ACROSS THE PACIFIC (1942) Dir: John Houston. Writer: Richard Macauley. Rick Leland: Humphrey Bogart, Alberta Marlow: Mary Astor, Dr. Lorenz: Sydney Greenstreet, Joe Totsuiko: Victor Sen Young, Sam Wing On: Lee Tung Foo, Dan Morton: Monte Blue. Army officer Rick Leland is court marshaled and dismissed from the army. After trying to enlist in the Canadian army, he boards a Japanese steamer for China, via the Panama Canal. On board he meets Alberta Marlow and Dr. Lorenz. Alberta claims to be from Medicine Hat and Dr. Lorenz claims to be a college professor from the Philippines. Alberta is actually headed for a Panamanian plantation in search of her alcoholic father, Dan Morton. Dr. Lorenz is actually a Japanese agent headed for the same plantation where he plans on launching a surprise attack on the Panama Canal on Dec. 7, 1941. Rick Leland is actually working for military intelligence and has been sent to break up the Japanese spy ring.
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AELITA; THE QUEEN OF MARS (1924) Dir: Yakov Protozanov. Writers: Aleksei Fajko, Fyodor Otsep. Aelita Queen of Mars: Yuliya Solntseva, Engineers Los and Spiridinov: Nikolai Tsereteli, Natasha Los: Vera Kiundzhi, Ihoshka, Maidservant of Queen Aelita: Aleksandra Peregonets, Kratsov, an Amateur Detective: Igor Ityinsky, Gusev an Ex-Soldier: Nikolai Batalov, Ehrlich a Man of the Old Order: Pavel Pol. Engineers Los and Spiridonov dream of building a space ship to visit Mars, but there is no chance for them to realize their dreams in the early days of the Soviet Union. When Ehrlich, a man of the old order, and his wife, move into the apartment building that is home to engineer Los and his wife, Natasha, Natasha is tempted by Ehrlich into anti-Soviet behavior. Ehrlich, a friend of Spiridonov from before the revolution, steals from Spiridonov and gets rid of him. Los mistakes his wife's interest in Ehrlich as being romantic in nature and shoots her. Pursued by Kratsov, an amateur who wishes to be a detective for the police, and with the help of Gusev, an ex-soldier, Los builds his space ship and heads to Mars. With him are Gusev, and Kratsov, who has stowed away. On arrival on Mars, they discover that Mars is ruled by a king who mistreats the proletariat. Aelita who wishes to take over, with the help of her maidservant, and Los organizes a revolution of the workers. What Los doesn't realize, is that Aelita wishes to replace King Tuskub with her own autocratic rule, and the workers revolution fails. But it's all Los' delirium brought on by the guilt of shooting his wife. But Natasha Los is not dead, only slightly wounded. Returning to his wife, Los destroys all of his space ship designs, and rededicates his life to building the Soviet state.
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ALRAUNE aka MANDRAKE (1928) Dir: Henrik Galeen. Writers: Henrik Galeen, (novel) Hanns Heinz Ewers. Alruane ten Brinken: Brigette Helm, Prof. Jakob ten Brinken: Paul Wegener, Franz Braun: Ivan Petrovich, The Viscomte: John Loder. Prof. ten Brinken decides to solve the nature vs nurture argument by inseminating a prostitute with the semen of a condemned prisoner and then raising her as his own. When things turn bad, the Prof. takes his experiment away to avoid shame. Things go very, very wrong for all concerned. To read a more detailed review, go to www.thenewcommonsense-wjy.blogspot.com/2009/10/alraune-silent-movie-dvd-of-week.html
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THE AMERICAN (2010) Dir: Anton Corbijn. Writer: Rowan Joffe. Jack: George Clooney, Ingrid: Irina Bjorklund, Father Benedetto: Paolo Bonacelli, Mathilde: Thekla Reuten, Pavel: Johan Leysen, Clara: Violante Placido. An American assassin and maker of custom sniper rifles, on the run from killers, goes to Italy for one last job.
