Wilding (1990)

Actors: Wings Hauser (actor), Joey Travolta (actor), Eric Louzil (writer), Eric Louzil (director), Eric Louzil (producer), Jennifer Prettyman (actress), James A. Holt (producer), Eric Gardner (editor), Karen Russell (actress), Kari French (actress), Vito Di Bari (producer), Danny Spear (actor), William J. Kulzer (actor), Derek Anunciation (actor), Phil O'Dell (actor),

Genres: Action, Crime,

An American in Paris (1951)

Actors: Madge Blake (actress), Leslie Caron (actress), Alex Romero (actor), Albert Pollet (actor), Hayden Rorke (actor), Dick Wessel (actor), Art Dupuis (actor), Paul Maxey (actor), Eugene Borden (actor), Gene Kelly (actor), George Davis (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), John Eldredge (actor), Ann Codee (actress), Sue Casey (actress),

Plot: Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in Paris, is "discovered" by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry's art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. Jerry jokes, sings and dances with his best friend, an acerbic would-be concert pianist, while romantic complications abound.

Keywords: american-abroad, american-expatriate, american-in-paris, art, art-patronage, artist, ballet, black-and-white-themed-party, blockbuster, cafe
Genres: Musical, Romance,
Taglines: What a joy! It's M-G-M's Technicolor musical!

Quotes:

Jerry Mulligan: Hey, uh, how'd you come by all these worldly possessions? A rich husband or a rich father?::Milo Roberts: Father.

Henri Baurel: Then you have no problems!::Adam Cook: Where'd they go?

Jerry Mulligan: Civilization has a natural resistance to improving itself.

Jerry Mulligan: Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here but it sounds better in French.

Adam Cook: I'm a concert pianist. That's a pretentious way of saying I'm... unemployed at the moment.

Jerry Mulligan: That's... quite a dress you almost have on.::Milo Roberts: Thanks.::Jerry Mulligan: What holds it up?::Milo Roberts: Modesty.

Adam Cook: It's not a pretty face, I grant you, but underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Henri Baurel: You only find the right one once.::Adam Cook: That many times?

Henri Baurel: Be happy! You only find the right woman once.::Adam Cook: That many times?

Adam Cook: [Jerry, Henri Baurel and Adam are at the café, talking. Adam desperately tries to prevent the other two men from revealing to each other they love the same woman by distracting them] Did I ever tell you about the time I gave a command performance for Hitler?

China Passage (1937)

Actors: Philip Ahn (actor), Alec Craig (actor), Alan Curtis (actor), Edgar Dearing (actor), Eddie Dunn (actor), Dick Elliott (actor), Leslie Fenton (actor), Billy Gilbert (actor), Huntley Gordon (actor), Vinton Hayworth (actor), George Irving (actor), Gordon Jones (actor), Donald Kerr (actor), Tetsu Komai (actor), Philip Morris (actor),

Plot: Tommy Baldwin and Joe Dugan are entrusted to carry a fabulous diamond. If they succeed, they will be well paid. If they fail, they will be well buried. When they go to pick up the diamond, there is a great gun battle, a cannister of knock out gas, and the diamond is stolen. The police round up everyone that they can find in the area and search them, but the diamond is not found. Strangely, everyone who was rounded up that night and released boards the steamship Asiatic the next day traveling from Singapore to San Francisco. Tommy and Joe only have the trip to find out who snatched the diamond, and they suspect the seven people from the night before. But as the trip progresses, the bodies begin to pile up and the clues are few.

Keywords: 1930s, american, author, b-movie, bartender, california, china, chinese, cigarette-smoking, circus-performer
Genres: Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Romance,
Taglines: DANGER STALKED HER STEPS IN THE SHADOWS OF SHANGHAI! The gripping story of a girl who matched wits with the Shanghai diamond smugglers! MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS! Romance and thrills from Shanghai to Frisco. SMUGGLERS! KILLERS!...and a girl who know no fear setting a trap that stretched from Shanghai 'coss the sea! Trapped by Shanghai's Diamond Smugglers!