From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1995)

Actors: Miriam Flynn (actress), Richard Welsh (producer), Mark L. Taylor (actor), Dorothy Amos (costume designer), M. Emmet Walsh (actor), Brent Shields (producer), Frederic Perrin (miscellaneous crew), Ian Abercrombie (actor), Lauren Bacall (actress), Devon Gummersall (actor), Brenda Weisman (miscellaneous crew), Warren Munson (actor), Jim Oliver (editor), David A. Rosemont (producer), Ron Ramin (composer),

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family, Mystery,

The Great Unpleasantness (1993)

Actors: Tim Parati (actor), I. Karl Golden (miscellaneous crew), C.K. Bibby (actor), Jim Gloster (actor), Dorne M. Pentes (writer), Dorne M. Pentes (director), Dorne M. Pentes (editor), Wendy Fishman (producer), Peter Carrs (actor), Elizabeth Orr (actress), Jake Berger (composer), Collyn Gaffney (actress), Pervis Lee (composer), Paige Johnston (actress),

Genres: Drama,

Police Story: Gladiator School (1988)

Actors: M.C. Gainey (actor), Dean Norris (actor), Robert Conrad (actor), Ed O'Neill (actor), Anthony LaPaglia (actor), Benjamin Bratt (actor), James Darren (director), Sylvester Levay (composer), Jason Bernard (actor), Scott Burkholder (actor), John Apicella (actor), Peter Kwong (actor), Jophery C. Brown (actor), E. Jack Neuman (miscellaneous crew), John Carter (actor),

Plot: Robert Conrad is Officer Stacy, an LAPD cop with an attitude. After busting a prostitute, she files a complaint against him. A week later he shoots her in an apparent frame-up job. Officer Stacy is prosecuted, found guilty of murder and sent to 'Gladiator School' (prison)! His partner (played by Benjamin Bratt) believes Stacy is innocent even though no evidence can be produced to say otherwise. Also working for Stacy's release are two internal investigation agents (one of them played by Ed O'Neill). Can these fellow officers get Stacy out of prison before the inmates teach him a deadly lesson?

Keywords: police, prostitute
Genres: Drama,

Please Don't Hit Me, Mom (1981)

Actors: Sean Astin (actor), Patty Duke (actress), Nancy McKeon (actress), Joseph Whipp (actor), Beverly Todd (actress), Terrence Beasor (actor), Lance Guest (actor), Mario Di Mambro (editor), Toni Sawyer (actress), Harvey Vernon (actor), Fern Field (producer), Gwen Arner (director), Bruce Hendricks (producer), Deena Freeman (actress), Jeri Taylor (writer),

Genres: Drama, Family, Sport,

The Front (1976)

Actors: Dave Grusin (composer), Ruth Morley (costume designer), Charles H. Joffe (producer), Jack Rollins (producer), Josef Sommer (actor), Robert Greenhut (producer), Michael Murphy (actor), Carson Grant (actor), David Clarke (actor), Sam McMurray (actor), Danny Aiello (actor), David Margulies (actor), Woody Allen (actor), Martin Ritt (producer), Herschel Bernardi (actor),

Plot: In the early 1950s Howard Prince, who works in a restaurant, helps out a black-listed writer friend by selling a TV station a script under his own name. The money is useful in paying off gambling debts, so he takes on three more such clients. Howard is politically pretty innocent, but involvement with Florence - who quits TV in disgust over things - and friendship with the show's ex-star - now himself blacklisted - make him start to think about what is really going on.

Keywords: 1950s, black-and-white-to-color-to-black-and-white, blacklist, blacklisting, bookend-scenes, bookmaker, bookmaking, bookstore, borscht-belt, brother-brother-relationship
Genres: Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: America's Most Unlikely Hero.

Quotes:

Florence Barrett: A writer looks for trouble.::Howard Prince: No, wrong. A lunatic looks for trouble.

[last lines]::Howard Prince: Fellas... I don't recognize the right of this committee to ask me these kind of questions. And furthermore, you can all go fuck yourselves.

Howard Prince: Swimming's not a sport, swimming's what you do so that you shouldn't drown.

Howard Prince: Where are you from?::Florence Barrett: Connecticut.::Howard Prince: That's very ritzy.::Florence Barrett: It's very proper anyway. I was very well bred - the kind of family where the biggest sin was to raise your voice.::Howard Prince: Oh yeah? In my family the biggest sin was to pay retail.

Florence Barrett: Do you want a drink?::Howard Prince: [Distracted and worried] Yeah, but just a drink.

Sam: This friend of yours, Alfred Miller...::Howard Prince: We went to school together.::Sam: And you had no idea that he was a Communist?::Howard Prince: He was only 12.

Howard Prince: [to Sam] I - I still don't see why we can't fix it. You know what I me...? Pay somebody off 'cau - 'cause how much cou-could it cost, you know, 'cause they're just Congressmen?