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ARRIVAL OF A TRAIN AT LA CIOTAT (1896) Dir: Louis Lumiere. A train arrives at a French railroad station.
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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.
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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.
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THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1920) Dir: Robert Wiene. Writer: Hans Janowitz, Carl Mayer. Dr. Caligari: Werner Krauss, Cesare: Conrad Veidt, Francis: Friedrich Feher, Jane Olsen: Lil Dagover, Alan: Hans Heinrich von Twardowski. Francis tells the story of Dr. Caligari, a carnival entertainer, who comes to town with the somnambulist, Cesare. When aroused from his sleep, Cesare can read the future. He tells Alan that he will be dead by dawn. When Alan is murdered, Cesare is the main suspect. Cesare kidnaps Alan's fiance, Jane Olsen. Francis follows Caligari to an insane asylum where he is the head of the medical staff.
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CASABLANCA (1942) Dir: Michael Curtiz. Writer: Jules J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein. Rick Blaine: Humphrey Bogart, Ilsa Lund: Ingrid Bergman, Victor Laszlo: Paul Henreid, Captain Renault: Claude Rains, Major Strasser: Conrad Veidt, Sam: Dooley Wilson, Carl: S. Z. Sakall, Signor Ferrari: Sydney Greenstreet, Ugarte: Peter Lorre, Yvonne: Madeleine Lebeau, Emil the Croupier: Marcel Dalio, The Pickpocket: Curt Bois. American expatriate, Rick Blaine runs a bar in Casablanca, the capitol of French Moroco during World War 2. When his foirmer lover, Ilsa Lund, walks into his bar, accompanied by her husband Victor Laszlo, the leader of the European anti-Nazi movement. They seek to escape to the United States and are after letters of transit stolen by Ugarte. Rick has to decide whether to help them or not, while German Major Strasser tries to prevent the escape, and Vichy French police captain Renault, plays both sides.
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THE CHEAT (1915) Dir: Cecil B. DeMille. Writer: Hector Turnbull, Jeanie Macpherson. Edith Hardy: Fannie Ward, Hishuru Tori: Sessue Hayakawa, Richard Hardy: Jack Dean, Jones: James Neill, Tori's Valet: Yatake Abe. When socialite Edith Hardy, worried that her stockbroker husband Richard may loose their money in a deal, she impulsively embezzles $10,000 from a charity committee that she chairs so that she can make her own investment. When she loses the money, she turns to Burmese ivory king, Hishuru Tori. He gives her the money to cover up her theft, but he also brands her to symbolise his ownership of Edith. When Jack finds out he confronts Tori and in the struggle that follows, he shoots Tori. Tori survives and charges Richard with attempted murder. To avoid the scandal, Richard refuses to implicate Edith.
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CHESS FEVER (1925) Dir: Vsevolod Pudovkin. Writer: Nikolai Shpikovsky. The Hero: Vladimir Fogel, His Fiancee: Natalya Glan. A young man's obsession with chess threatens his relationship with his chess hating fiancee.
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CHOOSE ME (1984) Dir: Alan Rudolph. Writer: Alan Rudolph. Mickey: Keith Carradine, Eve: Lesley Ann Warren, Dr. Nancy Love/Ann: Genevieve Bujold, Zack Antoine: Patrick Bauchou, Pearl Antoine: Rae Dawn Chong. Mickey can either not tell the truth, or he's incapable of lying. He wanders away from a mental institution and ends up at Eve's a bar in Los Angeles. He meets and falls for Eve, and Pearl the wife of a gangster. Meanwhile Eve calls talk radio shrink, Dr. Nancy Love, who has emotional problems of her own. Using the name Ann, she ends up as Eve's house mate. Despite all of the romantic complications, Mickey and Eve end up together.
