PARIAH

PARIAH (director/writer: Dee Rees; cinematographer: Bradford Young; editor: Mako Kamitsuna; cast: Adepero Oduye (Alike Freeman), Kim Wayans (Audrey Freeman), Charles Parnell (Arthur Freeman), Pernell Walker (Laura), Sahra Mellesse (Sharonda Freeman),…

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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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PARTY, THE

THE PARTY (director/writer: Blake Edwards; screenwriters: Tom & Frank Waldman; cinematographer: Lucien Ballard; editor: Ralph Winters; music: Henry Mancini; cast: Peter Sellers (Hrundi V. Bakshi), Claudine Longet (Michelle Monet),, Kathe…

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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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PASSIONS

PASSIONS (UVLECHENIYA) (director/writer: Kira Muratova; cinematographer: Gennady Karyuk; editor: Valentina Oleynik; music: Ludwig van Beethoven; cast: Svetlana Kolenda (Violetta), Renata Litvinova (Nurse Lila), Alexei Schevtshenko (Milashevski), Mikhail Demidov(Kasyanov), Vassily Rybakin…

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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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PATTON

PATTON (director: Franklin J. Schaffner; screenwriters: Francis Ford Coppola/Edmund H. North/based on the books Patton: Ordeal and Triumph by Ladislas Farago and A Soldier's Story by Gen. Omar N. Bradley;…

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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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PEEPING TOM

PEEPING TOM (director: Michael Powell; screenwriter: Leo Marks; cinematographer: Otto Heller; editor: Noreen Ackland; cast: Carl Boehm (Mark), Moira Shearer (stand-in murder victim, Vivian), Anna Massey (Helen Stephens), Maxine Audley…

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