ACROSS THE PACIFIC (1942) Dir: John Houston. Writer: Richard Macauley. Rick Leland: Humphrey Bogart, Alberta Marlow: Mary Astor, Dr. Lorenz: Sydney Greenstreet, Joe Totsuiko: Victor Sen Young, Sam Wing On: Lee Tung Foo, Dan Morton: Monte Blue. Army officer Rick Leland is court marshaled and dismissed from the army. After trying to enlist in the Canadian army, he boards a Japanese steamer for China, via the Panama Canal. On board he meets Alberta Marlow and Dr. Lorenz. Alberta claims to be from Medicine Hat and Dr. Lorenz claims to be a college professor from the Philippines. Alberta is actually headed for a Panamanian plantation in search of her alcoholic father, Dan Morton. Dr. Lorenz is actually a Japanese agent headed for the same plantation where he plans on launching a surprise attack on the Panama Canal on Dec. 7, 1941. Rick Leland is actually working for military intelligence and has been sent to break up the Japanese spy ring.
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AELITA; THE QUEEN OF MARS (1924) Dir: Yakov Protozanov. Writers: Aleksei Fajko, Fyodor Otsep. Aelita Queen of Mars: Yuliya Solntseva, Engineers Los and Spiridinov: Nikolai Tsereteli, Natasha Los: Vera Kiundzhi, Ihoshka, Maidservant of Queen Aelita: Aleksandra Peregonets, Kratsov, an Amateur Detective: Igor Ityinsky, Gusev an Ex-Soldier: Nikolai Batalov, Ehrlich a Man of the Old Order: Pavel Pol. Engineers Los and Spiridonov dream of building a space ship to visit Mars, but there is no chance for them to realize their dreams in the early days of the Soviet Union. When Ehrlich, a man of the old order, and his wife, move into the apartment building that is home to engineer Los and his wife, Natasha, Natasha is tempted by Ehrlich into anti-Soviet behavior. Ehrlich, a friend of Spiridonov from before the revolution, steals from Spiridonov and gets rid of him. Los mistakes his wife's interest in Ehrlich as being romantic in nature and shoots her. Pursued by Kratsov, an amateur who wishes to be a detective for the police, and with the help of Gusev, an ex-soldier, Los builds his space ship and heads to Mars. With him are Gusev, and Kratsov, who has stowed away. On arrival on Mars, they discover that Mars is ruled by a king who mistreats the proletariat. Aelita who wishes to take over, with the help of her maidservant, and Los organizes a revolution of the workers. What Los doesn't realize, is that Aelita wishes to replace King Tuskub with her own autocratic rule, and the workers revolution fails. But it's all Los' delirium brought on by the guilt of shooting his wife. But Natasha Los is not dead, only slightly wounded. Returning to his wife, Los destroys all of his space ship designs, and rededicates his life to building the Soviet state.
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ALRAUNE aka MANDRAKE (1928) Dir: Henrik Galeen. Writers: Henrik Galeen, (novel) Hanns Heinz Ewers. Alruane ten Brinken: Brigette Helm, Prof. Jakob ten Brinken: Paul Wegener, Franz Braun: Ivan Petrovich, The Viscomte: John Loder. Prof. ten Brinken decides to solve the nature vs nurture argument by inseminating a prostitute with the semen of a condemned prisoner and then raising her as his own. When things turn bad, the Prof. takes his experiment away to avoid shame. Things go very, very wrong for all concerned. To read a more detailed review, go to www.thenewcommonsense-wjy.blogspot.com/2009/10/alraune-silent-movie-dvd-of-week.html
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THE AMERICAN (2010) Dir: Anton Corbijn. Writer: Rowan Joffe. Jack: George Clooney, Ingrid: Irina Bjorklund, Father Benedetto: Paolo Bonacelli, Mathilde: Thekla Reuten, Pavel: Johan Leysen, Clara: Violante Placido. An American assassin and maker of custom sniper rifles, on the run from killers, goes to Italy for one last job.
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ARRIVAL OF A TRAIN AT LA CIOTAT (1896) Dir: Louis Lumiere. A train arrives at a French railroad station.
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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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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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PANDORA'S BOX (1929) Dir: G. W. Pabst. Writer: Frank Wedekind (play) Ladislaus Vajda. Lulu: Louise Brooks, Dr. Ludwig Schon: Fritz Kortner, Alwa Schon: Francis Lederer, Schigolch: Carl Goetz, Countess Anna Geschwitz: Alice Roberts, Rodrigo Quast: Krafft-Raschig, Charlotte Marie Adelaide von Zarnikow: Daisy D'Ora, Jack the Ripper: Gustav Diessl. Lulu, an amoral but somewhat naive woman is the mistress of Dr. Schon. When she breaks up his upcoming marriage to Charlotte, he decides to marry Lulu. Feeling a fool and shamed he tries to force Lulu to kill herself, but in the struggle, he is killed himself. Lulu is found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to prison but she escapes with the help of Schigolch, her father, and fellow variety preform er, Rodrigo. Lulu convinces Dr. Schon's son, Alwa to run away with her, Schigolch and Rodrigo. Countess Geschwitz, a lesbian in love with Lulu helps them. As time passes, the three fugitives lives descend into poverty and an exile in London. Lulu turns to prostitution and picks up Jack the Ripper.
