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Mame is a 1974 musical film based on the 1966 Broadway musical of the same name, directed by Gene Saks, written by Paul Zindel, and starring Lucille Ball and Beatrice Arthur.
Warner Bros. heads were concerned that Angela Lansbury, who had originated the title role on Broadway, had not yet captured the attention of the general public since she was mainly a Broadway star at this point (although she had starred in Disney's live-action/animated musical "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" in 1971 and was a 3 time Oscar nominee for "The Manchurian Candidate", "Gaslight", and "The Picture of Dorian Gray"). Lansbury's children, who had had written permission to live with the Manson Family, we're scooped up and removed to Europe. Thus she was unable to be involved on the shoot.
The film focuses on eccentric Mame Dennis, whose madcap life is disrupted when her deceased brother's son Patrick is entrusted to her care. Rather than bow to convention, Mame introduces the boy to her free-wheeling lifestyle, which includes his nanny Agnes Gooch and Mame's husband Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, a Southern aristocrat with a Georgia plantation called Peckerwood.
Actors: Kôichi Yamadera (actor), Mitsuhisa Ishikawa (producer), Toshiyuki Nishida (actor), Shigeru Watanabe (producer), Kazuya Hamana (producer), Junichi Uematsu (editor), Ikuko Tani (actress), Yoshisada Sakaguchi (actor), Karen Miyama (actress), Hiroyuki Ikeda (producer), Arimasa Okada (producer), Mina Kubota (composer), Hiroyuki Okiura (writer), Cho (actor), Hiroyuki Okiura (director),
Plot: Clinging to an unfinished letter written by her recently deceased father, young Momo moves with her mother from bustling Tokyo to the remote Japanese island of Shio. Upon their arrival, she begins to explore her new habitat, meeting local children and learning their routines and customs. However, it's not long before several bizarre occurrences crop up around the previously tranquil island. Orchards are found ransacked, prized trinkets start disappearing and, worst of all, each morning after her mother leaves for work, Momo hears strange mumblings coming from the attic of their home. Annoyed by these creepy goings-on and her mother's refusal to believe them, Momo embarks on a strange and supernatural adventure to discover the source of the mischief, which leads her to a trio of troublesome imps: the flatulent lizard Kawa, the childlike Mame and their hulking ogre leader Iwa. Momo also learns that her visit to the island is in some way connected to her father's mysterious letter.
Keywords: 11-year-old, anime, asthma, bridge, broken-mirror, character-name-in-title, death, death-of-father, family-relationships, father-daughter-conflictActors: Helga Liné (actress), Valeriano Andrés (actor), Adriano Domínguez (actor), José Antonio Rojo (editor), Pepe Ruiz (actor), José Sazatornil (actor), Florinda Chico (actress), María Kosty (actress), Rafael Corés (actor), África Pratt (actress), Augusto Fenollar (writer), Beatriz Carvajal (actress), Pedro Valentín (actor), Emilio Siegrist (actor), Paco Maldonado (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Ernie Adams (actor), John Hamilton (actor), William 'Billy' Benedict (actor), Eddie Dunn (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor), Anthony Caruso (actor), John Elliott (actor), Gabriel Dell (actor), Bernard Gorcey (actor), David Gorcey (actor), Leo Gorcey (actor), Buddy Gorman (actor), Thornton Edwards (actor), Huntz Hall (actor), Bobby Jordan (actor),
Plot: Slip and Sach are working for a local newspaper as a reporter and photographer, respectively. Slip wants to get the goods on a local gambling ring that is fixing sporting events, so he and Sach go undercover to expose the ring. Unfortunately, their eagerness has unforeseen consequences when the leader of the criminal gang slaps a $4-million libel suit on the newspaper.
Keywords: bowery-boys, boxer, corruption, deception, editor, fight, gambling, gangster, lawsuit, libelActors: Creighton Hale (actor), Sol Gorss (actor), Ernie Alexander (actor), Erville Alderson (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), George Brent (actor), John Dilson (actor), Jack Carr (actor), Tom Dugan (actor), Eduardo Ciannelli (actor), Dick Elliott (actor), Jim Farley (actor), Frank Ferguson (actor), Don DeFore (actor), Charles Halton (actor),
Plot: When Laurie goes to the execution of Varney and faints, she does not know that Varney gets a full pardon minutes before he fries. She calls in a story about his death and gets transferred to the Bewildered Heart Column of Prudence Maddox. When Mitch writes a story about Greer murdering Crowder that he cannot prove, he gets transferred from editor to Prudence Maddox. He makes Prudence very profitable for the paper, but the only way he can get the job of editor back, is to prove that Greer is a crook.
