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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Thursday, October 1, 2009
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I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943) Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Writer: Curt Siodmak. Betsy Connell: Frances Dee, Paul Holland: Tom Conway, Wesley Rand: James Ellison, Mrs. Rand: Edith Barrett, Jessica Holland: Christine Gordon, Calypso Singer: Sir Lancelot. A young, Canadian nurse, Betsy Connell, is hired to go to the west Indies to take care of a woman, Jessica Holland, who has become catatonic from a tropical fever. Her husband, Paul Holland, and her brother-in-law, and former lover, Wesley Rand each fall for Betsy. But Jessica isn't really catatonic. She's been made into a zombie. Wesley is also under the control of the Voodoo priest.
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THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957) Dir: Jack Arnold. Writer: Richard Matheson. Scott Carey: Grant Williams, Louise Carey: Randy Stuart, Charlie Carey: Paul Langton, Clarice: April Kent. When Scott Carey passes through a radioactive cloud, he begins ti shrink. He must fight for his survival, including battles to the death against spiders that are now larger than he is.
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THE INFORMER (1935) Dir: John Ford. Writer: Dudley Nichols. Gypo Nolan: Victor McLaglen, Mary McPhillip: Heather Angel, Dan Gallagher: Preston Foster, Katie Maddon: Margot Grahame, Frankie McPhillip: Wallace Ford, Bartly Mulholland: Joe Sawyer, Una O'Conner: Mrs. McPhillip, Peter Mulligan: Donald Meek. In Dublin in 1922, Gypo Nolan informs on IRA soldier, Frankie McPhillip to the British for twenty pounds. Fueled by guilt and alcohol, Gypo wanders the night through Dublin, spending his money, only to be tried before an IRA court, and found guilty of informing.
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INGLORIOUS BASTERDS (2009) Dir: Quentin Tarantino. Writer: Quentin Tarantino. Col. Hans Landa: Christoph Waltz, Bridget von Hammersmark: Diane Kruger, Lt. Aldo Raine: Brad Pitt, Shosanna: Melanie Laurent, Sgt. Donny Donowitz: Eli Roth, Joseph Goebbels: Sylvester Groth, Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz: Til Schweiger, Lt. Archie Hicox: Michael Fassbender, Perrier LaPadite: Denis Menochet, Hitler: Martin Wuttke, Frederick Zoller: Daniel Bruhl. A group of Jewish American commandos under the leadership of Lt. Aldo raine parachute into occupied France to kill Nazis and take scalps. Things change when German film star and double agent, Bridget van Hammersmark informs the allies that leading Nazis, including Goebbels and Hitler will be at a movie premiere in Paris. A plan is hatched to kill all of the German leadership at the theater. Meanwhile Shosanna, the owner of the theater and a Jewess in hiding whose family was killed by Col. Hans Landa also hatches a plan to kill the Germans by burning down the theater during the film.
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IN HARM'S WAY (1965) Dir: Otto Preminger. Writer: Wendell Mayes. Adm. Rockwell Torrey: John Wayne, Capt. Paul Eddington: Kirk Douglas, Lt. Maggie Haynes: Patricia Neal, Lt. Mac McConell: Tom Tryon, Beverley McConell: Paula Prentiss, Ens. Jere Torrey: Brandon De Wilde, Ens. Annalee Dorne: Jill Haworth, Commander Egan Powell: Burgess Meredith, Adm. Broderick: Dana Andrews, Commander Neal Owynn: Patrick O'Neal, Adm. Kimmell: Franchot Tone, CINCPAC: Henry Fonda. As the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, Capt. Rock Torrey is on patrol near Hawaii. With his first officer, Paul Eddington, they pursue the Japanese fleet. Torpedoed, Torrey returns to Pearl only to be removed from command. Now in charge of routing convoys, he becomes involved with nurse Lt. Maggie Haynes. Her roommate, Ens. Annalee Dorne is involved with Rock Torrey's estranged son. Eventually Rock Torrey is promoted to Admiral and sent to run a navel operation run by Adm. Broderick who has failed to move on the enemies position. Commander Neal Owynn on Broderick's staff, as well as Ens. Jere Torrey, Rock's son, are sent to spy of Rock's operation. When Jere realises that Rock is an admirable leader he turns on Broderick and Owynn and transfers to a PT boat. Jere becomes engaged to Annalee, who is then raped by Paul Eddington, now Rock Torrey's Chief of Staff. Annalee commits suicide when she thinks she's pregnant. Eddington goes on a suicide mission rather than face arrest. He discovers a large Japanese task force heading towards Rock's navel operations. In a massive surface battle all of Rock's staff but Lt. Mac McConell is killed. Rock loses his leg and is returned to Pearl Harbor along with Lt. Maggie Haynes.