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PARIS QUI DORT aka THE CRAZY RAY (1925) Dir: Rene Clair. Writer: Rene Clair. Albert: Henri Rollan, The Scientist: Charles Martinelli, The Scientist's Niece: Myla Seller, The Pilot: Albert Prejean. When a plane lands in Paris, the passengers find that everyone in Paris is frozen in place. They take up residence in the city, including the Eiffel Tower, but soon become bored. They investigate and discover that a scientist has invented a ray that freezes all life. The plane was unaffected because it was too high in the air. The effects of the ray is reversed and everything returns to normal.
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PICCADILLY (1929) Dir: E. A. Dupont. Writer: Arnold Bennett. Shosho: Anna May Wong, Valentine Wilmot: Jameson Thomas, Mabel Greenfield: Gilda Gray, Jim: King Hou Chang, Victor Smiles; Cyril Ritchard, A Nightclub Diner: Charles Laughton. When dance team Mabel and Vic break up over Mabel's involvement with Piccadilly Club owner Valentine Wilmot, business falls off at the club. Wilmot hires dish washer, Shosho to do a Chinese dance for his club. Wilmot begins an affair with Shosho. Shosho is murdered and Wilmot is accused. The other suspects are Mabel and Jim, Shosho's secret lover.
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PLAY DIRTY (1968) Dir: Andre de Toth. Writer: Melvyn Bragg, Lotte Colin. Capt. Douglas: Michael Caine, Capt. Cyril Leech: Nigel Davenport, Col. Masters: Nigel Green, Brig. Blore: Harry Andrews, Hassan: Moshen Ben Abdallah, Assine: Mohamed Kouka. Captain Douglas, a petroleum engineer in civilian life, is assigned by British general, Brig. Blore to lead a group of criminals in a commando raid to destroy a German fuel dump. Disguised, at first, as Italian troops, and then Germans, they head off across the Sahara desert on their mission.
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THE POLICEMEN'S LITTLE RUN (1907) Dir: Ferdinand Zecca. Writer: Andre Heuze. A policeman sees a dog steal a leg of mutton from a butcher's shop. Soon joined by other policemen, he chases the dog across the city, through buildings, and up the side of a building and onto the roof. Eventually the police corner the dog in his doghouse. The dog turns on the police and chases them into their station house.
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PSYCHO (1960) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Writer: Joseph Stefano. Norman Bates: Anthony Perkins, Marion Crane: Janet Leigh, Sam Loomis: John Gavin, Vera Miles: Lila Crane, Milton Arbogast: Martin Balsam, Deputy Sheriff Al Chambers: John McIntire. When Marion Crane, a secretary from Phoenix, Arizona steals from her employer, she runs to her boyfriend, Sam Loomis, in California. On the way to him, she books a room in The Bates Motel, owned by psychopath, serial killer, Norman Bates. Marion's sister Lila teams up with Sam to search for the missing Marion Crane.
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PARIS QUI DORT aka THE CRAZY RAY (1925) Dir: Rene Clair. Writer: Rene Clair. Albert: Henri Rollan, The Scientist: Charles Martinelli, The Scientist's Niece: Myla Seller, The Pilot: Albert Prejean. When a plane lands in Paris, the passengers find that everyone in Paris is frozen in place. They take up residence in the city, including the Eiffel Tower, but soon become bored. They investigate and discover that a scientist has invented a ray that freezes all life. The plane was unaffected because it was too high in the air. The effects of the ray is reversed and everything returns to normal.
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PICCADILLY (1929) Dir: E. A. Dupont. Writer: Arnold Bennett. Shosho: Anna May Wong, Valentine Wilmot: Jameson Thomas, Mabel Greenfield: Gilda Gray, Jim: King Hou Chang, Victor Smiles; Cyril Ritchard, A Nightclub Diner: Charles Laughton. When dance team Mabel and Vic break up over Mabel's involvement with Piccadilly Club owner Valentine Wilmot, business falls off at the club. Wilmot hires dish washer, Shosho to do a Chinese dance for his club. Wilmot begins an affair with Shosho. Shosho is murdered and Wilmot is accused. The other suspects are Mabel and Jim, Shosho's secret lover.
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PLAY DIRTY (1968) Dir: Andre de Toth. Writer: Melvyn Bragg, Lotte Colin. Capt. Douglas: Michael Caine, Capt. Cyril Leech: Nigel Davenport, Col. Masters: Nigel Green, Brig. Blore: Harry Andrews, Hassan: Moshen Ben Abdallah, Assine: Mohamed Kouka. Captain Douglas, a petroleum engineer in civilian life, is assigned by British general, Brig. Blore to lead a group of criminals in a commando raid to destroy a German fuel dump. Disguised, at first, as Italian troops, and then Germans, they head off across the Sahara desert on their mission.
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THE POLICEMEN'S LITTLE RUN (1907) Dir: Ferdinand Zecca. Writer: Andre Heuze. A policeman sees a dog steal a leg of mutton from a butcher's shop. Soon joined by other policemen, he chases the dog across the city, through buildings, and up the side of a building and onto the roof. Eventually the police corner the dog in his doghouse. The dog turns on the police and chases them into their station house.
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PSYCHO (1960) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Writer: Joseph Stefano. Norman Bates: Anthony Perkins, Marion Crane: Janet Leigh, Sam Loomis: John Gavin, Vera Miles: Lila Crane, Milton Arbogast: Martin Balsam, Deputy Sheriff Al Chambers: John McIntire. When Marion Crane, a secretary from Phoenix, Arizona steals from her employer, she runs to her boyfriend, Sam Loomis, in California. On the way to him, she books a room in The Bates Motel, owned by psychopath, serial killer, Norman Bates. Marion's sister Lila teams up with Sam to search for the missing Marion Crane.
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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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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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