The Mouse on the Moon (1963).. great cast inc Terry-Thomas, Margret Rutherford, Ron Moody etc..
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Deep Impact (1998)
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After discovering the comet, one of the astronomers is killed in an automobile accident. This mirrors the real-life automobile accident death (July 18, 1997, in the Australian outback) of astronomer Eugene Shoemaker, who helped discover the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet that collided with Jupiter in 1994 and was a source of inspiration for this film.
A line was edited in the President's press conference scene. President Beck stated "Life will go on, we will prevail." Originally, President Beck said "Life will go on, we will prevail. This is not Armageddon." The producers later realized that the movie was going to be in box-office competition with the movie Armageddon (1998).
A giant object from space struck the general area of the Eastern Seaboard where "Biederman" impacted in the film. Hitting the Norfolk, Virginia vicinity, it created the huge, now-buried, Chesapeake Bay impact crater. It happened about 5.5 ± 0.3 million years ago, during the late Eocene epoch age.
Heat (1995)
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Rather than dubbing in the gunshots during the bank robbery shoot-out, Michael Mann had microphones carefully placed around the set so that the audio could be captured live. This added to the impact of the scene, because it sounded like no other gunfight shown on-screen.
In an interview with Al Pacino on the DVD Special Edition, Pacino revealed that for the scene in the restaurant between Hanna and McCauley, Robert De Niro felt that the scene should not be rehearsed so that the unfamiliarity between the two characters would seem more genuine. Michael Mann agreed, and shot the scene with no practice rehearsals.
When Kevin Gage was imprisoned for two years in 2003, he was universally addressed by fellow inmates and prison guards as "Waingro", his character from this movie. Waingro (Kevin Gage) is based on a real Chicago criminal named "Waingro", who ratted out some influential Chicago criminals. According to Michael Mann, Waingro went missing. His body was found in northern Mexico, where it had been nailed to the wall of a shed.
In the director's commentary, Michael Mann noted that Al Pacino improvised the line "Because she's got a GREAT ASS!" Hank Azaria confirmed it, saying that Al Pacino's unexpected outburst "scared the hell out of me", "he just actually terrified me" and that his look of shock was "not acting at all".
The Great Train Robbery, 1978..
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Sir Sean Connery spent several days running on top of a moving train. The train was supposed to be travelling at thirty-five miles per hour; Connery argued it was going faster. The train driver was counting telegraph poles to measure the speed. A helicopter pilot confirmed Connery's suspicion. The train was travelling at over fifty-five miles per hour.
Writer and director Michael Crichton based his book and movie, only loosely on the actual crime committed in 1855. In real-life, there were four criminals: Pierce, Agar, the railway guard Burgess, and a railway clerk named Tester. All four keys were kept on railway premises, two in London, and two in Folkestone. They were stolen temporarily by Tester and Pierce, respectively, so that Agar could duplicate them, but it turned out that the Folkestone keys were not being used anyway. The guard's van was not locked from the outside; Pierce and Agar were let in by Burgess, and a share of the loot was handed out to Tester, at stations. None of the criminals were spotted at once; it was several months before the railway conceded that the crime must have occurred on the train. The details came to light after Agar had been convicted in an unrelated crime, and his accomplices decided to steal his share instead of using it, as he had asked, to provide his mistress an income. She got word to him, and he turned Queen's Evidence against the others, and told all. At no point in the case, did anyone escape from custody.
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it is... very good...Quote:
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now, The Password Is Courage (1962)
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The 2-6-4T LMS locomotive involved in the crash was bought by MGM for £3,500 from the railroad. The studio then turned around and sold it for scrap for £5,000.
The tagline claims that Coward is the only man to get an Iron Cross from the enemy. This is untrue. Double agent Eddie Chapman was awarded the Iron Cross by the Nazis while working loyally for the British.
No mention is made in the film of Sergeant Major Charles Coward (Sir Dirk Bogarde) being transferred to Auschwitz III labor camp, located five miles from the better known extermination camp of Auschwitz II (Birkenau).
