Royal Flash (1975)

Actors: David Sterne (actor), John Stuart (actor), Alastair Sim (actor), Malcolm McDowell (actor), Alan Bates (actor), Richard Pearson (actor), Tom Bell (actor), Oliver Reed (actor), Joss Ackland (actor), Roger Hammond (actor), Michael Hordern (actor), Bob Hoskins (actor), Lionel Jeffries (actor), David Jason (actor), Florinda Bolkan (actress),

Plot: Captain Harry Flashman of the British army is a cad, a coward, and a lecher who always seems to come off inadvertently heroic. While romancing renowned courtesan Lola Montes, Harry is recruited against his will by Otto von Bismarck to substitute for a lookalike Prussian prince ostensibly in order to help Bismarck enlarge his hold over German duchies. But Bismarck has something more sinister in mind for both Harry and the prince.

Keywords: 1800s, 1840s, 19th-century, based-on-novel, battle, boxing, british-soldier, cad, cannon, castle
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Romance,
Taglines: The greatest swordsman of them all! See Capt. Harry Flashman surrender his way to victory!

Quotes:

Harry Flashman: Never kick a man when he's down, he may get back up again.

[first lines]::Harry Flashman: So, the last thing I have to tell you young fellows is this: play up and play the game, honor your queen and country, mind what your masters tell you, say your prayers each night, keep your minds and your bodies clean, take a cold bath each day, and you'll find you can always look the world in the eye like an English gentleman. Now my lads, I'm just a simple soldier. Yes, I am though. But I tell you if you follow these rules, then when the last roll call comes, you'll be able to go up before the great headmaster with a clean, British conscience and say, "Well sir, I tried to do my duty", and I think, I think, you'll find that's good enough for him.

Rudi Von Sternberg: Come down and fight like a man!::Harry Flashman: Don't be ridiculous!

Lisztomania (1975)

Actors: Kenneth Colley (actor), Harry Fielder (actor), Ken Russell (writer), Ken Russell (director), Ringo Starr (actor), Ann Skinner (miscellaneous crew), David Puttnam (producer), Murray Melvin (actor), Rick Wakeman (actor), Rick Wakeman (composer), Roger Daltrey (actor), Oliver Reed (actor), Stuart Baird (editor), Andrew Faulds (actor), Paul Nicholas (actor),

Plot: A send-up of the bawdy life of Romantic composer/piano virtuoso Franz Liszt, with ubiquitous phallic imagery and a good portion of the film devoted to Liszt's "friendship" with fellow composer Richard Wagner. The film begins during the time when Franz would give piano performance to a crowd of shrieking teenage fans while maintaining affairs with his (multiple!) mistresses. He eventually seeks Princess Carolyne of St. Petersburg (at her invitation), elopes, and, after their marriage is forbidden by the Pope, he embraces the monastic life as an abbé.

Keywords: absurdism, anachronism, art-vs-politics, belch, blessing, bondage, candle, cape, castle, castration
Genres: Biography, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical,
Taglines: The erotic, exotic electrifying rock fantasy... It out-Tommy's TOMMY.

Quotes:

Cosima: I've polished your sword! What do you want it for, to kill the critics?::Liszt: Time kills critics, my dear.

Liszt: Piss off, Brahms!

Marie d'Agoult: Spare him, Francois! Don't cut off his... genius in it's prime!::Count d'Agoult: Oh, is that what you call it?

Richard Wagner: So you're the jid who only makes music on a cash register?::Felix Mendelsohn: Music, shmusic, it's a living, dear boy.

Liszt: I know it sounds improbable, Your Holiness, but I...::The Pope: But truth is stranger than fiction? We've kept going for two thousand years on that one.

Hans Von Buelow: No, Wagner! Stay in hell where you belong!

Princess Carolyn: You and the Tsar are just different sides of the same coin: false gods worshiped in different ways. Dress the Tsar as a peasant and you have a peasant. [searches for Liszt] Stop skulking behind that screen! [continues] Dress Liszt in a crinoline and what do you have? The same thing: a sham. Rather than walk naked through the world, he chooses to play the imposter. What do you say?::Liszt: Bollocks!::Princess Carolyn: "Bollocks"? I don't speak Hungarian.

