THE EAGLE (1925) Dir: Clarence Brown. Writer: George Marion, Jr. Lt. Vladimir Dubrovsky/The Black Eagle/Marcel Le Blanc: Rudolph Valentino, Czarina Catherine II: Louise Dresser, Mascha Troekouroff: Vilma Banky, Kyrilla Troekouroff: James Marcus, Capt. Kuschka: Albert Conti. When Lt. Dubrovsky of Czarina Catherine II's Imperial Guard refuses her romantic advances, he is forced to flee for his life, only to discover that his father's estate has been stolen by Kyrilla Troekouroff with the help of a corrupt judge. Under the guise of The Black Eagle, Dubrovsky becomes a Robin Hood type bandit, also swearing revenge on Kyrilla. Dubrovsky's men seize Kyrilla's daughter Mascha, but Dubrovsky is in love with her and lets her go. When Dubrovsky meets Marcel Le Blanc, hired as a French tutor by Kyrilla for Mascha, Dubrovsky takes his place to be near both Troekuoroffs. He is eventually found out, but is arrested by the Czarina's forces, he is condemned to death.
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EASY RIDER (1969) Dir: Dennis Hopper. Writer: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern. Wyatt: Peter Fonda, Billy: Dennis Hopper, The Connection: Phil Spector, George Hanson: Jack Nicholson, Karen: Karen Black. Wyatt and Billy, two bikers make a big score on a drug sale and hit the road from Los Angeles to New Orleans. Along the way they visit communes, drop acid, and pick up failed, small town southern lawyer, George Hanson.
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EIGHT MEN OUT (1988) Dir: John Sayles. Writer: John Sayles. Buck Weaver: John Cusack, Eddie Cicotte: David Strathairn, Charles Comiskey: Clifton James, Arnold Rothstein: Michael Lerner, Sleepy Bill Burns: Christopher Lloyd, Chick Gandil: Michael Rooker, Shoeless Joe Jackson: D. B. Sweeney, Hap Felsch: Charlie Sheen, Swede Risberg: Don Harvey, Kid Gleason: John Mahoney, Lefty Williams: James Read, Ring Lardner: John Sayles, Hugh Fullerton: Studs Terkel, Eddie Collins: Bill Irwin, Sport Sullivan: Kevin Tighe, Judge Kenesaw Landis: John Anderson. The story of the 1919 Black Sox scandal, when some members of the Chicago White Sox threw the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds.
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EMPLOYEES LEAVING THE LUMIERE FACTORY (1895) Dir:Louis Lumiere. Employees leave work at the Lumiere Brothers factory.
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THE END OF VIOLENCE (1996) Dir: Wim Wenders. Writer: Nicholas Klein. Mike Max: Bill Pullman, Paige Stockard: Andie MacDowell, Ray Bering: Gabriel Byrne, Doc Block: Loren Dean, Cat: Traci Lind, Brice Phelps: Daniel Benzali, Louis Bering: Sam Fuller. When scientist Ray Bering, working on a top secret plan to provide electronic surveillance for the whole United States has second thoughts, he emails the FBI file to movie producer, Mike Max. Max becomes a target of government assassins, and goes into hiding. Over the following months he investigates what's happening in his life since going underground.
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
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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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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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SABOTEUR (1942) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Writer: Peter Viertel, Joan Harrison, Dorothy Parker. Barry Kane: Robert Cummings, Patricia Martin: Priscilla Lane, Charles Tobin: Otto Kruger, Freeman: Alan Baxter, Frank Fry: Norman Lloyd, Mrs. Sutton: Alma Kruger, Phillip Martin: Vaughan Glazer. When defense worker Barry Kane bumps into Frank Fry, Fry drops an envelope with his name and the address of a ranch in California. When a fire at the plant turns out to be sabotage, Kane is unjustly accused. Kane realizes that Fry is the actual saboteur and tries to bring him to justice. He goes to the ranch, owned by wealthy Charles Tobin. Tobin is a Nazi spy. Kane follows the trail to Hoover Dam, then New York City. Caught at the mansion of wealthy Mrs. Sutton, also a Nazi spy, he eventually convinces the FBI of his innocence and tracks Fry to the Statue of Liberty where Kane and Fry confront each other on the statue's torch.
