介绍：Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality” – Emily Dickinson　　If Death took a holiday, the guns would go silent in Iraq, the slaughter on our nation’s highways would cease, and the news media would be compelled to cover positive events in the humanities, arts, and sciences. Unfortunately, Death has not had a vacation in recorded history, but Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 fantasy, Death Takes a Holiday, allows us to consider the possibility. Co-written by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman and based on the play La Morte in Vacanza by Alberto Casella, Death Takes a Holiday stars Frederic March as the Grim Reaper who takes on human form in an attempt to discover why men fear him so much. Why he has waited 5,000 years to satisfy this curiosity is not explained.　　[Spoiler] After a brief tryout as a shadowy figure who scares the daylights out of those that cross his path, Death shows up at, of all places, an upscale party at an Italian villa, posing as the mysterious Prince Sirki. Only one person knows who he really is, the host Duke Lambert (Guy Standing), and he is sworn to secrecy. Sirki proceeds to fascinate the guests. Given to bursts of wit and poetry, he can just as quickly turn sullen and threatening, and some soon find out that it is better not to look too deeply into his eyes. During the three days in which the Prince is at the villa, however, people all over the world miraculously escape death and potential suicides are doomed to frustration.　　To see what’s behind all the conversation about love, the suave but naïve Prince Sirki falls for the irresistible Grazia (Evelyn Venable), the daughter of one of Duke’s friends. Grazia knows who Death is but does not fear him, much to the chagrin of her fiancé, Corrado (Kent Taylor) who has developed a strong disdain for Prince Charming.　　More sinister than Brad Pitt in the 1998 remake Meet Joe Black, March turns in a very convincing performance as the creepy yet strangely appealing guest. Although the ending is melodramatic, the emotions are very real and the suggestion that Death may in reality be a friend disguised as a foe is quite touching.　　(Howard Schumann, talkingpix.co.uk)　　In this wearisome and predictable plot line, Death falls in love and bores us to death talking about it.　　(Dennis Schwartz, homepages.sover.net)　　I've heard DRACULA was advertised with the tag line The Weirdest Love Story ever told! (this is probably a paraphrase), but at heart, I've never felt that you could honestly call that movie a love story. The tag line would be much more appropriate for this one, since it ultimately boils down to what amounts to a love story. This movie is very good indeed, particularly if you consider that it is built around a concept that could have easily been handled in a cute or facile manner. Instead, it is handled as seriously as possible, with some real thought put into how death would try to come to terms with a life and an outlook that was to that point totally unfamiliar to him; much of the credit does go to Fredric March in the title role. It's quite scary when it needs to be, particularly during the first twenty minutes. From then on, it deals with its themes with subtlety, a quiet wit, an enduring sadness, and an everpresent tension on how Death might react if crossed. It's not perfect; some of the dialogue is self-conscious and artificial, as if the writers knew they were dealing with weighty issues and were trying to be profound. But I am certainly glad they didn't try to turn it into a musical comedy of sorts.　　(Dave Sindelar, scifilm.org)　　See also the remake Death Takes A Holiday (1971)

介绍：An impassive young girl is taken from her suicidal London life, back to her home in North England on a bizarre bus trip. Seen through the poetic eye of the camera, this is a commentary of doomed British morbidity. In HD.

介绍：一批医学院的学生来到圣心医院开始他们的实习生涯，但是从第一天起就发现这里并不是想象中安详宁静的医学圣地，从医生到护士甚至门卫个个不同寻常内科实习医生杰迪是个聪明而又英俊的年轻人，但是笨拙而又缺乏自信的表现常常惹得医生护士故意欺负他，甚至被叫做“小鹿班比”。特克是杰迪的大学同学，身为外科实习医生的他具有与自信衬的高明医术。伊丽亚特-里德是实习医生中唯一的女性，美丽却神经质，被认为有社交障碍。罗伯特-卡尔索医生和佩里-考克斯医生是圣心医院的主要医师，两人也是天生的冤家对头。　　从实习医生成为正式医生的过程充满了艰辛和痛苦，当然也有令人喜悦的胜利，他们在病房中接触到各式各样的病人、第一次直接面对病人的死亡、时不时还被卷入医生间的竞争。他们的爱情也和工作一样丰富多彩。杰迪和伊丽亚特彼此吸引，两人却分分合合在友情和爱情之间摇摆；特克追上了美丽的护士卡拉，但卡拉强烈的控制欲令特克感到一丝恐惧；离婚的考克斯医生暗恋着卡拉，但是从来无法抵抗前妻乔丹的诱惑。　　短短一年的实习生涯中，杰迪们从菜鸟渐渐成长为合格的医生，也从病人的悲欢离合中领悟到生命、爱情和生活的真谛。当他们以医生的身份重新回到圣心医院时，一部完全不同的故事再次开幕。(一平文)