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Bim is a 1974 Trinidad and Tobago film written by Raoul Pantin and directed by Hugh A. Robertson. It was described by Bruce Paddington as "one of the most important films to be produced in Trinidad and Tobago and ... one of the classics of Caribbean cinema".
In 1975 at the United States Virgin Islands Film Festival in St Thomas, Bim won a gold medal special jury award as "a film of unusual merit".
Bim/Bheem Singh, an Indian boy living in Trinidad, is sent to live with his aunt after his father, a trade union leader for sugar-cane workers, is shot to death during a wedding. At his new school, Bim is isolated and picked on by the black students because of his "coolie" (Indian) heritage. As tension builds during his very first day he is forced to stab one of the students as a means of defence to make it home alive. This incident gets Bim kicked out of school and his aunt's home and he is forced to live a life of violence and crime to survive. As Bim matures and becomes older, he moves from crime to crime, until involved by implication in a murder he flees back to his home place, the sugar cane belt. Approaching one of his father's old friends, he is able to take revenge on his father's killers and rise to prominence as a trade union representative for the Indian sugar-cane workers.
Actors: Jonathan Sothcott (producer), Fenella Fielding (actress), Stephen W. Parsons (director), Stephen W. Parsons (composer), Stephen W. Parsons (writer), Simon Sprackling (producer), Steven Elliot (actor), Chloe Jenden (producer), Claire Cox (actress), Tiana Benjamin (actress), Carl Sykes (actor), Suzann McLean (actress), Leona Ekembe (actress), Jacqueline Parsons (producer), Jacqueline Parsons (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: WISHBABY is a savage fairytale set in a contemporary urban landscape. A troubled young black teenager MAXINE rescues an eccentric old lady EVE from an unhappy slap by a mixed-race gang of teens and is rewarded for her act of kindness with the gift of a terrible secret: how to make and operate a WISHBABY. With Eve's help Maxine gives life to a magic doll and sets out to solve her current problems, inadvertently releasing Eve's dead GOVERNESS from her astral prison and unleashing a storm of supernatural activity. Her older brother COLIN is gradually drawn into the dangerous situation created by the 'Little King' and must finally face his own mother in a brutal fight to the death.
Keywords: thongActors: Ruth Cracknell (actress), Paul McDermott (actor), Paul McDermott (writer), Paul McDermott (director), Paul Livingston (actor), Steve Abbott (actor), Christian Gazal (editor), Julia Boros (miscellaneous crew), Adrian Van De Velde (composer), Fiona Holly (costume designer), Justine Kerrigan (producer), Sara Groen (actress), Corina Jones (actress),
Genres: Short,Actors: Gary Lewis (actor), Gary Lewis (actor), Gary Lewis (actor), Alan Moloney (producer), Rod Stoneman (producer), Samuel Beckett (writer), James Hickey (miscellaneous crew), Sean McGinley (actor), Renee Burke (miscellaneous crew), Joan Egan Foglia (producer), Ruth Hunter (miscellaneous crew), Jim Shortall (miscellaneous crew), Lorna Marie Mugan (costume designer), Joe Mulholland (producer), Michael Colgan (producer),
Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi, Short,Actors: Maurice Béjart (miscellaneous crew), Maurice Béjart (writer), Maurice Béjart (actor), Marius Petipa (miscellaneous crew), Ross MacGibbon (producer), Ross MacGibbon (director), Colin Wilson (producer), Andrew Lloyd (editor), Jane Seymour (producer), Lev Ivanov (miscellaneous crew), Yves Rolland (producer), Luc Vanden Bosch (miscellaneous crew), Gil Roman (actor), Gil Roman (actor), Jacques Hédouin (producer),
Genres: Music, Musical,Actors: Nana Patekar (actor), Amol Palekar (director), Vikram Gokhale (actor), Bhaskar Chandavarkar (composer), Anita Kanwar (actress), Riju Bajaj (actor), Dilip Kulkarni (actor), Gautam Joglekar (actor), Deepa Lagoo (actress), Arun Joglekar (actor), Banwari Taneja (actor), Vijay Shirke (actor), Vasant Sabnis (actor), Shashank Shankar (actor), Suresh Rege (actor),
Plot: The film is a comment on a society that brands people into images they should be, and talks of individual dreams and aspirations. Set in the background of a small town in India, against the harsh weather conditions and lack of rain, the story revolves around a girl who is unconventional in her ways and appearance, in-feminine in the conventional sense of the word, and therefore subjugated to much negative public opinions and advices on what she should be. She is supported by a supportive just father, a younger brother who is about to turn 18 and a realistic, discouraging but loving older brother. And in their lives then enters a man who believes in magic and tells them that he can bring rain! The story unfolds with much poetry and a dreamlike quality that is magical.
