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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THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1920) Dir: Robert Wiene. Writer: Hans Janowitz, Carl Mayer. Dr. Caligari: Werner Krauss, Cesare: Conrad Veidt, Francis: Friedrich Feher, Jane Olsen: Lil Dagover, Alan: Hans Heinrich von Twardowski. Francis tells the story of Dr. Caligari, a carnival entertainer, who comes to town with the somnambulist, Cesare. When aroused from his sleep, Cesare can read the future. He tells Alan that he will be dead by dawn. When Alan is murdered, Cesare is the main suspect. Cesare kidnaps Alan's fiance, Jane Olsen. Francis follows Caligari to an insane asylum where he is the head of the medical staff.
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CASABLANCA (1942) Dir: Michael Curtiz. Writer: Jules J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein. Rick Blaine: Humphrey Bogart, Ilsa Lund: Ingrid Bergman, Victor Laszlo: Paul Henreid, Captain Renault: Claude Rains, Major Strasser: Conrad Veidt, Sam: Dooley Wilson, Carl: S. Z. Sakall, Signor Ferrari: Sydney Greenstreet, Ugarte: Peter Lorre, Yvonne: Madeleine Lebeau, Emil the Croupier: Marcel Dalio, The Pickpocket: Curt Bois. American expatriate, Rick Blaine runs a bar in Casablanca, the capitol of French Moroco during World War 2. When his foirmer lover, Ilsa Lund, walks into his bar, accompanied by her husband Victor Laszlo, the leader of the European anti-Nazi movement. They seek to escape to the United States and are after letters of transit stolen by Ugarte. Rick has to decide whether to help them or not, while German Major Strasser tries to prevent the escape, and Vichy French police captain Renault, plays both sides.
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THE CHEAT (1915) Dir: Cecil B. DeMille. Writer: Hector Turnbull, Jeanie Macpherson. Edith Hardy: Fannie Ward, Hishuru Tori: Sessue Hayakawa, Richard Hardy: Jack Dean, Jones: James Neill, Tori's Valet: Yatake Abe. When socialite Edith Hardy, worried that her stockbroker husband Richard may loose their money in a deal, she impulsively embezzles $10,000 from a charity committee that she chairs so that she can make her own investment. When she loses the money, she turns to Burmese ivory king, Hishuru Tori. He gives her the money to cover up her theft, but he also brands her to symbolise his ownership of Edith. When Jack finds out he confronts Tori and in the struggle that follows, he shoots Tori. Tori survives and charges Richard with attempted murder. To avoid the scandal, Richard refuses to implicate Edith.
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CHESS FEVER (1925) Dir: Vsevolod Pudovkin. Writer: Nikolai Shpikovsky. The Hero: Vladimir Fogel, His Fiancee: Natalya Glan. A young man's obsession with chess threatens his relationship with his chess hating fiancee.
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CHOOSE ME (1984) Dir: Alan Rudolph. Writer: Alan Rudolph. Mickey: Keith Carradine, Eve: Lesley Ann Warren, Dr. Nancy Love/Ann: Genevieve Bujold, Zack Antoine: Patrick Bauchou, Pearl Antoine: Rae Dawn Chong. Mickey can either not tell the truth, or he's incapable of lying. He wanders away from a mental institution and ends up at Eve's a bar in Los Angeles. He meets and falls for Eve, and Pearl the wife of a gangster. Meanwhile Eve calls talk radio shrink, Dr. Nancy Love, who has emotional problems of her own. Using the name Ann, she ends up as Eve's house mate. Despite all of the romantic complications, Mickey and Eve end up together.
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A CORNER IN WHEAT (1909) Dir: D.W. Griffith. Writer: Griffith, based on a novel by Frank Norris. The Wheat King: Frank Powell, The Wheat King's Wife: Grace Henderson, A Farmer: James Kirkwood, The Farmer's Wife: Linda Arvidson. A tycoon decides to corner the world's wheat market, doubles the price of bread, causes hunger and poverty.
