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CABARET
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Allied Artists, 1972
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey, Michael York
| | DIRECTOR |
Bob Fosse
| | PRODUCER |
Cy Feuer
| | SCREENWRITER |
Jay Presson Allen
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"Willkommen" to 1930s Berlin and the Kit Kat Club, where haunting master of ceremonies Grey holds court and American entertainer Sally Bowles, played by Minnelli, lives life to the fullest as the Nazis rise in power. This is a film version of the Broadway musical, with songs including "Money" and "Tomorrow Belongs To Me."
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CABIN IN THE SKY
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M-G-M, 1943
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne,
Louis Armstrong
| | DIRECTOR |
Vincente Minnelli
| | PRODUCER |
Arthur Freed
| | SCREENWRITER |
Joseph Schrank
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Minnelli's first feature brought this Broadway musical to the screen featuring an all African-American cast in a fable of the forces of good and evil fighting over the soul of a man. Waters' rendering of "Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe" is one of the high points.
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THE CAINE MUTINY
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Columbia, 1954
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Humphrey Bogart, JosÉ Ferrer, Van Johnson, Tom Tully
| | DIRECTOR |
Edward Dmytryk
| | PRODUCER |
Stanley Kramer
| | SCREENWRITER |
Stanley Roberts, Michael Blankfort
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Herman Wouk's novel about a wartime court martial is brought vividly to the screen with Bogart as Queeg, the paranoid captain whose obsession with matters such as "Who ate the strawberries?" results in Johnson taking command of the ship.
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CAMILLE
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M-G-M, 1937
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore
| | DIRECTOR |
George Cukor
| | PRODUCER |
David Lewis
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Zoe Akins, Frances Marion, James Hilton
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Garbo portrays a consumptive 19th-century courtesan who gives up everything for the naive Taylor, then magnanimously gives him up for his own good. The tear-jerking finale of her death in Taylor's arms is a classic.
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CARMEN JONES
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Twentieth Century-Fox, 1954
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge
| | DIRECTOR |
Otto Preminger
| | PRODUCER |
Otto Preminger
| | SCREENWRITER |
Harry Kleiner
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Sultry Dandridge is Carmen and Belafonte is Joe in this updated, African-American version of Bizet's opera about a soldier who falls for the wrong woman with disastrous results. Oscar Hammerstein II provided the new English lyrics and libretto.
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CARRIE
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United Artists, 1976
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie
| | DIRECTOR |
Brian De Palma
| | PRODUCER |
Paul Monash
| | SCREENWRITER |
Lawrence D. Cohen
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Spacek is a young misfit with a religious fanatic for a mother who unleashes her powers of telekinesis on the "in" crowd that has tortured her at school. The first Stephen King novel to be presented on the big screen.
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CASABLANCA
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Warner Bros., 1942
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains,
Paul Henreid
| | DIRECTOR |
Michael Curtiz
| | PRODUCER |
Hal B. Wallis
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch
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Bogart, as jaded idealist Rick Blaine, an American nightclub owner in French Morocco who sacrifices the love of a lifetime to join the world's fight against the Nazis. When the picture debuted, it marked the beginning of a beautiful friendship with generations of moviegoers. "Here's looking at you, kid."
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CASINO
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Universal, 1995
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci
| | DIRECTOR |
Martin Scorsese
| | PRODUCER |
Barbara De Fina
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese
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Las Vegas' metamorphosis from a mob-run Sin City to a multi-billion dollar corporate entity is the backdrop for the story of De Niro's casino boss who is destroyed by his love for a beautiful, money-hungry hustler, played by Stone.
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CAT BALLOU
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Columbia, 1965
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Lee Marvin, Jane Fonda
| | DIRECTOR |
Elliot Silverstein
| | PRODUCER |
Harold Hecht
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Walter Newman, Frank Piersone
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Marvin plays a dual role as the alcoholic "Kid Shelleen" and his more sinister, silver-nosed twin brother in this comic Western in which the title character, played by Fonda, tries to reclaim her ranch with the help of a motley group of misfits.
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CAT PEOPLE
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RKO, 1942
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway
| | DIRECTOR |
Jacques Tourneur
| | PRODUCER |
Val Lewton
| | SCREENWRITER |
DeWitt Bodeen
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Tourneur skillfully utilizes lighting, sound and suggestion to evoke the terror of a young woman convinced she carries an ancient curse that will be activated when she falls in love. This was the first film to bear producer Lewton's unique stamp.
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CAVALCADE
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Twentieth Century-Fox, 1933
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Dianna Wynyard, Clive Brook
| | DIRECTOR |
Frank Lloyd
| | PRODUCER |
Winfield Sheehan
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Reginald Berkeley, Sonya Levien
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Based on Noel Coward's hit play, this film follows thirty-two years in the life of a British family and demonstrates the impact of international events on family life and the aftereffects of World War I.
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CHARIOTS OF FIRE
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Twentieth Century-Fox, 1981
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Ian Holm
| | DIRECTOR |
Hugh Hudson
| | PRODUCER |
David Puttnam
| | SCREENWRITER |
Colin Welland
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This inspirational drama explores the motivation, goals and triumphs of two top contenders from the 1924 British Olympic track teamCross as a wealthy Jewish student at Cambridge University and Charleson as a Scottish missionary. The atmospheric musical score by Vangelis has become forever linked with the film's slow-motion running scenes.
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THE CHEAT
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Paramount, 1915
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Fannie Ward, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Dean
| | DIRECTOR |
Cecil B. De Mille
| | PRODUCER |
Jesse L. Lasky
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Jeanie McPherson, Hector Turnbull
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A flighty, social-climbing woman borrows money from her handsome, exotic neighbor, played by Hayakawa, but cannot repay him. In retribution, he brands her with his signet, and in the film's climax, the woman must bear her branded shoulder in open court.