Keywords: brother-sister-relationship, critically-acclaimed, distrust, drought, drummer, drumming, drums, family-relationships, glasses, kittenActors: Mimi Rogers (actress), James Fox (actor), Sheryl Lee Ralph (actress), Denzel Washington (actor), Sharron Reynolds (miscellaneous crew), Vincent Paterson (miscellaneous crew), M. Emmet Walsh (actor), Keye Luke (actor), Robert Townsend (actor), Art Evans (actor), John Jympson (editor), Anne Dudley (composer), Esther Rolle (actress), Michael London (actor), Bernie McInerney (actor),
Plot: When police officer Xavier Quinn's childhood friend, Maubee, becomes associated with murder and a briefcase full of ten thousand dollar bills, The Mighty Quinn must clear his name. Or try to catch him, which could be even trickier.
Keywords: based-on-novel, caribbean, character-name-in-title, convertible, helicopter, jamaica, murder, paraplegic, police, rastafarianActors: Andrei Petrov (composer), Vyacheslav Tikhonov (actor), Svetlana Kharitonova (actress), Lyubov Sokolova (actress), Raisa Ryazanova (actress), Ivan Ryzhov (actor), Aleksandr Pashutin (actor), Valentina Vladimirova (actress), Nikolay Pogodin (actor), Georgiy Svetlani (actor), Boris Gitin (actor), Mariya Skvortsova (actress), Aleksey Mironov (actor), Andrey Martynov (actor), Mikhail Zimin (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Selmer Jackson (actor), Fuzzy Knight (actor), James Carlisle (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), Edward Brophy (actor), Boyd Irwin (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), Dick Dickinson (actor), Jack Cheatham (actor), Dick French (actor), Frank Hagney (actor), John Hamilton (actor), Alec Craig (actor), Robert Homans (actor), Richard Lane (actor),
Plot: Eleven Gilbert & Sullivan numbers are melded within the murder-mystery plot of "Girl on the Spot", with a result that either G&S; and/or the plot are always seemingly on stage-wait or in the wings awaiting a cue. Lois Collier is the girl-on-the-spot of the title because she was on the scene of a murder. The police conclude she didn't do it and they use her to set a trap for the real killer, a G&S; addict, by financing a Broadway production starring Collier. The police department evidently found the money for financing a Broadway show under "Misc.Expenses" in the city budget.
Keywords: 1940s, b-movie, bait, cigar-smoking, cigarette-smoking, comic-opera, crime-confession, damsel-in-distress, detective, evil-manActors: David Durand (actor), Humphrey Bogart (actor), Mike Donovan (actor), Steve Darrell (actor), John Dilson (actor), Joe Devlin (actor), Gabriel Dell (actor), George Bancroft (actor), James Cagney (actor), Sidney Bracey (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Frank Coghlan Jr. (actor), Sonny Bupp (actor), Joe Cunningham (actor), Earl Dwire (actor),
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Keywords: anti-hero, basketball, betrayal, blackmail, bowery-boys, boys'-choir, casino, catholic, catholic-priest, cellarActors: John Ford (director), Buck Jones (actor), Duke R. Lee (actor), Edwin B. Tilton (actor), Helen Ferguson (actress), John McDermott (writer), Paul Schofield (writer), Georgie Stone (actor), William Buckley (actor), Bert Appling (actor), Eunice Murdock Moore (actress), Slim Padgett (actor), Pedro León (actor), Ida Tenbrook (actress), Helen Field (actress),
Genres: Western,