My Father and the Man in Black (2012)

Actors: Johnny Cash (actor), June Carter Cash (actress), Nick Smyth (actor), Ramona Diaconescu (miscellaneous crew), Doug Gillespie (miscellaneous crew), Quincy Morgan (miscellaneous crew), Geoffrey A. Cole (miscellaneous crew), Ava Torres (miscellaneous crew), Jonathan Holiff (actor), Jonathan Holiff (producer), Jonathan Holiff (director), Gary Biggar (actor), Jonathan Holiff (writer), Carol Potter (actress), Trevor Juras (actor),

Plot: After the suicide of Johnny Cash's former manager, Saul Holiff, his estranged son, Jonathon, returns home. There, Jonathon learns from his mother that his father's personal records exist in storage. As Jonathon searches through them, he discovers much about his father's life of deferred dreams in London, Ontario until he became the manager of Johnny Cash. From there, Jonathon learns of his father's hectic life managing the erratic country star with his personal demons and moods and how the material success came with a profound cost of its own for Saul. In doing so, Jonathon gets a new perspective of a father who had his problems that he never fully conquered himself.

Keywords: alcoholic, anti-semitism, born-again-christian, child-abuse, country-singer, father-son-relationship, independent-film, jew, johnny-cash, london-ontario
Genres: Biography, Documentary, Music,
Taglines: Before there was Johnny and June, there was Johnny and Saul Growing up with Johnny Cash--and the father he barely knew. Every father and son should see this movie! Don't miss the true stories behind the hit movie "Walk The Line!"

Quotes:

Johnny Cash: Saul knows his job and does it perfectly. I never worry that things aren't done. He's a perfectionist. Like my dad useta say, "Whatever you're going to be, be the best in the business. Saul is the best agent in the world. I feel sorry for guys like Presley who don't have an agent like him. [Original Source: "Want Johnny Cash? Call London, Ontario and ask for Saul Holiff;" Canadian Magazine, November, 1970]::Saul Holiff: The fact is, I couldn't find any way to justify BECOMING Johnny's manager. I thought the only way I could manage him was to come up with things that hadn't been been done before - that was part of the reason he got excited. [Original Source: TBD]

Saul Holiff: I brought Johnny in to help publicize the restaurant. We didn't hit it off at ALL. That was 1958. And then I brought him back in 1959 and we had a terrible argument - a horrible argument. And I made some remark to him, that he's "just like the rest of them. And Johnny doesn't like to think of himself as the rest of them. And he suddenly recognized me as an entity rather than just some passing face in the night. I booked him on another tour. And we hit it off. [Original Source: CFPL Radio interview 1976]::Johnny Cash: It was Saul who pushed me to take my show, and my career, to another level. I was perfectly happy where I was, doing what I loved to do and getting paid for it, but after I got to know Saul I started liking his ideas. INSTEAD of just ballrooms and dance halls around the U.S. and Canada, Saul said I should be aiming at Europe, the Orient, and big places in big cities; Carnegie Hall perhaps, the Hollywood Bowl. And that could be just the beginning. [Original Source: "CASH: The Autobiography," by Johnny Johnny Cash with Patrick Carr HarperCollins, 1997]

Johnny Cash: In late '61 we played the Big D in Dallas, Texas and my manager, Saul Holiff, said, "We need a girl singer on the show tonight. They want more than just you and your band." And I said, "Well, get one." He said, "What do you think about June Carter?" And I said, "I've always been a fan of hers." And I had, you know. I loved her work. I said, "Get her if you can." So we booked June Carter on the Big D in Dallas and then that night my manager asked if she would work the next tour with us. So she did. [Original Source: Interview with WHN Radio New York, July 4, 1980]::Saul Holiff: Dear June, It was nice talking with you the other night... even though I acted like a concerned father. This letter confirms your appearance in Des Moines. We have George Jones, Carl Perkins, and Patsy Cline and June "The Heel" Carter. I would also like to confirm you and all your assorted relatives, at Carnegie Hall, for a fee of $500. Yours, Saul. [Original Source: Letter to June Carter, December 25, 1961]::June Carter: Hi Saul, I signed the contract and returned it. As we discussed on the phone, this is our "tour price," and I was expectin' as many as 4 days. At this rate, we will just about make expenses. Let's hope the other dates come through. When I see you, we will discuss the management deal. Regards to John, Fluke, Marshall and Luther. I love you all. June. [Original Source: Letter to Saul Holiff, January 3, 1962]

Saul Holiff: Dear Barb, The Hollywood Bowl show and the party was a success beyond my wildest imagination. The food, the view, some fine singing by Johnny... people called it the party of the year! [Original Source: Letter Barbara Robinson, June 28, 1962]::Johnny Cash: Barbara, I feel my association with Saul these past months is the foundation for the new lease on life I have found. As a matter of fact, I know it. Not only have I begun to enjoy life but I am happy and excited about the way my career is zooming! Johnny. [Original Source: Letter to Barbara Robinson, October 1962]

Saul Holiff: Dear Small Sad Sam, I'm so pleased with your new attitude toward our future plans. I sincerely believe that you are capable of great things, provided you keep a level head and an even perspective. our Director of Planning, Saul. [Original Source: Letter to Johnny Cash, December 27, 1961]

Saul Holiff: Dear John Henry, I was proud of you in Daytona... no temperament... sincere effort... composure and maturity. It's clear to me that you're going to re-establish yourself at the top where you belong. Saul. [Original Source: Letter to Johnny Cash, July 13, 1962]

Saul Holiff: Barbara, Johnny has suddenly decided to end our relationship. I honestly believed that no matter how emotional and irrational he was, he was at least LOYAL. To top it off, we have a HIT RECORD! [Original Source: Letter to Barbara Robinson, July 11, 1963]

Johnny Cash: Saul, My only cure is solitude. Too many things work against my peace of mind. Only the desert with its purity and silence can help me now. Please tell them I sincerely regret these cancellations, but it's either cancel them, or cancel me for always... J.R. [Original Source: Undated Letter to Saul Holiff, circa 1964]

Johnny Cash: [On recording "Ira Hayes"] I am more full of piss and vinegar than ever. When I reach the top, I'll build another peak to climb. [Original Source: Letter to Saul Holiff, May 23, 1964]::Johnny Cash: [On "Ira Hayes" failure to penetrate the Pop Charts] Classify me, categorize me - STIFLE me, but it won't work. This is NOT a country song." [Original Source: TBD magazine ad]::Editor, "Close-Up": Mr. Cash, I am disgusted with you. You think that people who listen to Country are not intelligent. I am sorry that it was good Country and Hillbilly-type music lovers who put you where you are today. I am also sorry for you, Johnny Cash, that at your age, you have never learned the old lesson, you don't bite the hand that feeds you. You have a lot to learn and may you learn it on the way down. [Original Source: "An Open Letter To Johnny Cash," Close-Up, September, 1964]::Johnny Cash: Saul, My only cure is solitude. Too many things work against my peace of mind. Only the desert with its purity and silence can help me now. Please tell them I sincerely regret these cancellations, but it's either cancel them, or cancel me for always... J.R. [Original Source: Letter to Saul Holiff, 1964]

Saul Holiff: It seems that everyone in London is aware of a conversation suggesting a discrepancy in the attendance at the show. This rumour is vicious and has already done much to malign me. [Original Source: Letter to Johnny Cash, February 27, 1965]::Johnny Cash: Now that you have raked me over the coals, I want to tell you that you are damn sure barking up the wrong tree. Please raise hell with someone else. I've had enough for everybody. [Original Source: Letter to Saul Holiff, March 2, 1965]

Bachelor Girl (1988)

Actors: Tim Robertson (actor), Bruce Spence (actor), John Flaus (actor), Don Bridges (actor), Kim Gyngell (actor), Monica Maughan (actress), Burkhard von Dallwitz (composer), Jane Turner (actress), Tony Stevens (editor), Mark Little (actor), Keith Thompson (writer), Sue Jones (actress), Denis Moore (actor), Ned Lander (producer), Jan Friedl (actress),

Genres: Comedy, Romance,

Tales from the Crypt (1972)

Actors: Charles W. Fries (producer), Max Rosenberg (producer), Robert Rietty (actor), Robert Hutton (actor), Joan Collins (actress), Harry Locke (actor), Ralph Richardson (actor), Patrick Magee (actor), Roy Dotrice (actor), Martin Boddey (actor), Geoffrey Bayldon (actor), Frank Forsyth (actor), Peter Cushing (actor), Milton Subotsky (writer), Milton Subotsky (producer),

Plot: Five persons are visiting a catacomb following a guide and get lost. They find that they are trapped in a crypt and, out of the blue, they see The Crypt Keeper (Ralph Richardson) that tells five stories: (1) And All through the House: On the Christmas Eve, Joanne Clayton kills her husband expecting to receive his insurance. She hears on the news that the police are seeking-out a serial-killer posing of Santa Claus. When the man knocks on her door, she can not call the police since the body of her husband lays on the living room, and Joanne locks windows and doors. When she looks for her daughter, she has a lethal surprise. (2) Reflection of Death: Carl Maitland leaves his wife and children and leaves town with his mistress. However something happens during their journey (3) Poetic Justice: The widower janitor Arthur Edward Grimsdyke is a good man that spends his leisure time with the children from the neighborhood. His heartless neighbor James Elliot does not like him and destroys his lifer leading Grimsdyke to the suicide on the Valentine Day. One year later, Grimsdyke rises from his tomb seeking revenge against James. (4) Wish you Were Here: The dirty businessman Ralph Jason is bankrupted and his lawyer and friend Charles Gregory tells him that he must sell his real estate. When he tells to his wife Enid, she recalls that they have a statue with the legend that it could grant three wishes to the owner. She makes the wishes and leads Ralph to eternal damnation. (5) Blind Alleys: The cruel Major William Rogers comes to the Elmridge Home for the Blind with his dog Shane to be the new director. He is very cruel with the interns until the day that they revenge the bad treatment. Soon the five persons discover that the are at the gate of hell.

Keywords: affair, afterlife, alsatian, anthology, back-from-the-dead, based-on-comic, based-on-comic-book, blind-man, blind-people, blind-woman
Genres: Horror,
Taglines: DEATH LIVES in the Vault of Horror!

Quotes:

The Crypt Keeper: Who's next?::[looks at camera]::The Crypt Keeper: Perhaps... you?

Charles Gregory: [Revived to life, twitching and screaming in pain] Oh, Enid!::Charles Gregory: [Yelling towards the front door] Charles!::Ralph Jason: Help me!::Charles Gregory: [Entering the house] What's happened? [to Enid] What have you done?::Enid Jason: I wished him alive again... forever!::Charles Gregory: Don't you realize he's been embalmed? His veins are filled with embalming fluid, burning into him!::Enid Jason: [Sobbing] Oh, no!::Ralph Jason: [Screaming] Enid, do something! For God's sake, Enid, help me!::Charles Gregory: [Enid grabs a sword from the wall] No, no! Enid, don't!

Maj. William Rogers: [Hearing his dog bark in the room beside him] Well, at least feed my dog, please!::George Carter: [Somber] He'll be fed alright.

Father: Reading Arthur.Grimsdyke's revenge letter written in the dead James.Elliot's blood."You where cruel and mean right from the start now you can truly say you have no heart".

George Carter: The men have asked me to come and talk to you.::Maj. William Rogers: Yes?::George Carter: It's about the heating,it's been very cold these past few nights,we wondered if.::Maj. William Rogers: Rogers interrupts Carter"For reasons of economy the heating is turned off at twenty hundred hours.You should all be in bed by then after all there's no point in staying up you cant see anything".::George Carter: The beds are cold there aren't enough blankets::Maj. William Rogers: I am trying to run this place as efficiently and economically as I can,I am afraid the current budget does not include the cost of new blankets.::George Carter: Do you know anything about blind people?::Maj. William Rogers: No I can't say I do till I took over this job,but I was in the army over twenty years and I learned to handle all kinds of men there.::George Carter: With all due respect sir we are not soldiers,blind people are not like people with sight,we have lost one sense but the loss of that sense only tends to sharpen the others.Do you know what that means?we feel things more acutely if food tastes bad it tastes worse to us,if a room is dirty we feel every speck,if an insect scurries across the floor we hear it,and if it's cold we feel the cold more.Why don't you sell that painting and buy us fuel or extra blankets?::Maj. William Rogers: I was not aware that the administration of expenditure for this establishment had been handed to you Mister.Carter!Good morning!

