Plot
A rookie firefighter tries to earn the respect of his older brother and other firefighters while taking part in an investigation of a string of arson/murders. This detailed look into the duties and private lives of firemen naturally features widespread pyrotechnics and special effects.
Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, arson, axe, blockbuster, brother-brother-relationship, burn-injury, camera-shot-of-feet, chicago-illinois, cult-film, d-box-motion-code
One breath of oxygen and it explodes in a deadly rage.
Silently behind a door, it waits.
In that instant it can create a hero... or cover a secret.
Lt. Steven McCaffrey: You go. We go.
Lt. Steven McCaffrey: Look at him... That's my brother god damnit.
Firefighter Brian McCaffrey: You see that flash of light in the corner of your eye? That's your career dissipation light. It just went into high gear.
[In high rise elevator]::Tim Kizminski: How are we supposed to know if the floor is on fire in one of these?::Lt. Steven McCaffrey: When the doors open, if it's hot, don't get out.
Ronald: I sent away for the copy of Life magazine. The one with your picture on the front. It's a collectible.::Firefighter Brian McCaffrey: Who's doing this, Ronald?::Ronald: Wrong question. Who isn't? It's not a spark because there's not enough damage. He wouldn't have had any fun. It's not an insurance scam because there isn't any profit.::Firefighter Brian McCaffrey: Do you know who's doing this?::Ronald: Yes.::Firefighter Brian McCaffrey: Then tell me.::Ronald: You want to know who? I want to know if this kid really wanted to be just like his dad.::Firefighter Brian McCaffrey: I wanted to be him. I wanted to be him more than anything else in the world.::Ronald: And you loved him?::Firefighter Brian McCaffrey: Yeah.::Ronald: And you watched him dance with the animal. You saw your dad burn.::Firefighter Brian McCaffrey: Fuck you Ronald. Who's doing this, huh?::Ronald: Did it look at you? Did the fire look at you? It did. Whoa. Wow. Our worlds aren't that far apart after all, are they? So, whoever is doing this knows the animal well, doesn't he? He knows him real well, but he won't let him loose. He won't let him have any fun, so he does not love him. Now who doesn't love fire? And is around trychtichlorate all day long?::Firefighter Brian McCaffrey: [realizes who it might be] Oh my God!::Ronald: See... that wasn't such a long trip after all.
Donald 'Shadow' Rimgale: [at Ronald's parole hearing] What about the world, Ronald? What would you like to do to the whole world?::Ronald Bartel: Burn it all. [laughs]::Donald 'Shadow' Rimgale: See you next year, Ronald.
Ronald Bartel: The funny thing about firemen is... Night and day they are always firemen.
John 'Axe' Adcox: Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen. As 17's official toastmaster...::Ray Santos: ...and bullshitter.::John 'Axe' Adcox: Thank you, Santos. Did I happen to mention you're cut out of my will?::[Continuing]::John 'Axe' Adcox: I think it appropriate that we recognize the two asswipes... Probationary Firemen... among us today who were officially baptized into the world of Old Man Fire. First, to Tim. Despite the fact that he has a rather dull expression, and a really hideous pair of ears; he not only took on the beast but pulled from its clutches, assisted by a more famous and brilliant firefighter, me, a kicking and screaming civilian who will probably wind up suing us for breaking her fingernails. And to Brian...::[pulls up mannequin]::John 'Axe' Adcox: ...whose own contribution was not only more beautiful but less likely to sue. You know, when I learned that both McCaffrey brothers would be assigned at the same station together at the same time, my heart was filled with... a sudden desire to transfer. So raise a glass, gents. To funny-looking Tim, and the McCaffrey brothers, who have gotten on each other's nerves and still managed after all these years to still be pissed off at each other. Gentlemen...::ALL: FUCK YOU.
[Rimgale and Brian McCaffrey in the morgue with the medical examiner]::Donald 'Shadow' Rimgale: McCaffrey, come on over and give us a hand.::Firefighter Brian McCaffrey: No, I don't think so. Not in my contract.::Donald 'Shadow' Rimgale: [Throwing medical gloves at him] I just rewrote your contract. Come give us a hand.
Jennifer Vaitkus: We believe you're holding back on us, to embarass the Alderman because of his fire department cutbacks.::Donald 'Shadow' Rimgale: Alderman, I have an uncomplicated job: To determine if a fire is arson or not, and if so, to catch the son of a bitch doing it. And if my investigative methods happen to muck up the campaign of certain mayor wannabes, I gotta tell ya... I'm not gonna go losing any sleep over it.
Plot
After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails he enlists the help of best mate Puncher Roberts to smuggle the child aboard. But babies are surprisingly demanding and gradually the whole crew is drawn into helping keep it fed and washed - and undiscovered. Even so, the officers above deck start to puzzle over the increasingly strange happenings on board.
Keywords: baby, based-on-novel, navy, sailor
It all starts when a sailor's left holding the baby!
Plot
A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.
Keywords: abandoned-building, amateur-detective, amateur-sleuth, apartment-building, bandaged-nose, bombed-out-building, boy, boy-hero, british, cartoonist
Felix H. Wilkinson: Oh, how I loathe adventurous-minded boys.