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A CORNER IN WHEAT (1909) Dir: D.W. Griffith. Writer: Griffith, based on a novel by Frank Norris. The Wheat King: Frank Powell, The Wheat King's Wife: Grace Henderson, A Farmer: James Kirkwood, The Farmer's Wife: Linda Arvidson. A tycoon decides to corner the world's wheat market, doubles the price of bread, causes hunger and poverty.
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THE CRAZY RAY see PARIS QUI DORT
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CASABLANCA (1942) Dir: Michael Curtiz. Writer: Jules J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein. Rick Blaine: Humphrey Bogart, Ilsa Lund: Ingrid Bergman, Victor Laszlo: Paul Henreid, Captain Renault: Claude Rains, Major Strasser: Conrad Veidt, Sam: Dooley Wilson, Carl: S. Z. Sakall, Signor Ferrari: Sydney Greenstreet, Ugarte: Peter Lorre, Yvonne: Madeleine Lebeau, Emil the Croupier: Marcel Dalio, The Pickpocket: Curt Bois. American expatriate, Rick Blaine runs a bar in Casablanca, the capitol of French Moroco during World War 2. When his foirmer lover, Ilsa Lund, walks into his bar, accompanied by her husband Victor Laszlo, the leader of the European anti-Nazi movement. They seek to escape to the United States and are after letters of transit stolen by Ugarte. Rick has to decide whether to help them or not, while German Major Strasser tries to prevent the escape, and Vichy French police captain Renault, plays both sides.
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THE CHEAT (1915) Dir: Cecil B. DeMille. Writer: Hector Turnbull, Jeanie Macpherson. Edith Hardy: Fannie Ward, Hishuru Tori: Sessue Hayakawa, Richard Hardy: Jack Dean, Jones: James Neill, Tori's Valet: Yatake Abe. When socialite Edith Hardy, worried that her stockbroker husband Richard may loose their money in a deal, she impulsively embezzles $10,000 from a charity committee that she chairs so that she can make her own investment. When she loses the money, she turns to Burmese ivory king, Hishuru Tori. He gives her the money to cover up her theft, but he also brands her to symbolise his ownership of Edith. When Jack finds out he confronts Tori and in the struggle that follows, he shoots Tori. Tori survives and charges Richard with attempted murder. To avoid the scandal, Richard refuses to implicate Edith.
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CHESS FEVER (1925) Dir: Vsevolod Pudovkin. Writer: Nikolai Shpikovsky. The Hero: Vladimir Fogel, His Fiancee: Natalya Glan. A young man's obsession with chess threatens his relationship with his chess hating fiancee.
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CHOOSE ME (1984) Dir: Alan Rudolph. Writer: Alan Rudolph. Mickey: Keith Carradine, Eve: Lesley Ann Warren, Dr. Nancy Love/Ann: Genevieve Bujold, Zack Antoine: Patrick Bauchou, Pearl Antoine: Rae Dawn Chong. Mickey can either not tell the truth, or he's incapable of lying. He wanders away from a mental institution and ends up at Eve's a bar in Los Angeles. He meets and falls for Eve, and Pearl the wife of a gangster. Meanwhile Eve calls talk radio shrink, Dr. Nancy Love, who has emotional problems of her own. Using the name Ann, she ends up as Eve's house mate. Despite all of the romantic complications, Mickey and Eve end up together.
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A CORNER IN WHEAT (1909) Dir: D.W. Griffith. Writer: Griffith, based on a novel by Frank Norris. The Wheat King: Frank Powell, The Wheat King's Wife: Grace Henderson, A Farmer: James Kirkwood, The Farmer's Wife: Linda Arvidson. A tycoon decides to corner the world's wheat market, doubles the price of bread, causes hunger and poverty.