Riders of the Whistling Pines (1949)

Actors: Merrill McCormick (actor), Damian O'Flynn (actor), Gene Autry (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Harry Cheshire (actor), Frank O'Connor (actor), Douglass Dumbrille (actor), Champion (actor), Roy Gordon (actor), Ray Jones (actor), Nolan Leary (actor), Jimmy Lloyd (actor), Ted Mapes (actor), Clayton Moore (actor), Jason Robards Sr. (actor),

Plot: While trailing Forest Ranger Charles Carter ('Jason Robards Sr.' (qv)), who is suspected of permitting lumber man Henry Mitchell ('Douglass Dumbrille' (qv)) to cut restricted timber, Gene fires at a dangerous mountain lion and apparently kills Carter. Actually, Bill Wright ('Damian O'Flynn' (qv)), Mitchell's associate, killed Carter because the ranger had discovered tussock moth infestation in the forest, and if the infestation was not reported, the trees would die and have to be cut, thereby profiting Mitchell and Wright. In order to compensate the best he can, Gene sells his sportsman's camp and gives the money to Carter's daughter Helen ('Patricia Barry (I)' (qv)as Patricia White) . En route to Texas, Gene discovers the infestation and is assigned by the Forest Department to supervise the program of spraying the area with DDT from the air. After the first day of spraying, the DDT is blamed by furious stock men for the many animals found dead of poisoning. Gene suspects a strange plane heard flying in the night was responsible. Gene's friend Joe Lucas ('Jimmy Lloyd'), after quarreling with Gene, is suspected of flying the phantom plane to discredit Gene's spraying program. The innocent Joe discovers the plane hidden at Mitchell's Mill and is shot by Wright. Gene heads for a mountain cabin to confront Mitchell who is waiting to kill him. Joe flies to warn Gene of the trap but Wright is also in the plane.

Keywords: 1940s, accordion, actor-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, airplane, airplane-crash, ambush, b-movie, b-western
Genres: Action, Adventure, Music, Western,
Taglines: AUTRY COMES ROARING OUT OF THE SKIES...to save the forests from outlaw lumber ring! (original ad) GENE AND CHAMPION RIDE HIGH WITH THE FOREST RANGERS! (original Herald-all caps) Gene Fights And Sings With The Forest Rangers!

Roughshod (1949)

Actors: Stanley Andrews (actor), James Bell (actor), Paul E. Burns (actor), Ed Cassidy (actor), Myrna Dell (actress), Jeff Donnell (actress), Gloria Grahame (actress), Sara Haden (actress), Martha Hyer (actress), Daniel Mainwaring (writer), Paul Sawtell (composer), Roy Webb (composer), Renié (costume designer), Mark Robson (director), Jeff Corey (actor),

Plot: Wrangler Clay Phillips and his young brother are taking horses to Sonora when they come across four dancehall girls heading the same way, stuck with a wrecked buggy. He takes the girls on to the nearest ranch, where it turns out one of the girls is the homesteader's wayward daughter. As he already has an escaped killer after him he is less than thrilled to have to take the remaining girls on with him. But it has to be said that Mary is damn easy on the eye.

Keywords: 1890s, ambush, anger, brother, brutality, california, campfire, cattle-ranch, cigarette-smoking, cowboy
Genres: Action, Drama, Romance, Western,
Taglines: "Sure I'm from the wrong side of the town...that's where I learned to handle guys like you!" (original poster) SAVAGE CONFLICT...TORMENTED LOVE...IN THE HIGH SIERRAS! (original poster-all caps) CONFLICT STRANGE AND SAVAGE IN THE HIGH SIERRAS (original 11x14 Lobby Card - all caps) 'DARE YOU SAY I'M NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO MARRY?" (original Style A 22x28 Card-all caps) ROUGHSHOD HE FOUGHT! ROUGHSHOD HE LOVED! (original 6x9 newspaper ad - all caps)

Quotes:

Clay Phillips: Where are you going?::Mary Wells: To the other side of the street.

