PHANTOM KILLER

PHANTOM KILLER (director: William Beaudine; screenwriter: Karl Brown/story by Albert DeMond; cinematographer: Marcel LePicard; editor: Jack Ogilvie; music: Frank Sanucci; cast: Dick Purcell (Edward Clark), Joan Woodbury (Barbara Mason), John…

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BIRTHDAY PARTY, THE

THE BIRTHDAY PARTY (director/writer: William Friedkin; screenwriter: Harold Pinter/play by Pinter; cinematographer: Denys Coop; editor: Tony Gibbs; cast: Robert Shaw(Stanley), Patrick McGee (McCann), Dandy Nichols (Meg Bowles), Sydney Tafler (Goldberg),…

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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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BLACKHAT

BLACKHAT (director/writer: Michael Mann; screenwriter: Morgan Davis Foehl; cinematographer: Stuart Dryburgh; editors: Joe Walker, Stephen Rivkin, Jeremiah O’Driscoll, Mako Kamitsuna; music: Harry Gregson-Williams, Atticus Ross, Leo Ross; cast: Chris Hemsworth…

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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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BLACK WIDOW

BLACK WIDOW (director/writer: Nunnally Johnson; screenwriter: from the novel Fatal Woman by Patrick Quentin; cinematographer: Charles G. Clarke; editor: Dorothy Spencer; music: Leigh Harline; cast: Ginger Rogers (Carlotta 'Lottie' Marin),…

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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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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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BLUE SUNSHINE

BLUE SUNSHINE (director/writer: Jeff Lieberman; cinematographer: Don Knight; editor: Brian Smedley-Aston; music: Charles Gross; cast: Zalman King (Jerry Zipkin), Deborah Winters (Alicia Sweeney), Robert Walden (Dr. David Blume), Ray Young…

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