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He drives a big > PL: chevery truck with a eagle painted on it's hood. He chases after "bad > PL: guys" and returns them to the Los Angelos area. He has two companions, > PL: Howie and Jodie. These two compainions ussualy follow Colt in his > PL: adventures and sometimes they are own there own. > > BY: CJ Lagos > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5357a5369,5378 > MV: "Patrik Pacard" (1985) > > PL: Series about a boy who meets scientists involved in the discovery of a > PL: chemical which makes it possible to grow everything everywhere. He > PL: becomes entangled in the operations of secret services who try to steal > PL: the formula. > > BY: Michael Stroucken > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6220a6242,6252 > MV: "Schattenmann, Der" (1995) (mini) > > PL: Undercover cop Charly Held sneaks into the organization of Jan Herzog, the > PL: head of organised crime in Frankfurt. Slowly, he gains the Herzog's > PL: trust and is pulled deeper and deeper into the business. Overwhelmed by > PL: his new jet-set lifestyle he thinks of changing the sides. Will he, or > PL: will he not? > > BY: Harald Mayr > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9279a9312,9322 > PL: On any day of the week, you could expect a newborn baby to be nurtured and > PL: loved by his older sister. Except, of course, if it's Wednesday. Pubert > PL: is the latest addition to the Addams family and, to prevent sibling > PL: rivalry escalating to fratricide, Wednesday and Pugsley are shipped off > PL: to summer camp and a nanny is hired. Debby Jellinsky is great with > PL: wrinkling baldies, which makes her the perfect nanny for Pubert and the > PL: unlikely wife of Uncle Fester. The question is..."Is she grave-digging > PL: or gold-digging?" > > BY: Tim McSmythurs > 10637,10648d10679 < MV: All New Human Skin Lanterns (1993) < < PL: Fish-gut merchant Fai has had nothing but bad luck his whole life because, < PL: in his previous life in the '40s, powerful triad boss Mister Hung had < PL: killed and buried him in a grave that would give him ten incarnations < PL: of misfortune. Sister Yung was Fai's lover in that lifetime and now, as < PL: a ghost, links up with Fai to clear the hex return a lantern make of < PL: her skin from the previous lifetime to her a Peking Opera ghost < < BY: L.H. Wong < < ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10941a10973,10983 > MV: Along Came Jones (1945) > > PL: Riding into Payneville, easy-going cowboy Melody Jones is mistaken by the > PL: townsfolk for notorious gunman Monte Jarrad. The real Jarrad is hiding > PL: out wounded on the ranch of childhood sweetheart Cherry. She has the > PL: idea of sending Jones off to decoy the pursuing posse, but once he's > PL: met Cherry, Jones has other plans. > > BY: Jeremy Perkins > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11181a11224,11237 > MV: Amazing Colossal Man, The (1957) > > PL: Lt. Col. Glenn Manning is inadvertently exposed to a plutonium bomb blast > PL: at Camp Desert Rock. Though burned over 90% of his body, he survives, > PL: and begins to grow in size. As he grows, his heart and circulatory > PL: system fail to keep pace with his growth, and he is gradually losing > PL: his mind as a result of reduced blood supply to his brain. He reaches > PL: 50 feet tall before his growth is stopped. By this time he has become > PL: insane. He escapes and wreaks havoc upon Las Vegas before he is finally > PL: stopped. > > BY: Teresa E. Tutt > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12786a12843,12852 > PL: Newly-promoted if none too happily married Howard Brubaker leaves a rowdy > PL: Company party early with the stunning Catherine, whom it turns out is > PL: herself unhappily married - to the boss. They spend an innocent night > PL: in New York becoming more and more attracted to each other, so that > PL: when Catherine announces she intends to leave her husband and return to > PL: Paris Howard asks to go along too. In the cold light of morning > PL: problems and pressures from spouses crowd in. > > BY: Jeremy Perkins > 13406a13473,13481 > MV: Asi en el Cielo Como en la Tierra (1995) > > PL: God decides to send another son to the earth to save the world. Jesuschrist > PL: disagrees because in such a case the history should be rewritten. To > PL: solve the dispute they decide to organise the apocalypse. > > BY: Miguel A. Andrade > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14414a14490,14497 > MV: Back in the Saddle (1941) > > PL: After Gene discovers copper on his ranch, Bennett tries to get control of > PL: the fortune by framing him in a jail-break. > > BY: Ed Stephan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15481a15565,15573 > MV: Barbed-Wire (1952) > > PL: A rancher vs. homesteader war will prevent cattle buyer Autry from getting > PL: his cows. Complicating things is Ruttledge's scheme to run a railroad > PL: through the land. > > BY: Ed Stephan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16220a16313,16319 > MV: Beast in the Cellar, The (1971) > > PL: Two old women have a murderous secret kept locked in the basement. > > BY: Arthur Workman > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16229a16329,16336 > MV: Beast of the Yellow Night (1971) > > PL: Satan saves Ashley from death on condition he become his disciple (and, as > PL: it turns out, a hairy murderous beast). > > BY: Arthur Workman > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16634a16742,16749 > MV: Beginning or the End, The (1947) > > PL: The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well > PL: as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama. > > BY: Jim Beaver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16826a16942,16949 > MV: Bells Of Capistrano (1942) > > PL: When her competitor gets too rough rodeo owner Jennifer gets help from > PL: Gene. > > BY: Ed Stephan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17212,17248d17334 < MV: Better Tomorrow III, A (1989) < < PL: At the end of the Vietnam war, Cheung goes to Saigon, intent on bringing < PL: his uncle and cousin back to Hong Kong. In Saigon, Cheung meets < PL: beautiful gangleader Chow, and relies on her help for their safe < PL: return. A love triangle develops between the cousins and Chow Further < PL: complicating matters, Chow's lover Ho, a gang leader, appears Ho < PL: deports the cousins, and kills their uncle. Cheung and his cousin < PL: return to Vietnam seeking revenge, while Chow and Ho also become < PL: entangled with a local vietnamese warlord. Chow tries to stop the < PL: battle, but the warlord kills Chow and Ho. Just before her death Chow < PL: gives the cousins the last two air tickets with which to leave Vietnam < < BY: L.H. Wong < < ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < MV: Better Tomorrow, A (1986) < < PL: This story is the tale of two brothers: one a successful < PL: counterfeiter and the younger a fledgling graduate of the < PL: HK police academy. The plot revolves around the split < PL: when the younger brother learns the other is a criminal < PL: and the efforts of the criminal brother to reform. Along < PL: the way are plenty of heists, double-crosses, and shoot < PL: outs. < < BY: Victor R. Volkman < < PL: Ti-Lung is a gangster trying to go < PL: straight but caught between loyalty to his down-&-out < PL: partner (Chow Yun-Fat) & rookie cop brother (Leslie < PL: Cheung), & the ominous pressure of his former triad < PL: bosses. < < BY: Eric Hendrickon < < ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17504a17591,17598 > MV: Beyond Fear (????) > > PL: A martial arts expert turned wilderness guide has to defend her tour group > PL: against two killers out to retrieve an incriminating videotape. > > BY: Mark Destler > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17603a17698,17706 > MV: Beyond the Purple Hills (1950) > > PL: Hick town sheriff Gene must arrest Jack Beaumont even though he believe > PL: Jack innocent of his father's