First lieutenant

Pathfinders: In the Company of Strangers (2011)

Actors: Faouzi Brahimi (producer), David Poland (actor), Catherine Johnson (actress), Suzanne Owens-Duval (actress), Hugh Daly (producer), Jon Ashley Hall (actor), James Robinson (producer), Jason Atkins (actor), Philip De Lorenzo (actor), Travis Mason (actor), Philip De Lorenzo (composer), Dan Kyle (actor), Ryan Findley (actor), Monterey Morrissey (actor), Kyle Armstrong (actor),

Plot: Untold and lost history. A true story of the American Pathfinders, the volunteer paratroopers whose deadly mission was to land 30 minutes before the Normandy invasion, locate and mark strategic "drop zones" and set up the top-secret navigation equipment needed to guide the main airborne assault on D-Day.

Genres: Action, Drama, History, War,
Taglines: Behind enemy lines, alone, with a single mission. This top secret mission was vital to the success of the entire D-Day invasion. Mission failure meant the lives of thousands, it was up to these men to pull it off.

Passazhirka (2008)

Actors: Stanislav Govorukhin (director), Stanislav Govorukhin (actor), Roman Madyanov (actor), Sergey Nikonenko (actor), Viktor Sukhorukov (actor), Marat Basharov (actor), Sergey Batalov (actor), Fyodor Dobronravov (actor), Pyotr Zaychenko (actor), Sergej Ashkenazy (writer), Ivan Agapov (actor), Marina Orlova (actress), Irina Pegova (actress), Nikita Efremov (actor), Anna Gorshkova (actress),

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Sorstalanság (2005)

Actors: Vilmos Kun (actor), Ádám Rajhona (actor), Waléra Kanischtscheff (actor), Péter Haumann (actor), Andor Lukáts (actor), Gábor Máté (actor), Tamás Dunai (actor), Endre Harkányi (actor), Zoltán Bezerédy (actor), Daniel Craig (actor), Miklós Benedek (actor), Lajos Kovács (actor), János Bán (actor), Miklós Székely B. (actor), József Szarvas (actor),

Plot: An Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its Jewish occupants sent to camps. There, György find camaraderie, suffering, cruelty, illness, and death. He hears advice on preserving one's dignity and self-esteem. He discovers hatred. If he does survive and returns to Budapest, what will he find? What is natural; what is it to be a Jew? Sepia, black and white, and color alternate to shade the mood.

Keywords: 1940s, absurdism, air-raid, air-raid-siren, aircraft-production, airplane, anger, anti-semitism, arbeitslager, arrest
Genres: Drama, War,
Taglines: You can close your eyes. You can turn away. But you will never forget.

Quotes:

[first lines]::Narrator: [narrating] I didn't go to school today. Well, if only to ask my teacher to let me go home. I gave him father's letter. He asked what the reason was. I told him father had been called up for forced labor.

Rozi: So people don't hate you?::György Köves: Who would hate me?::Rozi: Everyone.::György Köves: But why?::Rozi: Because of this! [points at his star]::György Köves: Oh, that? Well, they may hate me, but I don't think it's me they hate. Net me personally, just in general.::Rozi: They hate in general?::György Köves: In general, yes. Not you, not me, but... the idea of a Jew.::Rozi: Great. Because I for one don't really know what that is.

György Köves: [hearing bombers overhead] Will it drop or won't it? That was the question. I just had to recognize the pittance of the stake, so that I could enjoy the game. I was beginning to grasp the simple secret of my universe. I could be killed anywhere, any time.

Bandi Citrom: Know what self esteem is? It's as important as bread and soup.

Man on train: You must have suffered many dreadful things.::György Köves: Depends on what you call dreadful.

Man on train: The main thing is it's over, you survived. What do you feel now you're home again, in the town that you left behind?::György Köves: Hatred.

