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CABARET
Allied Artists, 1972

PRINCIPAL CAST Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey, Michael York
DIRECTOR Bob Fosse
PRODUCER Cy Feuer
SCREENWRITER Jay Presson Allen
"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."

CABIN IN THE SKY
M-G-M, 1943

PRINCIPAL CAST Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong
DIRECTOR Vincente Minnelli
PRODUCER Arthur Freed
SCREENWRITER Joseph Schrank
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.

THE CAINE MUTINY
Columbia, 1954

PRINCIPAL CAST Humphrey Bogart, JosÉŽ Ferrer, Van Johnson, Tom Tully
DIRECTOR Edward Dmytryk
PRODUCER Stanley Kramer
SCREENWRITER Stanley Roberts, Michael Blankfort
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.

CAMILLE
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
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.

CARMEN JONES
Twentieth Century-Fox, 1954

PRINCIPAL CAST Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge
DIRECTOR Otto Preminger
PRODUCER Otto Preminger
SCREENWRITER Harry Kleiner
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.

CARRIE
United Artists, 1976

PRINCIPAL CAST Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie
DIRECTOR Brian De Palma
PRODUCER Paul Monash
SCREENWRITER Lawrence D. Cohen
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.

CASABLANCA
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
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."

CASINO
Universal, 1995

PRINCIPAL CAST Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci
DIRECTOR Martin Scorsese
PRODUCER Barbara De Fina
SCREENWRITERS Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese
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.

CAT BALLOU
Columbia, 1965

PRINCIPAL CAST Lee Marvin, Jane Fonda
DIRECTOR Elliot Silverstein
PRODUCER Harold Hecht
SCREENWRITERS Walter Newman, Frank Piersone
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.

CAT PEOPLE
RKO, 1942

PRINCIPAL CAST Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway
DIRECTOR Jacques Tourneur
PRODUCER Val Lewton
SCREENWRITER DeWitt Bodeen
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.

CAVALCADE
Twentieth Century-Fox, 1933

PRINCIPAL CAST Dianna Wynyard, Clive Brook
DIRECTOR Frank Lloyd
PRODUCER Winfield Sheehan
SCREENWRITERS Reginald Berkeley, Sonya Levien
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.

CHARIOTS OF FIRE
Twentieth Century-Fox, 1981

PRINCIPAL CAST Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Ian Holm
DIRECTOR Hugh Hudson
PRODUCER David Puttnam
SCREENWRITER Colin Welland
This inspirational drama explores the motivation, goals and triumphs of two top contenders from the 1924 British Olympic track team—Cross 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.

THE CHEAT
Paramount, 1915

PRINCIPAL CAST Fannie Ward, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Dean
DIRECTOR Cecil B. De Mille
PRODUCER Jesse L. Lasky
SCREENWRITERS Jeanie McPherson, Hector Turnbull
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.

CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD
Paramount, 1986

PRINCIPAL CAST William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie
DIRECTOR Randa Haines
PRODUCER Burt Sugarman, Patrick Palmer
SCREENWRITERS Hesper Anderson, Mark Medoff
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.

CHINATOWN
Paramount, 1974

PRINCIPAL CAST Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
DIRECTOR Roman Polanski
PRODUCER Robert Evans
SCREENWRITER Robert Towne
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.

EL CID
Allied Artists, 1961

PRINCIPAL CAST Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone
DIRECTOR Anthony Mann
PRODUCER Samuel Bronston
SCREENWRITERS Fredric M. Frank, Philip Yordan
This epic spectacle stars Heston as El Cid, the legendary medieval hero who drives the Moors from Spain. Loren plays the alluring Chimene.

CIMARRON
RKO, 1931

PRINCIPAL CAST Richard Dix, Irene Dunne
DIRECTOR Wesley Ruggles
PRODUCER William LeBaron
SCREENWRITER Howard Estabrook
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.

CINDERELLA
Disney, 1950

DIRECTORS Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi
PRODUCER Walt Disney
SCREENWRITERS Bill Peet, Erdman Penner, Ted Sears, Winston Hibler, Homer Brightman, Harry Reeves, Ken Anderson, Joe Rinaldi
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.

CITIZEN KANE
RKO, 1941

PRINCIPAL CAST Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten
DIRECTOR Orson Welles
PRODUCER Orson Welles
SCREENWRITERS Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles
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.

CITY LIGHTS
United Artists, 1931

PRINCIPAL CAST Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill
DIRECTOR Charles Chaplin
PRODUCER Charles Chaplin
SCREENWRITER Charles Chaplin
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.

CLEOPATRA
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
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.

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Warner Bros., 1971

PRINCIPAL CAST Malcolm McDowell
DIRECTOR Stanley Kubrick
PRODUCER Stanley Kubrick
SCREENWRITER Stanley Kubrick
McDowell and his "droogs" terrorize their way through London in this dark social satire with an eye on the cause and effects of "ultraviolence."

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
Columbia, 1977

PRINCIPAL CAST Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Françcois Truffaut, Melinda Dillon
DIRECTOR Steven Spielberg
PRODUCER Julia Phillips, Michael Phillips
SCREENWRITER Steven Spielberg
Dreyfuss is a man obsessed in Spielberg's science fiction fantasy that celebrates the possibility of friendly extraterrestrial life.

THE COLOR PURPLE
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
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.

COMING HOME
United Artists, 1978

PRINCIPAL CAST Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern
DIRECTOR Hal Ashby
PRODUCERS Jerome Hellman
SCREENWRITERS Nancy Dowd, Robert Jones, Waldo Salt
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.

THE CONVERSATION
Paramount, 1974

PRINCIPAL CAST Gene Hackman, John Cazale
DIRECTOR Francis Ford Coppola
PRODUCERS Francis Ford Coppola
SCREENWRITER Francis Ford Coppola
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.

COOL HAND LUKE
Warner Bros., 1967

PRINCIPAL CAST Paul Newman, George Kennedy
DIRECTOR Stuart Rosenberg
PRODUCERS Gordon Carroll
SCREENWRITERS Donn Pearce, Frank Pierson
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.

THE CROWD
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
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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