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THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD (2003) Dir: Guy Madden. Writer: Kazuo Ishiguro (story) George Toles (screenplay) Chester Kent: Mark McKinney, Lady Helen Port-Huntley: Isabella Rossellini, Fyodor Kent: David Fox, Narcissa: Maria de Medeiros, Roderick Kent AKA Gravillo the Great: Ross McMillan. When double amputee, 1930's, Winnipeg beer baroness, Lady Port-Huntley announces a contest for the saddest music in the world, entrants from all over the world come to Canada to compete. Among the contestants are Fyodor Kent representing Canada, his sons, Chester representing the United States, and Roderick AKA Gravillo the Great representing Serbia. Both Chester and Fyodor were once romantically involved with Lady Port-Huntley. Years earlier,Chester was driving when an accident occurred that resulted in injuries to Lady Port-Huntley's legs. Fyoder, a doctor, did the amputations. Chester is now involved with Roderick's missing ex wife, Narcissa.
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SECRET AGENT (1936) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Writer: Campbell Dixon. Ashenden: John Gielgud, The General: Peter Lorre, Elsa: Madeline Carroll, Marvin: Robert Young, Caypor: Percy Marmont, Mrs. Caypor: Florence Kahn, Lilli: Lilli Palmer, "R": Charles Carson. During World War 1, English secret agent, Ashenden is sent to Switzerland to hunt down a German agent. He, his agent, pretend wife, and the General, a hired killer, at first identify and kill Caypor, who turns out to be the wrong man. They then identify Marvin, an American as the true agent and follow him on a train into enemy territory.
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SECRETS OF A SOUL (1926) Dir: G.W. Pabst. Writer: Karl Abraham, Hans Neumann, Colin Ross, Hanns Sachs. Martin Fellman: Werner Krauss, The Wife: Ruth Weyher, Cousin Erich: Jack Trevor, Dr. Orth: Pavel Pavlov, Fellman's Assistant: Hertha von Walther. When Martin Fellman has a strange dream full of violent and sexual imagery, he has a nervous breakdown. He seeks help from psychiatrist Dr. Orth. By analyzing Fellman's dream, a cure is achieved.
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SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON (1949) Dir: John Ford. Writer: Frank S. Nugent, Laurence Stallings. Capt. Nathan Brittles: John Wayne, Olivia Dandridge: Joanne Dru, Lt. Flint Cohill: John Agar, Sgt. Tyree: Ben Johnson, 2nd Lt. Ross Pennell: Harry Carey, Jr., Top Sgt. Quincannon: Victor McLaglen, Abby Allshard: Mildred Natwick, Major Mac Allshard: George O'Brien, Chief Red Shirt: Noble Johnson, Chief Pony That Walks: Chief John Big Tree. Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, leads one last mission to deliver two women, Abby Allshard and Olivia Dandridge to a stagecoach stop, while avoiding warring Indians. Meanwhile, two junior officers, Lts. Cohill and Pennell, quarrel over Olivia Dandridge.
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SMART ALEC (1951) Dir. & Writer: Unknown. The girl: Candy Barr. A woman is picked up at a hotel and goes back to the mans room and has sex. When she refuses to perform oral sex, a friend is called on the phone to come over for a threesome.
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THE SOCIAL NETWORK (2010) Dir: David Fincher. Writer: Aaron Sorkin. Mark Zuckerberg: Jessie Eisenberg, Eduardo Saverin: Andrew Garfield, Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss: Armie Hammer, Sean Parker: Justin Timberlake, Erica Albright: Rooney Mara. The story of the inventing, founding of Facebook, and the law suits that resulted.
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SOMETHING NEW (1920) Dir: Nell Shipman, Bert Von Tuyle. Writer: Nell Shipman, Bert Von Tuyle. A Lady Writer: Nell Shipman, Bill Baxter: Bert Von Tuyle, Sid Bickley: L.M. Wells, Agrilla Gorgez: Merrill McCormick. A lady writer seeking inspiration sees a man with a Maxwell Roadster challenge a cowboy on horseback to a cross country race. She then imagines herself in Mexico as a lady writer visiting a mine co-owned by her father in search of inspiration. She's kidnapped by bandit gang leader, Agrilla Gorgez. When Bill Baxter, a mining engineer, is unable to find a horse to ride to the rescue, he goes on a cross country rescue mission in his Maxwell roadster.
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STAGECOACH (1939) Dir: John Ford. Writer: Dudley Nichols. The Ringo Kid: John Wayne, Dallas: Claire Trevor, Buck: Andy Devine, Hatfield: John Carradine, Doc Boone: Thomas Mitchell, Lucy Mallory: Louise Platt, Curly: George Bancroft, Peacock: Donald Meek, Gatewood: Breton Churchill, Luke Plummer: Tom Tyler. When The Ringo Kid escapes from prison, Curly, the local sheriff realizes that The Kid will go to Lordsburg to kill the Plummers, who killed The Kid's father and framed him for murder. Curly rides the local stagecoach that is going through to Lordsburg even though the Indian's are on the warpath. The Ringo Kid is captured along the way, as the stage faces danger from the marauding Indians. When they get through to Lordsburg, The Ringo Kid goes off to face the Plummers.
