PERFECT HOST, THE

PERFECT HOST, THE (director/writer: Nick Tomnay; screenwriter: Krishna Jones; cinematographer: Krishna Jones; editor: Nick Tomnay; music: John Swihart; cast: David Hyde Pierce (Warwick Wilson), Clayne Crawford (John Taylor), Nathaniel Parker…

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BIG NIGHT, THE

BIG NIGHT, THE (director/writer: Joseph Losey; screenwriters: Stanley Ellin/from his novel Dreadful Summit by Ellin; cinematographer: Hal Mohr; editor: Edward Mann; music: Lynn Murray; cast: John Barrymore Jr. (George La…

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PERSONA NON GRATA

PERSONA NON GRATA (director/writer: Krzysztof Zanussi; cinematographer: Edward Klosinski; editor: Wanda Zeman; music: Wojciech Kilar; cast: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz (Wiktor), Jerzy Stuhr (Radca), Remo Girone (Italian Consul), Andrzej Chyra (New Consul),…

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BIG STEAL, THE

BIG STEAL, THE (director: Don Siegel; screenwriter: Daniel Mainwaring/Gerald Drayson Adams/based on the Saturday Evening Post Story "The Road to Carmichael's by Richard Wormser; cinematographer: Harry J. Wild; editor: Samuel…

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BIRD OF PARADISE

BIRD OF PARADISE (director: King Vidor; screenwriters: Leonard Praskins/Wells Root/adaptation of Richard Walton Tally's play; cinematographers: Lucien Andriot/Clyde De Vinna/Edward Cronjager; editor: Archie F. Marshek; music: Max Steiner; cast: Joel…

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BLACK CAT

  BLACK CAT (director/writer: Edgar G. Ulmer; screenwriters: from an Edgar Allan Poe story/Peter Ruric; cinematographer: John Mescall; editor: Ray Curtiss; cast: Boris Karloff (Hjalmar Poelzig), Bela Lugosi (Dr. Vitus…

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BLACK SUNDAY

BLACK SUNDAY (director: John Frankenheimer; screenwriters: novel by Thomas Harris/Ernest Lehman/Kenneth Ross/Ivan Moffat; cinematographer: John A. Alonzo; editor: Tom Roif; music: John Williams; cast: Robert Shaw (Major David Kabakov), Bruce…

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