murder. Which, of course, he sets out to > PL: prove. > > BY: Ed Stephan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18138a18242,18249 > MV: Big Show, The (1936) > > PL: At the Texas Centennial in Dallas Autry confuses two girls by being himself > PL: and his own stunt double. > > BY: Ed Stephan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18292a18404,18416 > MV: Bikini Bistro (1995) > > PL: Judy is having trouble drumming up business for her vegetarian restaurant, > PL: and the landlord gives her four days to pay off the mortgage. Judy > PL: calls up her friend Marilyn Chambers for help, and together they > PL: transform the restaurant into the Bikini Bistro, replete with scantily > PL: clad waitresses. Soon business is booming and the women are falling in > PL: lust, but the bartender is skimming the till and the landlord's > PL: deadline is looming. Can the restaurant be saved? > > BY: Ed Sutton > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19417a19542,19548 > MV: Blazing Sun, The (1950) > > PL: Autry is out to capture a pair of bank robbers. > > BY: Ed Stephan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19431a19563,19570 > MV: Blind Alley (1939) > > PL: Gangster Hal Wilson takes psychiatrist Dr. Shelby hostage. While captive, > PL: the doctor analyzes Wilson as though he were a patient. > > BY: Jim Beaver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20094a20234,20241 > PL: A theater director and his assisstant (ralphus) torture naked women on > PL: stage. The audience thinks it's "great special effects" , but little do > PL: they know that it's all real! This sadomadistic director has plans for > PL: these girls that he kidnapps other than using them for his > PL: performances. He fulfills his sick fantasies with them. > > BY: Mike Abraham > 20212a20360,20368 > MV: Blue Canadian Rockies (1952) > > PL: With the goal of preventing his daughter from marrying, Autry's boos sends > PL: him to Canada where she has started a dude ranch and wild game > PL: preserve. > > BY: Ed Stephan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20350a20507,20514 > MV: Blue Montana Skies (1939) > > PL: Autry follows a clue written on a rock by a dead man to get to a smuggling > PL: operation near the Canadian border. > > BY: Ed Stephan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20634a20799,20807 > MV: Body Bags (1993) (TV) > > PL: Three short stories in the horror genre The first about a serial killer The > PL: second about a hair transplant going wrong The third about a base ball > PL: player > > BY: Stefan Andersson > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20832a21006,21014 > MV: Bodyhold (1949) > > PL: Tommy Jones, a well-built plumber, is invited to join a troupe of > PL: professional wrestlers, but is surprised to learn that the sport of > PL: exhibition wrestling is not on the up-and-up. > > BY: Jim Beaver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21259a21442,21449 > MV: Boots And Saddles (1937) > > PL: Young Englishman inherits ranch which he wants to sell, but Gene's gonna > PL: turn him into a real westerner instead.. > > BY: Ed Stephan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21280a21471,21479 > MV: Border Incident (1949) > > PL: Workers crossing illegally into California are being waylaid and killed on > PL: their return to Mexico. Law enforcement officers from the two countries > PL: team up to infiltrate the ring involved in the smuggling. > > BY: Jeremy Perkins > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22279a22479,22502 > MV: Breeders (1986) > > PL: The Manhattan General Hospital has admitted a string of young women who > PL: have been raped by something otherwordly. The perpetrator only attacks > PL: women who are virgins. Dr. Pace and Detective Andriotti work together > PL: to try and isolate the strange organic material found on the victims, > PL: and to try and locate the fiend. Soon the victims begin arising in a > PL: trance and leaving the hospital by an underground passage where their > PL: fate awaits them. > > BY: Ed Sutton > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MV: Breezy (1973) > > PL: Breezy is a teen-aged hippie with a big heart. After taking a a ride with a > PL: man who only wants her for sex, Breezy manages to escape. She runs to > PL: hide on a secluded property where stands the home of a middle-aged > PL: divorced man, Frank Harmon. Frank relunctantly takes Breezy in only to > PL: fall unexpectedly in love with her. > > BY: Kelly > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24259a24483,24490 > MV: Call of the Canyon (1942) > > PL: Gene heads some cattlemen who have been swindled by McCoy. McCoy needed > PL: their money to pay off his gambling debt. > > BY: Ed Stephan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24464a24696,24703 > MV: Canadian Pacific (1949) > > PL: A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who > PL: oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion. > > BY: Jim Beaver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27578a27818,27824 > MV: Cinema of Unease (1995) > > PL: A personal journey through Sam Neill's childhood and memories. > > BY: Nadia David > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27638a27885,27892 > MV: Circumstantial Evidence (1945) > > PL: When his son is abused, Joe Reynolds threatens to kill the man responsible. > PL: When that man is killed, Joe finds himself facing the electric chair. > > BY: Jim Beaver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 30389a30644,30651 > MV: Cowboy in Manhattan (1943) > > PL: Bob Allen, a struggling songwriter poses as a millionaire cowboy to win > PL: Broadway star Babs Lee. > > BY: Stephan Eichenberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 30426a30689,30701 > MV: Crack in the World (1965) > > PL: Dr. Steven Sorenson (Andrews) plans to tap the geothermal energy of the > PL: Earth's interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep > PL: within the Earth. Despite dire warnings by fellow scientist Ted Rampian > PL: (Moore), Dr Sorenson proceeds with the experiment after secretly > PL: learning that he is terminally ill. This experiment causes a crack to > PL: form and grow within the earth's crust, which threatens to split the > PL: earth in two if it is not stopped in time. > > BY: Teresa E. Tutt > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 30450a30726,30735 > MV: Cracksman, The (1963) > > PL: A shorty, kind, very innocent and efficient locksmith is cheated by a > PL: burglar in order to rob a car and to open a safe strongbox. The police > PL: catches him and is sent to jail. Once there some gangsters gain his > PL: friendship to cheat him again and help then to escape. > > BY: Michel Rudoy > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 30452a30738,30749 > PL: A former 'TV scientist', since a road accident left him with serious facial > PL: and bodily scarring, has become obsessed by the marriage of motor car > PL: technology with what he sees as the `raw sexuality' of car-crash > PL: victims. The scientist, along with a crash victim he has recently > PL: befriended, set about performing a series of sexual acts in a variety > PL: of motor vehicles, either with other crash victims or with prostitutes > PL: who they contort into the shape of trapped-corpses. Ultimately, the > PL: scientist craves a suicidal union of blood, semen and engine coolant, a > PL: union with which he becomes dangerously obsessed. > > BY: Matt A. Knapp > 30954,30961c31251,31258 < PL: In 1535, an alchemist builds an extraordinary mechanism < PL: encapsulated into a small golden device. The invention, designed to < PL: convey eternal life to its owner, survives its maker until 1997 when it < PL: shows up to an antiquarian. Fascinated with the strange device, Gris < PL: (Luppi) doesn't note that there's more than one person looking for it. < PL: The promise of eternal life has become an obsession to old and sick Mr. < PL: De la Guardia (Brook). He and his nephew (Perlman) will do anything to < PL: get the "Chronos Invention". --- > PL: In 1535, an alchemist builds an extraordinary mechanism encapsulated into a > PL: small golden device. The invention, designed to convey eternal life to > PL: its owner, survives its maker until 1997 when it shows up to an > PL: antiquarian. Fascinated with the strange device, Gris (Luppi) doesn't > PL: note that there's more than one person looking for it. The promise of > PL: eternal life has become an obsession to old and sick Mr. De la Guardia > PL: (Brook). He and his nephew (Perlman) will do anything to get the > PL: "Chronos Invention". 30963c31260 < BY: Maximiliano Maza --- > BY: Maximiliano Maza 32115a32413,32424 > PL: John Dunbar is a decorated war hero who chooses to be posted to the > PL: frontier (it cost the military a fortune in stamps, but at least it > PL: guaranteed next day delivery). As his CO so rightly pointed out "That > PL: there's Injun country" so Dunbar is suspicious to find his new post > PL: deserted. He elects to stay and whilst waiting for his relief, he meets > PL: "Stands With A Fist", a Sioux squaw. Returning to her village, he is > PL: gradually accepted into the tribe until the army eventually turns up. > PL: Should he return to the military or stay with his new wife? In other > PL: words, is it war or squaw? > > BY: Tim McSmythurs > 32771a33081,33089 > MV: Davy Crockett, Indian Scout (1950) > > PL: Davy Crockett (not the famous Alamo hero, but his cousin) guides a wagon > PL: train through hostile territory and rescues the cavalry from ambushing > PL: Indians. > > BY: Jim Beaver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 35295a35614,35621 > MV: Dichiarazioni d'Amore (1994) > > PL: Pupi Avati's delicate and charming tale of the life of a teenage boy in > PL: post-war Bologna. > > BY: taken from the australian television guide at www.sofcom.com.au > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 35901a36228,36235 > MV: Dixie Jamboree (1944) > > PL: A medicine man on the last show boat on the Mississippi is mistaken by two > PL: gangsters as a bootleger, and has to envade them. > > BY: Stephan Eichenberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 38208a38543,38551 > MV: Dunwich Horror, The (1970) > > PL: H.P. Lovecraft meets Hollywood: Wilbur Whateley wants to help the Old Ones > PL: break through by consulting the Necronomicon, and Armitage must stop > PL: him. Attractive females are added to fill out the plot. > > BY: Brian Bixby > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 39727a40071,40078 > MV: Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen (1942) > > PL: Detective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a > PL: prize of industrial diamonds. > > BY: Jim Beaver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 40149a40501,40508 > MV: Escape from Crime (1942) > > PL: Ex-con Red O'Hara becomes a daring news photographer, but his old ways get > PL: him into trouble. > > BY: Jim Beaver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 41664a42024,42033 > MV: Fandango (1985) > > PL: It's 1971 at Texas A&M. College buddies, facing graduation, marriage, and > PL: the draft, skip out of their own graduation party and head south to > PL: Mexico for some adventure, a buried secret, and one last go-around at > PL: "the privileges of youth". > > BY: Scott Butler > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 41721a42091,42104 > MV: Fanny (1961) > > PL: Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life > PL: planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. > PL: The night before he is to leave on a 5-year voyage, Fanny, a girl he > PL: grew up with, reveals that she is in love with him, and he discovers > PL: that he is in love with her. He must choose between an exciting life > PL: at sea, and a boring life with the woman he loves. And Fanny must > PL: choose between keeping the man she loves, and letting him live the life > PL: he seems to want. > > BY: John Oswalt > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 42063a42447,42456 > MV: Fatal Hour, The (1940) > > PL: When Captain Street's best friend Dan O'Grady is murdered, Street enlists > PL: the help of Chinese detective James Lee Wong. Mr. Wong uncovers a > PL: smuggling ring on the waterfront of San Francisco and unmasks the > PL: killer, though not until several more murders occur. > > BY: Jim Beaver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 42909a43303,43310 > MV: Fighting Man of the Plains (1949) > > PL: Former bandit Jim Dancer becomes marshal of a Kansas town and cleans up the > PL: criminal element - with the help of his old pal, Jesse James. > > BY: Jim Beaver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 46865a47267,47284 > MV: Gal Young 'Un (1979) > > PL: The screenplay is adapted from a novel by Marjorie Kennin Rawlings, better > PL: known I think for her book The Yearling which has also been films. Gal > PL: Young 'Un centers on a spinster woman who lives alone in the woods of > PL: north Florida until she is swept off her feet by an opportunistic > PL: bootlegger. He marries her for her place and her daddy's money and her > PL: cooking and cleaning, which she freely shares. Inevitably, he shows his > PL: true colors in a variety of ways. One day he brings home a very young > PL: woman with clear intentions of keeping her as a mistress (a gal young > PL: 'un) in the older woman's house. Business takes him elsewhere and the > PL: two woman are left alone in the woods together to come to terms with > PL: their shared exploitedness. The older woman's slowburn and eventual > PL: retaliation are masterfully crafted. > > BY: George W. Sherouse > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 46962a47382,47391 > MV: Gambler, The (1974) > > PL: Alex Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has > PL: lost all his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his father and > PL: finally some bad guys that chase his. Despite of all this he cannot > PL: stop gambling. > > BY: Michel Rudoy > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 46977c47406 < MV: Gamera tai Barugon (1966) --- > MV: Gamera Tai Barugon (1966) 47139c47568 < MV: Gary Larson's Tales from the Far Side (1994) (TV) --- > MV: Gary Larson's Tales From the Far Side (1994) (TV) 47922,47932d48350 < MV: Ghost Lantern (1993) < < PL: A street hustler with terrible luck (Tony Leung) encounters the < PL: sensual ghost of a woman (Chingmy Yau) and discovers that he was < PL: murdered by a crime boss in a previous life. Together they try to < PL: free each other from the curses of this evil man by taking on his < PL: legacy -- a powerful HK crime force. < < BY: Towne 3, San Jose, Ca < < ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 48209a48628,48635 > MV: Gimme Shelter (1970) > > PL: A harrowing documentary of the Stones' 1969 tour, with much of the focus on > PL: the tragic concert at Altamont. > > BY: Scott Butler > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 48230a48657,48665 > MV: Girl and Her Trust, The (1912) > > PL: Some tramps assault the telegraph office trying to rob $2000 delivered by > PL: train. The telegraphist girl, trying to help, telegraphs the next > PL: station and then the men are captured. > > BY: Michel Rudoy > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 49125a49561,49569 > MV: Gold Rush Maisie (1940) > > PL: Maisie Ravier finds herself stranded in an Arizona ghost town with a family > PL: of migrant dustbowl refugees. The ghost town, it turns out, may have a > PL: gold mine. > > BY: Jim Beaver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 50393a50838,50848 > MV: Great Train Robbery, The (1903) > > PL: The clerk at the train station is assaulted and left tied by four men, then > PL: they rob the train threatening the operator. The take all the money and > PL: shoot a passenger when trying to run away. A little girl discovers the > PL: clerk tied and gives notice to the sheriff, who at once goes along with > PL: his men hunting the