Apply on: --- 0a1 CRC: 0x6C6A7A6D File: plot.list Date: Thu Nov 22 00:00:00 2001 27c28 1290 BY: 29c30,31 1084 BY: Jim Beaver 988 BY: Les Adams 31,34c33,35 935 BY: Maurice VanAuken 933 BY: Jon Reeves 747 BY: John Sacksteder 36c37 555 BY: Jean-Marc Rocher 45c46 * The plot list currently contains 47140 summaries covering 42613 movies. 725a727,746 MV: "$elling Hitler" (1991) (mini) PL: Dramatisation of the true story of Konrad Fischer, an East German who PL: fooled the world (including the UK's "The Times" newspaper, Germany's PL: "Stern" magazine and eminent historian Hugh Trevor-Roper) when he PL: produced what he claimed were the war-time diaries of Adolf Hitler, but PL: which were in fact his own forgeries. BY: Martin Underwood PL: In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a bloodhound reporter for the German magazine PL: Stern, believes he has stumbled onto the greatest literary find of the PL: century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler. Shrouded in secrecy, PL: Heidemann and the men of Stern attempt to pull off the greatest scoop PL: in publishing history, blinded by their greed to the fact that the PL: diaries are, in fact, crude forgeries. A true story. BY: Ben Evans ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1064a1086,1095 MV: "5th Wheel, The" (2001) PL: Two guys, two girls are thrown into a bus and go on dates to try and PL: establish romantic bonds, then a 5th person is thrown into the mix to PL: stir things up. In the end, the players vote for who they'd like to go PL: out with again. BY: John Black ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1768a1800,1811 MV: "Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, The" (1988) PL: In 2086, two peaceful aliens journey to Earth seeking our help. In return, PL: they gave us the plans for our first hyperdrive, allowing mankind to PL: open the doors to the stars. We have assembled a team of unique PL: individuals to protect Earth and our allies. Courageous pioneers PL: committed to the highest ideals of justice and dedicated to preserving PL: law and order across the new frontier. BY: Jonathan Sweet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1866,1886d1908 6509a6532,6561 MV: "Body Language" (1984) PL: Charades have long been a staple of TV game shows, and "Body Language" PL: provided a return to the durable format. Two contestants, each paired PL: with a celebrity, competed in this game. In round one, the celebrity PL: member of the team pantomines up to five words to the contestant. Each PL: correctly-guessed word is placed in an often-punny word puzzle PL: containing seven blanks; at least two spaces will always be left blank. PL: If the contestant correctly guessed the puzzle, he/she won $100; an PL: incorrect guess allowed the contestant member of the opposing team to PL: fill in any one of the remaining blanks Correctly guessing the puzzle PL: was worth $100; an incorrect guess allowed the opposing team to fill in PL: any of the remaining blanks and guess the puzzle. Round 2 was played PL: identically, with the contestant members of the team pantomining the PL: clues and the celebrities trying to decipher the puzzles; correct PL: guesses were now worth $250. A tie-breaker was played if necessary, PL: with the contestants shown a new word puzzle with seven blanks and the PL: contestants simply calling out numbers to fill in the spaces. The first PL: team to win $500 won the game and advanced to the two-stage bonus game. PL: In the first part, the contestant had 60 seconds to guess up to 10 PL: words pantomined by his/her celebrity partner, with each word worth PL: $100. The contestant could multiply his/her winnings by 10 by guessing PL: three additional words within 20 seconds (e.g., if the contestant won PL: $600 in the first part, he/she would play for $6,000); up to $10,000 PL: was possible. Contestants could lose twice before defeated; surpassing PL: CBS' $25,000 (later, $50,000) limit retired the contestant undefeated. BY: Brian Rathjen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6606a6659,6669 MV: "Bonkers" (1993) PL: Once upon a time in Toon Town there was a cat who had it all. Fortune and PL: fame, top of his game. Up until he hit the wall. Now he's down and PL: out in Toon Town as a Comic Cop who solve crimes with hilarious PL: results. With the help of his partners - Lucky Piquel (his first PL: partner) and Miranda Wright (his second partner). BY: Coyote79529 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6980a7044,7059 MV: "Brak Show, The" (2000) PL: "The Brak Show is a story of a neighborhood. It's the story of a family. PL: It's the story of what happens when adults have children and those PL: children go to school. And Brak is in it. He lives in a house. A PL: house on a quiet street not unlike yours or mine. A house in a PL: neighborhood. That's The Brak Show." So goes Cartoon network's PL: description of the new sitcom starring Brak, the absent-minded space PL: pirate from the Space Ghost cartoons. He goes through the all the PL: typical sitcom situations with his friend Zorak. Also along for the PL: ride are Brak's parents, his brother Sisto, and his next-door neighbor PL: Thundercleese. BY: Joe Cassidy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8466a8546,8556 MV: "Captain Video and His Cartoon Rangers" (1956) PL: Captain Video, late of the expansive and immensely popular TV PL: science-fiction series "Captain Video and His Video Rangers", addressed PL: the audience from his secret mountain headquarters to entertain between PL: screenings of Paramount cartoons including Superman, Betty Boop, and PL: Little Lulu. BY: Hup234! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8480,8490d8569 9085a9165,9175 MV: "Changes, The" (1975) PL: Children's drama set in modern-day England - but with a major difference: PL: everyone has rebelled against modern technology (electricity, engines, PL: trains etc) and gone back to a pre-industrial-revolution way of life. PL: When the heroine, Nicky, tries to investigate the cause, she is accused PL: of being a witch and imprisoned to prevent her spreading dissent. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11008a11099,11112 MV: "Crime Story" (1986) PL: Chicago, 1963. As head of the police department's Major Crime Unit, PL: Lieutenant Michael Torello must deal with the city's most dangerous PL: criminals. And possibly the most dangerous of all is Ray Luca, a young PL: ambitious street hood who's out to gain wealth and power by whatever PL: means - including theft, threats, extortion and murder. As Luca begins PL: his ruthless climb up the ladder of organized crime, leaving a growing PL: number of victims in his wake, Torello becomes more and more determined PL: to bring him down. BY: Eugene Kim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13981a14086,14100 MV: "Dreamstone, The" (1990) PL: Somewhere in the universe is a planet only visible to those who believe in PL: it. On the sunny side lives the Old Dreammaker, guardian of the most PL: precious and powerful thing in the world - the Dreamstone. Every night PL: he uses it to send out dreams to the world, assisted by Albert his PL: watchhdog-fish, and two Noops, Rufus and Amberley. On the dark side of PL: the planet dwells the huge and terrible Zordrak, Lord of Nightmares, PL: hatching his evil plots to steal the Dreamstone so that nightmares may PL: rule. Zordrak is protected by his army of Urpneys - led by Sergeant PL: Blob - whose every thought is directed towards pleasing their master. BY: Steve Farrell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14933,14942d15051 17594,17605d17702 18094c18191 MV: "Gettâ robo Jî" (1975) 18108c18205 MV: "Gettâ robo" (1974) 19245,19256d19341 25022a25108,25119 MV: "Kommissarie Winter" (2001) (mini) PL: This is a series which contains three different stories. Each story is based PL: upon a book written by Åke Edwardsson. The first story "Dance with an PL: angel" begins when a man is found dead, murdered in a hotel room in PL: London. Shortly after a similar murder is commited in Gothenburg PL: where Erik Winter is working. It seems like a macabre dance has been PL: performed in the room where the killings have been commited. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25482a25580,25589 MV: "Late Night Fantasy" (2001) PL: Shown late night on RTL II in Germany, Kelly Lays on a bed half naked PL: dressed in Lingerie with sex toys, books, magazines and other goodies on PL: the bed. Erotic clips from porn movies are shown but scaled down PL: versions. This show gives tele-shopping a new dimension. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 28497a28605,28642 PL: "Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour" married elements from the two classic PL: game shows in a star-studded one-hour format. Rayburn hosted the "Match PL: Game" segment, while Bauman, best known for his stint on "Sha Na Na," PL: presided over "Hollywood Squares." Two new contestants played "Match PL: Game," where the format was similar to the 1973-1982 run...a funny PL: fill-in-the-blank statement is read. It was up to the contestants to PL: try to match the five celebrities and co-host Bauman. One point was PL: scored for each match; three rounds were played, with celebrities PL: matching in earlier rounds sitting out the later rounds. The PL: high-scorer after three rounds (or after a tie-breaker, if necessary), PL: advanced to the "Hollywood Squares" version to meet the returning PL: champion. Two more celebrities were introduced and Rayburn took his PL: seat in the "Hollywood Squares" panel. "Hollywood Squares" was played PL: just like the classic NBC game show of tic-tac-toe and celebrity PL: bluffs, with these exceptions: each contestants' mark was worth $25; an PL: incorrect judgement in agreeing or disagreeing with a celebrity always PL: meant the opponent claimed the box, even if it meant the game (in the PL: original format, the contestant had to earn wins himself), and the PL: first game was worth $100, with each subsequent game worth $100 more PL: than the previous one. The contestant in the lead when an undefined PL: time limit expired was champion and went on to play "Super Match." As PL: before, Rayburn read a simple fill-in-the-blank phrase (e.g., "Chicken PL: *blank*"), and the contestant called on up to three celebrities to PL: provide suggested answers. The contestant could then choose one on them PL: or reject them all and give their own answer. Matching the most popular PL: response was worth $1,000, with lesser answers worth $500 and $250; not PL: matching any of the given answers still netted the contestant $100. In PL: the "Head-to-Head Match," played immediately afterward, the contestant PL: chose one of the eight celebrities (or Bauman), each of whom had a PL: concealed multiplier in front of him/her. Four of the multipliers were PL: 10s, four were 20s and one was a 30, meaning a possible jackpot of PL: $30,000. One more fill-in-the-blank statement, with an exact match PL: required, was read. If both the contestant and celebrity matched, they PL: won whatever they were playing for. At the end of the show, the PL: celebrity having the 30 multiplier was announced. BY: Brian Rathjen 30222a30368,30387 MV: "Movie Show, The" (1986) PL: For 15 years now, Australia has joined Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton PL: every week to review the latest movies. Margaret and David talk about 4 or PL: 5 movies each week and give us a rating out of 5-stars about movies that are PL: released that week or the week after. BY: Sam Yeo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: "Moviemakers" (1983) PL: A documentary series on Hollywood films hosted by Elwy Yost including PL: interviews with Henry Fonda, Robert Wise, Richard Widmark, Anthony PL: Hopkins, Gregory Peck, Stanley Kramer, Ring Lardiner Jr., Billy Wilder, PL: Peter Bogdanovich, John Wayne, James Stewart and John Ford. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 30660a30826,30837 MV: "Mutant X" (2001) PL: A secret government project to create genetic mutants results in them being PL: released into the general population. One of the scientists PL: responsible, Adam, has sworn to try and help them, while his PL: co-partner, Mason Eckhart, plans on using the project for his own ends. PL: Adam assembles four mutants and forms the group "Mutant X" to help PL: mutants everywhere, and oppose Eckhart. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 32048a32226,32236 MV: "Night & Day" (2001) PL: Devised by acclaimed TV drama writer, Caleb Ranson (Forgotten, Daylight PL: Robbery), Night and Day is a soap unlike any other. Set in Greenwich, PL: and focusing on the lives of six very different families, it is about a PL: group of friends watching their children grow up, before they've PL: finished growing up themselves. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 32423a32612,32622 MV: "Norville and Trudy" (1997) PL: Norville and Trudy are two lifelike robots known as Abbots who were PL: developed to test new products in a laboratory setting. Sometimes PL: things get out of control for the experimenters because the Abbots seem PL: to have minds of their own and do not know they are robots living in a PL: manufactured town called Abbotville. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 36061a36261,36270 MV: "Putyat kam Sofia" (1979) (mini) PL: The story takes place during the War between Russia and Turkey in the PL: autumn of 1877. The film shows the complex relations and different PL: attitudes of having the Russian army on one side, the Turkish army on the PL: other, and the Bulgarians in the middle. BY: Georgi Djulgerov ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 36380a36590,36601 MV: "Rainy Day Women" (1984) PL: A film about the cruelty of war. Charles Dance plays an officer who is sent PL: out to investigate a rumour about German spies during the chaotic days PL: of 1940. At the same time three land girls are arriving at a sleepy PL: little village. These three together with a German refugee family and PL: the local doctor falls victims to war hysteria and is killed by a local PL: mob - while Charles Dance is trying to rescue them. BY: Robert Paladin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 37973c38194 PL: Ben Gazzara plays a successful lawyer who is told in the first episode is 39546,39565d39766 41088a41290,41301 MV: "Sooty" (2001) PL: New 13-part series of the classic puppet series with a new presenter, PL: Vicki, and a new cast member Miki, a cat; that should please Sweep and PL: Butch. Butch has a more dominant role in this series. Richard PL: Cadell and Vicki Lee Taylor, star with Sooty, Sweep, Soo and Little PL: Cousin Scampi. There's a new theme tune and a new location, Sooty's PL: House. With a host of guest stars who constantly drop in to visit. BY: RS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 41628a41842,41855 PL: The character-driven toon chronicles the nautical and sometimes nonsensical PL: adventures of SpongeBob, an incurably optimistic and earnest sea PL: sponge, and his undersea friends. Dwelling a few fathoms beneath the PL: tropical isle of Bikini Atoll in the sub-surface city of Bikini Bottom, PL: SpongeBob lives in a two-story pineapple. Instead of taking the PL: logical approach to everyday challenges, SpongeBob approaches life in a PL: wayward and unconventional way. Whether searching for the ultimate PL: spatula to perfect his burger flipping technique at the Krusty Krab, or PL: just hanging out with his best friend Patrick (an amiable starfish), PL: SpongeBob's good intentions and overzealous approach to life usually PL: create chaos in his underwater world. BY: Nickelodeon 41718a41946,41955 MV: "Stacey Stone" (2001) PL: Drama series following the exploits and adventures of a teenage agony aunt PL: called Stacey Stone who dreams of being a top journalist and escaping PL: her home town of Rockferry, but in the meantime she's biding her time, PL: writing for her school newspaper as an Agony Aunt. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 42609a42847,42856 MV: "Strike It Rich" (1951) PL: A game show where people relate their unfortunate situations (fatal PL: disease, injury, their house burned down, etc.) in hopes that someone PL: will take pity on them, call the show and give them money or PL: merchandise. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 44526a44774,44783 MV: "This Is the Life" (1983) PL: A half hour anthology drama series, airing on NBC-TV on Sunday mornings. PL: With different casts, writers and directors each week, it focused on PL: religious and moral questions in the short story format, and was one of PL: the longest running shows on television (1953-1988). BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 46740c46997 MV: "Unplugged" (1989) 47501a47759,47776 MV: "Visions of Sugarplums" (2001) PL: Based on a true story, "Visions of Sugarplums" is a gay-themed, avant-garde PL: Christmas film which tells the story of a very confused young man who PL: moves from the Bible belt to New York City to come out of the PL: proverbial gay closet. What he doesn't count on is his PL: ultraconservative church preacher father (a Jerry Falwell type) and PL: timid church choir leader mother showing up as a "surprise" on the PL: doorstep of the Greenwich Village apartment he shares with his "secret" PL: lover of nine months, on Christmas Eve. Needless to say, it becomes a PL: very tense situation for everyone involved, especially when he tells PL: his lover that he's been lying to him their entire relationship and his PL: parents really don't know he's gay. A web of deception, love and PL: laughter. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 48175a48451,48478 PL: The U.S. adaptation of the British general knowledge/progressive PL: elimination quiz show, hosted by Anne Robinson (who also presided over PL: the British version), best known for the humiliating phrase: "You are PL: the Weakest Link! Good-bye!" Eight contestants work together to build PL: the show's jackpot (up to $1 million possible) by answering questions PL: in a chain. Correct answers add money to the pot. At any point before PL: Robinson reads an unspecified part of the question, the contestant PL: currently being asked the question may bank the funds, as an incorrect PL: answer deletes any unbanked money. At the end of each round (the first PL: being 2 minutes, which each subsequent round 10 seconds shorter), the PL: contestants individually (and without consultation) vote out whom they PL: believe is the "weakest link" though oftentimes outstanding players are PL: eliminated and poor performers remain until the latter stages of the PL: game. After announcing the votes and her sarcastic remarks, biting PL: insults and commentary, Robinson tells the player with the most PL: elimination votes the now-infamously dreadful phrase: "You are the PL: Weakest Link! Good-bye!" Contestants could bank up to $125,000 for each PL: of the first six rounds, and $250,000 in the seventh round, for a total PL: possible jackpot of $1 million. The elimination rounds are played, with PL: progressively fewer contestants, until two remain. Those two move on to PL: a final best-of-five showdown. The first to answer three questions PL: correctly wins the entire pot (which averaged $50,000 per episode); the PL: loser leaves with nothing. Frequent celebrity editions saw celebrities PL: win money for charity; the losing celebrity contestants in this case PL: received $25,000 for their charities. BY: Brian Rathjen 48201,48212d48503 50033,50042d50323 50239a50521,50532 MV: "Yûfô robo Gurendaizâ" (1975) PL: Escaping from Vega's evil forces, the young Prince of planet Fleed leaves PL: his destroyed homeland aboard the UFO Robot Grendizer, a powerful war PL: machine, and makes it to Earth. Rescued by a bright scientist and PL: fellow earthlings, he fights the saucers and robots sent by Vega, who PL: plans to seize the mighty Grendizer and conquer the whole universe, or PL: destroy it either. BY: Luis Pero ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 50696a50990,51001 MV: "Yutbak Out Siu" (2001) PL: The Hong Kong version of the popular quiz show. A group of contestants PL: answer questions on a variety of subjects, with the entire group being PL: awarded cash for each correct answer. At the end of each round, the PL: group votes to remove one of the players ("The Weakest Link"), until PL: only two are left. These two then compete head-to-head to see who will PL: go home with all the cash, and who will go home with nothing. BY: Jean-Marc Rocher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 51769a52075,52086 MV: 10-Speed (2001) PL: 10-Speed is the darkly comic story of twelve year-old Tim and his daily PL: efforts to acquire a new bicycle. His progress is hindered by a hostile PL: brother, a pair of quarreling parents, an alcoholic guidance counselor, PL: and an unsettlingly friendly "Big Buddy". As the authority figures that PL: surround him grow increasingly oppressive, Tim's mission becomes the PL: focal point of his life and a necessity for survival. BY: Billiam Wilson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 51791a52109,52119 MV: 100 Rifles (1969) PL: Reynolds plays Yaqui Joe, an Indian who robs a bank in order to buy guns PL: for his people who are being savagely repressed by the government. Set PL: in turn of the century Mexico, it tells the story of his flight into PL: Mexico and his pursuit by an American lawman. They eventually become PL: allies and team up with Welch to take up the cause of the Indians. BY: Fryingham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 51804,51816d52131 52154a52470,52479 PL: Arthur and his two children, Kathy and Bobby, inherit a glass house where a PL: group of angry ghosts have been locked away by his late uncle. When the PL: family, accompanied by Bobby's Nanny and an attorney journey to the PL: house they get more then they bargained for when the house traps them PL: inside and the ghosts are set free. Aided by Dennis, a ghost hunter, PL: and his rival Kalina, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts PL: free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive. BY: RuffJai 53550a53876,53885 MV: 3 Minute Wonder (2000) PL: A hot summer afternoon and two girls, bored and alone in a deserted lido, PL: are timing a third girl to see if she can hold her breath under water PL: for three minutes. But they can't agree when the three minutes started PL: or who's in charge of the game. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 54491a54827,54852 MV: 500! (2000) PL: While world religious leaders gather for a top secret meeting in La Spezia, PL: the Reverend Jones (Ed Bishop), a famous television preacher and the PL: creator of 'Reverend Jones's Sauce', is set on replacing them all and PL: imposing his credo on the unsuspecting world. To that end he hires the PL: services of a sophisticated and infallible killer named Omega (Massimo PL: Olcese) whose only defect lies in the perfection with which he carries PL: out his mission. His success rate bores him rigid and in order to drum PL: up some well-needed enthusiasm, Omega creates a whole set of PL: difficulties for himself while on the job. Given the unique nature of PL: the task that the Reverend Jones has assigned him, Omega decides to PL: tell someone what he is about to do. But instead of telling someone in PL: authority, Omega chooses a name at random from the phone book: Carlo PL: Maggi, (Andrea Bruschi) a normal twenty-eight year old about to be PL: married and live a normal, albeit boring life. Carlo tries to warn the PL: police, who ignore him and then he goes to the papers. The only person PL: to believe his tall tale is Anna Letizia Kohler (Veronika Logan), a PL: young and ambitious journalist. They decide to try and stop Omega and PL: set out together for La Spezia in a Fiat 500 that has seen better days. PL: A journey that would normally take a couple of hours takes them an PL: entire day. Will they be in time? BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 55770a56132,56148 MV: A-Lad-In Bagdad (1938) PL: Hayseed Egghead arrives in the big city of Bagdad and quickly wins a magic PL: lamp in a carnival coin-operated crane game. The shady character who PL: was playing the game before him covets the lamp, and tries to steal it. PL: Egghead sees a poster: The sultan is having a contest for his PL: daughter's hand in marriage. With his lamp, Egghead thinks he's a sure PL: bet; he conjures up a magic carpet, and he's off. After a couple bad PL: vaudeville acts, it's Egghead's turn, but in the meantime, the bad guy PL: swapped the lamp for a coffeepot. Egghead is thrown out, then sees the PL: bad guy using the lamp; Egghead breaks in, steals the lamp and the PL: girl, and flies off. But she uses the lamp herself to conjure up a PL: real hunk to replace the nerdy Egghead. BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 55847,55873d56224 56840c57191 BY: Sami Al-Taher 57250c57601 BY: Sami Al-Taher 57588c57939 BY: Sami Al-Taher 58158a58510,58520 MV: Action Replay (1989) PL: Originally a black comedy, written for the stage by Fay Weldon. Three PL: women, Helen, Judy and Shirley have known each other closely for twenty PL: five years. No wonder cracks are showing up in their relationships. PL: It's all here, sexual incompatibility, jealousy, everything but PL: trench-warfare. No side's taking prisoners! BY: Noel Bailey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 58904c59266 MV: Adéla jeste nevecerela (1977) 59012a59375,59389 MV: Advance Wars (2001) (VG) PL: The world is divided up into four countries: Orange Star, Blue Moon, Green PL: Earth, and Yellow Comet. However, it is a period of great unrest. Green PL: Earth and Yellow Comet are secretly being attacked, and to make matters PL: worse, the Blue Moon army is invading Orange Star. In Advance Wars, PL: you'll assume the rank of special advisory commander for the Orange PL: Star army, and will need to work with commanding officers Andy, Max, PL: Sami, and Nell to ensure your victory over the rival armies. You'll PL: command over 15 different land, air, and naval units in this turn-based PL: combat game. BY: Axemblue ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 59286a59664,59703 MV: Adventures of Hajji Baba, The (1954) PL: In Ispahan, Persia, Hajji Baba (John Derek) is leaving his father's shop to PL: seek a greater fortune, while the Princess Fawzia (Elaine Stewart) is PL: trying to talk her father, the Caliph (Donald Randolph) into giving her PL: in marriage to Nur-El-Din (Paul Picerni), a rival prince known far and PL: wide as mean and fickle. Her father intends Fawzia for Fawzia to marry PL: a friend and ally, and makes plans to send her to him. But a courier PL: brings word from Nur-El-Din that an escort awaits Fawzia on the PL: outskirts of the city and she escapes the palace disguised as a boy. PL: Hajji encounters the escort-warrior (Paul Baxley) at the rendezvous PL: spot, is attacked and beats up the escort with his barber's tools. The PL: princess arrives and mistakes Hajji as the escort until he mistakes the PL: emerald ring sent by Nur-El-Din to Fawzia as the prize to be delivered. PL: In her efforts to escape him, her turban becomes unbound and Hajji PL: realizes that the girl herself is the treasure Nur-El-Din awaits. Hajji PL: promises to escort her and they spend the night with the caravan of PL: Osman Aga (Thomas Gomez), who invites them to stay for the dancing PL: girls, among them, the incomparable Ayesha (Rosemarie Bowe). The pair PL: are overtaken by the Caliph's guards sent to bring Fawzia back, but the PL: guards are driven off by an invading army of Turcoman women, a band of PL: fierce and beautiful women who prey on passing merchants. BY: Les Adams PL: Al Graham (Bill Williams) and Gerard Mason (Leslie Bradley) are partners in PL: an Alaskan trucking firm that is rapidly going broke because of PL: maintenance costs and hazardous road conditions. Al and his swamper, PL: Pete Harris (Nick Dennis), are taking a load of industrial machinery PL: from Tanana Crossing to Fairbanks and see young-and-curvy Tina Boyd PL: (Nora Hayden)hiking down the road, and they give her a ride.Because of PL: a landslide, they have to return to Tanana Crossing, and Al Gets Tina a PL: job in the cafe. Despite Al's growing attachment to Tina, he cannot PL: resist the advances of his partner's wife, Janet (Lyn Thomas), when she PL: unexpectedly arrives on the scene, as she and Al were lovers before she PL: threw him over for Mason's money. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 60019a60437,60452 MV: Affairs of Dobie Gillis, The (1953) PL: Grainbelt University has one attraction for Dobie Gillis (Bobby PL: Van) - women, especially Pansy Hammer (Debbie Reynolds). Pansy's PL: father (Hanley Stafford), even though and maybe because she says she's PL: in dreamville, does not share her affection for Dobie. An English essay PL: which almost revolutionizes English instruction, and Dobie's role in a PL: chemistry lab explosion convinces Mr. Hammer he is right. Pansy is sent PL: off broken-hearted to an Eastern school, but with the help of Happy PL: Stella Kolawski's (Kathleen Freeman) all-girl band, several hundred PL: students and an enraged police force, Dobie secures Pansy's return to PL: Grainbelt. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 61789c62222 BY: Sami Al-Taher 65519,65532d65951 67286a67706,67721 MV: Amazing Mr. Bickford, The (1987) PL: We enter Bruce Bickford's studio in Santa Monica, California; it's 1978. PL: Various technicians are at work; drawers upon drawers are full of PL: figurines. Bickford says a few things, and then, with Zappa's PL: symphonic music on the soundtrack, we're taken into various Bickford PL: creations. Knife-wielding Africans fight rifle-toting Whites. A PL: drawing of a toilet fills the screen, various foods emerge from it, and PL: they change shapes swiftly into images of animals and things. In PL: claymation, three everymen move through landscapes of danger and PL: conflict. Moments of the every day change quickly into grotesque PL: images. Little holds its shape for more than a moment. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 68234a68670,68689 MV: American Guerrilla in the Philippines, An (1950) PL: In the spring of 1942, following the blockade-run that took General Douglas PL: MacArthur and his staff from the Philippines to the safety of PL: Australia, the survivors of a bombed-and-sunk PT Boat make their way PL: to shore. The skipper tells his men they have top priority passes if PL: they can make their way to Del Monte airfield 200 miles away, and PL: advises them to split up into pairs. Ensign Chuck Palmer (Tyrone Power) PL: and crewman Jim Mitchell (Tom Ewell) finally reach Tacloban on the PL: island of Leyte. In an American mission school, Palmer meets Jeanne PL: Martinez (Michelle Prelle), who is urgently trying to see the officer in PL: charge with a request for help for a relative, and he also learns that PL: the Japanese have captured the airfield. Palmer trys to make Australia PL: by a boat that sinks in a tropical storm and has to swim for shore. All PL: through 1942, Palmer and the other survivors dodge enemy patrols while PL: living off of the land. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 68598c69053 MV: American Psycho II: All American Girl (2002) 69180c69635 PL: Horror is about a large house on the coast of Long Island 69744,69754d70198 71510a71955,71971 MV: Angel of His Dreams (1912) PL: Released only a short time after the Titanic went down, this was PL: cutting-edge drama for its day. The flick itself was a screen PL: adaptation of a play George Marlow himself had produced in Australia PL: the previous year. Bearing remarkable similarities to the plot of The PL: Silence of Dean Maitland, it played-up two social aspects for which PL: Marlow was long associated - sex and scandal! Murder, adultery, theft, PL: surprise confessions and alcoholism all played a significant part here PL: in the tale of a woman from most definitely the wrong part of town, who PL: seduces an innocent young clergyman. You just didn't DO those things in PL: 1912! Well to cut a long story short, Miss Guilford does JUST that and PL: spends the rest of the film rueing her actions. BY: Noel Bailey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 72188c72649 MV: Animal Farm (1954) 75083a75545,75557 MV: Appuntamento in nero (1990) PL: Gianni is a political man with a good career waiting for him. Angela is his PL: wife and she fakes an assault and a rape in a cinema. Eva is Gianni's PL: lover and Angela's friend. Gianni and Eva decide to use the pretext of PL: the assault to kill Angela. Later on Angela is blackmailed by a man who PL: was present at her act. In the background there are Rosy, her maid PL: always present, and a puzzling man who appears and disappears and makes PL: strange phone calls. BY: Baldinotto da Pistoia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 77142,77151d77615 77776a78241,78267 MV: Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) PL: In the not-so-far future the polar ice caps have melted and the resulting PL: raise of the ocean waters has drowned all the coastal cities of the PL: world. Withdrawn to the interior of the continents, the human race PL: keeps advancing, reaching to the point of creating realistic robots PL: (called mechas) to serve him. One of the mecha-producing companies PL: builds David, an artificial kid which is the first to have real PL: feelings, especially a never-ending love for his "mother", Monica. PL: Monica is the woman who adopted him as a substitute for her real son, PL: who remains in cryo-stasis, stricken by an incurable disease. David is PL: living happily with Monica and her husband, but when their real son PL: returns home after a cure is discovered, his life changes dramatically. PL: A futuristic adaptation of the tale of Pinocchio, with David being the PL: "fake" boy who desperately wants to become "real". BY: Chris Makrozahopoulos PL: In this futuristic fairy tale, "David", a highly-advanced robotic boy, PL: hopes to become a real boy so that he can win back the affection of the PL: human mother who abandoned him. Like Pinocchio, he goes on a long PL: journey hoping to find his "Blue Fairy," who can make his dreams come PL: true. BY: jgp3553@excite.