Posts Tagged ‘chase’



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.

Wolf Creek (2005)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Crime | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Australia
Actors: O'Donnell, Guy | Poole, Gordon | Phillips, Nathan | Morassi, Kestie | Magrath, Cassandra | Jarratt, John
Directors: McLean, Greg
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Just when you thought it was safe to go hiking in the bushes again…along comes Mick Taylor. Kristy, Ben and Liz are three pals in their twenties who set out to hike through the scenic Wolf Creek National Park in the Australian Outback. The trouble begins when they get back only to find that their car won’t start. The trio think they have a way out when they run into a local bushman named Mick Taylor. Wait until you get a load of what Mick has in store for them. Their troubles have just begun.

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.

Assassination Bureau, The (1969)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Reed, Oliver | Rigg, Diana | Savalas, Telly | Jürgens, Curd | Noiret, Philippe | Mitchell, Warren | Reid, Beryl | Revill, Clive | Griffith, Kenneth | Dobtcheff, Vernon | Incontrera, Annabella | Conrad, Jess | Coulouris, George | Michael, Ralph | Kath, Katherine
Directors: Dearden, Basil
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For her first assignment a lady journalist tracks down the head of an organisation offering to kill, for money, people deserving of such a fate. She thinks herself very clever when he agrees to take a contract with himself as the target. What she doesn’t know is that her paper’s owner is second-in-command in the Bureau and has his own reasons for supporting her challenge.

Starman (1984)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Bridges, Jeff | Allen, Karen | Smith, Charles Martin | Jaeckel, Richard | Phalen, Robert | Edwards, Tony | Davis, John Walter | White, Ted | Blocker, Dirk | Gainey, M.C. | Stanek, Sean | Flower, George 'Buck' | Benning, Russ | Cosham, Ralph | Wells, David
Directors: Carpenter, John
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An alien who has crash-landed in the United States takes on the the appearance of a woman’s dead husband and enlists her help to escape from pursuing authorities and rendezvous with a spacecraft on the other side of the country. As he learns how to be more human the alien begins to take on more and more qualities of the woman’s husband, drawing the woman closer.

Charley Varrick (1973)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthau, Walter | Baker, Joe Don | Farr, Felicia | Robinson, Andrew | North, Sheree | Fell, Norman | Fong, Benson | Parfrey, Woodrow | Schallert, William | Scott, Jacqueline | Bennett, Marjorie | Diaz, Rudy | Chester, Colby | Briggs, Charlie | Garcia, Priscilla
Directors: Siegel, Don
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Charley Varrick and his friends rob a small town bank. Expecting a small sum to divide amongst themselves, they are surprised to discover a very LARGE amount of money. Quickly figuring out that the money belongs to the MOB, they must now come up with a plan to throw the MOB off their trail.

Brigadoon (1954)

Friday, December 12th, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Musical | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Kelly, Gene | Johnson, Van | Charisse, Cyd | Stewart, Elaine | Jones, Barry | Laing, Hugh | Sharpe, Albert | Bosler, Virginia | Thompson, Jimmy | Owen, Tudor | McGiveney, Owen | Turnell, Dee | Heath, Dodie | Quillan, Eddie | Adams, Peter
Directors: Minnelli, Vincente
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Two Americans on a hunting trip in Scotland become lost. They encounter a small village, not on the map, called Brigadoon, in which people harbor a mysterious secret, and behave as if they were still living two hundred years in the past.

Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Aykroyd, Dan | Goodman, John | Morton, Joe | Peeples, Nia | Freeman, Kathleen | Bonifant, J. Evan | Oz, Frank | Lawrence, Steve | Hammond, Darrell | Erykah Badu | Levine, Walter | Davis, Tom | Johnson, Shann | King, B.B. | Slade, Gloria
Directors: Landis, John
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Primarily a two hour video, albeit a very good one, this sequel picks up 18 years later from the original and finds Elwood Blues being released from prison and trying to re-form his old band with new lead singer Mighty Mac replacing Jake. A road trip culminates with a battle of the bands against the Louisiana Gators led by B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Dr. John, and others.

Blues Brothers, The (1980)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Music | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Belushi, John | Aykroyd, Dan | Brown, James | Calloway, Cab | Charles, Ray | Franklin, Aretha | Cropper, Steve | Dunn, Donald | Dunne, Murphy | Hall, Willie | Malone, Tom | Marini, Lou | Murphy, Matt | Rubin, Alan | Fisher, Carrie
Directors: Landis, John
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After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit the old home where they were raised by nuns. They learn the church stopped its support and will sell the place to the education authority, and the only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The brothers want to help and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the the money by staging a big gig. As they set off on their “mission from god” they seem to make more enemies along the way. Will they manage to come up with the money in time?

Corvette Summer (1978)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Hamill, Mark | Potts, Annie | Roche, Eugene | Bryant, William | McKenzie, Richard | Milford, Kim | Bruns, Philip | Bonaduce, Danny | Insinnia, Albert | Johnston, Jane A. | Kamel, Stanley | Pellow, Clifford A. | Ronard, Jason | James, Brion | Upton, Morgan
Directors: Robbins, Matthew
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High School Senior Kenny Dantley’s only love in life is cars. For a shop class project, he and his classmates build a Corvette (”Stingray”). The car is a big hit — so big, in fact, that gets stolen! Kenny, having fallen in love with the car, sets out on a summer-long adventure in Las Vegas to find it. Along the way, he meets up with a “hooker-in-training” named “Vanessa” (played by Annie Potts). The two encounter danger and romance as they try to steal back the Stingray.