AFRAID TO DIE

AFRAID TO DIE (Karakkaze yarô) (director/writer: Yasuzo Masumura; screenwriters: Hideo Ando/Ryuzo Kikushima; cinematographer: Hiroshi Murai; editor: Tatsuji Nakashizu; music: Tetsuo Tsukahara; cast: Yukio Mishima (Takeo Asahina), Ayako Wakao (Yoshie Koizumi),…

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MUSIC LOVERS, THE

THE MUSIC LOVERS (director: Ken Russell; screenwriters: Melvyn Bragg/based on the novel Beloved Friend by Catherine Drinker Bowen/Barbara von Meck; cinematographer: Douglas Slocombe; editor: Michael Bradsell; music: Andre Previn/Tchaikovsky; cast:…

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MY FAVORITE SPY

MY FAVORITE SPY (directors: Norman Z. McLeod; screenwriter: story by Ed Beloin/Jack Sher/Edmund Hartmann/Lou Breslow/Hal Kanter; cinematographer: Victor Milner; editor: Frank Bracht; music: Victor Young; cast: Bob Hope (Peanuts White/Eric…

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AIR RAID WARDENS

AIR RAID WARDENS (director: Edward Sedgwick; screenwriters: Martin Rackin/Jack Jevne/Charles Rogers/Harry Crane; cinematographer: Walter Lundin; editor: Irvine Warburton; music: Nathaniel Shilkret; cast: Stan Laurel (himself), Oliver Hardy (himself), Edgar Kennedy…

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MY NAME IS JOE

MY NAME IS JOE (director: Ken Loach; screenwriter: Paul Laverty; cinematographer: Barry Ackroyd; editor: Jonathan Morris; cast: Peter Mullan (Joe Kavanagh), David McKay (Liam), David Hayman (McGowan), Annemarie Kennedy (Sabine),…

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