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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.