PASSIONS

PASSIONS (UVLECHENIYA) (director/writer: Kira Muratova; cinematographer: Gennady Karyuk; editor: Valentina Oleynik; music: Ludwig van Beethoven; cast: Svetlana Kolenda (Violetta), Renata Litvinova (Nurse Lila), Alexei Schevtshenko (Milashevski), Mikhail Demidov(Kasyanov), Vassily Rybakin…

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PATTON

PATTON (director: Franklin J. Schaffner; screenwriters: Francis Ford Coppola/Edmund H. North/based on the books Patton: Ordeal and Triumph by Ladislas Farago and A Soldier's Story by Gen. Omar N. Bradley;…

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BIGGER THAN LIFE

BIGGER THAN LIFE (director/writer: Nicholas Ray; screenwriters: from an article in "The New Yorker" by Berton Roueché/story by Cyril Hume and Richard Maibaum/Cyril Hume/Richard Maibaum/Gavin Lambert (uncredited)/Clifford Odets (uncredited)/based on…

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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 MOUTH, THE

BIG MOUTH, THE (director/writer: Jerry Lewis; screenwriter: Bill Richmond; cinematographer: W. Wallace Kelley; editor: Russel Wiles; music: Harry Betts; cast: Jerry Lewis (Gerald Clamson/Syd Valentine), Harold J Stone (Thor), Susan…

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