GENTLEMAN JIM

GENTLEMAN JIM (director: Raoul Walsh; screenwriters: Vincent Lawrence/James J. Corbett’s autobiography The Roar of the Crowd; cinematographer: Sidney Hickox; editor: Jack Killifer; music: Heinz Roemheld; cast: Errol Flynn (James J.…

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GILDA

GILDA (director: Charles Vidor; screenwriters: Marion Parsonnet/Jo Eisinger/from story by E.A. Ellington; cinematographer: Rudolph Maté; editor: Charles Nelson; cast: Rita Hayworth (Gilda Mundson), Glenn Ford (Johnny Farrell), George Macready (Ballin…

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GIRL, THE

  GIRL, THE (director/writer: Sande Zeig; screenwriter: story and screenplay by Monique Wittig; cinematographer: Georges Lechaptois; editors: Keiko Deguchi/Geraldine Peroni; music: Richard Robbins; cast: Claire Keim (The Girl), Agathe De…

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GOOD BYE, LENIN!

GOOD BYE, LENIN! (director/writer: Wolfgang Becker; screenwriters: Hendrik Handloegten/Bernd Lichtenberg/Christoph Silber/Achim von Borries; cinematographer: Martin Kukula; editor: Peter R. Adam; music: Yann Tiersen; cast: Daniel Brühl (Alex), Katrin Sass (Christiane…

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GRAN CASINO

GRAN CASINO (director: Luis Buñuel; screenwriters: from a story by Michel Veber/Mauricio Magdaleno; cinematographer: Jack Draper; editor: Gloria Schoemann; music: Manuel Esperón; cast: Libertad Lamarque (Mercedes Irigoyen), Jorge Negrete (Gerardo…

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HALLELUJAH

  HALLELUJAH (director/writer: King Vidor; screenwriters: Wanda Tuchock/Wanda Tuchock/Ransom Rideout/Richard Schayer/Marian Ainslee; cinematographer: Gordon Avil; editors: Hugh Wynn/Anton Stevenson; music: Irving Berlin; cast: Daniel L. Haynes (Zekial 'Zeke' Johnson), Nina…

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HAPPINESS

  HAPPINESS (SCHASTE) (director/writer: Alexander Medvedkin; cinematographer: Gleb Troianski; music: Modest Mussorgsky; cast: Pyotr Zinovyev (Khmyr), Yelena Yegorova (Anna, his wife), Lidiya Nenasheva (Nun); Runtime: 64; MPAA Rating: NR; Icarus;…

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