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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.