Carl Wery Movies

Lording (Haggis Kraals) is the high school student who is distracted from his final exams when he falls in love for the first time. Flashbacks are employed to recall his past experiences in this romantic comedy. He delights in telling his new love of the childhood pranks he will soon leave behind for the more serious affairs of the heart. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

An odd, incompatible analogy to an ancient legend seems to be the basis for this conventional wartime drama by director Edwin Zbonek. In the legend, an elderly Greek couple were the only people on earth to provide hospitality to the god Jupiter, and he was so appreciative that he granted them one wish -- which was that they be allowed to die together. The god then turns them into two trees whose branches symbolically intertwine. In this drama set in 1944 on a Greek mountainside, Greek partisans are fighting German troops when an elderly couple agrees to give a desperate partisan refuge. They go so far as to protect him from German troops who search their home but come up empty-handed. When the shoe is on the other foot and two German soldiers seek asylum with the same couple, they also shelter them. The results turn out to parallel the "letter" but not the spirit of the legend. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

This follow up to Heidi tells of her adventures with Peter and a flood that threatens their village. ~ All Movie Guide

The title of this German romantic melodrama translates to A Heart's Foul Play. O. W. Fischer stars as Peter van Booven, an opportunistic young rake who intends to marry a wealthy young lady named Sybilla (Ruth Leuwerick), who is suffering from a terminal illness. At first interested in Sybilla only for her money, Peter eventually falls truly in love with her. Through her courageous and selfless example, Peter undergoes a moral regeneration. Though maudlin in the extreme, Ein Herz Spielt Falsch performed well at the box office in Germany and the rest of Europe, thanks in great part to the popularity of O. W. Fischer. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Unlike previous adaptations of the Johanna Spyri children's classic, this 1952 English-language version of Heidi was lensed on location in Switzerland. Elsbeth Sigmund plays the title character, who endures all sorts of hardships and setbacks before finding happiness in the form of her ex-curmudgeon grandfather (top-billed Heinrich Gretler). Isa Gunther co-stars as the crippled girl whom Heidi befriends; with her twin sister, Guenther had previously starred in the successful German farce Two Times Lotte(1950), which served as the inspiration for the 1961 Disney film The Parent Trap. Thanks to the built-in popularity of the Spyri original, Heidi managed good international booking even before it was finished. The film was the fourth effort by Praesens Productions, which had previously struck box-office gold with Four in a Jeep(1951). It was directed by Italy's Luigi Comencini, a specialist in films featuring wise-beyond-their-years children. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Wasser Fur Canitoga (Water for Canitoga) is a duck-billed platypus of a film: a German-language western, filmed in Canada and designed as anti-British propaganda. Hans Albers, in 1939 Germany's most popular male actor, plays the rough-and-tumble hero. Falsely accused of sabotaging the system that pipes water to a remote Canadian outpost. The climax finds Albers struggling to save the subterranean piping machinery, at the cost of his own life. As he lies dying on the floor of the local saloon, his fellow miners strike up a soulful chorus of "Good-bye, Johnny!" This scene alone is worth the admission price of the slow-moving but undeniably compelling Wasser Fur Canitoga. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide