BANZAI RUNNER

BANZAI RUNNER (director/writer: John G. Thomas; screenwriter: Paul Harange; cinematographer: Howard A. Wexler; editor: Drake Silliman; music: Joel Goldsmith; cast: Dean Stockwell (Billy Baxter), John Shepherd (Beck Baxter), Charles Dierkop…

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OPERATION PETTICOAT

OPERATION PETTICOAT (director: Blake Edwards; screenwriters: Stanley Shapiro/Maurice Richlin/from a story suggested by Paul King and Joseph Stone; cinematographers: Russell Harlan/Clifford Stine; editors: Ted Kent/Frank Gross; music: David Rose; cast:…

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BARRICADE

BARRICADE (director: Peter Godfrey; screenwriters: William Sackheim/based on the Jack London novel Sea Wolf; cinematographer: Carl Guthrie; editor: Clarence Kolster; music: William Lava; cast: Dane Clark (Bob Peters), Ruth Roman…

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ORIENTAL ELEGY

ORIENTAL ELEGY (director/writer: Aleksandr Sokurov; cinematographer: Aleksei Fyodorov; cast: Aleksandr Sokurov (Narrator); Runtime: 43; MPAA Rating: NR; Medici Arts; 1996-Russia/Japan- in Russian/Japanese with English subtitles) "Sokurov brilliantly delivers a poetical…

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BATTLE CRY

  BATTLE CRY (director: Raoul Walsh; screenwriter: from the novel by Leon Uris/Leon Uris; cinematographer: Sid Hickox; editor: William Ziegler; music: Max Steiner; cast: Van Heflin (Major Sam Huxley), Aldo…

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OTHELLO

OTHELLO (The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice) (director/writer: Orson Welles; screenwriter: from the play by William Shakespeare; cinematographers: Anchise Brizzi/G.R. Aldo/Georges Fanto/Oberdan Trojani/Alberto Fusi/; editors: John Shepridge/Jean Sacha/Renzo…

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BEACH, THE

BEACH, THE (director: Danny Boyle; screenwriters: from a novel by Alex Garland/John Hodge; cinematographer: Darius Khondji; editor: Masahiro Hirakubo; cast: Leonardo DiCaprio (Richard), Tilda Swinton (Sal), Virginie Ledoyen (Francoise), Guillaume…

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BEAU GESTE

BEAU GESTE (director: William A. Wellman; screenwriters: Robert Carson/based on the novel by P. C. Wren; cinematographer: Theodor Sparkuhl; editor: Thomas Scott; music: Alfred Newman; cast: Gary Cooper (Michael "Beau"…

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