Richard Wagner: The trouble with your friends, Liszt, is they're all bourgeois pigs.::Liszt: Oh, pigs if you please. But aristocratic pigs, not bourgeois.

Richard Wagner: Is it true that when Liszt was a kid he played Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata at a concert and the composer himself jumped up and kissed him?::Rossini: Certainly Beethoven kissed the boy. By that time he was as deaf as a post.

Richard Wagner: You are Robert Schumann?::Strauss: No no no. That's Schumann. I am Strauss.::Richard Wagner: Not Johann Strauss?::Strauss: [annoyed] No! Levi Strauss!

Ludwig - Requiem für einen jungfräulichen König (1972)

Actors: Ingrid Caven (actress), Ingrid Caven (actress), Ingrid Caven (actress), Johannes Buzalski (actor), Peter Kern (actor), Monica Bleibtreu (actress), Peter Kern (actor), Harry Baer (actor), Johannes Buzalski (actor), Peter Kern (actor), Gert Haucke (actor), Rudolf Waldemar Brem (actor), Peter Przygodda (actor), Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (producer), Christoph Holch (producer),

Genres: Biography, Drama, History,

Golden Girl (1951)

Actors: Chuck Hamilton (actor), Joe Dominguez (actor), Kit Guard (actor), Sherry Hall (actor), Danny Borzage (actor), Robert Adler (actor), Jimmie Dodd (actor), Tex Driscoll (actor), Harry Carter (actor), John Davidson (actor), James Conaty (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), Frank Dae (actor), Alvin Hammer (actor),

Plot: Against the background of the Civil War, sixteen-year-old song-and-dance artiste Lotta Crabtree works her way across America, becoming ever more popular.

Genres: Musical,

Black Bart (1948)

Actors: Paul Maxey (actor), Francis McDonald (actor), Don Beddoe (actor), Ray Bennett (actor), Milton Kibbee (actor), Jack Kenny (actor), Eddie Acuff (actor), Dan Duryea (actor), Dan Duryea (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), Douglas Fowley (actor), Russ Conway (actor), William Bailey (actor), Reed Howes (actor), John McIntire (actor),

Plot: Cheerful outlaw Charlie Boles leaves former partners Lance and Jersey and heads for California, where the Gold Rush is beginning. Soon, a lone gunman in black is robbing Wells Fargo gold shipments. One fateful day, the stage he robs carries old friends Lance and Jersey...and notorious dancer Lola Montez, coming to perform in Sacramento. Black Bart and Lance become rivals for both Lola's favors and Wells Fargo's gold.

Keywords: 1950s, bandit, banker, barfly, california, casino, cigarette-smoking, dancer, dancing, day-for-night
Genres: Action, Crime, Music, Romance, Western,
Taglines: MASTER GUNMAN! LAWLESS LOVER! (original print ad - all caps)

Quotes:

Lance Hardeen: There was something familiar about that kick in the pants I took.::Charles E. Boles: You must be awfully sensitive to be able to tell one from another.

Lance Hardeen: One thing about being a crook. You can spot another crook at fifty paces.

Sheriff Gordon: The scum of the whole country is coming west by the wagon-load. We got more criminals than we have citizens.::Jersey Brady: Sounds like an up-and-coming country. Looks like we arrived just in time.

Jersey Brady: There ain't no permanence in this business. You just begin to like somebody and he turns up dead.::Lance Hardeen: You can lose a lot of people you don't like that way, too.

Charles E. Boles: I'd like to know why you blew up that tree. You might have killed somebody.::Jersey Brady: I figured it out. No tree, no hanging.

Charles E. Boles: Lola, I've been working on something for two years. Something that will make me the biggest man in this part of the country. I'm within an inch of doing it now. You wouldn't want me to quit at this point.::Lola Montez: The biggest man in the cemetery is still pretty small.

Clark: I've got an idea that's bigger than anything you've ever heard. It'll take time... and it'll take brains.::Charles E. Boles: I got plenty of time.