György Köves: I tried to comfort you, but I had no right because I was a Jew too.::Rozi: Why, what are you now?::György Köves: I don't know. Maybe I don't even exist.

[last lines]::György Köves: [narrating] People only ask about the horrors, whereas I should talk about the happiness of the camps next time, if they ask. If they ask at all. And if I don't forget myself.

Shackleton (2002)

Actors: Frédéric North (miscellaneous crew), Adrian Johnston (composer), Mark Williams (actor), Danny Webb (actor), Ingar Helge Gimle (actor), Matt Wilkinson (actor), Kevin McNally (actor), Pip Torrens (actor), Bjørn Floberg (actor), Robert Hardy (actor), Kenneth Branagh (actor), Ron Donachie (actor), Corin Redgrave (actor), Michael Culkin (actor), Delia Fine (producer),

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History,
Taglines: On the brink of death - courage was his only weapon.

Quotes:

[Answering a question about his 1908-9 expedition]::Sir Ernest Shackleton: Thank you for your question. You are right, sir, we failed. We failed to reach the South Pole. I turned back. I chose life over death for myself and for my friends, which is why I am here to tell you about it tonight. But others follow in our footsteps Captain Scott, taking our route; the Norwegian, Amundsen, from the Bay of Whales. And if they should fail, then I will try again. Because I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure... would be not to explore at all.

Emily Shackleton: Well?::Sir Ernest Shackleton: Well, what?::Emily Shackleton: How did you do?::Sir Ernest Shackleton: Ahh, one invitation to go to the races, and a request from Mr. Morgan's office to keep in touch with developments. A zero, a naught, nothing.::Emily Shackleton: So what's next?::Sir Ernest Shackleton: I don't know. Rent an office and get started, I suppose.

[using the tea-things to demonstrate the planned expedition]::Sir Ernest Shackleton: And there we will, uh, make a base, and a smaller party will start a march towards the, um...::Janet Stancombe Wills: Scone.::Sir Ernest Shackleton: Ah, ah, the scone, precisely. At the same time a second group will land on the other side of the continent, uh, the Ross Sea, and make their way across the Beardmore Glacier towards the Pole, I-I-I mean the, uh, scone, um, laying food depots[he uses crumbs] as they go, so that my party will have supplies for the second half...[and at this point the dog jumps onto the tableau and starts eating it]

Sir Ernest Shackleton: Yes, well, uh, thank you for seeing me, and, uh, perhaps you will be able to give some thought to the possibility of becoming a sponsor.::Janet Stancombe Wills: Sir Ernest, my contribution towards your exciting adventure is over there on the desk. Please. I'm not the sort of woman to waste a man's time.::Sir Ernest Shackleton: Miss Stancombe Wills, I don't know how to thank you.::Janet Stancombe Wills: By succeeding, of course. And perhaps by addressing me in future as Janet.

Sir Ernest Shackleton: But grateful as I am for the generous contribution of this society, this committee must accept that scientists do not pay for science. I make no apology for seeking publicity. Without something that the newsmen can understand and support, there is no public; without the public there are no sponsors; without sponsorship there is *no expedition*.

Sir Ernest Shackleton: You think the threat of war makes it hard to raise money; it doesn't make any bloody difference! If it's not a war, it's a peace, or the stock market, or the weather, or the time of year. It is always hard, because what I do appears unreasonable to other men.

Sir James Caird: After this conversation, I realize there is only one option open to me if I am to protect myself and my money. This is a cheque for £24,000. If I were to give you less, the expedition might never happen, and my money would be wasted. I do not like waste. I particularly do not like to see a man's abilities wasted.

Sir Ernest Shackleton: First let me say that if war is declared, any man who wishes to leave the expedition to serve his country is free to do so. It is clear to me where our first duty lies, and this morning I telegraphed the First Lord of the Admiralty and put our ship, and every one of us, at his disposal. We now await his decision. I hope you will forgive me, but I particularly asked that if he saw fit to employ us in the service of our country, that might he allow us to stay together, erhaps aboard a destroyer. I did this because I can honestly think of no finer group of men with whom to serve.

