DISHONORED

DISHONORED (director/writer: Josef von Sternberg; screenwriter: Daniel Nathan Rubin; cinematographer: Lee Garmes; editor: Josef von Sternberg; music: Karl Hajos/Herman Hand; cast: Marlene Dietrich (Marie Kolverer/X-27), Victor McLaglen (Colonel Kranau), Gustav…

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RIO BRAVO

RIO BRAVO (director: Howard Hawks; screenwriters: from a short story by B.H. McCampbell/Jules Furthman/Leigh Brackett; cinematographer: Russell Harlan; editor: Folmar Blangsted; music: Dimitri Tiomkin; cast: John Wayne (Sheriff John T.…

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DRAGNET GIRL

DRAGNET GIRL (HIJOSEN NO ONNA) (director/writer: Yasujiro Ozu; screenwriter: Ikeda Tadao; cinematographer: Hideo Shigehara; editors: Kazuo Ishikawa/Minoru Kuribayashi; cast: Kinuyo Tanaka (Tokiko), Joji Oka (Jyoji), Sumiko Mizukubo (Kazuko), Hideo Mitsui…

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DRIVE, HE SAID

DRIVE, HE SAID (director/writer: Jack Nicholson; screenwriter: from the novel by Jeremy Larner/Jeremy Larner; cinematographer: Bill Butler; editors: Donn Cambern/Christopher Holmes /Pat Somerset /Robert L. Wolfe; music: David Shire; cast:…

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EARLY SUMMER

EARLY SUMMER (Bakushû) (director/writer: Yasujiro Ozu; screenwriter: Kôgo Noda; cinematographer: Yuharu Atsuta; editor: Yoshiyasu Hamamura; music: Senji Itô; cast: Setsuko Hara (Noriko Mamiya), Chishu Ryu (Koichi Mamiya), Chikage Awashima (Aya…

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EDGE OF TOMORROW

EDGE OF TOMORROW (director: Doug Liman; screenwriters: Christopher McQuarrie/Jez/ John-Henry Butterworth/based on the novel “All You Need Is Kill,” by Hiroshi Sakurazaka; cinematographer: Dion Beebe; editor: James Herbert; music: Christophe…

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