BEFORE NIGHT FALLS

BEFORE NIGHT FALLS (director/writer: Julian Schnabel; screenwriters: Cunningham O'Keefe/Lazaro Gomez Carriles/based on the autobiography of Reinaldo Arenas; cinematographers: Xavier Perez Grobet/ Guillermo Rosas; editor: Michael Berenbaum; cast: Javier Bardem (Reinaldo),…

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PAINTJOB, THE

THE PAINTJOB (director/writer: Michael Taav; cinematographer: Robert Yeoman; editor: Nancy Richardson; music: John Wesley Harding; cast: Will Patton (Wesley),Bebe Neuwirth(Margaret ), Robert Pastorelli (Willie), Mark Boone Jr. (Tom), Casey Siemaszko…

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BEHIND THE MASK

BEHIND THE MASK (director: Phil Karlson; screenwriters: George Callahan/from the novel by Arthur Hoerl; cinematographer: William A. Sickner; editor: Ace Herman; cast: Kane Richmond (The Shadow/Lamont Cranston), Barbara Reed (Margo…

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PANAMA HATTIE

PANAMA HATTIE (director: Norman Z. McLeod; screenwriters: Jack McGowan/Wilkie Mahoney/based on the musical play by Herbert Fields, B.G. DeSylva and Cole Porter; cinematographer: George J. Folsey; editor: Blanche Sewell; music:…

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BELLE STARR

BELLE STARR (director: Irving Cummings; screenwriters: Lamar Trotti/story byCameron Rogers and Niven Busch; cinematographers: Ernest Palmer/Ray Rennahan; editor: Robert L. Simpson; music: Alfred Newman; cast: Gene Tierney (Belle Starr), Randolph…

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PAPER LION

PAPER LION (director: Alex March; screenwriters: Lawrence Roman/from the book by George Plimpton; cinematographer: Eugene Friedman, Peter Garbarini; editor: Louis San Andres; music: Roger Kellaway; cast: Alan Alda (George Plimpton),…

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BENGAZI

BENGAZI (director: John Brahm; screenwriters: story by Jeff Bailey/Louis Vittes/Endre Bohem; cinematographer: Joseph Biroc; editor: Robert Golden; music: Roy Webb; cast: Richard Conte (John Gillmore), Victor McLaglen (Robert Emmett Donovan),…

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PARDON US

PARDON US (director: James Parrott; screenwriter: H.M. Walker; cinematographer: Jack Stevens; editor: Richard Currier; music: Irving Berlin/Bob Cole/Will Marion Cook/J. Rosamond Johnson; cast: Stan Laurel (Stan Laurel), Oliver Hardy (Oliver…

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BEST FOOT FORWARD

  BEST FOOT FORWARD (director: Edward Buzzell; screenwriter: novel by John Cecil Holm/Irving Brecher/Fred Finklehoffe/John Cecil Holm; cinematographer: Leonard Smith; editor: Blanche Sewell; music: Hugh Martin; cast: Lucille Ball (Herself),…

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PARTING GLANCES

PARTING GLANCES (director/writer: Bill Sherwood; cinematographer: Jacek Laskus; editor: Bill Sherwood; music: Mike Nolan; cast: Richard Ganoung (Michael), John Bolger (Robert), Steve Buscemi (Nick), Adam Nathan (Peter), Kathy Kinney (Joan),…

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