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 80629a81121,81135 MV: Auntie Lee's Meat Pies (1993) PL: Outside the small, one-cop town of Penance, California, Auntie Lee bakes PL: her popular meat pies, with the help of four nubile nieces and the PL: ranch's blood-simple handyman, Larry. The source of the meat for the PL: pies? Men who are passing through, lured to strange deaths by the PL: nieces - Fawn, Coral, Sky, and Magnolia - who smile, show a little PL: skin, and pretend to be playmates. Closing in on the trail of a PL: missing man is a New York private eye, Harold Ivars; plus, the town's PL: cop, Chief Koal, finds Larry's behavior a bit suspicious. Will the cop PL: and the dick bring Auntie Lee's vocation to a grinding halt? BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 81354a81861,81882 MV: Avenging Disco Vampires (2001) (V) PL: Jacob and Frank Caesar, two murderous fugitives, have chosen the secluded PL: woods surrounding Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, to bury their latest victim. PL: One shallow grave stands between them and freedom. They had no idea PL: what they were about to get into. In Rabbit Hash, when the sun goes PL: down, the temperature rises. Deep inside this forest, the last remnants PL: of the 1970's - a disco called "The Funk Haven" - languishes. It is the PL: last refuge for the polyester-clad lounge lizards of the bygone decade. PL: But, there is one more thing more terrifying than disco in the new PL: century: they are also vampires! Tonight at midnight, the Master Disco PL: Vampire, Desmodus, will return to lead his minions to the Vampire PL: Promised Land. However, Rabbit Hash is home to a second clan of PL: vampires called The Crypts. This modern Gothic vampire clan plans to PL: wipe out the Disco Vampires, assassinate Desmodus upon his arrival and PL: begin their conquest of the Vampire Promised Land. Watch as Jacob and PL: Frank battle these fang bearing foes with the assistance of a deranged PL: vampire hunter! The question remains: "Can they survive until dawn?" BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 82020a82549,82558 MV: B.S. I Love You (1971) PL: A female executive who is the head of an advertising agency on Madison PL: Avenue has slept her way to the top and now has her sights on a young PL: advertising executive. He succumbs to her seductions and by doing so, PL: he has ensured his rise up the corporate ladder of success. BY: G.W.G. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 83473a84012,84042 MV: Back from the Dead (1957) PL: When Katy Hazleton (Marsha Hunt) visits her sister, Miranda/Mandy (Peggie PL: Castle), and her husband, Dick Anthony (Arthur Franz), Dick tells her PL: of his concern over Miranda's recent moody and strange behaviour. PL: Walking along the beach that night, Miranda hears strange voices, and PL: when she returns home, becomes hysterical and falls into a coma. When PL: she recovers, she is hostile and claims she is Felicia and not Miranda. PL: Dick tells Katy that Felicia was his first wife, who died in a plunge PL: from a cliff. Miranda asks to see Mr. and Mrs. Bradley (James Bell and PL: Helen Wallace), parents of Felicia, and when she calls Ada Bradley PL: "mother", Dick and Katy realize she is possessed by "the other one." PL: Ada Bradley has been practicing black magic for six years and believes PL: it is responsible for returning her dead daughter to her. Mr. Bradley, PL: as one would expect, is horrified at both revelations, although the PL: first one indicates he wasn't paying much attention to what his wife PL: was doing when she was puttering around the kitchen the past few years. PL: That night "Felicia" tries to kill Katy by flooding her room with gas, PL: but Katy awakens in time. Both of the Bradleys suffer strokes - long PL: odds, not impossible - that night and the old man dies while Ada is PL: left paralyzed. The desperate "Felicia" seeks out Maitre Renall (Otto PL: Reichow), also a black practitioner but on a grander scale than Ada PL: Bradley, as the only person that can keep her alive. He promises to do PL: so but only if she will make a blood sacrifice of an innocent victim. PL: Nancy Corodell (Marianne Stewart), jealous of Renall's attention to PL: "Felicia", hears this and Renall's black magic gets tested by the PL: hell-hath-no-fury method. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 83484a84054,84067 MV: Back Home (2001) (TV) PL: At the beginning of WWII, Virginia is sent to America by her parents to PL: keep her safe. Now the war in Europe is over, it's time for Virginia PL: (or Rusty, as she likes to be called) to come home. While she is glad PL: to see her mother Peggy and tries to fit into her old life, her PL: 'American ways' don't go down too well at home. When her father returns PL: from war, he is desperate to have his life just the same as it was PL: before, but he is forced to realise that his wife and his children are PL: not the same people he left behind. BY: Stacey Mitchell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 83642,83648d84224 90356c90932 BY: Sami Al-Taher 91534a92111,92126 MV: Because of Eve (1948) PL: Sally and Bob have been married a year. She might be pregnant, so Dr. West PL: picks up a test sample and tells them to come by in a week for the PL: result. They recall problems they had just before marriage when they PL: found out about each other's past (V.D. and pregnancy). Dr. West had PL: helped them with good counsel and two films ("The Story of V.D." and PL: "The Story of Reproduction"). A week later at his office he has good PL: news and shows them another film, "The Story of Life." Dr. West wants PL: them to know about modern medical science and to teach their kids the PL: facts of life. The movie ends with a commercial for a new PL: five-book-in-one, "The Mid-Century Marriage Guide." BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 91970c92562 BY: Sami Al-Taher 92169c92761 BY: Sami Al-Taher 92896a93489,93504 MV: Being Different (1981) PL: A tribute to the spirit and humanity of people who are physically different PL: from the average: very tall and very large men and women, a bearded PL: woman and her long-time husband, Siamese twins joined at the PL: midsection, and several little people including actor Billy Barty. We PL: meet some at Gibsonton, Florida, where carnival folk winter. They talk PL: about their lives and accomplishments. The camera also goes on the PL: road to visit a grandfather with a distinctive face, a legless mechanic PL: from Kentucky on a second honeymoon in LA, a marathon runner and PL: motivational speaker who has no feet, a karate student with partial PL: limbs, and an armless, down-to-earth mom in Texas. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 94249a94858,94870 PL: An American with a shady past, John Gilmore (Richard Conte) and an Irishman PL: without a conscience, Robert Emmett Donovan (Victor McLaglen), are in PL: search of hidden gold secreted in an old mosque by desert people during PL: the Montgomery-Rommel fighting. Gilmore, a partner with Donovan in a PL: bistro, learns of the gold from Shelby (Richard Erdman) and the two plan PL: to get it, but Donovan learns of it and, despite the arrival of his PL: daughter, Aileen (Mala Powers), who he has not seen since her childhood, PL: joins Gilmore and Shelby. A jeep they steal puts Inspector Levering PL: (Richard Carlson) on their trail and he sets out after them, with PL: Aileen, in a plane. BY: Les Adams 94540a95162,95179 MV: Berlin Correspondent (1942) PL: American correspondent Bill Roberts (Dana Andrews) is a thorn in the side PL: of the Nazis, as his paper always scoops the world with the truth about PL: Germany. Gestapo Captain Carl Von Rau (Martin Kosleck) means to plug the PL: leak and assigns Karen Hauen (Virginia Gilmore), who he attends to wed, PL: to the case. Roberts is obtaining his information for his stories and PL: broadcasts from an elderly stamp collector who, defiantly opposed to PL: the Nazis, sells the "proper" stamps to Roberts, giving him the PL: information. Attracted to Karen, Roberts invites her to his apartment PL: where she learns his secret. The old philatelist is sent to a PL: concentration camp, and then Karen learns that he is her father (Erwin PL: Kalser). She appeals to Roberts for help and he, in loyality to the old PL: man and now in love with Karen, agrees to help. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 95936c96575 BY: Sami Al-Taher 97343c97982 BY: Sami Al-Taher 97428a98068,98080 MV: Big Bank Take Little Bank (2001) PL: A criminal and aspiring rapper named Fruity Pebblez attempts to car jack a PL: well-known record producer named Josh Diamond. Upon recognizing Mr. PL: Diamond, Fruity Pebblez decides that being armed and in the back seat PL: of a car is as good of a place as any to launch into an impromptu and PL: hilarious Rap audition. Diamond recognizes that he has another PL: exploitable commodity for the Rap music industry. Thus the Rap career PL: of the not-exactly-talented Fruity Pebblez is launched. BY: Leslye J Allen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 98162a98815,98837 MV: Big House, U.S.A. (1955) PL: When young Danny Lambert (Peter Votrain) runs away from camp in northern PL: Colorado, he becomes the object of a state-wide-search by his wealthy PL: father Robertson Lambert (Willis Bouchey). He is found by Jerry Barker PL: (Ralph Meeker) and told to wait at an abandoned look-out tower while he PL: goes for help. Instead, Barker calls the father and demands $200,000 PL: ransom. The money is delivered and Barker buries most of it. Meanwhile, PL: the panicky boy has fallen from the tower to his death, and Barker PL: drops the body off a cliff. The FBI, led by James Madden (Reed Hadley), PL: capture Barker but can't convict him of kidnapping and he is given only PL: five years for extortion and sent to Casabel Island Prison. There he is PL: assigned a cell with Rollo Lambar (Broderick Crawford), Alamo Smith PL: (Lon Chaney, Jr.), Benny Kelly (Charles Bronson) and Machine Gun Mason PL: (William Talman.) The FBI have now traced an affiliation between Barker PL: and Emily Evans (Felicia Farr as Randy Farr), a nurse at Danny's camp. PL: The five cell-mates, led by Rollo, who plans to kill Benny and dress PL: him in Barker's clothes to throw off the police, execute an underwater PL: prison escape, and head north for the ransom money. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 99847a100523,100534 MV: Billy the Kid's Gun Justice (1940) PL: Escaping from the law once again, Billy, Fuzzy, and Jeff ride to the ranch PL: of Jeff's uncle only to find another family living their. They soon PL: learn of Cobb Allen's scheme where he sells a ranch, makes sure the PL: rancher can't pay off his note, kicks him out, and resells the ranch. PL: But Billy has a plan to recover the ranchers' money and he sends Fuzzy PL: to town with a fake map to a gold treasure. BY: Maurice VanAuken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 100014a100702,100713 MV: Bingo Robbers, The (2000) PL: Vallis is a musician who lives in his car. Linda (Brown) is a single mother PL: whose ex-husband wants nothing to do with their daughter. They believe PL: that a little more cash is all they need to turn their lives around, PL: and embark on a series of petty robberies. When that doesn't work out, PL: Vallis and Linda concoct a scheme to rob that most holy of Newfoundland PL: institutions: the bingo hall. BY: Shannon Patrick Sullivan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 100947c101646 BY: Sami Al-Taher 101183a101883,101894 MV: Black and White (2002) PL: True story that created headline news in 1959. A young aboriginal man Max PL: Stuart, was convicted of murder in the light of questionable evidence PL: presented, of nine year old Mary Hattam near Ceduna, on the south coast PL: of Australia. International News Media Baron, Rupert Murdoch (played by PL: Ben Mendelsohn), then publisher of the Adelaide "News," became the PL: driving force behind securing a re-trial for Stuart. BY: Noel Bailey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 101583c102294 MV: Black Hawk Down (2001) 101595a102307,102325 PL: Action/war drama based on the best-selling book detailing a PL: near-disastrous mission in Somalia on October 3, 1993 where nearly 100 PL: U.S. Army Rangers, commanded by Capt. Mike Steele, were dropped by PL: helicopter deep into the capital city of Mogadishu to capture two top PL: lieutenants of a Somali warlord which lead to a large and drawn-out PL: firefight between the Rangers and hundreds of Somali gunmen which led PL: to the destruction of two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters in Mogadishu, and PL: the heroic efforts by various Rangers to get to them, centering on Sgt. PL: Eversmann commanding one Ranger unit, named Chalk Four, pinned down by PL: the street fighting, to Warrant Officer Durant who was only survivor of PL: the second black hawk crash site and whom was captured, to Lt. Col. PL: McKnight who leads a rescue convoy for the Rangers only to get lost PL: within the hostile city, to Lt. Perino leading Rangers to the first PL: black hawk crash site, to Staff Sgt. Yurek who leads his decimated PL: Ranger group Chalk Two through gunfire to safety, to many others PL: involved who where either killed or survived. BY: Matthew Patay 102472a103203,103219 MV: Blackadder: The Cavalier Years (1988) (TV) PL: In 1648, Sir Edmund Blackadder, descendant of Prince Edmund Plantagent and PL: currently the sole member of the noble dynasty, is one of two people PL: who stayed loyal to King Charles I after Oliver Cromwell's threat, the PL: other being Baldrick, descendant of a pig farmer and a bearded lady. To PL: protect his liege, Sir Edmund has hid the king (the series has already PL: proven to us that the royals are insane) in Blackadder Hall, but PL: Baldrick unwittingly betrays the ruler when Cromwell arrives at the PL: Hall. Blackadder decides he must save the king when he is sentenced PL: to execution, and becomes frustrated when Baldrick cluelessly accepts PL: a job as executioner- until he realizes he may be able to use it to PL: save Charles... BY: Bloggers! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 102540c103287 PL: The Original 50's classic about a decent middle aged school teacher who 102542c103289 PL: Morrow. This is the original film that has had several unofficial 102696,102705d103442 102751a103489,103500 MV: Blacksmith Scene (1893) PL: A stationary camera looks at a large anvil with a blacksmith behind it and PL: one on either side. The smith in the middle draws a heated metal rod PL: from the fire, places it on the anvil, and all three begin a rhythmic PL: hammering. After several blows, the metal goes back in the fire. One PL: smith pulls out a bottle of beer, and they each take a swig. Then, out PL: comes the glowing metal and the hammering resumes. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 102919a103669,103681 MV: Blair Princess Project, The (1999) (V) PL: In August of 1999, two of Blair's oldest friends (Shannon and Paula) pick PL: up one of her college pals, Coley, whom they've never met, and set out PL: from L.A. for Malibu where Blair is getting married. Shannon puts PL: herself in charge of the map, and soon they're parked at the base of a PL: hill, walking up a narrow trail. Before too long, the map has been put PL: to more practical uses, they're lost, and strange things begin to PL: happen. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 102993c103755 MV: Blaise Pascal (1971) (TV) 103476a104239,104250 MV: Blazing Across the Pecos (1948) PL: Ace Brockway is trying to drive Matt Carter out of business by having PL: Indians attack his trading posts. Steve Blake arrives and gets PL: appointed Deputy to the inept Marshal Smiley Burnette. First he foils PL: Brockway's attempt to supply rifles to the Indians. Then he has the PL: Editor print that Carter has $20,000 in his safe. He figures Brockway PL: will make an attempt to get it and the Durango Kid will be ready. BY: Maurice VanAuken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 103818c104592 BY: Sami Al-Taher 104115a104890,104902 MV: Blinkende lygter (2000) PL: Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over PL: 4,000,000 krones which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to PL: escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an PL: old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one PL: after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, PL: starting a new life, renovating the house and forming it into a PL: restaurant. But they can't avoid being caught up by their past. BY: Volker Merl ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 104359c105146 MV: Blonde Goddess (1982) 104717a105505,105515 MV: Blood and Guts (2002) PL: Three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if PL: not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if PL: you "know wot I mean?" However when sex and greed rear-up between the PL: good crims and the bad cops, the consequences are both bizarre and PL: fatal. BY: Noel C. Bailey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 105007,105019d105804 106836c107621 BY: Sami Al-Taher 110178,110188d110962 111689c112463 MV: Boy Who Loved Trolls, The (1984) (TV) 113877a114652,114662 MV: Breed, The (2001) PL: In the distant future vampires have come out of the shadows and tried to PL: live among people as a special and peaceful breed. When a series of PL: murders happens, a cop and his vampire colleague are assigned to arrest PL: a dark figure who tears the throat of the victims and strains their PL: blood off. BY: misalva ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 114924a115710,115738 MV: Bright Road (1953) PL: Based on the story, "See How They Run" written by Mary Elizabeth Vroman, a PL: fourth-generation school teacher from the British West Indies, that ran PL: in the June, 1951 issue of "The Ladies' Home Journal" and subsequently won PL: that year's Christopher Award, 1953's "Bright Road" has only one white PL: actor, Robert Horton, in the cast. Not important now except in the PL: context of the era. Jane Richards (Dorothy Dandridge) is a young PL: 4th-grade teacher in the South that has a problem in her classroom with PL: 11-year-old C.T.Young (Philip Herburn), a backward boy whose pride has PL: made him a stubborn rebel and an exalted liar. Jane believes in him, PL: discovers that he has an interest in nature when he spends his time PL: watching a caterpillar in a tree trunk as it develops into a cocoon. PL: C. T. is devoted to his family and also to little Tanya (Barbara Ann PL: Sanders, real-life daughter of actress Lillian Randolph), who adores PL: him. When Tanya, despite every effort on the part of Dr. Mitchell PL: (Robert Horton)to save her, dies of virus pneumonia, the embittered PL: C.T. stays away from school. When he returns and gets into a fight, he PL: is punished by being sent into Coventry. But when a swarm of bees PL: invades the classroom and panics the students, C.T. takes charge and, PL: capturing the queen bee, leads the swarm outside and earns the praise PL: of the school principal (Harry Belafonte). But C.T. has urgent business PL: at hand; the cocoon is splitting and ready to emerge. He has been PL: saving it for Tanya, but now presents it to Jane, who calls the other PL: children to watch the unfolding miracle of nature. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 115131a115946,115961 MV: Bring Me the Head of Geraldo Rivera (1989) PL: Folks are busy at the production offices of Mort Downey Jr.'s talk show. A PL: warehouse worker is preparing manifests for shipping. He needs the PL: sign off of the producer, a voluble woman who's talking non-stop on the PL: phone to someone named Harry. She signs the manifest without looking PL: up as she talks about sexual surrogates, a woman crushed to death by PL: her fat lover, and a fist fight on Geraldo Rivera's show. "Thank PL: goodness he's been taking boxing lessons," she says. She's interrupted PL: by the arrival of a uniformed woman with a nose ring. The woman opens PL: a paper bag she's carrying and hands the producer what's inside. The PL: horror is only beginning. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 118834,118844d119663 119079a119899,119909 MV: Burn the Butterflies (1979) PL: Ray Barrett plays a fictitious Australian Prime Minister faced with having PL: to reverse Government policy on uranium mining and export, after PL: front-page news that a Scottish reactor has suffered a major meltdown. PL: Again the issue of Sydney's nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights being in PL: the vicinity of high density living is the subject or major concern. BY: Noel C. Bailey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 119165,119180d119994 119400a120215,120224 MV: Bushwhackers (1989) PL: This movie sees a young American PL: winging his way to Oz having inherited an outback ranch. He arrives, PL: only to find that it is in fact a thriving bordello. Needless to say, PL: he can hardly go away empty-handed, as it were! BY: Noel C. Bailey <>uds3@hotmail.com> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 119807a120632,120647 MV: Buxom Beautease (1956) PL: Using the frame of an evening of vaudeville, eleven women perform PL: striptease dances. Interspersed are four routines of comedians Joe PL: Young and Gene Doyle. Rita Grable introduces each performer with a PL: large cue card. Most of the acts are done with a single couch, chaise PL: longue, or bare stage; most of the women begin in evening wear and end PL: in a bikini-like costume. Patti Paget's is a fan dance. Blaze Starr PL: removes the largest number of garments and puts some special emphasis PL: on her axilla. Starr and Dorian Dennis take two turns each. Lili St. PL: Cyr caps the show, in color, with a lithe and muscular dance that PL: includes a translucent bathtub. Storm and Blondell unwrap to close. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 122124a122965,122982 MV: Call Me Bwana (1963) PL: A returning moon capsule with vital information goes off course and lands PL: in Africa where the little-known Ekele tribesmen find it. Washington PL: orders the great African Authority Matthew Merriwether (Bob Hope), an PL: utter fraud and authority only on feminine pulchritude, to go find it. PL: A foreign power sends Secret Agent Luba (Anita Ekberg) to go after PL: Matthew and stop at nothing - absolutely nothing - to get it from him. PL: Dr. Ezra Mungo (Lionel Jeffries) is peeved that Luba superseded him, and PL: is sent along posing as her father but has plans of his own. All meet PL: and form a safari but there is time out for a golf match between PL: Merriwether and Arnold Palmer (Himself). After reaching their PL: destination, with Merriwether madly in love with Luba, they find that PL: the Ekeles believe the capsule is a holy talisman and won't give it up. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 123812a124671,124680 MV: Candy Floss (1997) PL: The tragi-comic tale of Flossy the candyfloss girl who looses her heart to PL: Luke on the Waltzers. But Bert, the embittered arcade owner, is set to PL: smash her dreams and prove that love, like Candyfloss, disappears the PL: moment you bit into it. BY: Hannah Robinson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 123854a124723,124738 PL: Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) is writing a paper on urban legends when she PL: hears about the Candyman (Tony Todd), who was once an PL: ex-slave-turned-artist name Daniel Robitaille, who had an affair his PL: client's daughter. Robitaille's right hand was sawn off, he was covered PL: in honey, and stung to death by bees. If anyone says the word PL: "Candyman" five times in a mirror, he'll appear behind that person, a PL: bloody hook as a replacement for his hand, and kill him. A series of PL: unsolved murders is happening in the Cabrini Green projects and Helen PL: is using this to help with her paper. The residents say the Candyman is PL: to blame, but Helen doesn't believe it. Until she meets the man with a PL: hook for a hand. Now, he's begun to murder her friends and no one PL: believes her. Can Helen clear her name and stop the Canydman from PL: killing anyone else? BY: Will 124047a124932,124947 MV: Cannery Row (1982) PL: A depressed section of Monterrey, California, known as Cannery Row from its PL: string of now-empty canning plants is the backdrop for an offbeat PL: romantic comedy about a pair of mismatched lovers. Doc is a lonely PL: marine biologist (and former baseball star) who supplies specimens for PL: science labs and classrooms. Suzy is a scrappy drifter who can't even PL: succeed as a prostitute because of her abrasive manner. When the two PL: get together, it's fireworks, though not the romantic kind. Not to PL: worry, everything is in the hands of Cannery Row's resident guardian PL: angels, Mack and the boys, a band of drunken derelicts whose hearts are PL: in the right place, even though their brains are not. BY: P. Silvestro ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 124571c125471 BY: Sami Al-Taher 125747a126648,126668 MV: Careful, Soft Shoulders (1942) PL: At a December 7, 1941 Washington cocktail party, Connie Mathew (Virginia PL: Bruce) is not amused by the romantic advances of playboy Tommy Aldrich PL: (James Ellison), son of an important Navy consultant. The party is PL: shocked by the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Connie PL: blithely announces she would like to serve Uncle Sam as a new version PL: of Mata Hari. She finds Mr. Fortune (Aubrey Mather) waiting for her PL: when she gets home and he introduces himself as a member of the Secret PL: Service and asks her to join his staff. Thinking it is a practical joke PL: by Tommy, she accepts. Fortune tells Connie her first assignment is to PL: get friendly with Tommy, as the government suspects him of selling PL: convoy information that he gets from his father to enemy agents. She PL: does so, falls in love with him and finds out he is 100% loyal. Mr. PL: Fortune takes Connie and Tommy captive. Connie's sister, Agatha (Sheila PL: Ryan), had earlier suspected Mr. Fortune and she was taken prisoner by PL: his Axis spies. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 127610,127631d128530 129563a130463,130472 MV: Caught In The Middle (1986) PL: Because young Chip's parents are going away for the weekend, they ask PL: college girl Cindy to housesit. Chip invites his friends, including PL: Patty, the girl next door, over for a barbecue and pool party with PL: Cindy's college girlfriends. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 130151a131061,131073 MV: Cellbound (1955) PL: A prisoner serving a 500 year stretch at Sing Song prison spends 20 years PL: digging a tunnel under the wall. Escaping with his bag of disguises he PL: intends to see the world but ends up instead inside the warden's PL: television set. So, to keep from being caught, he has to use his PL: disguises and act out programs such as a western, a boxing match and a PL: ragtime band (but not the horse race) as the Warden keeps changing the PL: channel. BY: Jerry Roberts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 131017a131940,131955 MV: Chagrin et la pitié, Le (1971) PL: From 1940 to 1944, France collaborated with Nazi Germany, the only county PL: in Europe to do so. Marcel Ophüls mixes archival footage with 1969 PL: interviews of a German officer and collaborators and resistance PL: fighters from Clement-Ferrant. They comment on the nature, details, PL: and reasons for the collaboration, from anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and PL: fear of Bolsheviks, to simple caution. Part one, "The Collapse," PL: features an interview with Pierre Mendès-France, jailed for anti-Vichy PL: action and later France's Prime Minister. At the heart of part two, PL: "The Choice," is an interview with Rene de Chambrun, one of 7,000 PL: French youth to fight on the eastern front wearing German uniforms. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 131662,131671d132599 133690a134619,134642 MV: Checkered Coat, The (1948) PL: Psychiatrist Dr. Michael Madden (Tom Conway) is visited by a man, Steve PL: "Creepy" Bolin (Hurd Hatfield), wearing a weird checkered coat, and PL: when Madden learns that Creepy is subject to death-like trances and the PL: fear of being buried alive, Madden concludes Creepy is obviously a PL: psychopath (at least, until a real one comes along)with possible PL: criminal tendencies. When leaving, Creepy tells Madden he is a friend PL: of the doctor's no-good brother Fred (Marten Lamont),while also PL: throwing a few sinister-and-leering glances in the direction of PL: Madden's wife Betty (Noreen Nash.) Madden wastes no time in notifying PL: the police to pick up Creepy, evidently on a general nuisance charge of PL: looking like Dorian Gray. But Creepy is also sneaky and eludes the PL: police and, when next seen, he and Fred are robbing the Anson Jewelry PL: store across the street from Dr. Madden's office and he shoots and PL: kills both the owner (John Hamilton) and his son (Fred Browne) in the PL: process. Dr. Madden hears the shots and rushes over but is slugged by PL: Creepy and he and no-good Fred carry off Madden in their get-away. The PL: police show up and immediately tab Dr. Madden as the prime suspect PL: based, evidently, on him having an office across the street. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 134459a135412,135422 MV: Chi lavora è perduto (1964) PL: Bonifacio is 27 years old and he is roaming about Venice. He is trying to PL: decide whether to accept a job or not. In so doing, he recalls all his past PL: life: his love story with Gabriella, his old friend Claudio, who had PL: always regarded working as a worthwhile thing, the war, the partisans. PL: What will he do? BY: Baldinotto da Pistoia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 134865a135829,135841 PL: Addie Fippany (Jane Withers), her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany (Leo PL: Carrillo), her mother Josephine (Spring Byington) and her sister Cecile PL: (Marjorie Weaver) roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading PL: trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie PL: and her father love the care-free life, but Mrs. Fippany and Cecile PL: want to settle down in New York City. As soon as the "chicken wagon PL: family" reaches New York, Addie gets into mischief and a policeman, PL: Matt Hibbard (Kane Richmond), helps her and falls in love with Cecile. PL: He helps the family settle into a deserted firehouse which is up for PL: public sale. BY: Les Adams 135532a136509,136521 MV: Children of the Living Dead (2001) PL: In 1987 serial murderer and rapist Abbot Hayes disappeared from the morgue. PL: Shortly afterwards, a zombie plague swept his hometown and many lost PL: their lives in the ensuing battle. Now, fourteen years later, the aging PL: residents of the town are trying to erase all traces of their past. But PL: the arrival of a businessman who relocates the bodies of the local PL: cemetery into a mass grave so he can build a car dealership riles up PL: Abbot, who sets out to create his own army of the undead and take over. BY: Jack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 136097,136115d137085 136615,136630d137584 137759a138714,138728 MV: Ciao America (2000) PL: Filmed entirely in Italy, "Ciao America" is the story of Lorenzo Primavera PL: an unsettled, third generation Italian American whose search for his PL: place in the world leads him back to the land of his ancestors. In the PL: small town of Ferrara, Italy, Lorenzo finds work coaching PL: American-style football in the fledgling Italian Football League. It's PL: a league where everyone can kick but no one can catch. While coaching, PL: Lorenzo falls in love with Paola Angelini, a headstrong, young music PL: student who forces him to face the same decision as his immigrant PL: grandfather some seventy years earlier. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 139270c140239 BY: Sami Al-Taher 139589,139600d140557 141556c142513 MV: Coach (1978/I) 141893c142850 BY: Sami Al-Taher 141917c142874 BY: Sami Al-Taher 142742c143699 PL: dunklen Probesaal ein Unbekannter applaudiert und sie zu einem 142959,142967d143915 143397a144346,144358 MV: Colpo gobbo all'italiana (1962) PL: Orazio Menicotti is a night policeman in Rome. One night he is present at a PL: quarrel between husband and wife and he volunteers to take the wife to PL: the Police Station. While he goes around Rome with the blonde and PL: beautiful woman, a bank is robbed. Orazio believes the local gangster is PL: guilty and he rushes to Occhio di Bue's home. When he finds out a PL: different truth, Orazio, Occhio di Bue and his friends will try to get PL: back the loot to put it back before the robbery is disclosed. BY: Baldinotto da Pistoia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 143887a144849,144860 MV: Columbo: Old Fashioned Murder (1976) (TV) PL: The Lytton family owns a museum. Ruth and Edward have devoted their life to PL: the museum but things are not going well. So Edward has decided to sell PL: it. Ruth doesn't agree and plans otherwise. She has a niece, Janie, PL: whom she loves more than her mother, and has hired Milton Schaffer, a PL: petty thief who is the brother of her niece's lover. What scheme is in PL: her mind? BY: Baldinotto da Pistoia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 144360a145334,145343 MV: Come Get Some: The Women of the WWF (1999) (V) PL: The hottest women in the World Wrestling Federation : PL: Sable, Tori, Jacqueline, Chyna, Debra, Terri and Ivory are all profiled in PL: this documentary style video with footage from womens matches including PL: interviews with the ladies themselves and a few WWF stars. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 144707,144723d145689 144886a145853,145863 MV: Comfortably Numb (2001) PL: Mickey can't let go of his love for ex-girlfriend Laurel. One night, on a PL: whim, he suggests Laurel and her new fiance join him for dinner. PL: Unfortunately, he forgot to check with his current girlfriend...who's PL: determined to make the night miserable for everyone involved. Based on PL: the play. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 146688a147666,147679 MV: Confederate Ironclad, The (1912) PL: During the US civil war, Elinor, a pretty northern girl, comes south to PL: visit her aunt. Little does anyone know, but she's a spy. Lt. Yancey, PL: who's close to being engaged to the fetching and resourceful Rose, is PL: gallant enough to show the Yankee guest around, including a walk down a PL: hidden creek where a gunboat is built and awaits powder. Elinor sends PL: this intelligence north, and the Blue Coats attack. Rose and Yancey PL: have one chance to save the day: to bring a train of gun powder to the PL: Confederate Ironclad so that she can fight back. Will they make it? BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 146916a147908,147922 MV: Confidentially Connie (1953) PL: Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe (Louis Cahhern) comes to Main to vist his son PL: Joe (Van Johnson), a college instructor, and his wife Connie (Janet PL: Leigh) in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career PL: and come back to Texas and take over the ranch. When Opie finds out PL: that Connie, who is expecting a baby, can not afford the steaks she PL: yearns for on Joe's salary, Opie, who believes that pregnant wimmen PL: gotta have meat, arranges for the local butcher, Spangenberg (Walter PL: Slezak) to cut his prices in half (with Opie paying the difference) so PL: that Connie can have the meat she desires. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 151547c152553 PL: We follow Tommy on his first drive down the streets LA's famous Melrose 151549c152555 PL: politically in-Correct parody on Public Service 152145a153152,153166 MV: Crazy Connected Thing (1999) PL: Sarah has been unsuccessful interesting a literary agent in her novel, PL: "Crazy Connected Thing." She picks up the first eight chapters from PL: the agent's sympathetic secretary and goes to a coffee house to think PL: through what to do next. A thief steals the bag off the back of her PL: chair - with her wallet and the eight chapters. She returns to her PL: apartment and calls her bank to cancel her credit card. While she's on PL: hold, she gets a call from a stranger whose read the eight chapters and PL: has some praise, criticism, and questions. It's the thief. His PL: comments make some sense. What should Sarah do? BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 153162a154184,154194 MV: Criminals and Gangmembers Anonymous (2002) PL: A three part documentary series that explores a unique rehabilitation PL: program for repeat offenders and gang members. Filmed in a California PL: Maximum Security Prison, the series is a look into the world of street PL: and prison gangs, which ask is there a way out for these men who have PL: dedicated their lives to gangs. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 153721c154753 BY: Sami Al-Taher 156356a157389,157401 PL: Rufus Sinclair dies leaving a will vowing to return from the grave and wreak PL: terrible vengeance on his family if certain conditions surrounding his PL: death and burial are not observed; for his long-suffering wife Abigail PL: (Helen Waren), he predicts death by fire; eldest son Bruce (Robert PL: Milli)is promised a violent death by disfiguration; the next son, PL: Philip (Roy Scheider as Roy R. Scheider)is informed he will die by PL: suffocation; and Philip's wife Vivian (Margot Hartman)will drown. PL: Several days after the reading of the will by family attorney James PL: Benson (Hugh Franklin), the body of Rufus vanishes from its crypt, and PL: the chain of retribution prophesied by ol' Rufus begins. BY: Les Adams 156648,156664d157692 159270a160299,160312 MV: Dan Oniroku nawa to hada (1979) PL: Okoma (literally, Red Cherry) was a woman gambler until she retired from PL: the yakuza world. Two years later, she returns home, and finds that the PL: big boss has been assassinated and his daughter is having trouble PL: keeping things in line against the rival gang headed by the men who PL: killed her father. Okoma decides to avenge her former boss and help his PL: daughter, a former friend of hers. She recruits her own gang, starting PL: with an expert knife-fighter, her former lover. After a fight, the new PL: Gang Leader captures and tortures Okoma sadistically. BY: Artemis-9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 160310a161353,161376 MV: Dangerous Profession, A (1949) PL: Ex-policeman Vince Kane (George Raft) is a partner with Joe Farley (Pat PL: O'Brien) as bail bond brokers, but retains his ties and friendship with PL: the police and Detective Nick Ferrone (Jim Backus as James Backus.) PL: Ferrone picks up Claude Brackette (Bill Williams), a brokerage clerk, PL: as a suspect in the securities robbery in which a policeman was killed, PL: and Kane goes with him when the detective searches Brackett's PL: apartment, and Kane finds that Brackett's wife, Lucy (Ella Raines), is PL: his former sweetheart. She insists her husband is innocent and pleads PL: with Kane to get him out on bail but she has only $4,000 of the $25,000 PL: needed. A mysterious emissary puts up $12,000 and Kanes, over Farley's PL: protest, makes up the rest from the company's money. Brackett is murdered PL: after his release. For Lucy, Kane investigates and finds that Brackett PL: had dealings with night club owner Jerry McKay (Roland Winters) and a PL: hoodlum named Roy Collins (Robert Gist). Suspecting McKay was in back of PL: the robbery, Kane begins a campaign in which he himself behaves like a PL: crook, and demands a heavy bride from McKay for his silence. Farley PL: denounces this tactic, and is met by Kane for a payment also, or he PL: will be branded in league with the crooks. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 160475a161542,161555 PL: A strange group of passengers embarks on a luxury liner when the news is PL: announced that the fabulous Omar diamond is to be taken to the United PL: States by a gem dealer. Victor Morrell (Cesar Romero) is aboard posing PL: as an owner of an Argentine cattle ranch, as is Valerie Barton (Phyllis PL: Brooks), interested in the diamond and traveling with her aunt, Cnthia PL: Barton (Jane Darwell). Others aboard are Julien Stevens (Alan PL: Dinehart), a blustering suit manufacturer, and two out-and-out crooks, PL: Phil (Leon Ames) and Monet (Albert Conti). All have the idea that PL: Morell is after the diamond and declare themselves in whether he likes PL: it or not. Valerie plays upon Morell's interest in her to make him give PL: up his attempt to get the diamond so she can have a clear field. BY: Les Adams 160522a161603,161618 MV: Danish Connection, The (1970) PL: Everyone wants the formula for male virility that Danish scientists have PL: developed. Wealthy but impotent Herbert Steele, who desires his PL: secretary, Kitty, is willing to pay $1,000,000 or more for the formula. PL: He's hired private eye, Johnny Wadd, but Wadd has disappeared after a PL: trip to Hawaii. So Steele hires Eric Jensen, a photographer and Don PL: Juan who claims he can get the drug. Meanwhile, Dr. Livingston Presume PL: is also searching for the formula and thinks Wadd has it or knows where PL: it is. Presume kidnaps Wadd and subjects him to a unique torture in PL: order to get into his memory and find out where the formula is hidden. PL: Kitty has another idea. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 163830c164926 BY: Sami Al-Taher 165072c166168 MV: Deadline (1981) 167125a168222,168235 MV: Deception: A Mother's Secret (1991) (TV) PL: Terry is dating a single mother, Amanda. Not only does he want to marry her PL: but he also wants to adopt her son, Jay. Now while she likes the PL: former, she is doesn't exactly like the latter. When she dies in an PL: accident, Terry begins working on trying to adopt Jay so that he won't PL: be sent to a foster home. And he discovers that not only is Amanda's PL: ex-husband not Jay's father but that she was infertile. So where did PL: Jay come from and Terry is not sure if he wants to find out, cause it PL: means that he might lose Jay. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 167326a168437,168449 MV: Deed Poll (2002) PL: Nathaniel Griffin is a young callboy who offers his services to Ivy and PL: Sean Poll, two rich siblings who have killed their parents and now PL: live in a sexual relationship. Their greatest obsession aside kinky PL: evil games is playing poker. At a party with Nathaniel and Thor, PL: another callboy they use for their pleasure, Ivy suggests to invent PL: another form of poker: She wants to make her own cards out of human PL: skin. Nathaniel, on acid by that time, offers his skin... BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 169942,169943c171065,171066 PL: troopers abduct them in the desert and they are taken to a laboratory / PL: prison. Here, males come to experience sexual fantasies, and it is 169945,169946c171068,171070 PL: out. The captors force an hypnotic drug upon them to aid their PL: performances. Then a country hitchhiker they met earlier at a gas PL: station decides to rescue the girls. 170136a171261,171279 MV: Design for Death (1948) PL: An Academy Award winner for best documentary, the film opens with a notice PL: that..."Exhibition of confiscated Japanese film material authorized by PL: permission of the Alien Property Custodian in the public interest under PL: License No. LM 979"...and was assembled from hundreds of captured PL: newsreels, historical dramas and propaganda films. While revealing the PL: steps that Japan took that led to Pearl Harbor, it goes back 700 years PL: to the feudal caste system, a peasant revolt suppressed after the PL: Samurai murdered over 40,000 people, to Admiral Perry forcibly opening PL: Japan to foreign trade, to the perversion of converting the Shinto PL: religion of nature-worship to that of a fanatic state creed that PL: preached the Japanese were a Master Race and the Emperor was a sun-god PL: to be blindly obeyed. The film carried no credit for a director, while PL: Richard Fleischer shared the Producer credit with Theron Warth. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 170390a171534,171544 MV: Despair (2001) (V) PL: A married couple's final day, before each commits suicide. The man no PL: longer wishes to live a life in which his artistic talents continue to PL: go unrecognized and unappreciated...The woman has no desire to live PL: without him, and her depression drives her to both insanity and self- PL: destruction. BY: Greg Visiko ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 172826,172836d173979 173000a174144,174155 PL: U.S. Treasury Investigator Joe Dennison (Dennis O'Keefe) is sent to England PL: on the trail of a gang of thieves responsible for stealing a million PL: dollars from a U.S. Treasury vault. One of the crooks is on his way to PL: England to spend the money on phony diamonds. Scotland Yard Inspector PL: McClaren (Philip Friend), assigned to work with Dennison on the case, PL: is also working on the disappearance of Dr. Eric Miller (Paul Harmuth), PL: an atomic scientist. Dennison discovers while interviewing Miller's PL: daughter Marlene (Margaret Sheridan) that she is wearing a brooch PL: containing a phony diamond, and the brooch had been made by her father. BY: Les Adams 173519c174674 BY: Sami Al-Taher 175293a176449,176463 MV: Disappearances (2001) PL: Quebec Bill Bonhomme, a hardy schemer and indefatigable optimist, tries PL: desperate to raise money to preserve his endangered herd through the PL: rapidly approaching winter. He resorts to whiskey-smuggling, a PL: traditional family occupation. Quebec Bill takes his son, Wild Bill, on PL: the journey. Also Henry Coville, an inscrutable professional PL: whiskey-runner, and Rat Kinneson, Quebec Bill's perpetually PL: disconsolate hired man. Together, they cross the border into vast PL: reaches of Canadian wilderness for an unforgettable four days "full of PL: terror, full of wonder." BY: Ciaran O'Shea ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 175544a176715,176724 MV: Discovery of Heaven, The (2001) PL: God is dissapointed with the human race and wants his stone tablets back. PL: An angel is given the assignment and, with Gabriëls help, tries to PL: manipulate several humans on earth to get his job done. But humans have PL: a will of their own... BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 175675a176856,176866 MV: Disney Sing-Along-Songs: Be Our Guest (1994) (V) PL: Professor Owl and Jiminy Cricket take you to a Sing-Along with some PL: memorable Disney characters as you read the on-screen lyrics. Each PL: Disney song is featured through a movie clip from Beauty and the Beast, PL: Mary Poppins, Pinocchio, Lady and the Tramp, Winnie the Pooh and the PL: Blustery Day, The Great Mouse Detective, and Sleeping Beauty. BY: Oliver Chu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 175690a176882,176915 MV: Disney Sing-Along-Songs: The Bare Necessities (1994) (V) PL: Professor Owl and Jiminy Cricket take you to a Sing-Along with some PL: memorable Disney characters as you read the on-screen lyrics. Each PL: Disney song is featured through a movie clip from The Jungle Book, The PL: Mickey Mouse Club, Cinderella, Old Yeller, Figaro And Cleo, Winnie The PL: Pooh, Dumbo, The Aristocats, and Summer Magic. BY: Oliver Chu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Disney Sing-Along-Songs: Under the Sea (1991) (V) PL: Dive with some unforgettable Disney characters as Professor Owl and PL: Professor Ludwig Von Drake take you to a Sing-Along on some watery PL: tunes with on-screen lyrics. Each Disney song is featured through PL: movie clips from The Little Mermaid, Peter Pan, The Sword In The Stone, PL: 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, The Rescuers, and some Disney scenes. BY: Oliver Chu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Disney Sing-Along-Songs: You Can Fly (1993) (V) PL: Professor Owl and Professor Ludwig Von Drake take you to a Sing-Along with PL: some unforgettable Disney characters as you read the on-screen lyrics. PL: Each Disney song is featured through a movie clip from Peter Pan, PL: Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Jungle Book, Pinocchio, Winnie the Pooh PL: and The Honey Tree, The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr. Toad, Mary PL: Poppins, and Dumbo. BY: Oliver Chu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 176302a177528,177541 MV: Divine: Live at the Hacienda (1994) (V) PL: On 16 February 1983, Divine performs a seven-song set at the Hacienda Club PL: in Manchester. His peroxide blond hair sticks in all directions; he's PL: dressed in a skin-tight, short, off-one-shoulder, sparkling dress that PL: he says he got from the queen, who wouldn't wear it. The set includes PL: Gang Bang (the name-game song), Jungle Jezebel, Born To Be Cheap, PL: Alphabet Rap, Native Love, Shake It Up, and, for an encore, Shoot Your PL: Shot. The band, whom we never see, is techno-rock. Between songs, PL: Divine chats up the audience, usually talking about sex. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 176850c178089 BY: Sami Al-Taher 181821c183060 BY: Sami Al-Taher 182046a183286,183302 MV: Down Three Dark Streets (1954) PL: When FBI Agent Zack Stewart (Kenneth Tobey) is killed, Agent John Ripley PL: (Broderick Crawford) takes over the three cases he was working on, PL: hoping one will lead to his killer. The first involves gangster Joe PL: Walpo (Joe Bassert) and Ripley finds his hideout through Joe's girl PL: friend, Connie Anderson (Martha Hyer). Joe is killed but it is PL: established he was 400 miles away when Stewart was murdered. The next PL: involves a car-theft gang which Ripley breaks up by using one of the PL: gang, Vince Angelino (Gene Reynolds) and his wife Julie (Marissa PL: Pavan.) The last case involves Kate Martel (Ruth Roman), the victim of PL: an extortionist who threatens to kidnap her child unless she pays him PL: $10,000. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 182339a183596,183609 MV: Défense de savoir (1973) PL: When the police find Simone seated near her husband's corpse it is PL: predictable that she is charged with the murder. Jean-Pierre Laubray is PL: appointed counsel for the defence. He begins an inquiry into the case PL: and he finds out that the murdered man had killed a barman in a robbery PL: the night before. He finds out as well he was a leg-man of Cristiani's PL: for his election campaign. He tries to contact Juliette, Cristiani's PL: daughter, and he discovers that also Bruno, Juliette's brother, died PL: that same night in a car accident... BY: Baldinotto da Pistoia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 184317c185587 MV: Dreams of Desire (1983) 187063a188334,188346 MV: Dust (2001) PL: Three high-flying Londoners head off into the depths of the English PL: countryside to share some Christmas cheer. But controversial soap star PL: Julian Lewis (John Ashley Cole), tabloid journalist Jade (Nadja Brand) PL: and Latino shag monster Carlos (Gerard Rudolf) get more than they PL: bargained for when their Yuletide trip becomes a drug fueled orgy of PL: violence. Hard edged irony and primitive sadism erupts as Sam PL: loses her mind on Angel Dust. BY: Alan Jones ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 187661c188944 BY: Sami Al-Taher 189653c190936 BY: Sami Al-Taher 191536a192820,192837 MV: Elopement (1951) PL: Industrial designer Howard Osborne (Clifton Webb) wants his daughter PL: Jacqueline (Anne Francis), shortened to Jake by her efficient-minded PL: father, to follow in his footsteps and study abroad. But, following her PL: graduation dance, she finds herself in the arms of and in love with her PL: psychology professor, Matt Reagan (William Lundigan), and they decide PL: to elope, telling only her godfather. He, when the Osbornes discovering PL: Jake missing, tells them of her plans. They descend furiously on the PL: Reagans, only to find Matt's father, (Tom (Charles Bickford), equally PL: upset at the news. The two families, with a great dislike for each PL: other, start off for a marriage mill across the state line, and join PL: forces when the Reagan car breaks down. Meanwhile, Jake and Matt PL: quarrel and decide they have made a mistake and start for home. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 191618,191630d192918 192964a194253,194263 MV: Encounter (1985) PL: "Encounter" begins when a man (Raymond Young) standing in a park sees PL: an attractive blonde woman (Barbara Balmer) pass by. When she gets in PL: her car, he follows her. She parks, and he walks after her. She stops, PL: turns and kisses him. Then she produces a knife and stabs him in the PL: stomach... BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 193979c195278 MV: Enraged New World (2002) 200169,200186d201467 200703a201985,202009 MV: Facts of Life Reunion (2001) (TV) PL: Thirteen years later Mrs. Garrett's "girls" have all grown into successful, PL: independent women. After a stint in the Peace Corps with her husband, a PL: widowed Mrs. Garrett is heading back to America, ready for a new life PL: and new romance, and also looking forward to seeing the girls again. PL: Blair is wealthier than ever, after building a hotel empire with her PL: husband, Tad. But she suspects he is having an affair. "Tootie," now PL: preferring to be called by her real name, Dorothy, has forsaken her PL: acting hopes to host her own talk show. Natalie is a dedicated TV news PL: producer, juggling an active love life with a frenetic work schedule PL: that takes her all over the world. Jo, ever the free spirit, is a PL: devoted cop, wife and mother. It's been years since Natalie has had a PL: Thanksgiving back in America, so she's talked all the girls and Mrs. PL: Garrett into spending the holiday together back in Peekskill, NY. When PL: Jo is unable to attend the reunion, her teenage daughter, Jamie, and PL: husband, Rick, come instead. They're all in for a surprise when PL: Natalie's not one but two boyfriends unexpectedly show up at the PL: reunion. Trouble soon starts, as both men compete for Natalie's PL: attention and exclusivity, so it's up to the girls to help solve PL: Natalie's predicament. BY: FactsofLifeGirlsFan2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 203802a205109,205118 MV: Fast Lane to Vegas (2000) PL: Zack and Brian are on their way to Las Vegas. On the way they are PL: confronted with a bevy of sex hungry females: a stripper, aliens, PL: Mexican senoritas, etc. Despite all these distractions will they make PL: it to Vegas in time for the wedding? BY: Tim_the_Bald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 204103c205419 BY: Sami Al-Taher 204958a206275,206284 MV: Faveurs de Sophie, Les (1984) (V) PL: Sophie and her husband die in a car accident. A female relative of Sophie PL: inherits her house and moves in. She finds Sophie's secret diary and PL: fantasises what Sophie got up to when she was alive and tries out many PL: of Sophies favorite pleasures to experience it for herself. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 209124,209134d210449 211347c212662 BY: Sami Al-Taher 212741a214057,214068 MV: Fleets of Stren'th (1942) PL: Popeye's unconventional torpedo-loading technique get him a mild PL: punishment: he's ordered to stand at attention. Just then, the enemy PL: attacks. He remains at attention, even as a bomb throws him to the top PL: of the mast, where his commander finally notices and orders him to get PL: the planes. Popeye fires on them, but this only draws return fire. He PL: eats his spinach, then turns into a plane himself and attacks. BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 213425a214753,214768 MV: Flight to Hong Kong (1956) PL: On an airliner bound for Hong Kong, Tony Dumont (Rory Calhoun) is attracted PL: to a pretty novelist, Pamela Vincent (Barbara Rush), who returns the PL: attention. The plane is held up by a hi-jacking gang and a shipment of PL: diamonds are stole. Dumont is actually the master-mind of a PL: diamond-smuggling syndicate operating from Macao. Warned by Mama Lin PL: (Soo Yong), that he might lose his sweetheart, Jean Blake (Dolores PL: Donlon), because of his attention to Pamela, Tony is so infatuated with PL: Pamela, that he double-crosses the gang and follows Pamela to San PL: Francisco, taking the diamonds with him. There, she brushes him off. PL: Now hunted by both the police and the syndicate, he returns to Macao. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 214329a215673,215685 MV: Flush (2001) PL: At a dinner party with friends, David is surprised to find that Julia, the PL: girl of his dreams is in attendance and recently available. He PL: awkwardly excuses himself to the bathroom to freshen up. In the PL: bathroom however, he is greeted by less than desirable circumstances PL: and must battle to alleviate the "situation" as Julia waits patiently PL: outside. Flush is an over the top comedy that propels human ingenuity PL: and human frailty to new levels all in the name of love and hygiene. BY: David W. Johnson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 215090a216447,216464 MV: Follow the River (1995) (TV) PL: Mary Ingles (Sheryl Lee) is pregnant when she and her two sons are captured PL: from their homestead in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains by Shawnee PL: Indians. Her husband, Will (Tim Guinee), narrowly escapes death during PL: the attack. Impressed by her grace under the pressure of captivity, PL: Wildcat, the Shawnee chief (Eric Schweig), confers special privileges PL: on Mary and her children, eventually proposing that Mary become his PL: mate. Surprised by her attraction to the handsome brave, Mary PL: nonetheless opts to remain faithful to Will and engineers a plan for PL: her escape. Separated from her children, Mary joins another female PL: settler, and together they embark on a harrowing homeward trek. Her PL: odyssey comes full circle more than a decade later when she is finally PL: reunited with her long-lost children. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 215805a217180,217205 PL: A woman-hating astronomy professor, Bertram Dillsome (Ted North), inherits PL: a swank beauty salon in a New York hotel from his aunt. His New York PL: arrival beings an unexpected fanfare of publicity arranged by Diane PL: "Dime" Pringle (Marjorie Weaver), who had met and fallen in love with PL: Bertram at a college lecture, and has convinced her father, Julius H. PL: Pringle (Tully Marshall), to allow his press agent, sour-puss Jonathan PL: Sweet (Ned Sparks), to handle Bertram's publicity. The beauty shop is PL: soon deluged with clients until actress Amy Devore (Isabel Jewell)hits PL: it with a fraudulent suit for infecting her face. Bertram finds a PL: recording made by his aunt before her death that hints at mysterious PL: happenings at the salon, involving a Mrs. Kennar (Lois Wilson). PL: Suspecting that his aunt had been murdered, Bertram and Dime call Mrs. PL: Kennar to the salon but, before they see her, Ann Kuo (lotus Long), a PL: Chinese attendant at the salon, and Rodney Blynn (Glenn Hunter), PL: confront her and she leaps from the window to her death. Amy tells PL: Bertram she will not press her suit if he will allow her to take over PL: the salon but he turns her down over the objections of his attorney PL: Middlesex (Pierre Watkin). Dottie Nickerson (Joan Davis), a trusted PL: employee at the salon, sees Kuo steal some letters from a customer's PL: purse and hears her telephone Blynn. Sweet has been attacked by a PL: mysterious assailant and Dottie visits him in the hospital and tells PL: him what she observed. He wants to visit Blynn's apartment, but Dottie PL: hides his trousers. BY: Les Adams 218695c220095 MV: Férfi mind örült (1937) 218792c220192 MV: Frame-Up, The (1937) 219873,219883d221272 221221a222611,222620 MV: Frightening, The (2001) PL: A new student discovers the students at his high school are disappearing PL: daily, yet no one seems concerned. he soon learns his school may be the PL: doorway to Hell, and some of his own classmates may be responsible for PL: the blood curdling screams filling the hallways. BY: Jason Paul Collum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 223460a224860,224869 MV: Furry Hamsters From Hell (1992) PL: A crazy scientist, Dr. Wells, breeds a deadly line of hamsters. The tax PL: man and he have a shoot-out, over past taxes owed, leaving the ghost of PL: Dr. Wells and his army of hamsters to protect the Wells Manor. PL: Especially from a crowd of unruly teenagers! BY: R. Thayer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 224186a225596,225608 MV: Gabriels ord (2001) PL: The story follows professional tracker Lisa. On a training run in the PL: forest she comes across The Dark Prince fighting with Archangel PL: Gabriel. Just before he dies Gabriel gives The Word to Lisa. This is PL: the secret key that will lock the gates to hell. With the help of PL: half-angel Arkel and her ex-boyfriend Thomas, she must travel to the PL: gates of Hell to lock them forever. Meanwhile the Dark Prince is hot on PL: her trail and will stop at nothing to prevent this. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 224262a225685,225701 MV: Gaia no genkaku (1994) (VG) PL: Tim (Will in the North American version, Paul in the European version) is PL: just an ordinary boy with uncanny psychic powers. He did not know a use PL: for them, until he stumbled into "Dark Space" and met Gaia, a goddess PL: that resembles a disembodied head of an old woman with dread-locks. She PL: tells Tim that he is needed to stop the "Comet of Doomsday" from PL: hitting the Earth, mutating every living thing on Earth as well. Plus, PL: Tim also needs to search for his father, whom was lost on an advanced PL: expedition. Tim meets new friends and with the help of Gaia, learns new PL: special powers (such as transformation), so he can be worthy of PL: destroying the "Comet of Doomsday". However, what is causing the comet PL: to appear? BY: Chibi Riza ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 226343a227783,227797 MV: Gay Shoe Clerk, The (1903) PL: A clerk looks over the bank of stacked shoe boxes on the wall behind him. PL: Two women enter, perhaps a mother and her grown daughter, one in white PL: and one in black, both wearing large hats. The younger of the two asks PL: to see shoes while the older one, sitting on the far side of the clerk, PL: reads. He shows the younger woman a sample, then another. She selects PL: the second, and he puts it on her foot, taking his time with the PL: buttons and buckles. She slowly raises her skirt to display her ankle PL: and then her calf. He looks up at her. Wait a second - is he a heel PL: or is this a planned assignation? BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 226538,226553d227991 228486c229924 BY: Sami Al-Taher 230343a231782,231797 MV: Ginger Snaps (2000) PL: Is becoming a woman analogous, in some deep psychological way, to becoming PL: a werewolf? Ginger is 16, edgy, tough, and, with her younger sister, PL: into staging and photographing scenes of death. They've made a pact PL: about dying together. In early October, on the night she has her first PL: period, which is also the night of a full moon, a werewolf bites PL: Ginger. Within a few days, some serious changes happen to her body and PL: her temperament. Her sister Brigitte, 15, tries to find a cure with PL: the help of Sam, a local doper. As Brigitte races against the clock, PL: Halloween and another full moon approach, Ginger gets scarier, and it PL: isn't just local dogs that begin to die. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 230505a231960,231981 MV: Giovane Casanova, Il (2001) (TV) PL: Dashing through the streets of Venice, slipping from the clutches of the PL: law, darting across Europe in search of new challenges, Giacomo PL: Casanova races through life with irrepressible energy. Violinist, PL: writer, soldier, spy, gambler, adventurer - it is as a lover that he PL: unbridles the full force of his energy. A charmer and seducer, he, too, PL: is charmed by the beauty of women, seduced by their passion, intrigued PL: by their mystery. For the young Casanova, life may be one dazzling PL: Venetian carnival, but in love there are no masks or disguises: this is PL: where he is at his most genuine, most vulnerable, most naked. The son PL: of an actress, Giacomo Casanova grows up surrounded by the magic and PL: artifice of theater. As the protegé of the French ambassador to the PL: Venetian Republic (Thierry Lhermitte), he begins his ascent in society PL: - and his conquest of its most beautiful women. Betrayed by his jealous PL: benefactor, Casanova is thrown into prison. Fifteen months later, he PL: escapes and flees to Paris, where he beguiles Louis XV's mistress, PL: Madame de Pompadour (Katja Flint). BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 230988a232465,232483 MV: Girl Next Door, The (1953) PL: Stage-and-night club star Jeannie Laird (June Haver) buys her first home, PL: and everyone who is anyone comes to her first garden party only to be PL: blinded by smoke from next door. Jeannie charges next door to bawl out PL: her new neighbor and meets comic-strip artist Bill Carter (Dan Dailey). PL: Bill has devoted himself to his strip, and raising his ten-year-old son PL: Joe (Billy Gray) since the death of his wife. Joe bases his strip on PL: the everyday happenings of he and his son and is proud of keeping it PL: scrupulously honest. When Jeannie and Bill fall in love, young Joe is PL: hurt, especially when Bill starts using a lot of the father-son time to PL: be with Jeannie. Bill cancels a father-son trip to Canada, and Joe PL: decides to write a letter to Bill's syndicate pointing out that the PL: current plot line of the script being set in Canada isn't honest, since PL: they didn't go. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 232260a233756,233768 PL: Trust can be as transparent as glass. When Ruby Baker's (Leelee Sobieski) PL: parents (Rita Wilson & Michael O'Keefe) are killed in a car accident, PL: her and her brother, Rhett (Trevor Morgan), must travel to Malibu, to PL: live with Terrence and Erin Glass (Stellan Skarsgård & Diane Lane), PL: their former neighbors. At first, Ruby and Rhett are comfortable and PL: happy. Ruby is making new friends at school and Rhett is getting more PL: video games and flashy toys then he could possibly know what to do PL: with! But, when Ruby speaks to her family's estate lawyer (Bruce Dern), PL: he tells her that her parents have left her and Rhett $4 million. PL: Suddenly, Ruby begins to notice odd behavior from Terry and Erin. BY: Robert Rosado 232591c234099 MV: Glocke, 2. Teil - Das verlorene Elternhaus, Die (1922) 233607,233631d235114 234970a236454,236469 MV: Golden Mistress, The (1954) PL: Ann Dexter (Rosemarie Bowe as Rosemarie Bowe), daughter of an itinerant PL: Haiti waterfront character, Carl Dexter (Abner Biberman), brings a PL: golden idol, which her father her stolen at a voodoo ceremony, to Bill PL: Buchanan (John Agar), who is known along the waterfront as a man PL: eternally on a treasure hunt. He agrees to let Ann accompany him in PL: search of the treasure after a native he befriended gives him PL: directions and certain voodoo secret charms. They follow an underwater PL: passage to an island where they find a Pagan tribe. They learn that the PL: golden idol is a burial symbol representing the dead and that hundreds PL: of idols are at the bottom of the sacred burial lake. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 237360a238860,238876 MV: Grüne Wolke, Die (2001) PL: A strange green cloud has turned almost the entire human race into stone. PL: The only survivors are eight children, their intrepid teacher PL: Birnenstiel and his friend, a jolly millionaire, who by chance all PL: happen to be in an airship above the green cloud at the time. Against PL: this background Birnenstiel tells a bizarre adventure story in which he PL: and the children are heroes. With loving and pointed irony he confronts PL: his protagonists with deep-frozen beauty queens, gene-manipulated PL: tomatoes, extraterrestrial maniacs, aggressive goldfish and last but PL: not least the rampant mechanics of an abandoned civilisation which PL: claims its victims one by one. When the narrator goes too far, the PL: children take the story into their own hands... BY: Claus Strigel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 237806a239323,239335 MV: Grand Hotel Excelsior (1982) PL: Taddeus is the manager of the Grand Hotel Excelsior. The Summer season PL: begins in May and since then many odd persons frequent the hotel. There PL: is Ilde Vivaldi, in love with Taddeus and the boxer Pericle Coccia who PL: has an important match and falls in love with Maria. There is the Mago PL: di Segrate trying to win world fame by levitating thirty meters high. PL: And there is the waiter Egisto whose daughter is in a Swiss College PL: believing her father is a man of importance. BY: Baldinotto da Pistoia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 239617c241146 BY: Sami Al-Taher 239953a241483,241495 MV: Greening of Ian Elliot, The (1992) (TV) PL: A United Church minister arrives in a small Saskatchewan town. The PL: outsider from Toronto soon becomes involved in local politics and helps PL: stop plans to build a dam by flooding a river valley. Tempers flare PL: and soon the minister reveals his homosexuality to the wife of a local PL: farmer, when she becomes smitten with the attractive outsider. After PL: accepting him into the community, the townsfolk have to come to terms PL: with their new gay minister. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 242966a244509,244519 MV: Gwai pin Wong ji joi yin hung bong (1999) PL: At a Hong Kong dormitory, the cook's little granddaughter is brutally PL: murdered. The next day, a mysterious new student, Connie, moves into PL: the dorm. As it is summer vacation, only four students are still living PL: there. Mysterious, disastrous things seem to accompany the new girl PL: everywhere she goes, and this school is no exception. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 243545,243546c245098,245099 PL: A young boy is arrested by the Secret Service for writing a virus, PL: and banned from using a computer until his 18th birthday. 247568a249122,249154 PL: Young Harry Potter has to lead a hard life: His parents have died in a car PL: crash when he was still a baby, and he is being brought up by his Uncle PL: Vernon and Aunt Petunia. For some reason unbeknownst to the PL: bespectacled ten-year-old, the Dursleys let him live in the small PL: chamber under the stairs, and treat him more like vermin than like a PL: family member. His fat cousin Dudley, the Dursley's real son, keeps PL: bothering Harry all the time. On his eleventh birthday, Harry Potter PL: finally receives a mysterious letter from a certain Hogwarts School of PL: Witchcraft and Wizardry, telling him that he is chosen as one of the PL: future students of that supposedly renowned school. Hagrid, the PL: gigantic man who brought the letter, finally introduces Harry into the PL: real circumstances of his life: His parents were a wizard and a witch, PL: they were killed by the evil wizard Voldemort protecting him. Harry PL: still has a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead from that event. PL: Since he survived the attack as a baby, and also somehow deprived PL: Voldemort from his powers, he has been famous in the wizarding world PL: ever since. The Dursleys, strong disbelievers in that magical crap, PL: never told Harry anything about his true self. So, Harry is strongly PL: surprised, yet absolutely happy to start his training. At Hogwarts, PL: Harry meets his teachers, and becomes friends with Ron Weasley and PL: Hermione Granger. The three of them accidentally find out that the PL: potions master, Severus Snape, seems to plot on stealing something that PL: is guarded by a three-headed dog. Since nobody would believe some first PL: years to have found out such important things that even would PL: incriminate a Hogwarts teacher, they take it on themselves to find out PL: what Snape is up to. Their quest for the truth leads across many PL: obstacles, from keeping up the everyday school life, a bewitched PL: Quidditch match (Quidditch is a popular wizard sport), Fluffy, the PL: three-headed monster dog and quite some tasks one has to overcome to PL: get to the guarded object. BY: Julian Reischl 247882a249469,249478 MV: Hasta aquí hemos llegao (desde el Vaticano, con amor) (2001) PL: Viñas, freelance reporter without a story and more spirit than Pollyanna, PL: finds himself entangled, with pleasure, in the affairs of a peculiar PL: band of thieves: the sensitive Lucky Caramba, his partner, Dulce, PL: and Mario, their trusty side-kick. BY: Guido Jiménez-cruz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 249143a250740,250761 MV: He Hired the Boss (1943) PL: Hubert Wilkins (Stuart Erwin), a bookkeeper for Mr. Bates (Thurston Hall) PL: by day and an air raid warden by night, patrols the district where his PL: boss' warehouse is located, and finds two employees removing raw silk PL: stocks. They say they are working under Bates' orders and brush him PL: off. Hubert wants to marry Emily Conway (Elelyn Venable), company PL: secretary, but can't see how he can afford it since he has loaned a PL: salesman, Fuller (Chick Chandler), $400 with deeds to four lots as PL: security. Don Bates (William T. Orr), son of the boss, is engaged to PL: Emily's sister Sally (Vivian Blaine) though his father disapproves. He PL: and Emily encourage Sally and Don to elope. Hubert, a little tipsy, PL: buys two more lots from Fuller and goes to Bates' home and asks for a PL: raise. He is fired and, the next morning, Emily also for helping Don to PL: elope. Hubert discovers that the lots he bought are worth $100,000 and, PL: unknown to Bates, buys the company. While on warden duty that night, he PL: discovers that the two employees he previously saw taking silk from the PL: warehouse are actually stealing it. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 249201a250820,250835 PL: T.H."Randy" Randall (Joel McCrea) and Valerie Randall (Nancy Kelly) are PL: divorced but friendly, but not to the extent she doesn't have him jailed PL: for non-payment of alimony. His attorney, Bill Carter (Roland Young), PL: suggests that the only way out of his financial strain is for him to PL: get Valerie married off to someone else. Dizzy matron Ethel (Mary PL: Boland) thinks that is a good idea and arranges a week-end party at PL: which Valerie is to be paired off with likely-prospect Paul Hunter PL: (Lyle Talbot). Plans are disrupted when free-loading Freddie (Cesar PL: Romero) crashes the party and makes a heavy move on Valerie, and she PL: likes it, mostly because Randy doesn't. Carter can't see any PL: problem - a husband is a husband - but Randy is so certain that Freddie PL: is bad news that he decides to win her back and remarry her himself, PL: since he has also decided that he still loves her. BY: Les Adams 251219a252854,252867 MV: Heist (2001/I) PL: David Mamet takes this story of thieves along many twists and turns, some PL: of which work and some of which don't. Gene Hackman plays the brilliant PL: leader of a gang (Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay & Rebecca Pigeon as PL: Hackman's youngish wife), which pulls off complex heists for a PL: despicable fence (Danny DeVito). After stiffing the gang on a jewelry PL: robbery, DeVito forces the gang to go after a Swiss gold shipment and PL: to use his son (Sam Rockwell) in the crime. No one trusts anyone and PL: every step is shaded with the unexpected. BY: John Sacksteder ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 251464a253113,253127 MV: Hell Hath Blue Skies (2000) PL: A naive young man goes to work in an office full of con-artists but he PL: doesn't know it. As our hero copes with one con after another, he PL: grows into an enlightened businessman. He learns the arts of putting up PL: a front, cutting a deal and turning downsides into upsides. And he PL: does it all in such a way as to gain our admiration. He becomes an PL: honest con-artist. He becomes a power to be reckoned with. He learns PL: what every political genius has learned: how to attack the enemy with PL: the force of the ultimate business-world unstoppable, the positive PL: spin. BY: Alan Fox ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 252279a253943,253958 MV: Hen (1997) (V) PL: Two explorations of the Lolita complex. Sushiaki Karasawa, a young teacher PL: at a Tokyo high school, becomes infatuated with Yoshida Chizuru, a PL: 19-year-old student who appears in a shampoo commercial. She realizes PL: he's attracted to her, so she shows up at his apartment and offers to PL: sleep over. Soon he realizes that the games she plays have just begun. PL: Later, Chizuru meets the new neighbor of her rock star boyfriend, PL: Hiroyuki. The girl is Azumi Yamada, an innocent from the provinces who PL: enrolls in Chizuru's school. This time it's Chizuru who's infatuated. PL: What will Hiroyuki do when he finds out he's being thrown over for PL: Azumi? Can Chizuru save her from Hiroyuki's revenge? BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 253472a255152,255161 MV: Heroines (2001) PL: Following photographer Lincoln Clarkes, this art documentary uses poetry by PL: Susan Musgrave and music by John Korsrud to explore and humanize a PL: world many would sooner forget: addiction, prostitution and survival in PL: Vancouver's Eastside. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 253740,253752d255428 253767a255444,255456 MV: Hey, Happy! (2001) PL: DJ Sabu's overactive libido leads him into teenaged pregnancy. His mythic PL: quest for two thousand boys ends with Happy, a paranoid UFO-ologist to PL: whom aliens promise to appear (as his love child). Spanky is an evil PL: hairdresser trying to foil Sabu's mission, he is the self-proclaimed PL: 'biggest bitch in the world.' The action unfolds at a series of PL: raves on old garbage hill in an industrial Antonioni landscape peopled PL: with characters right out of vintage John Waters. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 254948,254958d256636 258035,258044d259712 258186a259855,259875 MV: Holiday in Havana (1949) PL: Carlos Estrade (Desi Arnaz), a busboy in a Cuban hotel who wants to become PL: a composer, is rebuffed by Mama Valdez (Minera Uracel) when he tries to PL: get her daughter, singer-dancer Lolita Veldez (Mary Hatcher), to use one PL: of his songs. Carlos thinks Lolita, who he has not met, is the one who PL: turned him down. He unexpectedly becomes the leader of the hotel band, PL: and they set out for Havana by bus to find a singer and dancer to join PL: them in the grand rhumba contest at the annual carnival. Lolita, who PL: has her heart set on winning the contest, slips out of her hotel and PL: heads for Havana in a car driven by an American agent, Marge Henley PL: (Ann Doran), who is trying to sign her up. With the police, called by PL: her mother, in pursuit she abandons the car and catches the band bus PL: and, under an assumed name, persuades Carlos to take her to Havana with PL: the band. Later, learning her true identity, Carlos cools toward her. PL: Will they clear up the misunderstanding? Will they win the big contest? PL: Will romance conquer all? BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 259701a261391,261405 MV: Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996) PL: Shadow, Sassy and Chance are back! It's been three years since their trek PL: through the woods and over the mountains. Now the family lives in San PL: Fransisco and they're taking a vacation in Canada. Only problem, the PL: pets escape from the airport while being put in the cargo area of the PL: plane. Now their family is in Canada and the pets are all alone in San PL: Fransisco. They meet scruffy bully dogs and a gang of rebel dogs all PL: abandoned and have started their own group. Also looking for them is a PL: "Blood Red Van" driven by bumbling dog catchers. Also Chance meets a PL: girl dog and it's love at first bite. BY: Dylan Self ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 260841a262546,262563 MV: Hootenanny Hoot (1963) PL: The marriage of television director Ted Glover (Peter Breck) and televison PL: producer A.G. Bannister (Ruta Lee) has gone on the rocks because she has PL: permitted her career to take precedence over romance. The horror of it PL: all! Complications also arise because of a romance between Ted's agent, PL: Steve Laughlin (Joby Baker) and a performer, Billy-Joe Henley (Pam PL: Austin), with a touring Hootenanny group. The resolvement comes when PL: A.G. realizes that love is more important than a career - dang tootin' PL: it was in a Sam Katzman movie in the 60's - but not before the likes of PL: guest stars The Brothers Four, Sheb Wooley, Johnny Cash, The Gateway PL: Trio, Judy Henske, George Hamilton IV, Joe & Eddie, Cathie Taylor and PL: (Bob's boy) Chris Crosby work up a sweatin' storm trying to create a PL: craze for "Hootenanny". BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 261523a263246,263263 PL: While the hot rodders and motorcyclists are having a rock-and-roll beach PL: party, a barrel of radioactive material is unloaded from a passing PL: ship, plunges to the bottom and splits against a jagged rock. A black PL: liquid oozes out and covers a shapeless mass on the ocean floor, which PL: suddenly moves and becomes an encrusted vicious monster.Soon there are PL: several monsters and they must have human blood to survive. Tina PL: (Marilyn Clark) is the first victim, and football hero Hank Green (John PL: Scott)and airhead Elaine Gavin (Alice Lyon) enlist the aid of her PL: science-professor father, Dr. Gavin (Allen Laurel), to solve and PL: capture the killer. Not working fast enough to prevent the attack on PL: twenty teen-agers at a slumber party nor the killing of three girl PL: motorists, Dr. Gavin finds an arm lost by one of the monsters and PL: discovers that only sodium will destroy the monsters whose composition PL: is mostly water. Can they gather enough salt in southern California to PL: put an end to this horror? BY: Les Adams 262914a264655,264668 MV: Hour of 13, The (1952) PL: Nicholas Revel (Peter Lawford) is a young man any dowager in London PL: welcomes to her parties. He has taking ways, and the Calgurie Emerald PL: is one of the things he takes. This daring theft brings unexpected PL: complications, among them the daughter, Jane Frensham (Dawn Addams), of PL: the head of Scotland Yard, Sir Herbert Frensham (Michael Hordern)...and PL: a maniacal killer loose in London. Revel sets a trap for the madman, PL: with himself as bait, in a fog-shrouded stalk where one of them has to PL: die. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 264140,264149d265893 265710a267455,267465 MV: Hulk, The (2003) PL: A scientist's genetic experiment to create super-human colonialists bound PL: for Mars goes wrong and he gains the ability to mutate into a PL: super-strong being. The same experiment tranforms three escaped PL: convicts into hideous super-mutants and only the scientist's alter ego, PL: the Hulk, can stop them. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 267743a269499,269520 MV: I Don't Care Girl, The (1953) PL: This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel PL: (Himself), who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is PL: holding a story conference to determine the screen treatment for the PL: life of Eva Tanguay (Mitzi Gaynor), and Jessel is unhappy with what the PL: writers present him.He tells them to look up Eddie McCoy (David Wayne), PL: Eva's one-time partner, for the real inside story on the lusty and PL: vital Eva. Eddie's version is that he discovered her working as a PL: waitress in an Indianapolis restaurant in 1912, wherein singer Larry PL: Woods (Bob Graham) and his partner Charles Bennett (Oscar Levant) get PL: into a fight over her and both land in the hospital, and McCoy PL: convinces the manager to put Eva on as a single to fill their spot. She PL: flopped, but McCoy arranges for Bennett to be her accompanist, and she PL: went out of his life. The writers look up Bennett, now head of a music PL: publishing company, who says McCoy's story is phoney, and it was Flo PL: Zigfeld (Wilton Graff) who discovered Eva for his Follies. Then Jessel's PL: staff comes up with a letter from Larry Woods with another version. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 268235a270013,270022 MV: I Love My Wife (1970) PL: Young surgeon becomes bored with his wife and family, he has a very PL: successful career, but even with having so much in life, he feels empty PL: and goes through a series of brief and meaningless relations with PL: attractive women BY: G.W.G. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 268395a270183,270192 MV: I Married Adventure (1940) PL: A docudrama based on the exploits of jungle explorers Martin and Osa PL: Johnson. The film follows the American adventurers to the South Seas, PL: and the jungles of Borneo and Africa, where they meet savage tribes and PL: a host of wild animals. BY: Geoff St. Andrews ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 268456a270254,270275 MV: I Mobster... The Life of a Gangster (1958) PL: Joe Sante wants to be the big man, and nobody is going stand in his way. In PL: a world full of smoke, molls, shakedowns, muscle, and murder, Joe knows PL: what he wants and how to get it. But can he disregard his poor old PL: immigrant parents who are ashamed of his criminal life? Will he drag PL: his sweet girlfriend into the life of the underworld? And most PL: importantly, can Joe trust his mobster friends? BY: Martin Lewison PL: Joe Sante, crime syndicate chief, looks back on his life, from petty gang PL: involvement at age 11, through drug dealing, prison, murder, and labor PL: racketeering, rapidly rising to the top in a profession where murder is PL: just another business method and women are sexy 'broads' to be used. PL: But the latter hold little interest for Joe; the one woman he wants is PL: virtuous Teresa, who waits, hoping against all odds for Joe to reform. PL: Will he go the way of his predecessors? BY: Rod Crawford ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 269472a271292,271308 MV: I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) PL: Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Katie (Jo Van PL: Fleet), Lillian Roth (Susan Hayward) becomes a star of Broadway and PL: Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her PL: childhood sweetheart, David Tredman (Ray Danton), he dies and Lillian PL: takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic. PL: She enters into a short-lived marriage to an immature aviation cadet, PL: Wallie (Don Taylor), followed by a divorce and then marriage to a PL: sadistic brute and abuser Tony Bardeman (Richard Conte). After a failed PL: suicide attempt, Burt McGuire (Eddie Albert)comes to her aid and helps PL: her find the road back to happiness after sixteen years in a nightmare PL: world, not counting the first twenty with her mother. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 269511a271348,271364 MV: I'll Get You for This (1950) PL: American gambler Nick Cain (George Raft) arrives at the Mediterranean town PL: of San Paola, and befriends an orphan Italian shoe-shine boy named Toni PL: (Enzo Staiola). He is puzzled by the reception and welcome he receives PL: from the management of the casino until he finds he has been framed on PL: a charge of murdering a U.S. Treasury Agent. He escapes with Kay PL: Wonderly (Coleen Gray) and they flee to a deserted village where he PL: leaves Kay to hide out. Nick gets aid from a mysterious character named PL: Massine (Charles Goldner), whom he suspects of trying to collect the PL: reward offered on his capture. Nick discovers that the men responsible PL: for the agent's death are members of an international counterfeiting PL: ring, using the casino to pass the bogus money. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 269897,269918d271749 272842a274674,274686 MV: In a Class of His Own (1999) (TV) PL: Rich Donato is the high school janitor at an Oregon high school. He is PL: looked up to by the kids who often seek his advice. There is only one PL: problem. He doesn't have a high school diploma. The school board tells PL: him that he must get his GED in 30 days or he will lose his job. He PL: tries taking the test on his own, but fails. His wife rallies the PL: community to help Rich pass the test. Now that Rich has help from PL: teachers and students, there is nothing he can't do. BY: Pat McCurry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 274781a276626,276636 MV: Inchieste del commissario Maigret: Un'ombra su Maigret (1964) (TV) PL: Cecile is young and beautiful. She lives with her aunt who is a paralytic PL: old woman. Every night she is woken by strange sounds and the next PL: morning she finds the furniture shifted. Cecile decides to tell PL: everything to Maigret who thinks she wants to draw attention to PL: herself. BY: Baldinotto da Pistoia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 275012,275022d276866 277548a279393,279409 MV: Interrupted Melody (1955) PL: Marjorie Lawrence (Eleanor Parker) crowds her life with excitement and PL: achievement from the day she leaves her Australian home and goes to PL: Paris to study voice. After a triumphal debut at the Paris Opera she PL: becomes famous overnight, and her debut at the Met in New York PL: establishes her as one of the great singers of her time. With all her PL: dreams come true, tragedy strikes in the form of infantile paralysis PL: and she faces a life of confinement to a wheel chair. Although she PL: reaches the depths of despair, she manages through the love and PL: devotion of her husband, Dr. Tim King (Glenn Ford), she begins to build PL: a new career by singing to servicemen who, like herself, are confined PL: to wheel chairs. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 283889,283896d285749 284070c285923 BY: Sami Al-Taher 285674c287527 BY: Sami Al-Taher 285943a287797,287815 MV: Jie Quan ying zhao gong (1976) PL: After Chen Zhen's execution in Shanghai, the Japanese feared that his death PL: would unite all Chinese kung fu schools against them. Fearing this, the PL: Japanese gave orders to the head of the Hong Ku School, Miyamoto (Lo PL: Lieh) to surpass all Chinese schools including the Ching Wu PL: School. Miyamoto sends the Japanese along with their interpreter to the PL: Ching Wu School ordering the leader & students to leave the School. When PL: they refuse, the Japanese beat up the students and destroys the PL: school. Meanwhile, one Chinese learns about the destruction of the Ching PL: Wu School when he goes to Shanghai to visit Chen Zhen's grave. This PL: Chinese is the only one who has the guts to fight the Japanese, this PL: Chinese is known as Chen Shen (Bruce Li) who is the brother of Chen Zhen PL: and he vows to avenge his brother's death and end the terror of the PL: Japanese once and for all. BY: Chris Stoddard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 286162a288035,288050 MV: Jiminy Cricket's Christmas (1986) PL: Join Jiminy Cricket as he hosts and performs in this all-star celebration PL: of yuletide fun for the whole family. Featuring the hilarious holiday PL: antics of Donald Duck, Chip 'n' Dale, and Goofy, this cavalcade also PL: offers a special Christmas surprise: Mickey's Good Deed, a vintage gem PL: from 1932 starring Mickey Mouse and Pluto, that has never before been PL: released on video! Enjoy scenes from such great Disney Classics as PL: Fantasia, Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Cinderella and Snow White and the Seven PL: Dwarfs. And hear these Disney song favorites: "You Can Fly" (Peter PL: Pan); "Cinderella" (Cinderella); and "I've Got No Strings" and "When PL: You Wish Upon A Star" from Pinocchio. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 287813a289702,289720 MV: Jolly Good Furlough, A (1943) PL: Popeye is doing a great job of sinking Japanese ships (complete with PL: toilet-flush sound effect). A carrier pigeon brings him notice that PL: he's been granted a month furlough, which he plans to spend with Olive PL: and his nephews. But on arrival, he's run over by Olive, who PL: immediately leaves him alone with his nephews, who are practicing home PL: defense. Popeye falls for their booby-trapped hammock, and also barely PL: survives the demonstrations of their other skills, notably camouflage. PL: He ends up in a beehive; the displaced bees take up residence in a gas PL: mask, which a nephew slaps on Popeye; the bees then manage to fly PL: Popeye all through the house, then drop him on the ground, where his PL: nephews bandage him all too thoroughly. That's enough for Popeye, who PL: heads back to the front; the pigeon tries to deliver notice of an extra PL: two weeks, but Popeye will have none of it. BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 288008,288019d289914 288050a289946,289960 MV: Jorden runt med Fanny Hill (1974) PL: In Stockholm, Fanny Hill is tired of being a housewife, and she suspects PL: that her husband Roger, a TV-commercial director who's surrounded by PL: starlets, is cheating on her. So, she sets a trap for him with her PL: friend Monica, files for divorce, and heads to Hollywood, with Monica, PL: to meet film stars. She falls into a film career, with lots of nude PL: scenes, and as it takes her from L.A. to Hong Kong and Venice, Roger PL: follows her, jealous, hoping to win her back. In every city, she acts PL: and she seduces, making comedy out of both; but does her heart still PL: belong to Roger? It's on to Munich to find out. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 289593a291504,291519 MV: Jugando con la muerte (1982) PL: A Spanish police chief (Max von Sydow) hires an undercover agent (Jorge PL: Rivero playing a Jewish mercernary(?)) to infiltrate a gang of heroin PL: smugglers. The mercernary is code-named Eagle because of a tattoo. PL: Infiltrating the gang, he uses a female agent (Maud Adams) as a point PL: of contact. However, as he gets deeper into the gang, he discovers that PL: there bigger goings-on than dope. The gang is involved in the PL: transportation of smuggled uranium for the manufacture of nuclear arms PL: for sale to Libya and other aspiring third world countries. Things get PL: even stickier when a ruthless bad guy (George Peppard) shows up and he PL: turns out to be one of Eagle's former cohorts in the Foreign Legion. BY: John Sacksteder ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 290637a292564,292582 MV: Jupiter's Darling (1955) PL: Fabius (George Sanders) loves his beautiful but vulnerable city, Rome, and PL: he also loves his beautiful but invulnerable fiancee, Amytis (Esther PL: Williams). Fascinated by the tales she has heard about Hannibal (Howard PL: Keel), who is about to attack Rome, Amytis is driven by curiosity to PL: the edge of his camp. Captured, she makes a last request of the PL: indifferent Hannibal...that he spare the city. She offers to lead him PL: to a hilltop where she can prove that taking the city is not worth the PL: trouble. Hannibal goes with her, even though she has to cup her hand PL: under his chin and float him across a river as he can't swim. Before PL: long, Hannibal is doing more surveying of Amytis than of Rome. And PL: Fabius finds he can defend neither his city nor his fiancee against the PL: advances of Hannibal. Especially after he has his elephants painted PL: bright colors because Amythis thinks gray is drab. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 292711a294657,294669 MV: Kaosu (1999) PL: A man gets involved in a kidnapping scheme with the wife of a wealthy PL: businessman. She lets herself be tied up and confined in his house PL: while he sends the ransom demand. When he returns home that night, PL: however, he finds her laying dead on the floor. In a panic he buries PL: her body deep in the woods and tries to return to his ordinary life. PL: One day, he thinks he spots her walking down the street. Is his mind PL: playing tricks on him, or has she somehow returned from the grave? BY: Jean-Marc Rocher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 293573a295532,295546 PL: A troupe of traveling entertainers, discovering that their manager, Bill PL: Sneed (Edward Rigby), is swindling them, form their own company, headed PL: by Gracie Gary (Gracie Fields). Offered a season's concession at PL: Brightbourne, they are unable to accept because they haven't the PL: necessary deposit. A stray wire-haired terrier wanders in and Gracie PL: collects a reward from its owner, Rene Sigani (Peter Coke), PL: world-famous pianist. She uses the money to buy an old bus and the PL: troupe sets out to tour the countryside. Sigani, who has fallen in love PL: with a dancer in the troupe, Avis (Mary Maguire), goes with them. They PL: raise the deposit money needed playing one-night stands, but arrive at PL: Brightbourne and find Sneed ahead of them. Sigani decides to play with PL: the troupe, thereby ensuring its success. BY: Les Adams 297312c299285 MV: King of the Underworld (1939) 298807c300780 MV: Klama vgike apo ton paradeiso, To (2001) 305598,305607d307570 308739,308748d310701 308768a310722,310732 MV: Lazzarella (1957) PL: Luciano teaches mathematics to Sandra to help her in school and PL: they fall in love. Sandra has another suitor, it is Nicola, who is also PL: rich. Then Luciano meets the French Brigitte and she wants him to come PL: with her to Paris. Sandra's father is in financial straits and he is PL: obliged to flee abroad. BY: Baldinotto da Pistoia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 309078a311043,311054 MV: Leatherface Speaks: An Informal Interview with Gunnar Hansen (2001) PL: Cult horror star Gunnar Hansen, aka Leatherface in Tobe Hooper's seminal PL: shocker The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, talks about the role in an PL: informal yet enlightening interview conducted at Britain's National PL: Museum of Photography, Film & Television. Leatherface Speaks is the PL: first of a series of short interviews to be made by the NMPFT's film PL: department. BY: Tony Earnshaw ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 310131a312108,312119 MV: Leggenda del rubino malese, La (1985) PL: Malaya 1938. Captain Yankee and his friend Gin Fizz make a living by PL: selling dreams to rich foreigners. With the help of some natives they PL: let their clients think to have lived fantastic adventures. One day PL: Maria Cortez, a Columbian museum director, arrives to search for a PL: fabulous ruby and Captain Yankee is blackmailed by Warren into PL: accepting the task. It won't be easy. BY: Baldinotto da Pistoia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 310655a312644,312667 MV: Leo the Last (1970) PL: Prince Leo (Marcello Mastroianni), last in the line of rulers of a PL: long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded with the frenetic PL: search for kicks with the European jet-set, returns to his father's PL: London town house for rest. With him are social-climber Margaret PL: (Billie Whitelaw), to whom he is engaged, and Laszlo (Vladek Sheybal), PL: who is planning a counter revolution which will restore Leo to the PL: kingship of the monarchy. Leo is shocked to discover the one exclusive PL: neighborhood has degenerated into a ghetto inhabited mainly by poor PL: blacks on the brink of desperation. His nearest neighbors are the Mardi PL: family and their beautiful daughter, Salambo (Glenna Forster Jones), PL: who catches his eye as does her boy friend the procurer Roscoe (Calvin PL: Lockhart.) Using the excuse of watching birds he watches them closely PL: through field glasses with the coolness and detachment of a scientist PL: watching insects under a magnifying glass. When Salambo is forced to PL: become a whore in order to keep her family together, Leo, despite the PL: pleadings of Margaret and Laszlo who has just about finished the steps PL: toward the restoration, does something of which he always though himself PL: incapable. