ACROSS THE PACIFIC (1942) Dir: John Houston. Writer: Richard Macauley. Rick Leland: Humphrey Bogart, Alberta Marlow: Mary Astor, Dr. Lorenz: Sydney Greenstreet, Joe Totsuiko: Victor Sen Young, Sam Wing On: Lee Tung Foo, Dan Morton: Monte Blue. Army officer Rick Leland is court marshaled and dismissed from the army. After trying to enlist in the Canadian army, he boards a Japanese steamer for China, via the Panama Canal. On board he meets Alberta Marlow and Dr. Lorenz. Alberta claims to be from Medicine Hat and Dr. Lorenz claims to be a college professor from the Philippines. Alberta is actually headed for a Panamanian plantation in search of her alcoholic father, Dan Morton. Dr. Lorenz is actually a Japanese agent headed for the same plantation where he plans on launching a surprise attack on the Panama Canal on Dec. 7, 1941. Rick Leland is actually working for military intelligence and has been sent to break up the Japanese spy ring.
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AELITA; THE QUEEN OF MARS (1924) Dir: Yakov Protozanov. Writers: Aleksei Fajko, Fyodor Otsep. Aelita Queen of Mars: Yuliya Solntseva, Engineers Los and Spiridinov: Nikolai Tsereteli, Natasha Los: Vera Kiundzhi, Ihoshka, Maidservant of Queen Aelita: Aleksandra Peregonets, Kratsov, an Amateur Detective: Igor Ityinsky, Gusev an Ex-Soldier: Nikolai Batalov, Ehrlich a Man of the Old Order: Pavel Pol. Engineers Los and Spiridonov dream of building a space ship to visit Mars, but there is no chance for them to realize their dreams in the early days of the Soviet Union. When Ehrlich, a man of the old order, and his wife, move into the apartment building that is home to engineer Los and his wife, Natasha, Natasha is tempted by Ehrlich into anti-Soviet behavior. Ehrlich, a friend of Spiridonov from before the revolution, steals from Spiridonov and gets rid of him. Los mistakes his wife's interest in Ehrlich as being romantic in nature and shoots her. Pursued by Kratsov, an amateur who wishes to be a detective for the police, and with the help of Gusev, an ex-soldier, Los builds his space ship and heads to Mars. With him are Gusev, and Kratsov, who has stowed away. On arrival on Mars, they discover that Mars is ruled by a king who mistreats the proletariat. Aelita who wishes to take over, with the help of her maidservant, and Los organizes a revolution of the workers. What Los doesn't realize, is that Aelita wishes to replace King Tuskub with her own autocratic rule, and the workers revolution fails. But it's all Los' delirium brought on by the guilt of shooting his wife. But Natasha Los is not dead, only slightly wounded. Returning to his wife, Los destroys all of his space ship designs, and rededicates his life to building the Soviet state.
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ALRAUNE aka MANDRAKE (1928) Dir: Henrik Galeen. Writers: Henrik Galeen, (novel) Hanns Heinz Ewers. Alruane ten Brinken: Brigette Helm, Prof. Jakob ten Brinken: Paul Wegener, Franz Braun: Ivan Petrovich, The Viscomte: John Loder. Prof. ten Brinken decides to solve the nature vs nurture argument by inseminating a prostitute with the semen of a condemned prisoner and then raising her as his own. When things turn bad, the Prof. takes his experiment away to avoid shame. Things go very, very wrong for all concerned. To read a more detailed review, go to www.thenewcommonsense-wjy.blogspot.com/2009/10/alraune-silent-movie-dvd-of-week.html
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THE AMERICAN (2010) Dir: Anton Corbijn. Writer: Rowan Joffe. Jack: George Clooney, Ingrid: Irina Bjorklund, Father Benedetto: Paolo Bonacelli, Mathilde: Thekla Reuten, Pavel: Johan Leysen, Clara: Violante Placido. An American assassin and maker of custom sniper rifles, on the run from killers, goes to Italy for one last job.
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ARRIVAL OF A TRAIN AT LA CIOTAT (1896) Dir: Louis Lumiere. A train arrives at a French railroad station.
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BACK TO GOD'S COUNTRY (1919) Dir: David Hartford. Writer: James Oliver Curwood, Nell Shipman. Delores LeBeau: Nell Shipman, Sealskin Blake: Chalres Arling, Peter Burke: Wheeler Oakman, Captain Rydal: Wellington A. Playter, Baptiste LeBeau: Roy Laidlaw. Peter Burke, a writer and government naturalist meets Baptiste LeBeau and daughter Delores living an ideal life in the Canadian woods, surrounded by Delores's tame animals. When Captain Rydal murders Baptiste, Delores goes to Montreal with Peter and marries him. When Peter is sent to the high Arctic, Delores accompanies him only to find out that the ship's captain is Rydal, her father's murderer. Rydal injures Peter, and when the ship is frozen in for the winter, he plots with Sealskin Blake to wait while Peter dies from want of medical care. Delores makes arrangements to go across the ice to Fort Confidence and a doctor and is accompanied by Wapi, a vicious dog that she has tamed. With Rydal in pursuit, the dog attacks his sled dogs so that Delores can get through to the fort with her injured husband.
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BANGVILLE POLICE (1913) Dir: Henry Lehrman. Farm Girl: Mabel Normand, Father: Nick Cogley, Mother: Dot Farley, Burglar: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Police Chief: Fred Mace, Police: Raymond Hatton, Edgar Kennedy, Hank Mann, Ford Sterling, Al St. John. When a farm girl overhears burglars, she barricades herself in her house and calls the Bangville Police.
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THE BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (1925) Dir: Sergei M. Eisenstein. Writer: Nina Agadzhonova. Grigory Vakulinchuk, a Bolshevik Sailor: Aleksandr Antonov, Militant Sailor: Mikhail Gamorov, Commander Golikov: Vladimir Barsky, Woamn With Pince-Nez: N. Poltavlseva. Mother Carrying Dead Son: Prokopenika, Woman With Baby Carriage: Beatrice Vitoldi. 1905, with Russia in a state of revolution, Bolshevik sailor, Vakulinchuk leads a mutiny on the Battleship Potemkin. The mutiny is successful, but Vakulinchuk is killed. The sailors take his body to Odessa, where the citizenry rally behind the mutineers. When Cossacks arrive and massacre the locals on the Odessa Steps, the sailors use the Potemkin's guns to win the day. With the fleet approaching the port, the Potemkin sails out to meet them.
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BEING THERE (1979) Dir: Hal Ashby. Writer: Jerzy Kosinski. Chance the Gardener/Chauncey Gardner: Peter Sellers, Eve Rand: Shirley Maclaine, Benjamin Turnbull Rand: Melvyn Douglas, President "Bobby": Jack Warden. Chance is a simple minded gardener who has never left the Washington, D.C. estate where he was raised and works. With no knowledge of the outside world except from what he has seen on television, Chance is evicted by the estate's trustees. Hit by a limousine owned by Eve Rand, the wife of elderly businessman, Benjamin Rand, Chance is taken to their home, where his simple minded garden metaphors are mistaken for profound observations on the current political scene. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance is consulted on matters of state, and groomed for high political office, despite the fact that he is either autistic or mentally retarded.
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BILA NEMOC aka THE WHITE DISEASE (1937) Dir: Hugo Haas. Writer: Karel Capek, Hugo Haas. Dr. Galen: Hugo Haas, Prof. Sigelius: Bedrick Karen, The Marshal: Zdenek Stepanek, Baron Krog: Vaclav Vydra. A leprosy like plaque ravages the world during war time, making it almost impossible to carry on the conflict. Dr. Galen is called in to stop the disease and restart the war.
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BIUTIFUL (2010) Dir: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Writer: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Uxbal: Javier Bardem, Marambra: Maricel Alvarez, Ana: Hanaa Bouchaib, Mateo: Guillermo Estrella, Tito: Eduard Fernandez, Ige: Diaryatou Daff, Ekweme: Cheikh Ndiaze, Hai: Cheng Tai Shen, Liwei: Luo Jin, Li: Lang Sofia Lin. A petty criminal from the slums of Barcelona comes to terms with a diagnosis of terminal cancer and reconnects with his children and the memory of his late father.
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BLACK SWAN (2010) Dir: Darren Aranofsky. Writer: Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz. Nina Sayers: Natalie Portman, Lily: Mila Kunis, Thomas Leroy: Vincent Cassel, Erica Sayers: Barbara Hershey, Beth Macintyre: Winona Ryder. Nina Sayers, a young ballerina cast in the dual rolls of the white and black swan in Swan Lake, obsession with achieving perfection causes her to loose touch with reality.
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THE BOAT (1921) Dir: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. Writer: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. The Boat Builder: Buster Keaton, The Boat Builder's Wife: Sybil Sealey. The SOS Operator: Eddie Cline. A man builds a boat, he, his wife, and two children go on a sea voyage. A storm comes up, and the families lives are threatened by the boat builder's incompetence.
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THE BODY SNATCHER (1945) Dir: Robert Wise. Writer: Philip MacDonald, Val Lewton. John Gray, the Cabman: Boris Karloff, Dr. Wolfe "Toddy" MacFarlane: Henry Daniell, Donald Fettes: Russell Wade, Joseph: Bela Lugosi, Meg Camden: Edith Atwater, Mrs. Marsh: Rita Corday, Georgina Marsh: Sharyn Moffett, The Street Singer: Donna Lee. When poor medical student, Donald Fettes, in 19th century Edinbourgh, Scotland tells his professor, Dr. MacFarlane that he is leaving college, MacFarlane hires him as his assistant. It's then that he discovers that the medical school is buying stolen bodies from John Gray, the cabman. When Fettes intercedes with Dr. Wolfe to operate on a small child, Georgina Marsh, Fettes discovers that Gray has a strange hold on Dr. MacFarlane. When Fettes asks, Gray to get a body so that MacFarlane can dissect the spine as preparation for the operation on Georgina, Gray brings him the body of a street singer who Fettes knew to be alive and healthy just a few hours earlier. He realizes that Gray is not just robbing graveyards for bodies, but also committing murder. MacFarlane goes to Gray and kills him, so that he can be free of Gray's influence, but after robbing a grave himself, consumed with guilt, MacFarlane imagines that Gray is still alive.
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BON VOYAGE (2003) Dir: Jean-Paul Rappeneau. Writer: Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Patrick Modiano. Viviane Denvers: Isabelle Adjani, Jean-Etienne Beaufort: Gerard Depardieu, Camille: Virginie Ledoyen, Raul: Yvan Attal, Frederic Auger: Gregori Derangere, Alex Winckler: Peter Coyote, Professor Kopolski: Jean-Marc Stehle. Viviane, a French Actress in pre World war 2 Paris who has a habit of attaching herself to rich or powerful men. When she kills her latest benefactor, she calls childhood admirer, Frederic Auger, a writer living in Paris to help her dispose of the body. When he's caught and accused of murder, Viviane goes to Interior Minister Jean-Etienne Beufort for help with a cover up. When the Germans march into Paris, Viviane flees south with the government. Frederic and Raul a gangster escape from prison in the confusion. On the train south they meet Camille, an assistant to atomic scientist Professor Kopolski, trying to escape to England with a supply of heavy water, needed in atomic research. Viviane in her attempts to find safety enlists the help of journalist Alex Winckler, who's also a German spy, making the escape of the professor almost impossible.
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THE BROADWAY MELODY (1929) Dir: Harry Beaumont. Writer: Edmund Golding, Norman Houston. Eddie Kearns: Charles King, Queenie Mahoney: Anita Page, Hank Mahoney: Bessie Love, Uncle Jed: Jed Prouty, Jacques Warriner: Kenneth Thomson, Francis Zanfield: Eddie Kane. Sister act Hank and Queenie Mahoney arrive in New York at the urging of Hank's boyfriend, Eddie Kearns. Once in New York all attention goes to Queenie, leaving the more talented and driven Hank behind. Eddie also transfers his affection from Hank to Queenie.
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BANGVILLE POLICE (1913) Dir: Henry Lehrman. Farm Girl: Mabel Normand, Father: Nick Cogley, Mother: Dot Farley, Burglar: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Police Chief: Fred Mace, Police: Raymond Hatton, Edgar Kennedy, Hank Mann, Ford Sterling, Al St. John. When a farm girl overhears burglars, she barricades herself in her house and calls the Bangville Police.
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THE BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (1925) Dir: Sergei M. Eisenstein. Writer: Nina Agadzhonova. Grigory Vakulinchuk, a Bolshevik Sailor: Aleksandr Antonov, Militant Sailor: Mikhail Gamorov, Commander Golikov: Vladimir Barsky, Woamn With Pince-Nez: N. Poltavlseva. Mother Carrying Dead Son: Prokopenika, Woman With Baby Carriage: Beatrice Vitoldi. 1905, with Russia in a state of revolution, Bolshevik sailor, Vakulinchuk leads a mutiny on the Battleship Potemkin. The mutiny is successful, but Vakulinchuk is killed. The sailors take his body to Odessa, where the citizenry rally behind the mutineers. When Cossacks arrive and massacre the locals on the Odessa Steps, the sailors use the Potemkin's guns to win the day. With the fleet approaching the port, the Potemkin sails out to meet them.
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BEING THERE (1979) Dir: Hal Ashby. Writer: Jerzy Kosinski. Chance the Gardener/Chauncey Gardner: Peter Sellers, Eve Rand: Shirley Maclaine, Benjamin Turnbull Rand: Melvyn Douglas, President "Bobby": Jack Warden. Chance is a simple minded gardener who has never left the Washington, D.C. estate where he was raised and works. With no knowledge of the outside world except from what he has seen on television, Chance is evicted by the estate's trustees. Hit by a limousine owned by Eve Rand, the wife of elderly businessman, Benjamin Rand, Chance is taken to their home, where his simple minded garden metaphors are mistaken for profound observations on the current political scene. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance is consulted on matters of state, and groomed for high political office, despite the fact that he is either autistic or mentally retarded.
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BILA NEMOC aka THE WHITE DISEASE (1937) Dir: Hugo Haas. Writer: Karel Capek, Hugo Haas. Dr. Galen: Hugo Haas, Prof. Sigelius: Bedrick Karen, The Marshal: Zdenek Stepanek, Baron Krog: Vaclav Vydra. A leprosy like plaque ravages the world during war time, making it almost impossible to carry on the conflict. Dr. Galen is called in to stop the disease and restart the war.
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BIUTIFUL (2010) Dir: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Writer: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Uxbal: Javier Bardem, Marambra: Maricel Alvarez, Ana: Hanaa Bouchaib, Mateo: Guillermo Estrella, Tito: Eduard Fernandez, Ige: Diaryatou Daff, Ekweme: Cheikh Ndiaze, Hai: Cheng Tai Shen, Liwei: Luo Jin, Li: Lang Sofia Lin. A petty criminal from the slums of Barcelona comes to terms with a diagnosis of terminal cancer and reconnects with his children and the memory of his late father.
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BLACK SWAN (2010) Dir: Darren Aranofsky. Writer: Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz. Nina Sayers: Natalie Portman, Lily: Mila Kunis, Thomas Leroy: Vincent Cassel, Erica Sayers: Barbara Hershey, Beth Macintyre: Winona Ryder. Nina Sayers, a young ballerina cast in the dual rolls of the white and black swan in Swan Lake, obsession with achieving perfection causes her to loose touch with reality.
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THE BOAT (1921) Dir: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. Writer: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. The Boat Builder: Buster Keaton, The Boat Builder's Wife: Sybil Sealey. The SOS Operator: Eddie Cline. A man builds a boat, he, his wife, and two children go on a sea voyage. A storm comes up, and the families lives are threatened by the boat builder's incompetence.
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THE BODY SNATCHER (1945) Dir: Robert Wise. Writer: Philip MacDonald, Val Lewton. John Gray, the Cabman: Boris Karloff, Dr. Wolfe "Toddy" MacFarlane: Henry Daniell, Donald Fettes: Russell Wade, Joseph: Bela Lugosi, Meg Camden: Edith Atwater, Mrs. Marsh: Rita Corday, Georgina Marsh: Sharyn Moffett, The Street Singer: Donna Lee. When poor medical student, Donald Fettes, in 19th century Edinbourgh, Scotland tells his professor, Dr. MacFarlane that he is leaving college, MacFarlane hires him as his assistant. It's then that he discovers that the medical school is buying stolen bodies from John Gray, the cabman. When Fettes intercedes with Dr. Wolfe to operate on a small child, Georgina Marsh, Fettes discovers that Gray has a strange hold on Dr. MacFarlane. When Fettes asks, Gray to get a body so that MacFarlane can dissect the spine as preparation for the operation on Georgina, Gray brings him the body of a street singer who Fettes knew to be alive and healthy just a few hours earlier. He realizes that Gray is not just robbing graveyards for bodies, but also committing murder. MacFarlane goes to Gray and kills him, so that he can be free of Gray's influence, but after robbing a grave himself, consumed with guilt, MacFarlane imagines that Gray is still alive.
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BON VOYAGE (2003) Dir: Jean-Paul Rappeneau. Writer: Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Patrick Modiano. Viviane Denvers: Isabelle Adjani, Jean-Etienne Beaufort: Gerard Depardieu, Camille: Virginie Ledoyen, Raul: Yvan Attal, Frederic Auger: Gregori Derangere, Alex Winckler: Peter Coyote, Professor Kopolski: Jean-Marc Stehle. Viviane, a French Actress in pre World war 2 Paris who has a habit of attaching herself to rich or powerful men. When she kills her latest benefactor, she calls childhood admirer, Frederic Auger, a writer living in Paris to help her dispose of the body. When he's caught and accused of murder, Viviane goes to Interior Minister Jean-Etienne Beufort for help with a cover up. When the Germans march into Paris, Viviane flees south with the government. Frederic and Raul a gangster escape from prison in the confusion. On the train south they meet Camille, an assistant to atomic scientist Professor Kopolski, trying to escape to England with a supply of heavy water, needed in atomic research. Viviane in her attempts to find safety enlists the help of journalist Alex Winckler, who's also a German spy, making the escape of the professor almost impossible.
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THE BROADWAY MELODY (1929) Dir: Harry Beaumont. Writer: Edmund Golding, Norman Houston. Eddie Kearns: Charles King, Queenie Mahoney: Anita Page, Hank Mahoney: Bessie Love, Uncle Jed: Jed Prouty, Jacques Warriner: Kenneth Thomson, Francis Zanfield: Eddie Kane. Sister act Hank and Queenie Mahoney arrive in New York at the urging of Hank's boyfriend, Eddie Kearns. Once in New York all attention goes to Queenie, leaving the more talented and driven Hank behind. Eddie also transfers his affection from Hank to Queenie.
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THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1920) Dir: Robert Wiene. Writer: Hans Janowitz, Carl Mayer. Dr. Caligari: Werner Krauss, Cesare: Conrad Veidt, Francis: Friedrich Feher, Jane Olsen: Lil Dagover, Alan: Hans Heinrich von Twardowski. Francis tells the story of Dr. Caligari, a carnival entertainer, who comes to town with the somnambulist, Cesare. When aroused from his sleep, Cesare can read the future. He tells Alan that he will be dead by dawn. When Alan is murdered, Cesare is the main suspect. Cesare kidnaps Alan's fiance, Jane Olsen. Francis follows Caligari to an insane asylum where he is the head of the medical staff.
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CASABLANCA (1942) Dir: Michael Curtiz. Writer: Jules J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein. Rick Blaine: Humphrey Bogart, Ilsa Lund: Ingrid Bergman, Victor Laszlo: Paul Henreid, Captain Renault: Claude Rains, Major Strasser: Conrad Veidt, Sam: Dooley Wilson, Carl: S. Z. Sakall, Signor Ferrari: Sydney Greenstreet, Ugarte: Peter Lorre, Yvonne: Madeleine Lebeau, Emil the Croupier: Marcel Dalio, The Pickpocket: Curt Bois. American expatriate, Rick Blaine runs a bar in Casablanca, the capitol of French Moroco during World War 2. When his foirmer lover, Ilsa Lund, walks into his bar, accompanied by her husband Victor Laszlo, the leader of the European anti-Nazi movement. They seek to escape to the United States and are after letters of transit stolen by Ugarte. Rick has to decide whether to help them or not, while German Major Strasser tries to prevent the escape, and Vichy French police captain Renault, plays both sides.
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THE CHEAT (1915) Dir: Cecil B. DeMille. Writer: Hector Turnbull, Jeanie Macpherson. Edith Hardy: Fannie Ward, Hishuru Tori: Sessue Hayakawa, Richard Hardy: Jack Dean, Jones: James Neill, Tori's Valet: Yatake Abe. When socialite Edith Hardy, worried that her stockbroker husband Richard may loose their money in a deal, she impulsively embezzles $10,000 from a charity committee that she chairs so that she can make her own investment. When she loses the money, she turns to Burmese ivory king, Hishuru Tori. He gives her the money to cover up her theft, but he also brands her to symbolise his ownership of Edith. When Jack finds out he confronts Tori and in the struggle that follows, he shoots Tori. Tori survives and charges Richard with attempted murder. To avoid the scandal, Richard refuses to implicate Edith.
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CHESS FEVER (1925) Dir: Vsevolod Pudovkin. Writer: Nikolai Shpikovsky. The Hero: Vladimir Fogel, His Fiancee: Natalya Glan. A young man's obsession with chess threatens his relationship with his chess hating fiancee.
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CHOOSE ME (1984) Dir: Alan Rudolph. Writer: Alan Rudolph. Mickey: Keith Carradine, Eve: Lesley Ann Warren, Dr. Nancy Love/Ann: Genevieve Bujold, Zack Antoine: Patrick Bauchou, Pearl Antoine: Rae Dawn Chong. Mickey can either not tell the truth, or he's incapable of lying. He wanders away from a mental institution and ends up at Eve's a bar in Los Angeles. He meets and falls for Eve, and Pearl the wife of a gangster. Meanwhile Eve calls talk radio shrink, Dr. Nancy Love, who has emotional problems of her own. Using the name Ann, she ends up as Eve's house mate. Despite all of the romantic complications, Mickey and Eve end up together.
