓獲的基督徒送往競技場。羅馬最高軍事軍官馬庫斯（弗雷德里克·馬奇 Fredric March 飾）奉命殘殺這些捕獲的基督徒。被抓的基督徒中有兩名老者準備逃跑，馬庫斯本欲逮捕他們，然而當馬庫斯看到他們的繼女麥西卡（愛麗莎·蘭迪 Elissa Landi 飾）時，情不自禁地一見傾心。楚楚動人的麥西卡，馬庫斯很快與她墜入愛河不能自拔，隨之下令釋放了所有基督徒。馬庫斯的這一舉動，不僅激怒了暴君尼祿，更讓一直暗戀他的皇后帕亞（克勞黛·考爾白 Claudette Colbert 飾）醋意大發(fā)，心生嫉妒。