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THE CRAZY RAY see PARIS QUI DORT
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CASABLANCA (1942) Dir: Michael Curtiz. Writer: Jules J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein. Rick Blaine: Humphrey Bogart, Ilsa Lund: Ingrid Bergman, Victor Laszlo: Paul Henreid, Captain Renault: Claude Rains, Major Strasser: Conrad Veidt, Sam: Dooley Wilson, Carl: S. Z. Sakall, Signor Ferrari: Sydney Greenstreet, Ugarte: Peter Lorre, Yvonne: Madeleine Lebeau, Emil the Croupier: Marcel Dalio, The Pickpocket: Curt Bois. American expatriate, Rick Blaine runs a bar in Casablanca, the capitol of French Moroco during World War 2. When his foirmer lover, Ilsa Lund, walks into his bar, accompanied by her husband Victor Laszlo, the leader of the European anti-Nazi movement. They seek to escape to the United States and are after letters of transit stolen by Ugarte. Rick has to decide whether to help them or not, while German Major Strasser tries to prevent the escape, and Vichy French police captain Renault, plays both sides.
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THE CHEAT (1915) Dir: Cecil B. DeMille. Writer: Hector Turnbull, Jeanie Macpherson. Edith Hardy: Fannie Ward, Hishuru Tori: Sessue Hayakawa, Richard Hardy: Jack Dean, Jones: James Neill, Tori's Valet: Yatake Abe. When socialite Edith Hardy, worried that her stockbroker husband Richard may loose their money in a deal, she impulsively embezzles $10,000 from a charity committee that she chairs so that she can make her own investment. When she loses the money, she turns to Burmese ivory king, Hishuru Tori. He gives her the money to cover up her theft, but he also brands her to symbolise his ownership of Edith. When Jack finds out he confronts Tori and in the struggle that follows, he shoots Tori. Tori survives and charges Richard with attempted murder. To avoid the scandal, Richard refuses to implicate Edith.
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CHESS FEVER (1925) Dir: Vsevolod Pudovkin. Writer: Nikolai Shpikovsky. The Hero: Vladimir Fogel, His Fiancee: Natalya Glan. A young man's obsession with chess threatens his relationship with his chess hating fiancee.
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CHOOSE ME (1984) Dir: Alan Rudolph. Writer: Alan Rudolph. Mickey: Keith Carradine, Eve: Lesley Ann Warren, Dr. Nancy Love/Ann: Genevieve Bujold, Zack Antoine: Patrick Bauchou, Pearl Antoine: Rae Dawn Chong. Mickey can either not tell the truth, or he's incapable of lying. He wanders away from a mental institution and ends up at Eve's a bar in Los Angeles. He meets and falls for Eve, and Pearl the wife of a gangster. Meanwhile Eve calls talk radio shrink, Dr. Nancy Love, who has emotional problems of her own. Using the name Ann, she ends up as Eve's house mate. Despite all of the romantic complications, Mickey and Eve end up together.
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A CORNER IN WHEAT (1909) Dir: D.W. Griffith. Writer: Griffith, based on a novel by Frank Norris. The Wheat King: Frank Powell, The Wheat King's Wife: Grace Henderson, A Farmer: James Kirkwood, The Farmer's Wife: Linda Arvidson. A tycoon decides to corner the world's wheat market, doubles the price of bread, causes hunger and poverty.
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THE CRAZY RAY see PARIS QUI DORT
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JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961) Dir: Stanley Kramer. Writer: Abby Mann. Chief Judge Dan Haywood: Spencer Tracy, Hans Rolfe: Maximilian Schell, Dr. Ernst Jannings, Col. Tad Lawson: Richard Widmark, Frau Bertholt: Marlene Dietrich, Rudolph Petersen: Montgomery Clift, Emil Hahn: Werner Klemperer, Captain Harrison Byers: William Shatner. In post World War 2 Germany, Dan Haywood, a rural Maine Judge is sent to oversee war crimes trails of four Nazi judges. Prosecutor Col. Lawson is opposed by German lawyer, Hans Rolfe
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JULES AND JIM (1962) Dir: Francois Truffaut. Writer: Francois Truffaut. Catherine: Jeanne Moreau, Jules: Oskar Werner, Jim: Henri Serre, Gilberte: Vanna Urbino, Albert: Boris Bassiak, Therese: Marie Dubois, Little Sabine: Sabine Haudepin. Jules, an Austrian, and Jim, a Frenchman met while living the Bohemian life in pre World War 1 Paris. They both fall in Love with Catherine. Jules and Catherine marry just before the start of the war and live in Austria. After the war, Jules and Jim reunite, and their lives are complicated by their involvement with Catherine.