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A CORNER IN WHEAT (1909) Dir: D.W. Griffith. Writer: Griffith, based on a novel by Frank Norris. The Wheat King: Frank Powell, The Wheat King's Wife: Grace Henderson, A Farmer: James Kirkwood, The Farmer's Wife: Linda Arvidson. A tycoon decides to corner the world's wheat market, doubles the price of bread, causes hunger and poverty.
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THE CRAZY RAY see PARIS QUI DORT
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CASABLANCA (1942) Dir: Michael Curtiz. Writer: Jules J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein. Rick Blaine: Humphrey Bogart, Ilsa Lund: Ingrid Bergman, Victor Laszlo: Paul Henreid, Captain Renault: Claude Rains, Major Strasser: Conrad Veidt, Sam: Dooley Wilson, Carl: S. Z. Sakall, Signor Ferrari: Sydney Greenstreet, Ugarte: Peter Lorre, Yvonne: Madeleine Lebeau, Emil the Croupier: Marcel Dalio, The Pickpocket: Curt Bois. American expatriate, Rick Blaine runs a bar in Casablanca, the capitol of French Moroco during World War 2. When his foirmer lover, Ilsa Lund, walks into his bar, accompanied by her husband Victor Laszlo, the leader of the European anti-Nazi movement. They seek to escape to the United States and are after letters of transit stolen by Ugarte. Rick has to decide whether to help them or not, while German Major Strasser tries to prevent the escape, and Vichy French police captain Renault, plays both sides.
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THE CHEAT (1915) Dir: Cecil B. DeMille. Writer: Hector Turnbull, Jeanie Macpherson. Edith Hardy: Fannie Ward, Hishuru Tori: Sessue Hayakawa, Richard Hardy: Jack Dean, Jones: James Neill, Tori's Valet: Yatake Abe. When socialite Edith Hardy, worried that her stockbroker husband Richard may loose their money in a deal, she impulsively embezzles $10,000 from a charity committee that she chairs so that she can make her own investment. When she loses the money, she turns to Burmese ivory king, Hishuru Tori. He gives her the money to cover up her theft, but he also brands her to symbolise his ownership of Edith. When Jack finds out he confronts Tori and in the struggle that follows, he shoots Tori. Tori survives and charges Richard with attempted murder. To avoid the scandal, Richard refuses to implicate Edith.
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CHESS FEVER (1925) Dir: Vsevolod Pudovkin. Writer: Nikolai Shpikovsky. The Hero: Vladimir Fogel, His Fiancee: Natalya Glan. A young man's obsession with chess threatens his relationship with his chess hating fiancee.
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CHOOSE ME (1984) Dir: Alan Rudolph. Writer: Alan Rudolph. Mickey: Keith Carradine, Eve: Lesley Ann Warren, Dr. Nancy Love/Ann: Genevieve Bujold, Zack Antoine: Patrick Bauchou, Pearl Antoine: Rae Dawn Chong. Mickey can either not tell the truth, or he's incapable of lying. He wanders away from a mental institution and ends up at Eve's a bar in Los Angeles. He meets and falls for Eve, and Pearl the wife of a gangster. Meanwhile Eve calls talk radio shrink, Dr. Nancy Love, who has emotional problems of her own. Using the name Ann, she ends up as Eve's house mate. Despite all of the romantic complications, Mickey and Eve end up together.
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A CORNER IN WHEAT (1909) Dir: D.W. Griffith. Writer: Griffith, based on a novel by Frank Norris. The Wheat King: Frank Powell, The Wheat King's Wife: Grace Henderson, A Farmer: James Kirkwood, The Farmer's Wife: Linda Arvidson. A tycoon decides to corner the world's wheat market, doubles the price of bread, causes hunger and poverty.
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DAMES (1934) Dir: Ray Enright, Busby Berkeley. Writer: Robert Lord, Delmer Daves. Jimmy Higgens: Dick Powell, Barbara Hemingway: Ruby Keeler, Mabel Anderson: Joan Blondell, Guy Kibee: Horace P. Hemingway, Mathilda Hemingway: Zazu Pitts, Ezra Ounce: Hugh Herbert. Millionaire uncle Ezra plans to leave $10,000,000 to Horace P. Hemingway, his wife Mathilda and daughter Barbara if they demonstrate an extreme level of morality. Barbara's 13th cousin Jimmy Higgens is an actor and songwriter as well as Barbara's secret boyfriend. With the help of Mabel Anderson, Jimmy blackmails Horace into financing his Broadway show. Ezra who is also the head of the Ounce Foundation for the Elevation of American Morals and vows to close Jimmy's show. Barbara has also gotten a job as a dancer in the show.
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THE DAMNED (1969) Dir: Luchino Visconti. Writer: Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti. Frederich Bruckmann: Dirk Bogarde, Sophie Von Essenbeck: Ingrid Thulin. Martin Von Essenbeck: Helmut Berger, Aschbach: Helmut Griem, Gunther Von Essenbeck: Renaud Verley, Herbert Thallman: Umberto Orsini, Elisabeth Thallman: Charlotte Rampling, Konstantin Von Essenbeck: Reinhard Kolldehoff, Joachim Von Essenbeck: Albrecht Schoenhals. The extended Von Essenbeck family fights for control of the family steel and armaments company in the decade before World War 2. Some of the family members ally themselves with the SA and some with the SS. Their conflict includes murder and sending family members to concentration camps.
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DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY (1967) Dir: Jim McBride. Writer:Jim McBride. David Holzman: L.M. Kit Carson, Penny Wohl: Eileen Dietz. Young film maker, David Holzman makes a documentary about his everyday life.
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DR MABUSE, THE GAMBLER (1922) Dir: Fritz Lang. Writer: Thea von Harbou. Dr. Mabuse: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Cara Carozza: Aud Egede Nissen, Countess Dusy Told: Gertrude Welcker, Count Told: Alfred Abel, State Attorney von Wenk: Bernhard Goetzke, Edgar Hull: Paul Richter, Spoerri: Forster-Larrinaga. Dr. Mabuse, psychiatrist, hypnotist, master of disguise, gambler and master criminal matches wits with State Attorney von Wenk, while causing havoc in Berlin.
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THE DAMNED (1969) Dir: Luchino Visconti. Writer: Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti. Frederich Bruckmann: Dirk Bogarde, Sophie Von Essenbeck: Ingrid Thulin. Martin Von Essenbeck: Helmut Berger, Aschbach: Helmut Griem, Gunther Von Essenbeck: Renaud Verley, Herbert Thallman: Umberto Orsini, Elisabeth Thallman: Charlotte Rampling, Konstantin Von Essenbeck: Reinhard Kolldehoff, Joachim Von Essenbeck: Albrecht Schoenhals. The extended Von Essenbeck family fights for control of the family steel and armaments company in the decade before World War 2. Some of the family members ally themselves with the SA and some with the SS. Their conflict includes murder and sending family members to concentration camps.
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DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY (1967) Dir: Jim McBride. Writer:Jim McBride. David Holzman: L.M. Kit Carson, Penny Wohl: Eileen Dietz. Young film maker, David Holzman makes a documentary about his everyday life.
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DR MABUSE, THE GAMBLER (1922) Dir: Fritz Lang. Writer: Thea von Harbou. Dr. Mabuse: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Cara Carozza: Aud Egede Nissen, Countess Dusy Told: Gertrude Welcker, Count Told: Alfred Abel, State Attorney von Wenk: Bernhard Goetzke, Edgar Hull: Paul Richter, Spoerri: Forster-Larrinaga. Dr. Mabuse, psychiatrist, hypnotist, master of disguise, gambler and master criminal matches wits with State Attorney von Wenk, while causing havoc in Berlin.
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THE EAGLE (1925) Dir: Clarence Brown. Writer: George Marion, Jr. Lt. Vladimir Dubrovsky/The Black Eagle/Marcel Le Blanc: Rudolph Valentino, Czarina Catherine II: Louise Dresser, Mascha Troekouroff: Vilma Banky, Kyrilla Troekouroff: James Marcus, Capt. Kuschka: Albert Conti. When Lt. Dubrovsky of Czarina Catherine II's Imperial Guard refuses her romantic advances, he is forced to flee for his life, only to discover that his father's estate has been stolen by Kyrilla Troekouroff with the help of a corrupt judge. Under the guise of The Black Eagle, Dubrovsky becomes a Robin Hood type bandit, also swearing revenge on Kyrilla. Dubrovsky's men seize Kyrilla's daughter Mascha, but Dubrovsky is in love with her and lets her go. When Dubrovsky meets Marcel Le Blanc, hired as a French tutor by Kyrilla for Mascha, Dubrovsky takes his place to be near both Troekuoroffs. He is eventually found out, but is arrested by the Czarina's forces, he is condemned to death.
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EASY RIDER (1969) Dir: Dennis Hopper. Writer: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern. Wyatt: Peter Fonda, Billy: Dennis Hopper, The Connection: Phil Spector, George Hanson: Jack Nicholson, Karen: Karen Black. Wyatt and Billy, two bikers make a big score on a drug sale and hit the road from Los Angeles to New Orleans. Along the way they visit communes, drop acid, and pick up failed, small town southern lawyer, George Hanson.
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EIGHT MEN OUT (1988) Dir: John Sayles. Writer: John Sayles. Buck Weaver: John Cusack, Eddie Cicotte: David Strathairn, Charles Comiskey: Clifton James, Arnold Rothstein: Michael Lerner, Sleepy Bill Burns: Christopher Lloyd, Chick Gandil: Michael Rooker, Shoeless Joe Jackson: D. B. Sweeney, Hap Felsch: Charlie Sheen, Swede Risberg: Don Harvey, Kid Gleason: John Mahoney, Lefty Williams: James Read, Ring Lardner: John Sayles, Hugh Fullerton: Studs Terkel, Eddie Collins: Bill Irwin, Sport Sullivan: Kevin Tighe, Judge Kenesaw Landis: John Anderson. The story of the 1919 Black Sox scandal, when some members of the Chicago White Sox threw the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds.
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EMPLOYEES LEAVING THE LUMIERE FACTORY (1895) Dir:Louis Lumiere. Employees leave work at the Lumiere Brothers factory.
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THE END OF VIOLENCE (1996) Dir: Wim Wenders. Writer: Nicholas Klein. Mike Max: Bill Pullman, Paige Stockard: Andie MacDowell, Ray Bering: Gabriel Byrne, Doc Block: Loren Dean, Cat: Traci Lind, Brice Phelps: Daniel Benzali, Louis Bering: Sam Fuller. When scientist Ray Bering, working on a top secret plan to provide electronic surveillance for the whole United States has second thoughts, he emails the FBI file to movie producer, Mike Max. Max becomes a target of government assassins, and goes into hiding. Over the following months he investigates what's happening in his life since going underground.
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EASY RIDER (1969) Dir: Dennis Hopper. Writer: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern. Wyatt: Peter Fonda, Billy: Dennis Hopper, The Connection: Phil Spector, George Hanson: Jack Nicholson, Karen: Karen Black. Wyatt and Billy, two bikers make a big score on a drug sale and hit the road from Los Angeles to New Orleans. Along the way they visit communes, drop acid, and pick up failed, small town southern lawyer, George Hanson.
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EIGHT MEN OUT (1988) Dir: John Sayles. Writer: John Sayles. Buck Weaver: John Cusack, Eddie Cicotte: David Strathairn, Charles Comiskey: Clifton James, Arnold Rothstein: Michael Lerner, Sleepy Bill Burns: Christopher Lloyd, Chick Gandil: Michael Rooker, Shoeless Joe Jackson: D. B. Sweeney, Hap Felsch: Charlie Sheen, Swede Risberg: Don Harvey, Kid Gleason: John Mahoney, Lefty Williams: James Read, Ring Lardner: John Sayles, Hugh Fullerton: Studs Terkel, Eddie Collins: Bill Irwin, Sport Sullivan: Kevin Tighe, Judge Kenesaw Landis: John Anderson. The story of the 1919 Black Sox scandal, when some members of the Chicago White Sox threw the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds.
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EMPLOYEES LEAVING THE LUMIERE FACTORY (1895) Dir:Louis Lumiere. Employees leave work at the Lumiere Brothers factory.
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THE END OF VIOLENCE (1996) Dir: Wim Wenders. Writer: Nicholas Klein. Mike Max: Bill Pullman, Paige Stockard: Andie MacDowell, Ray Bering: Gabriel Byrne, Doc Block: Loren Dean, Cat: Traci Lind, Brice Phelps: Daniel Benzali, Louis Bering: Sam Fuller. When scientist Ray Bering, working on a top secret plan to provide electronic surveillance for the whole United States has second thoughts, he emails the FBI file to movie producer, Mike Max. Max becomes a target of government assassins, and goes into hiding. Over the following months he investigates what's happening in his life since going underground.
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THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (1928) Dir: James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber. Writer: Edgar Allan Poe. Roderick Usher: Herbert Stern, Madeline Usher: Hildegarde Watson, Traveller: Melville Webber. A traveller arrives at the house of Usher to find siblings, Roderick with a heightened sense of his surroundings and Madeline in almost catatonic state.
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FLY (1970) Dir: John Lennon, Yoko Ono. Writer: John Lennon, Yoko Ono. The Woman: Virginia Lust. A fly is filmed in extreme close-up as it walks on the body of a naked woman.
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FLYING DOWN TO RIO (1933) Dir: Thornton Freeland. Writer: Cyril Hume, H.W. Hanemann, Erwin Gelsey. Belinha De Rezende: Dolores del Rio, Roger Bond: Gene Raymond, Julio Ruberio: Raul Roulien, Honey Hale: Ginger Rogers, Fred Ayres: Fred Astaire. When The Yankee Clippers band leader and amateur aviator, Roger Bond gets the band fired from a Miami hotel by flirting with patron, Belinha De Rezende, he gets the band a new job at a brand new hotel in Rio de Jeneiro. Meanwhile, Belinha has returned to Rio to see her father, the owner of the Hotel Atlantico, that has hired The Yankee Clippers. Too, Julio Ruberio, the best friend of Roger Bond is the fiance of Belinha. When three Greeks from Monaco try to take over the Hotel Atlantico by interfering with the hotel's entertainment permit. Roger, Fred Ayers and Honey Hale come to the rescue by staging a show on the wings of airplanes that fly over the hotel. Julio realizes that Belinha is really in love with Roger, so he steps aside.
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FORT APACHE (1948) Dir: John Ford. Writer: Frank S. Nugent. Capt. Kirby York: John Wayne, Lt. Col. Owen Thursday: Henry Fonda, Philadelphia Thursday: Shirley Temple, Sgt. Maj. Michael O'Rourke: Ward Bond, Lt. Michael Shannon O'Rourke: John Agar, George O'Brien: Capt. Sam Collingwood, Mrs. Emily Collingwood: Anna Lee, Sgt. Festus Mulcahy: Victor McLaglin, Silas Meacham: Grant Withers, Sgt. Beaufort: Pedro Armendariz, Mrs. Mary O'Rourke: Irene Rich, Cochise: Miguel Inclan. When glory seeking Lt. Col. Owen Thursday arrives to take command of Fort Apache, he comes into conflict with Capt. Kirby York. Thursday wants to pursue and capture Cochise, while York favors negotiation and the replacement of Indian Agent Silas Meacham. Col. Thursday's daughter, Philadelphia, enters into a romance with Sgt. Maj. O'Rourke's son, Lt. Michael Shannon O'Rourke. Col. Thursday tries to break up the relationship. Capt. York gets Cochise to agree to return to the reservation, but Col. Thursday double crosses York and Cochise and leads his command into battle against the Apaches and gets his command wiped out.
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49th PARALLEL (1941) Dir: Michael Powell. Writer: Emeric Pressbirger, Rodney Ackland. Lt. Hirth: Eric Portman, Lt. Kuhnecke: Raymond Lovell, Vogel: Naill MacGinnis, Kranz: Peter Moore, Lohmann: John Chandos, Johnny the Trapper: Laurence Olivier, Peter: Anton Walbrook, Anna: Glynis Johns, Philip Armstrong Scott: Leslie Howard, Andy Brock: Raymond Massey. When a German U-Boat tries to hide from allied patrols in Hudson's Bay, Canada, they put launch a shore party to get supplies. When Canadian bombers sink the U-Boat, the shore party is stranded. They make an attempt to escape Canada. They raid a Hudson's Bay Company store and kill Johnny the trapper, Eskimos, as well as some fliers sent by the company to investigate. They steal the plane, crash and find themselves in a Hutterite community. When Vogel, the only non Nazi in the group tries to leave, Lt. Hirth orders his execution. They steal from Philip Armstrong Scott, a Canadian writer's camp in the Rocky Mountains. In the end, Lt. Hirth is the only Nazi not either killed or captured. He tries to escape into a still neutral United States, but is prevented by Canadian soldier, Andy Brock, and is sent back to Canada by U.S. Customs agents.
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FOUR MEN ON A RAFT (1942) Dir: Orson Welles. Writer: Orson Welles. Themselves: Manuel "Jacare" Olimpio Meira, Jeronimo Andre De Souza, Raimundo "Tata" Correia Lima, Manuel "Preto" Pereira De Silva, Jose Sobrinho, Francisca Moreira Da Silva. When a young fisherman and husband dies in an accident at sea, four of his fellow fishermen sail from their small village to Rio de Janeiro, the then capital of Brazil to ask for relief for their hard lives. See IT'S ALL TRUE.
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FRANKENSTEIN (1931) Dir: James Whale. Writer: Garrett Fort, Francis Edward Farough. Henry Frankenstein: Colin Clive, The Monster: Boris Karloff, Elizabeth: Mae Clarke, Victor Moritz: John Boles, Fritz: Dwight Frye. Scientist Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with creating human life. He assembles a body from cadavers stolen from cemeteries, and adds a brain from a dead criminal. When the monster kills Henry's assistant, Fritz and his ex teacher, the monster escapes. Henry who has returned home to marry his fiancee, Elizabeth, has his wedding interrupted when the monster, now on the loose and terrorizing the country side kills a child, little Maria. Henry leads the townspeople in search of the monster, cornering him in an old windmill.
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FLY (1970) Dir: John Lennon, Yoko Ono. Writer: John Lennon, Yoko Ono. The Woman: Virginia Lust. A fly is filmed in extreme close-up as it walks on the body of a naked woman.
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FLYING DOWN TO RIO (1933) Dir: Thornton Freeland. Writer: Cyril Hume, H.W. Hanemann, Erwin Gelsey. Belinha De Rezende: Dolores del Rio, Roger Bond: Gene Raymond, Julio Ruberio: Raul Roulien, Honey Hale: Ginger Rogers, Fred Ayres: Fred Astaire. When The Yankee Clippers band leader and amateur aviator, Roger Bond gets the band fired from a Miami hotel by flirting with patron, Belinha De Rezende, he gets the band a new job at a brand new hotel in Rio de Jeneiro. Meanwhile, Belinha has returned to Rio to see her father, the owner of the Hotel Atlantico, that has hired The Yankee Clippers. Too, Julio Ruberio, the best friend of Roger Bond is the fiance of Belinha. When three Greeks from Monaco try to take over the Hotel Atlantico by interfering with the hotel's entertainment permit. Roger, Fred Ayers and Honey Hale come to the rescue by staging a show on the wings of airplanes that fly over the hotel. Julio realizes that Belinha is really in love with Roger, so he steps aside.
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FORT APACHE (1948) Dir: John Ford. Writer: Frank S. Nugent. Capt. Kirby York: John Wayne, Lt. Col. Owen Thursday: Henry Fonda, Philadelphia Thursday: Shirley Temple, Sgt. Maj. Michael O'Rourke: Ward Bond, Lt. Michael Shannon O'Rourke: John Agar, George O'Brien: Capt. Sam Collingwood, Mrs. Emily Collingwood: Anna Lee, Sgt. Festus Mulcahy: Victor McLaglin, Silas Meacham: Grant Withers, Sgt. Beaufort: Pedro Armendariz, Mrs. Mary O'Rourke: Irene Rich, Cochise: Miguel Inclan. When glory seeking Lt. Col. Owen Thursday arrives to take command of Fort Apache, he comes into conflict with Capt. Kirby York. Thursday wants to pursue and capture Cochise, while York favors negotiation and the replacement of Indian Agent Silas Meacham. Col. Thursday's daughter, Philadelphia, enters into a romance with Sgt. Maj. O'Rourke's son, Lt. Michael Shannon O'Rourke. Col. Thursday tries to break up the relationship. Capt. York gets Cochise to agree to return to the reservation, but Col. Thursday double crosses York and Cochise and leads his command into battle against the Apaches and gets his command wiped out.
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49th PARALLEL (1941) Dir: Michael Powell. Writer: Emeric Pressbirger, Rodney Ackland. Lt. Hirth: Eric Portman, Lt. Kuhnecke: Raymond Lovell, Vogel: Naill MacGinnis, Kranz: Peter Moore, Lohmann: John Chandos, Johnny the Trapper: Laurence Olivier, Peter: Anton Walbrook, Anna: Glynis Johns, Philip Armstrong Scott: Leslie Howard, Andy Brock: Raymond Massey. When a German U-Boat tries to hide from allied patrols in Hudson's Bay, Canada, they put launch a shore party to get supplies. When Canadian bombers sink the U-Boat, the shore party is stranded. They make an attempt to escape Canada. They raid a Hudson's Bay Company store and kill Johnny the trapper, Eskimos, as well as some fliers sent by the company to investigate. They steal the plane, crash and find themselves in a Hutterite community. When Vogel, the only non Nazi in the group tries to leave, Lt. Hirth orders his execution. They steal from Philip Armstrong Scott, a Canadian writer's camp in the Rocky Mountains. In the end, Lt. Hirth is the only Nazi not either killed or captured. He tries to escape into a still neutral United States, but is prevented by Canadian soldier, Andy Brock, and is sent back to Canada by U.S. Customs agents.
