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El mundo de los vampiros

El mundo de los vampiros (The World of the Vampires) is a 1961 Mexican horror film, directed by Alfonso Corona Blake. The film is about a vampire, the Count Sergio Subotai, who seeks revenge against the descent from an enemy family. The hero is a musician played by Mauricio Garcés, who knows a piece of music that kills vampires.

Directed by Alfonso Corona Blake
Produced by Abel Salazar
Written by Alfredo Salazar (Adaptation)
Jesús Murcielago Velázquez (Story)
Starring Mauricio Garcés
Erna Martha Bauman
Silvia Fournier
Guillermo Murray
Music by Gustavo César Carrión
Release date(s) 1961
Running time 83 minutes
Country Mexico
Language Spanish

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After a brief coverage of 1961, now we move on to 1962 (the golden year for cinema all over the world)

Billy Budd

This is based on Herman Melville's novel on the same title.



Film version was released in 1962 at the U.K.

AND IT'S MENTIONED THAT THE MUSIC IS BY ANTHONY HOPKINS. I don't know if it's the legendary actor by that name.



There was a talk during mid-60s that this film is the inspiration for the film "Ayirathil Oruvan" in Tamiz.

Let's see what wiki says on this film:

Billy Budd is a 1962 film produced, directed, and co-written by Peter Ustinov.[1] Adapted from the stage play version of Herman Melville's short novel Billy Budd, it starred Terence Stamp as Billy Budd, Robert Ryan as John Claggart, and Ustinov as Captain Vere. Stamp was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and received a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Male Newcomer. The film was nominated for four BAFTAs.

Plot
In the year 1797, the British naval vessel HMS Avenger (changed from the book; in early drafts it was Indomitable, later ones, Bellipotent) impresses a crewman "according to the Rights of War" from the merchant ship The Rights Of Man. The new crewman, Billy Budd, is considered naive by his shipmates, and they attempt to indoctrinate him in their cynicism. But Budd's steadfast optimism is impenetrable, as when he is asked to critique the horrible gruel the crew must eat, he offers "It's hot. And there's a lot of it. I like everything about it except the flavor."
Though Budd manages to enchant the crew, his attempts at befriending the brutal master-at-arms, John Claggart, are unsuccessful. Claggart is cruel and unrepentant, a man who believes he must control the crew through vicious flogging; savaging them before they can prey on him. He reveals his mistrust for humanity when Budd confronts him about his discipline.
Budd: "It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man."
Claggart: "The sea is calm you said. Peaceful. Calm above, but below a world of gliding monsters preying on their fellows. Murderers, all of them. Only the strongest teeth survive. And who's to tell me it's any different here on board, or yonder on dry land?"
When Claggart learns of a plot to end his life, he brings his charges to the Captain, Edwin Fairfax Vere. Although Claggart has no reason to implicate Budd in the conspiracy, Budd becomes a target because the crewman represents everything that Claggart despises: humility, innocence, and trust in humanity. Vere summons both Claggart and Budd to his cabin for a private confrontation. When Claggart makes his false charges that Budd is a conspirator, the accused is unable to find the words to respond and he strikes Claggart, killing him with a single blow.
Captain Vere assembles a court-martial. Vere and all the other officers on board are fully aware of Budd's simplicity and Claggart's evil, but the captain is also torn between his morality and duty to his station. Vere intervenes in the final stages of deliberations (which are in full support of Budd). He argues the defendant must be found guilty for even striking Claggart, Budd's superior, not to mention killing him. His arguments to pursue the letter of the law succeed, and Budd is convicted.
Condemned to be hanged from the ship's yardarm at dawn the following morning, Budd takes care to wear his good shoes. At Budd's final words, "God bless Captain Vere!", Vere crumbles, and Billy is subsequently hoisted up and hanged. At this point the crew is on the verge of mutiny over the incident, but Vere can only stare off into the distance, the picture of abdication, overtaken by his part in the death of innocence. Just as the crew is to be fired upon, a French vessel appears and commences cannon fire on the Avenger, and the crew eventually returns fire. HMS Avenger fends off the attack, but in the course of battle a piece of the ship's rigging falls on Vere, killing him in an act of poetic justice.

