Shadowlands (1993)

Actors: Robin Demetriou (miscellaneous crew), Edward Hardwicke (actor), Richard Attenborough (producer), Debra Winger (actress), George Fenton (composer), Richard Attenborough (director), Anthony Hopkins (actor), Julian Fellowes (actor), John Wood (actor), Peter Firth (actor), Roger Ashton-Griffiths (actor), James Frain (actor), Norman Bird (actor), Gerald Sim (actor), Penny Rose (costume designer),

Plot: CS Lewis is the author of the Narnia books - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. Known as Jack, he teaches at an Oxford College, during the 1930's. An American fan, Joy Gresham, arrives to meet him for tea in Oxford. It is the beginning of a love affair. Tragically Joy becomes terminally unwell and their lives become complicated.

Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, affection, american-abroad, american-in-the-uk, attic, author, autograph, bachelor, based-on-play
Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: Based on a true story. He thought that magic only existed in books, and then he met her.

Quotes:

Jack: Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

Joy: Jack, don't you sometimes just bust to share the joke? Here's your friends thinking we're unmarried and up to all sorts of wickedness, when all along we're married and up to nothing at all.

Joy: Back where I come from, there's this quaint old custom. When a guy makes up his mind to marry a girl, he asks her. It's called proposing. Did I miss it?

Harry: Christopher can scoff, Jack, but I know how hard you've been praying; and now God is answering your prayers.::C. S. Lewis: That's not why I pray, Harry. I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God, it changes me.

Joy Gresham: We can't have the happiness of yesterday without the pain of today. That's the deal.

C. S. Lewis: Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

C.S. Lewis: He comes; he sleeps; he goes. So the plot thickens.

Joy Gresham: Are you TRYING to be offensive, or merely stupid?

[mourning Joy's passing]::Douglas Gresham: [sobbing] I sure would like to see her again.::C. S. Lewis: [also sobbing] Me too.

Jack: Will you marry this foolish, frightened old man... who needs you more than he can bear to say... who loves you, even though he hardly knows how?

Maurice (1987)

Actors: Jenny Beavan (costume designer), James Ivory (director), James Ivory (writer), Jean-Marc Barr (actor), Billie Whitelaw (actress), Ismail Merchant (producer), Barry Foster (actor), Helena Bonham Carter (actress), Hugh Grant (actor), Rupert Graves (actor), Denholm Elliott (actor), Simon Callow (actor), Ben Kingsley (actor), Chris Allies (miscellaneous crew), Judy Parfitt (actress),

Plot: Two male English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up his forbidden love, Maurice (pronounced "Morris") and marries. While staying with Clive and his shallow wife, Anne, Maurice finally discovers romance in the arms of Alec, the gamekeeper. Written from personal pain, it's E.M. Forster's story of coming to terms with sexuality in the Edwardian age.

Keywords: 1900s, 1910s, amphitheater, anglican-priest, apple, argentina, arrest, atheist, baby, bandage
Genres: Drama, Romance,

Quotes:

Archie: Oh, cheer up, old man! What's gotten into you?::Maurice Hall: Would you believe - it's my birthday.

Maurice Hall: England for me!

Lasker-Jones: England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

Maurice Hall: I'm an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

Clive Durham: Maurice, I hope nothing is wrong?::Maurice Hall: Pretty well everything. You would think so.::Clive Durham: Very well, I'm at your service. My advice there is to sleep here tonight and ask Anne. Where a woman is in question, it's always better to ask another woman.::Maurice Hall: I'm not here to see Anne. [pauses] I'm in love with Alec Scudder.::Clive Durham: What a grotesque announcement.::Maurice Hall: [ironically] Most grotesque. But I felt I should tell you.::Clive Durham: Maurice, Maurice, we did everything we could when you and I clashed out the subject.::Maurice Hall: When you brought yourself to kiss my hand.::Clive Durham: Don't allude to that! Come in here. [lowers his voice] I am more sorry for you than I can possibly say and I do, do beg you to resist to return on this obsession.::Maurice Hall: I don't need advice. I'm flesh and blood Clive, if you'll condescend to such low things. I've shared with Alec.::Clive Durham: Shared what?::Maurice Hall: Everything. Alec slept with me in the Russet Room when you and Anne were away.::Clive Durham: [turns away from him] Oh God.::Maurice Hall: Also in town.::Clive Durham: The sole excuse for a relationship between two men is that it remains purely platonic. Surely you agree to that.::Maurice Hall: I don't know. I've come to tell you what I did.::Clive Durham: Well, Alec Scudder is in point of fact no longer in my service. In fact, he is no longer in England. He sailed for Buenos Aires this very day.::Maurice Hall: He didn't. He sacrificed his career for my sake. Without a guarantee. I don't know if that's platonic or not but it's what he did.::Clive Durham: missed his boat? Maurice, you're going mad! May I ask if you intend...::Maurice Hall: [interrupts him] No, you may not ask. I told you everything up to this minute, not a word beyond.