The African Queen (1951)
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Sources claimed that everyone in the cast and crew got sick except Humphrey Bogart and John Huston, who said they avoided illness by essentially living on imported Scotch whisky. Bogart later said, "All I ate was baked beans, canned asparagus and Scotch whiskey. Whenever a fly bit Huston or me, it dropped dead."
Humphrey Bogart hated Africa immediately and was miserable, but Katharine Hepburn adored it, calling it "utterly divine." Bogie complained about everything: the heat, the humidity, the dangers, the food. He recalled, "While I was griping, Katie was in her glory. She couldn't pass a fern or berry without wanting to know its pedigree, and insisted on getting the Latin name for everything she saw walking, swimming, flying or crawling. I wanted to cut our ten-week schedule, but the way she was wallowing in the stinking hole, we'd be there for years."
"The African Queen" sank and had to be raised twice during filming of the movie. Lauren Bacall is quoted as saying, "The natives had been told to watch it and they did. They watched it sink."
How many films do you typically watch in a day Grant? :scratch: (:D)
varies.. on number 3 at moment.. depends on how mobile i am. if i can get about and weather is ok then i do if not i might have to sit;; so watch films of listen to music.Quote:
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The Wild Bunch, 1969... Director Sam Peckinpah..starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Ben Johnson and Warren Oates.
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The film was shot with the anamorphic process. Peckinpah and his cinematographer, Lucien Ballard, also made use of telephoto lenses, that allowed for objects and people in both the background and foreground to be compressed in perspective. The effect is best seen in the shots where the Bunch makes the walk to Mapache's headquarters to free Angel. As they walk forward, a constant flow of people passes between them and the camera; most of the people in the foreground are as sharply focused as the Bunch.
My Favorite Blonde, 1942... bluray reg A
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While singing "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" on the bus, Bob Hope imitates Bing Crosby's "boo-boo-boo" singing style.
Although filmed during World War II, with a plot about a race to the death against Nazi spies, the words "Nazi" and "Germany" are never spoken in the movie. Bob Hope does come close when he calls the villains "nasties" in the climax, "nasty" being a vocal anagram of Nazi.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on October 19, 1942 with Bob Hope reprising his film role.
a fav of mine and not well known here...walter matthau in...
A New Leaf (1971)
absolute poetry this film... pure genius
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another matthau film now.. Hopscotch (1980)
.. bluray reg A again.. great cast and script
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Stagecoach, 1939.. criterion bluray reg A...
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Yakima Canutt explained how the stunt was accomplished where, as an Apache warrior attacking the stagecoach, he is "shot", falls off his horse, and then gets dragged underneath the stagecoach: "You have to run the horses fast, so they'll run straight. If they run slow, they move around a lot. When you turn loose to go under the coach, you've got to bring your arms over your chest and stomach. You've got to hold your elbows close to your body, or that front axle will knock them off." After the stunt was completed, Canutt ran to director John Ford to make sure they got the stunt on film. Ford replied that even if they hadn't, "I'll never shoot that again."
John Ford liked to bully actors on the set, and this movie was no exception. At one point, he said to Andy Devine, "You big tub of lard. I don't know why the hell I'm using you in this picture." Undaunted, Devine replied, "Because Ward Bond can't drive six horses." Likewise, he attacked Thomas Mitchell, who eventually retorted, "Just remember: I saw [Ford's earlier film] Mary of Scotland (1936)," effectively humbling the director. Worst of all was Ford's treatment of John Wayne. He called him a "big oaf" and a "dumb bastard" and continually criticized his line delivery and manner of walking, even how he washed his face on camera. However, at least part of this was to provoke the actor into giving a stronger performance. Claire Trevor recalls how Ford grabbed Duke by the chin and shook him. "Why are you moving your mouth so much?" he said. "Don't you know you don't act with your mouth in pictures? You act with your eyes." Wayne tolerated the rough treatment and rose to the challenge, reaching a new plateau as an actor. Ford helped cement the impression that Wayne makes in the film by giving him plenty of expressive reaction shots throughout the picture.