Cast

Terence Stamp as Billy Budd
Robert Ryan as John Claggart, Master d'Arms
Peter Ustinov as Edwin Fairfax Vere, Post Captain
Melvyn Douglas as The Dansker, sailmaker
Paul Rogers as Philip Seymour, 1st Lieutenant
John Neville as Julian Radcliffe, 2nd Lieutenant
David McCallum as Steven Wyatt, Gunnery Officer
Ronald Lewis as Enoch Jenkins, maintopman
Lee Montague as Squeak, Mr. Claggart's assistant
Thomas Heathcote as Alan Payne, maintopman
Ray McAnally as William O'Daniel, maintopman
Robert Brown as Talbot
John Meillon as Neil Kincaid, maintopman
Cyril Luckham as Hallam, Captain of Marines
Niall MacGinnis as Captain Nathaniel Graveling

Directed by Peter Ustinov
Produced by Peter Ustinov
Written by Peter Ustinov
Herman Melville (novel)

Music by Antony Hopkins
Cinematography Robert Krasker
Studio Anglo Allied
Harvest Films
Distributed by Allied Artists
Release date(s) 1962
Running time 94 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

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Actors

Sean Connery - Dr. No. - 1962 to Diamonds are Forever 1971
George Lazenby - On Her Majesty's Secret Service - 1969
Roger Moore - Live and Let Die 1973 to A View to a Kill - 1985
Timothy Dalton - The Living Daylights 1987 to Licence to Kill 1989
Pierce Brosnon - Golden Eye 1995 - Die Another Day 2002
Daniel Craig - Casino Royale 2006 to Quantum of Solace 2008

The first Actor

Sean Connery

A contest was set up to 'find James Bond', and six finalists were chosen and screen-tested by Broccoli, Saltzman, and Fleming. The winner of the contest was a 28-year-old model named Peter Anthony, who, according to Broccoli, had a Gregory Peck quality, but proved unable to cope with the role.[10] The producers turned to Sean Connery, who ended up playing Bond for five consecutive films (and more subsequently). According to one story, Connery had been suggested by Polish director Ben Fisz, a friend of Saltzman. Saltzman viewed Connery in On the Fiddle (also called "Operation Snafu"), the actor's eleventh film. By other accounts, Broccoli first saw Connery in a screening of Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)

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The First Film

Dr. No.

Dr. No is a 1962 spy film, starring Sean Connery; it is the first James Bond film. Based on the 1958 Ian Fleming novel of the same name, it was adapted by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkely Mather and was directed by Terence Young. The film was produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli, a partnership that would continue until 1975.
In the film, James Bond is sent to Jamaica on an investigation into the death of a fellow British agent. The murder trail leads him to the underground base of Dr. Julius No, who is plotting to disrupt an early American manned space launch with a radio beam weapon. Although the first of the Bond books to be made into a film, Dr. No was not the first of Fleming's novels, Casino Royale being the debut for the character; however, the film makes a few references to threads from earlier books.
Dr. No was produced with a low budget, but was a financial success. While critical reaction at release was mixed, over time the film received a reputation as one of the franchise's best instalments. The film was the first of a successful series of 22 Bond films; a 23rd is planned for release in 2012. Dr. No also launched a successful genre of "secret agent" films that flourished in the 1960s. The film also spawned a spin-off comic book and soundtrack album as part of its promotion and marketing.
Many of the iconic aspects of a typical James Bond film were established in Dr. No: the film begins with an introduction to the character through the view of a gun barrel and a highly stylised main title sequence, both created by Maurice Binder. Production designer Ken Adam established an elaborate visual style that is one of the hallmarks of the Bond film series.



Directed by Terence Young
Produced by Harry Saltzman
Albert R. Broccoli
Written by Ian Fleming
Screenplay by Richard Maibaum
Johanna Harwood
Berkely Mather
Starring Sean Connery
Joseph Wiseman
Ursula Andress
Jack Lord
John Kitzmiller
Music by Monty Norman
Cinematography Ted Moore
Editing by Peter R. Hunt
Studio Eon Productions
Distributed by United Artists
Release date(s) 5 October 1962
Running time 109 minutes
Country United Kingdom

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