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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BIG BROWN EYES

BIG BROWN EYES (director/writer: Raoul Walsh; screenwriter: from the short stories Hahsit Babe and Big Brown Eyes by James Edward Grant/Bert Hanlon; cinematographer: George Clemens; editor: Robert Simpson; music: Gerard…

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BIGGER THAN THE SKY

BIGGER THAN THE SKY (director: Al Corley; screenwriter: Rodney Vacarro; cinematographer: Carl Nilsson; editor:Axel Hubert; music: Rob Cairns; cast: Marcus Thomas (Peter Rooker/Cyrano), Clare Higgins(Edwina Winters), Amy Smart (Grace Hargrove/Roxanne),…

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BIG NIGHT, THE

BIG NIGHT, THE (director/writer: Joseph Losey; screenwriters: Stanley Ellin/from his novel Dreadful Summit by Ellin; cinematographer: Hal Mohr; editor: Edward Mann; music: Lynn Murray; cast: John Barrymore Jr. (George La…

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PHANTOM RAIDERS

PHANTOM RAIDERS (director: Jacques Tourneur; screenwriters: Walter Lipman/story by Jonathan Latimer; cinematographer: Clyde DeVinna; editor: Conrad Nervig; music: David Snell; cast: Walter Pidgeon (Nick Carter), Donald Meek (Bartholomew), Joseph Schildkraut…

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BIG STEAL, THE

BIG STEAL, THE (director: Don Siegel; screenwriter: Daniel Mainwaring/Gerald Drayson Adams/based on the Saturday Evening Post Story "The Road to Carmichael's by Richard Wormser; cinematographer: Harry J. Wild; editor: Samuel…

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PIANIST, THE

PIANIST, THE (director: Roman Polanski; screenwriters: Ronald Harwood/from the autobiography by Wladyslaw Szpilman; cinematographer: Pawel Edelman; editor: Herve de Luze; music: Wojciech Kilar; cast: Adrien Brody (Wladyslaw Szpilman), Thomas Kretschmann…

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BIRD OF PARADISE

BIRD OF PARADISE (director: King Vidor; screenwriters: Leonard Praskins/Wells Root/adaptation of Richard Walton Tally's play; cinematographers: Lucien Andriot/Clyde De Vinna/Edward Cronjager; editor: Archie F. Marshek; music: Max Steiner; cast: Joel…

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