Lasker-Jones: You should not resist me. You're resisting me.::Maurice Hall: Damnit, I'm not!

Alec Scudder: Was you calling for me, Sir? I know, Sir. It's all right. I know, Sir.

Alec Scudder: Tomorrow's Thursday. Friday's packing. Saturday's Southampton, so it's goodbye, Old England.::Maurice Hall: You mean that you and I shan't meet again after now?::Alec Scudder: That's right, you've got it quite correct.::Maurice Hall: Stay with me.::Alec Scudder: Stay? Miss my boat? You daft? Of all the bloody rubbish. Order me about again, you would.::Maurice Hall: It's a chance in a thousand we met. You know it. Why don't you stay?::Alec Scudder: Stay? With you? How? And where? With your Ma? Oh yeah. What would she say if she saw me? All rough and ugly the way I am. My people wouldn't take to you one bit. I don't blame them, either. And how would you run your job, I'd like to know?::Maurice Hall: I shall chuck it.::Alec Scudder: Your job in the City? What gives you money and position? You talk like a man who's never had to earn his living.::Maurice Hall: You can do anything. Once you know what it is. We can live without money, without people. We can live without position. We're not fools. We're both strong. There'd be some place we could go.::Alec Scudder: Wouldn't work, Maurice. Be the ruin of [pauses; gestures with both hands towards crotch or balls] *us both*. Can't you see?

Alec Scudder: Now, we shan't never be parted. It's finished.

Maurice Hall: Alec, did you dream you had a friend? Someone to last your whole life?

Chariots of Fire (1981)

Actors: Peter Jones (actor), Ian Holm (actor), Patrick Doyle (actor), Nigel Havers (actor), Yves Beneyton (actor), Lindsay Anderson (actor), John Gielgud (actor), Richard Griffiths (actor), Kenneth Branagh (actor), Stephen Fry (actor), Ben Cross (actor), Nigel Davenport (actor), Nicholas Farrell (actor), Patrick Magee (actor), Michael Lonsdale (actor),

Plot: The story, told in flashback, of two young British sprinters competing for fame in the 1924 Olympics. Eric, a devout Scottish missionary runs because he knows it must please God. Harold, the son of a newly rich Jew runs to prove his place in Cambridge society. In a warmup 100 meter race, Eric defeats Harold, who hires a pro trainer to prepare him. Eric, whose qualifying heat is scheduled for a Sunday, refuses to run despite pressure from the Olympic committee. A compromise is reached when a nobleman allows Eric to compete in his 400 meter slot. Eric and Harold win their respective races and go on to achieve fame as missionary and businessman/athletic advocate, respectively.

Keywords: 1910s, 1920s, actress, american, anti-semitism, arrogance, athlete, athletic-training, audio-flashback, autograph
Genres: Drama, History, Sport,
Taglines: This is the story of two men who run...not to run...but to prove something to the world. They will sacrifice anything to achieve their goals...Except their honor. With Wings on their Heels and Hope in their Hearts Two men chasing dreams of glory!

Quotes:

Eric Liddell: You came to see a race today. To see someone win. It happened to be me. But I want you to do more than just watch a race. I want you to take part in it. I want to compare faith to running in a race. It's hard. It requires concentration of will, energy of soul. You experience elation when the winner breaks the tape - especially if you've got a bet on it. But how long does that last? You go home. Maybe you're dinner's burnt. Maybe you haven't got a job. So who am I to say, "Believe, have faith," in the face of life's realities? I would like to give you something more permanent, but I can only point the way. I have no formula for winning the race. Everyone runs in her own way, or his own way. And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within. Jesus said, "Behold, the Kingdom of God is within you. If with all your hearts, you truly seek me, you shall ever surely find me." If you commit yourself to the love of Christ, then that is how you run a straight race.