The Cat and the Canary, 1939... KL bluray reg A...again, another usa disc. lol
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good cast and both a good film and an excellent remaster.
a 'B' movie now...Maybe a 'C' actually lol....
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The Philadelphia Experiment 2
Marathon Man, 1976...
directed by John Schlesinger... great cast and story.. deffo an A film..
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Goldman was paid a reported $500,000 for the film rights to his novel and to do a screenplay, before the novel had even been published. "The book reads like the movie-movie of all time", said producer Robert Evans. "I regard it as a cheap investment because you don't often find books that translate into film. This is the best thing I've read since The Godfather. It could go all, all the way – if we don't foul it up in the making."
Marathon Man is famous in acting circles for an often quoted exchange between Hoffman and Olivier concerning a perceived difference in their approaches to acting.
In the usual telling of the story Hoffman, a proponent of method acting, prepared for a scene where his character had been awake for three days by doing the same himself. Following much goading and verbal-bullying by Hoffman of Olivier, who criticized Olivier for not being as committed to his art as Hoffman, Olivier suggested "why don't you just try acting?"[9] In an interview on Inside the Actors Studio, Hoffman said that this exchange had been distorted: he had been up all night at the Studio 54 nightclub for personal rather than professional reasons and Olivier, who understood this, was joking.
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, 1976...
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Under the Volcano, 1984...
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On lead actor Albert Finney in this "Under the Volcano" film, director John Huston said: "I think it's the finest performance I have ever witnessed, let alone directed".
QUOTES:: Geoffrey Firmin: How, unless you drink as I do, can you hope to understand the beauty of an old indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?
^^^ terrific film..
now, The Spy In Black, 1939.. a ww1 spy thriller made by Powell and Pressburger... The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote "This intricate story is gripping from beginning to end, and very skilfully directed";[8] Variety opined "Production is A1, as is the direction";[9] and The New York Times called it "the most exciting spy melodrama since the advent of the Second World War. The British may not have the Bremen, but they still have Conrad Veidt."
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, 2007... can they get jack back from the dead? of course they can. he is needed for next episode lol.. the 3rd in the series of 5.
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Captain Barbossa can be seen wearing an Eagle Scout ring in several sequences. This ring signifies that some one in the Boy Scouts has earned the highest rank known as Eagle Scout.
Kelly's Heroes (1970)
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The screenplay was written by British film and television writer Troy Kennedy Martin. He relied on a true story, featured as "The Greatest Robbery on Record" in Guinness World Records from 1956 to 2000. On 4 December 1968, Elliott Morgan, MGM's Head of Research, wrote to the Guinness Book of World Records requesting information on this entry: "The greatest robbery on record was of the German National Gold Reserves in Bavaria by a combine of U.S. military personnel and German civilians in 1945". On 10 December the editor, Norris D. McWhirter, wrote back to Morgan, stating that he had very little information and that he essentially suspected that there had been a cover-up, which required that the story should be subject to a "restricted classification". He closed by suggesting that until that security classification was changed, "due to death or eflux [sic] of time, "any film made will have to be an historical romance rather than history".
In 1975 British researcher Ian Sayer began a nine-year investigation into the Guinness entry. The results of his investigation, which confirmed a cover up by the U.S. government together with the involvement of U.S. military and former Wehrmacht and SS officers in the theft, were published in the 1984 book Nazi Gold — The Sensational Story of the World's Greatest Robbery — and the Greatest Criminal Cover-Up. The investigation finally led to two of the missing gold bars (valued in 2019 at over $1 million) being handed over by German officials to the U.S. government in a secret ceremony at Bonn on 27 September 1996. The bullion was transported to the Bank of England where it was held to the account of the Tripartite Commission for the Restitution of Monetary Gold (TCRMG). The first disclosure that the Bank was holding the two bars (complete with Nazi markings) came from a press release issued by the bank on 8 May 1997 which confirmed that the two bars were those that had been identified as missing in the book Nazi Gold. Sayer had given information to the United States Department of State concerning the two bars (amongst other things) in July 1978. In 1983 they finally agreed to investigate using Sayer's evidence. The State Department investigation did not conclude until 1997. On 11 December 1997 Sayer was invited, by the Secretary General of the TCRMG, to view the two bars in the gold bullion vaults of the Bank of England. In addition to being accorded this rare honour, he was also photographed holding the bars, which he had been instrumental in tracking down.
