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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.