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DAMES (1934) Dir: Ray Enright, Busby Berkeley. Writer: Robert Lord, Delmer Daves. Jimmy Higgens: Dick Powell, Barbara Hemingway: Ruby Keeler, Mabel Anderson: Joan Blondell, Guy Kibee: Horace P. Hemingway, Mathilda Hemingway: Zazu Pitts, Ezra Ounce: Hugh Herbert. Millionaire uncle Ezra plans to leave $10,000,000 to Horace P. Hemingway, his wife Mathilda and daughter Barbara if they demonstrate an extreme level of morality. Barbara's 13th cousin Jimmy Higgens is an actor and songwriter as well as Barbara's secret boyfriend. With the help of Mabel Anderson, Jimmy blackmails Horace into financing his Broadway show. Ezra who is also the head of the Ounce Foundation for the Elevation of American Morals and vows to close Jimmy's show. Barbara has also gotten a job as a dancer in the show.
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THE DAMNED (1969) Dir: Luchino Visconti. Writer: Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti. Frederich Bruckmann: Dirk Bogarde, Sophie Von Essenbeck: Ingrid Thulin. Martin Von Essenbeck: Helmut Berger, Aschbach: Helmut Griem, Gunther Von Essenbeck: Renaud Verley, Herbert Thallman: Umberto Orsini, Elisabeth Thallman: Charlotte Rampling, Konstantin Von Essenbeck: Reinhard Kolldehoff, Joachim Von Essenbeck: Albrecht Schoenhals. The extended Von Essenbeck family fights for control of the family steel and armaments company in the decade before World War 2. Some of the family members ally themselves with the SA and some with the SS. Their conflict includes murder and sending family members to concentration camps.
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DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY (1967) Dir: Jim McBride. Writer:Jim McBride. David Holzman: L.M. Kit Carson, Penny Wohl: Eileen Dietz. Young film maker, David Holzman makes a documentary about his everyday life.
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DR MABUSE, THE GAMBLER (1922) Dir: Fritz Lang. Writer: Thea von Harbou. Dr. Mabuse: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Cara Carozza: Aud Egede Nissen, Countess Dusy Told: Gertrude Welcker, Count Told: Alfred Abel, State Attorney von Wenk: Bernhard Goetzke, Edgar Hull: Paul Richter, Spoerri: Forster-Larrinaga. Dr. Mabuse, psychiatrist, hypnotist, master of disguise, gambler and master criminal matches wits with State Attorney von Wenk, while causing havoc in Berlin.
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THE DAMNED (1969) Dir: Luchino Visconti. Writer: Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti. Frederich Bruckmann: Dirk Bogarde, Sophie Von Essenbeck: Ingrid Thulin. Martin Von Essenbeck: Helmut Berger, Aschbach: Helmut Griem, Gunther Von Essenbeck: Renaud Verley, Herbert Thallman: Umberto Orsini, Elisabeth Thallman: Charlotte Rampling, Konstantin Von Essenbeck: Reinhard Kolldehoff, Joachim Von Essenbeck: Albrecht Schoenhals. The extended Von Essenbeck family fights for control of the family steel and armaments company in the decade before World War 2. Some of the family members ally themselves with the SA and some with the SS. Their conflict includes murder and sending family members to concentration camps.
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DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY (1967) Dir: Jim McBride. Writer:Jim McBride. David Holzman: L.M. Kit Carson, Penny Wohl: Eileen Dietz. Young film maker, David Holzman makes a documentary about his everyday life.
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DR MABUSE, THE GAMBLER (1922) Dir: Fritz Lang. Writer: Thea von Harbou. Dr. Mabuse: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Cara Carozza: Aud Egede Nissen, Countess Dusy Told: Gertrude Welcker, Count Told: Alfred Abel, State Attorney von Wenk: Bernhard Goetzke, Edgar Hull: Paul Richter, Spoerri: Forster-Larrinaga. Dr. Mabuse, psychiatrist, hypnotist, master of disguise, gambler and master criminal matches wits with State Attorney von Wenk, while causing havoc in Berlin.
