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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Thursday, October 1, 2009
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HELL DRIVERS (1957) Dir: Cy Endfield. Writer: John Kruse, Cy Endfield. Tom Yately: Stanley Baker, "Red" Redman: Patrick McGoohan, Gino: Herbert Lom, Lucy: Peggy Cummins, Cartley: William Hartnell, Jimmy Yately: David McCallum, Johnny Kates: Sean Connery, Jill: Jill Ireland. Hawlett Trucking hires drifters as drivers. When Tom Yately, an ex-con, is hired, he challenges road foreman, "Red" Redman for supremacy as the best driver. When all of the drivers band together against Tom, except his friend, Gino, things turn deadly. When Lucy, the company's office girl tells Tom that the office manger, Cartley and Red are carrying five nonexistent drivers on the books and keeping the money, Tom threatens to expose them.
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HELL'S ANGELS (1930) Dir: Howard Hughes. Writer: Harry Behn, Howard Estabrook. Monte Rutledge: Ben Lyon, Roy Rutledge: James Hall, Helen: Jean Harlow, Karl Armstedt: James Darrow, Baron Von Kranz: Lucien Prival, Zeppelin Commander: Carl Von Haartman. Two brothers, Roy Rutledge, brave and noble, and Monte, cowardly and ignoble, enlist in the Royal Flying Corp. in World War 1. Sent on a secret mission to bomb a German ammunition depot in a captured German plane, they're shot down only to brought before their captor, Baron Von Kranz, whose wife, Monte seduced before the beginning of the war.
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HORSE FEATHERS (1932) Dir: Norman Z. McLeod. Writers: Harry Ruby, Bert Kalmar. Prof. Quincy Adams Wagstaff: Groucho Marx, Pinky: Harpo Marx, Baravelli: Chico Marx, Frank Wagstaff: Zeppo Marx, Connie Bailey: Thelma Todd. Prof. Wagstaff, the new dean of Huxley University is persuaded to hire two professional football players so that Huxley can beat rival Darwin U in the big game. He hires Pinky and Baravelli by mistake. When Prof. Wagstaff realizes his error, he has the boys try and kidnap the real players, meanwhile, all four Marx brothers romance Connie Bailey, the college widow. What they don't know is that she is working for a gambler who has bet on Darwin, and he wants her to steal the plays. The movie ends with an anarchic football game with all four Marx brothers playing for Huxley.
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THE HURT LOCKER (2009) Dir: Kathryn Bigelow. Writer: Mark Boal. SFC. William James: Jeremy Renner, Sgt. J.T. Sanborn: Anthony Mackie, Spc. Owen Eldridge: Brian Geraghty, Mercenary/Contractor Team Leader: Ralph Fiennes. A possibly suicidal soldier joins a bomb disposal squad in Iraq.
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HELL'S ANGELS (1930) Dir: Howard Hughes. Writer: Harry Behn, Howard Estabrook. Monte Rutledge: Ben Lyon, Roy Rutledge: James Hall, Helen: Jean Harlow, Karl Armstedt: James Darrow, Baron Von Kranz: Lucien Prival, Zeppelin Commander: Carl Von Haartman. Two brothers, Roy Rutledge, brave and noble, and Monte, cowardly and ignoble, enlist in the Royal Flying Corp. in World War 1. Sent on a secret mission to bomb a German ammunition depot in a captured German plane, they're shot down only to brought before their captor, Baron Von Kranz, whose wife, Monte seduced before the beginning of the war.
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HORSE FEATHERS (1932) Dir: Norman Z. McLeod. Writers: Harry Ruby, Bert Kalmar. Prof. Quincy Adams Wagstaff: Groucho Marx, Pinky: Harpo Marx, Baravelli: Chico Marx, Frank Wagstaff: Zeppo Marx, Connie Bailey: Thelma Todd. Prof. Wagstaff, the new dean of Huxley University is persuaded to hire two professional football players so that Huxley can beat rival Darwin U in the big game. He hires Pinky and Baravelli by mistake. When Prof. Wagstaff realizes his error, he has the boys try and kidnap the real players, meanwhile, all four Marx brothers romance Connie Bailey, the college widow. What they don't know is that she is working for a gambler who has bet on Darwin, and he wants her to steal the plays. The movie ends with an anarchic football game with all four Marx brothers playing for Huxley.