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STRIKE (1925) Dir: Sergei Eisenstein. Writer: Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov. Factory Foreman: Grigori Aleksandrov, Chief of Police: I. Ivanov, A Revolutionary: Ivan Klyukvin, Police Spy: Maksim Shtraukh, King of Thieves: Boris Yurtsev. After a factory worker is accused of a theft he did not commit, he hangs himself. The factory workers, fed up with mistreatment go on strike. The factory owners refuse to negotiate, and as the strike drags on, and hunger sets in, their unity frays. The police hire thieves to stir up trouble and the army uses it as an excuse to massacre the striking workers.
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SUNRISE: A STORY OF TWO HUMANS (1927) Dir: F.W. Murnau. Writers: Hermann Sudermann (original theme), Carl Mayer (scenario). The Man: George O'Brien, The Wife: Janet Gaynor, The Woman From the City: Margret Livingston. A farmer meets a woman from the city. She asks him to kill his wife so that they run away together.
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SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) Dir: Billy Wilder. Writer: Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman, Jr. Joe Gillis: William Holden, Norma Desmond: Gloria Swanson, Max von Mayerling: Erich von Stroheim, Betty Schaefer: Nancy Olson, Themselves: Buster Keaton, Anna Q. Nilsson, Hedda Hopper, Cecil B. DeMille, H.B. Warner. Down on his luck screen writer, Joe Gillis, on the run from bill collectors, tries to hide out in what he thinks is an abandoned mansion. It is, however, occupied by silent film star, Norma Desmond. Desmond lives in the past, dreaming of a grand comeback. She takes Joe Gillis in, at first as a ghost writer on her comeback script, and then as her gigolo. Joe tries to break away from Norma, teams up with Betty on a script of his own, and is eventually shot and killed by Norma, when he finally tries to walk out.
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THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD (2003) Dir: Guy Madden. Writer: Kazuo Ishiguro (story) George Toles (screenplay) Chester Kent: Mark McKinney, Lady Helen Port-Huntley: Isabella Rossellini, Fyodor Kent: David Fox, Narcissa: Maria de Medeiros, Roderick Kent AKA Gravillo the Great: Ross McMillan. When double amputee, 1930's, Winnipeg beer baroness, Lady Port-Huntley announces a contest for the saddest music in the world, entrants from all over the world come to Canada to compete. Among the contestants are Fyodor Kent representing Canada, his sons, Chester representing the United States, and Roderick AKA Gravillo the Great representing Serbia. Both Chester and Fyodor were once romantically involved with Lady Port-Huntley. Years earlier,Chester was driving when an accident occurred that resulted in injuries to Lady Port-Huntley's legs. Fyoder, a doctor, did the amputations. Chester is now involved with Roderick's missing ex wife, Narcissa.
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SECRET AGENT (1936) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Writer: Campbell Dixon. Ashenden: John Gielgud, The General: Peter Lorre, Elsa: Madeline Carroll, Marvin: Robert Young, Caypor: Percy Marmont, Mrs. Caypor: Florence Kahn, Lilli: Lilli Palmer, "R": Charles Carson. During World War 1, English secret agent, Ashenden is sent to Switzerland to hunt down a German agent. He, his agent, pretend wife, and the General, a hired killer, at first identify and kill Caypor, who turns out to be the wrong man. They then identify Marvin, an American as the true agent and follow him on a train into enemy territory.
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SECRETS OF A SOUL (1926) Dir: G.W. Pabst. Writer: Karl Abraham, Hans Neumann, Colin Ross, Hanns Sachs. Martin Fellman: Werner Krauss, The Wife: Ruth Weyher, Cousin Erich: Jack Trevor, Dr. Orth: Pavel Pavlov, Fellman's Assistant: Hertha von Walther. When Martin Fellman has a strange dream full of violent and sexual imagery, he has a nervous breakdown. He seeks help from psychiatrist Dr. Orth. By analyzing Fellman's dream, a cure is achieved.
