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Simone Simon
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Simone Simon
The Devil and Daniel Webster
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7 editions published between 1990 and 2009 in English and held by 741 libraries worldwide Having promised his soul to the Devil in exchange for good fortune, Jabez Stone asks the talented lawyer Daniel Webster to get him out of the bargain.
Cat People The curse of the Cat People
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25 editions published between 1942 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 679 libraries worldwide Cat People: A woman fears that an ancient curse will be transform her into a panther if aroused to passion, anger, or jealousy.
La bête humaine
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8 editions published between 1983 and 2007 in French and Multiple languages and held by 457 libraries worldwide Train engineer Jacques lusts after the wife of his co-worker Robaud. Robaud kills his boss and Jacques witnesses the murder. In order to keep Jacques quiet, Robaud allows Jacques to have an affair with his wife, creating a tragic love triangle.
Le plaisir
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9 editions published between 1951 and 2008 in French and English and held by 346 libraries worldwide An aging man hides behind a mask to meet ladies, a madame takes her girls to a communion, and a painter falls for his model in these stories of life, love, pleasure, and death.
La ronde
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1 edition published in 2008 in French and held by 325 libraries worldwide La Ronde translates as 'the round' which can refer to the policeman's beat, a circle of dancers, or a carousel, all of which this circular collection of interconnected short stories resembles. Each scene is built around a specific pair, and when one member of the pair breaks away from his or her lover, he or she then moves on to the next, introducing the partner that will lead on to the next pair, and so on until we are back where we started. Many of these lovers are seeking something they've lost in arms that look familiar but that belong to strangers. La ronde is the bittersweet note sounded by the circular nostalgia of the heart.
La bête humaine
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70 editions published between 1938 and 2009 in 6 languages and held by 307 libraries worldwide Fate drives a man to murder and suicide. A railroad engineer, descended from a family subject to fits of madness, falls in love with a beautiful married woman. Plotting together to kill her husband, circumstances spin out of control, and he finally strangles her instead.
La ronde
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1 edition published in 1994 in French and held by 120 libraries worldwide A virtuoso version of Arthur Schnitzler's play, showing love as a bitterly comic merry-go-round. Anton Walbrook acts as narrator as one love affair overlaps another.
The Curse of the cat people
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10 editions published between 1944 and 2005 in English and held by 86 libraries worldwide Poetic fantasy film about a sensitive child who is guided by the vision of her dead mother.
The Val Lewton horror collection
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 85 libraries worldwide Val Lewton redefined the horror genre with low-budget, high box office films. Here are nine of his horror classics.
La bete humaine (The human beast)
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2 editions published between 1938 and 1994 in French and held by 53 libraries worldwide A man witnesses a murder committed by a station master and his wife and becomes part of a dangerous love triangle which can only end in murder.
Le plaisir
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1 edition published in 1994 in French and held by 34 libraries worldwide Three stories by Guy de Maupassant are adapted to the screen: the Mask, the story of a man at a masked ball who pursues his youth, the Model, a story of a painter and the model that he pursues to tragedy; and the House of Madame Tellier; a madame and her five ladies attend her niece's first communion. Adapted for an English speaking audience, the second and third episode order has been switched from the original French and Peter Ustinov provides English narration between the stories.
La bête humaine
by Jean Renoir
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10 editions published between 1939 and 2009 in French and German and held by 33 libraries worldwide Extrait du résumé figurant sur la jaquette : Témoin d'un meurtre commis par Roubaud, chef de gare au Havre, Jacques Lantier, mécanicien de locomotive, devient l'amant de Séverine, la femme de l'assassin. Ce secret les rapproche et Séverine incite Lantier à tuer Roubaud qu'elle déteste. Mais Lantier souffre d'un terrible mal qui l'empêche de vivre ses passions amoureuses...
La femme en bleu
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1 edition published in 2003 in French and held by 32 libraries worldwide After glimpsing a mystery woman in blue, Pierre begins an all-consuming search for her.