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THE HURT LOCKER (2009) Dir: Kathryn Bigelow. Writer: Mark Boal. SFC. William James: Jeremy Renner, Sgt. J.T. Sanborn: Anthony Mackie, Spc. Owen Eldridge: Brian Geraghty, Mercenary/Contractor Team Leader: Ralph Fiennes. A possibly suicidal soldier joins a bomb disposal squad in Iraq.
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M (1931) Dir: Fritz Lang. Writer: Thea von Harbou, Fritz Lang. Hans Beckert: Peter Lorre, Frau Beckmann: Ellen Widmann, Elsie Beckmann: Inge Landgut, Schranker: Gustaf Grundgens, Franz: Freidrich Gnass, Superintendent Lohmann: Otto Wernicke, Superintendent Groeber: Theodor Loos, Blind Street Vendor: Georg John, Beckert's "Lawyer": Rudolf Blumner. Hans Beckert is a serial child killer. When the police crack down on all crime, the non violent criminal gangs, use the city's beggars to hunt down the killer, they find him, just as the police are finally close to making an arrest.
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MAJOR DUNDEE (1965) Dir: Sam Peckinpah. Writer: Harry Julian Fink, Oscar Paul, Sam Peckinpah. Major Dundee: Charlton Heston, Captain Ben Tyreen: Richard Harris, Samuel Potts: James Coburn, Teresa Santiago: Senta Berger, Trooper Tim Ryan: Michael Anderson, Jr., Trooper Aesop: Brock Peters, Riago: Juan Carlos Ruiz, Lieutenant Graham: Jim Hutton, O.W. Hadley: Warren Oates, Sergent Chillum: Ben Johnson, Sierra Charriba: Michael Pate. When Apache chief, Sierra Charriba massacres a cavalry patrol and kidnaps some small children, Major Dundee leads a group of black troops, civilian volunteers and Confederate prisoners into Mexico in pursuit of the Indians. Once over the border, he in in turn pursued by Emperor Maximilian's crack French lancers.
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MALE AND FEMALE (1919) Dir: Cecil B. DeMille. Writer: Jeanie Macpherson. William Crichton: Thomas Meighan, Lady Mary Lasenby: Gloria Swanson, Tweeny the Scullery Maid: Lila Lee, Lord Loam: Theodore Roberts, Lady Agatha Lasenby: Mildred Reardon, Ernest Wolley: Raymond Hatton, Lord Brockelhurst: Robert Cain. Lord Loam, family and staff go on a tropical cruise on the family yacht. When ship wrecked on a desert island, only Crichton, the family butler has the needed skills to survive. He soon becomes king of the island as scullery maid Tweeny and spoiled daughter of Lord Loam, Lady Mary compete for his affections.
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THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) Dir: John Huston. Writer: John Huston. Sam Spade: Humphrey Bogart, Brigid O'Shaughnessy, Kasper Gutman: Sydney Greenstreet, Joel Cairo: Peter Lorre, Wilmer Cook: Elsiha Cook, Jr., Effie Perine: Lee Patrick, Det. Lt. Dundy: Barton Maclane, Det. Tom Polhaus: Ward Bond. A group of international crimals are hunting for the Maltese falcon, a jewel encrusted golden statue, covered by a coat of black enamel. One of them, Brigid O'Shaughnessy, hires private eye Sam Spade, to help her against Kasper Gutman.
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MANDRAKE, (1928) see ALRAUNE
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MANSLAUGHTER (1922) Dir: Cecil B. Demlle. Writer: Jeanie Macpherson. Lydia Thorne: Leatrice Joy, Daniel J. O'Bannon: Thomas Meighan, Evans the Maid: Lois Wilson, Drummond: Jack Mower. When wreckless Lydia Thorne kills traffic officer, Drummond in a car accident, she is prosecuted by her fiance, D.A. Daniel J. O'Bannon. He gets a conviction and prison time for Lydia. While in prison, she meets Evans, her former maid who had stolen from her for money for medical care for her sick son. Both Lydia and Evans are reformed by prison. Paroled, they devote their lives to good works. While on skid row, they meet O'Bannon who has become an alcoholic. Lydia and Evans help O'Bannon to overcome his drinking problem.