[reading the telegram]::Sir Ernest Shackleton: From Winston Churchill. There's only one word; Proceed.

Janet Stancombe Wills: A rich old lady gets used to people not telling her the truth; flattering her, perhaps. But you've never done that. You've always paid me the compliment of speaking from your heart; now allow me to do the same. Go to the Pole. Go before it's too late. Not everyone is fortunate enough to understand their own talent, but you know yours. Well, use it. For your family, and for your country.

Fireball Forward (1972)

Actors: Curt Lowens (actor), Dana Elcar (actor), Kenneth Tobey (actor), Loretta Swit (actress), Anne Francis (actress), Marvin J. Chomsky (director), L.Q. Jones (actor), Eddie Albert (actor), Ben Gazzara (actor), Ricardo Montalban (actor), Edward Binns (actor), Robert Patten (actor), Richard Yniguez (actor), Lionel Newman (composer), Edmund H. North (writer),

Genres: Action, Drama, War,

Quotes:

Maj. Gen. Joe Barrett: I did not come here because I was better or smarter than General Dawson. I'm here because I was a dogface once, and I'm supposed to have a better understanding of the men. I'm also a dropkick, so you might have a problem with the way I talk - but I guarantee you, you won't have a problem understanding me. Now I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S WRONG AROUND HERE, BUT THERE'S AN ODOR OF DECAYING MORALE THAT I CAN SMELL A MILE AWAY! Men who FEEL licked are gonna GET licked!

Cook: Let's go! Let's go! I ain't got all day! Come on, stupid, come on! [Notices that the next man holding out his mess kit to him is none other than the general] Oh, I'm sorry, sir, I didn't recognize you... Hey, quick! Get something special for the general!::Maj. Gen. Joe Barrett: I want some of that. [Cook hesitatingly ladles some stew into Barrett's messkit bowl. Barrett takes one forkful, spits it out, and sets his messkit on the table] I wouldn't feed this to a starving buzzard. [dumps the whole pot of stew onto the ground] Call HQ and have some hot chow sent up here right away.::Capt. Tony Sanchez: Yes, sir. [And the men around them give a loud cheer]

Maj. Gen. Joe Barrett: So hey, what's this about you being a G-2?::Col. Douglas Graham: Well, when you're too old for command, and too young to retire, and too stupid to do anything else, there's only one place for you in this man's Army - Intelligence!

Maj. Gen. Joe Barrett: If you wanna smoke... get in the bottom of the hole. I could see that cigarette five miles away!

GI #2: Give 'em hell, General.::Maj. Gen. Joe Barrett: You got the rifle, YOU give 'em hell.

Wintermärchen (1971)

Actors: Walter Buschhoff (actor), Angelika Bender (actress), Laurens Straub (writer), Ulf von Mechow (producer), Ulf von Mechow (writer), Ulf von Mechow (director), Barbara Mondry (editor), Sigi Schwab (composer), Elfie Tillack (editor), Kasimir Esser (actor), Johannes Esser (actor), David Heinemann (actor), Gaby Straub (actress),

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Further Up the Creek (1958)

Actors: Edwin Richfield (actor), Michael Ripper (actor), Charles Lloyd Pack (actor), Michael Goodliffe (actor), Eric Pohlmann (actor), Tom Gill (actor), Desmond Llewelyn (actor), Ballard Berkeley (actor), Basil Dignam (actor), Patrick Holt (actor), Frankie Howerd (actor), David Lodge (actor), Lionel Jeffries (actor), Sam Kydd (actor), John Singer (actor),

Genres: Comedy,

Kansas Raiders (1950)