Hecky Brown: [after gulping a glass of scotch] You know, I never learned how to sip a drink. When I was very little, every evening before supper my father would pour a shot glass full of whiskey, mumble a prayer, [He emulates his father by mumbling in Yiddish] and down it went! I thought that was the way you drank.

Hecky Brown: [Parting words to Howard] Take care of yourself. The water is full of sharks.

Howard Prince: That's the trouble with you leftos. You have this thing about money.

Airport (1970)

Actors: George Kennedy (actor), Walter Woolf King (actor), Hal K. Dawson (actor), William Hudson (actor), Clark Howat (actor), Van Heflin (actor), John Dennis (actor), Whit Bissell (actor), Michael Bell (actor), William Boyett (actor), Harry Harvey (actor), Thomas Browne Henry (actor), Joe Gray (actor), Dean Martin (actor), Burt Lancaster (actor),

Plot: Mel Bakersfeld is the hard-charging manager of Lincoln International Airport, trying to keep his airport open despite a raging Midwestern snowstorm and an angry wife. Meanwhile, his antagonistic brother-in-law, Vernon Demerest, may have his plans for a placid layover in Italy disturbed by unexpected news from Gwen Meighen, and by the plans of D.O. Guerrero, the loose cannon on board.

Keywords: 70mm-film, airplane, airplane-accident, airport, airport-personnel, aviation, based-on-novel, blizzard, blockbuster, boeing-707
Genres: Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: The #1 novel of the year - now a motion picture!

Quotes:

Father Steven Lonigan: [Interrupting tense one-on-one between Cy Jordan and Marcus J. Rathbone] Is there anything I can do?::Cy Jordan: Yes, Father. I'm putting you in charge of prayer.::Father Steven Lonigan: If that's an order, it's about thirty minutes too late, son.

Joe Patroni: They don't call them emergencies anymore. They call them Patronis.

Ada Quonsett: My late husband played the violin. Not professionally, but he was very good. He once played the Minute Waltz in 58 seconds.

Joe Patroni: Hold on, we're goin' for broke!

Mel Bakersfeld: Joe, this is Mel. There's no more time. Stop all engines and get out. Repeat. Stop all engines.::Cockpit qualified young man: Mr. Patroni, she won't take much more.::Joe Patroni: Well anyway, she's gonna get it.::Mel Bakersfeld: Joe, the plows are moving. Shut down and hold on! Joe Patroni! Do you read me? Acknowledge!::Mel Bakersfeld: Joe! Shut down!::Cockpit qualified young man: Mr. Patroni? Don't you hear him? Shut down.::Joe Patroni: I can't hear a thing. There's too much noise. Hold on. We're GOIN FOR BROKE!::Cockpit qualified young man: [after the plane gets out of the ditch] The instruction book said that was impossible.::Joe Patroni: That's one nice thing about the 707. It can do everything BUT read. [throws his chewed and soggy cigar over his shoulder]

Joe Patroni: Okay. But you keep those dinky toys out of my hair and away from this plane for 15 minutes, maybe less. I'll DRIVE it out.

Cindy Bakersfeld: And we don't have a home anymore. We have a waiting room. A place where I can walk the floor and wonder whether you're going to leave this damn airport long enough to drop by for a few minutes.::Mel Bakersfeld: Why you have to pick tonight, to come out here and fight with me...::Cindy Bakersfeld: I came out here to tell you that Roberta left home.::Mel Bakersfeld: I suppose I'm like a lot of men. A bigamist. Married to both a woman and a job.::Cindy Bakersfeld: And I can't be number 2 wife any longer.

Lincoln Tower: Mobil 1. Ground Control.::Mel Bakersfeld: Yes Doug. This is Mel.::Lincoln Tower: Cleveland just handed off flight two to Chicago Center. The transmissions from the aircraft aren't exactly regulation. The captain's blowing a fuse.::Mel Bakersfeld: I'd like to monitor. What's the frequency?::Lincoln Tower: 117.1.::Capt. Vernon Demerest: We need answers! Not questions. Are you guys sleeping down there? Why aren't we getting any action? We need help!::Chicago Center: Global 2. This is the Chicago Center watch supervisor. Please understand we're doing everything we can. We're holding other traffic and giving you priority. What type of approach do you wish?::Capt. Vernon Demerest: Chicago Supervisor listen carefully! Any approach is no damn good if it lands on runway 2-2. We need 2-niner. We've got an unservicable stabilizer trim. Doubtful rudder control and structural damage. If we're brought in on 2-2 there'll be a broken airplane and a lot of dead people. So you call Lincoln, mister, and turn the screws and tell that Lincoln airport manager to get off his penguin butt and clear that runway!::Mel Bakersfeld: Snowdesk, Mobil 1. Danny, listen carefully. Break the conga line. Send the heavy plows across to runway 2-niner. They're to head for stuck airplane and to wait instruction.

Joe Patroni: I'll be back in time if I have to pull that plane out with my teeth!

Joe Patroni: Well, let's put it *this* way- You promised me a box of cigars if I pull this off, right?::Mel Bakersfeld: Yeh-uh::Joe Patroni: Well, whataya standin' *there* for? Go GET 'em!

