PENTHOUSE

PENTHOUSE (director: W.S. Van Dyke; screenwriters: Frances Goodrich/Albert Hackett/based on the story in Cosmopolitan magazine by Arthur Somers Roche; cinematographers: Lucien Andriot/Harold Rosson; editor: Robert Kern; music: William Axt; cast:…

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BIG LEAGUER

BIG LEAGUER (director: Robert Aldrich; screenwriters: Herbert Baker/from a story by John McNulty and Louis Morheim; cinematographer: William Mellor; editor: Ben Lewis; music: Alberto Colombo; cast: Edward G. Robinson (John…

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PERMANENT MIDNIGHT

PERMANENT MIDNIGHT (director/writer: David Veloz; screenwriter: book by Jerry Stahl; cinematographer: Robert Yeoman; editor: Steven Weisberg, Cara Silverman; music: Daniel Licht; cast: Ben Stiller (Jerry Stahl), Elizabeth Hurley (Sandra), Maria…

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BIG SLEEP, THE

BIG SLEEP, THE (director: Howard Hawks; screenwriters: William Faulkner/Leigh Brackett/Jules Furthman/from the novel by Raymond Chandler; cinematographer: Sid Hickox; editor: Christian Nyby; music: Max Steiner; cast: Humphrey Bogart (Philip Marlowe),…

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PHAEDRA

PHAEDRA (director/writer: Jules Dassin; screenwriters: based on Euripedes' Hippolytus/Margarita Liberaki; cinematographer: Jacques Natteau; editor: Roger Dwyre; music: Mikis Theodorakis; cast: Melina Mercouri (Phaedra), Anthony Perkins (Alexis), Raf Vallone (Thanos Kyrilis),…

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BLACK BIRD, THE

THE BLACK BIRD  (director/writer: David Giler; screenwriters: story by Don M. Mankiewitz and Gordon Cotler; cinematographer: Phil Lathrop; editors: Margaret Booth/Walter Thompson/Lou Lombardo; music: Jerry Fielding; cast: George Segal (Sam…

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PICCADILLY JIM

PICCADILLY JIM (director: Robert Z. Leonard; screenwriter: from the book Piccadilly Jim by P. G. Wodehouse/Charles Brackett; cinematographer: Joseph Ruttenberg; editor: William S. Gray; music: William Axt; cast: Robert Montgomery…

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BLACK ROOM, THE

BLACK ROOM, THE (director: Roy William Neill; screenwriters: Henry Myers/Arthur Strawn/from the story by Arthur Strawn; cinematographer: Allen G. Siegler; editor: Richard Cahoon; music: R.H. Bassett/Milan Roder/Louis Silvers; cast: Boris…

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