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Laurel and Hardy were one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema. Composed of thin Englishman Stan Laurel (1890–1965) and fat American Oliver Hardy (1892–1957), they became well known during the late 1920s to the mid-1940s for their slapstick comedy, with Laurel playing the clumsy and childlike friend of the pompous Hardy. They made over 100 films together, initially two-reelers (short films) before expanding into feature length films in the 1930s. Their films include Sons of the Desert (1933), the Academy Award winning short film The Music Box (1932), Babes in Toyland (1934), and Way Out West (1937). Hardy's catchphrase "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!" is still widely recognized.
Prior to the double act both were established actors with Laurel appearing in over 50 films and Hardy in over 250 films. Although the two comedians first worked together on the film The Lucky Dog (1921), this was a chance pairing and it was not until 1926, when both separately signed contracts with the Hal Roach film studio, that they began appearing in movie shorts together. Laurel and Hardy officially became a team the following year in the silent short film Putting Pants on Philip (1927). The pair remained with the Roach studio until 1940, then appeared in eight "B" comedies for 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1941 to 1945. After finishing their movie commitments at the end of 1944, they concentrated on stage shows, embarking on a music hall tour of England, Ireland, and Scotland. In 1950 they made their last film, a French/Italian co-production called Atoll K, before retiring from the screen. In total they appeared together in 107 films. They starred in 40 short sound films, 32 short silent films and 23 full-length feature films, and made 12 guest or cameo appearances, including the recently discovered Galaxy of Stars promotional film (1936).
Matthew Moore "Matt" Hardy (born September 23, 1974) is a semi-retired American professional wrestler. He is best known for his stints in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).
Before signing with WWE, Hardy, with his brother Jeff, founded a wrestling organization called Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts (OMEGA). While there, Hardy held many championships including the Heavyweight and Tag Team Championship, which he held with Jeff. The promotion folded in October 1999 when they signed contracts with WWE. The Hardys gained notoriety in WWE's tag team division due to their participation in Tables, Ladders, and Chairs matches. As a tag team wrestler, Hardy is a six-time World Tag Team Champion, a one-time WWE Tag Team Champion, and a one-time WCW Tag Team Champion.
Apart from his success as a tag team wrestler, Hardy is a one-time world heavyweight champion, having won the ECW Championship in 2008. He also has won other singles championships, having held the Hardcore, European, Cruiserweight, and United States Championship on one occasion each. All totaled, Hardy has won 13 championships in WWE.
Actors: Louis Ferreira (actor), Jaime Zevallos (actor), Richard Roundtree (actor), Michael Monks (actor), Michael Bowen (actor), Sarah Clifford (miscellaneous crew), Sarah Clifford (miscellaneous crew), Richard Portnow (actor), David Hill (actor), Carmen Argenziano (actor), Myles Cranford (actor), Andy Mackenzie (actor), Fredro Starr (actor), Mercy Malick (miscellaneous crew), Mercy Malick (actress),
Plot: Duke is a modern day telling of a classic western film. Dare and Roost are brothers who have been raised in a reformatory, taught to survive and conditioned to trust no one. They have moved to West Los Angeles, where Dare moonlights himself as a Detective and Roost blankets himself in old John Wayne films and reclusive habit. Cleaning the streets and ridding the neighborhoods of scum, this contemporary study finds Dare obsessed with a phantom like criminal (Winky) who seems to be terrorizing the community. Simultaneously, the same exact investigation is being led by official and likely engrossed Detective Robert Morrison. As Dare closes in on Winky and the entire department closes in on them both, these brothers must make the ultimate commitment and pay the extraordinary consequences therein.
Keywords: one-word-titleActors: Doug Bradley (actor), Sean Pertwee (actor), Jason London (actor), Joel Soisson (writer), Joel Soisson (director), Ruxandra Popescu (miscellaneous crew), Joseph LoDuca (composer), Kari Wuhrer (actress), Ron Schmidt (producer), Simone De Camargo (miscellaneous crew), Simone De Camargo (miscellaneous crew), Gregory Widen (writer), Stephen Billington (actor), John Light (actor), John Light (actor),
Plot: There exists an ancient manuscript still writing itself called the Lexicon. It supposedly tells of the coming of the Anti-Christ, and happens to fall into the hands of an unsuspecting woman. Now, she is being pursued by angels intent on obtaining the information from the book.
