Dinner at Eight (1989)

Actors: Donald Ogden Stewart (writer), Frances Marion (writer), John Fleck (actor), George S. Kaufman (writer), Herman J. Mankiewicz (writer), Marsha Mason (actress), Christopher Toyne (producer), Harry Hamlin (actor), Tim Kazurinsky (actor), Julia Sweeney (actress), Charles Durning (actor), Lauren Bacall (actress), John Mahoney (actor), Ellen Greene (actress), William Newman (actor),

Plot: A wry, insightful comedy of manners in which society matron Millicent Jordan arranges a dinner party to honor some visiting aristocrat oblivious to the health and financial problems of her husband and the emotional feelings of her daughter. Her guests include the vain, greedy, and self absorbed.

Keywords: alcoholic, based-on-play, dinner-party, doctor, greed, high-society, park-avenue, reference-to-charles-dickens, society-matron, spaniel
Genres: Comedy, Drama,

Quotes:

Carlotta Vance: [to Oliver] You're handsomer than ever, but this neighborhood could use a facelift.

Millicent Jordan: They call me up at this hour the miserable Cockney to say they've gone to Disney World! Disney World! And who am I going to get now! Nobody! Because nobody wants to have dinner with the rat family! Trouble! You don't know what trouble is either of you!

Millicent Jordan: What were Ricky and the dessert man fighting about?::Miss Wendell: Inflation...::Millicent Jordan: Inflation! Inflation! Ricky and the dessert man had to have a fight about inflation! In the kitchen! It is almost five o'clock!::Miss Wendell: We can't use the aspic.::Millicent Jordan: I know we can't use the aspic. Ricky and the dessert man have stomped all over it! Do you suppose we could call up the aspic lion store and order another one?::Miss Wendell: I don't think there is an aspic lion store...::Millicent Jordan: I know there isn't an aspic lion store! That is the point! that is the whole point!

Dan Packard: Love your books, love 'em!::Carlotta Vance: What's your favorite?::Dan Packard: That one ya see in all the airports with the naked bimbo on the cover. What's that one called?::Carlotta Vance: Heidi.

Larry Renault: I'm Larry Renault! Not some hick tourist!

Millicent Jordan: Paula comes in looking like a rat, you come in looking like a rat! What are we, the rat family?

Plant Person: I've tried this in three different places and it just doesn't... feel right.::Plant Person: You are the plant person. that is why you are here, to do the lants. don't know what to do with the plants! I've lost a dinner guest!

Dan Packard: That's no elevator! It's a birdcage! What's the matter, Jordan? You anti-technological?

Carlotta Vance: I love profligate guest, jackets with linings... swiss chocolates apre' sex...::Oliver Jordan: Still?::Carlotta Vance: Still.

Millicent Jordan: Get rid of her before she starts drinking your aftershave!

Stagecoach (1986)

Actors: Mary Crosby (actress), John Schneider (actor), Kris Kristofferson (actor), Anthony Newley (actor), Lash La Rue (actor), Willie Nelson (actor), Elizabeth Ashley (actress), Sonny Carl Davis (actor), Kris Kristofferson (actor), Anthony Franciosa (actor), Johnny Cash (actor), Kris Kristofferson (actor), Waylon Jennings (actor), Willie Nelson (producer), Raymond Katz (producer),

Plot: Story follows a stagecoach ride through Old West Apache territory. On board are a cavalry man's pregnant wife, a prostitute with a broken heart, a Marshal taking in his prisoner Johnny Ringo, a crooked gambler, and the infamous Doc Holliday.

Keywords: acting-musician, ambush, apache, banker, bar-fight, bar-shootout, bartender, battle, bow-and-arrow, bravery
Genres: Action, Drama, Western,

Quotes:

Buck: Curly, I got me two rifles right underneath that seating area.::Marshal Curly Wilcox: You always keep two rifles under the seat?::Buck: Yes, sir. My wife cleans them and loads them for me. Now, a lot of men get fried chicken.::Marshal Curly Wilcox: You got a good wife.::Buck: Yeah, I know it. She used to ride shotgun for me. Then she said it got, uh, got too hard on her ovaries.::Marshal Curly Wilcox: [pauses] What's an ovary?::Buck: Well, near as I can tell, it's uh, you know, part of her machinery.::Marshal Curly Wilcox: Oh.

