The Defiant Ones, 1986. Is a made-for-television crime drama film directed by David Lowell Rich starring Robert Urich and Carl Weathers. It is a remake of the 1958 film of the same name.
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The Defiant Ones, 1986. Is a made-for-television crime drama film directed by David Lowell Rich starring Robert Urich and Carl Weathers. It is a remake of the 1958 film of the same name.
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The Bishop's Wife, 1947. Directed by Henry Koster and starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven.
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A Xmas film with a great cast and a pleasent enough storyline. This was remade(badly) in 1996.
The film won the Academy Award for Best Sound (Gordon E. Sawyer), and was nominated for Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture and Best Picture.
Duck You Sucker, 1971.aka A Fistful Of Dynamite.aka Once Upon A Time In The Revolution.aka Giù la testa,
A revolution is not a dinner party, an embroidery, writing an essay, or painting a picture. It cannot be done with elegance and courtesy. The revolution … is an act of violence…” Mao-Tse Tung.
Directed by Sergio Leone and stars James Coburn and Rod Steiger. Set during the Mexican Revolution of the 1910s, the film tells the story of Juan Miranda, an amoral Mexican outlaw, and John Mallory, a former member of the Irish Republican Army. After they accidentally meet under less-than-friendly circumstances, Juan and John involuntarily become heroes of the Revolution, despite being forced to make heavy sacrifices.
One of Leone's best and much ovelooked. It crashed in usa no doubt due to its leftist leanings but did well elsewhere. Music from Ennio Morricone is fabulous.
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I chose to oppose an intellectual, who has experienced a revolution in Ireland, with a naïve Mexican... you have two men: one naïve and one intellectual (self-centred as intellectuals too often are in the face of the naïve). From there, the film becomes the story of Pygmalion reversed. The simple one teaches the intellectual a lesson. Nature gains an upper hand and finally the intellectual throws away his book of Bakunin's writings. You suspect damn well that this gesture is a symbolic reference to everything my generation has been told in the way of promises. We have waited, but we still are waiting! I have the film say, in effect "Revolution means confusion".
The Man in the Iron Mask, 1998. starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gérard Depardieu and Gabriel Byrne.
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The film made over $180m for a $35m outlay. It opened while another DiCaprio film was in the box office, Titanic.
Not a bad film. It certainly had a stellar cast. :)Quote:
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, 1962. John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles and Lee Marvin star. Directed by John Ford.
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The film was both a critical and financial success.
A proper movie! :)Quote:
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yeah, its a top film..Quote:
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now, Shirley Valentine from 1989. Directed by Lewis Gilbert (with the screenplay by Willy Russell). It stars Pauline Collins and Tom Conti, with Alison Steadman and Bernard Hill in support.
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In the UK, it was the highest-grossing independent British film of the year, with a gross of £11.5 million, while it made a further $6.1m in usa/canada.
And allegedly the film is a favourite of the Queen.Quote:
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Young Frankenstein, 1974. directed by Mel Brooks. It stars Gene Wilder, Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, Richard Haydn, and Gene Hackman.
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Pure class...