Varian's War (2001)

Actors: Tony Calabretta (actor), Michael Rudder (actor), Alain Goulem (actor), Walter Massey (actor), Mark Antony Krupa (actor), Tom Rack (actor), Christopher Heyerdahl (actor), Maury Chaykin (actor), William Hurt (actor), Matt Craven (actor), Rémy Girard (actor), Alan Arkin (actor), Noel Burton (actor), Dorothée Berryman (actress), Vlasta Vrana (actor),

Plot: After witnessing the treatment of Jews in Nazi territory made him physically sick, cultured American gentleman Varian Fry starts en emergency rescue commission to raise funds and lobby to help intellectuals and artists, especially Jews, escape from Vichy France -where the Pétain government avoid occupation only by utter collaboration- to the US, and for lack of a better volunteer personally sets out in search of them. First lady Eleanor Roosevelt personally overcomes the reticence of the State Department. In Marseille he finds the people he specifically looked for, such as Marc Chagall, already housed by Harry Bingham, a Jewish US consulate official so he starts screening less obvious candidates and examines with Miriam Davenport and a German social democrat they pass for US clergyman Beamish how some can be rescued legally, others via a clandestine route, while colonel Joubert's State Police is at their trace...

Keywords: apostrophe-in-title, artist, character-name-in-title, nazi, refugee, two-word-title, world-war-two
Genres: Drama, War,
Taglines: He changed the world forever. One person at a time. The true story of the American Schindler.

The Emissary (1989)

Actors: Robert Vaughn (actor), Greg Latter (actor), Brian O'Shaughnessy (actor), Patrick Mynhardt (actor), Ken Gampu (actor), Jan Scholtz (director), Jan Scholtz (writer), Jan Scholtz (producer), Andre Jacobs (actor), Johan Lategan (editor), Ted Le Plat (actor), Victor Melleney (actor), Terry Norton (actress), Jannie Wienand (actor), Hans Strydom (actor),

Genres: Thriller,

Get Smart, Again! (1989)

Actors: Leonard Stern (writer), Kenneth Mars (actor), Leonard Stern (writer), Harold Gould (actor), Don Adams (actor), Gary Nelson (director), Leonard Stern (producer), Fritz Feld (actor), Jim Antonio (actor), Bernie Kopell (actor), Bernie Kopell (actor), John de Lancie (actor), Richard Gautier (actor), Danny Goldman (actor), Jon Jashni (producer),

Plot: Maxwell Smart is called back to duty as KAOS is back causing trouble again, this time with a 'weather machine'. Although instructed to keep his mission secret from his wife, 99, Max can't keep hiding from her forever, and soon the two are working together again in this second Maxwell Smart movie.

Keywords: 1980s, agent, american-intelligence, american-secret-service, based-on-tv-series, character-name-in-title, comic, espionage, farce, female-agent
Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: Max and 99 are back, facing death at every turn and loving it! [Video Australia]

Quotes:

[last lines]::Maxwell Smart: 99, I love you better than the whole world. Would you believe it? The whole world.::Agent 99: Yes Max, I believe it. [they kiss]

Conrad Siegfried: All right, Major, what happened? Why did we not get the Hottentot papers?::Maj. Waterhouse: Errrrr...::Conrad Siegfried: We don't ERRRRRR here!

Beamish: Mr. Smart, may I say that you have been the highlight of my entire career!::Maxwell Smart: Thank you! And how long have you been with the company?::Beamish: Three days!

Maxwell Smart: Could you speak a little louder, sir? They're throwing dirt in my grave.

Agent 99: You met the President! What's he like?::Maxwell Smart: Everything you'd expect!::Agent 99: Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.

Cmdr. Drury: Smart, you appear to be in pretty good shape, do you work out?::Maxwell Smart: I jog one hundred miles every day! Would you believe it? One hundred miles!::Cmdr. Drury: I find that hard to believe.::Maxwell Smart: Would you believe fifty?::Cmdr. Drury: No!::Maxwell Smart: How about two push ups and a deep breath?

