CITY LIGHTS

CITY LIGHTS (director/writer/editor/producer/music: Charles Chaplin; cinematographer: Roland H. "Rollie" Totheroh; cast: Charlie Chaplin (The Tramp), Virginia Cherrill (The Blind Girl), Harry Myers (The Millionaire), Florence Lee (Blind Girl's Grandmother), Allan…

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QUEEN BEE

QUEEN BEE (director/writer: Ranald MacDougall; screenwriter: based on the novel The Queen Bee by Edna L. Lee; cinematographer: Charles Lang; editor: Viola Lawrence; music: George Duning; cast: Joan Crawford (Eva…

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COCKFIGHTER

COCKFIGHTER (director: Monte Hellman; screenwriters: Charles Willeford/from a novel by Mr. Willeford novel; cinematographer: Néstor Almendros; editor: Lewis Teague; music: Michael Franks; cast: Warren Oates (Frank Mansfield), Harry Dean Stanton…

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QUICKSAND

QUICKSAND (director: Irving Pichel; screenwriter: Robert Smith; cinematographer: Lionel Lindon; editor: Walter Thompson; music: Louis Gruenberg; cast: Mickey Rooney (Dan Brady), Jeanne Cagney (Vera Novak), Barbara Bates (Helen), Peter Lorre…

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RABBIT, RUN

RABBIT, RUN (director: Jack Smight; screenwriters: based on a John Updike novel/Howard B. Kreitsek; cinematographer: Philip Lathrop; editor: Archie Marshek; music: William Lava; cast: James Caan (Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom), Jack…

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CONTEMPT

CONTEMPT (Mépris, Le) (director/writer: Jean-Luc Godard; screenwriters: novel A Ghost at Noon (Il Disprezzo) by Alberto Moravia; cinematographer: Raoul Coutard; editors: Agnès Guillemot/Lila Lakshmanan; music: Georges Delerue; cast: Brigitte Bardot…

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COVER GIRL

COVER GIRL (director: Charles Vidor; screenwriters: Virginia Van Upp/Marion Parsonnet/Paul Gangelin/based on a story by Erwin Gelsey; cinematographers: Rudolph Mate/Allen M. Davey; editor: Viola Lawrence; music: Carmen Dragon/Morris Stoloff; cast:…

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RAMBO

RAMBO (director/writer: Sylvester Stallone; screenwriters: Art Monterastelli/characters by David Morrell; cinematographer: Glen MacPherson; editor: Sean Albertson; music: Brian Tyler; cast: Sylvester Stallone (John Rambo), Julie Benz (Saran Miller), Ken Howard…

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