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INVASION OF THE BODYSNATCHERS (1956) Dir: Don Siegel. Writers: Daniel Manwaring, story by Jack Finney. Dr. Miles J. Bennell: Kevin McCarthy, Becky Driscoll: Dana Wynter, Jack Belicec: King Donovan, Theodora "Teddy" Belicec: Carolyn Jones. Mysterious pods from outer space create exact, though soulless, duplicates of humans while they sleep, taking the memories and replacing the original person. Dr. Bennell and his girl friend Becky Driscoll try and stay awake, while being pursued by the pod people, so they can both survive as human beings and warn the outside world of the threat.
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ISLE OF THE DEAD (1945) Dir: Mark Robson. Writer: Ardel Ray. Gen. Nikolas Pherides, Oliver Davis: Marc Cramer, Thea: Ellen Drew, Mary St. Aubyn: Katherine Emery, Madame Kyra: Helen Thimig, St. Aubyn: Alan Napier, Albrecht: Jason Robards, Sr., Dr. Drossos: Ernest Deutsch. Ruthless Greek general, Nikola Pherides and American war corespondent, Oliver Davis are quarantined by plaque on an island with a disparate group of people. As the plaque danger increases, Pherides falls prey to superstition and blames Thea for bringing bad luck on the group.
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IT'S ALL TRUE (1993) Dir: Bill Krohn, Myron Meisel, Richard Wilson, Orson Welles, Norman Foster. Writer: Bill Krohn, Myron Meisel, Richard Wilson. Themselves: Orson Welles, Richard Wilson, Elizabeth Wilson. In 1942, Orson Welles was asked by the State Department to go to South America to make a documentary as part of the war time good neighbor policy. A documentary about what went wrong, and how it affected his career, and how it led to his loss of control of The Magnificent Ambersons. Contains Welles' short film meant to be part three of his documentary, Four Men On A Raft. Also contains recovered footage from Norman Foster's contribution to the film, My Friend Bonito, And Welles' unfinished section on the samba. See FOUR MEN ON A RAFT.
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THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957) Dir: Jack Arnold. Writer: Richard Matheson. Scott Carey: Grant Williams, Louise Carey: Randy Stuart, Charlie Carey: Paul Langton, Clarice: April Kent. When Scott Carey passes through a radioactive cloud, he begins ti shrink. He must fight for his survival, including battles to the death against spiders that are now larger than he is.
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THE INFORMER (1935) Dir: John Ford. Writer: Dudley Nichols. Gypo Nolan: Victor McLaglen, Mary McPhillip: Heather Angel, Dan Gallagher: Preston Foster, Katie Maddon: Margot Grahame, Frankie McPhillip: Wallace Ford, Bartly Mulholland: Joe Sawyer, Una O'Conner: Mrs. McPhillip, Peter Mulligan: Donald Meek. In Dublin in 1922, Gypo Nolan informs on IRA soldier, Frankie McPhillip to the British for twenty pounds. Fueled by guilt and alcohol, Gypo wanders the night through Dublin, spending his money, only to be tried before an IRA court, and found guilty of informing.