Maxwell Smart: Missed it by *that* much.

Agent 99: Oh, Max. You let him get away. Did you get a look at his face?::Maxwell Smart: If that was his face he has a huge cleft in his chin!

Agent 13: What's our assignment? Find Hotentot?::Maxwell Smart: 13! How did you know that?::Agent 13: I still got my contacts, Max. I got a friend inside the White House, really inside. She's in the plumbing!

Larrabee: You mean you and Siegfried are triplets?::Prof. Helmut Schmelding: No, there are three of us.::Maxwell Smart: You mean to tell me that you have another brother who looks exactly like you and Siegfried?::Prof. Helmut Schmelding: No, a sister.::Larrabee: I bet she has a tough time getting dates.

The Terror of the Tongs (1961)

Actors: Michael Carreras (producer), Ric Young (actor), Ewen Solon (actor), Harold Goodwin (actor), Tom Gill (actor), Cyril Shaps (actor), Marie Burke (actress), Burt Kwouk (actor), Roger Delgado (actor), Christopher Lee (actor), Richard Leech (actor), Charles Lloyd Pack (actor), Marne Maitland (actor), Anthony Bushell (director), Jimmy Sangster (writer),

Plot: A secret society of Hong-Kong at the beginning of the century called "The Red Dragon Tong" kidnaps the captain of a ship in the harbour of Hong-Kong as he tries to detain the killers of his daughter. Because the secret society is very powerful it is not easy to free him from their hands.

Keywords: assassination, axe-in-the-chest, bare-chested-male-bondage, captain, casino, dancing-girl, death-of-daughter, extortion, gambling, gang-lord
Genres: Adventure, Horror, Thriller,
Taglines: Deadliest, Diabolical Brotherhood of Terror! Drug-crazed assassins carrying out their hate-filled ritual! NOW YOU CAN SEE SPINE-TINGLING TONG TERROR! (original print ad - all caps) THE SECRET SOCIETY OF THE RED DRAGON CRUSHES MILLIONS OF HELPLESS PEOPLE IN ITS GREEDY POWERFUL CLAWS...NO ONE IS SAFE FROM ITS DRUG-CRAZED HATCHETMEN...NOT EVEN YOU!!! (original print ad - all caps) THE BONE BLEEDING NEEDLE TORTURE BY THE TONGS! (original print ad - all caps) THE MAN MARKED FOR VIOLENT MURDER BY THE TONGS! (original print ad - all caps) THE SENSUOUS PLEASURE-GIRL OWNED BY THE TONGS! (original print ad - all caps) They were the Oldest Secret Cult in the World... And the Most Fendish! Terror stalks the street of opium dreams...

Quotes:

The Tong Leader: Have you ever had your bones scraped, Captain? It is painful in the extreme I can assure you.

Mr. Ming: [to Jackson] A witness too frightened to talk is no witness at all.

Tang How - Tong Leader's Aide: Why is it these Occidentals indulge their vices the same way they run their lives, full of noise and vulgarity?::The Tong Leader: It's fortunate that they should choose to indulge in these vices. It gives us the opportunity to gratify them.

Tang How - Tong Leader's Aide: The police have been called in.::The Tong Leader: The police? The police have been ineffectual for the last hundred years, and will doubtless continue to be so.

Tang Hao, tong enforcer: [to Jackson as he fakes illness to pull a gun] You underestimate the Oriental mind, Captain. The Chinese theater is the oldest in the world.

The Tong Leader: He that loves pleasure shall by pleasure fall.

