RANA’S WEDDING

RANA'S WEDDING (aka: ANOTHER DAY IN JERUSALEM) (director: Hany Abu-Assad; screenwriters: Liana Badr/Ihab Lamey; cinematographer: Brigit Hillenius; editor: Denise Jansee; music: Bashar Abd Rabbou/Mariecke van der Linden; cast: Clara Khoury…

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RATON PASS

RATON PASS (aka: CANYON PASS/ALONG THE SANTA FE TRAIL) (director: Edward L. Marin; screenwriters: novel by Tom W. Blackburn/Tom W. Blackburn/James R. Webb; cinematographer: Wilfrid M. Cline; editor: Tom Reilly;…

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CROWD, THE

  CROWD, THE (director/writer: King Vidor; screenwriter: John V. A. Weaver; cinematographer: Henry Sharp; editor: Hugh Wynn; cast: Eleanor Boardman (Mary), James Murray (John), Bert Roach (Bert), Estelle Clark (Jane),…

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READY PLAYER ONE

READY PLAYER ONE (director: Steven Spielberg; screenwriters: Zak Penn/Ernest Cline/based on the book by Ernest Cline; cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski; editors: Sarah Broshar, Michael Kahn; music: Alan Silvestri; cast: Tye Sheridan…

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CUTTER’S WAY

CUTTER'S WAY (aka: CUTTER AND BONE) (director: Ivan Passer; screenwriters: Jeffrey Alan Fiskin/based on the novel Cutter and Bone by Newton Thornburg; cinematographer: Jordan Cronenweth; editor: Caroline Biggerstaff; music: Jack…

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DANGEROUS WHEN WET

DANGEROUS WHEN WET (director: Charles Walters; screenwriter: Dorothy Kingsley; cinematographer: Harold Rosson; editor: John McSweeney, Jr.; music: Scott Bradley/songs by Arthur Schwartz and Johnny Mercer; cast: Esther Williams (Katie Higgins),…

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RED BEARD

RED BEARD (AKAHIGE) (director/writer: Akira Kurosawa; screenwriters: Masato Ide/Ryuzo Kikushima/Hideo Oguni/Shugoro Yamamoto from the novel "Akahige shinryotan" by Shugoro Yamamoto; cinematographers: Asaichi Nakai/Takao Saito; music: Masaru Sato; cast: Toshiro Mifune…

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