The Philadelphia Experiment, 1984..
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start watching this and finish it tomorrow i think...
Traffic (2000)
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On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 92% based on 163 reviews, with an average rating of 8/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Soderbergh successfully pulls off the highly ambitious Traffic, a movie with three different stories and a very large cast. The issues of ethics are gray rather than black-and-white, with no clear-cut good guys. Terrific acting all around." On Metacritic the film has received an average score of 86 out of 100, based on 34 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.
quote... Why are hurricanes named after women? Because when they arrive, they're wet and wild, and when they leave they take your house and your car.
One of my all time favourites Grant especially Oddball - what a brilliant performance from Donald Sutherland.Quote:
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classic film now... criterion bluray's restored version of...
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
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Charters and Caldicott (played by Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne) proved to be such popular characters that they were teamed up in ten more movies. They reappeared in Night Train to Munich (1940) (also starring Margaret Lockwood) and Millions Like Us (1943), two movies also written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder. They also starred in the BBC Radio serials "Crook's Tour (1940)" (which was also made into a movie), and "Secret Mission 609." They were played in the 1979 remake by Arthur Lowe and Ian Carmichael. In 1985 they reappeared in the BBC Television mystery mini-series, Charters & Caldicott (1985), played by Robin Bailey and Michael Aldridge.
The British Board of Film Censors, to avoid political controversy, would not allow the foreign villains to be specifically identified in the script as Germans.
Shot almost entirely at Islington Studios in London. The scenery the train passes is all rear projection.
The Man Who Knew Too Little, 1997.... bluray..
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This was the first feature film to be made at Elstree Studios after the local council bought it from Brent Walker under a Compulsory Purchase Order.
watched most of this tonight as i got tired last night... its a decent 'hollywood' version of the original uk mini series back in '89(traffik) starring bill paterson and lindsey duncan... its not as good and it being american goes with mexico usa instead of uk/germany/pakistan.... i must look out the originalQuote:
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a bit of fun with RED, 2010... GOOD FUN; GREAT CAST AND STORY.
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The Dead Zone, 1983...
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The Cruel Sea (1953)
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Jack Hawkins wrote in his 1973 autobiography "Anything for a Quiet Life" regarding this film, "All of us in the film were sure that we were making something quite unusual, and a long way removed from the Errol Flynn-taking-Burma-single-handed syndrome. This was the period of some very indifferent American war movies, whereas 'The Cruel Sea' contained no false heroics. That is why we all felt that we were making a genuine example of the way in which a group of men went to war."
Chato's Land, 1972... directed by michael winner...
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Joshua Everette: I've seen Comanches in Texas. And boy, I'll never want to see one again... I can tell you that.
Capt. Quincey Whitmore: Well, you don't see Apaches. You don't hear 'em and you don't see 'em. It's like an act of God.
Quigley Down Under, 1990..
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aussie western starring tom selleck...
The Devil and Miss Jones, 1941... bluray reg A
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Department store owner J.P. Merrick finds that several of his employees are unionizing to get more money and better working conditions. In order to find out who the organizers are, he gets a job at the store as a shoe salesman. Not realizing his true identity, he's befriended by Mary Jones and Joe O'Brien, the two ringleaders, and Elizabeth Ellis, a charming older woman with whom he develops a romance.
classic comedy this and a very good cast.
Watched the first one of these yesterday. Excellent, as you'd expect. New episodes every Sunday on BBC iPlayer.
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Night Train to Munich (1940), bluray reg A..