bandits. > > BY: Michel Rudoy > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 50413a50869,50878 > MV: Great Ziegfeld, The (1936) > > PL: The life of the great Broadway producer Florence Ziegfeld, jr from his > PL: beginnings as manager of a strongman throu his two marriages with Anna > PL: Held and Louise Rainer, with some high lights of his productions to his > PL: dead in 1932. > > BY: Stephan Eichenberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 51225a51691,51700 > MV: Guy Who Came Back, The (1951) > > PL: Former football star Harry Joplin is down on his luck, both in his career > PL: and in his married life. He seems convinced of his own unworthiness, > PL: but a chance to play in a charity football game helps him see his life > PL: in a new light. > > BY: Jim Beaver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 55429a55905,55917 > MV: Hong Gaoliang (1988) > > PL: An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife > PL: bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by > PL: the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi- > PL: matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When the Japanese invaders > PL: subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for > PL: a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew. > PL: In the process of resisting the Japanese, Jiu'er dies. > > BY: L.H. Wong > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 56452a56941,56954 > MV: House on Carroll Street, The (1988) > > PL: Emily Crane is fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House > PL: Un-American Activities Committee, and takes a part-time job as > PL: companion to an old lady. One day her attention is drawn to a noisy > PL: argument being conducted largely in German in a neighbouring house, the > PL: more so since one of those involved is her main senator prosecutor. > PL: Starting to look into things, she gradually enlists the help of FBI > PL: officer Cochran who was initially detailed to check her out. Just as > PL: well when things turn nasty. > > BY: Jeremy Perkins > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 56510a57013,57028 > MV: House That Screamed, The (1970) > > PL: Lilli Palmer owns and runs a school for wayward girls in Spain. Her > PL: absolute discipline has fostered a social order among the girls with > PL: rampant sex, lesbianism and torture the norm. Palmer also has an > PL: adolescent son (Moulder Brown) she tries to keep isolated from the > PL: young women lest he be tainted by sexual relations; She explains that > PL: he must wait for a girl "just like his mother". Meanwhile, girls are > PL: "running away" (being murdered) one by one, with their corpses and any > PL: evidence of their outcome not to be found. Beware cut versions; the > PL: film was shown back in the 70's on network TV chopped to only 76 > PL: minutes! > > BY: Arthur Workman > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 56804a57323,57334 > MV: Hud (1963) > > PL: Hud Bannon has always preferred drinking, fighting and womanizing to the > PL: very traditional ways of his father. Hud is a man who cares more for > PL: himself than he does his young nephew, his dad, or even their > PL: understanding housekeeper. When disease threatens the cattle on the > PL: Bannon Ranch, the conflict between Hud and his old-line father reaches > PL: an all time high. > > BY: Anonymous > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 57532a58063,58072 > MV: I Stand Accused (1938) > > PL: Fred, a young lawyer fresh out of school, climbs quickly to success as the > PL: mouthpiece for a gangland mob. His friend Paul, however, reaches > PL: equally quick success - in the district attorney's office. Inevitably, > PL: they meet on opposite sides of the courtroom. > > BY: Jim Beaver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 58824a59365,59374 > MV: In Una Notte di Chiaro di Luna (1989) > > PL: An american journalist works for a french newspaper. He is writing an > PL: article about the reaction against people with AIDS, without knowing he > PL: is infected too. Once he finds out, decides to cut off himself leaving > PL: his wife and dauѕȸ4) d5x> > > BY: Anonymous > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 59459a60010,60020 > MV: Intent to Kill (1993) > > PL: Vicki leads a police action against drugsdealer Salvador.Salvador gets away > PL: but vicki acquires his drugs worth 5 million.Due to the many police > PL: losses she is taken of the case and replaced by her husband > PL: Al.Nevertheless she continues to hunt Salvador down who is now making > PL: havoc to regain the drugs. > > BY: Paul Mesken > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 59753a60315,60328 > MV: Invisible Invaders (1959) > > PL: Aliens, contacting scientist Adam Penner, inform him that they have been on > PL: the moon for twenty thousand years, undetected due to their > PL: invisibility, and have now decided to annihilate humanity unless all > PL: the nations of earth surrender immediately. Sequestered in an > PL: impregnable laboratory trying to find the aliens' weakness, Penner, his > PL: daughter, a no-nonsense army major and a squeamish scientist are > PL: attacked from outside by the aliens, who have occupied the bodies of > PL: the recently deceased. > > BY: Doug Sederberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 61511a62087,62099 > MV: Joey Breaker (1993) > > PL: Joey Breaker is a fast-talking, ambitious, workaholic agent representing > PL: actors, screenwriters, and comedians for the New York firm of Morgan > PL: Creative. He is callous and intolerant, but when he unexpectedly falls > PL: in love, he begins to see that he has been missing much of what is > PL: important in life. His demeanor mellows and he learns to be more > PL: tolerant of others. Suddenly, he is faced with a difficult choice when > PL: his girlfriend graduates from nursing school and returns to Jamaica. > > BY: Tad Dibbern > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 61535a62124,62132 > MV: Johnny Angel (1945) > > PL: Johnny Angel sets out to learn who hijacked a gold shipment from his > PL: father's ship and killed his father, the captain. He is joined in the > PL: search by Paulette, whose own father has been killed by the hijackers. > > BY: Jim Beaver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 65443a66041,66049 > MV: Land Without Music (1936) > > PL: Allegedly true story from early 19th Century involving a Ruritanian singer, > PL: a Princess who dislikes his music, and a Police Chief with a sideline > PL: in smuggling musical instruments. > > BY: Michael Crew > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 66317a66924,66931 > MV: Law of the Golden West (1949) > > PL: Young Buffalo Bill Cody goes after the murderer of his father and uncovers > PL: a land-grab conspiracy. > > BY: Jim Beaver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 66717a67332,67341 > MV: Legion of Terror (1937) > > PL: Frank Marshall and Slim Hewitt, postal inspectors, infiltrate a Ku Klux > PL: Klan-like vigilante group which has mailed a bomb to a senator. When > PL: the legion kills the brother of Nancy Foster, she helps Frank and Slim > PL: in their investigation. > > BY: Jim Beaver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 66832a67457,67466 > PL: Leon is a jewish estate agent who, during a routine check-up at an > PL: infertility clinic, discovers he has something in common with Captain > PL: Blighe of the Bounty. Yes, they were both victims of mixed up se(a)men. > PL: It turns out that his biological father is not quite as jewish as he'd > PL: hoped and is, in fact, a Yorkshire pig farmer. Despite their > PL: differences, Leon is welcomed into the family, but loyalties are torn > PL: when he accidentally breeds the first Kosher pig! > > BY: Tim McSmythurs > 68840a69475,69486 > MV: Lolo (1993) > > PL: Lolo (nickname for Dolores, used in Mexico as femenine or masculine name) > PL: is an outcast boy who lives in the suburbs of Mexico City. He > PL: accidentaly kills