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I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG
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Warner Bros., 1932
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell
| | DIRECTOR |
Mervyn LeRoy
| | PRODUCER |
Hal B. Wallis
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Howard J. Green, Brown Holmes
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This scathing attack on the brutality of Southern chain
gangs illustrates the social awareness films of the
1930s. It ends with Muni's matter-of-fact explanation
of the way he lives on the run. "I steal."
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IMITATION OF LIFE
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Universal, 1959
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Juanita
Moore
| | DIRECTOR |
Douglas Sirk
| | PRODUCER |
Ross Hunter
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Eleanore Griffin, Allan Scott
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Turner is an ambitious actress and single mother who
has little time for her daughter. Her life is the opposite
of Moore, her African-American friend and housekeeper,
whose devotion to her own daughter never falters, but
whose heart is broken when the daughter passes for
white.
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IN COLD BLOOD
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Columbia, 1967
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe
| | DIRECTOR |
Richard Brooks
| | PRODUCER |
Richard Brooks
| | SCREENWRITER |
Richard Brooks
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Truman Capote's "non-fiction" novel about
two drifters who murder a Kansas farm family is brought
to the screen in documentary style.
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IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
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United Artists, 1967
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger
| | DIRECTOR |
Norman Jewison
| | PRODUCER |
Walter Mirisch
| | SCREENWRITER |
Stirling Silliphant
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Steiger's southern sheriff and Poitier's northern detective
Virgil Tibbs join forces to solve a murder in this
film about racial tension in America.
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INTOLERANCE
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Wark Producing Corp., 1916
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh
| | DIRECTOR |
D.W. Griffith
| | PRODUCER |
D.W. Griffith
| | SCREENWRITER |
D.W. Griffith
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Griffith's masterful intertwining of several stories,
set in different historical times, showed the cinematic
heights that motion pictures had attained within twenty
years of their inception.
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INTRUDER IN THE DUST
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M-G-M, 1949
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
David Brian, Claude Jarman, Jr., Juano
Hernandez
| | DIRECTOR |
Clarence Brown
| | PRODUCER |
Clarence Brown
| | SCREENWRITER |
Ben Maddow
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Hernandez plays a proud African-American man falsely
accused of murder, whose young friend saves him from
being lynched in a Mississippi town.
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INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
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Allied Artists, 1956
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter
| | DIRECTOR |
Don Siegel
| | PRODUCER |
Walter Wanger
| | SCREENWRITER |
Daniel Mainwaring
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McCarthy is a small town doctor who discovers to his
horror that everyone around him is being replaced by
emotionless doubles hatched out of pods from outer
space. Even at the film's climax, no one on the busy
freeway heeds McCarthy's frenetic warning, "They're
coming!"
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IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
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Columbia, 1934
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert
| | DIRECTOR |
Frank Capra
| | PRODUCER |
Harry Cohn
| | SCREENWRITER |
Robert Riskin
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This battle of the sexes love story between a runaway
heiress who shows her legs to hitch a ride and an unemployed
newspaperman who separates their beds at night with
a blanket known as the "walls of Jericho,"
was an unqualified success and still provides inspiration
for many comedies.
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IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD
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United Artists, 1963
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
Spencer Tracy, Jimmy Durante
| | DIRECTOR |
Stanley Kramer
| | PRODUCER |
Stanley Kramer
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Tania Rose, William Rose
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The chase is on to find the big "W" the spot
where Durante has hidden $350,000 before literally
kicking the bucket. Tracy plays the knowing cop who
follows the wacky fortune hunters a who's who of American
comedy legends.
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IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
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RKO, 1946
| | PRINCIPAL CAST |
James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore,
Henry Travers
| | DIRECTOR |
Frank Capra
| | PRODUCER |
Frank Capra
| | SCREENWRITERS |
Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank
Capra
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This Christmas classic features a complex performance
by Stewart as a suicidal man redeemed by friendship
and the recognition that each person's life touches
many others. Remember every time a bell rings, an
angel gets his wings.
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