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FOUR MEN ON A RAFT (1942) Dir: Orson Welles. Writer: Orson Welles. Themselves: Manuel "Jacare" Olimpio Meira, Jeronimo Andre De Souza, Raimundo "Tata" Correia Lima, Manuel "Preto" Pereira De Silva, Jose Sobrinho, Francisca Moreira Da Silva. When a young fisherman and husband dies in an accident at sea, four of his fellow fishermen sail from their small village to Rio de Janeiro, the then capital of Brazil to ask for relief for their hard lives. See IT'S ALL TRUE.
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FRANKENSTEIN (1931) Dir: James Whale. Writer: Garrett Fort, Francis Edward Farough. Henry Frankenstein: Colin Clive, The Monster: Boris Karloff, Elizabeth: Mae Clarke, Victor Moritz: John Boles, Fritz: Dwight Frye. Scientist Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with creating human life. He assembles a body from cadavers stolen from cemeteries, and adds a brain from a dead criminal. When the monster kills Henry's assistant, Fritz and his ex teacher, the monster escapes. Henry who has returned home to marry his fiancee, Elizabeth, has his wedding interrupted when the monster, now on the loose and terrorizing the country side kills a child, little Maria. Henry leads the townspeople in search of the monster, cornering him in an old windmill.
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THE GIRL AND HER TRUST (1912) Dir: D.W. Griffith. Writer: George Hennessy. Grace a Telegraph Operator: Dorothy Bernard, Jack a Railroad Express Agent: Wilfred Lucas. Grace, a telegrapher is kidnapped by tramps when she tries to prevent them from stealing a strong box. Jack pursues the tramps and rescues Grace.
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THE GODDESS (1934) Dir: Wu Yonggang. Writter: Wu Yonggang. The Goddess: Ruan Ling-yu. The Boss: Zhang Zhizhi. In Shanghai, the Goddess, a single mother, sells herself on the streets to support her young son. Escaping from police raid she blunders into the room of the Boss, a street thug, who quickly becomes her pimp. She tries to escape the Boss, but is tracked down. She has sent her son to school, but when the other mothers discover that she is a prostitute, they demand the expulsion of her son. The school's headmaster tries to prevent the child's expulsion, and resigns in protest when he doesn't succeed. When the Boss finds and steals her hidden stash of money, the Goddess kills the Boss. The headmaster adopts the son when the Goddess is sent to prison for the murder. For a more detailed review, go to www.thenewcommonsense-wjy.blogspot.com/2010/05/goddess-silent-movie-dvd-of-week.html
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GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (1933) Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Dance Sequences Dir: Busby Berkeley. Writer: David Boehm, Erwin S. Gelsey. Brad Roberts AKA Robert Treat Bradford: Dick Powell, Carol King: Joan Blondell, Polly Parker: Ruby Keeler, Trixie Lorraine: Aline MacMahon, J. Lawrence Bradford: Warren William, Fanuel H. Peabody: Guy Kibbee, Fay Fortune: Ginger Rogers. Boston blue blood, Robert Treat Bradford goes to New York, changes his name to Brad Roberts to become a Broadway composer. With the help of his show girl neighbors, Polly, Trixie, Carol, and Fay, he gets a show produced, with the girls as the stars. When his brother, J. Lawrence Bradford, discovers that his brother, Brad/Robert, has entered show business, accompanied by family lawyer, Fanuel H. Peabody, he tries to disinherit Brad. The show girls set their sights on J. Lawrence and Fanuel, both to save the show and take the two Bostonians for some money.
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GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK (2005) Dir: George Clooney. Writer: George Clooney, Grant Heslov. Edward R. Murrow: David Strathairn, Fred Friendly: George Clooney, Joe Wershba: Robert Downey, Jr., Patricia Clarkson: Shirley Wershba, Sig Mickelson: Jeff Daniels, William Paley: Frank Langella, Don Hollenbeck: Ray Wise. Joseph McCarthy, Roy M. Cohn: Archive Footage. CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow and producer Fred Friendly take on Sen. Joseph McCarthy at the height of the 50's anti-communist witch hunts.
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GRAND ILLUSION (1938) Dir: Jean Renoir. Writer: Charles Spaak, Jean Renoir. Lt. Marechal: Jean Gabin, Elsa:Dita Parlo, Capt. de Boeldieu: Pierre Fresnay, Capt. von Rauffenstein: Erich von Stroheim, Lt. Rosenthal: Marcel Dalio. When French pilot, Lt. Marechal and staff officer Capt. de Boeldieu are shot down by German pilot, Capt. von Rauffenstein, they are sent to a series of prisoner of war camps. Because of their record of escape attempts, they are sent to an old castle that is being used to house escape risks, commanded by Capt. von Rauffenstein,now badly injured from a crash. The two prisoners are reunited with Lt. Rosenthal, whom they met at their first POW camp. Capt. de Boeldieu and Capt. von Rauffenstein become close friends because of their common backgrounds. Capt. de Boeldieu creates a diversion so that Marechal and Rosenthal can escape, and is shot by von Rauffenstein. He dies, but the two escapees get away. As they near the Swiss border, they take refuge in a barn. They are discovered by the farm's owner, Elsa a German war widow, with a young daughter. Elsa and Marechal fall in love, but in the end, he and Rosenthal leave and make their way to Switzerland and freedom.
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GRASS: A NATION'S BATTLE FOR LIFE (1924) Dir: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack. Writers: (Titles) Richard P. Carver, Terry Ramsaye. As Themselves: Marguerite Harrison, Haidar Kahn, the chief of the Bakhatiari people, Lufta, his son. A silent documentary about the Bakhatiari people of Iran as they move their 50,000 people and millions of animals to pasture.
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THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (1903) Dir: Edwin S. Porter. Writers: Porter, Scott Marble. A Bandit, Shot Passenger, Tenderfoot Dancer: Gilbert "Bronco Billy" Anderson, Bandit Who Shoots at Camera: Justus B. Barnes, Little Girl: Mary Snow. The title pretty much tells it all. A gang robs a train, in the old west. They're pursued and either shot or captured. Some hand colored sequences.
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GREEN ZONE (2010) Dir: Paul Greengrass. Writer: Brian Helgeland. Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller: Matt Damon, Clark Poundstone: Greg Kinnear, Martin Brown: Brendan Gleeson, Freddy: Khalid Abdalla, Lawrie Dayne: Amy Ryan, General Al Rawi: Yigal Naor. When Chief Roy Miller is sent into Baghdad to secure WMD's at the beginning of the second Iraq war, he soon discovers that the evidence of WMD's was false. He begins a search for the truth that leads him to high ranking American officials.
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THE GODDESS (1934) Dir: Wu Yonggang. Writter: Wu Yonggang. The Goddess: Ruan Ling-yu. The Boss: Zhang Zhizhi. In Shanghai, the Goddess, a single mother, sells herself on the streets to support her young son. Escaping from police raid she blunders into the room of the Boss, a street thug, who quickly becomes her pimp. She tries to escape the Boss, but is tracked down. She has sent her son to school, but when the other mothers discover that she is a prostitute, they demand the expulsion of her son. The school's headmaster tries to prevent the child's expulsion, and resigns in protest when he doesn't succeed. When the Boss finds and steals her hidden stash of money, the Goddess kills the Boss. The headmaster adopts the son when the Goddess is sent to prison for the murder. For a more detailed review, go to www.thenewcommonsense-wjy.blogspot.com/2010/05/goddess-silent-movie-dvd-of-week.html
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GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (1933) Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Dance Sequences Dir: Busby Berkeley. Writer: David Boehm, Erwin S. Gelsey. Brad Roberts AKA Robert Treat Bradford: Dick Powell, Carol King: Joan Blondell, Polly Parker: Ruby Keeler, Trixie Lorraine: Aline MacMahon, J. Lawrence Bradford: Warren William, Fanuel H. Peabody: Guy Kibbee, Fay Fortune: Ginger Rogers. Boston blue blood, Robert Treat Bradford goes to New York, changes his name to Brad Roberts to become a Broadway composer. With the help of his show girl neighbors, Polly, Trixie, Carol, and Fay, he gets a show produced, with the girls as the stars. When his brother, J. Lawrence Bradford, discovers that his brother, Brad/Robert, has entered show business, accompanied by family lawyer, Fanuel H. Peabody, he tries to disinherit Brad. The show girls set their sights on J. Lawrence and Fanuel, both to save the show and take the two Bostonians for some money.
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GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK (2005) Dir: George Clooney. Writer: George Clooney, Grant Heslov. Edward R. Murrow: David Strathairn, Fred Friendly: George Clooney, Joe Wershba: Robert Downey, Jr., Patricia Clarkson: Shirley Wershba, Sig Mickelson: Jeff Daniels, William Paley: Frank Langella, Don Hollenbeck: Ray Wise. Joseph McCarthy, Roy M. Cohn: Archive Footage. CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow and producer Fred Friendly take on Sen. Joseph McCarthy at the height of the 50's anti-communist witch hunts.
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GRAND ILLUSION (1938) Dir: Jean Renoir. Writer: Charles Spaak, Jean Renoir. Lt. Marechal: Jean Gabin, Elsa:Dita Parlo, Capt. de Boeldieu: Pierre Fresnay, Capt. von Rauffenstein: Erich von Stroheim, Lt. Rosenthal: Marcel Dalio. When French pilot, Lt. Marechal and staff officer Capt. de Boeldieu are shot down by German pilot, Capt. von Rauffenstein, they are sent to a series of prisoner of war camps. Because of their record of escape attempts, they are sent to an old castle that is being used to house escape risks, commanded by Capt. von Rauffenstein,now badly injured from a crash. The two prisoners are reunited with Lt. Rosenthal, whom they met at their first POW camp. Capt. de Boeldieu and Capt. von Rauffenstein become close friends because of their common backgrounds. Capt. de Boeldieu creates a diversion so that Marechal and Rosenthal can escape, and is shot by von Rauffenstein. He dies, but the two escapees get away. As they near the Swiss border, they take refuge in a barn. They are discovered by the farm's owner, Elsa a German war widow, with a young daughter. Elsa and Marechal fall in love, but in the end, he and Rosenthal leave and make their way to Switzerland and freedom.
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GRASS: A NATION'S BATTLE FOR LIFE (1924) Dir: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack. Writers: (Titles) Richard P. Carver, Terry Ramsaye. As Themselves: Marguerite Harrison, Haidar Kahn, the chief of the Bakhatiari people, Lufta, his son. A silent documentary about the Bakhatiari people of Iran as they move their 50,000 people and millions of animals to pasture.
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THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (1903) Dir: Edwin S. Porter. Writers: Porter, Scott Marble. A Bandit, Shot Passenger, Tenderfoot Dancer: Gilbert "Bronco Billy" Anderson, Bandit Who Shoots at Camera: Justus B. Barnes, Little Girl: Mary Snow. The title pretty much tells it all. A gang robs a train, in the old west. They're pursued and either shot or captured. Some hand colored sequences.
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GREEN ZONE (2010) Dir: Paul Greengrass. Writer: Brian Helgeland. Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller: Matt Damon, Clark Poundstone: Greg Kinnear, Martin Brown: Brendan Gleeson, Freddy: Khalid Abdalla, Lawrie Dayne: Amy Ryan, General Al Rawi: Yigal Naor. When Chief Roy Miller is sent into Baghdad to secure WMD's at the beginning of the second Iraq war, he soon discovers that the evidence of WMD's was false. He begins a search for the truth that leads him to high ranking American officials.
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HELL DRIVERS (1957) Dir: Cy Endfield. Writer: John Kruse, Cy Endfield. Tom Yately: Stanley Baker, "Red" Redman: Patrick McGoohan, Gino: Herbert Lom, Lucy: Peggy Cummins, Cartley: William Hartnell, Jimmy Yately: David McCallum, Johnny Kates: Sean Connery, Jill: Jill Ireland. Hawlett Trucking hires drifters as drivers. When Tom Yately, an ex-con, is hired, he challenges road foreman, "Red" Redman for supremacy as the best driver. When all of the drivers band together against Tom, except his friend, Gino, things turn deadly. When Lucy, the company's office girl tells Tom that the office manger, Cartley and Red are carrying five nonexistent drivers on the books and keeping the money, Tom threatens to expose them.
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HELL'S ANGELS (1930) Dir: Howard Hughes. Writer: Harry Behn, Howard Estabrook. Monte Rutledge: Ben Lyon, Roy Rutledge: James Hall, Helen: Jean Harlow, Karl Armstedt: James Darrow, Baron Von Kranz: Lucien Prival, Zeppelin Commander: Carl Von Haartman. Two brothers, Roy Rutledge, brave and noble, and Monte, cowardly and ignoble, enlist in the Royal Flying Corp. in World War 1. Sent on a secret mission to bomb a German ammunition depot in a captured German plane, they're shot down only to brought before their captor, Baron Von Kranz, whose wife, Monte seduced before the beginning of the war.
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HORSE FEATHERS (1932) Dir: Norman Z. McLeod. Writers: Harry Ruby, Bert Kalmar. Prof. Quincy Adams Wagstaff: Groucho Marx, Pinky: Harpo Marx, Baravelli: Chico Marx, Frank Wagstaff: Zeppo Marx, Connie Bailey: Thelma Todd. Prof. Wagstaff, the new dean of Huxley University is persuaded to hire two professional football players so that Huxley can beat rival Darwin U in the big game. He hires Pinky and Baravelli by mistake. When Prof. Wagstaff realizes his error, he has the boys try and kidnap the real players, meanwhile, all four Marx brothers romance Connie Bailey, the college widow. What they don't know is that she is working for a gambler who has bet on Darwin, and he wants her to steal the plays. The movie ends with an anarchic football game with all four Marx brothers playing for Huxley.
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THE HURT LOCKER (2009) Dir: Kathryn Bigelow. Writer: Mark Boal. SFC. William James: Jeremy Renner, Sgt. J.T. Sanborn: Anthony Mackie, Spc. Owen Eldridge: Brian Geraghty, Mercenary/Contractor Team Leader: Ralph Fiennes. A possibly suicidal soldier joins a bomb disposal squad in Iraq.
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HELL'S ANGELS (1930) Dir: Howard Hughes. Writer: Harry Behn, Howard Estabrook. Monte Rutledge: Ben Lyon, Roy Rutledge: James Hall, Helen: Jean Harlow, Karl Armstedt: James Darrow, Baron Von Kranz: Lucien Prival, Zeppelin Commander: Carl Von Haartman. Two brothers, Roy Rutledge, brave and noble, and Monte, cowardly and ignoble, enlist in the Royal Flying Corp. in World War 1. Sent on a secret mission to bomb a German ammunition depot in a captured German plane, they're shot down only to brought before their captor, Baron Von Kranz, whose wife, Monte seduced before the beginning of the war.
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HORSE FEATHERS (1932) Dir: Norman Z. McLeod. Writers: Harry Ruby, Bert Kalmar. Prof. Quincy Adams Wagstaff: Groucho Marx, Pinky: Harpo Marx, Baravelli: Chico Marx, Frank Wagstaff: Zeppo Marx, Connie Bailey: Thelma Todd. Prof. Wagstaff, the new dean of Huxley University is persuaded to hire two professional football players so that Huxley can beat rival Darwin U in the big game. He hires Pinky and Baravelli by mistake. When Prof. Wagstaff realizes his error, he has the boys try and kidnap the real players, meanwhile, all four Marx brothers romance Connie Bailey, the college widow. What they don't know is that she is working for a gambler who has bet on Darwin, and he wants her to steal the plays. The movie ends with an anarchic football game with all four Marx brothers playing for Huxley.
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THE HURT LOCKER (2009) Dir: Kathryn Bigelow. Writer: Mark Boal. SFC. William James: Jeremy Renner, Sgt. J.T. Sanborn: Anthony Mackie, Spc. Owen Eldridge: Brian Geraghty, Mercenary/Contractor Team Leader: Ralph Fiennes. A possibly suicidal soldier joins a bomb disposal squad in Iraq.
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I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943) Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Writer: Curt Siodmak. Betsy Connell: Frances Dee, Paul Holland: Tom Conway, Wesley Rand: James Ellison, Mrs. Rand: Edith Barrett, Jessica Holland: Christine Gordon, Calypso Singer: Sir Lancelot. A young, Canadian nurse, Betsy Connell, is hired to go to the west Indies to take care of a woman, Jessica Holland, who has become catatonic from a tropical fever. Her husband, Paul Holland, and her brother-in-law, and former lover, Wesley Rand each fall for Betsy. But Jessica isn't really catatonic. She's been made into a zombie. Wesley is also under the control of the Voodoo priest.
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THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957) Dir: Jack Arnold. Writer: Richard Matheson. Scott Carey: Grant Williams, Louise Carey: Randy Stuart, Charlie Carey: Paul Langton, Clarice: April Kent. When Scott Carey passes through a radioactive cloud, he begins ti shrink. He must fight for his survival, including battles to the death against spiders that are now larger than he is.
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THE INFORMER (1935) Dir: John Ford. Writer: Dudley Nichols. Gypo Nolan: Victor McLaglen, Mary McPhillip: Heather Angel, Dan Gallagher: Preston Foster, Katie Maddon: Margot Grahame, Frankie McPhillip: Wallace Ford, Bartly Mulholland: Joe Sawyer, Una O'Conner: Mrs. McPhillip, Peter Mulligan: Donald Meek. In Dublin in 1922, Gypo Nolan informs on IRA soldier, Frankie McPhillip to the British for twenty pounds. Fueled by guilt and alcohol, Gypo wanders the night through Dublin, spending his money, only to be tried before an IRA court, and found guilty of informing.
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INGLORIOUS BASTERDS (2009) Dir: Quentin Tarantino. Writer: Quentin Tarantino. Col. Hans Landa: Christoph Waltz, Bridget von Hammersmark: Diane Kruger, Lt. Aldo Raine: Brad Pitt, Shosanna: Melanie Laurent, Sgt. Donny Donowitz: Eli Roth, Joseph Goebbels: Sylvester Groth, Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz: Til Schweiger, Lt. Archie Hicox: Michael Fassbender, Perrier LaPadite: Denis Menochet, Hitler: Martin Wuttke, Frederick Zoller: Daniel Bruhl. A group of Jewish American commandos under the leadership of Lt. Aldo raine parachute into occupied France to kill Nazis and take scalps. Things change when German film star and double agent, Bridget van Hammersmark informs the allies that leading Nazis, including Goebbels and Hitler will be at a movie premiere in Paris. A plan is hatched to kill all of the German leadership at the theater. Meanwhile Shosanna, the owner of the theater and a Jewess in hiding whose family was killed by Col. Hans Landa also hatches a plan to kill the Germans by burning down the theater during the film.
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IN HARM'S WAY (1965) Dir: Otto Preminger. Writer: Wendell Mayes. Adm. Rockwell Torrey: John Wayne, Capt. Paul Eddington: Kirk Douglas, Lt. Maggie Haynes: Patricia Neal, Lt. Mac McConell: Tom Tryon, Beverley McConell: Paula Prentiss, Ens. Jere Torrey: Brandon De Wilde, Ens. Annalee Dorne: Jill Haworth, Commander Egan Powell: Burgess Meredith, Adm. Broderick: Dana Andrews, Commander Neal Owynn: Patrick O'Neal, Adm. Kimmell: Franchot Tone, CINCPAC: Henry Fonda. As the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, Capt. Rock Torrey is on patrol near Hawaii. With his first officer, Paul Eddington, they pursue the Japanese fleet. Torpedoed, Torrey returns to Pearl only to be removed from command. Now in charge of routing convoys, he becomes involved with nurse Lt. Maggie Haynes. Her roommate, Ens. Annalee Dorne is involved with Rock Torrey's estranged son. Eventually Rock Torrey is promoted to Admiral and sent to run a navel operation run by Adm. Broderick who has failed to move on the enemies position. Commander Neal Owynn on Broderick's staff, as well as Ens. Jere Torrey, Rock's son, are sent to spy of Rock's operation. When Jere realises that Rock is an admirable leader he turns on Broderick and Owynn and transfers to a PT boat. Jere becomes engaged to Annalee, who is then raped by Paul Eddington, now Rock Torrey's Chief of Staff. Annalee commits suicide when she thinks she's pregnant. Eddington goes on a suicide mission rather than face arrest. He discovers a large Japanese task force heading towards Rock's navel operations. In a massive surface battle all of Rock's staff but Lt. Mac McConell is killed. Rock loses his leg and is returned to Pearl Harbor along with Lt. Maggie Haynes.
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INVASION OF THE BODYSNATCHERS (1956) Dir: Don Siegel. Writers: Daniel Manwaring, story by Jack Finney. Dr. Miles J. Bennell: Kevin McCarthy, Becky Driscoll: Dana Wynter, Jack Belicec: King Donovan, Theodora "Teddy" Belicec: Carolyn Jones. Mysterious pods from outer space create exact, though soulless, duplicates of humans while they sleep, taking the memories and replacing the original person. Dr. Bennell and his girl friend Becky Driscoll try and stay awake, while being pursued by the pod people, so they can both survive as human beings and warn the outside world of the threat.
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ISLE OF THE DEAD (1945) Dir: Mark Robson. Writer: Ardel Ray. Gen. Nikolas Pherides, Oliver Davis: Marc Cramer, Thea: Ellen Drew, Mary St. Aubyn: Katherine Emery, Madame Kyra: Helen Thimig, St. Aubyn: Alan Napier, Albrecht: Jason Robards, Sr., Dr. Drossos: Ernest Deutsch. Ruthless Greek general, Nikola Pherides and American war corespondent, Oliver Davis are quarantined by plaque on an island with a disparate group of people. As the plaque danger increases, Pherides falls prey to superstition and blames Thea for bringing bad luck on the group.
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IT'S ALL TRUE (1993) Dir: Bill Krohn, Myron Meisel, Richard Wilson, Orson Welles, Norman Foster. Writer: Bill Krohn, Myron Meisel, Richard Wilson. Themselves: Orson Welles, Richard Wilson, Elizabeth Wilson. In 1942, Orson Welles was asked by the State Department to go to South America to make a documentary as part of the war time good neighbor policy. A documentary about what went wrong, and how it affected his career, and how it led to his loss of control of The Magnificent Ambersons. Contains Welles' short film meant to be part three of his documentary, Four Men On A Raft. Also contains recovered footage from Norman Foster's contribution to the film, My Friend Bonito, And Welles' unfinished section on the samba. See FOUR MEN ON A RAFT.
