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Appendix 1: Synopses of films
its release, the film portrayed the British high command
unfavorably, while others claimed it showed an admirable capacity
for self criticism which augured well for British victory.

Madonna of the Seven Moons

Arthur Crabtree, Gainsborough, UK 1944.

Phyllis Calvert; Patricia Roc; Stewart Granger; John Stuart;
Jean Kent; Nancy Price; Peter Glenville; Peter Murray Hill.

Melodrama set in pre-war Florence and Rome, concerning the fatal
consequences of the heroine's (Calvert) 'split personality'. As
Maddalena she is the devout, retiring wife of a wealthy Roman and
mother of Angela (Roc) ; as Rosanna she is the mistress of the
leader (Granger) of a gang of petty crooks in the picturesque
back streets of Florence.

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Alfred Hitchcock, Paramount, US 1956.

James Stewart; Doris Day; Bernard Miles; Brenda da Banzie.

Remake of the 1934 spy thriller involving a kidnapped child and
her father's efforts to rescue her.

Marnie

Alfred Hitchcock, Universal, US 1964.

Sean Connery; Tippi Hedren; Martin Gabel; Diane Baker; Louise
Latham.

Psychological thriller in which Mark (Connery) pursues and
marries Marnie (Hedren), seeking to explain and 'cure' both her
criminality and her frigidity. In a flashback sequence at the
end of the film a childhood trauma is revealed to be the cause
of her 'problems'.

Marty

Delbert Mann, UA, US 1955.

Ernest Borgnine; Betsy Blair.

The story of a couple who, because they each consider themselves
to be unattractive, had given up hope of love and marriage.
Borgnine is Marty, a 34 year old Italian butcher from the Bronx

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