Plot
DR. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from the police. A man, whom he had brought into the world many years before. At Filmore prison he is assigned to work in the jute mill after the prison doctor, Frank Norton, spurned his request to work in the hospital. "Lindy" Lindstron, MacAuley's co-worker in the mill, has a suddenly heart attack and Dr. Norton declares him beyond help. MacAuley administers adrenalin and Lindstrom recovers. News of the recovery spreads and MacAuley is besieged by fellow convicts with real and imaginary ills, and Norton requests his transfer to the hospital. Lindstrom, suffering greatly, begs MacAuley to give him an overdose of sedative, and offers him $10,000 he claims to have hidden "outside." MacAuley refuses, but is so touched by Lindstrom's agony that he talks over the possibility of a mercy death with Norton. Nightingale, a prison trusty, has overheard Lindstrom's request and he promises to obtain the sedative in return for the $10,000. The next day, Lindstrom is found dead. Norton, who scoffed at MacAuley's request, believes that MacAuley gave Lindstrom the fatal dose.
Keywords: 1930s, adrenaline, agony, arrest, b-movie, baggage-handler, bribe, bullet-removal, color-in-title, convict
FROM A MAN IN WHITE...TO A "CON" IN STRIPES! (original poster-all caps)
Plot
Park Avenue socialite Mary ('Norma Shearer' (qv)) and staid English nobleman, Lord Phillip Rexford ('Herbert Marshall (I)' (qv)) are married as a lark, but she is very happy for several years with her husband and child. But on a trip to the Riviera she meets again an old flame, Tommie Treal ('Robert Montgomery (I)' (qv)), and under the spell of the sea breezes and the Mediterranean moon (a semi-excuse for adultery to keep Queen Norma's image clean, as this was a post-Production Code film), Mary is the "innocent" victim of a romantic escapade that makes the headlines and the scandal sheets. None of Mary's explanations can soothe Lord Phillip, reaping the fallout of marrying "down", and his cold indifference drives Mary, who fights against it (a minor and feeble struggle at best), closer to Tommie. As the two lovers surrender to their ardor, Lord R. learns from his secretary that Mary had been telling the truth, and he calls for her to join him in Cannes with a clean slate. O.K, but as 'Chief Sky Eagle' (qv) told 'John Wayne (I)' (qv) in _She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)_ (qv), "too late, Nathan, toooooo late."
Keywords: aunt, businessman, cannes, casino, child-custody, confession, costume-ball, costume-party, detective, divorce
Tommie Trent: All I needed was that girl.::Erskine: Listen, you can write her off your next year's income tax as an unavoidable loss.::Tommie Trent: She trembled! She fluttered!::Erskine: I know. But she'll flutter just as well tomorrow.::Tommie Trent: Oh, no, she won't; not her. She's got 'conscience' written all over her face. At this moment, she is cooling off - like some beautiful volcano that has decided not to wipe out a lot of Italian villages.
The Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos), also known as Rufous and Common Nightingale, is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae. It belongs to a group of more terrestrial species, often called chats.
It is a migratory insectivorous species breeding in forest and scrub in Europe and south-west Asia, but is not found naturally in the Americas. The distribution is more southerly than the very closely related Thrush Nightingale Luscinia luscinia. It nests on the ground within or next to dense bushes. It winters in southern Africa. At least in the Rhineland (Germany), the breeding habitat of nightingales agrees with a number of geographical parameters.
The nightingale is slightly larger than the European Robin, at 15–16.5 cm (5.9–6.5 in) length. It is plain brown above except for the reddish tail. It is buff to white below. Sexes are similar. The eastern subspecies L. m. hafizi and L. m. africana have paler upperparts and a stronger face-pattern, including a pale supercilium.
Demetria Devonne "Demi" Lovato (born August 20, 1992) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress. Her earliest roles included Angela on Barney & Friends, before she became better known for her starring roles in the Camp Rock movies, as Sonny Munroe in the Disney sitcom Sonny with a Chance, and as the star of the 2009 movie Princess Protection Program. She is also involved in philanthropic activities through charity work and various social and environmental causes.
As a solo musical artist, Lovato released her debut album Don't Forget on September 23, 2008. The album debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 selling 89,000 copies in the first week. It has since shipped over 500,000 copies, earning a gold certification in the United States. Lovato released her second album, Here We Go Again, on July 21, 2009. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 108,000 copies in the first week. Her third studio album, Unbroken, was released on September 20, 2011 and peaked at number four on the Billboard 200. She is working on her fourth studio album.
Earl Nightingale (March 12, 1921 – March 28, 1989) was an American motivational speaker and author, known as the "Dean of Personal Development." He was the voice in the early 1950s of Sky King, the hero of a radio adventure series, and was a WGN radio show host from 1950 to 1956. Nightingale was the author of the Strangest Secret, which economist Terry Savage has called “…One of the great motivational books of all time“.
When Nightingale was seventeen he joined the United States Marines. He was on the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor and was one of twelve surviving Marines on board that day. Before being mustered, Nightingale was an instructor at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
After the war Nightingale began work in the radio industry, which eventually led to work as a motivational speaker. In the fall of 1949, Nightingale was inspired while reading Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. Quoting from the Earl Nightingale official website: "When he was 29, Earl's enlightenment had come to him as a bolt out of the blue while reading, 'Think and Grow Rich'. It came when he realized that the six words he read were the answer to the question he had been looking for! That, 'we become what we think about'. He realized that he had been reading the same truth over and over again, from the New Testament...to the works of Emerson. 'We become what we think about.' 'As ye sow, so shall ye reap...'" In 1956 he produced a spoken word record, The Strangest Secret, which sold over a million copies, making it the first spoken-word recording to achieve Gold Record status. In 1960, a condensed audio version of Think and Grow Rich was narrated by Nightingale. It was titled Think and Grow Rich: The Essence Of The Immortal Book By Napoleon Hill, Narrated by Earl Nightingale, produced by Success Motivation Institute. Also in 1960, he cofounded the Nightingale-Conant corporation with Lloyd Conant.