PETER IBBETSON

PETER IBBETSON (director: Henry Hathaway; screenwriters: from the novel by George duMaurier and the play by John Nathaniel Raphael and Constance Collier/ Vincent Lawrence/Waldemar Young/John Meehan/Edwin Justus Mayer; cinematographer: Charles…

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BIRD OF PARADISE

BIRD OF PARADISE (director: King Vidor; screenwriters: Leonard Praskins/Wells Root/adaptation of Richard Walton Tally's play; cinematographers: Lucien Andriot/Clyde De Vinna/Edward Cronjager; editor: Archie F. Marshek; music: Max Steiner; cast: Joel…

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PHANTOM THREAD

PHANTOM THREAD (director/writer: Paul Thomas Anderson; cinematographer: Paul Thomas Anderson; editor: Dylan Tichenor; music: Jonny Greenwood; cast: Daniel Day-Lewis (Reynolds Woodcock), Vicky Krieps (Alma), Lesley Manville (Cyril), Camilla Rutherford (Johanna),…

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BLACK CAT

  BLACK CAT (director/writer: Edgar G. Ulmer; screenwriters: from an Edgar Allan Poe story/Peter Ruric; cinematographer: John Mescall; editor: Ray Curtiss; cast: Boris Karloff (Hjalmar Poelzig), Bela Lugosi (Dr. Vitus…

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BLACK SUNDAY

BLACK SUNDAY (director: John Frankenheimer; screenwriters: novel by Thomas Harris/Ernest Lehman/Kenneth Ross/Ivan Moffat; cinematographer: John A. Alonzo; editor: Tom Roif; music: John Williams; cast: Robert Shaw (Major David Kabakov), Bruce…

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PIECES

PIECES (aka: One Thousand Cries Has the Night)(aka: MIL GRITOS TIENE LA NOCHE) (director: Juan Piquer Simón; screenwriters: Dick Randall/Joe D'Amato; cinematographer: John Marine; editor: Antonio Gimeno; music: Librado Pastor;…

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BLOCKERS

BLOCKERS (director: Kay Cannon; screenwriter: Brian Kehoe, Jim Kehoe, Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, Eben Russell; cinematographer: Russ T. Alsobrook; editor: Stacey Schroeder; music: Mateo Messina; cast: Leslie Mann (Lisa), John…

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PINK PANTHER, THE

PINK PANTHER, THE (director/writer: Blake Edwards; screenwriter: Maurice Richlin; cinematographer: Philip H. Lathrop; editor: Ralph Winters; music: Henry Mancini; cast: Peter Sellers (Inspector Jacques Clouseau), David Niven (Sir Charles Lytton),…

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