The Scamp (1957)

Actors: Geoffrey Keen (actor), Sam Kydd (actor), Richard Attenborough (actor), Bernard Gribble (editor), Charles Lloyd Pack (actor), Victor Brooks (actor), Margaretta Scott (actress), Dorothy Alison (actress), Roger Avon (actor), Splinters Deason (miscellaneous crew), Wolf Rilla (writer), Wolf Rilla (director), Francis Chagrin (composer), Terence Morgan (actor), Jill Adams (actress),

Genres: Drama,

The Wrong Road (1937)

Actors: James A. Marcus (actor), Gladden James (actor), Billy Bevan (actor), Lionel Atwill (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Chester Clute (actor), Richard Cramer (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), Sidney Bracey (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor), Rex Evans (actor), Gordon Hart (actor), Arthur Hoyt (actor), Selmer Jackson (actor), Horace McMahon (actor),

Plot: A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.

Keywords: bank, cell-mate, embezzlement, hidden-loot, husband-wife-relationship, insurance-investigator
Genres: Crime, Drama,

Tarzan and His Mate (1934)

Actors: Ray Corrigan (miscellaneous crew), Desmond Roberts (actor), Jack Conway (director), Neil Hamilton (actor), Ray Corrigan (actor), Leon Gordon (writer), Paul Cavanagh (actor), William Stack (actor), Johnny Weissmuller (actor), Yola d'Avril (actress), Maureen O'Sullivan (actress), Forrester Harvey (actor), Paul Porcasi (actor), Edgar Rice Burroughs (writer), James Kevin McGuinness (writer),

Plot: In the first sequel to Tarzan, the Ape Man, Harry Holt returns to Africa to head up a large ivory expedition. This time he brings his womanizing friend Marlin Arlington. Holt also harbors ideas about convincing Jane to return to London. When Holt and Arlington show Jane some of the modern clothes and perfumes they brought from civilization, she is impressed but not enough to return. Tarzan wrestles every wild animal imaginable to protect Jane but when he disallows the expedition from plundering ivory from the elephant burial grounds, it is he who takes a bullet from Arlington's gun. Jane eventually believes that Tarzan is dead but he is nursed back to health by the apes. As Jane and the returning expedition are attacked by violent natives, we wonder if Tarzan can rescue them yet again.

Keywords: africa, attempted-murder, bare-chested-male, character-name-in-title, chimpanzee, crocodile, duplicity, elephant, english, fashion
Genres: Action, Adventure,
Taglines: Johnny Weismuller is back again!

Quotes:

Tarzan: Good morning, I love you.::Jane Parker: Good morning, I love you. You never forget, do you, Tarzan?::Tarzan: Never forget... I love you.::Jane Parker: Love who?::Tarzan: Love you.::Jane Parker: Love who?::Tarzan: Love Jane.::Jane Parker: Love... my...::Tarzan: Love my... wife. My wife!

[first lines]::Beamish: I wouldn't trust meself in that jungle if it was me, sir.::Harry Holt: Well, I will.

Martin Arlington: But he's got to understand. Every penny we've got in the world is tied up in this.::Jane Parker: Tarzan knows nothing about money. That wouldn't mean anything to him.::Harry Holt: Well, what's the harm? They're all dead. [referring to the elephants in the Elephants Graveyard]::Jane Parker: It's as thought somebody asked you to rob a graveyard back home.::Martin Arlington: But these are animals. They're not humans. This is different.::Jane Parker: Not to him.

Jane Parker: I belong with him.

Martin Arlington: Dead men can't give orders.::Harry Holt: Yes they can.

[last lines]::Tarzan: Always gone. [holding up his wrist, referring to a lost bracelet Jane had give him "for always"]::Jane Parker: No dear, always is just beginning, for you and me.

Jane Parker: The best weapon a woman has is a man's imagination.

Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)

Actors: Dick Foran (actor), Carlton Griffin (actor), Stepin Fetchit (actor), Edward Earle (actor), Morris Ankrum (actor), James Dunn (actor), Scotty Beckett (actor), George K. Arthur (actor), Wallis Clark (actor), John Boles (actor), Warner Baxter (actor), John Davidson (actor), Nigel Bruce (actor), Harry Dunkinson (actor), John Hamilton (actor),

Plot: President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his department.

