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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.