Eric Liddell: I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure.

Harold M. Abrahams: If I can't win, I won't run!::Sybil Gordon: If you don't run, you can't win.

Sam Mussabini: Eric Liddell? He's no real problem...::Harold M. Abrahams: [Eric has already beaten Harold once] You could have fooled me.::Sam Mussabini: Yeah, he's fast! But he won't go any faster. He's a gut runner, digs deep! But a short sprint is run on nerves. It's tailor-made for neurotics.

Sam Mussabini: Do you want to know why you lost today?::[Harold nods]::Sam Mussabini: You're over striding. [Sets coins in a row] Now these coins represent the steps in your sprint. [Pushes coins together] Can you find me another two coins, Mr. Abraham? [Harold looks up] Remember, over striding. Death for the sprinter [shakes his head]. Knocks you back. [Slaps Harold across the cheek. Harold winces] Like that! [Slaps Harold again] And that! [Sam laughs and grabs Harold by the arm].

Harold M. Abrahams: That was the miscalculation of my life.

Harold M. Abrahams: You, Aubrey, are my most complete man.::Harold M. Abrahams: You're brave, compassionate, kind: a content man. That is your secret, contentment; I am 24 and I've never know it.::Harold M. Abrahams: I'm forever in pursuit and I don't even know what I am chasing.

Henry Stallard: [the athletes are playing cricket in the ballroom of their hotel. Henry Stallard is the umpire; Aubrey Montague bowls a delivery to Eric Liddell, batting] No ball!::Harold M. Abrahams: [desperate to get into bat] Come on, Aubrey, the old leg-break!::Harold M. Abrahams: [Aubrey bowls another delivery, which deceivingly appears to have gotten Eric out] HowZAT!::Henry Stallard: Not out!::Harold M. Abrahams: What do you mean, not out? You could've heard it from bloody Bournemouth! Come on, Liddell, my innings.::Eric Liddell: I didn't touch it, I swear it, must've been the crack of my wrist!::Harold M. Abrahams: He's out I tell you, you're all deaf - deaf and bloody blind! Aubrey I ask you, for God's sake!::Harold M. Abrahams: [No response from Aubrey, dramatic pause] [punching the air] It's not FAIR! [the athletes break into laughter, Abrahams eventually joining them]

Harold M. Abrahams: And now in one hour's time I will be out there again.::Harold M. Abrahams: I will raise my eyes and look down that corridor; 4 feet wide, with 10 lonely seconds to justify my whole existence. But WILL I?

Harold M. Abrahams: Aubrey, I've known the fear of losing but now I am almost too frightened to win.

Spring Song (1946)

Actors: David Horne (actor), Finlay Currie (actor), Montgomery Tully (director), Lois Maxwell (actress), Charles Paton (actor), Montgomery Tully (writer), Hans May (composer), Howard Douglas (actor), George Carney (actor), Alan Wheatley (actor), David Keir (actor), Maire O'Neill (actress), James Seymour (writer), John Serret (actor), Peter Graves (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Trunk Crime (1939)

Actors: Howard Douglas (actor), Tom Gill (actor), David Keir (actor), Hay Petrie (actor), Thorley Walters (actor), Barbara Everest (actress), Roy Boulting (director), Roy Boulting (editor), John Boulting (producer), Reginald Denham (writer), Manning Whiley (actor), Lewis Stringer (actor), Clifford Boote (editor), Eileen Bennett (actress), Edward Percy (writer),

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller,

Trunk Crime (1939)

Actors: Howard Douglas (actor), Tom Gill (actor), David Keir (actor), Hay Petrie (actor), Thorley Walters (actor), Barbara Everest (actress), Roy Boulting (director), Roy Boulting (editor), John Boulting (producer), Reginald Denham (writer), Manning Whiley (actor), Lewis Stringer (actor), Clifford Boote (editor), Eileen Bennett (actress), Edward Percy (writer),

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller,

Trunk Crime (1939)

Actors: Howard Douglas (actor), Tom Gill (actor), David Keir (actor), Hay Petrie (actor), Thorley Walters (actor), Barbara Everest (actress), Roy Boulting (director), Roy Boulting (editor), John Boulting (producer), Reginald Denham (writer), Manning Whiley (actor), Lewis Stringer (actor), Clifford Boote (editor), Eileen Bennett (actress), Edward Percy (writer),

