BIG KNIFE, THE

BIG KNIFE, THE (director: Robert Aldrich; screenwriters: from a play by Clifford Odets/James Poe; cinematographer: Ernest Laszlo; editor: Michael Luciano; music: Frank De Vol; cast: Jack Palance (Charles Castle), Ida…

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PERMANENT MIDNIGHT

PERMANENT MIDNIGHT (director/writer: David Veloz; screenwriter: book by Jerry Stahl; cinematographer: Robert Yeoman; editor: Steven Weisberg, Cara Silverman; music: Daniel Licht; cast: Ben Stiller (Jerry Stahl), Elizabeth Hurley (Sandra), Maria…

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PHAEDRA

PHAEDRA (director/writer: Jules Dassin; screenwriters: based on Euripedes' Hippolytus/Margarita Liberaki; cinematographer: Jacques Natteau; editor: Roger Dwyre; music: Mikis Theodorakis; cast: Melina Mercouri (Phaedra), Anthony Perkins (Alexis), Raf Vallone (Thanos Kyrilis),…

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BLACK BART

BLACK BART (director: George Sherman; screenwriters: Luci Ward/William Bowers/Jack Natteford/story by Ward and Natteforf; cinematographer: Irving Glassberg; editor: Russell Schoengarth; music: Frank Skinner/Leith Stevens; cast: (Jersey Brady), Jeffrey Lynn (Lance…

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PICCADILLY JIM

PICCADILLY JIM (director: Robert Z. Leonard; screenwriter: from the book Piccadilly Jim by P. G. Wodehouse/Charles Brackett; cinematographer: Joseph Ruttenberg; editor: William S. Gray; music: William Axt; cast: Robert Montgomery…

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PIER 5, HAVANA

PIER 5, HAVANA (director: Edward L. Cahn; screenwriters: James B. Gordon/story by Joseph Hoffman; cinematographer: Maury Gertsman; editor: Grant Whytock; music: Paul Sawtell/Bert Shefter; cast: Cameron Mitchell (Steve Daggett), Allison…

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