the local moneylender (an old woman) when trying to > PL: rob his mother's golden watch (that she pawned). Lolo is then hunted > PL: and blackmailed by everybody but his girlfriend. The dialogs are in a > PL: very particular Mexico City slang. > > BY: Michel Rudoy > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 70216a70863,70874 > MV: Lunch Wagon (1980) > > PL: Three women start a lunch wagon business but run into stiff resistance from > PL: their competitor Mr. Schmeckler: their presence is interfering with > PL: some sort of illegal activity he's involved in. While Schmeckler > PL: busies himself trying to sabotage their wagon, the women are busy > PL: falling in love with construction guys and rock musicians. Two > PL: bumbling diamond thieves create complications for both sides. > > BY: Ed Sutton > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 71069a71728,71736 > PL: Dolly Payne is adored by two leaders of the fledgling American government, > PL: James Madison and Aaron Burr. She plays each against the other, not > PL: only for romantic reasons, but also to influence the shaping of the > PL: young country. By manipulating Burr's affections, she helps Thomas > PL: Jefferson win the presidency, and eventually she becomes First Lady of > PL: the land herself. > > BY: Jim Beaver > 71784a72452,72465 > MV: Man from Tangier (1957) > > PL: International crook Armstrong flees post-war Tangier with priceless forgery > PL: plates. International crook Voss sends pretty Michele after him. > PL: Arriving in London, Armstrong accidentally swaps coats in a barber's > PL: shop with film actor Chuck Collins. Through an address in his new > PL: coat's pocket, Collins meets up with Michele. Voss' partner, > PL: international crook Heinrich, starts to sense a double-cross. When > PL: Armstrong is thrown out of his hotel window, the police start to sense > PL: foul play. > > BY: Jeremy Perkins > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 72654a73336,73344 > MV: Marie s'en-va-t-en ville (1987) > > PL: A young girl who is being abused at home runs away to the seamy side of > PL: Montreal where she makes friends with a prostitute who helps her to > PL: survive the urban jungle. > > BY: Michael Crew > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 72704a73395,73403 > MV: Mariposa China (1995) > > PL: It's forbidden to dream but "oniroscopes" indicate that a dream was > PL: materialized. The Monk realizes that it is its own dream. May be he > PL: will be not able to avoid the Night Watcher destroy the dream. > > BY: Julio Alterach > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 72871a73571,73578 > MV: Marshal of Cedar Rock (1953) > > PL: Rocky Lane takes on Henry Mason, a crooked railroad agent, who is swindling > PL: local landowners out of their property. > > BY: Jim Beaver > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 72984a73692,73698 > MV: Masculine Mystique, The (1984) > > PL: Four men discuss their troubled relationships with women. > > BY: Michael Crew > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 73630a74345,74355 > MV: Mee Pok Man (1995) > > PL: A retarded noodle seller, the "Mee Pok Man", falls secretly in love with > PL: Bunny, a prostitute who frequents his stall. One day as he quietly > PL: stalks Bunny, he witnesses her being knocked down by a car and brings > PL: her back to his home. When she eventually dies, Mee Pok Man continues > PL: to talk to her decaying corpse for many days. > > BY: S. H. Yong > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 74830a75556,75570 > MV: Minbo no Onna (1992) > > PL: A grand old Japanese hotel is trying to get a prestigious contract as the > PL: site of a summit meeting of important foreign officials. Unfortunately, > PL: this hotel is quite popular with the Yakuza (Japanese gangsters) and is > PL: a favorite target of theirs for extortion. They employ a variety of > PL: schemes to con the hotel out of 'hush-money.' The hotel needs to rid > PL: itself of the Yakuza and finally begins to fight back by hiring Mahiru > PL: Inoue, a lawyer who is an expert at dealing with these criminals on > PL: their own terms. This film by Juzo Itami combines action with farce, > PL: as an all-out war ensues. > > BY: Tad Dibbern > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 75245a75986,75993 > MV: Mississippi Gambler (1942) > > PL: A journalist finds out, that a plantation owner he meets is a gangster the > PL: police is looking for, who has changed his face with plastic surgery. > > BY: Stephan Eichenberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 76409a77158,77167 > MV: Mother's Cry (1930) > > PL: Having raised four children alone, widow Mary Williams still manages to > PL: love her eldest son, vicious and sadistic Danny Williams, who has led a > PL: life of crime and now returns to inflict his insane behavior on the > PL: family household. > > BY: Doug Sederberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 76834a77593,77598 > PL: A boxer dies in the prizefight ring, and detective Mr. Moto is called in > PL: when it turns out to be murder. What Moto uncovers, with the help of > PL: Charlie Chan's son Lee, is a gangland gambling racket. > > BY: Jim Beaver > 77671a78436,78444 > MV: Musset (1967) > > PL: Documentary about the leader of the fascist party in The Netherlands, from > PL: 1931 till 1945. This architect called Anton Mussert was shot in 1946 > PL: after having been convicted for high treason and aiding the enemy. > > BY: Chris Abbenhuis > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 79452a80226,80233 > MV: Never a Dull Moment (1943) > > PL: Two comedians possing as gangsters, find out, they are being used for > PL: hiding stolen jewlery. > > BY: Stephan Eichenberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 80672a81454,81461 > MV: Nino Invisible, El (1995) > > PL: A group of children find a magic stone that transports them to the XII > PL: century. > > BY: Miguel A. Andrade > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 80986a81776,81784 > MV: Non Si Sevizia un Paperino (1972) > > PL: In Sicily, Italy, a psycho killer is going around hacking up young boys. > PL: There are several suspects, including a gypsy witch, a local > PL: prostatute, and a priest. Early slasher film from director Lucio Fulci. > > BY: Humberto Amador > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 84878a85677,85684 > MV: Panic in the Streets (1950) > > PL: A doctor (Clint Reed) and a policeman (Tom Warren) in New Orleans have only > PL: 48 hours to locate a killer (Blackie) infected with pneumonic plague. > > BY: William Crew > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 86030a86837,86844 > MV: People Are Funny (1946) > > PL: Two rivaling radio producers try to get the same sponsor. So they try to > PL: overtop each other with new ideas. > > BY: Stephan Eichenberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 86745a87560,87578 > MV: Pharaoh's Army (1995) > > PL: During the American Civil War, a Union Army captain leads his rag-tag > PL: cavalry troop up a misty creek to a remote farm to steal enemy > PL: (Confederate) livestock. The farm is wroked by Sarah Anders, whose > PL: husband is away fighting for the Confederate Army. Far from the great > PL: armies and battlefields, a very private civil war erupts. The Captain > PL: and Sarah are pulled apart by the war's undertow into choices they can > PL: not fully control or understand. Each character in this drama must > PL: decide whether loyalty will be paid in blood. This story has a > PL: relevance to current partisan conflicts. Armies are not filled with > PL: murdering psychopaths. Good people can be driven to do bad things. The > PL: story chronicles the pathology of war, how escalating events can > PL: trigger unasked-for tragedy. Based on a true story about a southern > PL: child who shot and killed a union soldier during the Civil War. > > BY: jstanley@stern.nyu.edu > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 88045a88879,88891 > MV: Police Story