Monks Brook U3A

French film night. The main film is Jour de Fete (1949), the first of Jacques Tati's comedies. There will also be a short film, "White Mane: The Wild Horse" (1953), by Albert Lamorisse, director of The Red Balloon. If there is time, we will watch The Red Balloon (1956) as well.

Cary Grant & Deborah Kerr star!

Handsome playboy Nicky Ferrante and beautiful night club singer Terry McKay have a romance while on a cruise from Europe to New York. Despite being engaged to other people, both agree to reunite at the top of the Empire State Building in six months. However, an unfortunate accident keeps Terry from the reunion, and Nicky fears that she has married or does not love him anymore. Will he discover the truth behind her absence and reunite with his one true love, or has fate and destiny passed them by?

The proposal is a traditional B and A film evening with an interval - (maybe with some adverts?).

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934): running time 76mins.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025452/
Starring Leslie Banks, Edna Best & Peter Lorre; 
directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Assassination plot, kidnapping, and shoot-out.

The Glass Mountain (1949/50):  running time 86 mins.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040605/
Starring Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Tito Gobbi & Valentina Cortese;
directed by Henry Cass.
The plot of the English Patient could have been inspired by this!

Double Indemnity is a 1944 American film noir, directed by Billy Wilder, co-written by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom. 

 The film stars Fred MacMurray as an insurance salesman, Barbara Stanwyck as a provocative housewife who wishes her husband were dead, and Edward G. Robinson as a claims adjuster whose job is to find phony claims. The term double indemnity refers to a clause in certain life insurance policies that doubles the payout in cases when death is caused by accidental means.

Carry On Teacher is the third Carry on film, released in 1959. It features Ted Ray in his only Carry On role, alongside series regulars; Kenneth Conner, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques. Leslie Phillips and Joan Sims make their second appearances in the series.

This film by Michelangio Antonioni was made in 1966, rather later than our normal range, but it is very much of its era and is an entertaining and intriguing film. It stars David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave.

A film from the heyday of British comedy film-making.  This is the film that brought Peter Sellers to prominence as a comedy character actor.  Director & producer: Mario Zampi (an Italian!)

Mary will show her home-produced movie, Hi Jack, a comedy adventure,  which stars Ian, David & Mary among others!!!

She will also give a presentation about Charlie Chaplin's life and show some short Chaplin films.

A classic Hitchcock suspense where a town is taken over by birds who seem to be trying to drive out all the inhabitants.

The Seventh Seal is a 1957Swedish drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman, about the journey of a medieval knight (Max von Sydow) across a plague-ridden landscape, and a monumental game of chess between himself and the personification of Death, who has come to take his life.  The title refers to a passage from the Book of Revelation, used both at the very start of the film, and again towards the end, beginning with the words "And when the Lamb had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour" (Revelation 8:1). Here the motif of silence refers to the "silence of God" which is a major theme of the film.

The Knight takes a squire, a troupe of travelling players and a deaf and dumb girl under his protection as the game is played out. One by one Death exacts his toll, and it is up to Block to stall his opponent for as long as possible if he is to save the lives of those he is trying to protect.

The film is considered a major classic of world cinema. It helped Bergman to establish himself as a world-renowned director and contains scenes which have become iconic through parodies and homages.