- The last year of life of the Italian-French painter Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) who died with 36 years, was played by Gérard Philipe, who was lethally sick during the shooting of this movie and died shortly after its release, 1959, with 36 years - on one of the two diseases that Modigliano had himself and exactly in his age. Further, this movie was directed by Jacques Becker - after the sudden death of Max Ophüls. Becker, too, died only 2 years after this movie.
- 老虎古玛和桑哈出生在印度支那的原始森林里,本来正是无忧无虑的童年期,但是这里的古老石窟却招惹来一帮西方来的探险队。他们枪杀了他们的父亲。不幸的古玛被他们抬走了,剩下桑哈跟母亲慌乱逃生。古玛给辗转卖到了马戏团,被迫每天练习跳火圈之类的把戏。他想念家人,还不习惯被驯养的生活,境 况非常悲凉。 而他的兄弟桑哈,也没能逃脱被人类抓捕的命运。幸亏长官的儿子非常宠爱它,把它留在家中一起生活,让他免于颠簸的生活。然而,它毕竟是一只有野性的老虎,当家人发现了危险的苗头时,可怜的桑哈还是被送到了动物园。 几个月后,一场斗虎比赛开始了。两兄弟竟然意外被安排成竞技场上的对手。这次重逢让兄弟俩喜出望外,并开始了他们的逃脱计划。
- Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated negro woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished negro youths. Within Our Gates was created in response to The Birth of a Nation which depicted southern whites in need of the Ku Klux Klan to protect them from blood thirsty blacks. Micheaux shows the reality of Dixie racism in 1920, where a black man could be lynched for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.