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INGLORIOUS BASTERDS (2009) Dir: Quentin Tarantino. Writer: Quentin Tarantino. Col. Hans Landa: Christoph Waltz, Bridget von Hammersmark: Diane Kruger, Lt. Aldo Raine: Brad Pitt, Shosanna: Melanie Laurent, Sgt. Donny Donowitz: Eli Roth, Joseph Goebbels: Sylvester Groth, Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz: Til Schweiger, Lt. Archie Hicox: Michael Fassbender, Perrier LaPadite: Denis Menochet, Hitler: Martin Wuttke, Frederick Zoller: Daniel Bruhl. A group of Jewish American commandos under the leadership of Lt. Aldo raine parachute into occupied France to kill Nazis and take scalps. Things change when German film star and double agent, Bridget van Hammersmark informs the allies that leading Nazis, including Goebbels and Hitler will be at a movie premiere in Paris. A plan is hatched to kill all of the German leadership at the theater. Meanwhile Shosanna, the owner of the theater and a Jewess in hiding whose family was killed by Col. Hans Landa also hatches a plan to kill the Germans by burning down the theater during the film.
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IN HARM'S WAY (1965) Dir: Otto Preminger. Writer: Wendell Mayes. Adm. Rockwell Torrey: John Wayne, Capt. Paul Eddington: Kirk Douglas, Lt. Maggie Haynes: Patricia Neal, Lt. Mac McConell: Tom Tryon, Beverley McConell: Paula Prentiss, Ens. Jere Torrey: Brandon De Wilde, Ens. Annalee Dorne: Jill Haworth, Commander Egan Powell: Burgess Meredith, Adm. Broderick: Dana Andrews, Commander Neal Owynn: Patrick O'Neal, Adm. Kimmell: Franchot Tone, CINCPAC: Henry Fonda. As the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, Capt. Rock Torrey is on patrol near Hawaii. With his first officer, Paul Eddington, they pursue the Japanese fleet. Torpedoed, Torrey returns to Pearl only to be removed from command. Now in charge of routing convoys, he becomes involved with nurse Lt. Maggie Haynes. Her roommate, Ens. Annalee Dorne is involved with Rock Torrey's estranged son. Eventually Rock Torrey is promoted to Admiral and sent to run a navel operation run by Adm. Broderick who has failed to move on the enemies position. Commander Neal Owynn on Broderick's staff, as well as Ens. Jere Torrey, Rock's son, are sent to spy of Rock's operation. When Jere realises that Rock is an admirable leader he turns on Broderick and Owynn and transfers to a PT boat. Jere becomes engaged to Annalee, who is then raped by Paul Eddington, now Rock Torrey's Chief of Staff. Annalee commits suicide when she thinks she's pregnant. Eddington goes on a suicide mission rather than face arrest. He discovers a large Japanese task force heading towards Rock's navel operations. In a massive surface battle all of Rock's staff but Lt. Mac McConell is killed. Rock loses his leg and is returned to Pearl Harbor along with Lt. Maggie Haynes.
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INVASION OF THE BODYSNATCHERS (1956) Dir: Don Siegel. Writers: Daniel Manwaring, story by Jack Finney. Dr. Miles J. Bennell: Kevin McCarthy, Becky Driscoll: Dana Wynter, Jack Belicec: King Donovan, Theodora "Teddy" Belicec: Carolyn Jones. Mysterious pods from outer space create exact, though soulless, duplicates of humans while they sleep, taking the memories and replacing the original person. Dr. Bennell and his girl friend Becky Driscoll try and stay awake, while being pursued by the pod people, so they can both survive as human beings and warn the outside world of the threat.
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ISLE OF THE DEAD (1945) Dir: Mark Robson. Writer: Ardel Ray. Gen. Nikolas Pherides, Oliver Davis: Marc Cramer, Thea: Ellen Drew, Mary St. Aubyn: Katherine Emery, Madame Kyra: Helen Thimig, St. Aubyn: Alan Napier, Albrecht: Jason Robards, Sr., Dr. Drossos: Ernest Deutsch. Ruthless Greek general, Nikola Pherides and American war corespondent, Oliver Davis are quarantined by plaque on an island with a disparate group of people. As the plaque danger increases, Pherides falls prey to superstition and blames Thea for bringing bad luck on the group.
