The Emperor's Club (2002)

Actors: Jase Blankfort (actor), Tom Bloom (actor), Anthony Vincent Bova (actor), Allan M. Care (actor), Peter Charuza (actor), Matthew Clark (actor), Michael Coppola (actor), Steven Culp (actor), Paul Dano (actor), Patrick Dempsey (actor), Matthew Douglas (actor), Matthew Douglas (actor), Jesse Eisenberg (actor), Jason Sean Ellis (actor), Luca Bigini (actor),

Plot: William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a century later.

Keywords: 1970s, 2000s, academic-contest, antiquity, apology, audacity, bare-chested-male, baseball, baseball-bat, baseball-glove
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: In everyone's life there's that one person who makes all the difference.

Quotes:

William Hundert: Well... Senator... The Greeks and the Romans provided a model of democracy, which I don't need to tell you, the framers of our own constitution, used as their inspiration. But more to the point I would think when the boys read Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Julius Caesar even, they're put in direct contact with men, who in their own age, exemplified the highest standards of statesmanship, of civic virtue, character, conviction.

Senator Bell: [chuckling] That's a horse that can talk. So you're saying my son Sedgewick has his head up his ass.

William Hundert: Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance. What will your contribution be? How will history remember you?

Louis Masoudi: I am such an asshole.

William Hundert: Aristophanes once wrote, roughly translated; "Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but STUPID lasts forever."

Older Deepak Mehta: A great teacher has little external history to record. His life goes over into other lives. These men are pillars in the intimate structure of our schools. They are more essential than its stones or beams, and they will continue to be a kindling force and a revealing power in our lives.

William Hundert: The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.

William Hundert: However much we stumble, it is a teacher's burden always to hope, that with learning, a boy's character might be changed. And, so, the destiny of a man.

[first lines]::Valet: Is everything okay, sir?::William Hundert: Fine, thank you. Here. [reaches into his pocket] Let me, uh...::Valet: That's not necessary, sir. [walks away]::William Hundert: [narrating] As I've gotten older, I realize I'm certain of only two things. Days that begin with rowing on a lake are better than days that do not. Second, a man's character is his fate. And as a student of history, I find this hard to refute. For most of us our stories can be written long before we die. There are exceptions among the great men of history, but they are rare, and I am not one of them. I am a teacher - simply that. I taught for 34 years. One day I stopped teaching. Those were the facts of my life's chronicle. The last chapter had been written. My book was closed.

William Hundert: Excuse me?::Louis Masoudi: Huh? What me?::William Hundert: Yes, sir. What is your name?::Louis Masoudi: Uh, Louis.::William Hundert: Just Louis?::Louis Masoudi: Louis Masoudi, sir.::William Hundert: Mr. Masoudi, could you define the word "path" for me?::Louis Masoudi: Well, there are several definitions, I suppose.::William Hundert: Would "a route along which someone or something moves" be among them?::Louis Masoudi: Yeah. Oh, yeah. No. Yeah. I'm s-sorry, sir.::William Hundert: Follow the path, Mr. Masoudi. Walk where the great men before you have walked.::Louis Masoudi: Yes, sir. It's, uh - It's better for the grass.::William Hundert: It's better for you.

Robbers' Roost (1955)

Actors: Joe Bassett (actor), Bruce Bennett (actor), Richard Boone (actor), Stanley Clements (actor), Leonard P. Geer (actor), Leo Gordon (actor), Peter Graves (actor), William Hopper (actor), George Montgomery (actor), Boyd 'Red' Morgan (actor), Tony Romano (actor), Warren Stevens (actor), Al Wyatt Sr. (actor), Sylvia Findley (actress), Leonard Goldstein (producer),

Plot: Jim "Tex" Wall ('George Montgomery (I)' (qv)), searching for the last of the three men who raped and killed his wife, joins a gang of cattle rustlers led by Hank Hays ('Richard Boone (I)' (qv)). Both Hays' outlaws and a rival gang headed by Heesman ('Peter Graves (I)' (qv)), have been hired as ranch hands by "Bull" Herrick ('Bruce Bennett (I)' (qv)), a cripple who owns a large cattle ranch and wants to get his large herd to market. He theorizes that the two gangs will be kept busy watching each other and neither will rustle his cattle. Helen ('Sylvia Findley' (qv)) has little faith in her brother's contrived plan, and hates and distrusts both groups. She begins to soften toward Jim, but abruptly changes when she sees a reward poster which says he has killed two men.

Keywords: avenger, b-movie, b-western, based-on-novel, brother, brother-sister-relationship, cattle-buyer, cattle-rustling, cattleman, confession
Genres: Action, Drama, Romance, Western,
Taglines: OUTLAW GANG WAR! (original ad - all caps) THE MOST SAVAGE KILLERS LAIR IN THE WEST!...If You Rode In With A Badge On Your Chest---You Were Carried Out With A Bullet In Your Back! ONE GUN AGAINST ONE HUNDRED - AND THE WINNER GETS THE WOMAN( (original print ads-all caps) THE KILLERS LAIR WHERE WOMEN WENT TO THE FASTEST DRAW...AND VULTURES WAITED FOR THE SLOWEST!