When Pollyanna (Mary Pickford) is orphaned, she is sent to live with her crotchety Aunt Polly (Katherine Griffith). Pollyanna discovers that many of the people in her aunt's New England home town are as ill-tempered as her aunt. But Pollyanna's incurable optimism - exemplified by her "glad game," in which she looks for the bright side of every situation - bring a change to the staid old community.

William King Baggot stars in this early dramatization of Robert Louis Stephensonâs classic horror story. Although the script maintains the essence of the original story there are a quite a few differences. In this version, for instance, Jekyll is romantically involved with a woman named Alice. Please note that this is a silent movie and no soundtrack has been added

The rage of Paris is a 1938 in film Cinema of the United States comedy film made by Universal Pictures. The movie was directed by Henry Koster, and written by Bruce Manning and Felix Jackson. It won the Venice Film Festival for Special Recommendation.

Flirting with danger is a 1934 American comedy adventure film directed by Vin Moore and starring Robert Armstrong, Edgar Kennedy and William Cagney (James Cagney's lookalike brother). The picture was released by Monogram Pictures and has a running time of 62 minutes.

Il capitale sociale come insieme di “reti interpersonali” che servono per allocare risorse scarse. Gli scienziati politici ne enfatizzano la funzione come complemento del mercato e dello Stato. Ma sovente nei paesi poveri il capitale sociale sostituisce lo Stato e il mercato. Quando i mercati sono fortemente imperfetti e lo Stato è debole e predatore, il capitale sociale può essere una forza positiva. Ma può anche soffocare la crescita dei mercati e la capacità degli Stati di governare bene.

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Il medico di pronto soccorso Bernard Fontanille si è concesso un anno per conoscere come si svolge la professione sanitaria negli angoli più remoti del mondo e alle condizioni più difficili. In questo episodio fa visita ad Annie, dottoressa bretone ormai trapiantata sull'isola di ghiaccio della Groenlandia. Di partenza ginecologa, è praticamente diventata il primario del piccolo ospedale (18 posti letto) di un villaggio inuit.

Ha pubblicato i libri di poesia: Iride incendio (Niebo la vita felice) e Sorteggio (Marietti 1820), Le parti del grido. Ha curato Metafisica cristiana e neoplatonismo e La devozione alla croce di Albert Camus. Ha pubblicato Atleti del fuoco. Undici studi tra arte, tragedia e rivolta. Ha scritto un'introduzione a Così parlò Zarathustra, Giunti 2017.

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Set in London during World War II Blitz period, the story sees Askey & Murdoch as a couple of variety entertainers who find themselves out of work. In desperate need of money to put on a show, the pair dress up as house servants (Murdoch a servant and Askey in drag as a cook) and bluff their way into the home of Lady Randall, an ex-music hall star known to give financial aid to performers in the arts close to her heart. However, chaos reigns

Vienna in the biggest depression, directly after WW1. In a slum, Lila Leid (Tamara Geva), the wife of lawyer Leid (Alexander Murski) is murdered, Egon, secretary of one of Leid's clients is arrested. He was with her, and had her necklace, because he needed some money for his own stock exchange deals. The same deal brings poverty to ex-government official Rumfort (Jaro Fürth), his daughter Greta (Greta Garbo), who also has lost her job, tries to prostituting herself to get some money and food.
Joyless Street (, 1925, exhibited in the U.S. as The Street of Sorrow, in ... continua

Bob (Oscar Apfel) and Helen (Betty Alden) decide to move to California and make a fresh start. Bob wants to buy a nut farm, but Helen dreams of being in the movies The nut farm is a 1935 American film directed by Melville W. Brown.