PASSIONS

PASSIONS (UVLECHENIYA) (director/writer: Kira Muratova; cinematographer: Gennady Karyuk; editor: Valentina Oleynik; music: Ludwig van Beethoven; cast: Svetlana Kolenda (Violetta), Renata Litvinova (Nurse Lila), Alexei Schevtshenko (Milashevski), Mikhail Demidov(Kasyanov), Vassily Rybakin…

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PATTON

PATTON (director: Franklin J. Schaffner; screenwriters: Francis Ford Coppola/Edmund H. North/based on the books Patton: Ordeal and Triumph by Ladislas Farago and A Soldier's Story by Gen. Omar N. Bradley;…

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PEEPING TOM

PEEPING TOM (director: Michael Powell; screenwriter: Leo Marks; cinematographer: Otto Heller; editor: Noreen Ackland; cast: Carl Boehm (Mark), Moira Shearer (stand-in murder victim, Vivian), Anna Massey (Helen Stephens), Maxine Audley…

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BIG PARADE, THE

BIG PARADE, THE (director/writer: King Vidor; screenwriters: from the play by Joseph Farnham/from the short story What Price is Glory? by Laurence Stallings/Harry Behn; cinematographers: John Arnold/Charles Van Enger; editor:…

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BIG STORE, THE

BIG STORE, THE (director: Charles Reisner; screenwriters: story by Nat Perrin/Sid Kuller/Hal Fimberg/Ray Golden; cinematographer: Charles Lawton; editor: Conrad A. Nervig; music: Hal Borne; cast: Groucho Marx (Wolf J. Flywheel),…

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