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THE EAGLE (1925) Dir: Clarence Brown. Writer: George Marion, Jr. Lt. Vladimir Dubrovsky/The Black Eagle/Marcel Le Blanc: Rudolph Valentino, Czarina Catherine II: Louise Dresser, Mascha Troekouroff: Vilma Banky, Kyrilla Troekouroff: James Marcus, Capt. Kuschka: Albert Conti. When Lt. Dubrovsky of Czarina Catherine II's Imperial Guard refuses her romantic advances, he is forced to flee for his life, only to discover that his father's estate has been stolen by Kyrilla Troekouroff with the help of a corrupt judge. Under the guise of The Black Eagle, Dubrovsky becomes a Robin Hood type bandit, also swearing revenge on Kyrilla. Dubrovsky's men seize Kyrilla's daughter Mascha, but Dubrovsky is in love with her and lets her go. When Dubrovsky meets Marcel Le Blanc, hired as a French tutor by Kyrilla for Mascha, Dubrovsky takes his place to be near both Troekuoroffs. He is eventually found out, but is arrested by the Czarina's forces, he is condemned to death.
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EASY RIDER (1969) Dir: Dennis Hopper. Writer: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern. Wyatt: Peter Fonda, Billy: Dennis Hopper, The Connection: Phil Spector, George Hanson: Jack Nicholson, Karen: Karen Black. Wyatt and Billy, two bikers make a big score on a drug sale and hit the road from Los Angeles to New Orleans. Along the way they visit communes, drop acid, and pick up failed, small town southern lawyer, George Hanson.
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EIGHT MEN OUT (1988) Dir: John Sayles. Writer: John Sayles. Buck Weaver: John Cusack, Eddie Cicotte: David Strathairn, Charles Comiskey: Clifton James, Arnold Rothstein: Michael Lerner, Sleepy Bill Burns: Christopher Lloyd, Chick Gandil: Michael Rooker, Shoeless Joe Jackson: D. B. Sweeney, Hap Felsch: Charlie Sheen, Swede Risberg: Don Harvey, Kid Gleason: John Mahoney, Lefty Williams: James Read, Ring Lardner: John Sayles, Hugh Fullerton: Studs Terkel, Eddie Collins: Bill Irwin, Sport Sullivan: Kevin Tighe, Judge Kenesaw Landis: John Anderson. The story of the 1919 Black Sox scandal, when some members of the Chicago White Sox threw the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds.
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EMPLOYEES LEAVING THE LUMIERE FACTORY (1895) Dir:Louis Lumiere. Employees leave work at the Lumiere Brothers factory.
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THE END OF VIOLENCE (1996) Dir: Wim Wenders. Writer: Nicholas Klein. Mike Max: Bill Pullman, Paige Stockard: Andie MacDowell, Ray Bering: Gabriel Byrne, Doc Block: Loren Dean, Cat: Traci Lind, Brice Phelps: Daniel Benzali, Louis Bering: Sam Fuller. When scientist Ray Bering, working on a top secret plan to provide electronic surveillance for the whole United States has second thoughts, he emails the FBI file to movie producer, Mike Max. Max becomes a target of government assassins, and goes into hiding. Over the following months he investigates what's happening in his life since going underground.
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EASY RIDER (1969) Dir: Dennis Hopper. Writer: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern. Wyatt: Peter Fonda, Billy: Dennis Hopper, The Connection: Phil Spector, George Hanson: Jack Nicholson, Karen: Karen Black. Wyatt and Billy, two bikers make a big score on a drug sale and hit the road from Los Angeles to New Orleans. Along the way they visit communes, drop acid, and pick up failed, small town southern lawyer, George Hanson.
