Posts Tagged ‘beautiful-woman’



Out of the Past (1947)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Mitchum, Robert | Greer, Jane | Douglas, Kirk | Fleming, Rhonda | Webb, Richard | Brodie, Steve | Huston, Virginia | Valentine, Paul | Moore, Dickie | Niles, Ken | Benedict, Brooks | Blake, Oliver | Blanco, Eumenio | Bly, Wesley | Brill, Hubert
Directors: Tourneur, Jacques
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For the last three years, Jeff Bailey has been laying low and trying to live a normal life. He’s been running his own gas station but prior to that, had been a pretty good private detective. His last job had been for a gangster, Whit Sterling, who him to find Kathy Moffat, who just happens to have shot him, and recover the $40,000 she stole. Jeff found her in Mexico but fell in love with her. She eventually ran out on him and he decided it might be better if he found a new line of work. When one of Sterling’s henchmen happens to see him pumping gas, he’s summoned to the gangster’s Lake Tahoe estate. Sterling’s offer is quite simple: recover some incriminating tax files and all will be forgotten. Jeff soon realizes however that he’s being set up and framed for murder.

Little Giant (1946)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Abbott, Bud | Costello, Lou | Joyce, Brenda | deWit, Jacqueline | Cleveland, George | Verdugo, Elena | Gordon, Mary | Watkin, Pierre | MacBride, Donald | Kilian, Victor | Dumont, Margaret | Chandler, George | Fields, Sid | Gray, Beatrice
Directors: Seiter, William A.
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Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he’s a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like “The Time of Their Lives,” in that Abbott and Costello don’t have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.

Reign of Terror aka Black Book, The (1949)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Film-Noir
Countries: USA
Actors: Cummings, Robert | Basehart, Richard | Hart, Richard | Dahl, Arlene | Moss, Arnold | Lloyd, Norman | McGraw, Charles | Bondi, Beulah | Barker, Jess | Bennett, Ray | Brooks, Ralph | Challee, William | Conlan, Frank | Cooper, Clancy | Crosby, Wade
Directors: Mann, Anthony
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The plot starts in France in the year 1794. Robespierre is sowing panic among his opponents with the only reason to take over the power of the state.

Citizen Kane (1941)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Cotten, Joseph | Comingore, Dorothy | Moorehead, Agnes | Warrick, Ruth | Collins, Ray | Sanford, Erskine | Sloane, Everett | Alland, William | Stewart, Paul | Coulouris, George | Bonanova, Fortunio | Schilling, Gus | Van Zandt, Philip | Backus, Georgia | Shannon, Harry
Directors: Welles, Orson
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Considered by many to be the best film ever made, this is the story of Charles Foster Kane. The film opens with a long shot of Xanadu - the private estate of one of the world’s richest men. In the middle of the estate is a castle. We see, inside the castle, a dying man examining a winter scene within a crystal ball. As he drops it, it smashes, and one word is heard - “Rosebud…” What follows are pieces of newsreel-like footage detailing how Kane amassed his fortune, and turning around full circle at the end.

Waterloo Bridge (1940)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Leigh, Vivien | Taylor, Robert | Watson, Lucile | Field, Virginia | Ouspenskaya, Maria | Smith, C. Aubrey | Shaw, Janet | Waldo, Janet | Duna, Steffi | Carroll, Virginia | Nicova, Leda | Baker, Florence | Manning, Margery | MacInerney, Frances | Stewart, Eleanor
Directors: LeRoy, Mervyn
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On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survives on the streets of London, falling even lower after she hears her true love has been killed in action. But he wasn’t killed. Those terrible years were nothing more than a bad dream is Myra’s hope after Roy finds her and takes her to his family’s country estate.

Chinatown (1974)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicholson, Jack | Dunaway, Faye | Huston, John | Lopez, Perry | Hillerman, John | Zwerling, Darrell | Ladd, Diane | Jenson, Roy | Bakalyan, Richard | Mantell, Joe | Glover, Bruce | Hinds, Nandu | O'Rear, James | Hong, James
Directors: Polanski, Roman
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Los Angeles detective Jake Gittes is hired by a woman claiming to be a Mrs. Mulwray to spy on her husband. Shortly after Gittes is hired, the real Mrs. Mulwray appears in his office threatening to sue if he doesn’t drop the case immediately. Gittes pursues the case anyway, slowly uncovering a vast conspiracy centering on water management, state and municipal corruption, land use and real estate, and involving at least one murder.

