The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)

Actors: Geneviève Page (actress), Billy Wilder (producer), Frank Thornton (actor), Irene Handl (actress), Clive Revill (actor), Peter Madden (actor), Miklós Rózsa (actor), Stanley Holloway (actor), Michael Balfour (actor), Robert Stephens (actor), Kynaston Reeves (actor), Christopher Lee (actor), Colin Blakely (actor), Billy Wilder (writer), Arthur Conan Doyle (writer),

Plot: Director Billy Wilder adds a new and intriguing twist to the personality of intrepid detective Sherlock Holmes. One thing hasn't changed however: Holmes' crime-solving talents. Holmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a beautiful woman whose husband has vanished. The investigation proves strange indeed, involving six missing midgets, villainous monks, a Scottish castle, the Loch Ness monster, and covert naval experiments. Can the sleuths make sense of all this and solve the mystery?

Keywords: 1880s, 19th-century, asphyxiation, backstage, bagpipes, ballerina, ballet, bank-vault, bathtub, bird-cage
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller,
Taglines: The world's greatest detective tackles his toughest case ! It took a genius to cover up Sherlock Holme's vices, blunders, and bizarre tastes. Sherlock Holmes was a genius. What you don't know about Sherlock Holmes has made a great motion picture. [USA Theatrical] Everyone knows about the lightning-quick mind, the dazzling wit, the magnifying glass. But what about the little glass vials he so cunningly kept hidden. And what about the security blunder that almost cost the British Empire its navy. And what about the woman who spent the night with him. [USA Theatrical] The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. Anything But Elementary. [USA Theatrical] My private life is my own affair

Quotes:

Holmes: From the sound of your footsteps, I gathered that you were not in a particularly amiable mood.

Watson: You call yourself logical? You're the least logical man I know.::Holmes: Am I?::Watson: How can you say it's a figment of my imagination when for years you've been saying I have no imagination whatsoever?

[Holmes is about to inject cocaine]::Watson: Where's your self-control?::Holmes: Fair question.::Watson: Aren't you ashamed of yourself?::Holmes: Thoroughly. This will take care of it.

Watson: Holmes, let me ask you a question. I hope I'm not being presumptuous, but... there 'have' been women in your life, haven't there?::Holmes: The answer is yes...::Watson: [Watson breathes a sigh of relief]::Holmes: ...You're being presumptuous. Good night.

[about Madame Petrova]::Watson: They say twelve men have died for her.::Holmes: Really?::Watson: Six commited suicide, four were killed in duels and one fell out of the gallery of the Vienna Opera House.::Holmes: That's only eleven.::Watson: The man who fell from the gallery landed on top of another man in the orchestra.::Holmes: That makes an even dozen... in a messy sort of way.

Watson: [the doorbell rings] Were you expecting someone?::Holmes: Not at this time of night.::Watson: Perhaps Mrs Hudson is entertaining.::Holmes: I've never found her so.

Holmes: Some of us are cursed with memories like flypaper. Stuck there is a staggering amount of miscellaneous data, most of it useless.

Holmes: [Discussing Watson's portrayal of Holmes in 'Strand' Magazine] I don't dislike women, I merely distrust them. The twinkle in the eye and the arsenic in the soup...::Watson: You see it's touches like that which make you colourful.::Holmes: Lurid, more like!

Watson: Wouldn't it be ironic if Holmes' last case were a case of pneumonia?

Holmes: Criminals are as unpredictable as head colds. You never know when you're going to catch one.

Wu hai ye hang (1957)

Actors: Niu Tie (actor), Hongda Guan (actor), Mei Xiang (actress), Heng Qi (actor), Hong Mu (actor), Yuping Wei (actor), Ying Zhang (actress), Xin Wang (actress), Fei Yu (actor), Tao Yu (director), Xuepeng Fan (actress), Naihua Jin (actor), Guiling Wang (actor), Qiyin Luo (actor),

Genres: Drama,

The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953)

Actors: Michael Ross (actor), Gene Barry (actor), Barry Bernard (actor), Alvy Moore (actor), Leo Genn (actor), Arthur Gould-Porter (actor), Mike Mahoney (actor), Eric Alden (actor), Benny Bartlett (actor), Earl Holliman (actor), Johnny Downs (actor), Peter Baldwin (actor), Douglas Evans (actor), Don Taylor (actor), William Schallert (actor),

Plot: In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with his three daughters, Gloria, Hester and Violet, along with the housekeeper, Thelma, who has raised the girls since childhood. Other than their father, the girls have never seen another man. Halyard is informed that 1500 U.S. Marines will soon arrive to establish an air base on the island. Halyard is rather apprehensive over the prospect of his daughters, who have never met another man, being thrown together with 1500 Marines who haven't seen a woman in months.

