Posts Tagged ‘blockbuster’



East of Eden (1955)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Harris, Julie | Dean, James | Massey, Raymond | Ives, Burl | Davalos, Richard | Van Fleet, Jo | Dekker, Albert | Smith, Lois | Gordon, Harold | Dennis, Nick | Abbas, Abdullah | Arias, José | Brooks, Joe | Carey, Timothy | Carr, Jack
Directors: Kazan, Elia
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Cal Trask is a particularly unhappy young man. He sees himself as the black sheep of the family and is always competing with his brother Aron, who seems to be perfect in almost every way. Aron is also their father’s favorite and Cal desperately wants his father’s love and affection. It’s the period leading up to America’s entry into World War I and these are tumultuous times. After his father loses most of his fortune trying to ship refrigerated lettuce to New York, Cal decides to speculate on a crop of beans and makes a small fortune but he soon realizes that he can’t buy his father’s loves either. Cal’s discovery that his mother is alive - he and Aron were told that she had died - and that she is a madam leads to a final, tragic result for all three of the Trask men.

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Lancaster, Burt | Douglas, Kirk | Fleming, Rhonda | Van Fleet, Jo | Ireland, John | Bettger, Lyle | Faylen, Frank | Holliman, Earl | de Corsia, Ted | Hopper, Dennis | Bissell, Whit | Mathews, George | Hudson, John | Kelley, DeForest | Milner, Martin
Directors: Sturges, John
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After the long career of lawman that made him a legend, Wyatt Earp deciedes to quit and join his brothers in Tombstone, Arizona. There he would see them in feud with Clantons, local clan of thugs and cattle thieves. When the showdown becomes inevitable, the help will come from Doc Holliday, terminally-ill gambler who happens to be another Wild West legend.

Picnic (1955)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Holden, William | Novak, Kim | Field, Betty | Strasberg, Susan | Robertson, Cliff | O'Connell, Arthur | Felton, Verna | Shaw, Reta | Adams, Nick | Bailey, Raymond | Wilson, Elizabeth | Russell, Rosalind | Adams, Warren Frederick | Baker, Carle E. | Bemis, George E.
Directors: Logan, Joshua
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The morning of a small town Labor Day picnic, a drifter (Hal Carter) blows into town to visit an old fraternity buddy (Alan Benson) who also happens to be the son of the richest man in town. Hal is an egocentric braggart - all potential and no accomplishment. He meets up with Madge Owens, the town beauty queen and girlfriend of Alan Benson.

Annie Get Your Gun (1950)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Hutton, Betty | Keel, Howard | Calhern, Louis | Naish, J. Carrol | Arnold, Edward | Wynn, Keenan | Venuta, Benay | Sundberg, Clinton | Bell, Hal | Butler, Archie | Charlot, André | Dugan, Michael | Dunham, Phil | Earle, Edward | Evans, Herbert
Directors: Berkeley, Busby
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Annie Oakley is an incredible shot who was raised ‘Doin’ What Comes Naturally’. Frank Butler, the star sharpshooter in ‘Colonel Buffalo Bill’’s show, however, knows full well that’s not how ‘The Girl That I Marry’ must be. Anyway, not at least until he finds that ‘My Defences are Down’. Though Annie defiantly says ‘Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better’, she realizes that ‘You Can’t Get a Man With a Gun’. The victor at the end is love; as you know, ‘It’s Wonderful’. After all, ‘There’s No Business Like Show Business’.

American in Paris, An (1951)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Kelly, Gene | Caron, Leslie | Levant, Oscar | Guétary, Georges | Foch, Nina | American In Paris Ballet, The | Ames, Robert | Bastin, Charles | Bieber, Rodney | Bolognese, Dino | Borden, Eugene | Camlin, Peter | Charisse, Andre | Chatham, Bill
Directors: Minnelli, Vincente
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Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in Paris, is “discovered” by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry’s art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. Jerry jokes, sings and dances with his best friend, an acerbic would-be concert pianist, while romantic complications abound.