Buck: I think I'll go on inside. You want somebody to relieve ya?::Marshal Curly Wilcox: No. What I really want is a look in that banker's bag.::Buck: He keeps that dang thing closer to him than his belt buckle.::Marshal Curly Wilcox: That's why I want a look in it. [pauses] The bag.

Doc Holliday: You're doing real good, Mrs. Mallory, doing real good. You couldn't be doing no better if you were in one of them fine bedrooms with a brace of nurses and one of them fifty dollar a day doctor. [she pants and groans] Mrs. Mallory, I've got to look now.::Mrs. Lucy Mallory: Look?::Doc Holliday: See if that baby don't come out straight, and head-first we could have a serious problem. It's going to be alright, but I do have to look.::Mrs. Lucy Mallory: Do you mean... LOOK?::Doc Holliday: Yes ma'am. You gotta help me. You got to turn over.::Mrs. Lucy Mallory: Would you put out your cigar first, please? [he does]::Doc Holliday: Now then, you got to turn over on your back and help me... not too fast. Onto your back. Spread your legs just as far as you can.::Mrs. Lucy Mallory: I am never... going to be embarassed... AGAIN!

Doc Holliday: Anything else?::Dallas: Yes. Don't slap the baby.::Doc Holliday: Ok... why would I slap the baby?::Dallas: I don't know, but most doctors do. It's a custom I'm not in favor of. Nobody comes into this world looking for a fight. You go get em'!

Buck: The sight of blood bother you much?::Marshal Curly Wilcox: Only if it's mine, why?

Henry Gatewood: But, what do you do?::Ringo: I mind my own business. You oughta try it some time.::Henry Gatewood: Why?::Ringo: It's not near as dangerous as the way you're livin' now.

Mrs. Lucy Mallory: Are you sayin' that you win by dishonest means?::Ike Plummer: No ma'am. I win by any means.

Mrs. Lucy Mallory: Are you sayin' that you win by dishonest means?::Hatfield: No ma'am. I win by any means.

Overland Stage Ticket Clerk: If you make it to Lordsburg, you tell'em I'm closin' this station.::Marshal Curly Wilcox: I'd say the Apaches closed it for you.

Marshal Curly Wilcox: If I deputized an escaped convict I'd be run outa the territory.::Ringo: It's better'n bein' carried out.

A Winner Never Quits (1986)

Actors: Dana Kaproff (composer), Dana Delany (actress), Mare Winningham (actress), Macon McCalman (actor), Ed O'Neill (actor), James Keach (producer), Fionnula Flanagan (actress), G.W. Bailey (actor), Keith Carradine (actor), Charles Hallahan (actor), Art LaFleur (actor), Peter Hobbs (actor), Dennis Weaver (actor), Grady Hunt (costume designer), J.J. Johnston (actor),

Plot: Fact-based story of a young boy who lost his right arm in a childhood accident, but went on to fulfill his dreams of playing major-league baseball. Pete Gray had to overcome the early taunts of his childhood playmates. With the support of his Pennsylvania coal mining father and his brother, who dreams of being a boxer, he learns to battle for what he wants. Finally in 1943, he is hired to play for a minor league team - the Memphis Chicks in the Class A Southern Association. Initially considered a freak and a box office attraction, he survives the taunts of his teammates and bats .333 his rookie year, steals 63 bases and led the league' outfielders in fielding percentage. Ultimately he won the league's MVP award. In 1945, the St. Louis Browns brought him into the major leagues. A parallel story is also told about the ball player's friendship with a young boy who had also lost his arm and dreamed of one day playing baseball. In fact the idea for the movie came from co-producer James Keach whose brother had gone to school with the younger boy and became aware of the events involving the ball player and boy.