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THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957) Dir: Jack Arnold. Writer: Richard Matheson. Scott Carey: Grant Williams, Louise Carey: Randy Stuart, Charlie Carey: Paul Langton, Clarice: April Kent. When Scott Carey passes through a radioactive cloud, he begins ti shrink. He must fight for his survival, including battles to the death against spiders that are now larger than he is.
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THE INFORMER (1935) Dir: John Ford. Writer: Dudley Nichols. Gypo Nolan: Victor McLaglen, Mary McPhillip: Heather Angel, Dan Gallagher: Preston Foster, Katie Maddon: Margot Grahame, Frankie McPhillip: Wallace Ford, Bartly Mulholland: Joe Sawyer, Una O'Conner: Mrs. McPhillip, Peter Mulligan: Donald Meek. In Dublin in 1922, Gypo Nolan informs on IRA soldier, Frankie McPhillip to the British for twenty pounds. Fueled by guilt and alcohol, Gypo wanders the night through Dublin, spending his money, only to be tried before an IRA court, and found guilty of informing.
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INGLORIOUS BASTERDS (2009) Dir: Quentin Tarantino. Writer: Quentin Tarantino. Col. Hans Landa: Christoph Waltz, Bridget von Hammersmark: Diane Kruger, Lt. Aldo Raine: Brad Pitt, Shosanna: Melanie Laurent, Sgt. Donny Donowitz: Eli Roth, Joseph Goebbels: Sylvester Groth, Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz: Til Schweiger, Lt. Archie Hicox: Michael Fassbender, Perrier LaPadite: Denis Menochet, Hitler: Martin Wuttke, Frederick Zoller: Daniel Bruhl. A group of Jewish American commandos under the leadership of Lt. Aldo raine parachute into occupied France to kill Nazis and take scalps. Things change when German film star and double agent, Bridget van Hammersmark informs the allies that leading Nazis, including Goebbels and Hitler will be at a movie premiere in Paris. A plan is hatched to kill all of the German leadership at the theater. Meanwhile Shosanna, the owner of the theater and a Jewess in hiding whose family was killed by Col. Hans Landa also hatches a plan to kill the Germans by burning down the theater during the film.
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IN HARM'S WAY (1965) Dir: Otto Preminger. Writer: Wendell Mayes. Adm. Rockwell Torrey: John Wayne, Capt. Paul Eddington: Kirk Douglas, Lt. Maggie Haynes: Patricia Neal, Lt. Mac McConell: Tom Tryon, Beverley McConell: Paula Prentiss, Ens. Jere Torrey: Brandon De Wilde, Ens. Annalee Dorne: Jill Haworth, Commander Egan Powell: Burgess Meredith, Adm. Broderick: Dana Andrews, Commander Neal Owynn: Patrick O'Neal, Adm. Kimmell: Franchot Tone, CINCPAC: Henry Fonda. As the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, Capt. Rock Torrey is on patrol near Hawaii. With his first officer, Paul Eddington, they pursue the Japanese fleet. Torpedoed, Torrey returns to Pearl only to be removed from command. Now in charge of routing convoys, he becomes involved with nurse Lt. Maggie Haynes. Her roommate, Ens. Annalee Dorne is involved with Rock Torrey's estranged son. Eventually Rock Torrey is promoted to Admiral and sent to run a navel operation run by Adm. Broderick who has failed to move on the enemies position. Commander Neal Owynn on Broderick's staff, as well as Ens. Jere Torrey, Rock's son, are sent to spy of Rock's operation. When Jere realises that Rock is an admirable leader he turns on Broderick and Owynn and transfers to a PT boat. Jere becomes engaged to Annalee, who is then raped by Paul Eddington, now Rock Torrey's Chief of Staff. Annalee commits suicide when she thinks she's pregnant. Eddington goes on a suicide mission rather than face arrest. He discovers a large Japanese task force heading towards Rock's navel operations. In a massive surface battle all of Rock's staff but Lt. Mac McConell is killed. Rock loses his leg and is returned to Pearl Harbor along with Lt. Maggie Haynes.
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INVASION OF THE BODYSNATCHERS (1956) Dir: Don Siegel. Writers: Daniel Manwaring, story by Jack Finney. Dr. Miles J. Bennell: Kevin McCarthy, Becky Driscoll: Dana Wynter, Jack Belicec: King Donovan, Theodora "Teddy" Belicec: Carolyn Jones. Mysterious pods from outer space create exact, though soulless, duplicates of humans while they sleep, taking the memories and replacing the original person. Dr. Bennell and his girl friend Becky Driscoll try and stay awake, while being pursued by the pod people, so they can both survive as human beings and warn the outside world of the threat.
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ISLE OF THE DEAD (1945) Dir: Mark Robson. Writer: Ardel Ray. Gen. Nikolas Pherides, Oliver Davis: Marc Cramer, Thea: Ellen Drew, Mary St. Aubyn: Katherine Emery, Madame Kyra: Helen Thimig, St. Aubyn: Alan Napier, Albrecht: Jason Robards, Sr., Dr. Drossos: Ernest Deutsch. Ruthless Greek general, Nikola Pherides and American war corespondent, Oliver Davis are quarantined by plaque on an island with a disparate group of people. As the plaque danger increases, Pherides falls prey to superstition and blames Thea for bringing bad luck on the group.
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IT'S ALL TRUE (1993) Dir: Bill Krohn, Myron Meisel, Richard Wilson, Orson Welles, Norman Foster. Writer: Bill Krohn, Myron Meisel, Richard Wilson. Themselves: Orson Welles, Richard Wilson, Elizabeth Wilson. In 1942, Orson Welles was asked by the State Department to go to South America to make a documentary as part of the war time good neighbor policy. A documentary about what went wrong, and how it affected his career, and how it led to his loss of control of The Magnificent Ambersons. Contains Welles' short film meant to be part three of his documentary, Four Men On A Raft. Also contains recovered footage from Norman Foster's contribution to the film, My Friend Bonito, And Welles' unfinished section on the samba. See FOUR MEN ON A RAFT.
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JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961) Dir: Stanley Kramer. Writer: Abby Mann. Chief Judge Dan Haywood: Spencer Tracy, Hans Rolfe: Maximilian Schell, Dr. Ernst Jannings, Col. Tad Lawson: Richard Widmark, Frau Bertholt: Marlene Dietrich, Rudolph Petersen: Montgomery Clift, Emil Hahn: Werner Klemperer, Captain Harrison Byers: William Shatner. In post World War 2 Germany, Dan Haywood, a rural Maine Judge is sent to oversee war crimes trails of four Nazi judges. Prosecutor Col. Lawson is opposed by German lawyer, Hans Rolfe
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JULES AND JIM (1962) Dir: Francois Truffaut. Writer: Francois Truffaut. Catherine: Jeanne Moreau, Jules: Oskar Werner, Jim: Henri Serre, Gilberte: Vanna Urbino, Albert: Boris Bassiak, Therese: Marie Dubois, Little Sabine: Sabine Haudepin. Jules, an Austrian, and Jim, a Frenchman met while living the Bohemian life in pre World War 1 Paris. They both fall in Love with Catherine. Jules and Catherine marry just before the start of the war and live in Austria. After the war, Jules and Jim reunite, and their lives are complicated by their involvement with Catherine.
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JULES AND JIM (1962) Dir: Francois Truffaut. Writer: Francois Truffaut. Catherine: Jeanne Moreau, Jules: Oskar Werner, Jim: Henri Serre, Gilberte: Vanna Urbino, Albert: Boris Bassiak, Therese: Marie Dubois, Little Sabine: Sabine Haudepin. Jules, an Austrian, and Jim, a Frenchman met while living the Bohemian life in pre World War 1 Paris. They both fall in Love with Catherine. Jules and Catherine marry just before the start of the war and live in Austria. After the war, Jules and Jim reunite, and their lives are complicated by their involvement with Catherine.
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KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL (1952) Dir: Phil Karlson. Writer: George Bruce, Harry Essex. Joe Rolfe: John Payne, Helen Foster: Coleen Gray, Tim Foster: Preston Foster, Boyd Kane: Neville Brand, Tony Romano: Lee Van Cleef, Pete Harris: Jack Elam. Ex police captain Tim Foster, forced off the job because of political intrigue, plots a bank robbery. Keeping his identity a secret from the gang he recruits, he also implicates ex con, Joe Rolfe, now a driver for a florist. After being cleared by the police, Joe follows the trail of gang member Pete Harris, and when Harris is killed, he takes his place at the meeting where the loot is to be divided among the gang members. What no one knows is that Tim Foster is planning on turning the gang in to an insurance company for the reward. Meanwhile Joe and Foster's daughter, Helen have fallen for each other.
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THE KILLING (1956) Dir: Stanley Kubrick. Writer: Stanley Kubrick, Jim Thompson. Johnny Clay: Sterling Hayden, Fay: Coleen Gray, Val Cannon: Vince Edwards, Marvin Unger: Jay C. Flippen, Sherry Peatty: Marie Windsor, George Peatty: Elisha Cook, Jr., Nikki Arcane: Timothy Carey, Maurice Oboukhoff: Kola Kwariani. Johnny Clay assembles a gang for a race track robbery. Told from each of the robbers' point of view, the robbery succeeds, though not perfectly. Sherry Peatty, the wife of robber George Peatty tells her boyfriend about the robbery. He tries to rob the gang after the robbery.
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KISS ME DEADLY (1955) Dir: Robert Aldrich. Writers: A. I. Bezzarides, Novel Mickey Spillane. Mike Hammer: Ralph Meeker, Velda: Maxine Cooper, Gabrielle: Gaby Rogers, Lt. Pat Murphy: Wesley Addy, Eddie Yeager: Juano Hernandez, Dr. G. E. Soberin: Albert Dekker, Carl Evello: Paul Stewart, Christina Bailey: Cloris Leachman, Nick: Nick Dennis. Thuggish private eye picks up hitchhiker, Christina Bailey. They're run off the road and captured, beaten and Christina is tortured and killed. Put in Mike's car and pushed over a hill, Mike survives. When he discovers that the FBI is interested in the case, Hammer decides that there is probably a lot of money to be made. He, Velda, and Nick, the auto mechanic investigate. Despite warnings from his friend on the LAPD, Lt. Murphy, Hammer continues the investigation. Velda is taken hostage by Dr. Soberin who is the head of a gang stealing nuclear materials. Mike rescues Velda, and stops the theft of the nuclear materials.
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THE KILLING (1956) Dir: Stanley Kubrick. Writer: Stanley Kubrick, Jim Thompson. Johnny Clay: Sterling Hayden, Fay: Coleen Gray, Val Cannon: Vince Edwards, Marvin Unger: Jay C. Flippen, Sherry Peatty: Marie Windsor, George Peatty: Elisha Cook, Jr., Nikki Arcane: Timothy Carey, Maurice Oboukhoff: Kola Kwariani. Johnny Clay assembles a gang for a race track robbery. Told from each of the robbers' point of view, the robbery succeeds, though not perfectly. Sherry Peatty, the wife of robber George Peatty tells her boyfriend about the robbery. He tries to rob the gang after the robbery.
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KISS ME DEADLY (1955) Dir: Robert Aldrich. Writers: A. I. Bezzarides, Novel Mickey Spillane. Mike Hammer: Ralph Meeker, Velda: Maxine Cooper, Gabrielle: Gaby Rogers, Lt. Pat Murphy: Wesley Addy, Eddie Yeager: Juano Hernandez, Dr. G. E. Soberin: Albert Dekker, Carl Evello: Paul Stewart, Christina Bailey: Cloris Leachman, Nick: Nick Dennis. Thuggish private eye picks up hitchhiker, Christina Bailey. They're run off the road and captured, beaten and Christina is tortured and killed. Put in Mike's car and pushed over a hill, Mike survives. When he discovers that the FBI is interested in the case, Hammer decides that there is probably a lot of money to be made. He, Velda, and Nick, the auto mechanic investigate. Despite warnings from his friend on the LAPD, Lt. Murphy, Hammer continues the investigation. Velda is taken hostage by Dr. Soberin who is the head of a gang stealing nuclear materials. Mike rescues Velda, and stops the theft of the nuclear materials.
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THE LADY VANISHES (1938) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Writer: Sidney Gilliat. Iris Henderson: Margaret Lockwood, Gilbert: Michael Redgrave, Dr. Hartz: Paul Lukas, Miss Froy: May Whitty, Mr. Todhunter: Cecil Parker, "Mrs." Todhunter: Linden Travers, Caldicott: Naunton Wayne, Charters: Basil Radford, The Nun: Catherine Lacey. While travelling on a train, in central Europe, wealthy young woman, Iris Henderson's friend Miss Froy, an elderly governess, seemingly, vanishes. With the help of fellow Englishman, Gilbert, she searches the train for Miss Froy, only to discover a conspiracy to cover up Miss Froy's disappearance. Miss Froy is actually a British secret agent, returning to England with vital information.
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THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971) Dir: Peter Bogdanovich. Writer: Larry McMurtry, Peter Bogdanovich. Sonny Crawford: Sam Bottoms, Duane Jackson: Jeff Bridges, Jacy Farrow: Cybill Shepherd, Sam the Lion: Ben Johnson, Ruth Popper: Cloris Leachman, Lois Farrow: Ellen Burstyn, Billy: Sam Bottoms, Genevieve: Eileen Brennan, Lester Marlow: Randy Quaid, Abilene: Clu Gulager. Sonny and Duane, two high school friends in a small town in Texas become adults while chasing after local beauty, Jacy Farrow.
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LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (1945) Dir: John M. Stahl. Writers: Jo Swerling, Ben Ames Williams (novel). Ellen Berent Harland: Gene Tierney, Richard Harland: Cornel Wilde, Ruth Berent: Jeannne Crain, Russell Quinton: Vincent Price, Mrs. Berent: Mary Philips, Glen Robie: Ray Collins, Danny Harland: Darryl Hickman. Writer Richard Harland meets beautiful Ellen Berent on a train, not realizing that they are both going to visit lawyer Glen Robie. Swept off his feet by Ellen, Richard marries her after a very short engagement. After their marriage, an extreme jealousy manifests itself in Ellen. She stages an accidental drowning of Richard's brother Danny, who has polio. She throws herself down a flight of steps to force a miscarriage. All so that she can have Richard all to herself. When she sees that her husband is falling in love with her sister, Ruth, she commits suicide leaving false evidence that points to murder committed by Ruth. Ruth is put on trail for her life, prosecuted by D.A. Russell Quinton, Ellen's former fiance. Richard perjures himself on the stand to free his innocent sister-in-law, and does a year in prison for his crime. After serving his term, Richard and Ruth are reunited.
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LIFEBOAT (1944) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Writer: John Steinbeck, Jo Swerling. Constance Porter: Tallulah Bankhead, Gus Smith: William Bendix, Willy: Walter Slezak, Alice MacKenzie: Mary Anderson, John Kovac: John Hodiak, Charles S. Rittenhouse: Henry Hull, Stanley "Sparks" Garett, Joe Spencer: Canada Lee. A freighter is sunk by a German U-boat, but before it goes down, the deck gun crew sinks the submarine. A group of survivors from the freighter pull Willy, one of the submarine's officer out of the sea. He slowly rises to a position of dominance in the lifeboat.
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THE LOVE OF JEANNE NEY (1927) Dir: G.W. Pabst. Writer: Rudolf Leonhardt, Ladislaus Vajda. Jeanne Ney: Edith Jehanne, Andreas Labov: Uno Henning, Khalibiev: Fritz Rasp, Gabrielle: Brigette Helm, Raymond Ney: Adolf E. Licho, Andre Ney: Eugene Jensen. Andre Ney, a French political agent and his daughter Jeanne are living in the Crimea during the Russian revolution. Khalibiev, a con man, sells phony lists of Bolshevik agents to Andre Ney. When the reds confront Andre, he tires to shoot it out, and is killed. One of the Bolsheviks involved is Andreas Labov, Jeanne's lover. Jeanne Ney is sent back to Paris and seeks work from her uncle, Raymond Ney who owns a detective agency. Labov is sent to France to work as an organizer among French communists, where he makes contact with Jeanne. Khalibiev also goes to Paris to try and con Raymond Ney. He seduces Raymond's blind daughter Gabrielle. His plan is to marry her, get her money and then to murder her. When the detective agency finds a lost diamond, Khalibiev changes his plans, murders Raymond and steals the jewell. He also plants evidence that implicates Labov. Jeanne and Labov were together at a hotel when the murder was committed. As they leave the hotel, they see Khalibiev. She finds Khalibiev and asks him to provide evidence that they were together that night, unaware that Khalibiev is the actual killer.
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THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971) Dir: Peter Bogdanovich. Writer: Larry McMurtry, Peter Bogdanovich. Sonny Crawford: Sam Bottoms, Duane Jackson: Jeff Bridges, Jacy Farrow: Cybill Shepherd, Sam the Lion: Ben Johnson, Ruth Popper: Cloris Leachman, Lois Farrow: Ellen Burstyn, Billy: Sam Bottoms, Genevieve: Eileen Brennan, Lester Marlow: Randy Quaid, Abilene: Clu Gulager. Sonny and Duane, two high school friends in a small town in Texas become adults while chasing after local beauty, Jacy Farrow.
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LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (1945) Dir: John M. Stahl. Writers: Jo Swerling, Ben Ames Williams (novel). Ellen Berent Harland: Gene Tierney, Richard Harland: Cornel Wilde, Ruth Berent: Jeannne Crain, Russell Quinton: Vincent Price, Mrs. Berent: Mary Philips, Glen Robie: Ray Collins, Danny Harland: Darryl Hickman. Writer Richard Harland meets beautiful Ellen Berent on a train, not realizing that they are both going to visit lawyer Glen Robie. Swept off his feet by Ellen, Richard marries her after a very short engagement. After their marriage, an extreme jealousy manifests itself in Ellen. She stages an accidental drowning of Richard's brother Danny, who has polio. She throws herself down a flight of steps to force a miscarriage. All so that she can have Richard all to herself. When she sees that her husband is falling in love with her sister, Ruth, she commits suicide leaving false evidence that points to murder committed by Ruth. Ruth is put on trail for her life, prosecuted by D.A. Russell Quinton, Ellen's former fiance. Richard perjures himself on the stand to free his innocent sister-in-law, and does a year in prison for his crime. After serving his term, Richard and Ruth are reunited.
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LIFEBOAT (1944) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Writer: John Steinbeck, Jo Swerling. Constance Porter: Tallulah Bankhead, Gus Smith: William Bendix, Willy: Walter Slezak, Alice MacKenzie: Mary Anderson, John Kovac: John Hodiak, Charles S. Rittenhouse: Henry Hull, Stanley "Sparks" Garett, Joe Spencer: Canada Lee. A freighter is sunk by a German U-boat, but before it goes down, the deck gun crew sinks the submarine. A group of survivors from the freighter pull Willy, one of the submarine's officer out of the sea. He slowly rises to a position of dominance in the lifeboat.
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THE LOVE OF JEANNE NEY (1927) Dir: G.W. Pabst. Writer: Rudolf Leonhardt, Ladislaus Vajda. Jeanne Ney: Edith Jehanne, Andreas Labov: Uno Henning, Khalibiev: Fritz Rasp, Gabrielle: Brigette Helm, Raymond Ney: Adolf E. Licho, Andre Ney: Eugene Jensen. Andre Ney, a French political agent and his daughter Jeanne are living in the Crimea during the Russian revolution. Khalibiev, a con man, sells phony lists of Bolshevik agents to Andre Ney. When the reds confront Andre, he tires to shoot it out, and is killed. One of the Bolsheviks involved is Andreas Labov, Jeanne's lover. Jeanne Ney is sent back to Paris and seeks work from her uncle, Raymond Ney who owns a detective agency. Labov is sent to France to work as an organizer among French communists, where he makes contact with Jeanne. Khalibiev also goes to Paris to try and con Raymond Ney. He seduces Raymond's blind daughter Gabrielle. His plan is to marry her, get her money and then to murder her. When the detective agency finds a lost diamond, Khalibiev changes his plans, murders Raymond and steals the jewell. He also plants evidence that implicates Labov. Jeanne and Labov were together at a hotel when the murder was committed. As they leave the hotel, they see Khalibiev. She finds Khalibiev and asks him to provide evidence that they were together that night, unaware that Khalibiev is the actual killer.
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M (1931) Dir: Fritz Lang. Writer: Thea von Harbou, Fritz Lang. Hans Beckert: Peter Lorre, Frau Beckmann: Ellen Widmann, Elsie Beckmann: Inge Landgut, Schranker: Gustaf Grundgens, Franz: Freidrich Gnass, Superintendent Lohmann: Otto Wernicke, Superintendent Groeber: Theodor Loos, Blind Street Vendor: Georg John, Beckert's "Lawyer": Rudolf Blumner. Hans Beckert is a serial child killer. When the police crack down on all crime, the non violent criminal gangs, use the city's beggars to hunt down the killer, they find him, just as the police are finally close to making an arrest.
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MAJOR DUNDEE (1965) Dir: Sam Peckinpah. Writer: Harry Julian Fink, Oscar Paul, Sam Peckinpah. Major Dundee: Charlton Heston, Captain Ben Tyreen: Richard Harris, Samuel Potts: James Coburn, Teresa Santiago: Senta Berger, Trooper Tim Ryan: Michael Anderson, Jr., Trooper Aesop: Brock Peters, Riago: Juan Carlos Ruiz, Lieutenant Graham: Jim Hutton, O.W. Hadley: Warren Oates, Sergent Chillum: Ben Johnson, Sierra Charriba: Michael Pate. When Apache chief, Sierra Charriba massacres a cavalry patrol and kidnaps some small children, Major Dundee leads a group of black troops, civilian volunteers and Confederate prisoners into Mexico in pursuit of the Indians. Once over the border, he in in turn pursued by Emperor Maximilian's crack French lancers.