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IT'S ALL TRUE (1993) Dir: Bill Krohn, Myron Meisel, Richard Wilson, Orson Welles, Norman Foster. Writer: Bill Krohn, Myron Meisel, Richard Wilson. Themselves: Orson Welles, Richard Wilson, Elizabeth Wilson. In 1942, Orson Welles was asked by the State Department to go to South America to make a documentary as part of the war time good neighbor policy. A documentary about what went wrong, and how it affected his career, and how it led to his loss of control of The Magnificent Ambersons. Contains Welles' short film meant to be part three of his documentary, Four Men On A Raft. Also contains recovered footage from Norman Foster's contribution to the film, My Friend Bonito, And Welles' unfinished section on the samba. See FOUR MEN ON A RAFT.
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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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OBJECTIVE, BURMA! (1945) Dir: Raoul Walsh. Writer: Ranald MacDougall, Lester Cole. Capt. Nelson: Errol Flynn, War Correspondent, Mark Williams: Henry Hull, S.Sgt. Treacy: James Brown, Lt. Sid Jacobs: William Prince, Cpl. Gaby Gordon; George Tobias. An American commando unit under the command of Captain Nelson, accompanied by war correspondent, Mark Williams, parachute into Japanese occupied Burma to blow up a Japanese radar station. When the landing strip the unit is supposed to use to escape Burma is over run by the Japanese, the commandos are forced to get back to their base on foot.
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OCEANS (2009) Dir: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzand. Writer: Christophe Cheysson, Jacques Cluzand, Laurent Debas, Stephane Durand, Laurent Gande, Jacques Perrin, Francois Sarano. A documentary about the world's oceans.
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OLYMPIA: PART 1, FESTIVAL OF THE NATIONS (1938) Dir: Leni Riefenstahl. Writer: Leni Riefenstahl. Documentary of the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics.
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OLYMPIA: PART 2, FESTIVAL OF BEAUTY (1938) Dir: Leni Riefenstahl. Writer: Leni Riefenstahl. Second part of the documentary of the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics.
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ON THE TOWN (1949) Dir: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly. Writers: Adolph Green, Betty Comden. Music: Leonard Bernstein. Gabey: Gene Kelly, Chip: Frank Sinatra, Ozzie: Jules Munshin, Brunhilde Esterhazy: Betty Garrett, Ivy Smith: Vera-Ellen, Claire Huddesen: Ann Miller, Lucy Shmeeler: Alice Pearce. Three sailors have a 24 hour liberty in New York City. They go off to sight see and find girls. Gabey sees a poster for Miss Turnstiles, AKA Ivy Smith and becomes obsessed with finding her. Chip and Ozzie find their own girls, Brunhilde and Claire. The three couples meet up at the Empire State Building. Chased by the police, they all end up at Cony Island before the three sailors have to be back on their ship.
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ONE, TWO, THREE (1961) Dir: Billy Wilder. Writer: Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond. C.R. MacNamara: James Cagney, Otto Ludwig Piffl: Horst Bucholz, Scarlett Hazeltine, Phyllis MacNamara: Arlene Francis, Schlemmer: Hanns Lothar, Fraulein Ingeborg: Liselotte Pulver. The head of Coca Cola's Berlin office, C.R. MacNamara dreams of heading up European operations in London. When the president of Coke sends his wild daughter, Scarlett Hazeltine, to Berlin and asks the MacNamara's to keep an eye on her, C.R. sees his opportunity for advancement. When Scarlett sneaks out and marries a radical East German communist, C.R. plots to destroy the marriage. He succeeds in getting Otto arrested by the Communist East Germans by framing him as an American spy. When he learns that Scarlett is pregnant, he frees Otto and remakes him as a phony count and ardent conservative.