Keywords: 1940s, amputee, athlete, baseball, brother-brother-relationship, father-son-relationship, major-league-baseball, memphis-chicks, most-valuable-player-award, one-armed-man
Genres: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport,

Stagecoach (1966)

Actors: Dudley Nichols (writer), Keenan Wynn (actor), Walker Edmiston (actor), Ann-Margret (actress), Robert Adler (actor), Slim Pickens (actor), Stefanie Powers (actress), Mike Connors (actor), Van Heflin (actor), Red Buttons (actor), Bing Crosby (actor), Harry Carter (actor), Robert Cummings (actor), Gordon Douglas (director), Jerry Goldsmith (composer),

Plot: A group of unlikely traveling companions find themselves on the same stagecoach to Cheyenne. They include a drunken doctor, a bar girl who's been thrown out of town, a professional gambler, a traveling liquor salesman, a banker who has decided to embezzle money, a gunslinger out for revenge and a young woman going to join her army captain husband. All have secrets but when they are set upon by an Indian war party and then a family of outlaws, they find they must all work together if they are to stay alive.

Keywords: ambush, bar-shootout, battle, color-remake-of-black-and-white-film, cowboy, final-showdown, gunfight, indian-war, love-interest, native-american
Genres: Western,
Taglines: These Were The Ten Who Fought Indians, Outlaws And Each Other As They Rode To Greatness On The Stagecoach To Cheyenne!

A Matter of WHO (1961)

Actors: Edwin Astley (composer), Vincent Ball (actor), Michael Ripper (actor), Richard Briers (actor), Terry-Thomas (actor), Guy Deghy (actor), Sonja Ziemann (actress), Honor Blackman (actress), Geoffrey Keen (actor), Eduard Linkers (actor), Martin Benson (actor), Clive Morton (actor), Alex Nicol (actor), Don Chaffey (director), Anthony Mendleson (costume designer),

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery,

Stagecoach (1939)

Actors: George Bancroft (actor), Frank Baker (actor), Ted Billings (actor), Danny Borzage (actor), Ed Brady (actor), Chief John Big Tree (actor), John Carradine (actor), Berton Churchill (actor), Steve Clemente (actor), Bill Cody (actor), Jack Curtis (actor), Andy Devine (actor), Tex Driscoll (actor), Yakima Canutt (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor),

Plot: A simple stagecoach trip is complicated by the fact that Geronimo is on the warpath in the area. The passengers on the coach include a a drunken doctor, two women, a bank manager who has taken off with his client's money, and the famous Ringo Kid, among others.

Keywords: afi, ambush, apache, banker, birth, brunette, cavalry, chase, childbirth, colt-.45
Genres: Adventure, Western,
Taglines: Danger holds the reins as the devil cracks the whip ! Desperate men ! Frontier women ! Rising above their pasts in a West corrupted by violence and gun-fire ! Thrills! Thrills! Thrills! See - The Apache Attack! Charge of the Cavalry! Fight to the Death On the Last Frontier of Wickedness! A Powerful Story of 9 Strange People!

Quotes:

Henry, the Ringo Kid: Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.

Dallas: Well, you gotta live no matter what happens.

Marshal Curly Wilcox: Come busting in here - you'd think we were being attacked! You can find another wife.::Chris: Sure I can find another wife. But she take my rifle and my horse. Oh, I'll never sell her. I love her so much. I beat her with a whip and she never get tired.::Dr. Josiah Boone: Your wife?::Chris: No, my horse. I can find another wife easy, yes, but not a horse like that!

Ringo Kid: Well, I guess you can't break out of prison and into society in the same week.

Ringo Kid: You may need me and this Winchester, Curly. Saw a ranch house burnin' last night.

[the telegraph breaks off in mid-message]::Capt. Sickel: Well? What's wrong?::Telegraph operator: The line went dead, sir.::Capt. Sickel: What have you got here?::Telegraph operator: Only the first word, sir.::Capt. Sickel: (reading) Geronimo.

[Lt. Blanchard has just informed the stagecoach occupants that the cavalry will not escort them to Lordsburg]::Marshal Curly Wilcox: This stage is going to Lordsburg. If you think it ain't safe to ride along with us, I figure we can get there without you soldier boys.