II (1988) > > PL: Despite his success at apprehendingcriminals, Kevin Chan's unorthadox > PL: approach to his work as a police officer sees him demoted to the > PL: traffic branch. Despite this, the manhe put behind bars is now out of > PL: prison, and has vowed to make his life a misery. While this crime boss > PL: his harrassing Kevin and his girlfriend, the police are contemplating > PL: reinstating Kevin to help them fight a group of bomberss attempting to > PL: extort $10 million from building owners. > > BY: Murray Chapman > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 88649a89496,89506 > MV: Postman Strikes Back, The (1981) > > PL: The Republiic of China was still young, Shihai and the warlords were > PL: against Dr. Sun Yat-Sen. Long and his gang roamed the northern > PL: mountain areas. They are known as "The Pigtails" for the pigtails they > PL: wear. Because of the stratgic importance of the northern mountains Jiao > PL: sends his envoy. > > BY: Victor R. Volkman > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 90402a91260,91270 > MV: Pure Country (1992) > > PL: Dusty Chandler (Strait) is a super star in the country music world, but his > PL: shows have the style of a '70s rock concert. One day he takes a walk - > PL: out of his overdone concerts to find his real country roots. He's > PL: helped and hindered by friends and staff, but pushes on in his search > PL: for a real music style as well as a real romance. > > BY: Don Femia > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 90616a91485,91491 > MV: Quando Alice Ruppe lo Specchio (1988) > > PL: Gigolo kills off women after he gets bored with them. > > BY: Humberto Amador > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 91327a92203,92210 > MV: Radio Stars on Parade (1945) > > PL: A Hollywood talent agency tries to avoid finacial ruin by getting its best > PL: clients on the air. > > BY: Stephan Eichenberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 93314a94198,94209 > MV: Resurrection (1980) > > PL: Ellen Burstyn experiences the after-life for a brief time after a car > PL: accident that kills her husband. As she begins her long process of > PL: physical healing she discovers that she has the ability to heal > PL: physical infirmaties. While most people simply accept her gift, her > PL: lover (Sam Shepard) becomes mentally unbalanced and dangerous because > PL: she does not place the healings within a religious context. > > BY: Michael Cieslak > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 94039a94935,94947 > MV: Riding Tornado, The (1932) > > PL: Newcomer Torrent wins $500 from Olcott and $500 and a wild horse, by riding > PL: the horse, from Engle. Then loses the $1000 to Engle in a poker game. > PL: Torrent goes to work for Olcott. Torrent fights with Stark and Stark > PL: quits and goes to work for Engle. Rustlers are stealing horses. Carson > PL: suspects Olcott and Olcott suspects Carson. Sheriff prevents war > PL: between them. Torrent stops wild horse stampede. Starks spills beans > PL: on Engle. Torrent kills Engle and wins Patsy Olcott. > > BY: Ed Tabor <102353,1047@compuserve.com> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 94574a95483,95496 > MV: Roadside Prophets (1992) > > PL: Bizarre and surreal road movie about a biker and his unlikely sidekick. On > PL: a quest to fulfill a friend's last wish, Joe takes to the desert road > PL: on his 1957 Harley-Davidson and meets a succession of odd characters, > PL: including Sam. Sam begins following Joe, on a quest of his own, which > PL: necessitates staying in Motel 9's wherever they go. Themes such as > PL: friendship, faith, and isolation are brought into sharp relief by > PL: strange situations, the lonely road, and the stark emptiness of the > PL: desert. There are also several humorous cameos. > > BY: Tad Dibbern > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 95143a96066,96079 > MV: Rojo Amanecer (1989) > > PL: October 2, 1968 in Mexico City. There's only ten days for the Olympic Games > PL: and a small student's revolt has turned into a major political turmoil. > PL: A meeting will be carry out that day in Tlatelolco (the largest housing > PL: complex in the city) and the situation is extremely tense. A typical > PL: middle-class mexican family (living in Tlatelolco) will be tragically > PL: involved in the events, when the meeting is brutally interrupted by the > PL: army and hundreds of people are killed in the square in front of their > PL: apartment building. > > BY: Maximiliano Maza > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 95984a96921,96937 > MV: Ruby (1992) > > PL: An exploration of certain conspiracy theories surrounding the JFK > PL: assassination from Jack Ruby's perspective. Ruby owns a run-down strip > PL: club in Dallas, and does what he can for credibility, both by giving > PL: information to the FBI and by doing the odd favor for his mafia > PL: contacts. When hitman Action Jackson is hit, Louie Vitali asks him to > PL: help get crime boss Santos out of a Cuban jail. When they get back, > PL: the bosses take his headliner Candy Cane under their wing to develop > PL: her career in Vegas. A mysterious government man named Maxwell > PL: expresses his displeasure to Ruby over his Cuban activities. Slowly > PL: all the pieces of a massive conspiracy begin to emerge to Ruby, who can > PL: do nothing to stop it. > > BY: Ed Sutton > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 97132a98086,98099 > MV: Sandlot, The (1993) > > PL: Scotty Smalls moves to a new neighborhood with his mom and stepdad, and > PL: wants to learn to play baseball. The neighborhood baseball guru > PL: Rodriquez takes Smalls under his wing, and soon he's part of the local > PL: baseball buddies. They fall into adventures involving baseball, > PL: treehouse sleep-ins, the desirous lifeguard at the local pool, the > PL: snooty rival ball team, and the travelling fair. Beyond the fence at > PL: the back of the sandlot menaces a legendary ball-eating dog called The > PL: Beast, and the kids inevitably must deal with him. > > BY: Ed Sutton > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 99036a100004,100017 > MV: Seduction of Innocence (1995) > > PL: Small-town girl journeys with friend to big city (looks like Dallas) to > PL: visit older sister, only to find that Sis is a) working as a stripper, > PL: b) tied up with some kind of drug syndicate, and c) living with a > PL: lesbian. Our heroine gets interested in "dancing" herself while her > PL: friend gets interested in the older sister. Lots of nudity on stage > PL: and a fair amount of lesbian friendliness. Standard exploitation fare, > PL: interesting mainly for the mostly-positive light in which female > PL: homosexuality is portrayed. > > BY: Sleepless in Chicago > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 102634a103616,103623 > PL: In a Los Angeles police station, it is reported that Norma Shearer's pearls > PL: have been stolen. A detective is sent to the actress' home to > PL: interrogate party guests, most of whom are famous Hollywood stars. The > PL: detective ends up chasing leads all over town, ending up at a movie > PL: studio, where he learns the truth behind "the slippery pearls." > > BY: Jim Beaver > 102645a103635,103649 > MV: Sliver (1993) > > PL: Sliver Heights has everything a girl could want. Panoramic views of the > PL: city, a fully functional gym and a voyeuristic landlord with a minor > PL: oedipal complex and psychotic tendencies. One day, one of the tenants > PL: has an accident. First she looks out the window, then she looks the > PL: wrong way and finally she looks like pavement pizza. This leaves a > PL: vacant room, which Carly Norris takes a fancy to. She's a 30 something > PL: executive who has never had that much success with men. But, hey, isn't > PL: that a perfectly eligible voyeuristic landlord with a minor oedipal > PL: complex and psychotic tendencies? > > BY: Tim McSmythurs > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 103126a104131,104137 > PL: An old market in the 15th district of Vienna gets torn down in order to get > PL: free space for a condominium. The aggressive process of destruction of > PL: a public cityspace with social functions is shown in the film. No > PL: nostalgia, just wondering if this market was really valueless... > > BY: Manu.Luksch > 103664a104676,104695 > MV: Son of Frankenstein (1939) > > PL: Wolf Frankenstein, son of Henry Frankenstein, returns with his wife, to his > PL: fathers estate to claim his inheritance. When he arrives with his > PL: family he recieves a hostile reception from locals.While exploring his > PL: fathers laboratory he comes across crooked shepherd - Ygor, who asks > PL: him to revive his father`s creation - the MONSTER who is lying in a > PL: coma.Wolf tries to revive the monster and believes he fails but then > PL: some of the locals are found murdered soon after who just happened to > PL: be part of the jury that sent Ygor to the gallows. The villagers > PL: immediately connect the killings to Frankenstein and send the inspector > PL: to investigate. He discovers the monster is alive and is being used as > PL: tool by Ygor. Wolf then in fit of madness shoots Ygor. The then enraged > PL: monster losing his only friend kidnaps Wolf`s son. In the end Wolf > PL: tracks the monster to the lab where he swings down on a chain knocking > PL: the monster into a sulpher pit and thus his demise. > > BY: Peter Gonzalez > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 104024a105056,105066 > MV: Sorpasso, Il (1962) > > PL: Roberto, a shy student, meets Roberto, a forty-year-old exuberant, > PL: capricious man, who takes him fro a drive through the Roman country. > PL: They will spend two days together, meet both Roberto's and Bruno's > PL: family. Lonely Roberto will start to understand what life is. But is > PL: Roberto really happy ? > > BY: Yepok > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 104849,104863d105890 < MV: Spooky Bunch, The (1980) < < PL: A Cantonese opera company arrives in Cheung Chau to perform for a rich man, < PL: who wants to marry of his nephew Dick to the star of the company Ah < PL: Gee. As soon as they arrive, the company is thwarted by a female < PL: spirit, Catshit, who turns out to be the precursor of a whole army of < PL: spirits sent to pester the uncle and one of the older actors. Only Ah < PL: Gee and Dick find out that the danger has something to do with a crime < PL: committed by Ah Gee's ancestors. This involved selling bad medicines < PL: to soldiers as a result of which a whole platoon of ghosts is out for < PL: vengeance < < BY: L.H. Wong < < ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 105138a106166,106180 > MV: St. Louis Kid, The (1934) > > PL: Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car > PL: accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a > PL: penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism > PL: with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this > PL: dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but > PL: the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He > PL: leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked > PL: some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered, Ann > PL: Reid is missing and Eddie Kennedy is accused of murder. > > BY: Stephan Eichenberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 105663c106705 < PL: Force." A must see for all. --- > PL: Force." 107328a108371,108381 > MV: Suor Omicidio (1978) > > PL: Anita Ekberg and Joe Dallesandro star in this cult horror film about a > PL: demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, whilst > PL: presiding over a regime of lesbianism, torture and death. Anita plays > PL: the head nurse/nun in a general hospital, whose increasingly psychotic > PL: behavior endangers the staff and patients around her. > > BY: Arthur Workman > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 107362,107370d108414 < MV: Super Monster Gamera (1980) < < PL: Using several clips from previous Gamera entries, this film deals with < PL: alien forces sending all the monsters Gamera has faced in one final < PL: battle to rid the planet of its last hope. < < BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth < < ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 107437a108482,108495 > PL: Unable to convince the ruling council of Krypton that their world will > PL: destroy itself soon, scientist Jor-El takes drastic measures to > PL: preserve the Kryptonian race: He sends his infant son Kal-El to Earth. > PL: There, gaining great powers under Earth's yellow sun, he will become a > PL: champion of truth and justice. Raised by the Kents, an elderly farm > PL: couple, Clark Kent learns that his abilities must be used for good. The > PL: adult Clark travels to Metropolis, where he becomes a mild-mannered > PL: reporter for the Daily Planet...and a caped wonder whose amazing feats > PL: stun the city: Superman! Meanwhile, Lex Luthor, the world's greatest > PL: criminal mind, is plotting the greatest real estate swindle of all > PL: time. Can even the Man of Steel stop this nefarious scheme? > > BY: Gregory A. Sheets > 108025a109084,109099 > MV: Sweethearts (1938) > > PL: A musical comedy duo in their 6th year on Broadway receive an offer to > PL: perform in Hollywood making films. The change of lifestyle is inviting > PL: to the Sweethearts as the move will take them away from relatives and > PL: friends who want to engage them in countless performances. However, > PL: when it comes to signing their Hollywood contract they do not sign as > PL: Gwen has been perceived into believing her seetheart and husband is > PL: engaged in an affair with their personal assistant. The Sweethearts > PL: split up and carry on performing their musical production around > PL: America with their understudies as their co-stars. Eventually they are > PL: united in a Broadway Show. > > BY: Jenny Evans > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 108063a109138,109145 > MV: Swing It Soldier (1941) > > PL: A DJ on radio station, who's husband is in the Army, gives her job to her > PL: twin sister, without letting anybody know about this. > > BY: Stephan Eichenberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 108111a109194,109204 > MV: Swing Shift Maisie (1943) > > PL: Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant > PL: during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. > PL: Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's > PL: conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to > PL: Maisie to convince him. > > BY: Doug Sederberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 111080a112174,112179 > PL: Killer Pitman is sent to prison in the middle of the Arizona desert. He > PL: begins to manipulate everyone to achieve his goal : escape (he got a $ > PL: 500,000 loot buried out somewhere). > > BY: Yepok > 111090a112190,112202 > MV: There's Nothing Out There (1991) > > PL: Seven teens head up to a cabin on the lake for spring break. Mike has > PL: studied all horror films on video, and recognizes the signs of > PL: foreshadowing of doom. The others dismiss his concerns as the workings > PL: of a person that watches too many videos, but there really is something > PL: out there, and the teens begin experiencing an attrition problem when > PL: they start stumbling into all the cliches found in a typical teen > PL: horror film. > > BY: Ed Sutton > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 112944a114057,114064 > MV: Time Out for Rhythm (1941) > > PL: Kitty Brown, the maid of Frances Lewis, a nightclub star, gets after > PL: Frances' fiance forbids her to apear in the club, a Hollywood contract. > > BY: Stephan Eichenberg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 113501a114622,114631 > MV: Toit du monde, Le (1995) > > PL: A spanish worker obtains the Swiss nationality after twenty years living in > PL: Switzerland. He works in his own company and helps the inmigrants with > PL: problems. But after a laboral accident he comes back to Spain and > PL: changes radically his attitude. > > BY: Miguel A. Andrade > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 113561a114692,114702 > PL: A mischievous young boy, Tom Sawyer (Jonathan Taylor Thomas),witnesses a > PL: murder by the deadly Injun Joe. Tom becomes friends with Huckleberry > PL: Finn (Brad Renfro), a boy with no future and no family. Tom has to > PL: choose between honoring a friendship or honoring an oath because the > PL: towm alcoholic is accused of the murder. Tom and Huck go through a > PL: couple of adventures trying to retrieve evidence.He does a good deed > PL: and everyone in town is proud of him.Tom is frightened by Injun Joe > PL: and thinks he will be killed himself. > > BY: Aimee Madlangbayan > 114291a115433,115443 > MV: Touch of Larceny, A (1959) > > PL: Philandering Commander Max Easton, now desk-bound and under-worked in the > PL: Admiralty, finds he suddenmly needs to make some money when he falls > PL: for American Virginia Killain. When he hatches a plot to disappear in > PL: circumstances that suggest he has defected and then return to sue the > PL: papers, Virginia doesn't take much notice - at least at first. > > BY: Jeremy Perkins > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 115806,115811c116958,116967 < PL: This is a film about seven actors and actresses creating a false < PL: consiousness for the ignorant viewers. The wealthy con artists who < PL: portray cliche characters do a mighty fine job of adding to the < PL: emotional "grip" the media has on our socitey. This entity, preys upon < PL: the emotionally deprived and provides a escape for those too weak to < PL: live out their own fantasies. --- > PL: An unknown and lethal virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996. Only > PL: 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035, and is forced to > PL: live underground. A convict (James Cole) reluctantly volunteers to be > PL: sent back in time to 1996 to gather information about the origin of the > PL: epidemy (who he's told was spread by a mysterious "Army of the Twelve > PL: Monkeys") and locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists can > PL: study it. Unfortunately Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990, six years > PL: earlier than expected, and is arrested and locked up in a mental > PL: institution, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly, a psychiatrist, and > PL: Jeffrey Goines, the insane son of a famous scientist and virus expert. 115813c116969 < BY: Barry Slovey --- > BY: Giancarlo Cairella 116345a117502,117510 > MV: Uchu Kaiju Gamera (1980) > > PL: Using several clips from previous Gamera entries, this film deals with > PL: alien forces sending all the monsters Gamera has faced in one final > PL: battle to rid the planet of its last hope. > > BY: Todd A. Bobenrieth > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 118165a119331,119337 > MV: Vengeance Is Mine (1979) > > PL: Chronological exploits of Iwao Enokizu, a murderous thief on the lam. > > BY: Tad Dibbern > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 121161a122334,122342 > MV: When The Bough Breaks (1993) > > PL: Ally Walker plays a police detective who investigates the apparent serial > PL: killing of several children which is linked to an institutionalized, > PL: autistic child. > > BY: P. de Muinck > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 124257a125439,125448 > MV: Year of the Gun (1991) > > PL: David Raybourne is an american journalist covering political news in Italy > PL: during the 1970's. He is evolved with the Red Brigades when trying to > PL: help a friend (Alison King), who photographed then in action and > PL: discover the mafia net is at all levels. > > BY: Michel Rudoy > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 124417a125609,125644 > MV: Ying Huang Boon Sik (1986) > > PL: This story is the tale of two brothers: one a successful > PL: counterfeiter and the younger a fledgling graduate of the > PL: HK police academy. The plot revolves around the split > PL: when the younger brother learns the other is a criminal > PL: and the efforts of the criminal brother to reform. Along > PL: the way are plenty of heists, double-crosses, and shoot > PL: outs. > > BY: Victor R. Volkman > > PL: Ti-Lung is a gangster trying to go > PL: straight but caught between loyalty to his down-&-out > PL: partner (Chow Yun-Fat) & rookie cop brother (Leslie > PL: Cheung), & the ominous pressure of his former triad > PL: bosses. > > BY: Eric Hendrickon > > PL: This John Woo film tells the tale of Mark and Ho, friends and couriers for > PL: a Hong Kong crime syndicate with a large counterfeiting operation. Ho > PL: is double-crossed during a set-up and turns himself in to the police > PL: and Mark is shot during the firefight of a retribution hit. The plot > PL: is complicated by the fact that Ho's younger brother, Kit, is a rookie > PL: cop whose reputation is tarnished by his gangster brother. When Ho > PL: gets out of prison, he wants to start a new life, free of crime. > PL: Unfortunately, he is haunted by his past, with the crime bosses leaning > PL: on him and Mark encouraging him to return to a life of crime as his > PL: partner. In typical Woo fashion, the various factions clash and our > PL: protagonists engage both the police and the gangsters in a bloody > PL: bullet-fest. > > BY: Tad Dibbern > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 124427a125655,125670 > MV: Yinghung Bunsik III (1989) > > PL: At the end of the Vietnam war, Cheung goes to Saigon, intent on bringing > PL: his uncle and cousin back to Hong Kong. In Saigon, Cheung meets > PL: beautiful gangleader Chow, and relies on her help for their safe > PL: return. A love triangle develops between the cousins and Chow Further > PL: complicating matters, Chow's lover Ho, a gang leader, appears Ho > PL: deports the cousins, and kills their uncle. Cheung and his cousin > PL: return to Vietnam seeking revenge, while Chow and Ho also become > PL: entangled with a local vietnamese warlord. Chow tries to stop the > PL: battle, but the warlord kills Chow and Ho. Just before her death Chow > PL: gives the cousins the last two air tickets with which to leave Vietnam > > BY: L.H. Wong > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 125004a126248,126267 > MV: Yun Pei Dung Lung (1993) > > PL: A street hustler with terrible luck (Tony Leung) encounters the > PL: sensual ghost of a woman (Chingmy Yau) and discovers that he was > PL: murdered by a crime boss in a previous life. Together they try to > PL: free each other from the curses of this evil man by taking on his > PL: legacy -- a powerful HK crime force. > > BY: Towne 3, San Jose, Ca > > PL: Fish-gut merchant Fai has had nothing but bad luck his whole life because, > PL: in his previous life in the '40s, powerful triad boss Mister Hung had > PL: killed and buried him in a grave that would give him ten incarnations > PL: of misfortune. Sister Yung was Fai's lover in that lifetime and now, as > PL: a ghost, links up with Fai to clear the hex return a lantern make of > PL: her skin from the previous lifetime to her a Peking Opera ghost > > BY: L.H. Wong > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 125362a126626,126640 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MV: Zhuang Dao Zheng (1980) > > PL: A Cantonese opera company arrives in Cheung Chau to perform for a rich man, > PL: who wants to marry of his nephew Dick to the star of the company Ah > PL: Gee. As soon as they arrive, the company is thwarted by a female > PL: spirit, Catshit, who turns out to be the precursor of a whole army of > PL: spirits sent to pester the uncle and one of the older actors. Only Ah > PL: Gee and Dick find out that the danger has something to do with a crime > PL: committed by Ah Gee's ancestors. This involved selling bad medicines > PL: to soldiers as a result of which a whole platoon of ghosts is out for > PL: vengeance > > BY: L.H. Wong