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MAX REPREND SA LIBERTE aka TROUBLES OF A GRASS WIDOWER (1912) Dir: Max Linder. Writer: Max Linder. Max: Max Linder, Max's Wife: Jane Renouardt, Max's Mother-In-Law: Delphine Renot. When Max ignores his wife, she leaves him and returns to her mother. With out a woman to take care of him, Max is unable to cope.
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MODERN TIMES (1936) Dir: Charles Chaplin. Writer: Charles Chaplin. A Factory Worker: Charles Chaplin, A Gamin: Paulette Godard, Big Bill: Tiny Sandford, A Mechanic: Chester Conklin, President of the Electro Steel Corporation: Al Ernest Garcia. When a factory worker goes crazy from the monotony of his job, he ends up unemployed and latter in prison. On his release, he meets a gamin of the streets and they face life and hardship together.
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MONTY PYTHON'S MEANING OF LIFE (1983) Dir: Terry Jones. Writer: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin. Various Roles: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin. In a series of short films, the meaning of life from birth to death are examined.
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MOTHLIGHT (1963) Dir: Stan Brakhage. Clocking in at four minutes, Brakhage took pieces of dead insects and sandwiched them between two pieces of editing tape.
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MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935) Dir: Frank Lloyd. Writer: Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman, Carey Wilson. Captain Bligh: Charles Laughton, Fletcher Christian, Midshipman Byam: Franchot Tone, Burkitt: Donald Crisp, Tehani: Movita. On a voyage to Tahiti to collect breadfruit as food for West Indian slaves, Lieutenant Fletcher Christian leads a successful mutiny against tyrannical Captain Bligh. Cast adrift in an open boat with some, but not all, of those loyal to him, Bligh survives and returns to the south seas in search of the mutineers.
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MAJOR DUNDEE (1965) Dir: Sam Peckinpah. Writer: Harry Julian Fink, Oscar Paul, Sam Peckinpah. Major Dundee: Charlton Heston, Captain Ben Tyreen: Richard Harris, Samuel Potts: James Coburn, Teresa Santiago: Senta Berger, Trooper Tim Ryan: Michael Anderson, Jr., Trooper Aesop: Brock Peters, Riago: Juan Carlos Ruiz, Lieutenant Graham: Jim Hutton, O.W. Hadley: Warren Oates, Sergent Chillum: Ben Johnson, Sierra Charriba: Michael Pate. When Apache chief, Sierra Charriba massacres a cavalry patrol and kidnaps some small children, Major Dundee leads a group of black troops, civilian volunteers and Confederate prisoners into Mexico in pursuit of the Indians. Once over the border, he in in turn pursued by Emperor Maximilian's crack French lancers.
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MALE AND FEMALE (1919) Dir: Cecil B. DeMille. Writer: Jeanie Macpherson. William Crichton: Thomas Meighan, Lady Mary Lasenby: Gloria Swanson, Tweeny the Scullery Maid: Lila Lee, Lord Loam: Theodore Roberts, Lady Agatha Lasenby: Mildred Reardon, Ernest Wolley: Raymond Hatton, Lord Brockelhurst: Robert Cain. Lord Loam, family and staff go on a tropical cruise on the family yacht. When ship wrecked on a desert island, only Crichton, the family butler has the needed skills to survive. He soon becomes king of the island as scullery maid Tweeny and spoiled daughter of Lord Loam, Lady Mary compete for his affections.
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THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) Dir: John Huston. Writer: John Huston. Sam Spade: Humphrey Bogart, Brigid O'Shaughnessy, Kasper Gutman: Sydney Greenstreet, Joel Cairo: Peter Lorre, Wilmer Cook: Elsiha Cook, Jr., Effie Perine: Lee Patrick, Det. Lt. Dundy: Barton Maclane, Det. Tom Polhaus: Ward Bond. A group of international crimals are hunting for the Maltese falcon, a jewel encrusted golden statue, covered by a coat of black enamel. One of them, Brigid O'Shaughnessy, hires private eye Sam Spade, to help her against Kasper Gutman.
