簡介:American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].
1910年,“飛行器”是那個時代風(fēng)行一時的事物。然而正因?yàn)樗鼊倓傉Q生,一切還處于起步階段。英國每日郵報主編勞德·羅恩斯(羅伯特·莫利 Robert Morley飾)策劃組織了一場從倫敦飛往巴黎的競賽。而這次競賽的目的,就是為了彰顯英國種族的優(yōu)越。如果一切都按照預(yù)期發(fā)展,不出所料的,他的女婿理查德·梅斯(詹姆斯·福克斯 James Fox飾)將贏得比賽。競賽的新聞一經(jīng)發(fā)出,就得到了來自世界各地飛行器愛好者的踴躍報名。然而這場本該是冒險者的比賽,卻成為了一場爭奪帕特里夏·羅恩斯利(莎拉·米爾斯 Sarah Miles飾)感情的競賽。 本片榮獲1966年第38屆奧斯卡金像獎最佳原創(chuàng)劇本提名,1966年第23屆金球獎電影類-音樂喜劇類最佳影片提名及音樂喜劇類最佳男主角提名。影片描寫了不同國家的飛行員的個性:死板的德國人、陰險的法國人、傲慢的意大利人還有倒霉的...
簡介:1910年,“飛行器”是那個時代風(fēng)行一時的事物。然而正因?yàn)樗鼊倓傉Q生,一切還處于起步階段。英國每日郵報主編勞德·羅恩斯(羅伯特·莫利 Robert Morley飾)策劃組織了一場從倫敦飛往巴黎的競賽。而這次競賽的目的,就是為了彰顯英國種族的優(yōu)越。如果一切都按照預(yù)期發(fā)展,不出所料的,他的女婿理查德·梅斯(詹姆斯·福克斯 James Fox飾)將贏得比賽。競賽的新聞一經(jīng)發(fā)出,就得到了來自世界各地飛行器愛好者的踴躍報名。然而這場本該是冒險者的比賽,卻成為了一場爭奪帕特里夏·羅恩斯利(莎拉·米爾斯 Sarah Miles飾)感情的競賽。 本片榮獲1966年第38屆奧斯卡金像獎最佳原創(chuàng)劇本提名,1966年第23屆金球獎電影類-音樂喜劇類最佳影片提名及音樂喜劇類最佳男主角提名。影片描寫了不同國家的飛行員的個性:死板的德國人、陰險的法國人、傲慢的意大利人還有倒霉的日本人,而英國人和美國人則被刻畫成互相幫助的好人。片中很多經(jīng)典的橋段,被以后很多的喜劇片所爭相效仿,向本片致敬。