Henry Gatewood: So you're the notorious Ringo Kid.::The Ringo Kid: My friends just call me Ringo - nickname I had as a kid. Right name's Henry.

The Ringo Kid: That was my kid brother that broke his arm. You did a good job, Doc, even if you were drunk.::Dr. Josiah Boone: Thank you, son. Professional compliments are always pleasing.

Marshal Curly Wilcox: Now folks, if we push on we can be in Apache Wells by sundown. Soldiers there will give us an escort as far as the ferry. Then it's only a hoot and a holler into Lordsburg. We got four men who can handle firearms - five with you, Ringo. Doc can shoot if sober.

One New York Night (1935)

Actors: Ernie Alexander (actor), George Beranger (actor), Harold Huber (actor), Henry Kolker (actor), Wilbur Mack (actor), Conrad Nagel (actor), Edward Norris (actor), Dennis O'Keefe (actor), Charles Starrett (actor), Harvey Stephens (actor), Franchot Tone (actor), Walter Walker (actor), Una Merkel (actress), Jack Conway (director), Ward Bond (actor),

Plot: Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room next to his. He gets tangled up into the affair, and with the aid of Phoebe, the hotel telephone operator who takes a liking to him, and also Countess Louise Browssiloff, who innocently had left some personal belongings in the murdered man's room and is most anxious to recover the incriminating evidence, Foxhall solves the murder mystery.

Keywords: 1930s, b-movie, based-on-play, cigarette-smoking, city-in-title, clue, coroner, countess, criminal, doctor
Genres: Comedy, Mystery,
Taglines: Fun - Romance - Mystery - It's all of these rolled into one merrily exciting entertainment!

Success at Any Price (1934)

Actors: Joseph E. Bernard (actor), Spencer Charters (actor), William B. Davidson (actor), Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (actor), Edward Everett Horton (actor), Arthur Housman (actor), Henry Kolker (actor), Frank Morgan (actor), Theresa Harris (actress), Colleen Moore (actress), Florence Roberts (actress), Nydia Westman (actress), Merian C. Cooper (producer), Howard J. Green (writer), Bernhard Kaun (composer),

Plot: Joe comes from a rough neighborhood and when his brother Mike is gunned down in 1927, he decides to go into legitimate business. He wants to make a lot of money and fast so he is ambitious and rude. He wants what he cannot have and that includes Aggie who is the gal pal of Merritt, his boss. He works his way up the ladder and finds that all the money and all the crooked deals will not buy happiness.

Keywords: advertising, ambition, architect, attempted-suicide, based-on-play, businessman, butler, doctor, fired-from-the-job, funeral
Genres: Drama,

Billy the Kid (1930)

Actors: Bud McClure (actor), Wallace Beery (actor), John Beck (actor), Roscoe Ates (actor), Ralph Bucko (actor), Roy Bucko (actor), Bob Card (actor), Hank Bell (actor), Johnny Mack Brown (actor), Karl Dane (actor), Frank Ellis (actor), Frank Hagney (actor), James A. Marcus (actor), Chris-Pin Martin (actor), Nelson McDowell (actor),

Plot: In this version of the Billy the Kid legend, Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat Garrett. He escapes and is on his way to Mexico when Garrett, recapturing him, must decide whether to bring him in or to let him go.

Keywords: ambush, amnesty, arson, bar, bar-fight, bar-shootout, based-on-book, battle, billy-the-kid, cattleman
Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance, Western,
Taglines: A FIGHTER TO THE END - A LOVER UNAFRAID! The one big , stirring out-door story of the Great West! King Vidor, director of mighty screen plays, has created a masterpiece of thrills, blended with a love-story of surpassing power. Cattle-thief, outlaw, 2-gun man, Don Juan - was this the youth who ruled the lawless west with a flame-tipped gun and iron courage?

The Silent Lie (1917)

Actors: Henry A. Barrows (actor), Charles Clary (actor), Howard Davies (actor), Ralph Lewis (actor), Miriam Cooper (actress), Raoul Walsh (director), William Fox (miscellaneous crew), Monroe Salisbury (actor), Larry Evans (writer), William Eagle Shirt (actor), Chester B. Clapp (writer),

Genres: Drama,