Posts Tagged ‘character-name-in-title’



Modesty Blaise (1966)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Vitti, Monica | Stamp, Terence | Dirk Bogarde | Andrews, Harry | Craig, Michael | Revill, Clive | Knox, Alexander | Falk, Rossella | Gabel, Scilla | Chow, Michael | Melia, Joe | Urzì, Saro | Aumont, Tina | MacGreevy, Oliver
Directors: Losey, Joseph
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Great Britain is giving 50 million pounds worth of diamonds to a Middle East sheik in return for oil concessions. There are rumors of a plot by arch-criminal Gabriel (Dirk Bogarde) to steal the diamonds, so the Secret Service Chief (Harry Andrews) seeks the help of sexy spy Modesty Blaise (Monica Vitti), who brings along her sidekick Willie Garvin (Terence Stamp).

Hamlet (1948)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Laurie, John | Knight, Esmond | Quayle, Anthony | MacGinnis, Niall | Williams, Harcourt | Troughton, Patrick | Tarver, Tony | Cushing, Peter | Holloway, Stanley | Thorndike, Russell | Sydney, Basil | Herlie, Eileen | Wooland, Norman | Aylmer, Felix
Directors: Olivier, Laurence
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William Shakespeare’s tale of tragedy of murder and revenge in the royal halls of medieval Denmark. Claudius, brother to the King, conniving with the Queen, poisons the monarch and seizes the throne, taking the widowed Gertrude for his bride. Hamlet, son of the murdered King, mournful of his father’s death and mother’s hasty marriage, is confronted by the ghost of the late King who reveals the manner of his murder. Seeking revenge, Hamlet recreates the monstrous deed in a play with the help of some traveling actors to torment the conscience of the evil Claudius. In a visit with his mother, Hamlet expresses his anger and disappointment concerning her swiftly untimed marriage. Thinking a concealed spy in his mother’s chamber to be the lurking Claudius, he mistakenly kills the meddling counselor, Polonius, father of Ophelia and Laertes. Claudius, on the pretext that Hamlet will be endangered by his subjects for the murder of Polonius, sends the prince to England.

Klute (1971)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Fonda, Jane | Sutherland, Donald | Cioffi, Charles | Scheider, Roy | Tristan, Dorothy | Gam, Rita | George, Nathan | Nathan, Vivian | Strassberg, Morris | Snider, Barry | Murray, Betty | White, Jane | Stoler, Shirley | Milli, Robert | Holland, Anthony
Directors: Pakula, Alan J.
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After a businessman disappears the FBI draw a blank except for some unpleasant letters he wrote to a call-girl. His small-town friend John Klute travels to the big city to seek her out. At first their relationship is wary, and she sees him as just another guy to manipulate. But someone may already be stalking her, and as Klute’s activities add to the danger a bond of sorts starts to grow.

Harper (1966)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Newman, Paul | Bacall, Lauren | Harris, Julie | Hill, Arthur | Leigh, Janet | Tiffin, Pamela | Wagner, Robert | Webber, Robert | Winters, Shelley | Gould, Harold | Jenson, Roy | Martin, Strother | West, Martin | deWit, Jacqueline | Iglesias, Eugene
Directors: Smight, Jack
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Paul Newman IS Harper, a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie’s Baby (Lauren Bacall) hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.

Salome (1953)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Hayworth, Rita | Granger, Stewart | Laughton, Charles | Anderson, Judith | Hardwicke, Cedric | Alan Badel | Sydney, Basil | Schwartz, Maurice | Moss, Arnold | Asoka | Sujata | Ahdar, David | Beltram, Ray | Ben Ali, Bobker | Berest, Frederic
Directors: Dieterle, William
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In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias. The latter wants John dead, but Herod fears to harm him due to a prophecy. Enter beautiful Princess Salome, Herod’s long-absent stepdaughter. Herodias sees the king’s dawning lust for Salome as her means of bending the king to her will. But Salome and her lover Claudius are (contrary to Scripture) nearing conversion to the new religion. And the famous climactic dance turns out to have unexpected implications…

Fluke (1995)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Jackson, Samuel L. | Modine, Matthew | Travis, Nancy | Stoltz, Eric | Pomeranc, Max | Perlman, Ron | Polito, Jon | Cobbs, Bill | Paxton, Collin Wilcox | Pacifici, Federico | Ross, Clarinda | Roberts, Adrian | Hansard, Bart | Hobart, Deborah
Directors: Carlei, Carlo
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Workaholic Thomas Johnson dies in an auto accident and comes back to life as a dog. Remembering some of who he was, he returns to his wife and son to protect them from the man who caused his accident. But, as time goes by, he remembers more of his life, and realizes he wasn’t such a good husband and father.

Flipper (1996)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Wood, Elijah | Hogan, Paul | Banks, Jonathan | Deacon, Robert | Carey, Ann | Casella, Mark | Halpin, Luke | Kelley, Bill | Field, Chelsea | Fuchs, Jason | Treco, Lindsay | Wesson, Jessica | Jones, Mal | Crume, Louis Seeger | Nolan, Bill
Directors: Shapiro, Alan
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Sandy Ricks is sent by his mom to Coral Key, a rustic island in the Florida keys, to spend the summer with his uncle Porter Ricks. Sandy dislikes everything about his new environment until a new friend comes into his life, a dolphin named Flipper, that brings uncle and nephew together and leads Sandy on the summer adventure of a lifetime.

Cass (2008)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Anozie, Nonso | Press, Nathalie | Gregory, Leo | Brocker, Gavin | Bartlett, Nick | Beevers, Geoffrey | Bence, Jack | Demetriou, Mario | Ellis, Winston | Gee, Robbie | Hassan, Tamer | Ineson, Ralph | Jennings, Rory | Johnson, Jack | Kaluuya, Daniel
Directors: Baird, Jon S.
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The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London, became one of the most feared and respected men in Britain. CASS grew up in a time before political correctness and was forced to endure racist bullying on a daily basis, until one day when the years of pent up anger came out in a violent burst. CASS found through violence the respect he never had and became addicted to the buzz of fighting. His way of life finally caught up with him when an attempted assassination on his life, saw him shot three times at point blank range. His inner strength somehow managed to keep him alive but he was left with a dilemma; whether to seek vengeance as the street had taught him, or renounce his violent past. This is the extraordinary story of his life.

Anna Christie (1930)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Garbo, Greta | Bickford, Charles | Marion, George F. | Dressler, Marie | Mack, James T. | Phelps, Lee | Baxley, Jack | O'Brien, William H.
Directors: Brown, Clarence
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Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in Minnesota. He has not seen her since, but believes her to be a decent and respectably employed young woman. When Anna arrives, however, it is clear that she has lived a hard life in the dregs of society, and that much of spirit has been extinguished. She falls in love with a young sailor rescued at sea by her father, but dreads to reveal to him the truth of her past. Both father and young man are deluded about her background, yet Anna cannot quite bring herself to allow them to remain deluded.

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’.