Actors: Robert Anderson (actor), Sam Flint (actor), Richard Arlen (actor), Chet Brandenburg (actor), Ralph Bucko (actor), James Best (actor), Scott Brady (actor), George Chandler (actor), Tex Cooper (actor), Tony Curtis (actor), Charles Delaney (actor), Brian Donlevy (actor), Richard Egan (actor), Roy Bucko (actor), Al Haskell (actor),

Plot: Audie Murphy plays a young Jesse James falling under the Svengali-like spell of the outlaw William Quantrill, played by Brian Donlevy. Jesse and his youthful gang join the rebels to avenge the death of his parents only to become disillusioned with the senseless violence and looting of innocent civilians. Goaded by Quantrill's girl to leave, Jesse vacillates until the Yankess close in. Quantrill forces Jesse to leave and faces the Yankess gunfire alone. Jesse rides off with his gang and the rest is history.

Keywords: 1860s, ambush, anti-hero, army, arson, atrocity, b-western, bank-robbery, barn, based-on-true-story
Genres: Action, Adventure, War, Western,
Taglines: THE FURIOUS, FIGHTING STORY OF QUANTRILL'S GUERILLAS! (original print ad - all caps) The historic Lawrence, Kansas raid...aflame again in all its fury!

Quotes:

William Clarke Quantrill: [to Jesse] Napoleon made the profound observation that an army travels on its stomach. I suggest you fortify yours if you hope to be of any use to us.

Kit Dalton: I'm thinking this may not be the sweetest smelling way to live, but it's downright better than walking behind a plow.

William Clarke Quantrill: My dear Kate, I'm too old a man to have any illusions about the constancy of women or to be seriously disturbed by the lack of it, but when your intrigues start interfering with my plans, that's something else again.

Cole Younger: Like my old pappy used to say, 'A hog that straddles a fence ain't likely to wind up no place.

William Clarke Quantrill: There are some things a woman simply cannot understand.

[last lines]::Narrator: And so into the pages of crime history rode five young men: Kit Dalton, Cole and Jim Younger, Frank and Jesse James, five whose warped lives were to be a heritage from their teacher, William Clarke Quantrill.

This Land Is Mine (1943)

Actors: Sam Harris (actor), Sam Harris (actor), John Banner (actor), Trevor Bardette (actor), Tommy Bond (actor), Thurston Hall (actor), Ludwig Donath (actor), Bobby Burns (actor), George M. Carleton (actor), Wheaton Chambers (actor), Gordon B. Clarke (actor), George Coulouris (actor), Sven Hugo Borg (actor), John Dilson (actor), Otto Hoffman (actor),

Plot: In a Nazi-occupied French town, meek and mild-mannered teacher Albert Lory lives with his mother. Few people, including his students, have any respect for him and he literally shakes in his boots during an air raid. He is quite friendly with his fellow teacher, Louise Martin and her brother Paul who also happen to be neighbors. If truth be told, Albert is quite in love with Louise but she is in a relationship with George Lambert and he feels she is quite beyond his reach. Paul is a member of the resistance and is killed when Lambert informs the Nazis. Outraged at what he's done, Albert arrives at Lambert's office just as the informer commits suicide. Albert is charged with murder but the local Nazi commander, Major Erich von Keller, offers him a deal: if Albert agrees to remain silent rather then continue a speech in his own defense which is arousing fellow citizens, he will ensure a not guilty verdict. Albert returns to the courtroom and in an act of bravery urges his fellow citizens to fight their oppressors.

Keywords: aerial-bombing, air-raid, air-raid-shelter, anti-semitism, anti-unionist, arrest, black-market, bomb, bombing, book
Genres: Drama, War,

Quotes:

Professor Sorel: It's very difficult surgical operation. Cut the heart out without killing the patient. The history of our country, however, is a very tough old patient, and we'll do the best we can.

Mrs. Emma Lory: Why don't they bomb Germany, young woman?::Louise Martin: Every factory and railroad in Europe is Germany, Mrs. Lory, until the Germans are driven out.