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MALE AND FEMALE (1919) Dir: Cecil B. DeMille. Writer: Jeanie Macpherson. William Crichton: Thomas Meighan, Lady Mary Lasenby: Gloria Swanson, Tweeny the Scullery Maid: Lila Lee, Lord Loam: Theodore Roberts, Lady Agatha Lasenby: Mildred Reardon, Ernest Wolley: Raymond Hatton, Lord Brockelhurst: Robert Cain. Lord Loam, family and staff go on a tropical cruise on the family yacht. When ship wrecked on a desert island, only Crichton, the family butler has the needed skills to survive. He soon becomes king of the island as scullery maid Tweeny and spoiled daughter of Lord Loam, Lady Mary compete for his affections.
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THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) Dir: John Huston. Writer: John Huston. Sam Spade: Humphrey Bogart, Brigid O'Shaughnessy, Kasper Gutman: Sydney Greenstreet, Joel Cairo: Peter Lorre, Wilmer Cook: Elsiha Cook, Jr., Effie Perine: Lee Patrick, Det. Lt. Dundy: Barton Maclane, Det. Tom Polhaus: Ward Bond. A group of international crimals are hunting for the Maltese falcon, a jewel encrusted golden statue, covered by a coat of black enamel. One of them, Brigid O'Shaughnessy, hires private eye Sam Spade, to help her against Kasper Gutman.
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MANDRAKE, (1928) see ALRAUNE
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MANSLAUGHTER (1922) Dir: Cecil B. Demlle. Writer: Jeanie Macpherson. Lydia Thorne: Leatrice Joy, Daniel J. O'Bannon: Thomas Meighan, Evans the Maid: Lois Wilson, Drummond: Jack Mower. When wreckless Lydia Thorne kills traffic officer, Drummond in a car accident, she is prosecuted by her fiance, D.A. Daniel J. O'Bannon. He gets a conviction and prison time for Lydia. While in prison, she meets Evans, her former maid who had stolen from her for money for medical care for her sick son. Both Lydia and Evans are reformed by prison. Paroled, they devote their lives to good works. While on skid row, they meet O'Bannon who has become an alcoholic. Lydia and Evans help O'Bannon to overcome his drinking problem.
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MAX REPREND SA LIBERTE aka TROUBLES OF A GRASS WIDOWER (1912) Dir: Max Linder. Writer: Max Linder. Max: Max Linder, Max's Wife: Jane Renouardt, Max's Mother-In-Law: Delphine Renot. When Max ignores his wife, she leaves him and returns to her mother. With out a woman to take care of him, Max is unable to cope.
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MODERN TIMES (1936) Dir: Charles Chaplin. Writer: Charles Chaplin. A Factory Worker: Charles Chaplin, A Gamin: Paulette Godard, Big Bill: Tiny Sandford, A Mechanic: Chester Conklin, President of the Electro Steel Corporation: Al Ernest Garcia. When a factory worker goes crazy from the monotony of his job, he ends up unemployed and latter in prison. On his release, he meets a gamin of the streets and they face life and hardship together.
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MONTY PYTHON'S MEANING OF LIFE (1983) Dir: Terry Jones. Writer: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin. Various Roles: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin. In a series of short films, the meaning of life from birth to death are examined.
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MOTHLIGHT (1963) Dir: Stan Brakhage. Clocking in at four minutes, Brakhage took pieces of dead insects and sandwiched them between two pieces of editing tape.
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MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935) Dir: Frank Lloyd. Writer: Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman, Carey Wilson. Captain Bligh: Charles Laughton, Fletcher Christian, Midshipman Byam: Franchot Tone, Burkitt: Donald Crisp, Tehani: Movita. On a voyage to Tahiti to collect breadfruit as food for West Indian slaves, Lieutenant Fletcher Christian leads a successful mutiny against tyrannical Captain Bligh. Cast adrift in an open boat with some, but not all, of those loyal to him, Bligh survives and returns to the south seas in search of the mutineers.
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MAJOR DUNDEE (1965) Dir: Sam Peckinpah. Writer: Harry Julian Fink, Oscar Paul, Sam Peckinpah. Major Dundee: Charlton Heston, Captain Ben Tyreen: Richard Harris, Samuel Potts: James Coburn, Teresa Santiago: Senta Berger, Trooper Tim Ryan: Michael Anderson, Jr., Trooper Aesop: Brock Peters, Riago: Juan Carlos Ruiz, Lieutenant Graham: Jim Hutton, O.W. Hadley: Warren Oates, Sergent Chillum: Ben Johnson, Sierra Charriba: Michael Pate. When Apache chief, Sierra Charriba massacres a cavalry patrol and kidnaps some small children, Major Dundee leads a group of black troops, civilian volunteers and Confederate prisoners into Mexico in pursuit of the Indians. Once over the border, he in in turn pursued by Emperor Maximilian's crack French lancers.
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MALE AND FEMALE (1919) Dir: Cecil B. DeMille. Writer: Jeanie Macpherson. William Crichton: Thomas Meighan, Lady Mary Lasenby: Gloria Swanson, Tweeny the Scullery Maid: Lila Lee, Lord Loam: Theodore Roberts, Lady Agatha Lasenby: Mildred Reardon, Ernest Wolley: Raymond Hatton, Lord Brockelhurst: Robert Cain. Lord Loam, family and staff go on a tropical cruise on the family yacht. When ship wrecked on a desert island, only Crichton, the family butler has the needed skills to survive. He soon becomes king of the island as scullery maid Tweeny and spoiled daughter of Lord Loam, Lady Mary compete for his affections.
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THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) Dir: John Huston. Writer: John Huston. Sam Spade: Humphrey Bogart, Brigid O'Shaughnessy, Kasper Gutman: Sydney Greenstreet, Joel Cairo: Peter Lorre, Wilmer Cook: Elsiha Cook, Jr., Effie Perine: Lee Patrick, Det. Lt. Dundy: Barton Maclane, Det. Tom Polhaus: Ward Bond. A group of international crimals are hunting for the Maltese falcon, a jewel encrusted golden statue, covered by a coat of black enamel. One of them, Brigid O'Shaughnessy, hires private eye Sam Spade, to help her against Kasper Gutman.
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MANDRAKE, (1928) see ALRAUNE
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MANSLAUGHTER (1922) Dir: Cecil B. Demlle. Writer: Jeanie Macpherson. Lydia Thorne: Leatrice Joy, Daniel J. O'Bannon: Thomas Meighan, Evans the Maid: Lois Wilson, Drummond: Jack Mower. When wreckless Lydia Thorne kills traffic officer, Drummond in a car accident, she is prosecuted by her fiance, D.A. Daniel J. O'Bannon. He gets a conviction and prison time for Lydia. While in prison, she meets Evans, her former maid who had stolen from her for money for medical care for her sick son. Both Lydia and Evans are reformed by prison. Paroled, they devote their lives to good works. While on skid row, they meet O'Bannon who has become an alcoholic. Lydia and Evans help O'Bannon to overcome his drinking problem.
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MAX REPREND SA LIBERTE aka TROUBLES OF A GRASS WIDOWER (1912) Dir: Max Linder. Writer: Max Linder. Max: Max Linder, Max's Wife: Jane Renouardt, Max's Mother-In-Law: Delphine Renot. When Max ignores his wife, she leaves him and returns to her mother. With out a woman to take care of him, Max is unable to cope.
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MODERN TIMES (1936) Dir: Charles Chaplin. Writer: Charles Chaplin. A Factory Worker: Charles Chaplin, A Gamin: Paulette Godard, Big Bill: Tiny Sandford, A Mechanic: Chester Conklin, President of the Electro Steel Corporation: Al Ernest Garcia. When a factory worker goes crazy from the monotony of his job, he ends up unemployed and latter in prison. On his release, he meets a gamin of the streets and they face life and hardship together.
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MONTY PYTHON'S MEANING OF LIFE (1983) Dir: Terry Jones. Writer: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin. Various Roles: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin. In a series of short films, the meaning of life from birth to death are examined.
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MOTHLIGHT (1963) Dir: Stan Brakhage. Clocking in at four minutes, Brakhage took pieces of dead insects and sandwiched them between two pieces of editing tape.
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MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935) Dir: Frank Lloyd. Writer: Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman, Carey Wilson. Captain Bligh: Charles Laughton, Fletcher Christian, Midshipman Byam: Franchot Tone, Burkitt: Donald Crisp, Tehani: Movita. On a voyage to Tahiti to collect breadfruit as food for West Indian slaves, Lieutenant Fletcher Christian leads a successful mutiny against tyrannical Captain Bligh. Cast adrift in an open boat with some, but not all, of those loyal to him, Bligh survives and returns to the south seas in search of the mutineers.
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NANOOK OF THE NORTH (1922) Dir: Robert J. Flaherty. Writer: Robert J. Flaherty. Nanook as himself. One year in the life of Nanook, a Canadian Eskimo, and his family.
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THE NAVIGATOR (1924) Dir: Buster Keaton, Donald Crisp. Writer: Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez, Joseph Mitchell. Rollo Treadway: Buster Keaton, Betsy O'Brien: Kathryn McGuire, John O'Brien: Frederick Vroom, The Cannibal Chief: Noble Johnson. A group of spies conspire to destroy the S.S. Navigator rather than let their enemies buy the ship and use it in a war between the two nations. Rollo Treadway, wealthy sap and heir proposes to heiress Betsy O'Brien. She says no, so Rollo decides to sail to Hawaii, alone. He gets o
n the deserted Navigator by mistake. Meanwhile Betsy and her father John O'Brien, the owner of The Navigator visit the deserted ship to get some papers before the ship is sold. The spies set the ship adrift with only Rollo and Betsy aboard. They drift out to sea, at first helpless, they eventually learn to cope while stranded on the ship. The Navigator drifts to a cannibal island and the couple are attacked by the chief and his tribe.
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DIE NIBELUNGEN, PART 1: SIEGFRIED (1924) Dir: Fritz Lang. Writer: Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou. Siegfried: Paul Richter, Kriemhild: Margarete Schon, King Gunther: Theodor Loos, Brunhild: Hanna Ralph, Hagen Tronje: Hans Adalbert Schlettow. When Prince Siegfried hears of Kriemheld, princess at Worms, sister of King Gunther of the Burgundians, he goes there to win her hand. On his way, he kills a dragon. He hears the song of an enchanted bird that tells him to bathe in the dragon's blood. A linden leaf falls on his shoulder, the only place the blood does not touch, and the only place he can be killed. He then takes the treasure of a forest troll as well as a magic cape than can make him either invisible or able to take on the form of any other person. After conquering twelve kingdoms and making those kings his vassals, he arrives at Worms. King Gunther and his vassal, Hagen Tronje propose to Siegfried that they go to the Kingdom of the North where Siegfried uses the magic cape to best warrior Queen Brunhild in three tests of skill. Tricked, she agrees to marry King Gunther. When she discovers that she has been tricked, she refuses to give herself to Gunther, so Siegfried takes the form of Gunther and rapes Brunhild to subdue her will. When she discovers the subterfuge she demands that her husband kill the now married Siegfried. Gunther turns to Hagen Tronje to kill him on the only spot on his body that is not impervious to a weapon. After Siegfried is killed, Gunther's' sister, princess Kriemheld demands the head of Hagen Tronje, but Gunther stands by his vassal and refuses to kill him.
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DIE NIBELUNGEN, PART 2: KRIEMHELD'S REVNGE (1924) Dir: Fritz Lang. Writer: Thea von Harbou. King Attila: Rudolf Klien-Rogge, Kriemheld: Margarete Schon, King Gunther: Theodor Loos, Hagen Tronje: Hans Adalbert Schlettow. Now married to King Attila, Kriemheld after giving birth to Attila's son, asks him to invite her brothers to his court. Once they arrive, she offers a reward to the Huns if they kill Hagen Tronje, the killer of her first husband, Siegfried, after King Attila refuses to break the oath of safety to his guests. In the battle that follows, Hagen kills Attila's son, and when the Burgundians refuse to dishonor themselves by surrendering Hagen Tronje, they themselves are all killed.
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NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH (1940) Dir: Carol Reed. Writers: Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder. Anna Bomasch: Margaret Lockwood, Gus Bennett: Rex Harrison, Karl Marsen: Paul Henreid, Axel Bomasch: James Harcourt, Charters: Basil Radford, Caldicot: Naughton Wayne. As the Germans march into Prague, armaments expert, Axel Bomasch escapes to England. When his daughter is captured, Nazi agent, Karl Marsen poses as a fellow prisoner, helps her escape, so that he can then kidnap them both from England. Agent Gus Bennett pretends to be a German officer to get them back. An appearance by bumbling Englishmen, Caldicot and Charters.
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NINOTCHKA (1939) Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. Writer: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch. Nina Yakushova "Ninotchka" Ivanoff: Greta Garbo, Leon, Count d'Algout: Melvyn Douglas, Grand Duchess Swana: Ina Claire, Iranoff: Sig Rumann, Buljanoff: Felix Bressart, Kopalski: Alexander Granach, Kommissar Razinin: Bela Lugosi, Count Rakonin: Gregory Gaye, Gaston: Richard Carle. Three Soviet trade representatives, Iranoff, Buljanoff, and Kopalski arrive in Paris to sell the jewels of the Grand Duchess Swana to raise money for the Soviet state. Swana, now living in Paris, sends her lover, Leon, Count d'Algout to block the sale. Kommissar Razinin sends a special representative, Ninotchka, to complete the sale when the three trade reps fail to make progress. She meets Leon, Count d'Algout without realizing that he works for Swana. She is seduced by both Paris and Leon. They fall in love. When Swana realizes that she is losing Leon to Ninotchka, she cuts a deal to let the sale of the Jewels go forward if Ninotchka leaves Paris and returns to the Soviet Union. When Iranoff, Buljanoff and Kopalski are sent on another foreign mission, things go wrong and Ninotchka is, once again, sent to clean up the mess. When she arrives in Constantinople, she finds that Leon is there and has enlisted the help of the three friends to get Ninotchka out of the Soviet Union.
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NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Writer: Ernest Lehman. Roger O. Thornhill: Cary Grant, Eve Kendall: Eva Marie Saint, Philip Vandamm: James Mason, Leonard: Martin Landau, Clara Thornhill: Jessie Royce Landis, The Professor: Leo J. Carroll. New York advertising man, Roger O. Thornhill is mistaken for a non existent spy, George Kaplan. Kaplan is an invention of American intelligence to shield real agent Eve Kendall, who is the mistress of Philip Vandamm, a foreign agent. When Roger meets Eve, they fall in love, and soon Vandamm's right hand man, Leonard has proof that Eve is actually an American agent.
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NOSFERATU, A SYMPHONY OF HORROR (1922) Dir: F.W. Murnau. Writer: Henrik Galeen. Graf Orlok/Nosferatu: Max Schrek, Hutter: Gustav von Wnagenheim, Ellen Hutter: Greta Schroder, Knock, the House Agent: Alexander Granach, Harding: Georg H. Schnell, Annie Harding: Ruth Landshoff, Professor Bulwer: John Gottowt. Knock, under the control oof the vampire, Count Orlok, Nosferatu sends his employee Hutter to the wilds of Transylvania with the deed of a house in Germany. Nosferatu brings death to his new home, but Hutter's wife offers herself to Nosferatu so that he may be killed.
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NOTORIUS (1946) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Writer: Ben Hecht. Devlin: Cary Grant, Alicia Huberman, Alexander Sebastian: Claude Rains, Captain Paul Prescott: Louis Calhern, Anna Sebastian: Madame Konstantin, Dr. Anderson: Reinhold Schunzel, Eric Mathis: Ivan Triesault, Joseph: Alex Minotis. American intelligence officer, Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, daughter of a German agent to spy on Alex Sebastian, friend of her father who is also in love with her.
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THE NAVIGATOR (1924) Dir: Buster Keaton, Donald Crisp. Writer: Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez, Joseph Mitchell. Rollo Treadway: Buster Keaton, Betsy O'Brien: Kathryn McGuire, John O'Brien: Frederick Vroom, The Cannibal Chief: Noble Johnson. A group of spies conspire to destroy the S.S. Navigator rather than let their enemies buy the ship and use it in a war between the two nations. Rollo Treadway, wealthy sap and heir proposes to heiress Betsy O'Brien. She says no, so Rollo decides to sail to Hawaii, alone. He gets o
n the deserted Navigator by mistake. Meanwhile Betsy and her father John O'Brien, the owner of The Navigator visit the deserted ship to get some papers before the ship is sold. The spies set the ship adrift with only Rollo and Betsy aboard. They drift out to sea, at first helpless, they eventually learn to cope while stranded on the ship. The Navigator drifts to a cannibal island and the couple are attacked by the chief and his tribe.
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DIE NIBELUNGEN, PART 1: SIEGFRIED (1924) Dir: Fritz Lang. Writer: Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou. Siegfried: Paul Richter, Kriemhild: Margarete Schon, King Gunther: Theodor Loos, Brunhild: Hanna Ralph, Hagen Tronje: Hans Adalbert Schlettow. When Prince Siegfried hears of Kriemheld, princess at Worms, sister of King Gunther of the Burgundians, he goes there to win her hand. On his way, he kills a dragon. He hears the song of an enchanted bird that tells him to bathe in the dragon's blood. A linden leaf falls on his shoulder, the only place the blood does not touch, and the only place he can be killed. He then takes the treasure of a forest troll as well as a magic cape than can make him either invisible or able to take on the form of any other person. After conquering twelve kingdoms and making those kings his vassals, he arrives at Worms. King Gunther and his vassal, Hagen Tronje propose to Siegfried that they go to the Kingdom of the North where Siegfried uses the magic cape to best warrior Queen Brunhild in three tests of skill. Tricked, she agrees to marry King Gunther. When she discovers that she has been tricked, she refuses to give herself to Gunther, so Siegfried takes the form of Gunther and rapes Brunhild to subdue her will. When she discovers the subterfuge she demands that her husband kill the now married Siegfried. Gunther turns to Hagen Tronje to kill him on the only spot on his body that is not impervious to a weapon. After Siegfried is killed, Gunther's' sister, princess Kriemheld demands the head of Hagen Tronje, but Gunther stands by his vassal and refuses to kill him.
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DIE NIBELUNGEN, PART 2: KRIEMHELD'S REVNGE (1924) Dir: Fritz Lang. Writer: Thea von Harbou. King Attila: Rudolf Klien-Rogge, Kriemheld: Margarete Schon, King Gunther: Theodor Loos, Hagen Tronje: Hans Adalbert Schlettow. Now married to King Attila, Kriemheld after giving birth to Attila's son, asks him to invite her brothers to his court. Once they arrive, she offers a reward to the Huns if they kill Hagen Tronje, the killer of her first husband, Siegfried, after King Attila refuses to break the oath of safety to his guests. In the battle that follows, Hagen kills Attila's son, and when the Burgundians refuse to dishonor themselves by surrendering Hagen Tronje, they themselves are all killed.
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NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH (1940) Dir: Carol Reed. Writers: Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder. Anna Bomasch: Margaret Lockwood, Gus Bennett: Rex Harrison, Karl Marsen: Paul Henreid, Axel Bomasch: James Harcourt, Charters: Basil Radford, Caldicot: Naughton Wayne. As the Germans march into Prague, armaments expert, Axel Bomasch escapes to England. When his daughter is captured, Nazi agent, Karl Marsen poses as a fellow prisoner, helps her escape, so that he can then kidnap them both from England. Agent Gus Bennett pretends to be a German officer to get them back. An appearance by bumbling Englishmen, Caldicot and Charters.
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NINOTCHKA (1939) Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. Writer: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch. Nina Yakushova "Ninotchka" Ivanoff: Greta Garbo, Leon, Count d'Algout: Melvyn Douglas, Grand Duchess Swana: Ina Claire, Iranoff: Sig Rumann, Buljanoff: Felix Bressart, Kopalski: Alexander Granach, Kommissar Razinin: Bela Lugosi, Count Rakonin: Gregory Gaye, Gaston: Richard Carle. Three Soviet trade representatives, Iranoff, Buljanoff, and Kopalski arrive in Paris to sell the jewels of the Grand Duchess Swana to raise money for the Soviet state. Swana, now living in Paris, sends her lover, Leon, Count d'Algout to block the sale. Kommissar Razinin sends a special representative, Ninotchka, to complete the sale when the three trade reps fail to make progress. She meets Leon, Count d'Algout without realizing that he works for Swana. She is seduced by both Paris and Leon. They fall in love. When Swana realizes that she is losing Leon to Ninotchka, she cuts a deal to let the sale of the Jewels go forward if Ninotchka leaves Paris and returns to the Soviet Union. When Iranoff, Buljanoff and Kopalski are sent on another foreign mission, things go wrong and Ninotchka is, once again, sent to clean up the mess. When she arrives in Constantinople, she finds that Leon is there and has enlisted the help of the three friends to get Ninotchka out of the Soviet Union.
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NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Writer: Ernest Lehman. Roger O. Thornhill: Cary Grant, Eve Kendall: Eva Marie Saint, Philip Vandamm: James Mason, Leonard: Martin Landau, Clara Thornhill: Jessie Royce Landis, The Professor: Leo J. Carroll. New York advertising man, Roger O. Thornhill is mistaken for a non existent spy, George Kaplan. Kaplan is an invention of American intelligence to shield real agent Eve Kendall, who is the mistress of Philip Vandamm, a foreign agent. When Roger meets Eve, they fall in love, and soon Vandamm's right hand man, Leonard has proof that Eve is actually an American agent.
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NOSFERATU, A SYMPHONY OF HORROR (1922) Dir: F.W. Murnau. Writer: Henrik Galeen. Graf Orlok/Nosferatu: Max Schrek, Hutter: Gustav von Wnagenheim, Ellen Hutter: Greta Schroder, Knock, the House Agent: Alexander Granach, Harding: Georg H. Schnell, Annie Harding: Ruth Landshoff, Professor Bulwer: John Gottowt. Knock, under the control oof the vampire, Count Orlok, Nosferatu sends his employee Hutter to the wilds of Transylvania with the deed of a house in Germany. Nosferatu brings death to his new home, but Hutter's wife offers herself to Nosferatu so that he may be killed.