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EIGHT MEN OUT (1988) Dir: John Sayles. Writer: John Sayles. Buck Weaver: John Cusack, Eddie Cicotte: David Strathairn, Charles Comiskey: Clifton James, Arnold Rothstein: Michael Lerner, Sleepy Bill Burns: Christopher Lloyd, Chick Gandil: Michael Rooker, Shoeless Joe Jackson: D. B. Sweeney, Hap Felsch: Charlie Sheen, Swede Risberg: Don Harvey, Kid Gleason: John Mahoney, Lefty Williams: James Read, Ring Lardner: John Sayles, Hugh Fullerton: Studs Terkel, Eddie Collins: Bill Irwin, Sport Sullivan: Kevin Tighe, Judge Kenesaw Landis: John Anderson. The story of the 1919 Black Sox scandal, when some members of the Chicago White Sox threw the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds.
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EMPLOYEES LEAVING THE LUMIERE FACTORY (1895) Dir:Louis Lumiere. Employees leave work at the Lumiere Brothers factory.
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THE END OF VIOLENCE (1996) Dir: Wim Wenders. Writer: Nicholas Klein. Mike Max: Bill Pullman, Paige Stockard: Andie MacDowell, Ray Bering: Gabriel Byrne, Doc Block: Loren Dean, Cat: Traci Lind, Brice Phelps: Daniel Benzali, Louis Bering: Sam Fuller. When scientist Ray Bering, working on a top secret plan to provide electronic surveillance for the whole United States has second thoughts, he emails the FBI file to movie producer, Mike Max. Max becomes a target of government assassins, and goes into hiding. Over the following months he investigates what's happening in his life since going underground.
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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.
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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.
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THE GIRL AND HER TRUST (1912) Dir: D.W. Griffith. Writer: George Hennessy. Grace a Telegraph Operator: Dorothy Bernard, Jack a Railroad Express Agent: Wilfred Lucas. Grace, a telegrapher is kidnapped by tramps when she tries to prevent them from stealing a strong box. Jack pursues the tramps and rescues Grace.
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THE GODDESS (1934) Dir: Wu Yonggang. Writter: Wu Yonggang. The Goddess: Ruan Ling-yu. The Boss: Zhang Zhizhi. In Shanghai, the Goddess, a single mother, sells herself on the streets to support her young son. Escaping from police raid she blunders into the room of the Boss, a street thug, who quickly becomes her pimp. She tries to escape the Boss, but is tracked down. She has sent her son to school, but when the other mothers discover that she is a prostitute, they demand the expulsion of her son. The school's headmaster tries to prevent the child's expulsion, and resigns in protest when he doesn't succeed. When the Boss finds and steals her hidden stash of money, the Goddess kills the Boss. The headmaster adopts the son when the Goddess is sent to prison for the murder. For a more detailed review, go to www.thenewcommonsense-wjy.blogspot.com/2010/05/goddess-silent-movie-dvd-of-week.html
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GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (1933) Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Dance Sequences Dir: Busby Berkeley. Writer: David Boehm, Erwin S. Gelsey. Brad Roberts AKA Robert Treat Bradford: Dick Powell, Carol King: Joan Blondell, Polly Parker: Ruby Keeler, Trixie Lorraine: Aline MacMahon, J. Lawrence Bradford: Warren William, Fanuel H. Peabody: Guy Kibbee, Fay Fortune: Ginger Rogers. Boston blue blood, Robert Treat Bradford goes to New York, changes his name to Brad Roberts to become a Broadway composer. With the help of his show girl neighbors, Polly, Trixie, Carol, and Fay, he gets a show produced, with the girls as the stars. When his brother, J. Lawrence Bradford, discovers that his brother, Brad/Robert, has entered show business, accompanied by family lawyer, Fanuel H. Peabody, he tries to disinherit Brad. The show girls set their sights on J. Lawrence and Fanuel, both to save the show and take the two Bostonians for some money.
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GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK (2005) Dir: George Clooney. Writer: George Clooney, Grant Heslov. Edward R. Murrow: David Strathairn, Fred Friendly: George Clooney, Joe Wershba: Robert Downey, Jr., Patricia Clarkson: Shirley Wershba, Sig Mickelson: Jeff Daniels, William Paley: Frank Langella, Don Hollenbeck: Ray Wise. Joseph McCarthy, Roy M. Cohn: Archive Footage. CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow and producer Fred Friendly take on Sen. Joseph McCarthy at the height of the 50's anti-communist witch hunts.