Jersey Brady: Are we splitting up?::Charles E. Boles: That's the general idea.::Lance Hardeen: Why?::Charles E. Boles: You're bad news, Lance. You're not interested enough in growing old.::Lance Hardeen: You have to take chances in this line of work.::Charles E. Boles: Not as many as I've been taking with you.

Lance Hardeen: What about that $3000 we have buried at Sage Fork.::Charles E. Boles: We split it.::Lance Hardeen: How?::Charles E. Boles: We can't all go together. The first one there takes his share and leaves the rest.::Lance Hardeen: You must trust me a lot, Charlie.::Charles E. Boles: I do. Besides, I 've got a faster horse.

Posse member: This is your last chance to say anything.::Lance Hardeen: You're hanging two innocent men!::Posse member: Innocent? You were caught leaving town with the mayor's wife, riding stolen horses and carrying money from two bank holdups!::Charles E. Boles: You call that evidence?

Wells Fargo (1937)

Actors: Erville Alderson (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), William Arnold (actor), Sam Ash (actor), Frank Austin (actor), Arthur Aylesworth (actor), Granville Bates (actor), Jack Baxley (actor), Scotty Beckett (actor), Hank Bell (actor), Joseph E. Bernard (actor), Barlowe Borland (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Ed Brady (actor), Henry Brandon (actor),

Genres: History, Western,
Taglines: TOGETHER THEY BUILD A CONTINENT! He lives the magnificent adventure that saves a country and she shares the adventures of the man she loves!

Quotes:

Hank York - a Wanderer: I've had no more luck than a duck with a doorknob.

The Palace of Pleasure (1926)

Actors: Harvey Clark (actor), Henry Kolker (actor), Edmund Lowe (actor), Francis McDonald (actor), George Siegmann (actor), Betty Compson (actress), Benjamin Glazer (writer), Bradley King (writer), William Fox (miscellaneous crew), Emmett J. Flynn (director), Adolf Paul (writer), Nina Romano (actress),

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance,

Lola Montez, die Tänzerin des Königs (1922)

Actors: Georg Alexander (actor), Fritz Beckmann (actor), Arthur Bergen (actor), Gustav Botz (actor), Rudolf Del Zopp (actor), Wilhelm Diegelmann (actor), Hugo Döblin (actor), Julius Falkenstein (actor), Heinrich George (actor), Carl Geppert (actor), Max Gülstorff (actor), Leonhard Haskel (actor), Hans Junkermann (actor), Fritz Kampers (actor), Arnold Korff (actor),

Plot: Gypsy Lola Montez is told by an old woman that she will marry a king. This is used to poison the throne-pretendent of Spain, giving the crown to Carlos, but this fails. Lola is arrested, but able to convince the local governor of her innocence. Together they go to Venice, the situation in Spain is becoming too dangerous for him. In Venice, she meets a student from Munich and falls in love with him, but her mentor orders her to follow him to Paris, where she is soon involved with the future ruler, Napoleon III. After a political scandal she leaves for Munich hoping to meet the student again, but trying to get a booking at the Royal theater there, she meets king Ludwig I, who is soon facing political troubles with a rebellious population with a strong dislike for Lola Montez.

Genres: Drama,

Midnight Madness (1918)

Actors: Rupert Julian (director), Elliott J. Clawson (writer), Kenneth Harlan (actor), Harry von Meter (actor), Ruth Clifford (actress), Claire Du Brey (actress), Harry Holden (actor), Louis Willoughby (actor),

Genres: Mystery,

Lola Montez (1918)

Actors: Alfred Abel (actor), Maria Zelenka (actress), Hans Wassmann (actor), Robert Heymann (writer), Robert Heymann (director), Leopoldine Konstantin (actress),

Plot: Dancer Lola Montez is the star of Madrid's theaters. All the important men are after her, among them the English ambassador. But the leader of the "Carlist - Movement", a gang of desperados, kidnaps her, she falls for him and he proposes. But the English ambassador is trying to improve the Spanish-English relations and sent his spies after her, getting the information about her future groom, and the Spanish government is very interested in getting his head...

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