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THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES (1976) Dir: Clint Eastwood. Writer: Phil Kaufman, Sonia Chernus. JoseyWales: Clint Eastwood, Laura Lee: Sondra Locke, Lone Watie: Chief Dan George, Terril: Bill McKinney, Jamie: Sam Bottoms, Grandma Sarah: Paula Trueman, Little Moonlight: Geraldine Keams, Fletcher: John Vernon, Ten Bears: Will Sampson. After the civil war, a group of Confederate irregulars surrender to the Union Army. When they are gunned down, Josey Wales, the only member who refused to surrender, heads towards Texas, pursued by troops led by Terril, the commander who killed Wales's wife and son at the beginning of the war and Fletcher a fellow irregular who urged the group to turn themselves in. . Along the way, others, including two Indians, Lone Watie and Little Moonlight, and Grandma Sarah and grand daughter Laura Lee, attach themselves to a reluctant Josey Wales.
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OCEANS (2009) Dir: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzand. Writer: Christophe Cheysson, Jacques Cluzand, Laurent Debas, Stephane Durand, Laurent Gande, Jacques Perrin, Francois Sarano. A documentary about the world's oceans.
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OLYMPIA: PART 1, FESTIVAL OF THE NATIONS (1938) Dir: Leni Riefenstahl. Writer: Leni Riefenstahl. Documentary of the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics.
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OLYMPIA: PART 2, FESTIVAL OF BEAUTY (1938) Dir: Leni Riefenstahl. Writer: Leni Riefenstahl. Second part of the documentary of the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics.
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ON THE TOWN (1949) Dir: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly. Writers: Adolph Green, Betty Comden. Music: Leonard Bernstein. Gabey: Gene Kelly, Chip: Frank Sinatra, Ozzie: Jules Munshin, Brunhilde Esterhazy: Betty Garrett, Ivy Smith: Vera-Ellen, Claire Huddesen: Ann Miller, Lucy Shmeeler: Alice Pearce. Three sailors have a 24 hour liberty in New York City. They go off to sight see and find girls. Gabey sees a poster for Miss Turnstiles, AKA Ivy Smith and becomes obsessed with finding her. Chip and Ozzie find their own girls, Brunhilde and Claire. The three couples meet up at the Empire State Building. Chased by the police, they all end up at Cony Island before the three sailors have to be back on their ship.
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ONE, TWO, THREE (1961) Dir: Billy Wilder. Writer: Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond. C.R. MacNamara: James Cagney, Otto Ludwig Piffl: Horst Bucholz, Scarlett Hazeltine, Phyllis MacNamara: Arlene Francis, Schlemmer: Hanns Lothar, Fraulein Ingeborg: Liselotte Pulver. The head of Coca Cola's Berlin office, C.R. MacNamara dreams of heading up European operations in London. When the president of Coke sends his wild daughter, Scarlett Hazeltine, to Berlin and asks the MacNamara's to keep an eye on her, C.R. sees his opportunity for advancement. When Scarlett sneaks out and marries a radical East German communist, C.R. plots to destroy the marriage. He succeeds in getting Otto arrested by the Communist East Germans by framing him as an American spy. When he learns that Scarlett is pregnant, he frees Otto and remakes him as a phony count and ardent conservative.
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THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES (1976) Dir: Clint Eastwood. Writer: Phil Kaufman, Sonia Chernus. JoseyWales: Clint Eastwood, Laura Lee: Sondra Locke, Lone Watie: Chief Dan George, Terril: Bill McKinney, Jamie: Sam Bottoms, Grandma Sarah: Paula Trueman, Little Moonlight: Geraldine Keams, Fletcher: John Vernon, Ten Bears: Will Sampson. After the civil war, a group of Confederate irregulars surrender to the Union Army. When they are gunned down, Josey Wales, the only member who refused to surrender, heads towards Texas, pursued by troops led by Terril, the commander who killed Wales's wife and son at the beginning of the war and Fletcher a fellow irregular who urged the group to turn themselves in. . Along the way, others, including two Indians, Lone Watie and Little Moonlight, and Grandma Sarah and grand daughter Laura Lee, attach themselves to a reluctant Josey Wales.
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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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