Look no further. Lets take a look at the best mid-century cinema pieces about New Years Eve you must get to know!
When it comes to mid-century epoque cinema, there are multiple choices you have. In here, you will find the New Years Eve Movie you are looking for.
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Carnival Night
This 1956 Russian movie starred Igor Ilyinsky and Lyudmila Gurchenko and told the story of the employees of a house of culture and how excited they were to perform their annual New Year’s Eve entertainment program.
Everything is going smoothly until news arrives that a new director has been appointed and he arrives wanting to change the program last minute.
Obviously, the employees don’t want to chance a thing, so they team up to distract and trap the new director to prevent him from getting on stage and bore everyone to their death.
This movie premiered in 1956 in the Soviet Union and in 1957 in the United States and sold over 48 million tickets, with a running time of 1h and 48 minutes.
Ocean’s 11
This absolute 1960’s classic is the foundation for all those amazing remakes, several years later.
It had an impressive cast, counting with the presence of legendary performers like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop and Angie Dickinson.
This is the story of several World War II veterans and how they are recruited by Frank Ocean and jimmy Foster to perform 5 separate robberies in different Las Vegas Casinos.
They carefully craft their plan which is going to happen in the New Years Eve. They split the tasks according to everyone’s set of skills and then, the day arrives.
Everything is going according to the plan and, when they are making it out of there with the money, an unfortunate event happens to one of the thieves.
Overall, the heist is a success and, one of the casino’s owners decides that the police is never going to find out what happened and who has the money, so he calls for the help of Duke Santos, a retired mobster.
He agrees to find out where the money is, for a price.
He finds out that Frank Ocean is in town, and confronts him and his crew.
The team then has to come up with the plan to get all the money and leave unnoticed.
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Bundle of Joy
Directed by Norman Taurog, this 1956 film-musical has Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds starring in it.
This is the story of Polly Parish, and a little bit of her eventful life.
The film begins with the firing of Polly from J.B. Merlin & Son’s Department Store. When going home, thinking about what she is going to do with her life, Polly finds a baby on the steps of a house. When seeing the baby, Polly instinctively bends over to pick up the baby and comfort him.
As she is bending over, the door opens. It turns out the house is an orphanage and that the people there think that Polly is dropping-off the baby. She and the baby are pulled inside.
Unable to convince them that the baby isn’t her’s, Polly tells the people of the orphanage that she has just been fired from J.B. Merlin. Because of that, the orphanage people let her go, after straightening out the story with the owner of the store, since he is very charitable towards the organization, and convince him to hire Polly back.
Polly then has a meeting with Dan Merlin, one of the sons, and he agrees to hire back Polly for an extra $10 a week, and says that, when she arrives home, there will be a present waiting for her.
Well, it turns out that the present is a human child. The same one that Polly found out at the orphanage. Needless to say she was chocked when coming upon this stupendous situation.
Polly then asks the help of a friend to deliver the baby back to Dan, who wasn’t home at the time, so they leave it with the butler.
Dan refuses the baby and basically forces Polly to have it.
As Polly grows fond of the baby, which she names Jon, Dan decides to visit them from time to time.
When New Years Eve arrives, Dan is stood up by his date and decides to give Polly a call. They arrange for her landlady to take care of Jon for the night and go out together.
They are starting to like each other.
Some time goes by and, in the mean time, J.B Merlin as yet to find out that he is a grandfather.
Mix ups happen and there is a fight to see who gets custody of Jon.
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