My Lover My Son (1970)

Actors: Romy Schneider (actress), Donald Houston (actor), Arthur Howard (actor), Peter Sallis (actor), Dennis Waterman (actor), David Warbeck (actor), John Newland (director), Alexandra Bastedo (actress), Peter Gilmore (actor), Janet Brown (actress), Maggie Wright (actress), Wilbur Stark (producer), Norrie Paramor (composer), Wilbur Stark (writer), Peter Musgrave (editor),

Plot: Francesca Anderson, the rich wife of an older millionaire, can't cope with the death of her lover, who is the father of her only son, James. As her son is somehow part of her dead lover, she falls in love with him and tries to seduce him, but he has a girlfriend named Julie. As her husband finds out all about this, he wants to kill her...

Keywords: bare-breasts, based-on-novel, bath, bathrobe, billiard-table, boat, breasts, car-chase, champagne, court
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: "I wish my mother would stop treating me like a man" This is a picture of a family

Pot o' Gold (1941)

Actors: Charles Arnt (actor), William Gould (actor), Eddie Gribbon (actor), Herbert Ashley (actor), Bobby Barber (actor), James Flavin (actor), Harry Bowen (actor), Art Carney (actor), Art Carney (actor), Ken Christy (actor), Ed Brady (actor), Edgar Dearing (actor), Abe Dinovitch (actor), James Burke (actor), Chuck Hamilton (actor),

Plot: Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle, an avid music-hater, all while winning the heart of the beautiful Molly!

Keywords: apostrophe-in-title, big-band, big-band-music, boarding-house, court, dance-scene, dancing, dream-sequence, factory-owner, feud
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance,
Taglines: It's the prize romantic laugh of the year... more fun than winning the POT O' GOLD! It's a GOLDEN POT OF ENTERTAINMENT! (original print media ad - many caps) for the time of your life...and a lifetime of fun...the swingiest singiest danciest romanciest picture of the year!

Quotes:

Molly McCorkle: You've heard of the Hatfields and the McCoys?::Hames Hamilton 'Jimmy' Haskell: Yeah.::Molly McCorkle: Well this is a fight between the Haskells and the McCorkles.

Charles 'C.J.' Haskell: They're in the phones now! Listen to that!::Hames Hamilton 'Jimmy' Haskell: [takes the receiver] Oh yes, very beautiful string quartet.::Charles 'C.J.' Haskell: String cor-tet!? That's bugles!::Himself, Horace Heidt: [writing down a medical report] Hears bugles in phone.

Inmates: [singing] You gotta get up, you gotta get up, you're in the army now!::Hames Hamilton 'Jimmy' Haskell: Johnny plays the bugle, he knows the calls from A to Z. But he's always at his best when blowing reveille.::Inmates: So Johnny blows and blows...::Hames Hamilton 'Jimmy' Haskell: He toot-a-lee-toots you into your clothes.::Inmates: And makes you rue the day that you were born. There's nothing any one can do. The captain has to make it too! So you gotta get up, you gotta get up!

White Eagle (1941)

Actors: Roy Barcroft (actor), Buzz Barton (actor), Hank Bell (actor), Lane Bradford (actor), Lane Bradford (actor), Bob Card (actor), Horace B. Carpenter (actor), Edward Cecil (actor), Jack Cheatham (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Steve Clark (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Jim Corey (actor), Richard Cramer (actor), Victor Adamson (actor),

Plot: White Eagle is the son of a massacred army officer, who has been raised by an Indian tribe and believes himself to be the son of the tribal chief. White Eagle is working to get a peace treaty signed between the Indians and the white settlers, but "Dandy" Darnell has about a dozen different reasons for the treaty not to be signed, and keeps dispatching a small army of henchmen to keep relations between the Indians and the settlers stirred to a boiling point for most of the fifteen chapters

Keywords: 1870s, agitator, bartender, brother, cavalry-to-rescue, character-name-in-title, color-in-title, cowboys-and-indians, cowboys-and-outlaws, criminal-gang
Genres: Action, Adventure, Western,
Taglines: BAD MEDICINE FOR BAD MEN...AS HE WRITES THE LAW IN RED-HOT LEAD! (original poster-all caps) RIDE WITH BUCK...BACK TO THE DANGER-JAMMED DAYS WHEN THE WEST WAS REALLY WILD!(original print ad-all caps) REdskins and renegades trade hot lead as blazing adventure fills the screen...in the mightiest chapter-play epic of them all! (original print ad)

In the Next Room (1930)

Actors: Edward F. Cline (director), Webster Campbell (actor), John Webb Dillon (actor), Edward Earle (actor), DeWitt Jennings (actor), Crauford Kent (actor), Jack Mulhall (actor), Robert Emmett O'Connor (actor), Lucien Prival (actor), John St. Polis (actor), Alice Day (actress), Aggie Herring (actress), Harvey Gates (writer), Claud Allister (actor), Jane Winton (actress),

Genres: Mystery,