ON THE BEACH

ON THE BEACH (director: Stanley Kramer; screenwriters: John Paxton/James Lee Barrett/from the novel by Nevil Shute; cinematographer: Daniel Fapp; editor: Frederic Knudtson; music: Ernest Gold; cast: Gregory Peck (Cmdr. Dwight…

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BAD LUCK

BAD LUCK (Zezowate szczescie) (aka: COCKEYED HAPPINESS) (director: Andrzej Munk; screenwriters: Jerzy Stefan Stawinski/novel by Szesc Wcielen Jana Piszczyka; cinematographers: Jerzy Lipman/Krzysztof Winiewicz; editor: Jadwiga Zajicek; music: Jan Krenz; cast:…

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OPEN WATER

OPEN WATER (director/writer: Chris Kentis; cinematographer: Laura Lau/Chris Kentis; editor: Ben Wilkens/Chris Kentis; music: Graeme Revell; cast: Blanchard Ryan (Susan Watkins), Daniel Travis (Daniel Watkins), Saul Stein (Seth), Estelle Lau…

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BAND OF ANGELS

BAND OF ANGELS (director: Raoul Walsh; screenwriter: based on a Robert Penn Warren novel/John Twist, Ivan Goff, Ben Robert; cinematographer: Lucien Ballard; editor: Folmar Blangsted; music: Max Steiner; cast: Rex…

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OSAKA ELEGY

OSAKA ELEGY (NANIWA EREJÎ) (director/writer: Kenji Mizoguchi; screenwriters: Tadashi Fujiwara/Yoshikata Yoda/based on the story Mieko by Saburo Okada; cinematographer: Minoru Miki; editor: Tatsuko Sakane; music: Kôichi Takagi; cast: Benkei Shiganoya…

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BARTERED BRIDE, THE

BARTERED BRIDE, THE (DIE VERKAUFTE BRAUT) (director/writer: Max Ophuls; screenwriters: Curt Alexander/based on the Bedrich Smetana opera The Bartered Bride; cinematographers: Franz Koch/Reimar Kuntze; editor: Paul May; cast: Willy Domgraf-Fassbaender(Hans),…

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