The Lisbon Story / With Land of CottonTHE LISBON STORY starring Patricia Burke, David Farrar, Lawrence O'Madden, Joan Seton and Walter Rilla. Directed by Paul L. Stein. During the Nazi occupation of France, a British spy goes deep undercover to rescue an important atomic scientist from a concentration camp. He is assisted by a group of loyal stage performers who are willing to lay down their lives to thwart the enemy. Based upon the successful stage production, this lively film version

(released earlier in 1976) had been somewhat of a commercial breakthrough for the Tony award and Grammy nominated actress/singer: the title track reached the Billboard Hot 100

Platinum celebrates in a beautiful 4LP box set the 70th anniversary of Frank Sinatra signing to Capitol Records

Nesi lends complex female characters a deep intensity of irresistible audience appeal from the first note straight through to the very end

Haruka and his twin sister Sora move out of the city to the rural town where they spent their childhood

dynamic contouring

which - like the stage productions - offered an eloquent musical portrait of life and love in New York

but also being cognizant of the dark undercurrents that flow just beneath seemingly innocent misjudgments and mis-categorizations

bass-baritone Franz Mazura as Tamerlano and famed American lyric soprano Helen Donath as Asteria headline this 1966 Leitner-led performance of Handel's Tamerlano

Julian Anderson was commissioned to write a substantial work for solo mezzo-soprano

Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography

Many of these weird and wonderful titles were licensed from iconic French genre film studio Eurocine

disillusionment and hope