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NOTORIUS (1946) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Writer: Ben Hecht. Devlin: Cary Grant, Alicia Huberman, Alexander Sebastian: Claude Rains, Captain Paul Prescott: Louis Calhern, Anna Sebastian: Madame Konstantin, Dr. Anderson: Reinhold Schunzel, Eric Mathis: Ivan Triesault, Joseph: Alex Minotis. American intelligence officer, Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, daughter of a German agent to spy on Alex Sebastian, friend of her father who is also in love with her.
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OBJECTIVE, BURMA! (1945) Dir: Raoul Walsh. Writer: Ranald MacDougall, Lester Cole. Capt. Nelson: Errol Flynn, War Correspondent, Mark Williams: Henry Hull, S.Sgt. Treacy: James Brown, Lt. Sid Jacobs: William Prince, Cpl. Gaby Gordon; George Tobias. An American commando unit under the command of Captain Nelson, accompanied by war correspondent, Mark Williams, parachute into Japanese occupied Burma to blow up a Japanese radar station. When the landing strip the unit is supposed to use to escape Burma is over run by the Japanese, the commandos are forced to get back to their base on foot.
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OCEANS (2009) Dir: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzand. Writer: Christophe Cheysson, Jacques Cluzand, Laurent Debas, Stephane Durand, Laurent Gande, Jacques Perrin, Francois Sarano. A documentary about the world's oceans.
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OLYMPIA: PART 1, FESTIVAL OF THE NATIONS (1938) Dir: Leni Riefenstahl. Writer: Leni Riefenstahl. Documentary of the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics.
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OLYMPIA: PART 2, FESTIVAL OF BEAUTY (1938) Dir: Leni Riefenstahl. Writer: Leni Riefenstahl. Second part of the documentary of the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics.
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ON THE TOWN (1949) Dir: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly. Writers: Adolph Green, Betty Comden. Music: Leonard Bernstein. Gabey: Gene Kelly, Chip: Frank Sinatra, Ozzie: Jules Munshin, Brunhilde Esterhazy: Betty Garrett, Ivy Smith: Vera-Ellen, Claire Huddesen: Ann Miller, Lucy Shmeeler: Alice Pearce. Three sailors have a 24 hour liberty in New York City. They go off to sight see and find girls. Gabey sees a poster for Miss Turnstiles, AKA Ivy Smith and becomes obsessed with finding her. Chip and Ozzie find their own girls, Brunhilde and Claire. The three couples meet up at the Empire State Building. Chased by the police, they all end up at Cony Island before the three sailors have to be back on their ship.
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ONE, TWO, THREE (1961) Dir: Billy Wilder. Writer: Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond. C.R. MacNamara: James Cagney, Otto Ludwig Piffl: Horst Bucholz, Scarlett Hazeltine, Phyllis MacNamara: Arlene Francis, Schlemmer: Hanns Lothar, Fraulein Ingeborg: Liselotte Pulver. The head of Coca Cola's Berlin office, C.R. MacNamara dreams of heading up European operations in London. When the president of Coke sends his wild daughter, Scarlett Hazeltine, to Berlin and asks the MacNamara's to keep an eye on her, C.R. sees his opportunity for advancement. When Scarlett sneaks out and marries a radical East German communist, C.R. plots to destroy the marriage. He succeeds in getting Otto arrested by the Communist East Germans by framing him as an American spy. When he learns that Scarlett is pregnant, he frees Otto and remakes him as a phony count and ardent conservative.
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THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES (1976) Dir: Clint Eastwood. Writer: Phil Kaufman, Sonia Chernus. JoseyWales: Clint Eastwood, Laura Lee: Sondra Locke, Lone Watie: Chief Dan George, Terril: Bill McKinney, Jamie: Sam Bottoms, Grandma Sarah: Paula Trueman, Little Moonlight: Geraldine Keams, Fletcher: John Vernon, Ten Bears: Will Sampson. After the civil war, a group of Confederate irregulars surrender to the Union Army. When they are gunned down, Josey Wales, the only member who refused to surrender, heads towards Texas, pursued by troops led by Terril, the commander who killed Wales's wife and son at the beginning of the war and Fletcher a fellow irregular who urged the group to turn themselves in. . Along the way, others, including two Indians, Lone Watie and Little Moonlight, and Grandma Sarah and grand daughter Laura Lee, attach themselves to a reluctant Josey Wales.
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OCEANS (2009) Dir: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzand. Writer: Christophe Cheysson, Jacques Cluzand, Laurent Debas, Stephane Durand, Laurent Gande, Jacques Perrin, Francois Sarano. A documentary about the world's oceans.
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OLYMPIA: PART 1, FESTIVAL OF THE NATIONS (1938) Dir: Leni Riefenstahl. Writer: Leni Riefenstahl. Documentary of the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics.
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OLYMPIA: PART 2, FESTIVAL OF BEAUTY (1938) Dir: Leni Riefenstahl. Writer: Leni Riefenstahl. Second part of the documentary of the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics.
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ON THE TOWN (1949) Dir: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly. Writers: Adolph Green, Betty Comden. Music: Leonard Bernstein. Gabey: Gene Kelly, Chip: Frank Sinatra, Ozzie: Jules Munshin, Brunhilde Esterhazy: Betty Garrett, Ivy Smith: Vera-Ellen, Claire Huddesen: Ann Miller, Lucy Shmeeler: Alice Pearce. Three sailors have a 24 hour liberty in New York City. They go off to sight see and find girls. Gabey sees a poster for Miss Turnstiles, AKA Ivy Smith and becomes obsessed with finding her. Chip and Ozzie find their own girls, Brunhilde and Claire. The three couples meet up at the Empire State Building. Chased by the police, they all end up at Cony Island before the three sailors have to be back on their ship.
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ONE, TWO, THREE (1961) Dir: Billy Wilder. Writer: Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond. C.R. MacNamara: James Cagney, Otto Ludwig Piffl: Horst Bucholz, Scarlett Hazeltine, Phyllis MacNamara: Arlene Francis, Schlemmer: Hanns Lothar, Fraulein Ingeborg: Liselotte Pulver. The head of Coca Cola's Berlin office, C.R. MacNamara dreams of heading up European operations in London. When the president of Coke sends his wild daughter, Scarlett Hazeltine, to Berlin and asks the MacNamara's to keep an eye on her, C.R. sees his opportunity for advancement. When Scarlett sneaks out and marries a radical East German communist, C.R. plots to destroy the marriage. He succeeds in getting Otto arrested by the Communist East Germans by framing him as an American spy. When he learns that Scarlett is pregnant, he frees Otto and remakes him as a phony count and ardent conservative.
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THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES (1976) Dir: Clint Eastwood. Writer: Phil Kaufman, Sonia Chernus. JoseyWales: Clint Eastwood, Laura Lee: Sondra Locke, Lone Watie: Chief Dan George, Terril: Bill McKinney, Jamie: Sam Bottoms, Grandma Sarah: Paula Trueman, Little Moonlight: Geraldine Keams, Fletcher: John Vernon, Ten Bears: Will Sampson. After the civil war, a group of Confederate irregulars surrender to the Union Army. When they are gunned down, Josey Wales, the only member who refused to surrender, heads towards Texas, pursued by troops led by Terril, the commander who killed Wales's wife and son at the beginning of the war and Fletcher a fellow irregular who urged the group to turn themselves in. . Along the way, others, including two Indians, Lone Watie and Little Moonlight, and Grandma Sarah and grand daughter Laura Lee, attach themselves to a reluctant Josey Wales.
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PANDORA'S BOX (1929) Dir: G. W. Pabst. Writer: Frank Wedekind (play) Ladislaus Vajda. Lulu: Louise Brooks, Dr. Ludwig Schon: Fritz Kortner, Alwa Schon: Francis Lederer, Schigolch: Carl Goetz, Countess Anna Geschwitz: Alice Roberts, Rodrigo Quast: Krafft-Raschig, Charlotte Marie Adelaide von Zarnikow: Daisy D'Ora, Jack the Ripper: Gustav Diessl. Lulu, an amoral but somewhat naive woman is the mistress of Dr. Schon. When she breaks up his upcoming marriage to Charlotte, he decides to marry Lulu. Feeling a fool and shamed he tries to force Lulu to kill herself, but in the struggle, he is killed himself. Lulu is found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to prison but she escapes with the help of Schigolch, her father, and fellow variety preform er, Rodrigo. Lulu convinces Dr. Schon's son, Alwa to run away with her, Schigolch and Rodrigo. Countess Geschwitz, a lesbian in love with Lulu helps them. As time passes, the three fugitives lives descend into poverty and an exile in London. Lulu turns to prostitution and picks up Jack the Ripper.
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PARIS QUI DORT aka THE CRAZY RAY (1925) Dir: Rene Clair. Writer: Rene Clair. Albert: Henri Rollan, The Scientist: Charles Martinelli, The Scientist's Niece: Myla Seller, The Pilot: Albert Prejean. When a plane lands in Paris, the passengers find that everyone in Paris is frozen in place. They take up residence in the city, including the Eiffel Tower, but soon become bored. They investigate and discover that a scientist has invented a ray that freezes all life. The plane was unaffected because it was too high in the air. The effects of the ray is reversed and everything returns to normal.
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PICCADILLY (1929) Dir: E. A. Dupont. Writer: Arnold Bennett. Shosho: Anna May Wong, Valentine Wilmot: Jameson Thomas, Mabel Greenfield: Gilda Gray, Jim: King Hou Chang, Victor Smiles; Cyril Ritchard, A Nightclub Diner: Charles Laughton. When dance team Mabel and Vic break up over Mabel's involvement with Piccadilly Club owner Valentine Wilmot, business falls off at the club. Wilmot hires dish washer, Shosho to do a Chinese dance for his club. Wilmot begins an affair with Shosho. Shosho is murdered and Wilmot is accused. The other suspects are Mabel and Jim, Shosho's secret lover.
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PLAY DIRTY (1968) Dir: Andre de Toth. Writer: Melvyn Bragg, Lotte Colin. Capt. Douglas: Michael Caine, Capt. Cyril Leech: Nigel Davenport, Col. Masters: Nigel Green, Brig. Blore: Harry Andrews, Hassan: Moshen Ben Abdallah, Assine: Mohamed Kouka. Captain Douglas, a petroleum engineer in civilian life, is assigned by British general, Brig. Blore to lead a group of criminals in a commando raid to destroy a German fuel dump. Disguised, at first, as Italian troops, and then Germans, they head off across the Sahara desert on their mission.
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THE POLICEMEN'S LITTLE RUN (1907) Dir: Ferdinand Zecca. Writer: Andre Heuze. A policeman sees a dog steal a leg of mutton from a butcher's shop. Soon joined by other policemen, he chases the dog across the city, through buildings, and up the side of a building and onto the roof. Eventually the police corner the dog in his doghouse. The dog turns on the police and chases them into their station house.
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PSYCHO (1960) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Writer: Joseph Stefano. Norman Bates: Anthony Perkins, Marion Crane: Janet Leigh, Sam Loomis: John Gavin, Vera Miles: Lila Crane, Milton Arbogast: Martin Balsam, Deputy Sheriff Al Chambers: John McIntire. When Marion Crane, a secretary from Phoenix, Arizona steals from her employer, she runs to her boyfriend, Sam Loomis, in California. On the way to him, she books a room in The Bates Motel, owned by psychopath, serial killer, Norman Bates. Marion's sister Lila teams up with Sam to search for the missing Marion Crane.
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PARIS QUI DORT aka THE CRAZY RAY (1925) Dir: Rene Clair. Writer: Rene Clair. Albert: Henri Rollan, The Scientist: Charles Martinelli, The Scientist's Niece: Myla Seller, The Pilot: Albert Prejean. When a plane lands in Paris, the passengers find that everyone in Paris is frozen in place. They take up residence in the city, including the Eiffel Tower, but soon become bored. They investigate and discover that a scientist has invented a ray that freezes all life. The plane was unaffected because it was too high in the air. The effects of the ray is reversed and everything returns to normal.
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PICCADILLY (1929) Dir: E. A. Dupont. Writer: Arnold Bennett. Shosho: Anna May Wong, Valentine Wilmot: Jameson Thomas, Mabel Greenfield: Gilda Gray, Jim: King Hou Chang, Victor Smiles; Cyril Ritchard, A Nightclub Diner: Charles Laughton. When dance team Mabel and Vic break up over Mabel's involvement with Piccadilly Club owner Valentine Wilmot, business falls off at the club. Wilmot hires dish washer, Shosho to do a Chinese dance for his club. Wilmot begins an affair with Shosho. Shosho is murdered and Wilmot is accused. The other suspects are Mabel and Jim, Shosho's secret lover.
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PLAY DIRTY (1968) Dir: Andre de Toth. Writer: Melvyn Bragg, Lotte Colin. Capt. Douglas: Michael Caine, Capt. Cyril Leech: Nigel Davenport, Col. Masters: Nigel Green, Brig. Blore: Harry Andrews, Hassan: Moshen Ben Abdallah, Assine: Mohamed Kouka. Captain Douglas, a petroleum engineer in civilian life, is assigned by British general, Brig. Blore to lead a group of criminals in a commando raid to destroy a German fuel dump. Disguised, at first, as Italian troops, and then Germans, they head off across the Sahara desert on their mission.
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THE POLICEMEN'S LITTLE RUN (1907) Dir: Ferdinand Zecca. Writer: Andre Heuze. A policeman sees a dog steal a leg of mutton from a butcher's shop. Soon joined by other policemen, he chases the dog across the city, through buildings, and up the side of a building and onto the roof. Eventually the police corner the dog in his doghouse. The dog turns on the police and chases them into their station house.
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PSYCHO (1960) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Writer: Joseph Stefano. Norman Bates: Anthony Perkins, Marion Crane: Janet Leigh, Sam Loomis: John Gavin, Vera Miles: Lila Crane, Milton Arbogast: Martin Balsam, Deputy Sheriff Al Chambers: John McIntire. When Marion Crane, a secretary from Phoenix, Arizona steals from her employer, she runs to her boyfriend, Sam Loomis, in California. On the way to him, she books a room in The Bates Motel, owned by psychopath, serial killer, Norman Bates. Marion's sister Lila teams up with Sam to search for the missing Marion Crane.
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Queen Christina, (1933), Dir: Rouben Mamoulian, Writer: H.M. Harwood, Salka Viertel, Queen Christina: Greta Garbo, Don Antonio: John Gilbert, Ebba: Elizabeth Young, Magnus: Ian Keith, Oxenstierna: Lewis Stone. Queen Christina, raised as a boy, ruling like a man, abdicates her throne when she meets and fall in love with the Spanish ambassador, Don Antonio.
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THE RAGE OF PARIS (1938) Dir: Henry Koster. Writer: Bruce Manning, Felix Jackson. Nicole: Danielle Darrieux, Jim Trevor: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Bill Duncan: Louis Hayward, Gloria: Helen Broderick, Mike: Mischa Auer, Rigley: Charles Coleman. French dancer, Nicole comes to New York only to be left broke and behind on the rent. Neighbor and friend Gloria with the help of Mike, maitre'd at an upscale New York hotel finance Nicole in an attempt to snare Canadian millionaire, Bill Duncan in a marriage. When Duncan's best friend, Jim Trevor arrives he recognizes Nicole from a previous meeting and tries to break up the engagement of the Nicole and Bill, but ends up falling in love with Nicole.
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RED RIVER (1948) Dir: Howard Hawks. Writer: Borden Chase, Charles Schnee. Tom Dunson: John Wayne, Matt Garth: Montgomery Clift, Tess Millay: Joanne Dru, Cherry Valence: John Ireland, Nadine Groot: Walter Brennan, Buster McGee: Noah Beery, Jr., Dan Latimer: Harry Carey, Jr., Mr. Melville: Harry Carey, Sr. After the Civil War, Tom Dunson and his ward, Matt Garth, on the verge of loosing their ranch, drive their cattle herd to market in Missouri. Dunson becomes more dictatorial and paranoid as they push on to Missouri. Despite the threat of Missouri border gangs, Dunson refuses to head to Abilene, Kansas, a safer destination. When Dunson decides to hang two of his cowboys for deserting the cattle drive, Matt Garth takes over the herd from Dunson. Dunson swears to catch Garth and kill him. As the cattle drive heads north, they save a wagon train full of gamblers and whores from an Indian attack. Garth falls in love with one of the rescued women, Tess Millay. He leaves her behind. When Dunson arrives at the wagon train with new men, Tess asks to come along for the final confrontation between Tom Dunson and Matt Garth.
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REDS (1981) Dir: Warren Beatty. Writer: Warren Beatty, Trevor Griffiths. John Reed: Warren Beatty, Louise Bryant: Diane Keaton, Max Eastman: Edward Herrmann, Grigory Zinoviev: Jerzy Kosinski, Eugene O'Niell: Jack Nicholson, Emma Goldman: Maureen Stapleton, Louis Fraina: Paul Sorvino, Mrs. Paltrow: Bessie Love, Pete Van Wherry: Gene Hackman. A film biography of journalists John Reed and Louise Bryant from their first meeting in Portland, Oregon through Reeds death in the Soviet Union during the Russian revolution.
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RESCUE DAWN (2006) Dir: Werner Herzog. Writer: Werner Herzog. Dieter Herzog: Christian Bale, Duane: Steve Zahn, Gene: Jeremy Davies. Navy pilot, Dieter Dengler is shot down over Laos in the first years of the Vietnam war. Captured by the Pathet Lao, he organizes an escape with the other American prisoners, Duane and Gene, as well as several Asian prisoners.
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THE RIGHT STUFF (1983) Dir: Philip Kaufman. Writer: Philip Kaufman. Chuck Yeager: Sam Shepard, Glennis Yeager: Barbara Hershey, Pancho Barnes: Kim Stanley, Alan Shepard: Scott Glenn, Gordon Cooper: Dennis Quaid, John Glenn: Ed Harris, Trudy Cooper: Pamela Reed, Jack Ridley: Levon Helm, Gus Grissom: Fred Ward, Betty Grissom: Veronica Cartwright. As Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier and tests the fastest jets, the first seven Mercury astronauts are chosen and the space age begins.
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RONIN (1998) Dir: John Frankenheimer. Writer: J.D. Zeik. Sam: Robert De Niro, Vincent: Jean Reno, Deirdre: Natascha McElhone, Gregor: Stellan Skarsgard, Larry: Skip Sudduth, Seamus O'Rourke: Jonathan Pryce, Spence: Sean Bean, Jean-Pierre: Michael Lonsdale, Mikhi: Feodor Atkine, Natacha Kirilova: Katarina Witt, Dapper Gent: Jan Triska. The IRA hires a group of mercenaries to steal a mysterious case, but Gregor, one of the group betrays the team so that he can sell the case to some Russians. Sam and Vincent then hunt for both the case and the IRA leader, Seamus.
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THE RUNNING, JUMPING, STANDING STILL FILM (1960) Dir: Richard Lester, Peter Sellers. Writer: Richard Lester, Spike Milligan. The Painter: Richard Lester, The Photographer: Peter Sellers. A collection of sight gags and slapstick.
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RED RIVER (1948) Dir: Howard Hawks. Writer: Borden Chase, Charles Schnee. Tom Dunson: John Wayne, Matt Garth: Montgomery Clift, Tess Millay: Joanne Dru, Cherry Valence: John Ireland, Nadine Groot: Walter Brennan, Buster McGee: Noah Beery, Jr., Dan Latimer: Harry Carey, Jr., Mr. Melville: Harry Carey, Sr. After the Civil War, Tom Dunson and his ward, Matt Garth, on the verge of loosing their ranch, drive their cattle herd to market in Missouri. Dunson becomes more dictatorial and paranoid as they push on to Missouri. Despite the threat of Missouri border gangs, Dunson refuses to head to Abilene, Kansas, a safer destination. When Dunson decides to hang two of his cowboys for deserting the cattle drive, Matt Garth takes over the herd from Dunson. Dunson swears to catch Garth and kill him. As the cattle drive heads north, they save a wagon train full of gamblers and whores from an Indian attack. Garth falls in love with one of the rescued women, Tess Millay. He leaves her behind. When Dunson arrives at the wagon train with new men, Tess asks to come along for the final confrontation between Tom Dunson and Matt Garth.
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REDS (1981) Dir: Warren Beatty. Writer: Warren Beatty, Trevor Griffiths. John Reed: Warren Beatty, Louise Bryant: Diane Keaton, Max Eastman: Edward Herrmann, Grigory Zinoviev: Jerzy Kosinski, Eugene O'Niell: Jack Nicholson, Emma Goldman: Maureen Stapleton, Louis Fraina: Paul Sorvino, Mrs. Paltrow: Bessie Love, Pete Van Wherry: Gene Hackman. A film biography of journalists John Reed and Louise Bryant from their first meeting in Portland, Oregon through Reeds death in the Soviet Union during the Russian revolution.
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RESCUE DAWN (2006) Dir: Werner Herzog. Writer: Werner Herzog. Dieter Herzog: Christian Bale, Duane: Steve Zahn, Gene: Jeremy Davies. Navy pilot, Dieter Dengler is shot down over Laos in the first years of the Vietnam war. Captured by the Pathet Lao, he organizes an escape with the other American prisoners, Duane and Gene, as well as several Asian prisoners.
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THE RIGHT STUFF (1983) Dir: Philip Kaufman. Writer: Philip Kaufman. Chuck Yeager: Sam Shepard, Glennis Yeager: Barbara Hershey, Pancho Barnes: Kim Stanley, Alan Shepard: Scott Glenn, Gordon Cooper: Dennis Quaid, John Glenn: Ed Harris, Trudy Cooper: Pamela Reed, Jack Ridley: Levon Helm, Gus Grissom: Fred Ward, Betty Grissom: Veronica Cartwright. As Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier and tests the fastest jets, the first seven Mercury astronauts are chosen and the space age begins.