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 314545a316558,316586 MV: Lilacs in the Spring (1955) PL: A young entertainer, Carole Beaumont (Anna Neagle), is wooed by PL: actor-producer Charles King (David Farrar) but, uncertain of her PL: feelings, she resists his attentions. During an air raid, a bomb PL: explosion rocks the cafe and Carole is knocked unconscious. In her PL: confused state, fantasies flash through her mind, and she seems to PL: become Nell Gwyn of Old Drury, with Charles King looking very much like PL: King Charles. Recovering, she is advised by her doctor to take a rest PL: in the country and, there,another beau, Albert Gutman (Peter Graves), PL: prompts his grandmother, Lady Drayton (Helen Haye), to invite Carole to PL: their family home at Windsor. She accepts and telephones Charles but PL: hangs up when his phone is answered by a female voice. Looking out on PL: Windsor Castle, she sees herself as the young Queen Victoria and Albert PL: as Prince Albert. Influenced by her day-dream, she accepts Albert's PL: proposal. Charles arrives to tell her that all arrangements are made PL: for her to leave with him and the company for Burma, but she refuses PL: saying she will never marry an actor. Barmaid Kate (Kathleen PL: Harrison) tells Charles why Carole feels the way she does about actors: PL: Carole's mother, Lillian Grey (Anna Neagle), was with a touring show in PL: 1913 when the handsome star, John Beaumont (Errol Flynn) raised her from PL: the chorus to be his partner in his first West End show. They were a PL: success, fell in love and were married. But the war soon took Beau off PL: to Flanders and Lillian was left to become a great star on her own. PL: Carole was born in wartime, but saw little of her busy mother. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 316447a318489,318501 PL: Pilot movie to the legendary TV series of the same name, about the life of PL: pioneer girl Laura Ingalls and her family. Laura (who is 9 years old) PL: and her family - which includes her Pa, Charles; her Ma, Caroline; and PL: her sisters, 11-year-old Mary and 2-year-old Carrie - move from the PL: Little House in the Big Woods of Wisconsin to the prairies of Kansas. PL: Settling about 50 miles west of Independence, Kan., the Ingalls set up PL: home. It's there where the Ingalls meet Mr. Edwards, a bachelor who PL: quickly becomes Laura's cherished friend. While on the prairie, the PL: Ingalls must endure many hardships and life-threatening challenges, PL: ranging from Indians to wild fires. BY: Brian Rathjen 316474a318529,318559 PL: After production ended on the long-running "Little House on the Prairie" PL: series, three made-for-TV movies helped wrap up the series. The first PL: of these, "Look Back to Yesterday," depicts Albert's heroic battle with PL: an ultimately fatal illness. Albert interviews at the University of PL: Minnesota, where he plans to study medicine. Albert (unbeknownst to PL: anyone else) suffers from unexplained nosebleeds and is always tired. PL: His family later finds out about the nosebleeds, and a physician from PL: Mankato informs Charles the symptoms point to a deadly form of PL: leukemia, and that Albert has a short time to live. Albert adamantly PL: states his wishes to live out what may be his final days in Walnut PL: Grove; he falls in love with childhood friend Michelle Pierson (who PL: also plans to attend the University of Minnesota to study education) PL: and spends many of his hours with his beloved sister, Laura. Laura, PL: however, is in denial that her brother will soon die, and wants her PL: equally-beloved brother to rest. Albert gives an emotional speech about PL: living each day to the fullest to his one-time classmates, who are PL: organizing their annual trip to the Keepsake tree (which sits atop a PL: steep incline and contains items donated by the alumnus of Walnut Grove PL: School). Meanwhile, Walnut Grove has fallen on hard times because of a PL: dispute between the farmers, who want to sell their crops, and the PL: railroad. Charles helps organize an effort where the farmers work as PL: sharecroppers, to help put an end to the dispute. The farmers are PL: initially against the idea (only John Carter, Dr. Baker, Mr. Edwards PL: and Nels Olesen are for Charles' idea at first), until Albert PL: passionately tells of how he always admired the spirit of cooperation PL: of Walnut Grove's farmers. Meanwhile, Jason Carter has a case of puppy PL: love, and announces his intention to sneak a kiss from fellow classmate PL: Amy Bryant. BY: Brian Rathjen 319030c321115 MV: Loenatik - De moevie (2002) 319032,319045c321117,321128 PL: Loonies is a touching comedy about five psychiatric patients who are forced PL: to exchange their familiar surroundings for an old-fashioned, PL: impersonal institution. Partly because of the severe regime of a PL: dreadful nurse, the five decide to escape from their new home and go PL: back to the old one under their own steam. After a drastic PL: confrontation with the 'normal' outside world that results in fighting PL: and panic, the group breaks up. Each of the five patients realise their PL: dreams individually, but ultimately they decide to choose for each PL: other and the familiarity of their own place. Loonies is a film with PL: light-hearted and cheeky humour that, in a moving way, takes us into PL: the pleasantly disturbed world of five somewhat romanticised PL: psychiatric patients. 319047c321130 BY: Anonymous 322154a324238,324259 MV: Lost Treasure of Sawtooth Island, The (1999) PL: Danny Quinn lives with one great dream... he wants to prove his late father PL: was right about a pirate treasure in the depths of Lake Michigan. PL: Everyone opposes Danny's dream, especially his grandfather Ben, a PL: practical old salvage diver who doesn't believe in such nonsense. PL: Suddenly everything changes though when Ben has a tragic accident PL: during a dive on a local wreck. The bank forecloses on Ben's property, PL: and Danny, faced with living in a foster home, runs. That night he PL: meets the ghost of Picaroon, who has come to warn Danny about a PL: mysterious foe and to help him find the gold. Danny sets off on his PL: great quest, taking a rag-tag crew which includes Toby Weems, a windy PL: old town character, Rufe, Danny's oddball buddy, and Smokey Jeanne, a PL: tough Chicago girl. They sail off pursued by treasure hunter Doc PL: Biehler and his weird wife Mother. After a knock-down battle with Doc, PL: who makes off with the treasure map, it's Smokey's toughness and PL: support that wins Danny over. Eventually, Danny must battle Doc for PL: possession of the map. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 323375a325481,325490 MV: Love in the Dark (1900) PL: A spoony couple are making love in the dark. The girl's relatives are all PL: trying to see what is going on, when the small brother suddenly turns PL: on the light. This effect is admirably worked out, making a very PL: humorous scene. BY: AMB Picture Catalogue (1902) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 324009a326125,326144 MV: Love That Brute (1950) PL: In 1928, Big Ed Hanley (Paul Douglas), boss of a gang of Chicago PL: racketeers, has money and power, but he is bored. Watching some kids PL: play in the park, he sees Ruth Manning (Jean Peters) and is interested PL: at once. He tells her he has a couple of kids and gives her the job of PL: taking care of them. He moves Mamie (Joan Davis) in as a housekeeper, PL: but the best he can scrape up as a son is Harry, a pint-sized monster. PL: A couple of henchmen sent by to rub Big Ed out by his rival, Pretty PL: Willie (Cesar Romero), are relieved of their hardware by Quentin PL: (Arthur Treacher), Ed's butler, and Bugs, his right-hand man. They PL: march them downstairs, supposedly to drop in the river, but actually PL: leave them in a very nice jail maintained by Ed for gangsters who drop PL: by to rub him out. Ed's problems include keeping Ruth, who has begun to PL: like him, from finding out about his activities, increasing his family PL: and keeping uninvited guests from dropping by. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 324019a326155,326180 MV: Love Thy Neighbor (1940) PL: Jack Benny (Himself) is preparing his New Year's Eve radio broadcast but PL: takes time out to take his valet Rochester (Eddie Anderson) to meet his PL: girlfriend Josephine (Theresa) arriving on a steamer. Fred Allen PL: (Himself) and his sister Barbara (Verree Teasdale) are also enroute to PL: the dock to meet Barbara's daughter Mary (Mary Martin), returning from PL: a personal appearance tour in South America. Josephine is her maid. PL: Their cars get involved in an accident and, in a bumping contest, Fred PL: reduces Jack's old Maxwell to junk, and is taken to jail. Mary loses PL: her dress in an accident and Jack offers to get her another one, but PL: winds up being arrested for stealing. Barbara tells Mary that Fred is a PL: nervous wreck because of Jack's continual slander of him on Jack's PL: radio program. Jack hires the Merry Macs (Joe McMichael, Judd PL: McMichael, Ted McMichael, Helen Carroll) away from Fred and Fred PL: decides to go to Miami for a rest. Jack decides to open his radio PL: program from Miami. They meet, have another brawl, and end up in jail PL: again. The two are in a motorboat accident where both are knocked PL: unconscious and Mary, in an effort to end the feud, tells Fred that PL: Jack saved his life. They have dinner together at Fred's apartment and PL: Rochester, whom Fred has hired away from Jack, appears and the feud is PL: on again. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 324519a326681,326698 MV: Loves of Edgar Allan Poe, The (1942) PL: Edgar Allen Poe (John Shepperd) led an unhappy childhood, broken only by PL: the unceasing devotion of his foster mother, Mrs. Frances Allan (Mary PL: Howard), whose loving ministrations gave him courage to carry out his PL: desire to write. His first love was Elmira Royster (Virginia Gilmore), PL: and though she married another while he was at the University of PL: Virginia, he could never purge his thoughts of her and, under the PL: influence of her spell, he poured out the deepest passions of his PL: heart. After a discouraging period during which he was disowned by his PL: foster father and lost his appointment to West Point, he found the love PL: that tamed his restless heart with Virginia Clemm (Linda Darnell). PL: After he and Virginia married, Poe did his greatest creative work, PL: writing for the Southern Literary Messenger and Graham's Magazine. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 324566a326746,326764 MV: Low Fat Elephants (2001) PL: Greta (Tessa Well) is baker who has a furious crush on her roommate, PL: Cassandra (Karen Pang). However, their living arrangement is strictly PL: platonic, and Cassandra, who is not attracted to women, doesn't know PL: Greta is in love with her. Unable to keep her feelings to herself, PL: Greta begins sending Cassandra flowers and love notes, but attributes PL: the gifts to a fictional alter-ego, Jean-Pierre. In time, Cassandra PL: becomes curious about this mysterious Frenchman who worships her from PL: afar, and Greta comes up with a plan she persuades Yuri (Phillip PL: Marzella) to pose as Jean-Pierre, take Cassandra out on a few dates, PL: and then cruelly break things off with her. Greta figures that once PL: Cassandra's heart has been broken, she'll be more open to the idea of PL: finding solace in the arms of another woman, but her plan hardly works PL: as she expected. BY: Cristy Thompson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 330893a333092,333101 MV: Making of 'Wicked Spring', The (2001) (V) PL: The Making of an Independent Epic, the motion picture "Wicked Spring" PL: written and directed by Kevin R. Hershberger. This film was shot on PL: location during production showing the behind the scenes, day-by-day PL: effort to make the film! BY: Ib Melchior ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 331303a333512,333522 MV: Malesia magica (1961) PL: Malaysia between past and future. An uncontaminated and pure past living in PL: the ancient traditions and the vicious present we find in the cities PL: contaminated from western civilization: this is the subject of the PL: documentary, which, beginning from Buddha, arrives to the prostitution PL: in the eastern cities, all alike and bad. BY: Baldinotto da Pistoia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 332451a334671,334679 PL: The Marshal sends John Weston to a rodeo to see if he can find out who is PL: killing the rodeo riders who are about to win the prize money. Barton PL: has organized the rodeo and plans to leave with all the prize money put PL: up by the townspeople. When it appears that Weston will beat Barton's PL: rider, he has his men prepare the same fate for him that befell the PL: other riders. BY: Maurice VanAuken 332777a335006,335020 MV: Man in the Vault (1956) PL: There's $200,000 in a Los Angeles safety-deposit box that mobster Willis PL: Trent (Beery Kroger) would like to have, so he gets two-timing, PL: double-dealing Flo Randall (Anita Ekberg) to get the box number for him. PL: He offers locksmith Tommy Dancer (William Campbell) $5,000 to make the PL: key but Tommy refuses. Trent threatens to harm Tommy's girl friend, PL: Betty Turner (Karen Sharpe), and Tommy gives in and goes to the bank. In PL: a few nerve-racking minutes, Tommy makes the key and pockets the PL: $200,000 for himself. Trent sends word that he has kidnapped Betty and PL: the ransom is $200,000. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 333745a335989,336004 MV: Man Who Wasn't There, The (2001) PL: 1949, Santa Rosa, California. A laconic, chain-smoking barber with fallen PL: arches tells a story of a man trying to escape a humdrum life. It's a PL: tale of suspected adultery, blackmail, foul play, death, Sacramento PL: city slickers, racial slurs, invented war heroics, shaved legs, a PL: gamine piano player, aliens, and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Ed PL: Crane cuts hair in his in-law's shop; his wife drinks and may be having PL: an affair with her boss, Big Dave, who has $10,000 to invest in a PL: second department store. Ed gets wind of a chance make money in dry PL: cleaning. Blackmail and investment are his opportunity to be more than PL: a man no one notices. Settle in the chair and listen. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 334839a337099,337119 MV: Manila Calling (1942) PL: When the Japanese capture the principal radio station of the American Radio PL: Communications Company in the Philippines, the staff manages to escape PL: into the jungle, tie up with a band of Filipino Scouts (Moros) and make PL: their way to the coast. The party, radio technician Jeff Bailey (Cornel PL: Wilde) and communications men Lucky Matthews (Lloyd Nolan) and Tom PL: O'Rourke (James Gleason), finds an advance Japanese unit on the PL: plantation of an old friend and, working with the Moros as a guerilla PL: unit, attack and seize the site from the Japanese in order to use the PL: radio transmitter. Solidifying themselves in the stronghold they PL: discover there is no food or water and it is surrounded by the PL: Japanese. A night club singer, Edna Fraser (Carole Landis), escaping PL: from the Japanese, gets into the plantation. Jeff is working to fix PL: their radio set, hoping to send a message of hope and courage to the PL: conquered and enslaved Filipinos of the district, and the Japanese, PL: aware of this possibility, are using every means to wipe out the group. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 335142c337422 BY: Sami Al-Taher 335507a337788,337804 MV: Many Tanks (1942) PL: Bluto's in the Army; he tries to sneak off base, but can't. Popeye passes PL: by, on the way to a date with Olive; Bluto invites him in, then swaps PL: uniforms (yes, they fit very badly). Popeye ends up in a tank drill, PL: which he does very badly, driving through a house, into a pond, and PL: ultimately falling off a cliff. That's it, it's time for the spinach, PL: and a run for it; he manages to outrun or out maneuver all the other PL: tanks and arrives at Olive's just as Bluto is walking out with her PL: (oddly enough, even though the date with Olive is the motivation for PL: the whole plot, she has only one line). The boys fight in the tank and PL: Popeye swaps uniforms back again, just as the tank boys catch up; that PL: gets Bluto blamed for all of Popeye's hijinks. BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 338747a341045,341056 MV: Masquerade (1983) (TV) PL: When a Russian agent code named Wolfen is killing all of the American's PL: intelligence agents, Lavender, an intelligence operative has to try and PL: stop him. But to do that he needs agents who are not known to their PL: enemies. So, he comes up with the plan to recruit ordinary Americans PL: who's profession or special skills will be needed for the mission. So, PL: he begins his plan to discredit Wolfen before his superiors. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 344401,344410d346709 344440c346739 PL: You take on the role of Dave (Codename: Solid Snake), a young, 346889a349189,349202 MV: Mighty Hunters (1940) PL: A group of Native American children dances, in preparation for hunting. PL: These hunters don't seem to be much of a threat to anyone but PL: themselves, though. Two of them go after a squirrel, to no avail. PL: Another tries to convince a donkey to let him ride, also with no luck. PL: Finally, one of the boys, whose brother is strapped to his back, PL: attracts the unwanted attention of a bear with his brother's candy; PL: after everyone ends up hanging off a cliff, the bear gets the candy and PL: the boys all head for home. BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 347007a349321,349339 MV: Mighty Navy, The (1941) PL: Popeye is on a training ship, but his seat-of-the-pants ways don't fit in PL: with modern equipment. First, told to raise anchor, he hauls it up by PL: hand instead of using the winch, making the ship dip down into the PL: water. His attempts to aim the guns only ties them up in a knot. PL: Finally, he takes "dive bomber" on the side of an airplane far too PL: literally, doing a jackknife, swan, and ultimately belly-flop into the PL: drink. This gets him KP, peeling onions, until the ship is surrounded PL: by enemy ships. The by-the-book (literally) sailors take too long to PL: fire, which is all Popeye can stands; he grabs the gun and takes out PL: the fleet, first like a shooting gallery, then treating the planes as PL: skeet. Finally, he has his spinach and acts as a human torpedo against PL: the biggest ship. This gets him an award: becoming the official PL: insignia for the Navy's bomb squadron. BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 352154a354487,354495 PL: Federico, Bruno, Pirro and Benny are married. The first three have PL: beautiful wifes, Benny instead is married to a ugly woman. Ornella is PL: Bruno's wife, she is very jealous and maintains that all men are PL: deceitful, granted the opportunity, while Claudine, Federico's wife, PL: maintains the contrary point of view. So they bet that Tosca, a former PL: dancer, will succeed in seducing Federico. Troubles for everyone. BY: Baldinotto da Pistoia 353786a356128,356153 MV: Monsieur Ripois (1954) PL: From the Louis Hemon novel "M. Ripois and His Nemesis" about Andre Ripois PL: (Gerard Philipe), a philanderer in pursuit of love and riches from PL: Paris to London. Andre is breaking up with his wife, Catherine (Valerie PL: Hobson), over his attentions to her best friend Patricia (Natasha PL: Parry). While Catherine is out arranging the divorce, Andre, just to PL: keep in practice, hits on the girl upstairs, Diana (Diana Decker) and PL: then turns his attention back to Patricia, who he tricks into having PL: dinner at his flat on the pretext that Catherine will be there. When he PL: cannot make any progress with her via his usual tactics, he tries to PL: arouse her pity be telling her of his past. In his early, impoverished PL: days in London, he made love to his boss Anne (Margaret Johnston) but PL: her dreadful cooking drove him away. Next came Norah (Joan Greenwood) PL: who he picked up on a bus and took to his flat and told her about his PL: make-believe inheritance, but she insisted on marriage first, which was PL: not in his plans. Marcelle (Germaine Montero), a French woman living in PL: Soho, put him on his feet with money, and he repaid her by stealing PL: fifty pounds and running off. He met the wealthy Catherine at his flat PL: where she came to be tutored in French lessons, and ended up marrying PL: him. But, even at his wedding, he had eyes only for Patricia and, he PL: tells her she is his one true love. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 353842a356210,356226 MV: Monster (2001) PL: Monster is a thirty-minute Independent horror short that is loosely based PL: on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The plot involves two convicted felons PL: who escape jail and are paid to kill Steve Heinz's brother Paul, so PL: that he can bring him back to life and show the world what a genius he PL: really is. Unfortunately the two convicts "cut him up to much " and PL: the end result is hardly human. After Steve brings him back to life, PL: Paul is disorientated and destroys most of Steve's lab. Meanwhile the PL: two convicts are busy robbing Mini-Marts and causing chaos when they PL: realize it's almost time to get the "killing money" from Steve. Clay PL: and Meat quickly go to they're hideout and wait for Steve, after a few PL: distractions he finally arrives...but he's not alone. " BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 354107c356491 MV: Monstruo de los volcanes, El (1963) 355605c357989 BY: Sami Al-Taher 355716a358101,358110 MV: Mortuary Academy (1988) PL: "Police Academy" clone, about some nerds who inherit an academy for PL: morticians, which is run by a corrupt closet necropheliac. Of course, PL: the most incompetent students possible are accepted, so that the PL: academy will fail, and all sorts of wacky hijinks ensue. BY: Parca Mortem ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 357953c360347 BY: Sami Al-Taher 359533a361928,361952 PL: This film is about a man who is trying to find a new life. During his PL: college years and a short and rough career as an IRS investigator, he PL: becomes involved with drugs. After hitting bottom, "Dr. Mumford" PL: (Loren Dean) enters a drug rehab center run by very understanding PL: Monks. During much of his adult life he sees a common thread with PL: people who have confided in him about their problems. All people want PL: is someone to listen to his or her problem. He decides to use his PL: knowledge of computers and ability to manipulate records to create a PL: new identity. He uses the name of a friend from childhood who died PL: very young. He uses this to embark on a career as a psychologist. PL: During a search for a place to settle, he discovers a town named PL: Mumford and sees it as a sign. He establishes a practice in the town PL: and begins to attract patients. Through his common sense approach, PL: many patients begin to experience breakthroughs. Especially for one PL: young woman whom the other 'conventional' treatments have failed. As PL: the movie progresses, the doctor begins to see the reason why many PL: psychologists spend some time in college learning about their trade. PL: His unusual treatments attract the concern of other colleges in the PL: town who eventually file a complaint on his license. Another patient PL: questions his ability to keep patient information confidential. While PL: the one young woman with the tremendous breakthrough in concerned about PL: transference. BY: Mark E. Pompey 362043a364463,364472 MV: MVP II: Most Vertical Primate (2001) PL: Jack the chimp finds himself back on the ice after being drafted for the PL: ZHL hockey league, but is then thrown out of the league and forced to PL: hide from the authorities. Along the way, he meets Ben, a homeless boy, PL: who introduces Jack to the fast-paced world of skateboarding. BY: Ash ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 362122a364552,364571 MV: My Beautiful Son (2001) (TV) PL: Jerry is a successful New York Psychatrist who is diagnosed with leukeamia. PL: When he tells his mother, she reveals that Jerry was adopted from a PL: young Catholic girl called Sheila in Liverpool, England. Jerry's PL: desperation for a bone-marrow transplant leads him to working-class PL: Liverpool to find his mother and see if he has any siblings. Along the PL: way, he finds out more about himself than he knew. BY: beingbettedavis PL: Wealthy New York psychiatrist Jerry Lipmans life is shattered when he finds PL: out at 39 he has leukaemia. Jerry, an only child, tells his Mother, who PL: confesses that he was adopted from a catholic teenager from Liverpool in PL: the UK. The search begins to find his birth Mother and the hope of a PL: bone marrow match, the only hope for his survival. BY: Goldie7662 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 362244a364694,364703 MV: My Boy Johnny (1944) PL: In a departure from the usual Terrytoon, this short is based on predictions PL: of things to come in the world after the end of World War II. It PL: primarily deals with, in a comedy sense, what every "G.I." Jonnny can PL: expect when he returns home to civilian life. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 364947a367407,367419 MV: Nageki no kenkô yûrôji (1994) (V) PL: She's Frantic! She's Frustrated! And she's Female! That's F3 for short, but PL: the intrepid Hiroe Ogawa is determined to rid herself of the first two. PL: Physically perfect otherwise, Hiroe's sole complaint is her inability PL: to reach the peak of physical pleasure. Now she's putting everything PL: she has into a desperate bid to achieve the desired state. She'll try PL: everything, including hypnosis, if she has to and no helping hands will PL: be turned away. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 365508,365517d367979 368349a370812,370822 MV: Nero Wolfe: La bella bugiarda (1969) (TV) PL: We all know that Nero Wolfe is a real gourmet. Every week McLeod, a farmer, PL: carries to him a parcel of just picked maize-cobs. But one week he PL: can't come and the boy he sends is murdered at the back of the PL: Rusterman Restaurant. Worse still the cobs are not just picked as they PL: should. BY: Baldinotto da Pistoia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 368762a371236,371244 PL: Amos Norton is out to get control of transportation to the gold fields. PL: First he has Black Bart wreck Liddell's stagecoaches making it look PL: like the work of railroad owner Benton. Then he has Black Bart go after PL: the railroad. Jeff figures out who Black Bart is and he and Gabby try PL: to break the next raid. But Benton's men capture them and thinking they PL: are part of the gang, put them in jail. BY: Maurice VanAuken 369350,369358d371831 369399a371873,371881 PL: When the New Hope Valley ranchers learn their land has been condemned for PL: construction of a new dam, they decide to fight. When they delay the PL: construction, Proctor suggests they relocate in a desert valley that PL: will be irrigated by a new pipeline. The dam is then completed but when PL: the Mesquiteers check on the site, they see there was no intention of PL: building a pipeline. BY: Maurice VanAuken 372185a374668,374676 PL: Hazleton forges a Spanish land grant and then gets card cheat Talbot to PL: pose as the owner Don Luis. When the court rules it authentic, they PL: start to kick the ranchers off the land. The Three Mesquiteers are PL: included and fight back as the mysterious Night Riders. When Stony PL: meets Don Luis he remembers him as the card sharp and sets out to prove PL: him a fake. BY: Maurice VanAuken 372514a375006,375020 MV: Night Train to Paris (1964) PL: Former OSS officer Alan Holiday (Leslie Nielsen), now living in London, is PL: visited on New Year's Eve by Catherine Carrel (Alizia Gur) who says she PL: is a close friend of Jules Lemoine (Hugh Latimer) who served with PL: Holiday during the war. Lemoine urgently requests that Holiday go to PL: Paris on a secret mission. Lemoine visits and wants Alan to deliver a PL: reel of tape which he gives him, and keeps a fake reel himself to PL: deceive enemy agents. Lemoine is killed and the fake tape stolen. PL: Holiday, poses as an assistant to photographer Louis Vernay (Andre PL: Marrane), and they take three models along to further the ruse. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 373119,373131d375624 373442a375936,375945 MV: Niku no hokorobi (1968) PL: A couple of rowdy friends (Yuichi Minato, Yasushi Matsuura) abduct a sultry PL: young woman (Michiyo Mako) and her younger sister (Kemi Ichiboshi) to PL: have a night of sex games. When the girls put up a fight, the PL: festivities turn ugly. BY: Artemis-9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 375276c377779 BY: Sami Al-Taher 376768c379271 PL: with his old Friend Hunk and says some disrespectful things about the 376779c379282 PL: Langdon and Hunk come to their meeting point with the English troops 377992,378009d380494 378036a380522,380539 MV: Nóz w wodzie (1962) PL: A couple driving along a deserted road to a lake almost run over a young PL: man, a student, who flags down the car almost too closely. The driver PL: is a self absorbed husband, the woman his pretty, irritated wife. They PL: take him along and the husband, out of the sheer patronizing will, PL: invites him to come sailing on their boat. During the boat ride there PL: is clash of personalities. The boy has a habit of playing with a PL: switchable blade knife. The husband is a self-made man and delights in PL: showing up the boy. In an argument he knocks the boy off the boat. The PL: couple thinks he has drowned and the husband swims to shore for help. PL: But the boy has hid behind a buoy and comes aboard to seduce the wife. PL: She finally brings in the boat and assures her husband the boy is alive PL: and that she has cheated on him. BY: Polish Cinema Database ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 378520,378534d381022 378877,378886d381364 379015,379027d381492 379482c381947 BY: Sami Al-Taher 380398,380408d382862 381022a383477,383489 MV: OffOn (1968) PL: The human eye, the human form, the human face: these are the three central PL: images of this avant-garde collage and kaleidoscope of shifting and PL: fractured images, changing colors, and pulsing rhythms. Near the end, a PL: tree appears briefly, and birds fly - first white, then red and blue. PL: Celtic knots morph from one to another. The images become Rorschach PL: tests although the mood, driven by the rapid changing images and the PL: soundtrack, remains frantic. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 381458a383926,383941 MV: Oiran (1983) PL: In the 19th century, a Japanese prostitute is about to move to America with PL: her lover when he dies. Saddened, she moves to America alone and PL: becomes a succesful prostitute. However, her dead lover reappears on PL: her knee as a mole, which she kisses. Her customers, feeling that PL: this is weird, abandon her; she asks her husband to return to the PL: spirit world, on the condition that she would never marry again. He PL: returns, but a few months later she marries an American millionaire. PL: On the night of their honeymoon, the prostitute's vagina is possessed PL: by the vengeful spirit of the dead lover, which causes the PL: millionaire's penis great pain... BY: Vadim Rizov ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 383193a385677,385690 MV: On Angels Wings (2002) PL: A once thriving family business fails after rumors of Hank and Ramon PL: Roberts' adulterous relationships and drug use catch wind. The family PL: is hit even harder when Hank suddenly picks up and leaves with his PL: current love interest. Already insecure and very unstable, Ramona PL: Roberts can't bear the burden of single parenthood and takes her life PL: leaving her 12-year-old daughter to fend for herself. The now abandoned PL: Angelina Roberts begins to hide from the situation blaming herself PL: until a mysterious friend shows up to answer her secret prayers. BY: Thomastbo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 383232c385729,385743 MV: On Common Ground (2001/II) PL: Recent college graduate, Michael Green, is embarking on his first job PL: interview but isn't sure who he is or who he wants to be. The roots of PL: Michael's identity crisis are revealed in several flashbacks to PL: poignant events from his childhood. He reflects on these memories and PL: struggles through the interview ritual, while enduring his mother's PL: nagging to go on a family trip to his grandmother's house for Hanukkah PL: - a trip that he believes may interfere with his opportunity to accept PL: a job. Past, present and future collide as Michael is shown into the PL: conference room for his interview. He has the right suit, the right tie PL: and the right haircut - but isn't sure he has the right religion. Will PL: he get the job? Will he go on the family trip? BY: Anonymous 383315,383334d385825 383920a386412,386429 MV: On Thin Ice: The Making of 'Ice From the Sun' (2001) (V) PL: All Hollywood movies (and even most so-called "independent" films) that PL: reach the public have budgets in the millions of dollars. However, PL: there is a fascinating undercurrent of movie production thriving in PL: America; movies shot on 16mm, Super 8mm, and even on video, all PL: produced on budgets that would only pay for a week of catering on a PL: Hollywood film. One such champion low-budget production is ICE FROM PL: THE SUN. This film, directed by Eric Stanze, is notable for it's PL: unique, cutting edge approach to the horror genre, as well as the fact PL: that it is one of the most logistically complicated films ever made at PL: this budget level. This documentary explores the process of producing PL: such a film; the compromises, the victories, and the dedication of the PL: filmmakers to a movie project that had all the odds against it. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 384299a386809,386818 MV: Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002) PL: Dek's idea of a tug of love is deciding between his girlfriend Shirley or PL: his Ford Escort. That is, until Shirley's ex Jimmy rides into town with PL: bags of cash, charisma and a wicked left hook. The scene's set for a PL: showdown, and an unlikely hero emerges. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 385168,385171c387687 PL: well as the investigating officer, Detective Dehling. 385279a387796,387811 MV: One of Our Spies Is Missing (1966) PL: Someone is using cats in experiments to develop a machine that can reverse PL: the aging process, meanwhile a famous scientist (Dr Lancer) has gone PL: missing, only for him to reappear looking 30 years younger. UNCLE PL: agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin are sent to investigate the PL: plot in Europe - Illya is sent to London to discover who is abducting PL: cats while Solo travels to Paris where Dr Lancer's daughter is working PL: as a fashion model. They uncover a plot by female members of the PL: fashion business to develop the anti-aging machine for their own use, PL: however the suave THRUSH agent Jordin has other plans. Thus a race PL: begins between UNCLE and THRUSH to take control of the machine. BY: Paul Hunter aka "Bob the Moo" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 386375a388908,388931 MV: Operation Bikini (1963) PL: With posters featuring a stylized-drawing of Eva Six in a bikini, a tagline PL: reading..."Temptation in Paradise...neither hell nor high heels could PL: stop them", and a Dream Sequence Technical Adviser credit for Bob PL: Marcucci, American-International once again proved it had no peers when PL: it came to sleight-of-hand advertising selling a war-movie when war PL: movies weren't selling. This one starts in the Pacific in 1943 when an PL: American submarine staffed by the likes of Scott Brady, Jim Backus and PL: Michael Dante (the old guns to get the old folks in) has a rendezvous PL: with a cruiser to pick up an underwater demolition team comprised of PL: the likes of Tab Hunter, Frankie Avalon, Gary Crosby and Jody McCrea PL: (the young turks to get the kids in, which probably only worked in PL: Southern California), and there is conflict right off as the sub crew PL: feels like they are being denied a chance to revenge the sinking of a PL: sister sub because they have to deliver Tab and Frankie to an island on PL: a super-secret special mission guaranteed to affect the entire course PL: of the war in the Pacific. These guys are landed on the PL: Japanese-infested island and find their guerilla support consists of an PL: old man, a teen-ager and three girls. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 386854a389411,389422 MV: Ordeal of Dr. Mudd, The (1980) (TV) PL: This is the story of the doctor whose farm John Wilkes Booth went to after PL: assassinating Abraham Lincoln. Eventually he was wrongfully accused and PL: tried and convicted as a member of the conspiracy that assassinated PL: Lincoln. Though he claimed to be innocent, he was still convicted and PL: suffered immense hardship. While his wife tries to do what she can to PL: get him released. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 388344a390913,390934 MV: Other Woman, The (1954) PL: Bit player Sherry Stewart (Cleo Moore) gets miffed when director Walter PL: Darman (Hugo Haas) turns her down after she reads for a small part in PL: his picture. She and her boy friend, Ronnie (Lane Fuller), devise a plan PL: to lure Darman to her apartment, where she gives him a drugged drink. PL: She tells Darman they had been intimate and blackmails him for $50,000. PL: More than a little distracted by his situation, his wife (Lucille PL: Barkeley) senses something is wrong and he gets into a violent argument PL: with his father-in-law (Jack Macy) who owns the producing company Darman PL: works for, and discontinues the picture. Sherry informs Darman she is PL: going to tell his wife all about them. Darman tells his secretary PL: (Carolee Kelly) that he is going to work late and is not to be PL: disturbed, sets the moviola runnings, and exits by the back door and PL: hot-foots it to Sherry's apartment. He tries to reason with her but to PL: no avail, and strangles her in a fit of rage. The crime is first blamed PL: on peddler Papasha (John Qualen), but Police Inspector Collins (Jan PL: Arvan) thinks otherwise. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 389202a391793,391804 MV: Out of Her Mind (2002) PL: A film about a modern-day shaman and his young disciple in rural Vermont. PL: In their fortuitous encounter, forged by fire, he makes peace with the PL: past and she takes control of her destiny. Together they build the PL: spectacular fire organ that inspires awe and wonder. The story takes PL: place in Vermont, against the backdrop of the state capitol, where PL: civil union laws are being debated along with gun control and DWI's. BY: Ciaran O'Shea ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 389851a392454,392465 MV: Outlaw Justice (1932) PL: Fleeing from the law, Panamint Jack hides out at the Taggart ranch. PL: Learning of the Taggarts' financial problems, he robs the crooked Faro PL: Black to retrieve Bob Taggart's IOU's. Escaping from Faro's men he PL: meets another outlaw who directs him to the missing Sheriff. This is PL: the man that Jack supposedly killed. But when he finds him, Faro and PL: his men arrive and he is captured. BY: Maurice VanAuken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 390632a393247,393255 PL: With the stage being held up regularly, the Mesquiteers decide an airplane PL: would be better so they get the ranchers to sell their cattle and PL: invest in the new airline. But when a gold shipment goes out, the stage PL: line owner has his men hijack the plane. The pilot discharges the gas PL: causing a forced landing and the Mesquiteers must now find the missing PL: plane and recover the gold. BY: Maurice VanAuken 390751a393375,393384 MV: Owzat (1997) PL: It's Ghosts vs. Skeletons one night in a churchyard cricket match. At the PL: outset, it appears that the Ghosts' pitcher will best all of the PL: Skeleton's batters. That is until one dandy steps up to bat and PL: practically lays waste to the entire churchyard. BY: Jaap Zuurkool ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 391235c393868 BY: Sami Al-Taher 392979a395613,395622 MV: Panoramic View of Burning Wharves and Warehouses [Hoboken] (1900) PL: This is a most realistic film, showing the wharves and warehouses fiercely PL: burning on the river front. It also shows an excellent view of East PL: River, New York and the wharves from which the Hamburg-American PL: steamers leave for European ports. BY: Lubin Catalog ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 395296a397940,397951 MV: Party 7 (2000) PL: Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together PL: into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from PL: the mob, his ex-girlfriend, her obsessive boyfriend, the mob soldier PL: sent to retrieve the briefcase, another mobster sent to kill them, PL: master voyeur Captain Banana and his new apprentice, The Mister Yellow. PL: Who will end up with the money? BY: Jean-Marc Rocher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 396032a398688,398697 MV: Passion's Desire (1999) PL: Struggling publisher's agent, in a bad live-in relationship, recruits a PL: romance novelist whose bestsellers document her affair with the agent, PL: and betrayal. She refuses the deal, just to spite him. But an old PL: friend shows up to rescue him from both traps. BY: babeulous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 402652c405317 PL: a stunning look at how a middle-aged woman, a piano professor at the 402654c405319 PL: Kohut, who had a weird love-hate relationship with her mother, was torn 402659c405324 PL: class, her inhibited desires explode... 402726a405392,405402 MV: Pib and Pog (1994) PL: Two comic characters in what is ostensibly a children's program greet an PL: invisible narrator. Pog produces a seashell, which Pib desperately PL: wants to play with. Pog complies with Pib's pleading by planting the PL: shell on his head. Pib retaliates with a submachine gun. The situation PL: escalates until both have ample opportunity to take their best shots. BY: Jaap Zuurkool ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 403158a405835,405845 MV: Picture Perfect (2001) PL: Louis is a struggling artist who is faced with the burden of finance when PL: confronted by his wife, Alyssa. His wish becomes true as he ends up in PL: his painting which turns out not to be the paradise he thought it would PL: be. Can he find his way back to his wife, or is he trapped in his PL: painting for eternity? BY: Ryan Gaines ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 403596,403608d406282 405248a407923,407933 MV: Pistola per cento bare, Una (1968) PL: Returning from the civil war Jim Slade discovers his parents dead at their PL: farm. It is said that the gang under the lead of Corbett has committed PL: the crime. Jim now goes for revenge but things turn out to be more PL: complicated than he originally thought. To get some money he accepts PL: the job as a sheriff. BY: cengelm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 405628a408314,408323 PL: Realising a dishonest deal has been found out a diamond merchant commits PL: suicide, leaving the gems in question for his wife. Knowing the PL: business from the time before drink largely took over her life, she PL: decides to sober up and sell them herself. Though they attract much PL: interest, no-one legitimate will touch them. As she tries to get her PL: present life straight the lure of the stones means she may have to PL: confront the past as well. BY: Jeremy Perkins 406227a408923,408947 MV: Platinum High School (1960) PL: Re-issued in 1964 as "Trouble At Sixteen" by Cinema Associates as part of a PL: double-bill with "Girls Town" (now called "The Innocent and the Damned" PL: and a rather descriptive title considering the cast), this film takes PL: place at an exclusive military academy on Sabre Island (played by PL: Catalina Island) attended by rich young delinquents who think money puts PL: them above the law. Enter Steve Conway (Mickey Rooney) there to PL: investigate the death of his son, whom he has been told died in an PL: accident. The Mick is quickly in five feet of trouble (over his PL: eyebrows) when he is met with hostility by the school's commandant, PL: Major Redfern Kelly (Dan Duryea) and the latter's sweetheart-secretary PL: Jennifer Evans (Terry Moore); intimidated by the cadet drill PL: instructor, Vince Perley (Christopher Dark) and the P.E. instructor Hack PL: Marlow (Richard Jaeckel); attempts are made on his life by a cadet trio PL: known as "The Three Beasts", and he is trapped in a three-against-one PL: fight with rifles, although memory fails as to just where Rooney came PL: up with his rifle. Just to keep him tested there is a big-speedboat vs. PL: small-motor boat (Rooney's craft of course) chase in shark-infested PL: waters. That comes right after he makes a startling discovery when he PL: talks to his son's former roommate Chip Hastings (Warren Berlinger). BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 407284a410005,410027 PL: At Wells, Nevada, Eddie Harris (Gene Raymond), Frankie Chardo (Steven PL: Ritch), Commando Munson (Wayne Morris), Skeets Jonas (Elisha Cook, PL: Jr.) and Roly Adams (Stafford Repp), rob a government train transporting PL: $10,000,000 in gold to the San Francisco depository. The loot is PL: divided three ways and put onto trucks for hauling to a Los Angeles PL: hideout. Roly is stopped first by a police road-block and is killed by PL: state troopers when he tries to run the blockade with his furniture PL: truck. Eddie and Frankie, following in a gas truck are stopped but PL: released because the tank is sealed. After murdering the attendant, PL: Ernie Beach (Harry Tyler), at a gas station, Skeets and Commando are PL: caught at a truck-weighing station, and the discrepancy between the PL: weight of the coffee they are supposed to be hauling and the heaviness PL: of the gold tips off the policemen. At a trucker's cafe, Eddie and PL: Frankie hear a news cast about their pals being captured or killed, but PL: they successfully get through the road blocks as Eddie has filled their PL: truck with acetate. In Los Angeles, Eddie calls his sweetheart, Fran PL: Werner (Jeanne Cooper), and she meets them at a warehouse where they PL: melt the gold and cast it into hub caps and bumpers on a new Cadillac. PL: As they drive onto the freeway, heading for a boat in San Diego, they PL: are struck from behind by a car and the bumpers lock. BY: Les Adams 408049c410792 BY: Sami Al-Taher 411308a414052,414083 MV: Portrait of Alison (1955) PL: A car plunging over a cliff kills its two occupants identified as PL: newspaperman Lewis Forrester and actress Alison Ford (Terry Moore). PL: Surviving Lewis are his two brothers, Tim (Robert Beatty), a portrait PL: painter, and Dave (William Sylvester), a pilot. Scotland Yard discovers PL: that Lewis' death was engineered by a gang of international diamond PL: smugglers he was about to expose. Before he died, he had sent someone PL: in London a post card with a sketch of a woman's hand holding a Chianti PL: bottle. Alison's father, John Smith (Henry Oscar) commissions Tim to PL: paint her portrait from a photograph. While Tim is out, the PL: supposedly-dead Alison enters his studio, but flees when she finds the PL: body of Jill Stewart (Josephine Griffin), Tim's favorite model. PL: Scotland Yard Inspector Colby (Geoffrey Kene) suspects Tim because PL: whatever alibi evidence Tim presents vanishes before the Inspector can PL: confirm it. Reg Dorking (William Lucas), a used-car dealer tries to PL: blackmail Tim, offering the post card sent by Lewis. Alison surprises PL: Tim in his studio with the news that the girl killed with Lewis must PL: have been a hitch-hiker, as she had left the car before the crash upset PL: because Lewis had charged her father as being part of the PL: diamond-smuggling ring. She finds her father and he confesses to being PL: as charged. In a phone call with a man named Nightingale, he says he is PL: through with the ring, but leaps to his death when Alison leaves. Tim PL: gets possession of the post card after a brutal fight with his brother PL: Dave, who confesses he is in the gang also. He turns the card over to PL: Scotland Yard who discover it is a list of the smugglers written in PL: invisible ink. Alison goes to Tim's studio where she surprises PL: Nightingale who begins to strangle her. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 411627a414403,414417 PL: Bepo Stambuk is a likeable tour guide and enterprising ladies' man on the PL: charming island of Brac, off the coast of Croatia. Bepo's happy life PL: revolves around two reciprocal relationships: his love of his island PL: and his adoration of women. However, Bepo's easygoing routine life is PL: about to be seriously interrupted. Back in the U.S., his father, a PL: émigré he has never met, has died and left him a fortune. He has also PL: left a very young, very greedy, and very adulterous widow. She has no PL: intention of handing Bepo the money and dispatches hitmen to find and PL: eliminate him. Also on her way to Brac is Elizabeth, the beautiful PL: young attorney assigned to award Bepo the money. Not surprisingly, PL: Elizabeth brings her own agenda and is eager to find the lucky heir for PL: less than legal reasons. BY: nina 411937a414728,414748 MV: Postman Didn't Ring, The (1942) PL: A government mail sack, missing for fifty years, is now being delivered. PL: Stamp collector Julie Martin (Brenda Joyce) follows postal inspector PL: Brennon (Stanley Andrews) on his delivery tour, hoping to find some rare PL: stamps for her philatelist customers. One letter brings love and warmth PL: to a lonely spinster from a sweetheart lost in a war, another a welcome PL: bravery citation to Civil War veteran Slade (Will Wright) and a third PL: is to the parents of the now-state governor from his high school PL: principal requesting he be disciplined for throwing spitballs in class. PL: Dan Carter (Richard Travis), the owner of the village supply store who PL: extends local farmers unlimited credit and, as a result, is on the PL: verge of foreclosure by the ruthless Harwood banking family, get a PL: letter sent by his grandfather to his father containing 500 shares of PL: stock in the Harwood bank. The Harwood family fights back by charging PL: Dan with fraud, but Judge Colt (Spencer Charters) and Dan's Aunt Martha PL: (Emma Dunn) aid him. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 412793a415605,415614 PL: Having been sent to prison by his look-alike cousin Billy Carson, Jim is PL: back as the head of a gang of outlaws. When his man Matt gets the job PL: of bossing Foster's trail drive, he goes after the herd. When Billy PL: interferes, he has him captured and dressed in Billy's clothes, he PL: wounds Foster and lets Foster's daughter Helen see him. Then he has PL: Matt ride into town with Billy as his prisoner and Helen is there to PL: identify him. BY: Maurice VanAuken 412855,412864d415675 413127c415938 PL: airmen from guerillas in a Central American jungle. The mission goes 413147c415958 PL: Central American jungle to track down some missing airmen that were 413340a416152,416173 MV: Prelude to Fame (1950) PL: While vacationing in Italy, Nick Morell (Robin Dowell), son of John PL: Morell (Guy Rolfe), a famous English philosopher and amateur musician and PL: his wife Catherine (Kathleen Ryan), becomes friendly with young Guido PL: (Jeremy Spenser), and Morell discovers the boy has an extraordinary PL: instinct for orchestration and a phenomenal music memory. A neighboring PL: couple, Signor and Signora Boudini (Henry Oscar and Kathleen PL: Byron) become aware of the boy's talents, and she appeals to his parents PL: to let her educate him musically. Torn by their love for their son and, PL: they feel,the duty to let the world hear his talent, they consent. The PL: boy is tutored by Dr. Lorenzo (John Slater). Signora Bondini denies the PL: boy all contact with his parents and everyone else except her. She also PL: has neither sent his letters to his family, nor let him see the ones PL: they've sent to him. He becomes phenomenally successful and makes the PL: grand tour of Europe as Signora Bondini is enraptured by the acclaim PL: given her through her "discovery" of the boy. She prepares to take him PL: to America and also prepares adoption papers. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 413915a416749,416758 MV: Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971) PL: In a California high school, a married teacher is the athletic coach and PL: faculty advisor. He starts to have sex flings with his female students PL: and eventually has to kill several of the girls to keep them quiet. PL: Based on a novel by Francis Pollini. BY: G.W.G. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 415491a418335,418348 MV: Private Capital, The (1989) (TV) PL: This sweeping tale, from the book of the same name, examines turn of the PL: century politics in the Canadian capital of Ottawa. It is a glimpse PL: into the private and public lives of Lord and Lady Minto; the politics PL: of the times; Canada's entry into the Boer War. All are seen through PL: the eyes of a young court reporter, as she writes about the pomp and PL: goings-on through the seasons in Ottawa society life. History buffs PL: will enjoy insights into an array of historical figures such as Winston PL: Churchill and Mackenzie King. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 415718a418576,418588 MV: Private Snafu: Spies (1943) PL: The doltish but self-confident and self-congratulatory Private Snafu is in PL: possession of a military secret during World War II. Over the course PL: of the day, spouting rhymed couplets, he divulges the secret a little PL: at a time to listening Axis spies. He tells his mom some of the secret PL: when he calls her from a phone booth; the rest he spills to a dolly PL: dolly spy who plies him with liquor. Snafu's loose lips put himself at PL: risk. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 416304a419175,419184 PL: A rich Texan, J.W. Grant, selects three men and invites them to his private PL: train to offer them a contract: Rescue his wife who has been kidnapped PL: by a Mexican revolutionary. The leader of the men, Rico, decides they PL: would be a better team if Grant would hire one more man, an explosives PL: expert. Grant quickly agrees and soon the four are off to complete the PL: contract. However, while on the trail, they discover some interesting PL: facts, like has Mrs. Grant 'really' been kidnapped? BY: AzRanger 418150a421031,421037 PL: Tom's bad way of life is constantly set up against his brother Mike's, who PL: has a job during the day and goes to night school. Mike will enroll in PL: the Marines to fight in WWI. He will come back and will constantly try PL: to put Tom back on the right path. BY: Natacha Godaillier 420738a423626,423642 MV: Queen for a Day (1951) PL: The film was based on the popular daytime Mutual Broadcasting Company radio PL: program that originated from New York on April 30, 1945 as "Queen For PL: Today" and moved to Hollywood a few months later as "Queen For A Day", PL: with Jack Bailey, former vaudeville music man and World's Fair barker, PL: as the emcee host. The five-times-a-week, thirty minute doses spun over PL: to television and lasted into the 70's. Bailey, in pre-airing PL: interviews with audience members, would select 3-4 contestants who PL: would pour out their (mostly pitiful) hearts explaining why they PL: deserved to be Queen For A Day, and the audience selected the winner. PL: The movie version was comprised of three short story segments which led PL: some character to the television program. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 421402c424306 BY: Sami Al-Taher 423084a425989,426004 PL: In 1976, Sue Snell (Amy Irving) watched her life crumble as her boyfriend PL: and most of her friends were killed by telekinetic Carrie White after PL: she was humiliated by sadistic classmate Chris Hargenson at the school PL: prom after being pronounced "Prom Queen." Now, 23 years later, Sue is a PL: counselor at the new high school where she seems to develop most of her PL: time on Rachel Lang (Emily Bergl), a troubled young girl whose best PL: friend (Mena Suvari) has just committed suicide. Rachel is a normal PL: girl, except for the fact that she can move things with her mind from PL: time to time. Some of the football jocks are planning to humiliate PL: Rachel at the "biggest party of the year," using the unknowing Jesse PL: (Jason London) as bait, because she told on them being involved in her PL: friend's death. If only everyone knew that Rachel is Carrie's PL: half-sister... BY: Will 424812a427733,427748 MV: Rapewoman: midarana nichiyobi (1981) PL: Naoko (Maiko Kazama) is getting a lot of obscene phone calls, so she PL: decides to stay at her girlfriend Mari's (Naomi Ito) home for awhile, PL: afraid of a rape attack. But the telephone calls don't stop, and the PL: mysterious pervert caller is bothering her there too. Naoko PL: reluctantly agrees to meet meet him at a local restaurant, hoping the PL: man will stop. When she arrives, Naoko is surprised to find the café is PL: operated by Harada (Tsuyoshi Naito), a man whom she and Mari had liked PL: so much in the past that, in fact, they had catfights over him at their PL: working places. It was due to a love triangle scuffle that they had PL: been both fired from their previous jobs. BY: Artemis-9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 426738a429675,429686 MV: ReBoot: My Two Bobs (2001) (TV) PL: Will the real Bob please step forward? There might not be a virus, but PL: life's still interesting in Mainframe when a second Bob comes on the PL: scene. No one knows which is which - including the two Bobs. With PL: wedding preparations underway, Dot can't decide who to marry and turns PL: to her friends for assistance. Meanwhile, an old enemy returns to the PL: system and only one of the Sprites can save the Mainframe inhabitants. BY: YTV ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 429149a432098,432128 MV: Reluctant Bride (1955) PL: A money-to-burn and girl-chasing Texas oilman, Jeff Longstreet (John PL: Carroll) and a sensitive, dignified entomologist, Laura Weeks (Virginia PL: Bruce), find themselves together in Winchester, England charged with PL: taking care of a brood of wild kids (Michael Caridia, Barbara Brown and PL: Kit Terrington) whose parents, both famous explorers, are reported lost PL: while on an African safari...but, based on their offspring, they may be PL: hiding. The kids fire their nurse and cook, and then proceed to try to PL: unite the mis-matched Jeff and Laura, while raining havoc on Jeff's PL: gold-digging girl friend Lola Sinclair (Kay Callard) and Laura's PL: pompous fiancee Professor Baker (Brian Oulton). BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Reluctant Debutante, The (1958) PL: Jimmy and Sheila Broadbent (Rex Harrison and Kay Kendall), following an PL: absence of many years, return to London to present their 17-year-old, PL: American-born daughter, Jane (Sandra Dee), to society. Difficulties PL: range from Jane's apathy to being placed on the marriage block; the PL: determined efforts of Sheila's old friend Mabel Claremont (Angela PL: Lansbury) to win wealthy David Fenner (Peter Myers) for her debutante PL: daughter Clarissa (Diane Clare); and Jane's attraction to David Parkson PL: (John Saxon), American drummer who plays in the orchestra at the PL: coming-out balls. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 430600a433580,433593 MV: Resolution (2001) PL: The last night of the millennium and a suicidal man with a bullet in his PL: head and vengeance on his mind makes his way up the long winding drive PL: to a New Years party winding down...but the party has just begun as he PL: will take them on a journey of self-discovery bringing them face to PL: face with fate and truth. His goal: force them to confront reality as PL: he has known it, as they have tried to hide from it their whole lives PL: but tonight it will hit them in the head like a sledgehammer, and the PL: test will be, who can remain standing in the end... BY: Jay Nuzum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 433509a436503,436510 PL: Kincade controls the area's water supply and is about to force the ranchers PL: into contracts at exorbitant rates. Government Agent Saunders has a PL: plan that will open up the lost river and dry up Kincade's supply. So PL: he gets the ranchers to insist on a clause that Kincade's land will PL: revert to the public if he fails to deliver water. BY: Maurice VanAuken 434089,434103d437089 434842a437829,437840 MV: Rio Rattler (1935) PL: A dying Marshal gives his identification papers to Tom. After Tom arrives PL: in town, the papers drop and are found during a fight so Tom decides to PL: assume the Marshal's identity. Mason, the chief, now sends Rattler, the PL: killer of the Marshal, to also kill Tom. But when he overhears Tom is a PL: fake, they change their plans and now go to arrest Tom for the murder PL: of the Marshal. BY: Maurice VanAuken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 437517a440516,440530 MV: Rockabilly Baby (1957) PL: The mysterious Mrs. Eleanor Carter (Virginia Field) moves to Springfield PL: with her two teen-age children Jimmy (Gary Vinson) and Cathy (Judy PL: Busch). Eleanor makes friends with the town's social leader, Mrs. PL: Wellington (Ellen Corby), who supports her idea for a town youth PL: center, and she is aided by Tom Griffith (Douglas Kennedy), the high PL: school principal. At the town's annual picnic, to which Eleanor has PL: bought a band (Les Brown and His Band of Reknown), the town busy-body, PL: Eunice (Irene Ryan), reveals what she had learned from Eleanor's PL: past. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 438895c441908 BY: Sami Al-Taher 441094a444108,444117 MV: Royal Rumble: No Chance in Hell (1999) (V) PL: WWF Title (I quit match): Mankind vs. The Rock, 30-man over the top Royal PL: Rumble, WWF Intercontinental Title: Ken Shamrock vs. Billy Gunn, WWF PL: European Title: X-Pac vs. Gangrel, WWF Women's Title (strap match): PL: Sable vs. Luna BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 443251c446274 BY: Sami Al-Taher 443345a446369,446378 MV: Ryan Interview, The (2000) (TV) PL: Young big-city journalist Fredericka Rose is assigned to do a "puff piece" PL: on Bob Ryan on the eve of his 100th birthday. Fredericka goes through PL: the motions, but Ryan gradually gets to her; the interview changes the PL: way she thinks about her life. BY: Lisa Davis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 443657a446691,446703 MV: Sabaka (1954) PL: Gunga Ram (Nino Marcel), a young elephant trainer, swears vengeance on the PL: killers of his sister Indria (Lisa Howard) and her husband on the PL: orders of the religious fire-cult leaders, the High Priestess (June PL: Foray) and Ashok (Victor Jory). The Maharajah of Bakore (Lou Krugman) PL: disbelieves him and Gunga Ram is also opposed by the Maharajah's PL: General Pollegar (Boris Karloff). Gunga Ram sets out to expose and PL: destroy the fire shrine of Sabaka. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 443939a446986,446996 MV: Sacred is the Flesh (2001) PL: After a young couple move from a small town to Hollywood they find their PL: values corrupted. Slowly they destroy their relationship with each PL: other and with all of the people who have loved and supported them. A PL: fascinating study of what happens to those who become addicted to PL: status and fame. BY: Leslye J Allen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 444264a447322,447338 MV: Safar e Ghandehar (2001) PL: Nafas (Niloufar Pazira) is a reporter who was born in Afghanistan, but fled PL: with her family to Canada when she was a child. However, her sister PL: wasn't so lucky; she lost her legs to a land mine while young, and when PL: Nafas and her family left the country, her sister was accidentally left PL: behind. Nafas receives a letter from her sister announcing that she's PL: decided to commit suicide during the final eclipse before the dawn of PL: the 21st century; desperate to spare her sister's life, Nafas makes PL: haste to Afghanistan, where she joins a caravan of refugees who, for a PL: variety of reasons, are returning to the war-torn nation. As Nafas PL: searches for her sister, she soon gets a clear and disturbing portrait PL: of the toll the Taliban regime has taken upon its people. BY: Ørnås ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 447389a450464,450470 PL: A young man finds his divorced mother having sex with a man in a Santa PL: Clause hat and shoots them both dead. Years later, now thinking he PL: is Santa Clause, the man develops an obsession with an erotic horror PL: film star named Raven and begins stalking her. BY: Duke 448245,448256d451325 450041a453111,453126 MV: Scarlet Spear, The (1954) PL: Deep in the African jungle territory, Telec District Commissioner Jim PL: Barneson (John Bentley), and his new bride Christine/Chris (Martha PL: Hyer), try to persuade Morasi (Himself), newly-crowned chief of the PL: Masai, to abandon the age-old ritual of proving himself worthy to rule PL: by slaying a rival tribe member and thus earing a "scarlet spear." Jim PL: follows Morasi into enemy territory, and is present and helps fight off PL: the enemy tribe during Morasi's test. Morasi, badly wounded, makes his PL: way back to his tribe, where he pledges no human life will be taken in PL: the future...and dies. His young son takes his spear and strides PL: resolutely into the jungle...to earn his "scarlet spear." BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 450859a453945,453955 MV: Schon Erfolgreich-Senta Berger (1999) (TV) PL: This is a documentary film about the life of the actress Senta Berger and PL: includes clips from many of her films and many interviews with her PL: co-stars, etc. Senta also returns to Vienna, Austria showing the home PL: where she was born and raised in 1941. Senta is also interviewed from PL: the schools where she studied acting in Vienna.. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 453164c456260 BY: Sami Al-Taher 453649,453662d456744 454006a457089,457097 PL: There is a very secret organization that offers wealthy people a second PL: chance at life; the customer picks out someone they want to be and the PL: organization surgically alters the customer to look like the intended PL: person, stages the customer's death, gets rid of the intended person PL: and the customer has a new life. There's only one thing they didn't PL: count on..... BY: ShowBob 454019,454030d457109 454477a457557,457577 MV: Secret Heart, The (1946) PL: Brillant pianist Larry Addams (Richard Derr) allows his frustrated PL: ambitions to ruin his life and commits suicide, leaving his wife, Lee PL: (Claudette Colbert), and two small children, Penny (Ann Lace) and Chase PL: (Dwayne Hickman), under the stigma of disgrace. Lee takes over and PL: devotes her life to paying off Larry's debts and raising her two PL: step-children. Prior to her marriage, Lee had turned down the proposal PL: of Chris Matthews (Walter Pigeon), wealthy ship builder and college PL: friend of Larry's, but he had remained as a true friend to both. On the PL: night of the suicide, Lee and Chris had attended a dinner party PL: together and, horrified and shocked at the death, Lee sends Chris away, PL: and for ten years does everything possible for the children to make up PL: for the loss of their father. Bewildered by some of the strange stories PL: concerning her father, the grown-up Penny (June Allyson) questions Lee PL: and her brother Chase (Robert Sterling.) Later, Penny meets and falls PL: in love with Chris, not realizing he is the man Lee gave up. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 455579a458680,458689 MV: Seduction, The (1982) PL: An attractive, well-known TV newscaster is stalked by an obsessed admirer, PL: a TV station scriptwriter, whose obsession turns to hate when she PL: rejects his advances and his moves become more harassing and ultimately PL: murderous. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 455917a459028,459043 MV: Segreto di stato (1995) PL: A bomb blows up in Milan and five people die. After only three hours PL: Ravida, the chief of the Secret Service, knows the name of the killer PL: and that of his chief. It is Fossati enlisted in the same Secret PL: Service. Judge Francesca Savona who has to investigate the case and is PL: already investigating the Secret Service slush funds is not PL: convinced by Ravida. She asks for the help of detective Carlo Tommasi PL: who has the reputation of being an honest policeman and is able to get PL: it from the Minister. In the meantime Fossati fled, warned by a call. PL: The inquiry begins but the atmosphere is corrupt and it is difficult to PL: tell friend from foe. BY: Baldinotto da Pistoia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 457154a460281,460294 MV: September in the Rain (1937) PL: The rain is outdoors; the action is indoors, in a grocery store, where the PL: characters on product labels come to life (along with one real worm). PL: While much of the picture features characters in blackface, and hence PL: is usually censored, the remaining part includes a bottle of blueing PL: singing "Am I Blue", a snake charmer from a coffee can playing for a PL: tube of toothpaste, an elegant dancing couple from cigarette packs, the PL: umbrella girl on a salt box under a waterfall, and some baby chicks PL: from cleanser cans chasing the aforementioned worm. BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 457748a460889,460908 MV: Service with a Guile (1946) PL: Olive runs a service station. The admiral pulls in and asks Olive to put PL: some air in his tire, as he heads off to a cigar store. Meanwhile, the PL: boys stop by on a 24-hour leave, and start to be "helpful" - which of PL: course means that the tire, then the entire car, are in serious PL: trouble. Not that Popeye doesn't do some amazing things to save the PL: car; he carries it, atop a hoist, to the top of a very tall building PL: under construction, then outruns it as it falls, and catches it, PL: unscathed; the car is demolished, however, when Bluto snatches the PL: hoist away and lets the car fall the remaining couple of meters onto PL: Popeye. Spinach time: He manages to rebuild the car, apparently good PL: as new, in the time it takes the admiral to walk back from the cigar PL: store, so Bluto shoves him away to take credit. But the car falls to PL: pieces when it's started, and the admiral puts Bluto on rust-scraping PL: duty as Popeye and Olive float by in a rowboat. BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 458205a461366,461383 MV: Seven Days (1998) (TV) PL: The President and Vice President were killed in a terrorrist attack. Now it PL: seems that a secret branch of the government has in their possession PL: technology from the alien landing at Roswell, and they were able to use PL: it to create a time machine that can send someone back in time seven PL: days. And they would like to send someone back before this happened and PL: tell what's going to happen before it does so they can prevent it. Now PL: all they need is someone to send back, as the trip is excruciating. PL: Frank Parker was a CIA operative who has been confined to a mental PL: hospital. He has been chosen as their "chrononaut" or time traveller, PL: as he has a high tolerance for pain but also at the same time is a PL: bit of a wildcard, as he doesn't like to be told what to do, or follow PL: rules. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 461409c464587 BY: Sami Al-Taher 461436,461446d464613 463121a466289,466297 MV: Shin Kyûteî Hanî (1994) (V) PL: In hibernation for years, the body-shifting android Cutey Honey is brought PL: out of her self-imposed stasis to fight the evil Dolmek and his minions PL: of monsters. BY: Serdar Yegulalp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 463353a466530,466542 MV: Shipping News, The (2001) PL: A struggling newspaper writer, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime PL: home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, PL: after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to PL: an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus PL: far in life, his shipping news column in the newspaper "The Gammy Bird" PL: finds an audience, and his experiences in the town change his life. Then PL: he meets the widow Wavey... BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 466397c469586 BY: Sami Al-Taher 466434a469624,469633 MV: Silent (1997) PL: Hollywood 1932. With the arrival of sound, a silent film director sells his PL: soul in exchange for success. "Silent" is a fable about the importance PL: of music in movies and an homage to silent films at the time of their PL: decline. BY: Guido Jiménez-Cruz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 471713c474912 BY: Sami Al-Taher 471812a475012,475029 MV: Sleepwalking (2002) PL: Is life a fate controled path or a path made up of our own choices? Holden, PL: Kate and Stan all face this seemingly inseparable question as they all PL: reach a fork in the roads of their lives. Holden, a talented musician, PL: has frittered away his life aimlessly and struggles to not only grapple PL: with his past, repair mistakes he has made, but also find the PL: motivation in himself to follow his dreams. Kate is awash in PL: self-doubt and despair over her past and hides behind her self-made PL: masks to protect her from the realities of her own life. Stan has PL: given in to a path of self-destruction as he watches the last vestiges PL: of himself disappear. He faces the reality of the only choice he has PL: left, how he wishes to invite death into this path and what he will PL: leave behind in the wake. Does one control life or does it control us? BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 474204,474215d477420 474264a477470,477481 MV: Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997) PL: Based somewhat more authentically on the Grimm Brothers' story of a young PL: woman who is unliked by her stepmother, the film includes the talking PL: mirror, a poisoned apple, and some ruffian gold (not diamond) miners PL: (and they aren't dwarfs or cute). It takes place at the time of the PL: Crusades, and depicts the attitudes of the wealthy and the peasant PL: classes toward one another. BY: BOB STEBBINS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 475891a479109,479121 MV: Sole nudo (1984) PL: Luca Adami lives in Rome and he is in financial straits. He decides PL: therefore to turn to his old friend De Bernardi who fled to Rio de PL: Janeiro to escape jail. He arranges to meet him in Rio, but once in PL: Rio, De Bernardi's secretary inform him of the impossibility of the PL: meeting. Luca arranges for a room in a hotel where first he finds a PL: gun, second the waiter seems a philosopher and third he receives a PL: visitor, a girl saying she very curious about him... BY: Baldinotto da Pistoia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 479015a482246,482260 PL: Maria had longed to be a nun since she was a young girl, yet when she PL: became old enough discovered that it wasn't at all what she thought. PL: Often in trouble and doing the wrong things, Maria is sent to the house PL: of a retired naval captain, named Captain Von Trapp, to care for his PL: children. Von Trapp was widowed several years before and was left to PL: care for seven 'rowdy' children. The children have run off countless PL: governesses. Maria soon learns that all these children need is a PL: little love to change their attitudes. Maria teaches the children to PL: sing, and through her, music is brought back into the hearts and home PL: of the Von Trapp family. Unknowingly, Maria and Captain Von Trapp are PL: falling helplessly in love, except there are two problems, the Captain PL: is engaged, and Maria is a postulant! BY: Katy Richardson 479374a482620,482631 MV: South of Algiers (1953) PL: Archaeologist Dr. Burnet (Eric Portman), his daughter Anne (Wanda Hendrix) PL: and newspaperman Nicholas Chapman (Van Heflin) set out to search for PL: the priceless golden mask of Moloch, believed to be in a lost tomb. Two PL: crooks, Kress (Jacques Brunius) and Petris (Charles Goldner), use PL: schemes, tricks and ruses to raise havoc in order to get the mask for PL: themselves. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 479661a482919,482940 MV: South Tunnel (2000) PL: At the age of 18, Willful Swann comes home to find his brother-in-law once PL: again beating his sister while his 6 month-old niece sleeps in the next PL: room. After making sure his sister and niece are safe, Will takes PL: justice into his own hands. On his 33rd birthday, Will is released from PL: The Atlanta Penitentiary with nowhere to go and no one to turn to. A PL: mysterious letter about his father's suicide some 25 years earlier send PL: him into the heart of Tennessee on a journey into his past, to the town PL: of his childhood, and ironically to his future. In the small, almost PL: forgotten town of South Tunnel, tucked away in the hills of Tennessee, PL: Will meets a philosophical mechanic who "happens to wear dresses", a PL: single mother who runs the local boardinghouse and is raising her PL: dauntless 8 year-old son on her own, a drunken country songwriter who PL: sells his hit songs for 25 bucks and a beer, and a host of other local PL: yokels. In this unlikely yet true-to-life mix of characters, Will PL: learns a thing or two about acceptance, courage, reparation, and coming PL: home. BY: Joseph Baldwin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 482182a485462,485475 MV: Spirit of the Empire (1900) PL: Prince Edward of York, the future King of England, and his army, at PL: manoeuvres. Commander-in-chief, Prince Edward, 6 years; 2nd PL: Commander-in-Chief, Prince Albert, 4 years, Honorary Colonel, Princess PL: Victoria, 2 years. This and the following pictures of the children of PL: the royal family of England were taken at Marlborough House in July, PL: 1900, by special permission. The children are shown in their childish PL: games romping upon the lawn, and the negatives will, of course, PL: constitute a most important historical record. BY: AMB Picture Catalogue (1902) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 484385a487679,487694 MV: Stagefright Chameleon (1988) PL: A solitary figure in a bandanna walks across a railroad bridge on the edge PL: of a city. Someone watches from a structure overhead; he hastens down PL: stairs and chases bandanna man, cornering him, then handing him a card PL: saying, "Don't give up hope." Bandanna man retaliates with a video PL: camera, filming Mr. Hope. Is this a confrontation or a lark between PL: friends? In the distance they see a woman and follow her into what PL: seems to be, from the outside, a small building, but once inside PL: they're in halls and tunnels that take them to the lair of the Mole PL: King. Strange things happen there. Is there release to the open air? PL: Can people connect? Is hope alive, or do isolation and despair rule? BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 484977,484980c488286,488289 PL: The Driver now carries an arrogant rock star who is visiting Pittsburgh. PL: Played by Madonna, this title character wants to get away from her PL: bodyguards in the Driver's BMW. He soon gets tired of her and decides to PL: have a bit of fun. 485501,485513d488809 485757a489054,489066 MV: Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) PL: The two homeworlds of the Romulan Star Empire, Romulus and Remus, are PL: thrown into chaos when the entire Romulan Imperial Senate is murdered. PL: Shinzon, the prime suspect, had been exiled to Remus as a child, and PL: forced (along with all other Reman natives) into slave labor in Remus' PL: dilithium mines. Now, Shinzon returns to lead his Reman followers to PL: freedom, and intends to use the crew of the Enterprise-E in his mad PL: quest... BY: Brian Barjenbruch ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 485988,486018d489296 486159a489438,489448 MV: Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) PL: Jedi Knights Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker discover there is more PL: than meets the eye behind an assassination attempt on Naboo Senator PL: Padmé Amidala's life. Meanwhile, a Sith Lord orchestrates events PL: between the forces of good and evil, all the while waiting to play the PL: final move that will ensure him control of the galaxy. BY: Doug Funnie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 486939a490229,490242 MV: State Property (2001) PL: Frustrated with being broke, Beans (Sigel) decides that the only way to PL: grasp the American Dream is to take it. State Property follows Beans PL: and his crew, the ABM, as they take over the city, creating mayhem as PL: their empire builds. Beans now struggles to maintain his family life PL: while bumping heads with opposing gangsters and police. It all comes to PL: a head when he cannot surpass the city's most notorious crew, run by PL: Jay-Z and Dame (Dash). The moves Beans and the ABM decide to make PL: come with severe consequences." BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 489414a492718,492729 MV: Story of Bean, The (1997) (TV) PL: A little documentary which simply chronicles the story behind the PL: television series "Mr. Bean" (1989) and the film Bean (1997), released PL: that year. It tells the story of 'Rowan Atkinson' (qv) and shows clips of PL: him as a child, as well as shows skits from "Not the Nine O'Clock News" PL: (1979) and "Black Adder, The" (1983) and, of course, sketches from the PL: Mr. Bean series and clips from the film. BY: Bloggers! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 489502a492818,492833 MV: Story of Life, The (1948) PL: An educational film, made for high school students with the assistance of PL: the California Department of Health and the University of California, PL: among others. In the wake of the Kinsey report and social change PL: hastened by postwar prosperity, themes of knowledge of the facts of PL: life, open discussion of them, and appreciating modern medical science PL: inform an emerging liberal world view. This film takes us into a PL: hospital to observe the medical procedures of a normal birth and a PL: Caesarean. The focus is on the technical aspects of delivering a child PL: and the stages of labor, with constant reassurance that, in general, PL: things will go well. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 489562a492894,492909 MV: Story of Reproduction, The (1948) PL: An educational film, made for high school students with the assistance of PL: the California Department of Health and the University of California, PL: among others. In the wake of the Kinsey report and social changes PL: hastened by postwar prosperity, themes of knowledge of the facts of PL: life, open discussion of them, and appreciation of modern medical PL: science inform an emerging liberal consensus. The film begins with a PL: comparison of man's and woman's bodies, describes the menstrual cycle PL: and the fertilization of an egg, and follows human gestation from early PL: cell division to the development of lungs. Drawings aid the clinical PL: descriptions. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 493507a496855,496869 MV: Sugar Hill (1974) PL: When her boyfriend is brutally murdered, after refusing to be shaken down PL: by the local gangsters running their protection racket, Sugar Hill PL: (Marki Bey), decides not to get mad, but BAD! Calling upon the help of PL: aged voodoo queen Mama Maitresse (Zara Cully), Sugar PL: entreats her to call upon Baron Zamedi, the Lord of the Dead (Don Pedro PL: Colley), for help in gaining a gruesome revenge. In exchange for her PL: soul, the Dark Master raises up a zombie army to do her bidding. The PL: bad guys who thought they were getting away clean are about to find out PL: that they're DEAD wrong. BY: Christopher Chase ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 495241a498604,498622 MV: Sunshine Deli and Grocery, The (2000) PL: What could be better than the easy life? For Ted, Chloe, and Alex, New York PL: City life was simple. Run a small store, make your own hours, sell a PL: little pot cleverly disguised as innocent "Olympiad" cigarettes. PL: Simple, that is, until Chloe stumbles upon a bag of drugs worth over a PL: million dollars and definitely belonging to someone else. With the PL: Irish, Italian, and Jamaican mobs watching their every move, Ted, PL: Chloe, and Alex now must enlist the help of their friends and hapless PL: customers, Milton, an angry black man trapped inside a white boy's PL: body; Vince, a smooth-talking mercenary; Stephanie, a peace lovin' PL: punker; Eugene, a horror make-up artist, and many more. Sunshine Deli PL: and Grocery quickly unravels into a race against all odds for PL: our three unlikely heroes. The mission: to make it out with the drugs, PL: the money and, if they're lucky, their lives. BY: Turpis Edgelawn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 495393a498775,498787 MV: Super Mario Advance (2001) (VG) PL: Mario's first GBA adventure includes two classic games in one. The first is PL: Super Mario Bros. 2, in which Mario, Luigi, Toad, and Princess Peach PL: attempt to thwart the plans of the evil Wart. Only this time, some of PL: the enemies and items are even larger, and there's also a new boss to PL: defeat: Robirdo. The second game is the original Mario Bros., in which PL: you try to topple enemies and collect coins to get points. Up to four PL: players can link together to battle each other in Mario Bros. BY: Axemblue ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 495790a499185,499195 MV: Superhero (2000) PL: Angry Kid is a superhero in his own mind. He is Captain Buggernuts, to be PL: precise. Wearing a mask and cape, sitting atop his trusty bicycle, er, PL: hydro-chopper, he is sworn to protect the world from the evil Dr. PL: Assrot. Throw in his Sis as the chainsaw-wielding Lady Angelbutts, and PL: you have more than your fill of Angry Kid mayhem. BY: Jaap Zuurkool ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 496710a500116,500129 MV: Survivor Series (1989) (V) PL: The Ultimate Warrior, The Rockers and Jim Neidhart vs.Andre the Giant, PL: Bobby Heenan, Arn Anderson & Haku, Hulk Hogan, Jake Roberts & PL: Demolition vs. Ted DiBiase, The Powers of Pain & Zeus, Rick Rude, Mr. PL: Perfect & The Rougeau Brothers vs. Roddy Piper, The Bushwackers & Jimmy PL: Snuka, Randy Savage, Dino Bravo, Greg Valentine & The Canadian PL: Earthquake vs. Jim Duggan, Bret Hart, Ronnie Garvin & Hercules, Dusty PL: Rhodes, Brutus Beefcake, The Red Rooster & Tito Santana vs. The Honky PL: Tonk Man, Rick Martel, Bad News Brown & The Big Boss Man BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 497125c500544 BY: Sami Al-Taher 497957c501376 MV: Sweet and Low-Down (1944) 498695a502115,502124 MV: Swimming Upstream (2002) PL: Mulcahy's film, based in the 50's, centers on the true story of an PL: Aussie swimmer who was determined to make Olympic swimming selection PL: despite the handicap of an alcoholic father (Rush) and impossibly PL: long-suffering mother/wife (Davis). BY: Noel C. Bailey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 501342c504771 BY: Sami Al-Taher 502918a506348,506359 MV: Taps (1981) PL: An announcement that the venerable Bunker Hill Military Academy, a 141 year PL: old institute, is to be torn down and replaced with condos sets off the PL: young cadets led by their stodgy commander (George C. Scott). Under the PL: command of a student cadet major (Timothy Hutton), the cadets seize the PL: campus, refuse entry of the construction crews and ultimately confront PL: the real military. BY: John Sacksteder ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 503851a507293,507303 MV: Tasogare no joji (1972) PL: Reyko the housewife is sleeping with a sadistic thug that looks more PL: interesting then her husband. One of her husband's pals sees the PL: illicit couple, the thug tries to kill him, he stabs the husband PL: instead, the thug gets arrested, the husband goes insane, and the PL: housewife is left alone and wondering why she did what she did. BY: Artemis-9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 504885a508338,508347 MV: Tease, The (1990) PL: Ghost-writing a book about the sexual fantasies of a gorgeous millionaire PL: would seem like a piece of cake - unless the rich babe who hired you PL: happens to be the world's biggest tease. A tauntingly erotic tale from PL: award-winning director Jon Leslie. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 505881a509344,509355 MV: Telle mère, telle fille (1998) (TV) PL: Elisabeth is a doctor, she is at the head of an Institute against smoking, PL: but she smokes secretly. She is divorced, her daughter Vicky is PL: seventeen, and the daughter tries to have the mother married again. PL: Vicky is in love with JC. The two women are turned out from their PL: house. Elisabeth meets by chance Jean Corti, who is JC's father. They PL: tell each other a lot of lies... BY: Baldinotto da Pistoia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 506226a509701,509716 MV: Ten Days to Tulara (1958) PL: Tramp pilot Scott McBride (Sterling Hayden) goes to meet a Mr. Rodriguez who PL: has a mission for him in the South American jungle. Rodriguez turns out PL: to be Cesar (Rodolfo Hoyos), an old enemy of Scotty's, who demands that PL: Scotty fly him and his henchmen, on the lam on a robbery and murder PL: charge, to a waiting ship on the other side of the continent. Scotty PL: can't refuse as his young son is being held hostage on the waiting PL: ship. He also finds out that he is getting involved in theft of PL: $280,000 worth of gold bars. His plane is disabled by police fire and PL: they crash land and have to trek across the country, with Scotty now a PL: wanted criminal along with the rest of the gang. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 506273c509763 MV: Ten Laps to Go (1936) 506990c510480,510490 BY: Sami Al-Taher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Tere Pyaar Mein (2001) PL: Preity (Zara Sheikh) is a young Sikh girl who moves to Pakistan and falls PL: in love with a Pakistani boy - Shaan (Shan). However, the star-crossed PL: lovers have to deal with a clash of cultures, religions and PL: disapproving parents. BY: Zain 507191a510692,510698 PL: In a barren future, a mysterious virus has made sex and childbirth fatal, PL: and men and women have separated into armed camps at war. The last PL: survivor of a colony, which has perfected a cure, tries to cut through PL: the hatred and paranoia in order to restart humanity. BY: Concorde - New Horizons (with permission). 508453a511961,511975 MV: Tevye (1939) PL: Tevye is a dairyman in the Russian Ukraine early in the 20th century. He PL: lives in a cabin outside Boyberik with his wife Goldie, his widowed PL: daughter Tseytl, her two children, and his younger daughter, the PL: unmarried Khave. Khave is being courted by Fedya, a Christian, the son PL: of a local government official. Tevye warns Fedya against romance and PL: marriage outside her faith, but Fedya is persuasive too. What will PL: Khave decide, how will Tevye react, and when the Tsar initiates a PL: pogrom, will Tevye's friends come to his defense? Can the stubborn PL: Tevye reconcile his heart and tradition? "On the other hand..." BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 509532a513055,513075 MV: That Woman Opposite (1957) PL: A series of daring robberies has taken place on Rue des Anges, a quiet PL: street in the town of La Bandelette. Standing by an open window in his PL: study, Sir Maurice Lawes (Wilfred Hyde White) sees a gendarme beaten to PL: death and the killer, who also sees Lawes, escape in a car. The next PL: evening, the residents hear a shattering scream from Janice Lawes PL: (Petula Clark) when she finds her father murdered. Chief Inspector Garon PL: (Guido Lorraine) of the French police and private investigator Dermot PL: Kinross (Dan O'Herlily) are puzzled as to who would find to kill the PL: kindly Lawes; was it divorcee Eve Atwood (Phyllis Kirk) whose PL: bloodstained nightdress had been found by the police; or the son of the PL: house, Toby (Jack Watling), who had been secretly robbing his father to PL: close the lips of his blackmailing mistress; or a case of robbery with PL: violence, as a valuable necklace had been stolen from Sir Maurice's PL: famous collection; or the burglar who feared Sir Maurice had seen him PL: kill the gendarme? BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 512989a516533,516543 MV: Three American Beauties (1906) PL: In this color-tinted short, we first see a close-up of a red rose, PL: perfectly formed. Then, we see the rose held by a young woman who is PL: wearing a bright yellow dress. She's the second beauty. Behind her is PL: a slow dissolve to the US flag, tinted in red, white, and blue, blowing PL: in the wind. Behind the flag is a star-lit sky. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 513212a516767,516783 MV: Three Days (2001) PL: Ten years ago Andrew married childhood sweetheart Beth. Now, he's a PL: high-powered literary agent but his relationship with his wife has not PL: fared well. They've been growing apart for years and Andrew is flirting PL: with temptation. When Beth is tragically killed just days before PL: Christmas, Andrew is devastated and wracked with guilt and regret. On PL: his way home from the hospital where Beth lies dead, Andrew is visited PL: by an angel who offers him the deal of a lifetime. He's given the last PL: three days of Beth's life to live over again - with one condition. He PL: can't change fate. She will still lose her life. During those precious PL: days, Andrew discovers the true meaning of gratitude and forgiveness as PL: he falls in love all over again. BY: Robert Tate Miller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 513631c517202 BY: Sami Al-Taher 514698a518270,518284 MV: Thru Different Eyes (1942) PL: District Attorney Stephen Pettijohn (Frank Craven) returns to his alma PL: mater to lecture on circumstantial evidence, and uses a recent case,the PL: murder of banker James Gardner (Jerome Cowan), to make his point: PL: Constance Gardner (Mary Howard) had wed James to spite Ted Farnsworth PL: (Donald Woods). Later, the pair drove to Gardner's country lodge to PL: urge him to give Constance a divorce. He refuses and that night he is PL: found dead with a bullet in his head. Pettijohn finds that all evidence PL: points to Harry Beach (George Holmes), and the latter is convicted and PL: sentenced to die. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 515190a518777,518815 MV: Thy Neighbor's Wife (1953) PL: Suspicious Raphael Vojnar (Hugo Haas), a Moravian village judge, makes his PL: young wife Barbara (Cleo Moore) witness the public humiliation of an PL: unfaithful wife who is bound with ropes to a wooden half-cross. He PL: tells Barbara that if he ever catches her with another man he will kill PL: her. This, as in all Hugo Haas films, is a certain indicator that the PL: plot is about to thicken and the pot is about to boil. The next day, PL: Barbara meets her old beau, Quirin (Ken Carlton), who is in town to help PL: his old uncle Sima (Anthony Jochim) with the harvest. Vojnar recognizes PL: Quirin as a man he had arrested years earlier. Vojnar, stirring the PL: pot, makes an overnight trip out of town, and Quirin boldly breaks into PL: Barbara's bedroom, where, to the surprise of none, he is warmly PL: received. The surprise comes the next day when old uncle Sima is found PL: stabbed to death. Quirin can not account for his whereabouts without PL: compromising Barbara and,even worse, he has lost his pearl-handled PL: knife and can't prove it wasn't the murder weapon. The judge himself PL: finds the knife in his garden and quickly puts two and two together, PL: but Barbara has bribed the dim-witted maid, Anushka (Kathleen Hughes), PL: to say it was she that Quirin was visiting. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Thy Neighbor's Wife (2000) PL: When Ann's husband Chris takes his own life after losing his Beverly Hills PL: job, she vows revenge on the man who fired her husband and on the woman PL: who got the vice presidency Chris wanted. Ann deals with the firm's PL: owner in a flash, but she takes her time with the new V.P., Nicole PL: Garrett, a diabetic with a rocky marriage to a man who drinks too much PL: and with two kids - Darla, a senior in high school who wants more PL: freedom, and David, a son who'll soon be visiting from college. The PL: Garrett's household also includes Karina, an au pair. Will anyone get PL: wise to Ann before her revenge is complete? BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 516969c520594 PL: scientists who survived the war, and many android "slaves." 516971,516972c520596,520597 PL: to blast off - but just before that happens, the scientits' enemy returns PL: and fires on the sitting-duck ship. A very bad day for the scientists 516974,516977c520599 PL: escape with their skins. 517211a520834,520853 MV: Timetable (1956) PL: As a train speeds through the Arizona night, a man posing as a physician PL: holds up the baggage-car crew and escapes with a $500,000 payroll. The PL: fake doctor, Paul Bruckner (Wesley Addy), leaves the train with his PL: "patient" and the "patient's wife", who is really Bruckner's wife Linda PL: (Felicia Farr). The insurance company puts its best investigator, PL: Charlie Norman (Mark Stevens), on the case to work with the railroad's PL: investigator, Joe Armstrong (King Calder). The men are friends and Joe PL: is upset that Charlie and his wife, Ruth (Marianne Stewart), will have PL: to postpone their Mexico vacation. Charlie's concern goes beyond the PL: spoiled vacation as he was the brains behind the holdup, who had fallen PL: in love with Linda several months earlier while investigating a claim PL: Bruckner had filed against his insurance company. At first, Joe is PL: unable to find anything out about the flawlessly timetable planning for PL: the robbery other than what Charlie wants him to find out. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 517660a521303,521332 MV: Tish (1942) PL: Letitia "Tish" Carberry (Marjorie Main), an eccentric New England spinster, PL: lives with her nephew, Charlie Sands (Lee Bowman), and her two cronies, PL: Aggie Pilkington (Zasu Pitts) and Lizzie Wilkins (Aline MacMahon), live PL: in a near-by boarding house. Cora Edwards (Susan Peters) also lives at PL: the boarding house and is in love with Charlie, who, however, loves PL: Katherine "Kit" Bowser (Virginia Grey), the daughter of Judge Horace PL: Bowser (Guy Kibbee). Tish and her cronies promote a romance between PL: Cora and Charlie, but Cora decides it is Theodore "Ted" Bowser (Richard PL: Quine) she loves and they are secretly married before Ted leaves for a PL: training school in Toronto, learning to ferry planes to England. PL: Charlie and Katherine also elope secretly. Cora, anxious to join Ted, PL: borrows money from the church organ fund and leaves, telling no one PL: where she is going. Tish takes the blame for the shortage. Cora raises PL: the money to repay Tish and goes to the post office, while Ted is on a PL: flight. Before she mails it, she opens a letter she received from the PL: Canadian government announcing Ted's loss at sea. She faints, is taken PL: to the hospital and gives birth to a boy, and dies. The only clue to PL: her identity is the letter addressed to Tish. She arrives, decides the PL: baby is Charlie's son, declares herself the grandmother and takes it PL: home. Once there, she and her cronies take care of it in a rented PL: cottage and she now claims it is her own. As a result Charlie, not PL: knowing why she makes such a claim, has her put into a sanitarium for PL: mental cases, and he and Katherine take the baby and plan to send it to PL: an orphanage as Katherine does not realize it is her own nephew. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 519098a522771,522784 MV: Toemarok (1998) PL: When the police raid the compound of a religious cult, they discover that PL: almost all of the members have committed suicide. The only survivor, PL: laying on an altar in the middle of the room, is a very pregnant woman PL: who goes into labor as the raid begins. The woman dies in the hospital, PL: but her child survives. 