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After the Germans march into Prague, Czechoslovakia, armor-plating inventor Dr. Axel Bomasch (James Harcourt) flees to England. His daughter Anna (Margaret Lockwood) escapes from arrest to join him, but the Gestapo manages to kidnap them both back to Berlin. As war looms, British Secret Service Agent Dickie Randall (Sir Rex Harrison) follows, disguised as a senior German Army officer. His ploy is the not unpleasant one of pretending to woo Anna to the German cause.
As of 2011, this movie has not been released in Germany at all.
As noted in the opening caption, the action of this movie takes place during the year preceding World War II (beginning with the German invasion of remaining Czech territory on 3/15/39) and closes on the night of 9/3/39 (the day the UK declared war on Germany).
Boys own stuff now with....
The Four Feathers (1939), criterion bluray reg A..
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Resigning his commission on the eve of his unit's deployment against Egyptian rebels, a British officer seeks to redeem his cowardice by secretly aiding his former comrades, disguised as an Arab. When his unit is overwhelmed and captured by the rebels, the hero finds an opportunity to return the "feathers" of cowardice sent to him by his former comrades by freeing them.
The action scenes, photographed by Osmond Borradaile, were not only filmed where the historical battles had taken place, but also included among the many extras, people who had witnessed or participated in the fighting more than forty years earlier. These battle scenes further benefitted from Director Zoltan Korda's expertise at large-scale action and his early experience as a cavalry officer.
The sailing ships pulled by hordes of Sudanese along the Nile were constructed specially for the production in exact period detail at great cost.
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, 1936...
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American comedy-drama romance film directed by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur in her first featured role. Based on the 1935 short story "Opera Hat" by Clarence Budington Kelland, which appeared in serial form in The American Magazine, the screenplay was written by Robert Riskin in his fifth collaboration with Frank Capra.
Jean Arthur was so overcome with stage fright that she often vomited before scenes and would run back to her dressing room after each take to have a good cry. Yet she was totally cool on camera. Gary Cooper was one of the few actors who could make her feel comfortable on the set.
Bess Flowers was an extra in this movie. Nicknamed "Queen of the Hollywood Extras" Flowers appeared in over 800 movies of which 21 were nominated for Best Picture Oscars, with 5 winning the award. This makes her a record holder for an actor appearing in Best Picture winning films.
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A couple of David Lean films:
Dr Zhivago
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Lawrence of Arabia
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One more David Lean film:
Brief Encounter
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Very much of its time (1945) - not only is it a very good screenplay, but also offers a glimpse into post-WWII British society.
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The Ghost Breakers, 1940... bluray reg A...
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Bob Hope, whose on-screen comedic chemistry with sidekick Willie Best has a lot to do with why this film works, once called Best "One of the finest actors I've ever worked with."
Remade as the 1953 Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis comedy "Scared Stiff." (bob hope had a cameo in it)
This film was such a big box office hit that, for years after its release, other studios made similar movies in hopes of replicating its success. Among those "copycat" films was 1941's The Smiling Ghost, a Warner B-movie that starred Alexis Smith and cast Willie Best in a role similar to the one he plays in Ghost Breakers.
My Favorite Brunette, 1947... bob hope and dorothy lamour star...
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jeeves and wooster.
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All of Me, 1984... Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin star
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Paint Your Wagon, 1969..
Lee Marvin drank real alcohol throughout the production, even though director Joshua Logan fought him about it. In most movies, the actors and actresses drink tea for whiskey and water for vodka. Marvin would only work if he got real liquor. He was apparently drunk nearly every day of filming.
Lee Marvin's single recording of "Wand'rin' Star" from this film hit the top spot on the record charts in Great Britain, with a peak sale in excess of 34,000 copies a day. He was set to star in The Wild Bunch (1969), a project that he helped put together with stuntman Roy N. Sickner, when Paramount Pictures offered him $1 million, plus a percentage of the box-office take, to star in this movie (it took over $30m at said box office)
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Good series - I have it, but I think it went downhill when they were 'exiled' in the US.Quote:
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Bit of an odd film - but it has its moments.Quote:
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...of course it did have one vicky tennant at her prime too:eek: its a film along with 'the man with 2 brains' i like of steve martins'Quote:
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