Esther Kiss Movies
- 1964
Documentary filmmaker Stanley Goulder directed this disturbing thriller which was shot independently at a budget of $75,000 in only twenty-four days. The film deals with a mentally retarded boy, released from the hospital prematurely, who wants to make friends with some neighborhood kids at the local movie house. In the hospital, he came across what he thought were some colorful candies; they were, in fact, barbiturates. He dispenses the drugs to the children at a matinee showing and the children end up drugged and extremely ill. The parents frantically call in the police to investigate as the retarded child's mother frets about what may happen to her son. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Roland Curram, Bernard Archard, (more)
- 1936
Hollywood's Conrad Nagel heads cast of the British Ball at Savoy. The tux-garbed Nagel plays a baron who, while vacationing in Cannes, falls in love with opera star Marta Labarr. The prideful Labarr will have nothing to do with Nagel because of his wealth, so he poses as a waiter. When he's accused of being a thief, Nagel learns that there's two sets of justice, one for the rich, another for the poor. This 1936 remake of an earlier German film, was based on a novel by Alfred Grunwald and Fritz Lohner-Beda. Distribution of Ball at Savoy was handled in Britain and the US by RKO Radio Pictures. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Conrad Nagel, Marta Labarr, (more)
- 1935
Originally released in 1932, Men of Tomorrow represented the film debut of Robert Donat. The story follows a young, idealistic Oxford student in the years following his graduation. Now a successful novelist, Allen Shepherd (Maurice Bradell) has married college sweetheart Jane Anderson (Joan Gardner). A firm proponent of the "woman's place is in the home" school, Allen walks out on Jane when she accepts a teaching post in Oxford's chemistry department. Eventually he realizes what a heel he's been, and the couple is reunited. Though both Robert Donat and Merle Oberon are cast in supporting roles, they were given top billing when Men of Tomorrow was distributed in the U.S. in 1935. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1929
Set in Paris in the pre-WWI years, Paris Girls stars Suzy Vernon as a French lass with show-business aspirations. Leaving her family behind, Vernon heads to America where she becomes a success on Broadway as dancing star "Captain Peggy." Returning to France, our heroine weds her childhood sweetheart Fernand Fabre. Their future happiness is threatened by Vernon's former stage cohort Esther Kiss, a jealous type who wants the wealthy Fabre all to herself. Things come to a rowdy climax on board a yacht, where Vernon and Kiss square off in a hiss-and-scratch duel. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Suzy Vernon, Daniele Parola, (more)