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GRAND ILLUSION (1938) Dir: Jean Renoir. Writer: Charles Spaak, Jean Renoir. Lt. Marechal: Jean Gabin, Elsa:Dita Parlo, Capt. de Boeldieu: Pierre Fresnay, Capt. von Rauffenstein: Erich von Stroheim, Lt. Rosenthal: Marcel Dalio. When French pilot, Lt. Marechal and staff officer Capt. de Boeldieu are shot down by German pilot, Capt. von Rauffenstein, they are sent to a series of prisoner of war camps. Because of their record of escape attempts, they are sent to an old castle that is being used to house escape risks, commanded by Capt. von Rauffenstein,now badly injured from a crash. The two prisoners are reunited with Lt. Rosenthal, whom they met at their first POW camp. Capt. de Boeldieu and Capt. von Rauffenstein become close friends because of their common backgrounds. Capt. de Boeldieu creates a diversion so that Marechal and Rosenthal can escape, and is shot by von Rauffenstein. He dies, but the two escapees get away. As they near the Swiss border, they take refuge in a barn. They are discovered by the farm's owner, Elsa a German war widow, with a young daughter. Elsa and Marechal fall in love, but in the end, he and Rosenthal leave and make their way to Switzerland and freedom.
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GRASS: A NATION'S BATTLE FOR LIFE (1924) Dir: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack. Writers: (Titles) Richard P. Carver, Terry Ramsaye. As Themselves: Marguerite Harrison, Haidar Kahn, the chief of the Bakhatiari people, Lufta, his son. A silent documentary about the Bakhatiari people of Iran as they move their 50,000 people and millions of animals to pasture.
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THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (1903) Dir: Edwin S. Porter. Writers: Porter, Scott Marble. A Bandit, Shot Passenger, Tenderfoot Dancer: Gilbert "Bronco Billy" Anderson, Bandit Who Shoots at Camera: Justus B. Barnes, Little Girl: Mary Snow. The title pretty much tells it all. A gang robs a train, in the old west. They're pursued and either shot or captured. Some hand colored sequences.
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GREEN ZONE (2010) Dir: Paul Greengrass. Writer: Brian Helgeland. Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller: Matt Damon, Clark Poundstone: Greg Kinnear, Martin Brown: Brendan Gleeson, Freddy: Khalid Abdalla, Lawrie Dayne: Amy Ryan, General Al Rawi: Yigal Naor. When Chief Roy Miller is sent into Baghdad to secure WMD's at the beginning of the second Iraq war, he soon discovers that the evidence of WMD's was false. He begins a search for the truth that leads him to high ranking American officials.
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THE GODDESS (1934) Dir: Wu Yonggang. Writter: Wu Yonggang. The Goddess: Ruan Ling-yu. The Boss: Zhang Zhizhi. In Shanghai, the Goddess, a single mother, sells herself on the streets to support her young son. Escaping from police raid she blunders into the room of the Boss, a street thug, who quickly becomes her pimp. She tries to escape the Boss, but is tracked down. She has sent her son to school, but when the other mothers discover that she is a prostitute, they demand the expulsion of her son. The school's headmaster tries to prevent the child's expulsion, and resigns in protest when he doesn't succeed. When the Boss finds and steals her hidden stash of money, the Goddess kills the Boss. The headmaster adopts the son when the Goddess is sent to prison for the murder. For a more detailed review, go to www.thenewcommonsense-wjy.blogspot.com/2010/05/goddess-silent-movie-dvd-of-week.html
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GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (1933) Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Dance Sequences Dir: Busby Berkeley. Writer: David Boehm, Erwin S. Gelsey. Brad Roberts AKA Robert Treat Bradford: Dick Powell, Carol King: Joan Blondell, Polly Parker: Ruby Keeler, Trixie Lorraine: Aline MacMahon, J. Lawrence Bradford: Warren William, Fanuel H. Peabody: Guy Kibbee, Fay Fortune: Ginger Rogers. Boston blue blood, Robert Treat Bradford goes to New York, changes his name to Brad Roberts to become a Broadway composer. With the help of his show girl neighbors, Polly, Trixie, Carol, and Fay, he gets a show produced, with the girls as the stars. When his brother, J. Lawrence Bradford, discovers that his brother, Brad/Robert, has entered show business, accompanied by family lawyer, Fanuel H. Peabody, he tries to disinherit Brad. The show girls set their sights on J. Lawrence and Fanuel, both to save the show and take the two Bostonians for some money.