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JULES AND JIM (1962) Dir: Francois Truffaut. Writer: Francois Truffaut. Catherine: Jeanne Moreau, Jules: Oskar Werner, Jim: Henri Serre, Gilberte: Vanna Urbino, Albert: Boris Bassiak, Therese: Marie Dubois, Little Sabine: Sabine Haudepin. Jules, an Austrian, and Jim, a Frenchman met while living the Bohemian life in pre World War 1 Paris. They both fall in Love with Catherine. Jules and Catherine marry just before the start of the war and live in Austria. After the war, Jules and Jim reunite, and their lives are complicated by their involvement with Catherine.
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THE LADY VANISHES (1938) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Writer: Sidney Gilliat. Iris Henderson: Margaret Lockwood, Gilbert: Michael Redgrave, Dr. Hartz: Paul Lukas, Miss Froy: May Whitty, Mr. Todhunter: Cecil Parker, "Mrs." Todhunter: Linden Travers, Caldicott: Naunton Wayne, Charters: Basil Radford, The Nun: Catherine Lacey. While travelling on a train, in central Europe, wealthy young woman, Iris Henderson's friend Miss Froy, an elderly governess, seemingly, vanishes. With the help of fellow Englishman, Gilbert, she searches the train for Miss Froy, only to discover a conspiracy to cover up Miss Froy's disappearance. Miss Froy is actually a British secret agent, returning to England with vital information.
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THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971) Dir: Peter Bogdanovich. Writer: Larry McMurtry, Peter Bogdanovich. Sonny Crawford: Sam Bottoms, Duane Jackson: Jeff Bridges, Jacy Farrow: Cybill Shepherd, Sam the Lion: Ben Johnson, Ruth Popper: Cloris Leachman, Lois Farrow: Ellen Burstyn, Billy: Sam Bottoms, Genevieve: Eileen Brennan, Lester Marlow: Randy Quaid, Abilene: Clu Gulager. Sonny and Duane, two high school friends in a small town in Texas become adults while chasing after local beauty, Jacy Farrow.
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LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (1945) Dir: John M. Stahl. Writers: Jo Swerling, Ben Ames Williams (novel). Ellen Berent Harland: Gene Tierney, Richard Harland: Cornel Wilde, Ruth Berent: Jeannne Crain, Russell Quinton: Vincent Price, Mrs. Berent: Mary Philips, Glen Robie: Ray Collins, Danny Harland: Darryl Hickman. Writer Richard Harland meets beautiful Ellen Berent on a train, not realizing that they are both going to visit lawyer Glen Robie. Swept off his feet by Ellen, Richard marries her after a very short engagement. After their marriage, an extreme jealousy manifests itself in Ellen. She stages an accidental drowning of Richard's brother Danny, who has polio. She throws herself down a flight of steps to force a miscarriage. All so that she can have Richard all to herself. When she sees that her husband is falling in love with her sister, Ruth, she commits suicide leaving false evidence that points to murder committed by Ruth. Ruth is put on trail for her life, prosecuted by D.A. Russell Quinton, Ellen's former fiance. Richard perjures himself on the stand to free his innocent sister-in-law, and does a year in prison for his crime. After serving his term, Richard and Ruth are reunited.
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LIFEBOAT (1944) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Writer: John Steinbeck, Jo Swerling. Constance Porter: Tallulah Bankhead, Gus Smith: William Bendix, Willy: Walter Slezak, Alice MacKenzie: Mary Anderson, John Kovac: John Hodiak, Charles S. Rittenhouse: Henry Hull, Stanley "Sparks" Garett, Joe Spencer: Canada Lee. A freighter is sunk by a German U-boat, but before it goes down, the deck gun crew sinks the submarine. A group of survivors from the freighter pull Willy, one of the submarine's officer out of the sea. He slowly rises to a position of dominance in the lifeboat.