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RONIN (1998) Dir: John Frankenheimer. Writer: J.D. Zeik. Sam: Robert De Niro, Vincent: Jean Reno, Deirdre: Natascha McElhone, Gregor: Stellan Skarsgard, Larry: Skip Sudduth, Seamus O'Rourke: Jonathan Pryce, Spence: Sean Bean, Jean-Pierre: Michael Lonsdale, Mikhi: Feodor Atkine, Natacha Kirilova: Katarina Witt, Dapper Gent: Jan Triska. The IRA hires a group of mercenaries to steal a mysterious case, but Gregor, one of the group betrays the team so that he can sell the case to some Russians. Sam and Vincent then hunt for both the case and the IRA leader, Seamus.
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THE RUNNING, JUMPING, STANDING STILL FILM (1960) Dir: Richard Lester, Peter Sellers. Writer: Richard Lester, Spike Milligan. The Painter: Richard Lester, The Photographer: Peter Sellers. A collection of sight gags and slapstick.
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SABOTEUR (1942) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Writer: Peter Viertel, Joan Harrison, Dorothy Parker. Barry Kane: Robert Cummings, Patricia Martin: Priscilla Lane, Charles Tobin: Otto Kruger, Freeman: Alan Baxter, Frank Fry: Norman Lloyd, Mrs. Sutton: Alma Kruger, Phillip Martin: Vaughan Glazer. When defense worker Barry Kane bumps into Frank Fry, Fry drops an envelope with his name and the address of a ranch in California. When a fire at the plant turns out to be sabotage, Kane is unjustly accused. Kane realizes that Fry is the actual saboteur and tries to bring him to justice. He goes to the ranch, owned by wealthy Charles Tobin. Tobin is a Nazi spy. Kane follows the trail to Hoover Dam, then New York City. Caught at the mansion of wealthy Mrs. Sutton, also a Nazi spy, he eventually convinces the FBI of his innocence and tracks Fry to the Statue of Liberty where Kane and Fry confront each other on the statue's torch.
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THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD (2003) Dir: Guy Madden. Writer: Kazuo Ishiguro (story) George Toles (screenplay) Chester Kent: Mark McKinney, Lady Helen Port-Huntley: Isabella Rossellini, Fyodor Kent: David Fox, Narcissa: Maria de Medeiros, Roderick Kent AKA Gravillo the Great: Ross McMillan. When double amputee, 1930's, Winnipeg beer baroness, Lady Port-Huntley announces a contest for the saddest music in the world, entrants from all over the world come to Canada to compete. Among the contestants are Fyodor Kent representing Canada, his sons, Chester representing the United States, and Roderick AKA Gravillo the Great representing Serbia. Both Chester and Fyodor were once romantically involved with Lady Port-Huntley. Years earlier,Chester was driving when an accident occurred that resulted in injuries to Lady Port-Huntley's legs. Fyoder, a doctor, did the amputations. Chester is now involved with Roderick's missing ex wife, Narcissa.
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SECRET AGENT (1936) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Writer: Campbell Dixon. Ashenden: John Gielgud, The General: Peter Lorre, Elsa: Madeline Carroll, Marvin: Robert Young, Caypor: Percy Marmont, Mrs. Caypor: Florence Kahn, Lilli: Lilli Palmer, "R": Charles Carson. During World War 1, English secret agent, Ashenden is sent to Switzerland to hunt down a German agent. He, his agent, pretend wife, and the General, a hired killer, at first identify and kill Caypor, who turns out to be the wrong man. They then identify Marvin, an American as the true agent and follow him on a train into enemy territory.
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SECRETS OF A SOUL (1926) Dir: G.W. Pabst. Writer: Karl Abraham, Hans Neumann, Colin Ross, Hanns Sachs. Martin Fellman: Werner Krauss, The Wife: Ruth Weyher, Cousin Erich: Jack Trevor, Dr. Orth: Pavel Pavlov, Fellman's Assistant: Hertha von Walther. When Martin Fellman has a strange dream full of violent and sexual imagery, he has a nervous breakdown. He seeks help from psychiatrist Dr. Orth. By analyzing Fellman's dream, a cure is achieved.
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SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON (1949) Dir: John Ford. Writer: Frank S. Nugent, Laurence Stallings. Capt. Nathan Brittles: John Wayne, Olivia Dandridge: Joanne Dru, Lt. Flint Cohill: John Agar, Sgt. Tyree: Ben Johnson, 2nd Lt. Ross Pennell: Harry Carey, Jr., Top Sgt. Quincannon: Victor McLaglen, Abby Allshard: Mildred Natwick, Major Mac Allshard: George O'Brien, Chief Red Shirt: Noble Johnson, Chief Pony That Walks: Chief John Big Tree. Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, leads one last mission to deliver two women, Abby Allshard and Olivia Dandridge to a stagecoach stop, while avoiding warring Indians. Meanwhile, two junior officers, Lts. Cohill and Pennell, quarrel over Olivia Dandridge.
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SMART ALEC (1951) Dir. & Writer: Unknown. The girl: Candy Barr. A woman is picked up at a hotel and goes back to the mans room and has sex. When she refuses to perform oral sex, a friend is called on the phone to come over for a threesome.
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THE SOCIAL NETWORK (2010) Dir: David Fincher. Writer: Aaron Sorkin. Mark Zuckerberg: Jessie Eisenberg, Eduardo Saverin: Andrew Garfield, Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss: Armie Hammer, Sean Parker: Justin Timberlake, Erica Albright: Rooney Mara. The story of the inventing, founding of Facebook, and the law suits that resulted.
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SOMETHING NEW (1920) Dir: Nell Shipman, Bert Von Tuyle. Writer: Nell Shipman, Bert Von Tuyle. A Lady Writer: Nell Shipman, Bill Baxter: Bert Von Tuyle, Sid Bickley: L.M. Wells, Agrilla Gorgez: Merrill McCormick. A lady writer seeking inspiration sees a man with a Maxwell Roadster challenge a cowboy on horseback to a cross country race. She then imagines herself in Mexico as a lady writer visiting a mine co-owned by her father in search of inspiration. She's kidnapped by bandit gang leader, Agrilla Gorgez. When Bill Baxter, a mining engineer, is unable to find a horse to ride to the rescue, he goes on a cross country rescue mission in his Maxwell roadster.
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STAGECOACH (1939) Dir: John Ford. Writer: Dudley Nichols. The Ringo Kid: John Wayne, Dallas: Claire Trevor, Buck: Andy Devine, Hatfield: John Carradine, Doc Boone: Thomas Mitchell, Lucy Mallory: Louise Platt, Curly: George Bancroft, Peacock: Donald Meek, Gatewood: Breton Churchill, Luke Plummer: Tom Tyler. When The Ringo Kid escapes from prison, Curly, the local sheriff realizes that The Kid will go to Lordsburg to kill the Plummers, who killed The Kid's father and framed him for murder. Curly rides the local stagecoach that is going through to Lordsburg even though the Indian's are on the warpath. The Ringo Kid is captured along the way, as the stage faces danger from the marauding Indians. When they get through to Lordsburg, The Ringo Kid goes off to face the Plummers.
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STRIKE (1925) Dir: Sergei Eisenstein. Writer: Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov. Factory Foreman: Grigori Aleksandrov, Chief of Police: I. Ivanov, A Revolutionary: Ivan Klyukvin, Police Spy: Maksim Shtraukh, King of Thieves: Boris Yurtsev. After a factory worker is accused of a theft he did not commit, he hangs himself. The factory workers, fed up with mistreatment go on strike. The factory owners refuse to negotiate, and as the strike drags on, and hunger sets in, their unity frays. The police hire thieves to stir up trouble and the army uses it as an excuse to massacre the striking workers.
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SUNRISE: A STORY OF TWO HUMANS (1927) Dir: F.W. Murnau. Writers: Hermann Sudermann (original theme), Carl Mayer (scenario). The Man: George O'Brien, The Wife: Janet Gaynor, The Woman From the City: Margret Livingston. A farmer meets a woman from the city. She asks him to kill his wife so that they run away together.
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SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) Dir: Billy Wilder. Writer: Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman, Jr. Joe Gillis: William Holden, Norma Desmond: Gloria Swanson, Max von Mayerling: Erich von Stroheim, Betty Schaefer: Nancy Olson, Themselves: Buster Keaton, Anna Q. Nilsson, Hedda Hopper, Cecil B. DeMille, H.B. Warner. Down on his luck screen writer, Joe Gillis, on the run from bill collectors, tries to hide out in what he thinks is an abandoned mansion. It is, however, occupied by silent film star, Norma Desmond. Desmond lives in the past, dreaming of a grand comeback. She takes Joe Gillis in, at first as a ghost writer on her comeback script, and then as her gigolo. Joe tries to break away from Norma, teams up with Betty on a script of his own, and is eventually shot and killed by Norma, when he finally tries to walk out.
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THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD (2003) Dir: Guy Madden. Writer: Kazuo Ishiguro (story) George Toles (screenplay) Chester Kent: Mark McKinney, Lady Helen Port-Huntley: Isabella Rossellini, Fyodor Kent: David Fox, Narcissa: Maria de Medeiros, Roderick Kent AKA Gravillo the Great: Ross McMillan. When double amputee, 1930's, Winnipeg beer baroness, Lady Port-Huntley announces a contest for the saddest music in the world, entrants from all over the world come to Canada to compete. Among the contestants are Fyodor Kent representing Canada, his sons, Chester representing the United States, and Roderick AKA Gravillo the Great representing Serbia. Both Chester and Fyodor were once romantically involved with Lady Port-Huntley. Years earlier,Chester was driving when an accident occurred that resulted in injuries to Lady Port-Huntley's legs. Fyoder, a doctor, did the amputations. Chester is now involved with Roderick's missing ex wife, Narcissa.
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SECRET AGENT (1936) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Writer: Campbell Dixon. Ashenden: John Gielgud, The General: Peter Lorre, Elsa: Madeline Carroll, Marvin: Robert Young, Caypor: Percy Marmont, Mrs. Caypor: Florence Kahn, Lilli: Lilli Palmer, "R": Charles Carson. During World War 1, English secret agent, Ashenden is sent to Switzerland to hunt down a German agent. He, his agent, pretend wife, and the General, a hired killer, at first identify and kill Caypor, who turns out to be the wrong man. They then identify Marvin, an American as the true agent and follow him on a train into enemy territory.
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SECRETS OF A SOUL (1926) Dir: G.W. Pabst. Writer: Karl Abraham, Hans Neumann, Colin Ross, Hanns Sachs. Martin Fellman: Werner Krauss, The Wife: Ruth Weyher, Cousin Erich: Jack Trevor, Dr. Orth: Pavel Pavlov, Fellman's Assistant: Hertha von Walther. When Martin Fellman has a strange dream full of violent and sexual imagery, he has a nervous breakdown. He seeks help from psychiatrist Dr. Orth. By analyzing Fellman's dream, a cure is achieved.
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SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON (1949) Dir: John Ford. Writer: Frank S. Nugent, Laurence Stallings. Capt. Nathan Brittles: John Wayne, Olivia Dandridge: Joanne Dru, Lt. Flint Cohill: John Agar, Sgt. Tyree: Ben Johnson, 2nd Lt. Ross Pennell: Harry Carey, Jr., Top Sgt. Quincannon: Victor McLaglen, Abby Allshard: Mildred Natwick, Major Mac Allshard: George O'Brien, Chief Red Shirt: Noble Johnson, Chief Pony That Walks: Chief John Big Tree. Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, leads one last mission to deliver two women, Abby Allshard and Olivia Dandridge to a stagecoach stop, while avoiding warring Indians. Meanwhile, two junior officers, Lts. Cohill and Pennell, quarrel over Olivia Dandridge.
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SMART ALEC (1951) Dir. & Writer: Unknown. The girl: Candy Barr. A woman is picked up at a hotel and goes back to the mans room and has sex. When she refuses to perform oral sex, a friend is called on the phone to come over for a threesome.
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THE SOCIAL NETWORK (2010) Dir: David Fincher. Writer: Aaron Sorkin. Mark Zuckerberg: Jessie Eisenberg, Eduardo Saverin: Andrew Garfield, Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss: Armie Hammer, Sean Parker: Justin Timberlake, Erica Albright: Rooney Mara. The story of the inventing, founding of Facebook, and the law suits that resulted.
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SOMETHING NEW (1920) Dir: Nell Shipman, Bert Von Tuyle. Writer: Nell Shipman, Bert Von Tuyle. A Lady Writer: Nell Shipman, Bill Baxter: Bert Von Tuyle, Sid Bickley: L.M. Wells, Agrilla Gorgez: Merrill McCormick. A lady writer seeking inspiration sees a man with a Maxwell Roadster challenge a cowboy on horseback to a cross country race. She then imagines herself in Mexico as a lady writer visiting a mine co-owned by her father in search of inspiration. She's kidnapped by bandit gang leader, Agrilla Gorgez. When Bill Baxter, a mining engineer, is unable to find a horse to ride to the rescue, he goes on a cross country rescue mission in his Maxwell roadster.
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STAGECOACH (1939) Dir: John Ford. Writer: Dudley Nichols. The Ringo Kid: John Wayne, Dallas: Claire Trevor, Buck: Andy Devine, Hatfield: John Carradine, Doc Boone: Thomas Mitchell, Lucy Mallory: Louise Platt, Curly: George Bancroft, Peacock: Donald Meek, Gatewood: Breton Churchill, Luke Plummer: Tom Tyler. When The Ringo Kid escapes from prison, Curly, the local sheriff realizes that The Kid will go to Lordsburg to kill the Plummers, who killed The Kid's father and framed him for murder. Curly rides the local stagecoach that is going through to Lordsburg even though the Indian's are on the warpath. The Ringo Kid is captured along the way, as the stage faces danger from the marauding Indians. When they get through to Lordsburg, The Ringo Kid goes off to face the Plummers.
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STRIKE (1925) Dir: Sergei Eisenstein. Writer: Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov. Factory Foreman: Grigori Aleksandrov, Chief of Police: I. Ivanov, A Revolutionary: Ivan Klyukvin, Police Spy: Maksim Shtraukh, King of Thieves: Boris Yurtsev. After a factory worker is accused of a theft he did not commit, he hangs himself. The factory workers, fed up with mistreatment go on strike. The factory owners refuse to negotiate, and as the strike drags on, and hunger sets in, their unity frays. The police hire thieves to stir up trouble and the army uses it as an excuse to massacre the striking workers.
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SUNRISE: A STORY OF TWO HUMANS (1927) Dir: F.W. Murnau. Writers: Hermann Sudermann (original theme), Carl Mayer (scenario). The Man: George O'Brien, The Wife: Janet Gaynor, The Woman From the City: Margret Livingston. A farmer meets a woman from the city. She asks him to kill his wife so that they run away together.
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SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) Dir: Billy Wilder. Writer: Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman, Jr. Joe Gillis: William Holden, Norma Desmond: Gloria Swanson, Max von Mayerling: Erich von Stroheim, Betty Schaefer: Nancy Olson, Themselves: Buster Keaton, Anna Q. Nilsson, Hedda Hopper, Cecil B. DeMille, H.B. Warner. Down on his luck screen writer, Joe Gillis, on the run from bill collectors, tries to hide out in what he thinks is an abandoned mansion. It is, however, occupied by silent film star, Norma Desmond. Desmond lives in the past, dreaming of a grand comeback. She takes Joe Gillis in, at first as a ghost writer on her comeback script, and then as her gigolo. Joe tries to break away from Norma, teams up with Betty on a script of his own, and is eventually shot and killed by Norma, when he finally tries to walk out.
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TAMPOPO (1985) Dir: Juzo Itami. Writer: Juzo Itami. Tampopo: Nobuko Miyamoto, Goro: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Gun: Ken Watanabe, Man in White Suit: Koji Yakusho, Man in White Suit's Mistress: Fukumi Kuroda, Pisuken: Rikiyo Yasuoka, Noodle Master: Yoshi Kato, Shohei: Kinzoh Sakura. Tampopo, a widow and noodle stand owner seeks to make the perfect noodle and create the perfect atmosphere in which to eat noodles. With the help of Goro and Gun, truck drivers and noodle lovers; a noodle master, and the head of a group of homeless gourmets; Shohei, a chauffeur and chef; and Piskun a gangster and contractor, she achieves her goal.
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TEN SECONDS TO HELL (1959) Dir: Robert Aldrich. Writer: Robert Aldrich. Eric Koertner: Jack Palance, Karl Wirz: Jeffrey Chandler, Margot Hofer: Martine Carol, Franz Loeffler: Robert Cornthwaite, Wolfgang Sulke: Wesley Addy, Peter Tillig: Dave Willock, Hans Globke: James Goodwin. Six German soldiers return to Berlin after World War 2. They are hired by the allies to defuse unexploded bombs. One by one, they die, leaving only one survivor.
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THEY WERE EXPENDABLE (1945) Dir: John Ford. Writers: Frank Wead, based on the book by William L. White. Lt. John Brickley: Robert Montgomery, Lt. (J.G.) Rusty Ryan: John Wayne, Lt. Nurse Sandy Davyss: Donna Reed, Boats Mulcahey: Ward Bond, General Martin: Jack Holt, Admiral Blackwell: Charles Trowbridge. PT boat commander Lt. Brickley and his squadron are not taken seriously by Admiral Blackwell, but with the Japanese attack on the Philippines, his group is given more responsibility for the fighting. Despite losses of both boats and lives, Brickley and hid adjutant Lt. Ryan prove the worth of PT boats and, as the Philippines the two officers and two ensigns under their command are evacuated to the United States to build up PT boats for the war effort. Their men, expendable, are left behind to face capture by the Japanese.
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THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1951) Dir: Christian Nyby. Writer: Charles Lederer. Nikki: Margaret Sheridan, Capt. Patrick Hendry: Kennith Tobey, Dr. Carrington: Robert Cornthwaite, Ned Scott: Douglas Spencer, Lt. Eddie Dykes: James Young, Crew Chief: Dewey Martin, Corporal Barnes: William Self, Dr. Chapman: John Dierkes, Dr. Stern: Eduard Franz, The Thing: James Arness. When a space ship crashes near a north pole scientific station, the Army Air Force sends a plane, commanded by Capt. Hendry, to help with the investigation. When a creature from the space ship is found frozen in the ice, the corpse is brought back to the scientific station, and is defrosted. It comes alive and attacks the now stranded humans. Dr. Carrington, leader of the expedition and Capt. Hendry quarrel about the best way to handle the situation. Carrington wants to try and communicate with the creature, while Hendry wants to kill it. When the creature kills two of the scientists and uses their blood to reproduce, the humans fight to survive.
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THINGS TO COME (1936) Dir: William Cameron Menzies. Writer: H.G. Wells. John Cabal/Oswald Cabal: Raymond Massey, Pippa Passworthy/Raymond Passworthy: Edward Chapman, The Boss: Ralph Richardson, Theotocopulus: Cedric Hardwicke, Dr. Harding: Maurice Bradell, Richard Gordon: Derrick De Marney. When a decades long World War 2, made more destructive by air power, results in the destruction of modern civilization; when the walking sickness, a new plague, spreads, The Boss organizes what's left into a small, regional dictatorship. John Cabal, an engineer, the leader of a group of other engineers, imposes peace and order with the aid of Dr. Harding and Richard Gordon. With a new world wide peace, Wings Over the World, the engineering elite, rebuilds civilization. In the future, Oswald Cabal, descendant of John Cabal, heads a space program that hopes to shoot a space ship towards the moon with a giant canon. Theotocopulus, an artist, leads the opposition to space travel. Despite a riot started by Theotocopulus the space ship is shot into space, carrying the daughter of Oswald Cabal and the daughter of Raymond Passworthy.
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THE THIRD MAN (1949) Dir: Carol Reed. Writer: Graham Greene. Holly Martins: Joseph Cotton, Anna Schmidt: Alida Valli, Harry Lime: Orson Welles, Major Calloway: Trevor Howard, Sergeant Paine: Bernard Lee, Karl, the Porter: Paul Horbiger, Baron Kurtz: Ernst Deutsch, Popescu: Siegfried Breur, Dr. Winkel: Erich Ponto, Crabbin: Wilfrid Hyde-White. American pulp novelist, Holly Martins, shows up in post war, occupied Vienna, Austria at the invitation of school friend, Harry Lime. Informed that Harry has been killed in accident, he discovers that Harry was a con man running a ring selling diluted penicillin. Major Callowy, a military policeman, continues his investigation of Harry, and questions Holly and Harry's girlfriend, Anna Schmidt. When Holly finds out that Harry is still alive, he helps Calloway to catch Harry.
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THREE KINGS (1999) Dir: David O. Russell. Writer: David O. Russell. Archie Gates: George Clooney, Troy Barlow: Mark Wahlberg, Chiel Elgin: Ice Cube. Conrad Vig: Spike Jonze, Amir Abdullah, Adriana Cruz: Nora Dunn, Walter Wogaman: Jamie Kennedy, Captain Said: Said Taghmaoui, Colonel Horn: Mykelti Williamson. At the end of the first Gulf War, three soldiers, Troy Barlow, Chief Elgin and Conrad Vig discover a map that shows the location of stolen Kuwaiti gold. About to retire, Major Archie Gates decides to cut himself in and steal the gold. When the citizens of an Iraqi town are in danger of being massacred by Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard, the Americans try to both save the town and steal the gold.
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TITANIC (1953) Dir: Jean Negulesco. Writer: Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, Richard Breen. Richard Ward Sturges: Clifton Webb, Julia Sturges: Barbara Stanwyck, Annette Sturges: Audrey Dalton, Norman Sturges: Harper Carter, Gifford Rogers: Robert Wagner, George Healy: Richard Basehart, Maude Young: Thelma Ritter, Captain E.J. Smith: Brian Aherne. When Richard Ward Sturges learns that his wife Julia is leaving him and taking his children back to the United States, he bribes his way onto the Titanic, the liner they are taking.
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TITICUT FOLLIES (1967) Dir: Frederick Wiseman. A cinema verite style documentary about The State Prison for the Criminally Insane in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. It shows the brutal conditions and the inhumane treatment of the inmates. The title refers to a variety show put on by the prisoners.