Keywords: airport, based-on-novel, englishman, father-daughter-relationship, housekeeper, innocent, island, sailor, spinster, united-states-marines
Genres: Comedy, Romance,

The Flying Missile (1950)

Actors: Selmer Jackson (actor), Anthony Jochim (actor), John Hamilton (actor), Harry Cheshire (actor), Paul Harvey (actor), Al Hill (actor), John Dehner (actor), Hugh Beaumont (actor), John Doucette (actor), Paul Dubov (actor), Robert Bice (actor), Charles Evans (actor), Glenn Ford (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), Harry Lauter (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Wake Up and Dream (1946)

Actors: Billy Lechner (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Eddie Acuff (actor), Oliver Blake (actor), Harlan Briggs (actor), Charles D. Brown (actor), George Cleveland (actor), Clem Bevans (actor), Francis Ford (actor), Gus Glassmire (actor), John Ireland (actor), Milton Kibbee (actor), Perc Launders (actor), William Newell (actor),

Plot: Henry Pecket keeps a land-bound, home-made sloop in the backyard of his boarding house ran by widow Sara March, who is tolerant of the fancied trips around the world taken by her "ancient mariner" boarder. Little Nella Cairn, another boarder, is his constant companion on the sloop's "trips." When her brother, Jeff Cairn , enlists in the Navy, Nella is sent to board with a cousin, but is unhappy and returns to the boarding house. Pecket sends for Jenny, a waitress for Mr. Agrippa at his lunchroom and sweetheart of Jeff. Pecket and Jenny together decide to take care of Nella, when she receives a telegram from the War Department advising that Jeff is missing in action. To console the young girl, Pecket tells her they'll sail out to a wonderful island he knows about where he is sure Jeff can be found. The widow March, incensed about gossip she hears that Pecket is entertaining women guests on his boat, sells it to Mr. Agrippa, who wants to make a hamburger stand out of it. He has a man install wheels on it and plans to tow it away the next day. Pecket, Jenny and Nella have a meeting on the boat, a storm blows up, and since the sails are set, the "Sara March" puts out to "sea,", where it becomes "reefed" in a haystack. A young itinerant dentist, Howard Williams, offers to tow them but runs out of gas just as they reach Dignman's Ferry. He suggests they launch the boat, and all hands, including Williams, who comes in handy when they encounter a scientist in need of dental work, set sail on an enchanted voyage for Pecket's rendezvous island..to find Jeff.

Keywords: based-on-novel, missing-person, running-out-of-gas, tow-truck, world-war-two
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: The Thrill of Young Love!

Escape in the Fog (1945)

Actors: Frank O'Connor (actor), Frank Mayo (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Elmo Lincoln (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Tom Dillon (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor), John Elliott (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), Harrison Greene (actor), Chuck Hamilton (actor), Leslie Denison (actor), Charles Jordan (actor), Otto Kruger (actor), Joe Palma (actor),

Plot: A nurse recovering in a hospital from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets the the officer in charge of psychology at the hospital, she is astounded to discover that he is the man in her dream who is the intended murder victim.

Keywords: espionage, federal-agent, fog, golden-gate-bridge, grandfather-clock, macguffin, murder, nightmare, premonition, san-francisco-california
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir,
Taglines: "Slipping Silently Out Of The Fog Came MURDER!" (original one-sheet poster)

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)

Actors: Louis Jean Heydt (actor), Harry Hayden (actor), Eddie Hall (actor), Don DeFore (actor), Leon Ames (actor), Johnny Duncan (actor), Benson Fong (actor), Steve Brodie (actor), Donald Curtis (actor), Wally Cassell (actor), Morris Ankrum (actor), Blake Edwards (actor), Robert Bice (actor), John Dehner (actor), John James (actor),

Plot: The amazingly detailed true story of "The Doolittle Raid" based on the personal account by Doolittle Raider Ted Lawson. Stunned by Pearl Harbor and a string of defeats, America needed a victory - badly. To that end, Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, a former air racer and stunt pilot, devises a plan for a daring raid on the heart of Japan itself. To do this, he must train army bomber pilots to do something no one ever dreamed possible - launch 16 fully loaded bombers from an aircraft carrier! Remarkable in its accuracy, this movie even uses film footage from the actual raid.

Keywords: air-attack, air-war, aircraft-carrier, aircrew, amputation, amputee, anti-aircraft, army-air-corps, b-25, based-on-book
Genres: Drama, History, War,
Taglines: Heart-Warming Romance . . . Stark, Sensational Drama! Thrills! Action! Adventure! ...Ripped From The Heart!

Quotes:

Ellen Lawson: Oh, Ted, I'm going to write you a letter every day you're gone. I know they won't deliver them. I won't even mail them, but I'm going to write them anyway. That way we'll kind of be in touch. That way we'll feel close.