Santa Clause, The (1994)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Allen, Tim | Crewson, Wendy | Reinhold, Judge | Lloyd, Eric | Krumholtz, David | Brandenburg, Larry | Gross, Mary | Tamada, Paige | Boyle, Peter | Scott, Judith | Eastwood, Jayne | King, Melissa | Wentworth, Bradley | Bates, Azura
Directors: Pasquin, John
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Divorcee Scott Calvin is disgusted to learn that his ex and her husband have tried - and failed - to break it easy to their 6-year-old son Charlie that Santa isn’t real. On Christmas Eve, Scott reads The Night Before Christmas… then receives an unexpected visitor on his roof. When he’s startled by Scott’s calling out and falls, the Santa impersonator disappears, leaving only an 8-reindeer sleigh and a suit with instructions to put it on if he’s involved in an accident. Scott does, and is transported around the town dropping gifts through chimneys until he’s taken to the North Pole and informed by a group who claim they’re elves that he is now Santa. Charlie is proud of his dad’s new job, though Scott’s convinced it’s a dream. Until his hair turns white, his beard refuses to stay shaved, he gains weight inexplicably, even for his sudden love of junk food… Now he’s accepted it, there’s just one problem: how to keep it secret from his disbelieving family?

Speed (1994)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Reeves, Keanu | Hopper, Dennis | Bullock, Sandra | Morton, Joe | Daniels, Jeff | Ruck, Alan | Plummer, Glenn | Lineback, Richard | Grant, Beth | James, Hawthorne | Carrasco, Carlos | Kriegel, David | Ohama, Natsuko | Villarreal, Daniel | Gad, Simone
Directors: Bont, Jan de
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Bomber Terrorist’s (Dennis Hopper) elevator plan backfires, so he rigs a bomb to a LA city bus. The stipulation is: once armed, the bus must stay above 50 mph to keep from exploding. Also if LAPD Officer (Keanu Reeves) tries to unload any passengers off, Payne (Hopper) will detonate it. Joe Morton co-stars as Jack’s (Keanu’s) superior, and Jeff Daniels supports Jack helping him try to defuse the bomb.

Hello, Dolly! (1969)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Streisand, Barbra | Matthau, Walter | Crawford, Michael | McAndrew, Marianne | Lockin, Danny | Peaker, E.J. | Ames, Joyce | Tune, Tommy | Knaiz, Judy | Hurst, David | Feld, Fritz | Collier, Richard | O'Malley, J. Pat | Armstrong, Louis
Directors: Kelly, Gene
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Film adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical. Concerns itself with Dolly Levi, a New York-based matchmaker who merrily arranges things… like furniture and daffodils and lives. A widow, she has found herself in love with a “half-a-millionaire” Yonkers merchant named Horace Vandergelder. So she proceeds to weave a web of romantic complications involving him, his two clerks, a pretty milliner and her assistant. Eventually, of course, all is sorted out, and everyone ends up with the right person.

Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Topol | Crane, Norma | Frey, Leonard | Picon, Molly | Mann, Paul | Harris, Rosalind | Marsh, Michele | Small, Neva | Glaser, Paul Michael | Lovelock, Ray | Edwards, Elaine | Bonstein, Candy | Ruskin, Shimen | Scooler, Zvee | Zorich, Louis
Directors: Jewison, Norman
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Film version of the stage musical, based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. Tevye the Milkman is a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia, coping with the day-to-day problems of ’shtetl’ life, his Jewish traditions, his family (wife and daughters), and state-sanctioned pogroms.

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Peck, Gregory | Megna, John | Overton, Frank | Murphy, Rosemary | White, Ruth | Peters, Brock | Evans, Estelle | Fix, Paul | Paxton, Collin Wilcox | Anderson, James | Ghostley, Alice | Duvall, Robert | Windom, William | Denton, Crahan | Hale, Richard
Directors: Mulligan, Robert
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In the rural American south during the depths of the Depression, two children watch as their principled father takes a stand against intolerance.