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GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK (2005) Dir: George Clooney. Writer: George Clooney, Grant Heslov. Edward R. Murrow: David Strathairn, Fred Friendly: George Clooney, Joe Wershba: Robert Downey, Jr., Patricia Clarkson: Shirley Wershba, Sig Mickelson: Jeff Daniels, William Paley: Frank Langella, Don Hollenbeck: Ray Wise. Joseph McCarthy, Roy M. Cohn: Archive Footage. CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow and producer Fred Friendly take on Sen. Joseph McCarthy at the height of the 50's anti-communist witch hunts.
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GRAND ILLUSION (1938) Dir: Jean Renoir. Writer: Charles Spaak, Jean Renoir. Lt. Marechal: Jean Gabin, Elsa:Dita Parlo, Capt. de Boeldieu: Pierre Fresnay, Capt. von Rauffenstein: Erich von Stroheim, Lt. Rosenthal: Marcel Dalio. When French pilot, Lt. Marechal and staff officer Capt. de Boeldieu are shot down by German pilot, Capt. von Rauffenstein, they are sent to a series of prisoner of war camps. Because of their record of escape attempts, they are sent to an old castle that is being used to house escape risks, commanded by Capt. von Rauffenstein,now badly injured from a crash. The two prisoners are reunited with Lt. Rosenthal, whom they met at their first POW camp. Capt. de Boeldieu and Capt. von Rauffenstein become close friends because of their common backgrounds. Capt. de Boeldieu creates a diversion so that Marechal and Rosenthal can escape, and is shot by von Rauffenstein. He dies, but the two escapees get away. As they near the Swiss border, they take refuge in a barn. They are discovered by the farm's owner, Elsa a German war widow, with a young daughter. Elsa and Marechal fall in love, but in the end, he and Rosenthal leave and make their way to Switzerland and freedom.
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GRASS: A NATION'S BATTLE FOR LIFE (1924) Dir: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack. Writers: (Titles) Richard P. Carver, Terry Ramsaye. As Themselves: Marguerite Harrison, Haidar Kahn, the chief of the Bakhatiari people, Lufta, his son. A silent documentary about the Bakhatiari people of Iran as they move their 50,000 people and millions of animals to pasture.
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THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (1903) Dir: Edwin S. Porter. Writers: Porter, Scott Marble. A Bandit, Shot Passenger, Tenderfoot Dancer: Gilbert "Bronco Billy" Anderson, Bandit Who Shoots at Camera: Justus B. Barnes, Little Girl: Mary Snow. The title pretty much tells it all. A gang robs a train, in the old west. They're pursued and either shot or captured. Some hand colored sequences.
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GREEN ZONE (2010) Dir: Paul Greengrass. Writer: Brian Helgeland. Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller: Matt Damon, Clark Poundstone: Greg Kinnear, Martin Brown: Brendan Gleeson, Freddy: Khalid Abdalla, Lawrie Dayne: Amy Ryan, General Al Rawi: Yigal Naor. When Chief Roy Miller is sent into Baghdad to secure WMD's at the beginning of the second Iraq war, he soon discovers that the evidence of WMD's was false. He begins a search for the truth that leads him to high ranking American officials.
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