Keywords: criticism, entertainer, government, great-depression, imperative-in-title, lobbyist, u.s.-president, washington-d.c.
Genres: Comedy, Musical,

Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)

Actors: Ray Corrigan (actor), Neil Hamilton (actor), Forrester Harvey (actor), C. Aubrey Smith (actor), Johnny Weissmuller (actor), Doris Lloyd (actress), Maureen O'Sullivan (actress), Irving Thalberg (producer), Edgar Rice Burroughs (writer), W.S. Van Dyke (director), Ben Lewis (editor), Ivor Novello (writer), Cyril Hume (writer), Bernard H. Hyman (producer), Tom Held (editor),

Plot: James Parker and Harry Holt are on an expedition in Africa in search of the elephant burial grounds that will provide enough ivory to make them rich. Parker's beautiful young daughter Jane arrives unexpectedly to join them. Harry is obviously attracted to Jane and he does his best to help protect her from all the dangers that they experience in the jungle. Jane is terrified when Tarzan and his ape friends first abduct her, but when she returns to her father's expedition she has second thoughts about leaving Tarzan. After the expedition is captured by a tribe of violent dwarfs, Jane sends Cheetah to bring Tarzan to rescue them...

Keywords: africa, alligator, animal-in-title, ape, bare-chested-male, based-on-novel, big-game, character-name-in-title, chimpanzee, climbing-a-tree
Genres: Action, Adventure, Romance,
Taglines: You Will Hail It As The Year's Biggest Screen Thrill! MORE THRILLS THAN "TRADER HORN" (original ad - all caps) Breathless Romance Defying Convention He Knew Only The Law Of The Jungle...To Seize What He Wanted A Glorious New Thrill! Sensational M G M Picture! With Johnny Weissmuller the swimming Adonis, as Tarzan - Maureen O'Sullivan - Neil Hamilton Mothered by an ape--He knew only the law of the jungle--to seize what he wanted! An original M.G.M. Hit - Greatest of All!

Quotes:

Jane Parker: Thank you for protecting me.::Tarzan: Me?::Jane Parker: I said, thank you for protecting me.::Tarzan: [points at Jane] Me?::Jane Parker: No. I'm only "Me" for me.::Tarzan: [points at Jane] Me.::Jane Parker: No. To you, I'm "You."::Tarzan: [points at himself] You.::Jane Parker: No...::[Thinks for a second]::Jane Parker: I'm Jane Parker. Understand? Jane, Jane.::Tarzan: [points at Jane] Jane, Jane.::Jane Parker: Yes, Jane. And you?::[Tarzan stares]::Jane Parker: [points at herself] Jane.::Tarzan: Jane.::Jane Parker: [points at Tarzan] And you?::Tarzan: Tarzan. Tarzan.::Jane Parker: Tarzan...

We Moderns (1925)

Actors: Tom McGuire (actor), John Francis Dillon (director), Clarissa Selwynne (actress), June Mathis (writer), Claude Gillingwater (actor), Jack Mulhall (actor), Marcelle Corday (actress), Colleen Moore (actress), Blanche Payson (actress), Mervyn LeRoy (miscellaneous crew), Carl Miller (actor), Louis Payne (actor), John McCormick (miscellaneous crew), John McCormick (producer), J. Edwin Robbins (editor),

Plot: A rebellious young British flapper goes against the old-fashioned views of her parents. Although she is attracted to a stable, hard-working engineer named John, she begins a flirtatious relationship with married writer Oscar, who sees her as nothing more than another notch on his bedpost. John and her parents try to dissuade her from carrying on with Oscar, but the more they try, the more determined she becomes to pursue him. Complications ensue.

Keywords: aviation, jazz-age, london-england, lost-film
Genres: Comedy,