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THE TRAIN (1964) Dir: John Frankenheimer. Writer: Franklin Coen, Frank Davis. Labiche: Burt Lancaster, Col. Von Waldheim: Paul Scofield, Christine: Jeanne Moreau, Mlle. Villard: Suzanne Flon. Papa Boule: Michel Simon. Herren: Wolfgang Preiss, Didont: Albert Remy, Pasuqet: Charles Millot. As the allies near Paris in World War 2, Col. Von Waldheim loads the great art treasures of France on a train to Germany. A resistance group made up of French railway employees, lead by Labiche, are asked to stop the train without damaging it's cargo.
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A TRIP TO THE MOON (1902) Dir: George Melies. Writer: Melies. Professor Barbenfouillis: Melies. A group of astronomers launch themselves in a cannon shell and go to the moon. There they find a race of moon men who explode when touched. Taken before the moon king, they escape back to their cannon shell, and ride it back to earth.
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TRIUMPH OF THE WILL (1935) Dir: Leni Riefenstahl. Writer: Leni Riefenstahl, Walter Ruttmann. Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Baldur von Schirach: Themselves. A documentary of the 1934 Nazi party congress at Nuremberg, Germany.
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TROUBLES OF A GRASSWIDOWER (1912) see MAX REPREND SA LIBERTE
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TRUE GRIT (1969) Dir: Henry Hathaway. Writer: Marguerite Roberts. Marshall Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn: John Wayne, Texas Ranger La Boeuf: Glen Campbell, Mattie Ross: Kim Darby, Tom Chaney: Jeff Corey, Ned Pepper: Robert Duvall, Moon: Dennis Hopper. When Mattie Ross's father is killed by Tom Chaney, she recruits Marshall Rooster Cogburn and Texas Ranger La Boeuf to go after him and the Ned Pepper gang in the Indian Territories.
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TRUE GRIT (2010) Dir: Joel & Ethan Coen. Writer: Joel & Ethan Coen. Marshall Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn: Jeff Bridges, Mattie Ross: Hailee Steinfeld, Texas Ranger La Boeuf: Matt Damon, Tom Chaney: Josh Brolin, Lucky Ned Pepper: Barry Pepper, Forty Year Old Mattie: Elizabeth Marvel. When Mattie Ross's father is killed by Tom Chaney, she recruits Marshall Rooster Cogburn and Texas ranger La Boeuf to go after him and the Ned Pepper gang in the Indian Territories.
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TEN SECONDS TO HELL (1959) Dir: Robert Aldrich. Writer: Robert Aldrich. Eric Koertner: Jack Palance, Karl Wirz: Jeffrey Chandler, Margot Hofer: Martine Carol, Franz Loeffler: Robert Cornthwaite, Wolfgang Sulke: Wesley Addy, Peter Tillig: Dave Willock, Hans Globke: James Goodwin. Six German soldiers return to Berlin after World War 2. They are hired by the allies to defuse unexploded bombs. One by one, they die, leaving only one survivor.
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THEY WERE EXPENDABLE (1945) Dir: John Ford. Writers: Frank Wead, based on the book by William L. White. Lt. John Brickley: Robert Montgomery, Lt. (J.G.) Rusty Ryan: John Wayne, Lt. Nurse Sandy Davyss: Donna Reed, Boats Mulcahey: Ward Bond, General Martin: Jack Holt, Admiral Blackwell: Charles Trowbridge. PT boat commander Lt. Brickley and his squadron are not taken seriously by Admiral Blackwell, but with the Japanese attack on the Philippines, his group is given more responsibility for the fighting. Despite losses of both boats and lives, Brickley and hid adjutant Lt. Ryan prove the worth of PT boats and, as the Philippines the two officers and two ensigns under their command are evacuated to the United States to build up PT boats for the war effort. Their men, expendable, are left behind to face capture by the Japanese.
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THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1951) Dir: Christian Nyby. Writer: Charles Lederer. Nikki: Margaret Sheridan, Capt. Patrick Hendry: Kennith Tobey, Dr. Carrington: Robert Cornthwaite, Ned Scott: Douglas Spencer, Lt. Eddie Dykes: James Young, Crew Chief: Dewey Martin, Corporal Barnes: William Self, Dr. Chapman: John Dierkes, Dr. Stern: Eduard Franz, The Thing: James Arness. When a space ship crashes near a north pole scientific station, the Army Air Force sends a plane, commanded by Capt. Hendry, to help with the investigation. When a creature from the space ship is found frozen in the ice, the corpse is brought back to the scientific station, and is defrosted. It comes alive and attacks the now stranded humans. Dr. Carrington, leader of the expedition and Capt. Hendry quarrel about the best way to handle the situation. Carrington wants to try and communicate with the creature, while Hendry wants to kill it. When the creature kills two of the scientists and uses their blood to reproduce, the humans fight to survive.
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THINGS TO COME (1936) Dir: William Cameron Menzies. Writer: H.G. Wells. John Cabal/Oswald Cabal: Raymond Massey, Pippa Passworthy/Raymond Passworthy: Edward Chapman, The Boss: Ralph Richardson, Theotocopulus: Cedric Hardwicke, Dr. Harding: Maurice Bradell, Richard Gordon: Derrick De Marney. When a decades long World War 2, made more destructive by air power, results in the destruction of modern civilization; when the walking sickness, a new plague, spreads, The Boss organizes what's left into a small, regional dictatorship. John Cabal, an engineer, the leader of a group of other engineers, imposes peace and order with the aid of Dr. Harding and Richard Gordon. With a new world wide peace, Wings Over the World, the engineering elite, rebuilds civilization. In the future, Oswald Cabal, descendant of John Cabal, heads a space program that hopes to shoot a space ship towards the moon with a giant canon. Theotocopulus, an artist, leads the opposition to space travel. Despite a riot started by Theotocopulus the space ship is shot into space, carrying the daughter of Oswald Cabal and the daughter of Raymond Passworthy.
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THE THIRD MAN (1949) Dir: Carol Reed. Writer: Graham Greene. Holly Martins: Joseph Cotton, Anna Schmidt: Alida Valli, Harry Lime: Orson Welles, Major Calloway: Trevor Howard, Sergeant Paine: Bernard Lee, Karl, the Porter: Paul Horbiger, Baron Kurtz: Ernst Deutsch, Popescu: Siegfried Breur, Dr. Winkel: Erich Ponto, Crabbin: Wilfrid Hyde-White. American pulp novelist, Holly Martins, shows up in post war, occupied Vienna, Austria at the invitation of school friend, Harry Lime. Informed that Harry has been killed in accident, he discovers that Harry was a con man running a ring selling diluted penicillin. Major Callowy, a military policeman, continues his investigation of Harry, and questions Holly and Harry's girlfriend, Anna Schmidt. When Holly finds out that Harry is still alive, he helps Calloway to catch Harry.
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THREE KINGS (1999) Dir: David O. Russell. Writer: David O. Russell. Archie Gates: George Clooney, Troy Barlow: Mark Wahlberg, Chiel Elgin: Ice Cube. Conrad Vig: Spike Jonze, Amir Abdullah, Adriana Cruz: Nora Dunn, Walter Wogaman: Jamie Kennedy, Captain Said: Said Taghmaoui, Colonel Horn: Mykelti Williamson. At the end of the first Gulf War, three soldiers, Troy Barlow, Chief Elgin and Conrad Vig discover a map that shows the location of stolen Kuwaiti gold. About to retire, Major Archie Gates decides to cut himself in and steal the gold. When the citizens of an Iraqi town are in danger of being massacred by Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard, the Americans try to both save the town and steal the gold.
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TITANIC (1953) Dir: Jean Negulesco. Writer: Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, Richard Breen. Richard Ward Sturges: Clifton Webb, Julia Sturges: Barbara Stanwyck, Annette Sturges: Audrey Dalton, Norman Sturges: Harper Carter, Gifford Rogers: Robert Wagner, George Healy: Richard Basehart, Maude Young: Thelma Ritter, Captain E.J. Smith: Brian Aherne. When Richard Ward Sturges learns that his wife Julia is leaving him and taking his children back to the United States, he bribes his way onto the Titanic, the liner they are taking.
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TITICUT FOLLIES (1967) Dir: Frederick Wiseman. A cinema verite style documentary about The State Prison for the Criminally Insane in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. It shows the brutal conditions and the inhumane treatment of the inmates. The title refers to a variety show put on by the prisoners.
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THE TRAIN (1964) Dir: John Frankenheimer. Writer: Franklin Coen, Frank Davis. Labiche: Burt Lancaster, Col. Von Waldheim: Paul Scofield, Christine: Jeanne Moreau, Mlle. Villard: Suzanne Flon. Papa Boule: Michel Simon. Herren: Wolfgang Preiss, Didont: Albert Remy, Pasuqet: Charles Millot. As the allies near Paris in World War 2, Col. Von Waldheim loads the great art treasures of France on a train to Germany. A resistance group made up of French railway employees, lead by Labiche, are asked to stop the train without damaging it's cargo.
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A TRIP TO THE MOON (1902) Dir: George Melies. Writer: Melies. Professor Barbenfouillis: Melies. A group of astronomers launch themselves in a cannon shell and go to the moon. There they find a race of moon men who explode when touched. Taken before the moon king, they escape back to their cannon shell, and ride it back to earth.
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TRIUMPH OF THE WILL (1935) Dir: Leni Riefenstahl. Writer: Leni Riefenstahl, Walter Ruttmann. Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Baldur von Schirach: Themselves. A documentary of the 1934 Nazi party congress at Nuremberg, Germany.
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TROUBLES OF A GRASSWIDOWER (1912) see MAX REPREND SA LIBERTE
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TRUE GRIT (1969) Dir: Henry Hathaway. Writer: Marguerite Roberts. Marshall Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn: John Wayne, Texas Ranger La Boeuf: Glen Campbell, Mattie Ross: Kim Darby, Tom Chaney: Jeff Corey, Ned Pepper: Robert Duvall, Moon: Dennis Hopper. When Mattie Ross's father is killed by Tom Chaney, she recruits Marshall Rooster Cogburn and Texas Ranger La Boeuf to go after him and the Ned Pepper gang in the Indian Territories.
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TRUE GRIT (2010) Dir: Joel & Ethan Coen. Writer: Joel & Ethan Coen. Marshall Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn: Jeff Bridges, Mattie Ross: Hailee Steinfeld, Texas Ranger La Boeuf: Matt Damon, Tom Chaney: Josh Brolin, Lucky Ned Pepper: Barry Pepper, Forty Year Old Mattie: Elizabeth Marvel. When Mattie Ross's father is killed by Tom Chaney, she recruits Marshall Rooster Cogburn and Texas ranger La Boeuf to go after him and the Ned Pepper gang in the Indian Territories.
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UP IN THE AIR (2009) Dir: Jason Reitman. Writer: Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner. Ryan Bingham: George Clooney, Alex Goran: Vera Farmiga, Natalie Keener: Anna Kendrick, Craig Gregory: Jason Bateman, Julie Bingham: Melanie Lynsky, Bob: J.K. Simmons. Ryan Bingham travels the country firing people for companies that don't want to deal with job themselves. He meets Alex Goran, another person who lives on the road just as his own employer starts plans to offer it's services on-line. Forced to take Natalie Keener, the person behind on-line operations, he trains her in how to fire people. Falling in love with Alex, something rare for Ryan who prefers the anonymity of his life, he tries to make a connection, only to find that, despite their sexual relationship, she's married.
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LES VAMPIRES (1915-1916) Dir: Louis Feuillade. Writer: Louis Feuillade. Irma Vep: Musidora, Philleppe Guerande: Edouard Mathe, Oscar Mazamette: Marcel Levesque, The Grand Vampire: Jean Ayme, Satanas/Father Silence: Louis Leubas, Venemous: Frederick Moriss, Fleur-de-Lys: Suzanne Delve, Eustache Mazamette: Bout-de-Zan (Rene Poyen) A ten part French serial about the rise and fall of The Vampires, a criminal gang run by Several grand vampires and Irma Vep, opposed by the journalist, Philleppe Gurande and his friend and reformed vampire gang member, Oscar Mazamette. While all ten parts form a single story arc, each episode is also a self contained story.
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VERA CRUZ (1954) Dir: Robert Aldrich. Writer: Roland Kibbee, James R. Webb. Benjamin Trane: Gary Cooper, Joe Erin: Burt Lancaster, Countess Marie Duvarre: Denise Darcel, Nina: Sara Montiel, Marquis Henri de Labordere: Cesar Romero , General Ramirez: Morris Ankrum, Capt. Danette: Henry Brandon, Emperor Maximillian: George Macready, Tex: Jack Elam, Pittsburgh: Charles Bronson, Donnegan: Ernest Borgnine, Ballard: Archie Savage. During the Mexican revolt against the rule of the Emperor Maximilian, a group of American mercenaries led by Joe Erin and Benjamin Trane are hired by the French to escort the Countess Duvarre and a secret stash of gold to Vera Cruz. When the Americans find out about the gold, Erin and Trane are caught in a tug of war between their own greed and the Mexican revolutionaries who are trying to capture the gold for the revolution.
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VERA CRUZ (1954) Dir: Robert Aldrich. Writer: Roland Kibbee, James R. Webb. Benjamin Trane: Gary Cooper, Joe Erin: Burt Lancaster, Countess Marie Duvarre: Denise Darcel, Nina: Sara Montiel, Marquis Henri de Labordere: Cesar Romero , General Ramirez: Morris Ankrum, Capt. Danette: Henry Brandon, Emperor Maximillian: George Macready, Tex: Jack Elam, Pittsburgh: Charles Bronson, Donnegan: Ernest Borgnine, Ballard: Archie Savage. During the Mexican revolt against the rule of the Emperor Maximilian, a group of American mercenaries led by Joe Erin and Benjamin Trane are hired by the French to escort the Countess Duvarre and a secret stash of gold to Vera Cruz. When the Americans find out about the gold, Erin and Trane are caught in a tug of war between their own greed and the Mexican revolutionaries who are trying to capture the gold for the revolution.
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THE WAGES OF FEAR (1953) Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot. Writer: Henri-Georges Clouzot. Mario: Yves Montand, Jo: Charles Vanel, Luigi: Folco Lulli, Bimba: Peter van Eyck, Linda: Vera Clouzot, Bill O'Brien: William Tubbs, Smerloff: Jo Dest. When an oil well blows up and catches fire at a remote drilling sight, the company hires four desperate men to deliver loads of nitro glycerin, driving over rutted and dangerous roads to the drill sight, to snuff out the fire with explosions.
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THE WHITE DISEASE, see BILA NEMOC
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THE WHITE HELL OF PITZ PALU (1929) Dir: Arnold Fanck, G.W. Pabst. Writers: Fanck, Ladislaus Vajda. Dr. Johannes Krafft: Gustav Diessl, Maria Maioni: Leni Riefenstahl, Hans Brandt: Ernst Peterson, Maria Krafft: Mizzi Gotzel, Christian Klucker: Otto Spring, and Ernst Udet as himself. Dr. Krafft, climbs Pitz Palu, a mountain in the Alps on his honeymoon. His wife falls in a crevasse and is killed. Roaming the mountain, searching for her body, he meets another couple, Maria and Hans. They accompany him up the mountain, but they become stranded in a storm. The local guides, aided by the pilot, Ernst Udet mount a rescue. Dr. Krafft sacrifices his life to save the couple. For a more detailed review, go to my political blog, http://www.thenewcommonsense-wjy.blogspot.com/ and go to my post of 7/1/09.
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THE WILD CHILD (1970) Dir: Francois Truffaut. Writer: Francois Truffaut, Jean Grault. Victor, the Wild Child: Jean-Pierre Cargol, Dr. Jean Itard: Francois Truffaut, Madame Guerin: Francoise Seigner. In 1798, a feral child, who can't read, write, speak or walk upright, is found in a French forest. Dr. Jean Itard, a doctor at the French institute for the deaf, attempts to teach the boy, whom he names Victor, to read, write and speak.
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WINGS OF DESIRE (1987) Dir: Wim Wenders. Writers: Peter Handke, Richard Reitinger. Damiel: Bruno Ganz, Marion: Solveig Dommatin, Cassiel: Otto Sander, Homer: Curt Bois, The Film Star: Peter Falk. Two angels over Berlin, observing but never interfering. One falls in love and longs for an earthly life and becomes human. Peter Falk, playing himself, is a former angel who advises Damiel on mortal life. Homer, an aging poet and storyteller reminisces about his long life.
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WOMAN IN THE MOON (1929) Dir: Fritz Lang. Writer: Thea von Harbou, Fritz Lang. Wolf Helius: Willy Fritsch, The Man Who Calls Himself Walter Turner: Fritz Rasp, Astronomy Student Freide Velten: Gerda Maurus, Engineer Hans Windegger; Gustav von Wangenheim, Professor Georg Manfeldt: Klaus Pohl, Gustav: Gustl Gsettenhaus. Though a laughing stock in the scientific community because of his theory that the mountains of the Moon are made of gold, Professor Manfeldt has inspired Wolf Helius to build a multi-stage rocket to fly to the Moon. When the five richest people on Earth are convinced that the professor's theories are true, they send their operative, the man who calls himself Walter Turner to threaten Helius' project if he isn't included in the mission. Helius, Professor Manfeldt, engineer Hans Windegger, Windegger's fiance, the astronomy student, Freide Velten, Turner, and a small boy and stow-away, Gustav launch themselves to the Moon. After landing, Manfeldt is killed when he is chased by Turner. Turner tries to take over the rocket, and when he gets into a gun battle with Windegger, he is killed, and the oxygen supply for the return trip is damaged. Wolf Helius stays on the Moon so that the others can return to Earth for help. Freide, who has fallen in love with Helius also stays.
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THE WHITE DISEASE, see BILA NEMOC
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THE WHITE HELL OF PITZ PALU (1929) Dir: Arnold Fanck, G.W. Pabst. Writers: Fanck, Ladislaus Vajda. Dr. Johannes Krafft: Gustav Diessl, Maria Maioni: Leni Riefenstahl, Hans Brandt: Ernst Peterson, Maria Krafft: Mizzi Gotzel, Christian Klucker: Otto Spring, and Ernst Udet as himself. Dr. Krafft, climbs Pitz Palu, a mountain in the Alps on his honeymoon. His wife falls in a crevasse and is killed. Roaming the mountain, searching for her body, he meets another couple, Maria and Hans. They accompany him up the mountain, but they become stranded in a storm. The local guides, aided by the pilot, Ernst Udet mount a rescue. Dr. Krafft sacrifices his life to save the couple. For a more detailed review, go to my political blog, http://www.thenewcommonsense-wjy.blogspot.com/ and go to my post of 7/1/09.
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THE WILD CHILD (1970) Dir: Francois Truffaut. Writer: Francois Truffaut, Jean Grault. Victor, the Wild Child: Jean-Pierre Cargol, Dr. Jean Itard: Francois Truffaut, Madame Guerin: Francoise Seigner. In 1798, a feral child, who can't read, write, speak or walk upright, is found in a French forest. Dr. Jean Itard, a doctor at the French institute for the deaf, attempts to teach the boy, whom he names Victor, to read, write and speak.
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WINGS OF DESIRE (1987) Dir: Wim Wenders. Writers: Peter Handke, Richard Reitinger. Damiel: Bruno Ganz, Marion: Solveig Dommatin, Cassiel: Otto Sander, Homer: Curt Bois, The Film Star: Peter Falk. Two angels over Berlin, observing but never interfering. One falls in love and longs for an earthly life and becomes human. Peter Falk, playing himself, is a former angel who advises Damiel on mortal life. Homer, an aging poet and storyteller reminisces about his long life.
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WOMAN IN THE MOON (1929) Dir: Fritz Lang. Writer: Thea von Harbou, Fritz Lang. Wolf Helius: Willy Fritsch, The Man Who Calls Himself Walter Turner: Fritz Rasp, Astronomy Student Freide Velten: Gerda Maurus, Engineer Hans Windegger; Gustav von Wangenheim, Professor Georg Manfeldt: Klaus Pohl, Gustav: Gustl Gsettenhaus. Though a laughing stock in the scientific community because of his theory that the mountains of the Moon are made of gold, Professor Manfeldt has inspired Wolf Helius to build a multi-stage rocket to fly to the Moon. When the five richest people on Earth are convinced that the professor's theories are true, they send their operative, the man who calls himself Walter Turner to threaten Helius' project if he isn't included in the mission. Helius, Professor Manfeldt, engineer Hans Windegger, Windegger's fiance, the astronomy student, Freide Velten, Turner, and a small boy and stow-away, Gustav launch themselves to the Moon. After landing, Manfeldt is killed when he is chased by Turner. Turner tries to take over the rocket, and when he gets into a gun battle with Windegger, he is killed, and the oxygen supply for the return trip is damaged. Wolf Helius stays on the Moon so that the others can return to Earth for help. Freide, who has fallen in love with Helius also stays.
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YOJIMBO (1961) Dir: Akira Kurasowa. Writer: Akira Kurasawa, Ryuzo Kikushima. Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the Samurai: Toshiro Mifune, Unosuke, the Gunfighter: Tatsuya Nakdai, gonji, the Tavern Keeper: Eijiro Tono, Ushitoro: Kyu Sazanka, Seibei, the Brothel Keeper: Seizaburo Kawazu, The Cooper: Atsuski Watanabe, Nui: Yoko Tsukasa, Orin: Isuzu Yamada. Sanjuro, a masterless samurai arrives in a small where two gamblers are fighting for control. Sanjuro plays both sides against each other, making money and freeing the town from the violence of the two rival factions.
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Z (1969) Dir: Costa-Gavras. Writers: Jorge Semprun, based on the novel by Vasilis Vasilikos. The Deputy: Yves Montand, Helene, His Wife: Irene Papas, The Examining Magistrate: Jean-Louis Trintignanat. A leftist politician is assassinated, and the right wing, and military seek to hide, and cover-up their involvement. Based on a True story, but shot as a political thriller.
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