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THE LOVE OF JEANNE NEY (1927) Dir: G.W. Pabst. Writer: Rudolf Leonhardt, Ladislaus Vajda. Jeanne Ney: Edith Jehanne, Andreas Labov: Uno Henning, Khalibiev: Fritz Rasp, Gabrielle: Brigette Helm, Raymond Ney: Adolf E. Licho, Andre Ney: Eugene Jensen. Andre Ney, a French political agent and his daughter Jeanne are living in the Crimea during the Russian revolution. Khalibiev, a con man, sells phony lists of Bolshevik agents to Andre Ney. When the reds confront Andre, he tires to shoot it out, and is killed. One of the Bolsheviks involved is Andreas Labov, Jeanne's lover. Jeanne Ney is sent back to Paris and seeks work from her uncle, Raymond Ney who owns a detective agency. Labov is sent to France to work as an organizer among French communists, where he makes contact with Jeanne. Khalibiev also goes to Paris to try and con Raymond Ney. He seduces Raymond's blind daughter Gabrielle. His plan is to marry her, get her money and then to murder her. When the detective agency finds a lost diamond, Khalibiev changes his plans, murders Raymond and steals the jewell. He also plants evidence that implicates Labov. Jeanne and Labov were together at a hotel when the murder was committed. As they leave the hotel, they see Khalibiev. She finds Khalibiev and asks him to provide evidence that they were together that night, unaware that Khalibiev is the actual killer.
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THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971) Dir: Peter Bogdanovich. Writer: Larry McMurtry, Peter Bogdanovich. Sonny Crawford: Sam Bottoms, Duane Jackson: Jeff Bridges, Jacy Farrow: Cybill Shepherd, Sam the Lion: Ben Johnson, Ruth Popper: Cloris Leachman, Lois Farrow: Ellen Burstyn, Billy: Sam Bottoms, Genevieve: Eileen Brennan, Lester Marlow: Randy Quaid, Abilene: Clu Gulager. Sonny and Duane, two high school friends in a small town in Texas become adults while chasing after local beauty, Jacy Farrow.
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LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (1945) Dir: John M. Stahl. Writers: Jo Swerling, Ben Ames Williams (novel). Ellen Berent Harland: Gene Tierney, Richard Harland: Cornel Wilde, Ruth Berent: Jeannne Crain, Russell Quinton: Vincent Price, Mrs. Berent: Mary Philips, Glen Robie: Ray Collins, Danny Harland: Darryl Hickman. Writer Richard Harland meets beautiful Ellen Berent on a train, not realizing that they are both going to visit lawyer Glen Robie. Swept off his feet by Ellen, Richard marries her after a very short engagement. After their marriage, an extreme jealousy manifests itself in Ellen. She stages an accidental drowning of Richard's brother Danny, who has polio. She throws herself down a flight of steps to force a miscarriage. All so that she can have Richard all to herself. When she sees that her husband is falling in love with her sister, Ruth, she commits suicide leaving false evidence that points to murder committed by Ruth. Ruth is put on trail for her life, prosecuted by D.A. Russell Quinton, Ellen's former fiance. Richard perjures himself on the stand to free his innocent sister-in-law, and does a year in prison for his crime. After serving his term, Richard and Ruth are reunited.
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LIFEBOAT (1944) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Writer: John Steinbeck, Jo Swerling. Constance Porter: Tallulah Bankhead, Gus Smith: William Bendix, Willy: Walter Slezak, Alice MacKenzie: Mary Anderson, John Kovac: John Hodiak, Charles S. Rittenhouse: Henry Hull, Stanley "Sparks" Garett, Joe Spencer: Canada Lee. A freighter is sunk by a German U-boat, but before it goes down, the deck gun crew sinks the submarine. A group of survivors from the freighter pull Willy, one of the submarine's officer out of the sea. He slowly rises to a position of dominance in the lifeboat.
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THE LOVE OF JEANNE NEY (1927) Dir: G.W. Pabst. Writer: Rudolf Leonhardt, Ladislaus Vajda. Jeanne Ney: Edith Jehanne, Andreas Labov: Uno Henning, Khalibiev: Fritz Rasp, Gabrielle: Brigette Helm, Raymond Ney: Adolf E. Licho, Andre Ney: Eugene Jensen. Andre Ney, a French political agent and his daughter Jeanne are living in the Crimea during the Russian revolution. Khalibiev, a con man, sells phony lists of Bolshevik agents to Andre Ney. When the reds confront Andre, he tires to shoot it out, and is killed. One of the Bolsheviks involved is Andreas Labov, Jeanne's lover. Jeanne Ney is sent back to Paris and seeks work from her uncle, Raymond Ney who owns a detective agency. Labov is sent to France to work as an organizer among French communists, where he makes contact with Jeanne. Khalibiev also goes to Paris to try and con Raymond Ney. He seduces Raymond's blind daughter Gabrielle. His plan is to marry her, get her money and then to murder her. When the detective agency finds a lost diamond, Khalibiev changes his plans, murders Raymond and steals the jewell. He also plants evidence that implicates Labov. Jeanne and Labov were together at a hotel when the murder was committed. As they leave the hotel, they see Khalibiev. She finds Khalibiev and asks him to provide evidence that they were together that night, unaware that Khalibiev is the actual killer.