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MANDRAKE, (1928) see ALRAUNE
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MANSLAUGHTER (1922) Dir: Cecil B. Demlle. Writer: Jeanie Macpherson. Lydia Thorne: Leatrice Joy, Daniel J. O'Bannon: Thomas Meighan, Evans the Maid: Lois Wilson, Drummond: Jack Mower. When wreckless Lydia Thorne kills traffic officer, Drummond in a car accident, she is prosecuted by her fiance, D.A. Daniel J. O'Bannon. He gets a conviction and prison time for Lydia. While in prison, she meets Evans, her former maid who had stolen from her for money for medical care for her sick son. Both Lydia and Evans are reformed by prison. Paroled, they devote their lives to good works. While on skid row, they meet O'Bannon who has become an alcoholic. Lydia and Evans help O'Bannon to overcome his drinking problem.
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MAX REPREND SA LIBERTE aka TROUBLES OF A GRASS WIDOWER (1912) Dir: Max Linder. Writer: Max Linder. Max: Max Linder, Max's Wife: Jane Renouardt, Max's Mother-In-Law: Delphine Renot. When Max ignores his wife, she leaves him and returns to her mother. With out a woman to take care of him, Max is unable to cope.
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MODERN TIMES (1936) Dir: Charles Chaplin. Writer: Charles Chaplin. A Factory Worker: Charles Chaplin, A Gamin: Paulette Godard, Big Bill: Tiny Sandford, A Mechanic: Chester Conklin, President of the Electro Steel Corporation: Al Ernest Garcia. When a factory worker goes crazy from the monotony of his job, he ends up unemployed and latter in prison. On his release, he meets a gamin of the streets and they face life and hardship together.
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MONTY PYTHON'S MEANING OF LIFE (1983) Dir: Terry Jones. Writer: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin. Various Roles: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin. In a series of short films, the meaning of life from birth to death are examined.
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MOTHLIGHT (1963) Dir: Stan Brakhage. Clocking in at four minutes, Brakhage took pieces of dead insects and sandwiched them between two pieces of editing tape.
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MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935) Dir: Frank Lloyd. Writer: Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman, Carey Wilson. Captain Bligh: Charles Laughton, Fletcher Christian, Midshipman Byam: Franchot Tone, Burkitt: Donald Crisp, Tehani: Movita. On a voyage to Tahiti to collect breadfruit as food for West Indian slaves, Lieutenant Fletcher Christian leads a successful mutiny against tyrannical Captain Bligh. Cast adrift in an open boat with some, but not all, of those loyal to him, Bligh survives and returns to the south seas in search of the mutineers.
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NANOOK OF THE NORTH (1922) Dir: Robert J. Flaherty. Writer: Robert J. Flaherty. Nanook as himself. One year in the life of Nanook, a Canadian Eskimo, and his family.
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THE NAVIGATOR (1924) Dir: Buster Keaton, Donald Crisp. Writer: Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez, Joseph Mitchell. Rollo Treadway: Buster Keaton, Betsy O'Brien: Kathryn McGuire, John O'Brien: Frederick Vroom, The Cannibal Chief: Noble Johnson. A group of spies conspire to destroy the S.S. Navigator rather than let their enemies buy the ship and use it in a war between the two nations. Rollo Treadway, wealthy sap and heir proposes to heiress Betsy O'Brien. She says no, so Rollo decides to sail to Hawaii, alone. He gets o
n the deserted Navigator by mistake. Meanwhile Betsy and her father John O'Brien, the owner of The Navigator visit the deserted ship to get some papers before the ship is sold. The spies set the ship adrift with only Rollo and Betsy aboard. They drift out to sea, at first helpless, they eventually learn to cope while stranded on the ship. The Navigator drifts to a cannibal island and the couple are attacked by the chief and his tribe.