Keywords: black-market, book, brother-in-law, capital-punishment, cemetery, chase, club, coffin, columnist, dancingActors: Harvey Gates (writer), Frank Elliott (actor), Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher (actor), Huntz Hall (actor), William Nigh (director), Jack Henley (writer), Sam Katzman (producer), Harvey Gates (writer), Si Jenks (actor), Eddie Kane (actor), George King (miscellaneous crew), Benny Rubin (actor), Betty Compson (actress), Robert Golden (editor), Jan Wiley (actress),
Plot: "Hey, kids, let's get together and put on a show!" That's the idea behind this raucous spoof about a vaudeville performer who goes to college to spy on her bratty son.
Keywords: 1940s, actor-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-full-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, actress-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actress-shares-first-name-with-character, actress-shares-last-name-with-character, b-movie, buck-teethActors: Richard Alexander (actor), E.H. Calvert (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), Sam Ash (actor), George Anderson (actor), A.S. 'Pop' Byron (actor), Robert Barrat (actor), Don Beddoe (actor), Monte Blue (actor), Ward Bond (actor), Dick Botiller (actor), Ed Brady (actor), Harry A. Bailey (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), Wheaton Chambers (actor),
Plot: One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
Keywords: american-civil-war, bank-president, based-on-novel, blizzard, buffalo, business-competition, chase, cheyenne-wyoming, civil-engineer, donkeyActors: Mischa Auer (actor), Al Bridge (actor), J. Frank Glendon (actor), Kit Guard (actor), Ralph Lewis (actor), Dorothy Vernon (actress), Willis Kent (producer), Willis Kent (writer), Dorothy Davenport (director), S. Roy Luby (editor), Willis Kent (miscellaneous crew), Harry Todd (actor), Mae Busch (actress), Julia Griffith (actress), Earl McCarthy (actor),
Plot: Jimmy Reeves, a smart young newspaper reporter, saves a banker. John Walton, and his daughter, Claire, from ruin and disgrace and also wins the affections of the banker's daughter. Mr. Walton and Claire are induced to attend a séance held by Swami Yomurda, a fake spiritualist, which is a redundant description. Impressed by the fake Swami's trickery, Walton almost loses his fortune and his daughter before the reporter exposes the bunko scheme.
Keywords: 1930s, b-movie, banker, big-city, criminal, crook, damsel-in-distress, deception, duplicity, extortionActors: William Collier Jr. (actor), Richard Cramer (actor), John Davidson (actor), Gordon De Main (actor), James Gordon (actor), Arthur Loft (actor), Walter Miller (actor), Louis Natheaux (actor), Franklin Parker (actor), Jessie Arnold (actress), Blanche Friderici (actress), Frank Fenton (writer), John T. Neville (writer), B. Reeves Eason (director), George W. Weeks (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: When Dr. Emil Lanfield is convicted of the murder of his nurse, newspaper-reporter Steve Manninon becomes interested in the doctor's daughter, Elsa, and keeps digging into the case. With the aid of a friend, he gets enough evidence to get a re-trial but before this happens, the doctor's dying wife confesses she shot the nurse in a jealous rage. End of film? Not quite.
Keywords: 1930s, archive-footage, b-movie, bribe, bribery, clue, confession, death-of-mother, death-of-wife, deathbed-confessionActors: Billy Bevan (actor), John J. Richardson (actor), Eileen Percy (actress), Lois Wilson (actress), E. Mason Hopper (director), Lawrence Gray (actor), Leonard Praskins (writer), Robert T. Haines (actor), Gertrude Bennett (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: John G. Adolfi (director), Ethyle Cooke (actress), Jane Lee (actress), John G. Adolfi (writer), Adrian Johnson (writer), June Caprice (actress), Bert Delaney (actor), Harry Southard (actor), Tom Brooke (actor), Inez Marcel (actress), Lucia Moore (actress), John Burkell (actor),
Genres: Drama,