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller,

Chick (1936)

Actors: Aubrey Mather (actor), Edgar Wallace (writer), Jack Raymond (producer), Fred Rains (actor), Cecil Humphreys (actor), Cyril Gardner (writer), Betty Ann Davies (actress), Merle Tottenham (actress), Michael Hankinson (director), Arthur Chesney (actor), Sydney Howard (actor), Robert Nainby (actor), Aubrey Fitzgerald (actor), Mae Bacon (actress), Gerard Fairlie (writer),

Genres: ,

Rose Bowl (1936)

Actors: Charles Judels (actor), Donald Kerr (actor), Tom Brown (actor), Hooper Atchley (actor), Benny Baker (actor), Jimmy Conlin (actor), Herbert Ashley (actor), Buster Crabbe (actor), Harry Depp (actor), Sonny Bupp (actor), Wheaton Chambers (actor), William Frawley (actor), Lon Chaney Jr. (actor), Ray Hanford (actor), Richard Kipling (actor),

Plot: Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; Paddy at a small school in the East, where he is barely a substitute, and Ossie at a powerhouse-football school, where he is an instant star and all-American candidate. They leave behind Cheers Reynolds, who is fond of Paddy, who works in her family's drugstore, but she loves Ossie almost as much as he loves himself. Paddy makes friends with team fullback Dutch Schultz, who accompanies him on vacation, and they arrive back in Bellport just as Ossie is also coming home on break. Florence Taylor is also in town on a film junket. Unknown to any of the others, Paddy and Florence had gone to high school together. Back at school and three years later, Paddy and Dutch learn that their football team could get invited to the coveted Rose Bowl to play against Ossie's team, if it could get enough publicity (pre-BCS days) that would attract a large crowd. They are soon up to their hip-pads in publicity when the newspapers learn that Paddy is in love with Cheers, who is in love with Ossie, who is in love with Florence, who loves Schultz. The Eastern team gets invited. Cheers, on an innocent mission, is discovered in Paddy's room the night before the game by Coach Soapy Moreland, who suspends Paddy from the team and orders him to turn in his uniform which, based on the unrealities that this film portrays as college football (even in the 1930's), he probably had hanging on a hook in his hotel room closet.

Keywords: big-game, big-head, bucket, california, campus, cheerleader, coach, college, competition, drugstore
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Sport,

Rose Bowl (1936)

Actors: Charles Judels (actor), Donald Kerr (actor), Tom Brown (actor), Hooper Atchley (actor), Benny Baker (actor), Jimmy Conlin (actor), Herbert Ashley (actor), Buster Crabbe (actor), Harry Depp (actor), Sonny Bupp (actor), Wheaton Chambers (actor), William Frawley (actor), Lon Chaney Jr. (actor), Ray Hanford (actor), Richard Kipling (actor),

Plot: Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; Paddy at a small school in the East, where he is barely a substitute, and Ossie at a powerhouse-football school, where he is an instant star and all-American candidate. They leave behind Cheers Reynolds, who is fond of Paddy, who works in her family's drugstore, but she loves Ossie almost as much as he loves himself. Paddy makes friends with team fullback Dutch Schultz, who accompanies him on vacation, and they arrive back in Bellport just as Ossie is also coming home on break. Florence Taylor is also in town on a film junket. Unknown to any of the others, Paddy and Florence had gone to high school together. Back at school and three years later, Paddy and Dutch learn that their football team could get invited to the coveted Rose Bowl to play against Ossie's team, if it could get enough publicity (pre-BCS days) that would attract a large crowd. They are soon up to their hip-pads in publicity when the newspapers learn that Paddy is in love with Cheers, who is in love with Ossie, who is in love with Florence, who loves Schultz. The Eastern team gets invited. Cheers, on an innocent mission, is discovered in Paddy's room the night before the game by Coach Soapy Moreland, who suspends Paddy from the team and orders him to turn in his uniform which, based on the unrealities that this film portrays as college football (even in the 1930's), he probably had hanging on a hook in his hotel room closet.

Keywords: big-game, big-head, bucket, california, campus, cheerleader, coach, college, competition, drugstore
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Sport,