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DIE NIBELUNGEN, PART 1: SIEGFRIED (1924) Dir: Fritz Lang. Writer: Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou. Siegfried: Paul Richter, Kriemhild: Margarete Schon, King Gunther: Theodor Loos, Brunhild: Hanna Ralph, Hagen Tronje: Hans Adalbert Schlettow. When Prince Siegfried hears of Kriemheld, princess at Worms, sister of King Gunther of the Burgundians, he goes there to win her hand. On his way, he kills a dragon. He hears the song of an enchanted bird that tells him to bathe in the dragon's blood. A linden leaf falls on his shoulder, the only place the blood does not touch, and the only place he can be killed. He then takes the treasure of a forest troll as well as a magic cape than can make him either invisible or able to take on the form of any other person. After conquering twelve kingdoms and making those kings his vassals, he arrives at Worms. King Gunther and his vassal, Hagen Tronje propose to Siegfried that they go to the Kingdom of the North where Siegfried uses the magic cape to best warrior Queen Brunhild in three tests of skill. Tricked, she agrees to marry King Gunther. When she discovers that she has been tricked, she refuses to give herself to Gunther, so Siegfried takes the form of Gunther and rapes Brunhild to subdue her will. When she discovers the subterfuge she demands that her husband kill the now married Siegfried. Gunther turns to Hagen Tronje to kill him on the only spot on his body that is not impervious to a weapon. After Siegfried is killed, Gunther's' sister, princess Kriemheld demands the head of Hagen Tronje, but Gunther stands by his vassal and refuses to kill him.
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DIE NIBELUNGEN, PART 2: KRIEMHELD'S REVNGE (1924) Dir: Fritz Lang. Writer: Thea von Harbou. King Attila: Rudolf Klien-Rogge, Kriemheld: Margarete Schon, King Gunther: Theodor Loos, Hagen Tronje: Hans Adalbert Schlettow. Now married to King Attila, Kriemheld after giving birth to Attila's son, asks him to invite her brothers to his court. Once they arrive, she offers a reward to the Huns if they kill Hagen Tronje, the killer of her first husband, Siegfried, after King Attila refuses to break the oath of safety to his guests. In the battle that follows, Hagen kills Attila's son, and when the Burgundians refuse to dishonor themselves by surrendering Hagen Tronje, they themselves are all killed.
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NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH (1940) Dir: Carol Reed. Writers: Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder. Anna Bomasch: Margaret Lockwood, Gus Bennett: Rex Harrison, Karl Marsen: Paul Henreid, Axel Bomasch: James Harcourt, Charters: Basil Radford, Caldicot: Naughton Wayne. As the Germans march into Prague, armaments expert, Axel Bomasch escapes to England. When his daughter is captured, Nazi agent, Karl Marsen poses as a fellow prisoner, helps her escape, so that he can then kidnap them both from England. Agent Gus Bennett pretends to be a German officer to get them back. An appearance by bumbling Englishmen, Caldicot and Charters.
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NINOTCHKA (1939) Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. Writer: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch. Nina Yakushova "Ninotchka" Ivanoff: Greta Garbo, Leon, Count d'Algout: Melvyn Douglas, Grand Duchess Swana: Ina Claire, Iranoff: Sig Rumann, Buljanoff: Felix Bressart, Kopalski: Alexander Granach, Kommissar Razinin: Bela Lugosi, Count Rakonin: Gregory Gaye, Gaston: Richard Carle. Three Soviet trade representatives, Iranoff, Buljanoff, and Kopalski arrive in Paris to sell the jewels of the Grand Duchess Swana to raise money for the Soviet state. Swana, now living in Paris, sends her lover, Leon, Count d'Algout to block the sale. Kommissar Razinin sends a special representative, Ninotchka, to complete the sale when the three trade reps fail to make progress. She meets Leon, Count d'Algout without realizing that he works for Swana. She is seduced by both Paris and Leon. They fall in love. When Swana realizes that she is losing Leon to Ninotchka, she cuts a deal to let the sale of the Jewels go forward if Ninotchka leaves Paris and returns to the Soviet Union. When Iranoff, Buljanoff and Kopalski are sent on another foreign mission, things go wrong and Ninotchka is, once again, sent to clean up the mess. When she arrives in Constantinople, she finds that Leon is there and has enlisted the help of the three friends to get Ninotchka out of the Soviet Union.
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NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Writer: Ernest Lehman. Roger O. Thornhill: Cary Grant, Eve Kendall: Eva Marie Saint, Philip Vandamm: James Mason, Leonard: Martin Landau, Clara Thornhill: Jessie Royce Landis, The Professor: Leo J. Carroll. New York advertising man, Roger O. Thornhill is mistaken for a non existent spy, George Kaplan. Kaplan is an invention of American intelligence to shield real agent Eve Kendall, who is the mistress of Philip Vandamm, a foreign agent. When Roger meets Eve, they fall in love, and soon Vandamm's right hand man, Leonard has proof that Eve is actually an American agent.