Two O'Clock Courage (1945)

Actors: Sarah Edwards (actress), Charles C. Wilson (actor), Eddie Dunn (actor), Robert Robinson (actor), Tom Coleman (actor), Roland Drew (actor), Bryant Washburn (actor), Tom Conway (actor), Chester Clute (actor), Richard Lane (actor), Lester Matthews (actor), Philip Morris (actor), Jack Norton (actor), Emory Parnell (actor), Elaine Riley (actress),

Plot: After nearly running over him with her cab, Patty Mitchell picks up a fare who claims to have amnesia. As he fumbles to remember the basic facts of his identity, Patty becomes interested in the stranger and decides to help him in his search. But as the pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into place, and Patty's interest becomes more personal, the stranger finds that he is the prime suspect in a murder case.

Keywords: 1940s, amnesia, bartender, bossy-wife, bullet-wound, cigarette-girl, cigarette-smoking, clothing-store, clue, drunk
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery,

A Guy, a Gal and a Pal (1945)

Actors: Blake Edwards (actor), Si Jenks (actor), Fred Howard (actor), Sam Ash (actor), Olaf Hytten (actor), Ross Hunter (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Dick Elliott (actor), Sam Flint (actor), Chester Conklin (actor), Dudley Dickerson (actor), Chuck Hamilton (actor), Al Bridge (actor), Russell Hicks (actor), Charles Jordan (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: A Gay Threesome OUT FOR FUN! THIS IS A VERY PRIVATE AFFAIR OF A GAY PRIVATE ON A Merry Furlough! (original print ad) I'm the Pal...that brings the Guy and Gal together in a very private affair! (original print ad)

Neutral Port (1940)

Actors: Edward Black (producer), Phyllis Calvert (actress), John Rae (actor), Wally Patch (actor), Leonard Sharp (actor), John Salew (actor), Charles Rolfe (actor), Cameron Hall (actor), Anton Diffring (actor), Anthony Holles (actor), Jack Raine (actor), Hugh Griffith (actor), Albert Lieven (actor), R.E. Dearing (editor), Dennis Wyndham (actor),

Genres: Action, Drama, War,

The Crooked Trail (1936)

Actors: Ted Adams (actor), Frank Ball (actor), Johnny Mack Brown (actor), Horace B. Carpenter (actor), Ed Cassidy (actor), Dick Curtis (actor), Joe Dominguez (actor), Earl Dwire (actor), Jack Evans (actor), Oscar Gahan (actor), Ray Jones (actor), Charles King (actor), Clyde McClary (actor), John Merton (actor), S. Roy Luby (director),

Plot: After Jim Blake saves Harve Tarlton's life, they become partners in a gold mining claim. After a while Harve reverts to his outlaw way of life. Everyone but Jim seems to know that Harve is bad but Jim merely thinks he needs a chance to go straight. But Jim's wife Helen has a plan to expose Harve as the outlaw he is.

Keywords: 1870s, ambush, argument, b-movie, b-western, barfly, bartender, cigarette-smoking, conflicted-hero, coward
Genres: Action, Drama, Romance, Western,
Taglines: A NEW SADDLE AND GUN SAGA! (original poster - all caps) A Saddle and Gun Saga of the Lawless West!

Acquitted (1916)

Actors: Paul Powell (director), Elmer Clifton (actor), Sam De Grasse (actor), F.A. Turner (actor), Mary Alden (actress), Bessie Love (actress), Tod Browning (writer), Spottiswoode Aitken (actor), Wilfred Lucas (actor), Mary Roberts Rinehart (writer), 'Baby' Carmen De Rue (actress), Roy Somerville (writer), James O'Shea (actor), W.J. Freemont (actor),

Genres: Drama,