Paul Martin: You told?::George Lambert: [Quickly] Yes. Why did you do it, Paul?::Paul Martin: Why did YOU do it, George?::George Lambert: [after a pause] Don't look at me!::Paul Martin: You're looking at yourself, George, and that's what you can't stand. You can't stand it, and that's why you're warning me. Thanks, Georg. [He leaves]

Albert Lory: Well, the truth is I wanted to kill George Lambert, but I don't think I could have done it. I'm too weak. I'm a coward. Well, everyone knows it; even the prosecutor. That's why he's making fun of me.

[At Albert Lory's murder trial, the Prosecutor produces a "suicide note," proving that George Lambert killed himself. But Lory will not have it]::Albert Lory: The letter's forged, Your Honor. Major Von Keller told me last night... The prosecutor wrote that letter himself. I think he's trying to save my life.::[laughter ripples through the courtroom]::Prosecutor: This is no laughing matter! Your Honor, for the sake of the dignity of this court, I respectfully ask that the man who started that unseemly outburst be forcibly removed from the room!::Judge: The court agrees with you, Mr. Prosecutor! Which of you started that laughter? Please stand up.::[Silence. No one in the courtroom stands up]::Judge: I ask you again, who started that laughter?::Albert Lory: Excuse me, Your Honor. I don't know, but I think I can guess. Perhaps it was the Unknown Soldier.

Treason (1933)

Actors: Hank Bell (actor), Charles Brinley (actor), Nick Cogley (actor), Rube Dalroy (actor), Frank Ellis (actor), Robert Ellis (actor), Archie Ricks (actor), Dick Rush (actor), Silver (actor), Edwin Stanley (actor), Irving Briskin (producer), George B. Seitz (director), Otto Meyer (editor), Buck Jones (actor), Frank Lackteen (actor),

Plot: Joan Randall ('Shirley Grey' (qv)), leader of a band of Confederate Sympathizers, has established the Republic of South Kansas in 1870. Her object is to recover lands she knows were unjustly stolen following the Civil War. The government seeks her arrest for treason, murder, and arson and has posted a $10,000 reward for her capture dead or alive. General Hawthorne ('Charles Hill Mailes' (qv)), at Fort Franklin, orders his famous scout, Jeff Connors ('Buck Jones (I)' (qv)), to bring in Joan. Connors learns that Chet Dawson ('Frank Lackteen' (qv)), a desperado, whom Joan has never seen, with a large force of men is expected to join Randall at her camp. Jeff captures Dawson and decides to impersonate him. Dawson has the brand of the Sioux (as a squaw-stealer)on his back and in order to carry off his deception Jeff submits to being branded. Randall accepts him without question but her aide, Colonel Jedcott ('Robert Ellis (I)' (qv)), has his suspicions. Dawson escapes and his on his way to warn Randall and, while pursuing Jeff and the girl, wounds Joan. He and Jeff have a fight on the brink of a precipice and Dawson is knocked over edge and killed. Jeff, in spite of now having fallen in love with Joan and knowing that Jedcott and O'Leary ('Ivor McFadden' (qv)) are the real culprits, is obliged to arrest her. Joan is sentenced to death and Jeff rides to get a pardon from the state Governor.

Keywords: 1870s, action-hero, arrest, b-movie, b-western, brand, camp, colonel, damsel-in-distress, death
Genres: Action, Adventure, Romance, Western,
Taglines: High Speed Thrills and Reckless Romance A government scout tracks a beautiful but dangerous rebel...and then falls in love with her! THUNDERING THROUGH THRILLS AND DANGER...TO TAKE A WOMAN REBEL WHOSE BEAUTY TOOK HIS HEART...(original poster-all caps) Breakneck ADVENTURE - Breathless THRILLS (original print ad) To love her was to be a traitor to his country! The defender of a woman who defied his government and stole his heart!