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NOSFERATU, A SYMPHONY OF HORROR (1922) Dir: F.W. Murnau. Writer: Henrik Galeen. Graf Orlok/Nosferatu: Max Schrek, Hutter: Gustav von Wnagenheim, Ellen Hutter: Greta Schroder, Knock, the House Agent: Alexander Granach, Harding: Georg H. Schnell, Annie Harding: Ruth Landshoff, Professor Bulwer: John Gottowt. Knock, under the control oof the vampire, Count Orlok, Nosferatu sends his employee Hutter to the wilds of Transylvania with the deed of a house in Germany. Nosferatu brings death to his new home, but Hutter's wife offers herself to Nosferatu so that he may be killed.
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NOTORIUS (1946) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Writer: Ben Hecht. Devlin: Cary Grant, Alicia Huberman, Alexander Sebastian: Claude Rains, Captain Paul Prescott: Louis Calhern, Anna Sebastian: Madame Konstantin, Dr. Anderson: Reinhold Schunzel, Eric Mathis: Ivan Triesault, Joseph: Alex Minotis. American intelligence officer, Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, daughter of a German agent to spy on Alex Sebastian, friend of her father who is also in love with her.
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THE NAVIGATOR (1924) Dir: Buster Keaton, Donald Crisp. Writer: Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez, Joseph Mitchell. Rollo Treadway: Buster Keaton, Betsy O'Brien: Kathryn McGuire, John O'Brien: Frederick Vroom, The Cannibal Chief: Noble Johnson. A group of spies conspire to destroy the S.S. Navigator rather than let their enemies buy the ship and use it in a war between the two nations. Rollo Treadway, wealthy sap and heir proposes to heiress Betsy O'Brien. She says no, so Rollo decides to sail to Hawaii, alone. He gets o
n the deserted Navigator by mistake. Meanwhile Betsy and her father John O'Brien, the owner of The Navigator visit the deserted ship to get some papers before the ship is sold. The spies set the ship adrift with only Rollo and Betsy aboard. They drift out to sea, at first helpless, they eventually learn to cope while stranded on the ship. The Navigator drifts to a cannibal island and the couple are attacked by the chief and his tribe.
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DIE NIBELUNGEN, PART 1: SIEGFRIED (1924) Dir: Fritz Lang. Writer: Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou. Siegfried: Paul Richter, Kriemhild: Margarete Schon, King Gunther: Theodor Loos, Brunhild: Hanna Ralph, Hagen Tronje: Hans Adalbert Schlettow. When Prince Siegfried hears of Kriemheld, princess at Worms, sister of King Gunther of the Burgundians, he goes there to win her hand. On his way, he kills a dragon. He hears the song of an enchanted bird that tells him to bathe in the dragon's blood. A linden leaf falls on his shoulder, the only place the blood does not touch, and the only place he can be killed. He then takes the treasure of a forest troll as well as a magic cape than can make him either invisible or able to take on the form of any other person. After conquering twelve kingdoms and making those kings his vassals, he arrives at Worms. King Gunther and his vassal, Hagen Tronje propose to Siegfried that they go to the Kingdom of the North where Siegfried uses the magic cape to best warrior Queen Brunhild in three tests of skill. Tricked, she agrees to marry King Gunther. When she discovers that she has been tricked, she refuses to give herself to Gunther, so Siegfried takes the form of Gunther and rapes Brunhild to subdue her will. When she discovers the subterfuge she demands that her husband kill the now married Siegfried. Gunther turns to Hagen Tronje to kill him on the only spot on his body that is not impervious to a weapon. After Siegfried is killed, Gunther's' sister, princess Kriemheld demands the head of Hagen Tronje, but Gunther stands by his vassal and refuses to kill him.
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DIE NIBELUNGEN, PART 2: KRIEMHELD'S REVNGE (1924) Dir: Fritz Lang. Writer: Thea von Harbou. King Attila: Rudolf Klien-Rogge, Kriemheld: Margarete Schon, King Gunther: Theodor Loos, Hagen Tronje: Hans Adalbert Schlettow. Now married to King Attila, Kriemheld after giving birth to Attila's son, asks him to invite her brothers to his court. Once they arrive, she offers a reward to the Huns if they kill Hagen Tronje, the killer of her first husband, Siegfried, after King Attila refuses to break the oath of safety to his guests. In the battle that follows, Hagen kills Attila's son, and when the Burgundians refuse to dishonor themselves by surrendering Hagen Tronje, they themselves are all killed.