Valley of the Dolls (1967)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Parkins, Barbara | Duke, Patty | Burke, Paul | Tate, Sharon | Scotti, Tony | Milner, Martin | Drake, Charles | Davion, Alexander | Grant, Lee | Stevens, Naomi | Harris, Robert H. | Susann, Jacqueline | Viharo, Robert | Bishop, Joey | Jessel, George
Directors: Robson, Mark
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Anne Welles, a bright, brash young New England college grad leaves her Peyton Place-ish small town and heads for Broadway, where she hopes to find an exciting job and sophisticated men. During her misadventures in Manhattan and, later, Hollywood, she shares experiences with two other young hopefuls: Jennifer North, a statuesque, Monroe-ish actress who wants to be accepted as a human being, but is regarded as a sex object by all the men she meets, and Neely O’Hara, a talented young actress who’s accused of using devious means by a great older star (Helen Lawson) to reach the top, pulling an “All About Eve”-type deception in order to steal a good role away from her.

Alligator II: The Mutation (1991)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Bologna, Joseph | Wallace, Dee | Lynch, Richard | Brown, Woody | Gagnier, Holly | Daily, Bill | Steve Railsback | Peters, Brock | Eyster, Tim | Goric, Voyo | Norris, Buckley | Reyes, Julian | White, Deborah | Anderson, Bill | Arnold, Harlan
Directors: Hess, Jon
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A giant alligator runs riot in a small town with a lake connected to a sewer/drainage system. Typical plot; nobody believes the sightings until lots of people have been killed.

Alligator (1980)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Forster, Robert | Riker, Robin | Gazzo, Michael V. | Dean Jagger | Lassick, Sydney | Carter, Jack | Lang, Perry | Silva, Henry | Braverman, Bart | Wood, John Lisbon | Ingersoll, James | Doyle, Robert | Jerome, Patti | Tompkins, Angel | Lyon, Sue
Directors: Teague, Lewis
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Ramon the alligator is flushed down the toilet as a baby and grows into a gargantuan monster by eating the corpses of laboratory animals who have undergone dubious hormone experiments, thus providing all the ecological and social subtext that one could possibly wish for, even if one doesn’t normally go for films about giant alligators eating people left, right, and center—which is the inevitable and tragic result of Ramon’s decision that the outside world looks rather more interesting than the sewers….

007 Quantum of Solace (2008)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Amalric, Mathieu | Christensen, Jesper | Cosio, Joaquín | Craig, Daniel | Foster, Glenn | Giannini, Giancarlo | Guillén Cuervo, Fernando | Harbour, David | Jackson, Neil | Kassianides, Simon | Kinnear, Rory | Ochoa, Jesús | Pigott-Smith, Tim | Richardson, Laurence | Taubman, Anatole
Directors: Forster, Marc
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QUANTUM OF SOLACE continues the high octane adventures of James Bond (DANIEL CRAIG) in CASINO ROYALE. Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M (JUDI DENCH) interrogate Mr White (JESPER CHRISTENSEN) who reveals the organization which blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined. Forensic intelligence links an Mi6 traitor to a bank account in Haiti where a case of mistaken identity introduces Bond to the beautiful but feisty Camille (OLGA KURYLENKO), a woman who has her own vendetta. Camille leads Bond straight to Dominic Greene (MATHIEU AMALRIC), a ruthless business man and major force within the mysterious organization. On a mission that leads him to Austria, Italy and South America, Bond discovers that Greene, conspiring to take total control of one of the world’s most important natural resources, is forging a deal with the exiled General Medrano (JOAQUIN COSIO). Using his associates in the organization, and manipulating his powerful contacts within the CIA and the British government, Greene promises to overthrow the existing regime in a Latin American country, giving the General control of the country in exchange for a seemingly barren piece of land. In a minefield of treachery, murder and deceit, Bond allies with old friends in a battle to uncover the truth. As he gets closer to finding the man responsible for the betrayal of Vesper, 007 must keep one step ahead of the CIA, the terrorists and even M, to unravel Greene’s sinister plan and stop his organization.