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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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UP IN THE AIR (2009) Dir: Jason Reitman. Writer: Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner. Ryan Bingham: George Clooney, Alex Goran: Vera Farmiga, Natalie Keener: Anna Kendrick, Craig Gregory: Jason Bateman, Julie Bingham: Melanie Lynsky, Bob: J.K. Simmons. Ryan Bingham travels the country firing people for companies that don't want to deal with job themselves. He meets Alex Goran, another person who lives on the road just as his own employer starts plans to offer it's services on-line. Forced to take Natalie Keener, the person behind on-line operations, he trains her in how to fire people. Falling in love with Alex, something rare for Ryan who prefers the anonymity of his life, he tries to make a connection, only to find that, despite their sexual relationship, she's married.
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THE WAGES OF FEAR (1953) Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot. Writer: Henri-Georges Clouzot. Mario: Yves Montand, Jo: Charles Vanel, Luigi: Folco Lulli, Bimba: Peter van Eyck, Linda: Vera Clouzot, Bill O'Brien: William Tubbs, Smerloff: Jo Dest. When an oil well blows up and catches fire at a remote drilling sight, the company hires four desperate men to deliver loads of nitro glycerin, driving over rutted and dangerous roads to the drill sight, to snuff out the fire with explosions.
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THE WHITE DISEASE, see BILA NEMOC
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THE WHITE HELL OF PITZ PALU (1929) Dir: Arnold Fanck, G.W. Pabst. Writers: Fanck, Ladislaus Vajda. Dr. Johannes Krafft: Gustav Diessl, Maria Maioni: Leni Riefenstahl, Hans Brandt: Ernst Peterson, Maria Krafft: Mizzi Gotzel, Christian Klucker: Otto Spring, and Ernst Udet as himself. Dr. Krafft, climbs Pitz Palu, a mountain in the Alps on his honeymoon. His wife falls in a crevasse and is killed. Roaming the mountain, searching for her body, he meets another couple, Maria and Hans. They accompany him up the mountain, but they become stranded in a storm. The local guides, aided by the pilot, Ernst Udet mount a rescue. Dr. Krafft sacrifices his life to save the couple. For a more detailed review, go to my political blog, http://www.thenewcommonsense-wjy.blogspot.com/ and go to my post of 7/1/09.
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THE WILD CHILD (1970) Dir: Francois Truffaut. Writer: Francois Truffaut, Jean Grault. Victor, the Wild Child: Jean-Pierre Cargol, Dr. Jean Itard: Francois Truffaut, Madame Guerin: Francoise Seigner. In 1798, a feral child, who can't read, write, speak or walk upright, is found in a French forest. Dr. Jean Itard, a doctor at the French institute for the deaf, attempts to teach the boy, whom he names Victor, to read, write and speak.
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WINGS OF DESIRE (1987) Dir: Wim Wenders. Writers: Peter Handke, Richard Reitinger. Damiel: Bruno Ganz, Marion: Solveig Dommatin, Cassiel: Otto Sander, Homer: Curt Bois, The Film Star: Peter Falk. Two angels over Berlin, observing but never interfering. One falls in love and longs for an earthly life and becomes human. Peter Falk, playing himself, is a former angel who advises Damiel on mortal life. Homer, an aging poet and storyteller reminisces about his long life.
