WHIRLPOOL

WHIRLPOOL (director: Otto Preminger; screenwriters: Ben Hecht/Andrew Solt/based on the Guy Endore novel "Methinks the Lady"; cinematographer: Arthur Miller; editor: Louis Loeffler; music: David Raksin; cast: Gene Tierney (Ann Sutton),…

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WHITE BANNERS

WHITE BANNERS (director: Edmund Goulding; screenwriters: from the Cosmopolitan magazine article White Banners by Lloyd C. Douglas/ Lenore J. Coffee/Abem Finkel/Cameron Rogers; cinematographer: Charles Rosher; editor: Tom Richards; music: Max…

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WHITE SANDS

WHITE SANDS (director: Roger Donaldson; screenwriter: Daniel Pyne; cinematographer: Peter Menzies; editor: Nicholas Beauman; music: Patrick O'Hearn; cast: Willem Dafoe (Sheriff Ray Dolezal), Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio(Lane Bodine), Mickey Rourke (Gorman…

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WHY HIM?

WHY HIM? (director/writer: John Hamburg; screenwriter: Ian Helfer/story by Jonah Hill, Helfer and Hamburg; cinematographer: Kris Kachikis; editor: William Kerr; music: Theodore Shapiro; cast: Bryan Cranston (Ned Fleming), James Franco…

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WIFE WANTED

WIFE WANTED (SHADOW OF BLACKMAIL) (director: Phil Karlson; screenwriters: Caryl Coleman/Sid Sutherland/from the novel Wife Wanted by Robert Callahan; cinematographer: Harry Neumann ; editors: Ace Herman/Richard Currie; music: Edward J.…

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WILD RIVER

WILD RIVER (director: Elia Kazan; screenwriters: Paul Osborn/based on the novel "Mud on the Stars" by William Bradford Huie and the novel "Dunbar's Cove" by Borden Deal; cinematographer: Ellsworth Fredricks;…

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WINCHESTER ’73

  WINCHESTER '73 (aka 'Montana Winchester') (director: Anthony Mann; screenwriters: Borden Chase/Robert L. Richards/short story by Stuart N. Lake; cinematographer: William H. Daniels; editor: Edward A. Curtiss; music: Joseph E.…

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WINGS

  WINGS (KRYLA)   (director: Larisa Shepitko; screenwriters: Valentin Ezhov/Natalya Ryazantseva; cinematographer: Igor Slabnevich; editor: L. Lysenkova; music: Roman Ledenyov; cast: Maya Bulgakova (Nadezhda Petrukhina), Sergei Nikonenko (Sergei Bystryakov), Zhanna…

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