BIG TROUBLE

BIG TROUBLE (director: John Cassavetes; screenwriters: Andrew Bergman aka Warren Bogle; cinematographer: Bill Butler; editors: Donn Cambern/Ralph E. Winters; music: Bill Conti; cast: Peter Falk (Steve Rickey), Alan Arkin (Leonard…

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PETULIA

PETULIA (director: Richard Lester; screenwriters: from John Haase's novel "Me and the Arch Kook Petulia"/Lawrence B. Marcus/Barbara Turner; cinematographer: Nicolas Roeg; editor: Antony Gibbs; cast: Julie Christie (Petulia Danner), George…

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BIRTHDAY PARTY, THE

THE BIRTHDAY PARTY (director/writer: William Friedkin; screenwriter: Harold Pinter/play by Pinter; cinematographer: Denys Coop; editor: Tony Gibbs; cast: Robert Shaw(Stanley), Patrick McGee (McCann), Dandy Nichols (Meg Bowles), Sydney Tafler (Goldberg),…

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BLACKHAT

BLACKHAT (director/writer: Michael Mann; screenwriter: Morgan Davis Foehl; cinematographer: Stuart Dryburgh; editors: Joe Walker, Stephen Rivkin, Jeremiah O’Driscoll, Mako Kamitsuna; music: Harry Gregson-Williams, Atticus Ross, Leo Ross; cast: Chris Hemsworth…

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PICCADILLY

PICCADILLY (director: E. A. Dupont; screenwriter: Arnold Bennett; cinematographer: Werner Brandes; editor: J.W. McConaughy; music: Neil Brand; cast: Anna May Wong (Shosho), Gilda Gray (Mabel Greenfield), Jameson Thomas (Valentine Wilmot),…

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BLACK WIDOW

BLACK WIDOW (director/writer: Nunnally Johnson; screenwriter: from the novel Fatal Woman by Patrick Quentin; cinematographer: Charles G. Clarke; editor: Dorothy Spencer; music: Leigh Harline; cast: Ginger Rogers (Carlotta 'Lottie' Marin),…

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PIED PIPER

  PIED PIPER (director: Irving Pichel; screenwriters: Nunnally Johnson/ based on the novel by Nevil Shute; cinematographer: Edward Cronjager; editor: Allen McNeil; music: Alfred Newman; cast: Monty Wooley (Howard), Roddy…

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