PRESSURE POINT

PRESSURE POINT (director/writer: Hubert Cornfield; screenwriters: S. Lee Pogostin/from the short story Fifty-Minute Hour by Robert Lindner; cinematographer: Ernest Haller; editor: Frederic Knudtson; music: Ernest Gold; cast: Sidney Poitier (Chief…

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PRIMARY

PRIMARY (director: Robert Drew; cinematographers: Albert Maysles/Richard Leacock/Terrence McCartney Filgate; editors: D.A. Pennebaker/Richard Leacock; cast: Joseph Julian (Narrator), Senator Kennedy, Senator Humphrey, Jacqueline Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy; Runtime: 58; MPAA Rating:…

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CAPTAIN KIDD

CAPTAIN KIDD (director: Rowland V. Lee; screenwriters: Robert N. Lee/Norman Reilly Raine; cinematographer: Archie Stout; editor: James Smith; music: Werner Janssen; cast: Charles Laughton (Capt. William Kidd), Randolph Scott (Adam…

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PRINCESS CARABOO

PRINCESS CARABOO (director/writer: Michael Austin; screenwriter: John Wells; cinematographer: Freddie Francis; editor: George Akers; music: Richard Hartley; cast: Wendy Hughes (Mrs. Worrall), Jim Broadbent (Mr. Worrall), Phoebe Cates (Princess Caraboo/Mary…

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CARRIE

  CARRIE (director: William Wyler; screenwriters: Ruth & Augustus Goetz/based on the novel Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser; cinematographer: Victor Milner; editor: Robert Swink; music: David Raksin; cast: Laurence Olivier…

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PRIVATE NUMBER

PRIVATE NUMBER (SECRET INTERLUDE) (director: Roy Del Ruth; screenwriters: Gene Markey/William Conselman/from the story by Cleves Kinkead /frpm the play Common Clay by Cleves Kinkead; cinematographer: Peverell Marley; editor: Allen…

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PROMISED LAND

PROMISED LAND (director: Gus Van Sant; screenwriters: Matt Damon/John Krasinski/story by Dave Eggers; cinematographer: Linus Sandgren; editor: Billy Rich; music: Danny Elfman; cast: Matt Damon (Steve Butler), John Krasinski (Dustin…

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