BLACK BART

BLACK BART (director: George Sherman; screenwriters: Luci Ward/William Bowers/Jack Natteford/story by Ward and Natteforf; cinematographer: Irving Glassberg; editor: Russell Schoengarth; music: Frank Skinner/Leith Stevens; cast: (Jersey Brady), Jeffrey Lynn (Lance…

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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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PIMP

PIMP (director/writer: Christine Crokos; cinematographer: Rik Zang; editors: John Scott Cook, Todd Sandler; music: Alec Puro; cast: Keke Palmer (Wednesday), Vanessa Morgan (Destiny), Edi Gathegi (Kenny Wayne), Haley Ramm (Nikki),…

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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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PIRATES

PIRATES (director/writer: Roman Polanski; screenwriters: Gerard Brach/John Brownjohn; cinematographer: Witold Sobocinski; editors: Herve de Luze/William Reynolds; music: Philippe Sarde; cast: Walter Matthau(Capt Thomas Bartholomew Red), Damien Thomas (Don Alfonso), Charlotte…

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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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PLAINSMAN, THE

PLAINSMAN, THE (director: Cecil B. DeMille; screenwriters: Waldemar Young/Harold Lamb/Lynn Riggs/inspired by stories by Courtney Ryley Cooper and Frank J. Wilstach's book Wild Bill Hickok, the Prince of Pistoleers (1926);…

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