PHOENIX

PHOENIX (director: Christian Petzold; screenwriters: Harun Farocki/based on the novel “Le Retour des Cendres” by Hubert Monteilhet; cinematographer: Hans Fromm; editor: Bettina Böhler; music: Stefan Will; cast: Nina Hoss (Nelly…

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PICKUP

PICKUP (director/writer: Hugo Haas; screenwriters: Arnold Phillips/based on the novel Watchman 47 by Joseph Kopra; cinematographer: Paul Ivano; editor: Donald W. Bagler; music: Harold Byrns; cast: Hugo Haas (Jan 'Hunky'…

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BLAISE PASCAL

  BLAISE PASCAL (director/writer: Roberto Rossellini; screenwriters: Marcella Mariani/Luciano Scaffa; cinematographer: Mario Fioretti; editor: Jolanda Benvenuti; music: Mario Nascimbene; cast: Bernard Rigal (Chancellor Séguier), Pierre Arditi (Blaise Pascal), Rita Forzano…

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PILLAGED

PILLAGED (MIS A SAC) (director/writer: Alain Cavalier; screenwriters: Claude Sautet/based on the novel The Score by Richard Stark; cinematographers: Pierre Lhomme/Alain Cavalier; editor: Pierre Gillette; music: Jean Prodromidès; cast: Daniel…

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BLUEBEARD

BLUEBEARD "It's a compromised film that tends to offend everyone but the Nazis." (director/writer: Edward Dmytryk; screenwriters: from the story by Ennio Di Concini/Ennio Di Concini/Maria Pia Fusco/Luciano Sacripanti; cinematographer:…

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PIRATE, THE

PIRATE, THE (director: Vincente Minnelli; screenwriters: from the play by S.N. Behrman/Frances Goodrich/Albert Hackett; cinematographer: Harry Stradling; editor: Blanche Sewell; cast: Judy Garland (Manuela), Gene Kelly (Serafin), Walter Slezak (Don…

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BODY AND SOUL

BODY AND SOUL (director: Robert Rossen; screenwriter: Abraham Polonsky; cinematographer: James Wong Howe; editor: Robert Parrish; music: Edward Heyman; cast: John Garfield (Charlie Davis), Lilli Palmer (Peg Born), Anne Revere…

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PLAGUE, THE

  PLAGUE, THE (V)   (director/writer: Hal Masonberg; screenwriter: Teal Minton; cinematographer: Bill Butler; editor: Ed Marx; music: Laszlo Remenyi; cast: James Van Der Beek (Tom Russell), Ivana Milicevic (Jean…

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BORDER FEUD

BORDER FEUD (director: Ray Taylor; screenwriters: Patricia Harper/novel by Joseph O'Donnell; cinematographer: Milford Anderson; editor: Joe Gluck; cast: Al 'Lash' La Rue (Cheyenne Davis), Al 'Fuzzy' St. John(Sheriff Fuzzy Q.…

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