BLACK NARCISSUS

BLACK NARCISSUS (director/writer: Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger; screenwriter: novel by Rumer Godden; cinematographer: Jack Cardiff; editor: Reginald Mills; music: Brian Easdale; cast: Deborah Kerr (Sister Clodagh), Flora Robson (Sister Phillippa), Jean…

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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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PIN UP GIRL

PIN UP GIRL (director: Bruce Humberstone; screenwriters: Robert Ellis, Helen Logan, Earl Baldwin, based on the story Imagine Us by Libbie Block; cinematographer: Ernest Palmer; editor: Robert Simpson; music: Mark…

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BLOWUP

BLOWUP (director/writer: Michelangelo Antonioni; screenwriters: from the short story Las babas del diablo by Julio Cortazar/Tonino Guerra; cinematographer: Carlo Di Palma; editor: Frank Clarke; music: Herbie Hancock/The Yardbirds; cast: David…

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PITFALL, THE

PITFALL, THE (director: André de Toth; screenwriter: from book by JayDratler/Karl Kamb; cinematographer: Harry J. Wild; editor: Walter Thompson; cast: Dick Powell (John Forbes), Jane Wyatt (Sue Forbes), Lizabeth Scott…

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B. MONKEY

  B. MONKEY (director: Michael Radford; screenwriters: Chloe King/Michael Thomas/based on the novel by Andrew Davies; cinematographer: Ashley Rowe; editor: Joelle Hache; music: Jennie Muskett; cast: Asia Argento (B. Monkey),…

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PLATOON

PLATOON (director/writer: Oliver Stone; cinematographer: Robert Richardson. editor: Claire Simpson; cast: Tom Berenger (Sgt. Barnes), Willem Dafoe (Sgt. Elias), Charlie Sheen (Chris Taylor), Forest Whitaker (Big Harold), Francesco Quinn (Rhah),…

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PLUNDERERS, THE

PLUNDERERS, THE (director: Joseph Pevney; screenwriter: Bob Barbash; cinematographer: Gene Polito; editor: Tom McAdoo; music: Leonard Rosenman; cast: Jeff Chandler (Sam Christie), Marsha Hunt (Kate Miller), Dolores Hart (Ellie Walters),…

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