Cat people
by Jacques Tourneur
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4 editions published between 1942 and 2005 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 29 libraries worldwide Irena Dubrovna (Simone Simon) est hantée par la peur d'être la descendante d'une race de femmes monstres qui se transforment en panthères dès qu'elles perdent leur virginité. Olivier Reed (Kent Smith) tombe amoureux d'elle et l'épouse. Mais le comportement de la jeune mariée, qui se refuse à son mari, va se dégrader d'une inquiètante manière...Un des films fantastiques les plus novateurs grâce auquel le cinéma découvre qu'il peut avoir un effet maximum en s'adressant à l'imaginaire du spectateur. Un immense succès qui aura une suite deux ans plus tard "La Malédictions des hommes chats" réalisé par Robert Wise.
Bestie Mensch
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5 editions published between 1938 and 2010 in German and held by 21 libraries worldwide Eine frustrierte Ehefrau fordert ihren Geliebten auf, ihren Ehemann zu ermorden.
La ronde
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11 editions published between 1950 and 2008 in French and Undetermined and held by 17 libraries worldwide Set in Vienna 1900; this bitter-sweet comedy of sexual manners is based on a play which was apparently a metaphor for the transmission of venereal disease. In Ophuls' hands, however, cynicism is transmuted into irony as the tracking and circling camera underlines the circularity of desire and the sad futility of the elegant characters unable to escape from the trap of time. Only the director's alter-ego, the narrator, is granted the freedom to move through time and shape his identity. Ophuls' foregrounding of artifice only serves, in the words of Philip Kemp, to further open the gap between 'the ideal of love and its transient reality'
Cat people
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2 editions published between 1991 and 2005 in English and held by 16 libraries worldwide Cat people: Irena Dubrovna, a beautiful and mysterious Serbian-born fashion artist living in New York City, falls in love with and marries average-Joe American Oliver Reed. Their marriage suffers though, as Irena believes that she suffers from an ancient curse- whenever emotionally aroused, she will turn into a panther and kill.
Einfluss der Landnutzungsänderung auf die Variabilität von Grundwasserneubildungs- und Sickerwasserrate qualitative Grundwassergefährdungsabschätzung mit einem GIS
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2 editions published between 2002 and 2003 in German and held by 16 libraries worldwide
Cat people
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1 edition published in 1987 in English and held by 15 libraries worldwide The classic horror tale of a young bride who believes she is the victim of a curse that transforms her into a deadly panther.
Women without names
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2 editions published between 1994 and 1996 in English and held by 11 libraries worldwide In Europe, following World War II, expatriot women who had no passports or identification documents were herded into detention centers. Simone Simon portrays a detainee who hatches a plan to seduce a married camp worker, marry him and gain her freedom. This anti-war film is noteworthy in that although the film was made in 1949, there are subplots dealing with sexuality, lesbianism, abortion and women's rights. Filmed in the Alberobello and Farfa detention camps in Italy. more
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Adultery Artists' models Austria--Vienna Benét, Stephen Vincent,--1898-1943 Blessing and cursing Bribery Criminal behavior Cuckolds Deals Detective and mystery films Devil Documentary films Drama Farmers Feature films Feature films Fiction films Film adaptations Film and video adaptations Foreign films France Horror films Horror films Imaginary companions Imagination in children Insanity (Law) Lawyers Lewton, Val Loneliness in children Love Manners and customs Man-woman relationships Married women Metamorphosis Mistresses Motion pictures Motion pictures, French Murder New England Pleasure Prostitutes Schnitzler, Arthur,--1862-1931 Sex Shapeshifting Triangles (Interpersonal relations) United States Video recordings--for the hearing impaired Webster, Daniel,--1782-1852 Witnesses Zola, Émile,--1840-1902
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English (87) German (26) Undetermined (25) Multiple languages (8) Spanish (5) No Linguistic content (3) Miscellaneous languages (2) Italian (1) Covers
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