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WOMAN IN THE MOON (1929) Dir: Fritz Lang. Writer: Thea von Harbou, Fritz Lang. Wolf Helius: Willy Fritsch, The Man Who Calls Himself Walter Turner: Fritz Rasp, Astronomy Student Freide Velten: Gerda Maurus, Engineer Hans Windegger; Gustav von Wangenheim, Professor Georg Manfeldt: Klaus Pohl, Gustav: Gustl Gsettenhaus. Though a laughing stock in the scientific community because of his theory that the mountains of the Moon are made of gold, Professor Manfeldt has inspired Wolf Helius to build a multi-stage rocket to fly to the Moon. When the five richest people on Earth are convinced that the professor's theories are true, they send their operative, the man who calls himself Walter Turner to threaten Helius' project if he isn't included in the mission. Helius, Professor Manfeldt, engineer Hans Windegger, Windegger's fiance, the astronomy student, Freide Velten, Turner, and a small boy and stow-away, Gustav launch themselves to the Moon. After landing, Manfeldt is killed when he is chased by Turner. Turner tries to take over the rocket, and when he gets into a gun battle with Windegger, he is killed, and the oxygen supply for the return trip is damaged. Wolf Helius stays on the Moon so that the others can return to Earth for help. Freide, who has fallen in love with Helius also stays.
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THE WHITE DISEASE, see BILA NEMOC
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THE WHITE HELL OF PITZ PALU (1929) Dir: Arnold Fanck, G.W. Pabst. Writers: Fanck, Ladislaus Vajda. Dr. Johannes Krafft: Gustav Diessl, Maria Maioni: Leni Riefenstahl, Hans Brandt: Ernst Peterson, Maria Krafft: Mizzi Gotzel, Christian Klucker: Otto Spring, and Ernst Udet as himself. Dr. Krafft, climbs Pitz Palu, a mountain in the Alps on his honeymoon. His wife falls in a crevasse and is killed. Roaming the mountain, searching for her body, he meets another couple, Maria and Hans. They accompany him up the mountain, but they become stranded in a storm. The local guides, aided by the pilot, Ernst Udet mount a rescue. Dr. Krafft sacrifices his life to save the couple. For a more detailed review, go to my political blog, http://www.thenewcommonsense-wjy.blogspot.com/ and go to my post of 7/1/09.
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THE WILD CHILD (1970) Dir: Francois Truffaut. Writer: Francois Truffaut, Jean Grault. Victor, the Wild Child: Jean-Pierre Cargol, Dr. Jean Itard: Francois Truffaut, Madame Guerin: Francoise Seigner. In 1798, a feral child, who can't read, write, speak or walk upright, is found in a French forest. Dr. Jean Itard, a doctor at the French institute for the deaf, attempts to teach the boy, whom he names Victor, to read, write and speak.
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WINGS OF DESIRE (1987) Dir: Wim Wenders. Writers: Peter Handke, Richard Reitinger. Damiel: Bruno Ganz, Marion: Solveig Dommatin, Cassiel: Otto Sander, Homer: Curt Bois, The Film Star: Peter Falk. Two angels over Berlin, observing but never interfering. One falls in love and longs for an earthly life and becomes human. Peter Falk, playing himself, is a former angel who advises Damiel on mortal life. Homer, an aging poet and storyteller reminisces about his long life.
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WOMAN IN THE MOON (1929) Dir: Fritz Lang. Writer: Thea von Harbou, Fritz Lang. Wolf Helius: Willy Fritsch, The Man Who Calls Himself Walter Turner: Fritz Rasp, Astronomy Student Freide Velten: Gerda Maurus, Engineer Hans Windegger; Gustav von Wangenheim, Professor Georg Manfeldt: Klaus Pohl, Gustav: Gustl Gsettenhaus. Though a laughing stock in the scientific community because of his theory that the mountains of the Moon are made of gold, Professor Manfeldt has inspired Wolf Helius to build a multi-stage rocket to fly to the Moon. When the five richest people on Earth are convinced that the professor's theories are true, they send their operative, the man who calls himself Walter Turner to threaten Helius' project if he isn't included in the mission. Helius, Professor Manfeldt, engineer Hans Windegger, Windegger's fiance, the astronomy student, Freide Velten, Turner, and a small boy and stow-away, Gustav launch themselves to the Moon. After landing, Manfeldt is killed when he is chased by Turner. Turner tries to take over the rocket, and when he gets into a gun battle with Windegger, he is killed, and the oxygen supply for the return trip is damaged. Wolf Helius stays on the Moon so that the others can return to Earth for help. Freide, who has fallen in love with Helius also stays.
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