Keywords: direct-to-video-sequel-to-theatrical-movie, falling-from-height, handcuffs, heart-in-hand, romania, sequel, shot-in-the-forehead, shot-through-the-mouth, slide-locked-backActors: Joe Ma (writer), Ying Choi Cheung (actor), Chung Chow (actor), Shiu Hung Hui (actor), Suet Lam (actor), Joe Ma (director), Fung Woo (actor), Daniel Wu (actor), Ho-Yin Wong (actor), Kin Law (composer), Sammy Leung (actor), Jianxin Huang (producer), Ivy Kong (producer), Miriam Yeung Chin Wah (actress), Ivy Kong (producer),
Genres: ,Actors: Erick Desmarestz (actor), Bernard Fresson (actor), Michel Such (actor), Carole Franck (actress), Edith Scob (actress), Zabou Breitman (actress), Philippe Setbon (writer), Bernard Yerlès (actor), Luc Palun (actor), Christian Sinniger (actor), Alain Frérot (actor), Philippe Vieux (actor), Denys Granier-Deferre (director), Alain Robillard (writer), Céline Caussimon (actress),
Genres: ,Actors: Wei Tung (actor), Kar Lok Chin (actor), Ka-Fai Cheung (editor), Clifton Ko (actor), Hing-Ka Chan (writer), Waise Lee (actor), Karen Mok (actress), John Woo (actor), Eric Tsang (actor), Sammy Leung (actor), Bing-Chuen Cheung (actor), Lawrence Ah Mon (actor), Charlie Yeung (actress), Patrick Leung (director), Edmond So (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,Actors: Joan Plowright (actress), Kees Kasander (producer), Joely Richardson (actress), Peter Greenaway (writer), Roger Phillips (miscellaneous crew), Peter Greenaway (director), Michael Nyman (composer), Juliet Stevenson (actress), David Morrissey (actor), Bernard Hill (actor), Bryan Pringle (actor), Trevor Cooper (actor), Vanni Corbellini (actor), Alison Owen (miscellaneous crew), Edward Tudor-Pole (actor),
Plot: Tired of her husband's philanderous ways, the mother of two daughters drowns her husband. With the reluctant help of the local coroner, the murder is obscured. Her daughters are having similar problems with relationships, and tend to follow their mother's example, and the coroner becomes reluctantly duplicitous. As the plot progresses, visual and spoken numbers appear in the scenes, counting from one to 100.
Keywords: affair, allowing-someone-to-drown, bare-breasts, bathtub, beach, beach-house, bee, bicycle, black-comedy, blackmailActors: Tommy Lee Jones (actor), R.D. Reid (actor), James Kidnie (actor), Dennis O'Neill (actor), Eric Peterson (actor), Gerry Mendicino (actor), Carl Marotte (actor), Tom Harvey (actor), Michael Copeman (actor), Lawrence Dane (actor), Philip Akin (actor), Louis Di Bianco (actor), Yaphet Kotto (actor), Denis Héroux (producer), Helen Shaver (actress),
Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller,Actors: Clarence Williams III (actor), Frederick Wiseman (producer), Antonio Fargas (actor), Dizzy Gillespie (actor), Robert Rossen (writer), Shirley Clarke (director), Shirley Clarke (writer), Shirley Clarke (editor), Mel Stewart (actor), Rony Clanton (actor), Gloria Foster (actress), Richard Ward (actor), Val Bisoglio (actor), George Goodman (actor), Carl Lee (writer),
Plot: Filmmaker Shirley Clarke ("The Connection") directs this powerful, stark semi-documentary look at the horrors of Harlem ghetto slum life filled with drugs, violence, human misery, and a sense of despair due to the racial prejudices of American society. There is no patronizing of the black race in this cinematic cry for justice. A fifteen-year-old boy called Duke is ambitious to buy a "piece" (a gun) from an adult racketeer named Priest, to become president of the gang to which he belongs, and to return them to active "bopping" (gang fighting) which has declined in Harlem. It is a clearly patent allegory of an attempt by Duke to attain manhood and identity in the only way accessible to him - the antisocial one.
Keywords: african-american, anger, based-on-novel, based-on-play, black-american, black-power, blaxploitation, cinema-verite, criminal, ghettoActors: Walter Mirisch (producer), Ilona Vas (miscellaneous crew), Ford Beebe (director), Lane Bradford (actor), Raoul Kraushaar (composer), Martin Garralaga (actor), Leonard Mudie (actor), Ford Beebe (writer), Arthur Space (actor), Woody Strode (actor), Lyle Talbot (actor), Ford Beebe (writer), Smoki Whitfield (actor), James Adamson (actor), Jack Williams (actor),
Plot: Andy Barnes gets word by short wave that two of the three geologists who passed through his district some weeks before were known diamond smugglers, and that nothing since has been heard of the trio. And he also learns that a hunter, Pat Gilroy , who has just arrived at the compound is really an escaped convict named Roy DeHaven. Bomba the Jungle Boy He is summoned via the jungle drum wireless-telegraph, and Barnes asks Bomba to locate Gatesby, the geologist who was with Greg and Hardy. Bomba finds the body of Gatesby but he also finds Lita Sebastian who is also out in the jungle looking for her father. Through the help of jungle drums and his animal friends, Bomba leads Lita to where her father, and a large number of natives, are being held as slaves by Greg and Hardy, who have found diamonds in the crater of an extinct volcano, known locally as The Mountain of Diamonds. Bomba has a lot of work to do before he can restore order to this jungle.
Keywords: 1950s, africa, african, b-movie, bare-chested-male, bare-chested-male-bondage, bomba, canoe, chimpanzee, damsel-in-distressActors: Myrna Loy (actress), Sidney Blackmer (actor), Clarence G. Badger (director), Walter Huston (actor), Howard Estabrook (writer), Wheeler Oakman (actor), Dorothy Revier (actress), Harry Semels (actor), Arthur Stone (actor), Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams (actor), Erville Alderson (actor), Marion Byron (actress), O.P. Heggie (actor), James Rennie (actor), Porter Emerson Browne (writer),
Genres: Western,