PENALTY, THE

PENALTY, THE (director: Wallace Worsley; screenwriters: Charles Kenyon/Philip Lonergan/based on the novel by Gouverneur Morris; cinematographer: Don Short; editors: J.G. Hawks/Frank E. Hull; cast: Lon Chaney (Blizzard), Ethel Grey Terry…

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BIG LEAGUER

BIG LEAGUER (director: Robert Aldrich; screenwriters: Herbert Baker/from a story by John McNulty and Louis Morheim; cinematographer: William Mellor; editor: Ben Lewis; music: Alberto Colombo; cast: Edward G. Robinson (John…

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PERFORMANCE

  PERFORMANCE (directors: Donald Cammell/Nicolas Roeg; screenwriter: Donald Cammell; cinematographer: Nicolas Roeg; editor: Frank Mazzola; cast: James Fox (Chas Devlin), Mick Jagger (Turner), Anita Pallenberg (Pherber), Michele Breton (Lucy), Johnny…

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BIG SLEEP, THE

BIG SLEEP, THE (director: Howard Hawks; screenwriters: William Faulkner/Leigh Brackett/Jules Furthman/from the novel by Raymond Chandler; cinematographer: Sid Hickox; editor: Christian Nyby; music: Max Steiner; cast: Humphrey Bogart (Philip Marlowe),…

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PETER IBBETSON

PETER IBBETSON (director: Henry Hathaway; screenwriters: from the novel by George duMaurier and the play by John Nathaniel Raphael and Constance Collier/ Vincent Lawrence/Waldemar Young/John Meehan/Edwin Justus Mayer; cinematographer: Charles…

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PHANTOM THREAD

PHANTOM THREAD (director/writer: Paul Thomas Anderson; cinematographer: Paul Thomas Anderson; editor: Dylan Tichenor; music: Jonny Greenwood; cast: Daniel Day-Lewis (Reynolds Woodcock), Vicky Krieps (Alma), Lesley Manville (Cyril), Camilla Rutherford (Johanna),…

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BLACK BIRD, THE

THE BLACK BIRD  (director/writer: David Giler; screenwriters: story by Don M. Mankiewitz and Gordon Cotler; cinematographer: Phil Lathrop; editors: Margaret Booth/Walter Thompson/Lou Lombardo; music: Jerry Fielding; cast: George Segal (Sam…

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BLACK ROOM, THE

BLACK ROOM, THE (director: Roy William Neill; screenwriters: Henry Myers/Arthur Strawn/from the story by Arthur Strawn; cinematographer: Allen G. Siegler; editor: Richard Cahoon; music: R.H. Bassett/Milan Roder/Louis Silvers; cast: Boris…

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