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SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON (1949) Dir: John Ford. Writer: Frank S. Nugent, Laurence Stallings. Capt. Nathan Brittles: John Wayne, Olivia Dandridge: Joanne Dru, Lt. Flint Cohill: John Agar, Sgt. Tyree: Ben Johnson, 2nd Lt. Ross Pennell: Harry Carey, Jr., Top Sgt. Quincannon: Victor McLaglen, Abby Allshard: Mildred Natwick, Major Mac Allshard: George O'Brien, Chief Red Shirt: Noble Johnson, Chief Pony That Walks: Chief John Big Tree. Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, leads one last mission to deliver two women, Abby Allshard and Olivia Dandridge to a stagecoach stop, while avoiding warring Indians. Meanwhile, two junior officers, Lts. Cohill and Pennell, quarrel over Olivia Dandridge.
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SMART ALEC (1951) Dir. & Writer: Unknown. The girl: Candy Barr. A woman is picked up at a hotel and goes back to the mans room and has sex. When she refuses to perform oral sex, a friend is called on the phone to come over for a threesome.
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THE SOCIAL NETWORK (2010) Dir: David Fincher. Writer: Aaron Sorkin. Mark Zuckerberg: Jessie Eisenberg, Eduardo Saverin: Andrew Garfield, Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss: Armie Hammer, Sean Parker: Justin Timberlake, Erica Albright: Rooney Mara. The story of the inventing, founding of Facebook, and the law suits that resulted.
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SOMETHING NEW (1920) Dir: Nell Shipman, Bert Von Tuyle. Writer: Nell Shipman, Bert Von Tuyle. A Lady Writer: Nell Shipman, Bill Baxter: Bert Von Tuyle, Sid Bickley: L.M. Wells, Agrilla Gorgez: Merrill McCormick. A lady writer seeking inspiration sees a man with a Maxwell Roadster challenge a cowboy on horseback to a cross country race. She then imagines herself in Mexico as a lady writer visiting a mine co-owned by her father in search of inspiration. She's kidnapped by bandit gang leader, Agrilla Gorgez. When Bill Baxter, a mining engineer, is unable to find a horse to ride to the rescue, he goes on a cross country rescue mission in his Maxwell roadster.
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STAGECOACH (1939) Dir: John Ford. Writer: Dudley Nichols. The Ringo Kid: John Wayne, Dallas: Claire Trevor, Buck: Andy Devine, Hatfield: John Carradine, Doc Boone: Thomas Mitchell, Lucy Mallory: Louise Platt, Curly: George Bancroft, Peacock: Donald Meek, Gatewood: Breton Churchill, Luke Plummer: Tom Tyler. When The Ringo Kid escapes from prison, Curly, the local sheriff realizes that The Kid will go to Lordsburg to kill the Plummers, who killed The Kid's father and framed him for murder. Curly rides the local stagecoach that is going through to Lordsburg even though the Indian's are on the warpath. The Ringo Kid is captured along the way, as the stage faces danger from the marauding Indians. When they get through to Lordsburg, The Ringo Kid goes off to face the Plummers.
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STRIKE (1925) Dir: Sergei Eisenstein. Writer: Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov. Factory Foreman: Grigori Aleksandrov, Chief of Police: I. Ivanov, A Revolutionary: Ivan Klyukvin, Police Spy: Maksim Shtraukh, King of Thieves: Boris Yurtsev. After a factory worker is accused of a theft he did not commit, he hangs himself. The factory workers, fed up with mistreatment go on strike. The factory owners refuse to negotiate, and as the strike drags on, and hunger sets in, their unity frays. The police hire thieves to stir up trouble and the army uses it as an excuse to massacre the striking workers.
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SUNRISE: A STORY OF TWO HUMANS (1927) Dir: F.W. Murnau. Writers: Hermann Sudermann (original theme), Carl Mayer (scenario). The Man: George O'Brien, The Wife: Janet Gaynor, The Woman From the City: Margret Livingston. A farmer meets a woman from the city. She asks him to kill his wife so that they run away together.
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SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) Dir: Billy Wilder. Writer: Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman, Jr. Joe Gillis: William Holden, Norma Desmond: Gloria Swanson, Max von Mayerling: Erich von Stroheim, Betty Schaefer: Nancy Olson, Themselves: Buster Keaton, Anna Q. Nilsson, Hedda Hopper, Cecil B. DeMille, H.B. Warner. Down on his luck screen writer, Joe Gillis, on the run from bill collectors, tries to hide out in what he thinks is an abandoned mansion. It is, however, occupied by silent film star, Norma Desmond. Desmond lives in the past, dreaming of a grand comeback. She takes Joe Gillis in, at first as a ghost writer on her comeback script, and then as her gigolo. Joe tries to break away from Norma, teams up with Betty on a script of his own, and is eventually shot and killed by Norma, when he finally tries to walk out.
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