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NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH (1940) Dir: Carol Reed. Writers: Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder. Anna Bomasch: Margaret Lockwood, Gus Bennett: Rex Harrison, Karl Marsen: Paul Henreid, Axel Bomasch: James Harcourt, Charters: Basil Radford, Caldicot: Naughton Wayne. As the Germans march into Prague, armaments expert, Axel Bomasch escapes to England. When his daughter is captured, Nazi agent, Karl Marsen poses as a fellow prisoner, helps her escape, so that he can then kidnap them both from England. Agent Gus Bennett pretends to be a German officer to get them back. An appearance by bumbling Englishmen, Caldicot and Charters.
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NINOTCHKA (1939) Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. Writer: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch. Nina Yakushova "Ninotchka" Ivanoff: Greta Garbo, Leon, Count d'Algout: Melvyn Douglas, Grand Duchess Swana: Ina Claire, Iranoff: Sig Rumann, Buljanoff: Felix Bressart, Kopalski: Alexander Granach, Kommissar Razinin: Bela Lugosi, Count Rakonin: Gregory Gaye, Gaston: Richard Carle. Three Soviet trade representatives, Iranoff, Buljanoff, and Kopalski arrive in Paris to sell the jewels of the Grand Duchess Swana to raise money for the Soviet state. Swana, now living in Paris, sends her lover, Leon, Count d'Algout to block the sale. Kommissar Razinin sends a special representative, Ninotchka, to complete the sale when the three trade reps fail to make progress. She meets Leon, Count d'Algout without realizing that he works for Swana. She is seduced by both Paris and Leon. They fall in love. When Swana realizes that she is losing Leon to Ninotchka, she cuts a deal to let the sale of the Jewels go forward if Ninotchka leaves Paris and returns to the Soviet Union. When Iranoff, Buljanoff and Kopalski are sent on another foreign mission, things go wrong and Ninotchka is, once again, sent to clean up the mess. When she arrives in Constantinople, she finds that Leon is there and has enlisted the help of the three friends to get Ninotchka out of the Soviet Union.
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NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Writer: Ernest Lehman. Roger O. Thornhill: Cary Grant, Eve Kendall: Eva Marie Saint, Philip Vandamm: James Mason, Leonard: Martin Landau, Clara Thornhill: Jessie Royce Landis, The Professor: Leo J. Carroll. New York advertising man, Roger O. Thornhill is mistaken for a non existent spy, George Kaplan. Kaplan is an invention of American intelligence to shield real agent Eve Kendall, who is the mistress of Philip Vandamm, a foreign agent. When Roger meets Eve, they fall in love, and soon Vandamm's right hand man, Leonard has proof that Eve is actually an American agent.
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NOSFERATU, A SYMPHONY OF HORROR (1922) Dir: F.W. Murnau. Writer: Henrik Galeen. Graf Orlok/Nosferatu: Max Schrek, Hutter: Gustav von Wnagenheim, Ellen Hutter: Greta Schroder, Knock, the House Agent: Alexander Granach, Harding: Georg H. Schnell, Annie Harding: Ruth Landshoff, Professor Bulwer: John Gottowt. Knock, under the control oof the vampire, Count Orlok, Nosferatu sends his employee Hutter to the wilds of Transylvania with the deed of a house in Germany. Nosferatu brings death to his new home, but Hutter's wife offers herself to Nosferatu so that he may be killed.
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NOTORIUS (1946) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Writer: Ben Hecht. Devlin: Cary Grant, Alicia Huberman, Alexander Sebastian: Claude Rains, Captain Paul Prescott: Louis Calhern, Anna Sebastian: Madame Konstantin, Dr. Anderson: Reinhold Schunzel, Eric Mathis: Ivan Triesault, Joseph: Alex Minotis. American intelligence officer, Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, daughter of a German agent to spy on Alex Sebastian, friend of her father who is also in love with her.
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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.
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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.
-
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.
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