20 years later, strange things are starting to PL: happen around the child, now a grown woman. A group of religious PL: warriors from a mix of faiths join together to try and protect her from PL: whatever supernatural horrors are seeking her out. BY: Jean-Marc Rocher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 519146,519159d522831 520171c523843 PL: by magical creatures called Totoros (pronounced toe-toe-ro). They 520595a524268,524279 MV: Too Much of a Good Thing (1900) PL: The expectant father is seen waiting outside the bedroom door in PL: anticipation of the happy event. A nurse brings out an infant and puts PL: it in his arms; he receives it in high spirits. The nurse then brings PL: out a second baby. which is more than he had looked for. He has not PL: recovered from the shock, when she brings out a third; and he is PL: completely knocked out. BY: AMB Picture Catalogue (1902) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 521740a525425,525439 MV: Toruko-buro maruhi shoten (1974) PL: Yuko (Masumi Jun) is the number one, top-grossing prostitute operating at PL: Paradise Bath House. She's a smart girl, a college graduate in fact (no PL: major is stated, though). Kaneyo, her second best, is not happy about PL: this. After a few confrontations between the two whores, they have an PL: impressive fight in the soap suds. A new girl arrives, Kinuko (Yuri PL: Yamashina) who is instantly popular with all the gents due to her PL: soapy-hand technique. The calm days at Paradise bath House seem to be PL: back, only their male customers are being robbed, with evidence falling PL: either on Yuko or Kaneyo. BY: Artemis-9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 522431c526130,526140 MV: Touchdown Mickey (1932) PL: Mickey's Manglers get a couple of last-quarter touchdowns and tie the PL: football game with the Alley Cats, 96 to 96. Can Mickey score the PL: winning touchdown at the last second? An early Goofy is the radio PL: announcer; Pluto is the water-dog. BY: Jon Reeves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Touchdown, Army (1938) 522452,522461d526160 525616a529316,529332 MV: Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001) (V) PL: Third Tremors movie takes us back to the small Nevada town of Perfection PL: where local resident and adventurer Burt Grummer returns after PL: traveling abroad and killing carnivorous worms called "Graboids" PL: (introduced in the first movie) and their offspring "Shriekers" PL: (introduced in the second movie) to life in his home town and must deal PL: with some crooked land developers, a thrill-seeking guy named Jack PL: Sawyer looking for wealth in this potential tourist town, and eventually PL: dealing with a new strain of Graboid worms that metamorph into their PL: second Shrieker phase, and whom unexpectedly morph into their third stage PL: for another harrowing battle against Burt and Jack in the desert PL: surrounding the town. BY: Matthew Patay ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 527036a530753,530762 MV: Trois milliards sans ascenseur (1972) PL: Seven small rogues dream of stealing the beautiful jewels which are in Paris PL: for an exhibition. One of them tries to involve Raphael who is a big PL: shot in finance. Raphael refuses. The seven rogues will decide to try PL: to carry out the theft themselves. BY: Baldinotto da Pistoia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 527481a531208,531218 MV: Trouble at the Christening (1900) PL: The proud mother is seated with her baby, as the fiddler and the guests PL: arrive. Then one of the guests puts his high hat on a chair, and goes PL: to the table to drink to the health of the infant. Another guest in the PL: meantime sits on his hat. A row is at once started, and the christening PL: ends in a free fight. BY: AMB Picture Catalogue (1902) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 533239a536977,536986 MV: Ulvens datter (2002) PL: Denmark 1850. Tinke, a 9-year-old orphan from the wilderness, struggles to PL: find her unknown, rich grandparents. She comes from nothing and finally PL: gets everything, but... Tinke isn't Cinderella. Tinke is more than PL: that." BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 533472a537220,537228 PL: Michael Firch is very skilled in computers and he goes to Paris to meet PL: very important persons to discuss a contract. Michael was born on a PL: special astral date. On arriving in Paris, he meets Morgane and her PL: son. Morgane is a witch, she is beautiful, she is good and she needs PL: Michael to save her son from evil powers. Molok is a sorcerer and he PL: opposes Morgana's plan. BY: Baldinotto da Pistoia 533486a537243,537257 PL: We are in the autumn of Witchcraft. There are only six Witches left on PL: Earth. Five of them defend Good against one for Evil. The question PL: facing them concerns their descendants. Molok, an Evil warlock, doesn't PL: have an heir. Morgane, a Good witch, is the mother of an adorable 2 PL: month old baby: Arthur. This June 14th at 6 in the morning, Arthur will PL: be 1 year old. And, just like all witches, he needs a godfather. If a PL: Good witch godfathers him, he will serve Good. If Molok is the PL: godfather, he will serve Evil. In order to save her son, Morgane casts PL: a spell on Michael Firth, whose only fault was to be born on June 14th PL: at 6 AM. If Michael godfathers Arthur, the baby warlock will lose his PL: powers and Molok will no longer be interested in him. But Morgane PL: hadn't counted on falling in love with Michael... BY: Laure Granarolo 534717a538489,538504 MV: Under Fire (1957) PL: On the same day that he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for PL: extraordinary valor in the European campaign during World War II, PL: Sergeant Joe Dusak (Harry Morgan as Henry Morgan) is charged with PL: desertion during combat by a military court. Also summoned to testify PL: are Corporal Crocker (John Locke), Corporal Quinn (Gregory La PL: Fayette)and Private Pope (Robert Levin), the only surviving members of PL: a patrol led by Dusak. The charges stem from a patrol into the Black PL: Forest of Germany in which Dusak claims the patrol got lost. Sergeant PL: William Hutchins (Karl Lucas) testifies that he ran into Dusak's patrol, PL: and the men were laughing and not lost. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 535316a539104,539114 MV: Under Wraps (1997) (TV) PL: A comedy-adventure in which three twelve-year-olds have a close encounter PL: with a 3,000-year-old mummy. Marshall, Gilbert and Amy accidentally set PL: the mummy free, but if they don't get him back to his resting place by PL: midnight on Halloween, he'll turn into dust and lose his only chance of PL: being reunited with his long-lost love. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 535764a539563,539576 MV: Une affaire de goût (1999) PL: Nicolas, a handsome, young waiter, is befriended by Frédéric Delamont, a PL: wealthy middle-aged businessman. Delamont, a man of power, influence PL: and strictly refined tastes, is immediately smitten by Nicolas' charm. PL: Lonely and phobic, Delamont offers Nicolas a lucrative job as his PL: personal food taster. In spite of their differences, a close friendship PL: begins to emerge between the two men. However, their bond of trust and PL: admiration soon spirals downward into a dangerous game of deceit and PL: obsession for which neither is prepared. BY: Attitude Films ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 536945a540758,540778 MV: Unknown Terror, The (1957) PL: The mysterious disappearance of Jim Wheatley (Charles Gray), while PL: exploring a cave near a Mexican village, brings his sister, Gina (Mala PL: Powers), and her husband, Dan Matthews (John Howard), to the territory PL: to search for him. Embittered, crippled Pete Morgan (Paul Richards), PL: insists on going along and reminds Dan that his condition is Dan's PL: fault since it happened in an accident in which Pete saved Dan's life. PL: Plus, Gina was Pete's sweetheart before the accident. Did we mention PL: embittered? The party hears about an old Indian legend concerning the PL: Cave of the Dead where human sacrifices were made to the Gods. Dr. PL: Ramsey (Gerald Milton), married to a native girl, Concha (May PL: Wynn), claims no knowledge of the cave, but he is here because the PL: climate is ideal for rapid fungus growth for his work on cultivating PL: fungus for antibiotics. You don't have to be from France to know that if PL: the climate is good for fungus growth, a cave is even better but it PL: takes Dan and Pete a while to get around to that. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 537071a540905,540915 MV: Unmasking the Horror (1998) (V) PL: A special behind the scenes feature looking at the making of Halloween H20 PL: and looking back at the original. Includes cast interviews with Jamie PL: Lee Curtis and John Carpenter and a look at filming scenes from the PL: movie. The Halloween saga talked about by directors of horror and cast PL: members. BY: Kelly George ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 537495a541340,541349 MV: Untitled Detroit Project (2002) PL: A young rapper (Eminem) in Detroit struggles with his anger through music. PL: Can a white kid with a blue vocabulary and lots of hate in his heart PL: transcend his meager beginnings and attain global superdupermegastar PL: success? BY: Phatbleek ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 538518a542373,542402 MV: Up the River (1938) PL: Card sharps Chipper Morgan (Preston Foster) and Darby Randall (Arthur PL: Treacher) pick the wrong victim, Detective Willis (Alan Dinehart), on a PL: transatlantic crossing, and are arrested upon docking in New York and PL: returned up the river to Rockwell Prison, their old alma mater. They PL: had played brilliant football for "dear old Pen" during their prior PL: semesters, and prison coach Slim Nelson (Slim Summerville) is happy to PL: see them back for graduate work, especially with the annual grudge game PL: with Larson State Pen coming up. Willis, who has been named the new PL: warden for Rockwell, gives them soft jobs and then places a large bet PL: on the Larson eleven. Both Chipper and Darby feel badly about the raw PL: deal handed fellow "student" Tommy Grant (Tony Martin) and his PL: sweetheart, Helen (Phyllis Brooks), who were innocently caught up in a PL: phoney pension racket ran by swindlers Jeffrey Mitchell (Sidney Toler) PL: and Ray Douglas (Robert Allen), and were both jailed. When Phyllis is PL: released from Stillwell Prison for Women, she tells Tommy about the two PL: men and their racket, and he decides to escape, even though he has only PL: a month more to serve, and put an end to their scheme. He plans his PL: break for the night of the prison's "varsity show" and tells Chipper PL: and Darby, who promise to help him. But the pair tie up Tommy and make PL: the break themselves, dressed as women. They go to Springfield, save PL: the victim's money, get a confession from Mitchell and Douglas clearing PL: Tommy and Helen, turn them over to the sheriff...and race back to PL: Rockwell to find their team behind 14-9 late in the game. Can they lead PL: old Rockwell to a comeback victory? BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 538772,538782d542655 541524a545398,545410 MV: Varukiri porofairu (1999) (VG) PL: On a tale based loosely on Norse Mythological tales. Ragnarok is about to PL: begin in the holy world of Asgard and the lead god Odin could not find PL: strong enough warriors to serve the Aesir race. So Odin and the two PL: supreme goddesses, Frey and Freya, send out a woman named Lenneth PL: Valkyrie, to collect the souls of deceased warriors and witches to help PL: the Aesir of Valhallah to protect their land and every other land from PL: the rebellious Vanir. BY: Mitora ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 542159a546046,546064 MV: Venetian Bird (1952) PL: Private detective Edward Mercer (Richard Todd) goes to Venice at the PL: request of a French insurance company to locate a brave Italian whom PL: they wish to reward for his part in the rescue of an Allied airman shot PL: down during the war. At least, that is what Mercer thinks as he steps PL: off the steamer at the Piazzo San Marco and is greeted by a smiling PL: street photographer, Cassana (John Gregson). Mercer makes his way to a PL: shop and finds his first contact dead from a knife stab, and the trail PL: leads him to Adrianna (Eva Bartok). He faces danger from police chief PL: Spaloni (George Coulouris) and also from a group of foreign patriots, PL: led by Count Borian (Walter Rilla) and Lieutenant Longo (John Riley), PL: who want to use him as a stool-pigeon for a planned Coup d'Etat. A PL: hectic race across the roof tops, high above the great square, brings PL: Mercer to grips against his unknown enemy. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 542169a546075,546088 MV: Venezia, la luna e tu (1958) PL: Bepi is a gondolier and he wants to marry Nina. Bepi, however, likes exotic PL: girls. So Nina, after a fight with Bepi, decides to marry Toni PL: who is richer, who is liked by her family and who is the owner of a PL: motor-boat. But when all the difficulties appear to be worked out and PL: the marriage date is settled, a problem arises: Bepi is engaged at the PL: same time to Nathalie, Janet and, of course, Nina. Will Bepi be able to PL: wiggle out of his dangerous position, to marry the woman he really PL: loves? BY: Baldinotto da Pistoia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 542829a546749,546768 MV: Vermilion Eyes (1990) PL: Obsessed with sex and death, a man is haunted by visions of beautiful women PL: and brutal violence. He begins an odyssey into a world which, in his PL: mind, transforms into an array of sexual fantasies and images of PL: horrible accidents, suicide and murder. Like a bird of prey, he seeks PL: out fatal automobile crashes and an assortment of other tragedies, PL: which he records on film with a movie camera to view repeatedly, over PL: and over. His dreams are a twisted amalgam of violent images juxtaposed PL: with the tenderness of lovemaking. Overwhelmed by such fantasies, he PL: soon becomes unable to distinguish reality from fantasy. He seeks to PL: rid himself of these disturbing thoughts through love and by PL: understanding the true nature of man. Instead, his emotional state PL: falters, becoming more attuned with the notion of self-destruction. PL: Morality becomes only a literary flourish, and dreams, now prophetic PL: nightmares, the harbingers of complete and utter annihilation. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 543153a547093,547111 MV: Very Christmas Story, A (2000) PL: Crazy adventures of an PL: accountant with a briefcase full of defrauded money, a girl desperately PL: looking for money for her orphanage and an Angel of Death, who doesn't PL: know anything about money and doesn't need too. Death begs God for just PL: one day of vacation. Since there is much to do on the earth, a PL: substitute - the Angel of Death - is found for the job. Right from the PL: start he runs into bad luck and what is more a beautiful blonde - the PL: Guardian Angel - is bothering him. Little Angelica moves out in search of PL: Santa Claus. Christmas Day is coming soon, so she wants to fulfill her PL: Christmas wish - to find money to save her orphanage from closing down. PL: On the way the little girl meets an accountant named Claus who has PL: stolen a huge amount of money. He is being chased by a bunch of PL: bumbling hoodlums. BY: Margaret C. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 543415a547374,547390 MV: Viaggio della sposa, Il (1997) PL: On September 2nd, 1636, Porzia Maria Colonna leaves the Atri Convent. She PL: has to reach her betrothed and she is escorted as the hazards are PL: many. In fact, after a bandit assault, the survivors are only three: PL: Porzia, a Captain and Bortolo, a groom. Later the captain too is PL: killed. Porzia and Bortolo begin then an adventurous journey, a journey PL: not only in a dangerous and unknown territory, but also a journey into PL: their respective ways of thinking and conceiving life. A journey which PL: will take them so close by, that at the end, Porzia will ask Bortolo to PL: go with him. Bortolo will refuse, aware of the impossibility of the PL: thing in the society of the time. The seeds of knowledge, however, PL: spread during the long journey will bear fruits. BY: Baldinotto da Pistoia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 548752a552728,552741 MV: Wake in 'Hell's Kitchen', A (1900) PL: This scene is laid in the parlor of a New York tenement. Two watchers at PL: the wake are smoking and drinking while the widow is weeping over the PL: coffin. The attention of the three is attracted for an instant, and the PL: supposed corpse rises up, drinks all the beer in the pitcher which is PL: standing on a table nearby, and lies down in the coffin again. The PL: mourners return, and seeing that the beer is gone, engage in a PL: controversy over it. During the scrap the corpse jumps out of the PL: coffin and takes part in the melee. BY: AMB Picture Catalogue (1902) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 548800a552790,552817 PL: Henry Pecket (Clem Bevans) keeps a land-bound, home-made sloop in the PL: backyard of his boarding house ran by widow Sara March (Charlotte PL: Greenwood), who is tolerant of the fancied trips around the world taken PL: by her "ancient mariner" boarder. Little Nella Cairn (Connie PL: Marshall,)another boarder, is his constant companion on the sloop's PL: "trips." When her brother, Jeff Cairn (John Payne), enlists in the PL: Navy, Nella is sent to board with a cousin, but is unhappy and returns PL: to the boarding house. Pecket sends for Jenny (June Haver), a waitress PL: for Mr. Agrippa (Oliver Blake) at his lunchroom and sweetheart of Jeff. PL: Pecket and Jenny together decide to take care of Nella, when she PL: receives a telegram from the War Department advising that Jeff is PL: missing in action. To console the young girl, Pecket tells her they'll PL: sail out to a wonderful island he knows about where he is sure Jeff can PL: be found. The widow March, incensed about gossip she hears that Pecket PL: is entertaining women guests on his boat, sells it to Mr. Agrippa, who PL: wants to make a hamburger stand out of it. He has a man install wheels PL: on it and plans to tow it away the next day. Pecket, Jenny and Nella PL: have a meeting on the boat, a storm blows up, and since the sails are PL: set, the "Sara March" puts out to "sea,", where it becomes "reefed" in PL: a haystack. A young itinerant dentist, Howard Williams (John Ireland), PL: offers to tow them but runs out of gas just as they reach Dignman's PL: Ferry. He suggests they launch the boat, and all hands, including PL: Williams, who comes in handy when they encounter a scientist in need of PL: dental work, set sail on an enchanted voyage for Pecket's rendezvous PL: island..to find Jeff. BY: Les Adams 549451a553469,553492 MV: Walls of Jericho, The (1948) PL: After County Attorney Dave Connors (Cornel Wilde) helps Julian Norman (Anne PL: Baxter) with her shiftless father, Jefferson Norman (Henry Hull), she PL: leaves Jericho, Kansas to college to study for a law degree.A few years PL: later, Algeria Wedge (Linda Darnell), the new bride of Dave's best PL: friend, Tucker Wedge (Kirk Douglas), makes overtures and plays for PL: Dave, much to the displeasure of Dave's hard-drinking wife Belle (Ann PL: Dvorak.) Angered by Dave's rebuffs, Algeria induces the state political PL: boss to back Tucker for a Congress race against Dave. Meanwhile, Julia PL: has returned to Jericho, with her law degree, and she and Dave fall in PL: love. But when Dave announces he won't run for Congress, she feels she PL: is the reason and she takes a job in Kansas City. Tucker wins the PL: election and he and Algeria go to Washington. Later, Tucker announces a PL: run for the Senate and Dave decides to run against him. When Marjorie PL: Ransome (Coleen Townsend) kills a drunk in self-defense, Julia returns PL: to Jericho to work with Dave, now in private practice,on Marjorie's PL: defense. The still-resentful Algeria moves to kill Dave's senate bid PL: when Tucker's newspaper announces that Dave is being sued for divorce, PL: with Julia named as correspondent. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 549930,549939d553970 550581,550591d554611 554573,554602d558592 556137a560128,560139 MV: When Will I Be Loved? (1990) (TV) PL: Three women meet at a divorce lawyer's office and become each other's PL: pillar through this trying time. Maxie and her husband are constantly PL: bickering, Julie's pregnant and her husband's a compulsive gambler, and PL: Barbara discovers that her husband has a child with another woman. The PL: question is who among them will go through with the divorce and who PL: will reconcile with their husband? BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 558157a562160,562173 MV: Who Said Chicken? (1900) PL: A street scene. A chicken thief comes in on a run with a fowl in PL: his hand. In order to escape the pursuing policeman, he jumps in to a PL: coal box which stands outside of an open window. The policeman enters, PL: sees the thief in the box, and sits down on the cover to hold him until PL: he can get his breath. The chicken thief in the box promptly dashes up PL: the cover, throwing the policeman through the open window and making PL: good of the opportunity to escape. The Irish woman in the house throws PL: the policeman out, and beats him with a broom. BY: AMB Picture Catalogue (1902) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 560780a564797,564808 MV: Wildfire (1945) PL: Fanning has his men rustle horses and then blame it on a wild horse named PL: Wildfire. Happy and Alkali arrive and immediately get into trouble with PL: Fanning and his men. When Alkali is shot, Happy catches the outlaws but PL: the Judge not only releases them, he discharges the Sheriff and tries PL: to arrest Happy for rustling. Happy escapes and he and the Sheriff then PL: set out to prove who the real rustlers are. BY: Maurice VanAuken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 561099a565128,565137 MV: Willy Nilly (2001) PL: A light-hearted comedy about Eric and Harry, two brothers whose sheltered PL: lives on a farm have revolved around their mother. Somewhat stuck in PL: the 1950's, they are confronted with the real world in a hurry after PL: the sudden death of their mother. BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 563796a567835,567854 MV: Wolf Dog (1958) PL: Just paroled from a prison term for manslaughter, ex-Marine Jim Hughes (Jim PL: Davis)makes a new start with his wife Ellen (Allison Hayes)and PL: ten-year-old son Paul (Tony Brown), on a ranch given him by his old PL: Corps commander. Krivac (Austin Willis), a vicious neighbor, threatens PL: to take the land away from him after Jim refuses to sell. He instigates PL: a fight between his dog Thunder and Paul's much smaller dog, which is PL: killed. Later, the grieving Paul finds a wild puppy, half dog and half PL: wolf, and Jim lets him keep it. Preparing to take his herd to market, PL: Jim finds his fences cut and his herd stolen. He is accosted by two PL: escaped convicts, Trent (Don Garrard) and Hawkins (Juan Root), who knew PL: Jim in prison, and they force him to take them in. Trent sends Paul PL: into town for some medicine, where his now-grown dog, Wolf Dog PL: (Prince), and Thunder get into a fight and Thunder is killed. Krivac PL: goes to the ranch gunning for Jim. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 564631a568690,568719 MV: Womanhunt (1962) PL: Hal Weston (Steven Piccaro) arrives in Los Angeles in search of his ex-wife PL: Nora Petrie, whose current husband, Petrie, once a partner with Weston PL: in the import business, recently died. Nora divorced Hal shortly after PL: Petrie, who was using the firm as a front for smuggling dope, escaped PL: from the New York police. Weston contacts Osgood, a former employee of PL: Petrie's, and asks him to aid in the search for Nora. In the Oriental PL: section of L.A., he learns from Li Sheng (Lisa Lu) that Nora was a dope PL: addict. Also learning that Nora had plans of going to the Orient on her PL: husband's insurance money, he discovers that the picture on her PL: passport belongs to another woman. He confronts Dr. Sheng (Bob PL: Okazaki), Li Sheng's father, about Petrie's death certificate. Later, PL: receiving a call from Dr. Sheng to meet him at the Observatory, Weston PL: is attacked by two thugs but escapes. Li Sheng is waiting for him and PL: accuses him of murdering her father. Nora's body has been discovered in PL: Petrie's coffin,proving to Weston that Petrie killed Nora, bribed the PL: mortuary assistant to put her in a casket with his name on it after PL: bribing Dr. Sheng to falsify his death certificate, and hired another PL: woman to masquerade as Nora. He learns the whereabouts of Petrie from PL: Janet Oberon (Ann Carroll), the woman posing as Nora. He finds Petrie PL: with his face swathed in bandages, the result of plastic surgery by Dr. PL: Sheng. Osgood enters with a gun, shielding himself behind Li Sheng, and PL: stops Weston from attacking Petrie. The latter is forced to remove his PL: bandages when Weston throws alcohol in his face and his face has been PL: changed to resemble Osgood. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 565561c569649 BY: Sami Al-Taher 566582c570670 MV: Wrigley Field: Beyond the Ivy (2001) (V) 567180a571269,571296 MV: WWF Backlash (1999) (V) PL: WWF Title: Steve Austin vs. The Rock, WWF Intercontinental Title: The PL: Godfather vs. Goldust, Boiler Room Brawl: Mankind vs. The Big Show, WWF PL: Hardcore Title: Hardcore Holly vs. Al Snow, The Undertaker vs. Ken PL: Shamrock, The Acolytes & Mideon vs. The Brood, Triple H vs. X-Pac, The PL: New Age Outlaws vs. Owen Hart & Jeff Jarrett BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: WWF Backlash (2000) (V) PL: A World Wrestling Federaton Pay-Per-View with the following matches: WWF PL: Tag-Team Championships: Edge & Christian vs. X-Pac & Road Dogg with PL: Tori; WWF Light-Heavyweight Championship: Dean Malenko vs. Scotty 2 PL: Hotty; Bull Buchannon & the Big Boss Man vs. Acolytes; WWF Hardcore PL: Championship: Crash Holly vs. Tazz vs. Matt Hardy vs. Jeff Hardy vs. PL: Hardcore Holly vs. Perry Saturn; Big Show vs. Kurt Angle; T & A with PL: Trish Tratus vs. The Dudley Boyz; WWF European Championship: Essa Rios PL: vs. Eddie GuGuerro; WWF Intercontinental Championship: Chris Benoit vs. PL: Chris Jericho; WWF Championship: Triple H with Stephanie PL: McMahon-Helmsley & Vince McMahon vs. The Rock with Stone Cold Steve PL: Austin. Shane McMahon was the special guest referee. BY: Paul L ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 567202c571318,571349 MV: WWF In Your House 2 (1995) (V) PL: WWF Title (Lumberjack Match): Diesel vs. Sycho Sid, WWF Intercontinental PL: Title: Shawn Michaels vs. Jeff Jarrett, WWF Tag Team Titles: Owen Hart PL: & Yokozuna vs. The Allied Powers, Men on a Mission vs. Razor Ramon & PL: Savio Vega, Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Henry Godwinn, The 1-2-3 Kid vs. The PL: Roadie, Skip vs. Aldo Montoya BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: WWF In Your House 3 (1995) (V) PL: WWF Tag Team Titles: Yokozuna & Davey Boy Smith vs. Diesel & Shawn PL: Michaels, Bret Hart v.s Jean Pierre Lafite, Fatu vs. Hunter PL: Hearst-Helmsley, Sycho Sid vs. Henry O. Godwinn, Savio Vega vs. Waylon PL: Mercy, Dean Douglas vs. Razor Ramon BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: WWF In Your House 4 (1995) (V) PL: WWF Title: Diesel vs. Davey Boy Smith, WWF Intercontinental Title: Dean PL: Douglas vs. Razor Ramon, WWF Tag Team Titles: The Smoking Gunns vs. PL: Razor Ramon & The 1-2-3 Kid, Yokozuna vs. Mabel, Marty Jannetty, vs. PL: Goldust, Hunter Hearst Helmsley vs. Fatu, Bob Holly vs. Rad Radford BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: WWF In Your House 5 (1995) (V) 567204,567209c571351,571354 PL: WWF Title: Bret Hart vs. The British Bulldog, Casket Match: The Undertaker PL: vs. Mabel, Owen Hart vs. Diesel, Hog Pen Match: Hunter Hearst-Helmsley PL: vs. Henry O. Godwinn, Razor Ramon & Marty Jannetty vs. The 1-2-3 Kid & PL: Sycho Sid, Ahmed Johnson vs. Buddy Landell, Savio Vega vs. Bob Backlund 567224a571370,571380 MV: WWF In Your House: Ground Zero (1997) (V) PL: WWF Title: Bret Hart vs. The Patriot, Shawn Michaels vs. The Undertaker, PL: WWF Tag Team Titles: The Leigon of Doom vs. The Headbangers vs. Owen PL: Hart & Davey Boy Smith vs. The Godwinns, Crush vs. Faarooq vs. Savio PL: Vega, Brian Pillman vs. Goldust, Brian Christopher vs. Scott Putski, PL: Max Mini vs. El Torito BY: Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 567605a571762,571775 MV: X-Mas '73 (1995) PL: A longhaired hippie in a tie-dyed shirt sits on a couch in front of a PL: coffee table where several packets of LSD lie. He examines them: one PL: is from Iowa, one from Minnesota, and one from the West Coast. That's PL: the one he drops. He flips TV channels, finds "It's a Wonderful Life," PL: and settles in to watch his favorite movie. As his acid trip hold, he PL: starts talking like Jimmy Stewart, imagining himself as George Bailey. PL: By the time the TV movie ends and Clarence gets his wings, the tripping PL: hippie has taken his own flight of fancy. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 569013a573184,573194 MV: Yard Sale, The (2002) PL: Family tensions run high during 'The Yard Sale', a dramatic comedy that PL: explores the intimate relationship between three generations of women PL: at a family yard sale. Selling Grandma's belongings in preparation for PL: her move to a nursing home, the family must decide what memories to PL: part with and which to keep. BY: Stephanie Watanabe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 569784a573966,573976 MV: Yes, Yes, Nanette (1925) PL: Nanette sends home a letter to her family telling of her new husband, PL: Hillory. When Hillory arrives to meet the family, he gets insulted by each PL: member, including the dog, and loses his wig. After having dinner with PL: the family, Nanettes' former lover returns, who Hillory must PL: confront. BY: Paul L ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 570857a575050,575078 MV: You Can't Ration Love (1944) PL: Because of the war, there aren't enough men at Adams College for all the PL: girls, but Betty (Betty Jane Rhodes as Betty Rhodes) has no difficulties PL: as she has a monopoly on stud-athlete Pete (Bill Edwards). The other PL: girls, particularly Marian (Marjorie Weaver), think this is unfair, so PL: Marian institutes a system of rationing dates. Pete is rated as thirty PL: points and Betty is furious as the other girls bypass the 4-F's and PL: slide-rule geeks to save their ration points to date Pete. Betty drafts PL: him for the Varsity Show, but when the pressure of preparing for the PL: show hurts his studies, Marian volunteers to tutor him and has him all PL: to herself. Scholarly John "Two-Point" Simpson (Johnny Johnston as PL: Johnnie Johnston) auditions and, since he isn't hep to the jive, is PL: laughed off the stage. Betty helps him and soon "Two-Point" is in the PL: groove and makes a hit, and Betty discovers she is in love with him. PL: The faculty cancels the date-rationing plan and Johnnie, whose point PL: value has gone up, thinks Betty is the cause of the ruling and dates PL: Marian for spite. Betty broods and knits booties for her sister's baby, PL: but conveys the impression to Marian that she is to have a baby. PL: Johnnie learns he is the "suspected" father and, thinking it is another PL: of Betty's tricks, plans to leave school. The other girls, led by PL: Bubbles (Marie Wilson), are worried about Betty's future stigma and PL: round up a justice of the peace and Johnnie. Betty confesses the hoax, PL: and the girls start squabbling over the available-again Johnnie, while PL: Betty and Johnnie make use of the still-available Justice of the Peace. BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 570885a575107,575122 MV: You Don't Know Dick: Courageous Hearts of Transsexual Men (1996) PL: Lyle, Max, Michael, Steven, Ted, and James: a photographer who lifts PL: weights, a cop, a mechanic, writers, an artist; one is gay, at least PL: three are in serious relationships with women; one was in the seminary; PL: one has three children from a previous marriage. All six were born PL: female, and all are female-to-male ("FTM") transsexuals. They talk PL: about childhood, deciding to make the change, telling parents and PL: friends and co-workers, testosterone therapy, surgeries, organs, PL: embracing their histories, and how their lives are now. Friends, a PL: parent, lovers, and two children also talk. All six men express joy at PL: their new-found and more complete identities. BY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 571541a575779,575791 MV: Young and Dangerous (1957) PL: Tommy Price (Mark Damon) is the leader of a gang of young thugs interested PL: in thrills, hot rods and girls. His friends bet him he can't make it PL: with 17-year-old Rosemary Clinton (Lili Gentle). Their date turns out PL: badly and her parents (Dabbs Greer and Ann Doran) forbid her to see him PL: again. They keep meeting, and the relationship changes him to the PL: extent that he plans on going to college and changing his life, which PL: delights his parents (Eddie Binns and Frances Mercer). BY: Les Adams ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 572774c577024 MV: Za ginipiggu 2: Chiniku no hana (1990) (V) 576013a580264,580273 MV: Zvezdi v kosite, salzi v ochite (1977) PL: This a film about a travelling theatrical group which is all of a sudden PL: joined by a young gifted woman - a school-teacher. Step by step she becomes PL: a very good actress and assumes the leading of the group through its PL: complex life. BY: Georgi Djulgerov ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 576044a580305,580317 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MV: Zwei im Frack (2001) PL: After nine years of tap dancing in a small nightclub, the brothers Franz PL: and Heinz lose their jobs. Lacking significant funds, they are forced PL: to move out of their apartment possessing only the tuxedos on their PL: backs. Due to their exquisite attire the brothers are mistaken by PL: others as being pall-bearers, godfathers from the United States, PL: waiters and wedding guests. The brothers stroll through an absurd PL: universe encountering awkward, funny and somewhat grotesque situations. BY: Anonymous