Gen. James Doolittle: [on the phone] Hello, hello, York? Dolittle. I want you to get twenty-four B-25's and volunteer crews down to Eglin Field as soon as you can. The job'll take 'em out of the country for about three months. Tell 'em it's a secret mission. They won't know where they're going until they get there. Thats's right, volunteers. tell them they're not to talk to anybody. That's an order!

Lieutenant Jacob 'Shorty' Manch: Well feed me corn and watch me grow! How did all this scum get in here?

[repeated lines]::Lt. Ted Lawson: Tell me, Honey, how come you're so cute?::Ellen Lawson: I had to be if I was going to get such a good-looking fella.

Lt. Bob Gray: [pensively] When I was a kid, I used to dream about going someplace on a ship. Well, here I am!::Lt. Ted Lawson: And out there is Japan. My mother had a Jap gardener once. He seemed like a nice little guy.::Lt. Bob Gray: You know I don't hate Japs yet. It's a funny thing. I don't like them, but I don't hate them.::Lt. Ted Lawson: I guess, I don't either. You get kind of mixed up.::Lt. Bob Gray: Yeah.::Lt. Ted Lawson: It's hard to figure, yet here we are.

Lt. Ted Lawson: Goodbye.::Young Dr. Chung: I have one sorrow, Lieutenant. that we did not have the medicine to ease your pain.::Lt. Ted Lawson: You saved my life, Doc.::Young Dr. Chung: I hope that someday you'll come back to us.::Lt. Ted Lawson: We'll be back. Maybe not us ourselves but a lotta guys like us, and I'd like to be with them. You're our kind of people.::Young Dr. Chung: Thank you, sir.

Gen. James Doolittle: [Addressing all the flight crews, assembled in the USS Hornet's briefing room] Lt. Jurika has detailed maps and pictures of cities and specified targets. Mr. Jurika spent a great many years in Japan. I think it might be a good idea if he gave you some idea of what kind of people you're going to run up against in case you're forced down. Mr. Jurika.::Lieut. Jurika: [Lt. Jurika gets up and addresses the men] I was assistant Naval attaché at our embassy in Japan, long enough to learn a few things about the Orient.::Lt. Bob Gray: Just what should we do, Mr. Jurika? How should we conduct ourselves, in case we are forced down over Japan?::Lieut. Jurika: My advice is, see that you're NOT forced down over Japan.

Here Come the Waves (1944)

Actors: Harry Barris (actor), William Forrest (actor), William Meader (actor), Al Hill (actor), Bing Crosby (actor), Jerry James (actor), Jerry Jerome (actor), Jimmie Dundee (actor), Charles D. Brown (actor), Kit Guard (actor), William Haade (actor), Sam Harris (actor), James Flavin (actor), Weldon Heyburn (actor), Jack Norton (actor),

Plot: Twin sisters Rosemary and Susie Allison are successful nightclub performers. Their act is about to come to a close when serious-minded Rosemary announces she's joining the Waves. Fun-loving Susie decides to enlist also, especially after she learns that crooner Johnny Cabot has just been drafted by the Navy.

Keywords: air-traffic-control, aircraft-carrier, blackface, chief-petty-officer, dual-role, farce, gender-roles, hip-flask, marching, minstrel
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance,
Taglines: They're in the NAVY now!

Quotes:

Windy 'Pinetop' Windhurst: Admiral, I could almost kiss you.::Johnny Cabot: You try it, and you'll find I have only begun to fight.

Susan: You know what you are, Windy? You're the man behind the woman behind the man behind the gun.

Susan: Only I wish... I wish...::Roemary: What?::Roemary: I wish that I had been born twelve minutes earlier than you, and I'd have had all the brains.

Susan: [With a whiskey flask] I got something here that'll warm us up but quick. Have one?::Johnny Cabot: No, thanks.::Susan: Well, down the hatch as you sailors say.::Johnny Cabot: [Looking at the flask] Hah! That's the stiff that puts waves on your permanent.::Susan: Sure you won't have one?::Johnny Cabot: [Doubtfully] Did you leave any?

Annapolis Farewell (1935)

Actors: Clyde Fillmore (actor), Samuel S. Hinds (actor), Ben Alexander (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), William Arnold (actor), Joseph W. Girard (actor), Benny Baker (actor), Jack Chapin (actor), Harvey Clark (actor), William Collier Sr. (actor), Hal Craig (actor), Tom Brown (actor), Thomas A. Curran (actor), Burr Caruth (actor), John Howard (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Annapolis Farewell (1935)

Actors: Clyde Fillmore (actor), Samuel S. Hinds (actor), Ben Alexander (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), William Arnold (actor), Joseph W. Girard (actor), Benny Baker (actor), Jack Chapin (actor), Harvey Clark (actor), William Collier Sr. (actor), Hal Craig (actor), Tom Brown (actor), Thomas A. Curran (actor), Burr Caruth (actor), John Howard (actor),

Genres: Drama,