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CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD
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Paramount, 1986
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie
| | DIRECTOR |
Randa Haines
| | PRODUCER |
Burt Sugarman, Patrick Palmer
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Hesper Anderson, Mark Medoff
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In this love story between a young deaf woman, Matlin, and a speech therapist, Hurt, two lonely and embittered people learn to communicate with respect.
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CHINATOWN
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Paramount, 1974
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
| | DIRECTOR |
Roman Polanski
| | PRODUCER |
Robert Evans
| | SCREENWRITER |
Robert Towne
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Nicholson is Jake Gittes, a private detective in 1930s Los Angeles who is lured into the world of water rights and land deals while investigating the death of mysterious Dunaway's husband.
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EL CID
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Allied Artists, 1961
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone
| | DIRECTOR |
Anthony Mann
| | PRODUCER |
Samuel Bronston
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Fredric M. Frank, Philip Yordan
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This epic spectacle stars Heston as El Cid, the legendary medieval hero who drives the Moors from Spain. Loren plays the alluring Chimene.
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CIMARRON
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RKO, 1931
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Richard Dix, Irene Dunne
| | DIRECTOR |
Wesley Ruggles
| | PRODUCER |
William LeBaron
| | SCREENWRITER |
Howard Estabrook
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The Oklahoma land rush sequence was considered a masterpiece when it was released, leading this Edna Ferber-based film to become one of the most successful Westerns of the 1930s.
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CINDERELLA
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Disney, 1950
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Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi
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Walt Disney
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Bill Peet, Erdman Penner, Ted Sears, Winston Hibler, Homer Brightman, Harry Reeves, Ken Anderson, Joe Rinaldi
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With the help of some comical mice, her fairy godmother's magic wand and a chorus of "Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo," Cinderella goes to the ball and meets Prince Charming in this animated musical version of the Grimm fairy tale.
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CITIZEN KANE
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RKO, 1941
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten
| | DIRECTOR |
Orson Welles
| | PRODUCER |
Orson Welles
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles
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Acclaimed for its innovative narrative structure, deep focus photography and sound track, Welles' first feature tells the story of a William Randolph Hearst-like publisher's ultimately empty rise to power.
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CITY LIGHTS
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United Artists, 1931
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill
| | DIRECTOR |
Charles Chaplin
| | PRODUCER |
Charles Chaplin
| | SCREENWRITER |
Charles Chaplin
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The Little Tramp falls hopelessly in love with a blind flower girl in this tragi-comedy about self-sacrifice and the depth of true love.
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CLEOPATRA
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Twentieth Century-Fox, 1963
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison
| | DIRECTOR |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
| | PRODUCER |
Walter Wanger
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Ranald MacDougall, Sidney Buchman
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Taylor's queen of the Nile travels to Rome to be with her love, Julius Caesar, only to fall for the dashing Marc Antony, played by Burton. The film re-defined the term "film spectacular" when it was released.
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A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
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Warner Bros., 1971
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Malcolm McDowell
| | DIRECTOR |
Stanley Kubrick
| | PRODUCER |
Stanley Kubrick
| | SCREENWRITER |
Stanley Kubrick
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McDowell and his "droogs" terrorize their way through London in this dark social satire with an eye on the cause and effects of "ultraviolence."
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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
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Columbia, 1977
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Françcois Truffaut,
Melinda Dillon
| | DIRECTOR |
Steven Spielberg
| | PRODUCER |
Julia Phillips, Michael Phillips
| | SCREENWRITER |
Steven Spielberg
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Dreyfuss is a man obsessed in Spielberg's science fiction fantasy that celebrates the possibility of friendly extraterrestrial life.
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THE COLOR PURPLE
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Warner Bros., 1985
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey
| | DIRECTOR |
Steven Spielberg
| | PRODUCERS |
Quincy Jones, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall,
Steven Spielberg
| | SCREENWRITER |
Menno Meyjes
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Alice Walker's novel is brought to the big screen in this story of an African-American woman's survival and dignity within a black Southern family in the early 20th century. Goldberg and Winfrey made their screen debuts in the film.
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COMING HOME
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United Artists, 1978
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern
| | DIRECTOR |
Hal Ashby
| | PRODUCERS |
Jerome Hellman
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Nancy Dowd, Robert Jones, Waldo Salt
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This drama is a healing film about the effects of the Vietnam War at home. While Fonda's soldier husband is on a tour of duty, she finds love with Voight, a bitter paraplegic who has returned from the war.
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THE CONVERSATION
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Paramount, 1974
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Gene Hackman, John Cazale
| | DIRECTOR |
Francis Ford Coppola
| | PRODUCERS |
Francis Ford Coppola
| | SCREENWRITER |
Francis Ford Coppola
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Paranoia, fear and guilt play again and again in the mind of Hackman's wiretapper, who begins to question his profession when he learns that three people have died as the result of his expert bugging.
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COOL HAND LUKE
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Warner Bros., 1967
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Paul Newman, George Kennedy
| | DIRECTOR |
Stuart Rosenberg
| | PRODUCERS |
Gordon Carroll
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Donn Pearce, Frank Pierson
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Set in 1948, the story involves Newman as a member of a chain gang who will not bow to authority. Strother Martin's admonition, "What we have here is a failure to communicate" became a slogan for a generation.
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THE CROWD
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M-G-M, 1928
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Eleanor Boardman, James Murray
| | DIRECTOR |
King Vidor
| | PRODUCERS |
Gordon Carroll
| | SCREENWRITERS |
King Vidor, Harry Behn, John V.A. Weaver
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This story of a young couple, just two people among the crowd of the metropolis of New York, illustrates universal problems and tragedies as well as happiness found in the simple pleasures of life.
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