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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.