mudskipper

For lovers of foreign films that are classics or new...Anything goes, but the films should at least be critically significant or acclaimed from any country or language...Please avoid trashy movies...(I realize trashy is a subjective term, but at least the film should have some value.)....I'll start : Question: What is the title of the poignant film-- about a schoolteacher and her pupils--- that won over "The Seven Samurai" and Akira Kurosawa for Best Picture and Best Director during the 1955 Mainichi Film Concourse Awards (similar to the Oscars in Japan at that time)...It stars Hideko Takamine in a brilliant performance...

Craig Sheffer as Norman MacLean in "A River Runs Through It"...

Correct...Your thread, Six. Happy New Year. !!

Richard Burton is right. All yours, CM.

Right. Ok, Six, all yours...

Clue: The movie was adapted from a book, one in a series, written by the same man who wrote "The Flight Of The Phoenix"..

Clue: Musical from the late 60s...

Clue 3: She then meets a penniless writer whom she takes to a diner. They go to his apartment. She proposes an arrangement where they get married, but not live together, while she pays for his expenses which comes to almost $20.00 per week and enables him to continue writing...

Happy New Year !! "Marlon (Brando) has yet to learn to speak. He should have been born two generations before and acted in silent films."... Speaker ?

"What if the octopus, the flounder, and the cod Think we're rather odd ? It's fun to promenade...."

A real movie set in the west, Six...I know the rules, so forget about the TV series.

Orson Welles in reference to "Citizen Kane"

Thanks... This orphan mongoose was adopted by a British family and repaid them by killing two cobras...Name the mongoose (film title) and the two cobras...

Correct...Your thread, CMV.

The Shootist Next: Charles Laughton

I WAKE UP SCREAMING... Next:-- Absolutely, Positively, 100% Sure...

Clue: Cloak and dagger story of Spy Vs Spy...Stars two great male first class foreign actors...

Clue: Story is about the Papacy...

Next: "Does an optical illusion feel such a hungry yearning burning inside him?..Does an optical illusion feel the beat, beat, beat of the tom tom in the roaring traffic's boom inside his lonely room ?"..

" Observe..this is what we do to those who give generic and meaningless clues."..

Psycho ?

clue 2: ...An immigration worker visits the girl and tells her she has to leave the country, but gives her a break and tells her she has to marry an American citizen within a week to be allowed to stay...

What do John Wayne, Clark Gable, Tyrone Power, Cary Grant, and Glenn Ford have in common ??

"Gaston" from "Beauty and the Beast"....Here's a clip:

Andre...