RocknRolla (2008)

Actors: David Sterne (actor), Elizabeth West (miscellaneous crew), Tom Wilkinson (actor), Mark Strong (actor), Kyle Cooper (miscellaneous crew), Joel Silver (producer), Karel Roden (actor), Ludacris (actor), Gerard Butler (actor), Jeremy Piven (actor), Idris Elba (actor), Thandie Newton (actress), Tom Hardy (actor), Ronald J. Levin (miscellaneous crew), Patrick Isherwood (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Lenny Cole, a London mob boss, puts the bite on all local real estate transactions. For substantial fees, he's helping Uri Omovich, a Russian developer. As a sign of good faith, Omovich loans Cole a valuable painting, promptly stolen off Cole's wall. While Cole's men, led by the dependable Archie, look for the canvas, three local petty criminals, the Wild Bunch, steal money from the Russian using inside information from his accountant, the lovely Stella. Meanwhile, a local drug-addled rocker, Johnny Quid, is reported drowned, and his connection to Cole is the key to unraveling the deceits and double crosses of life in the underworld.

Keywords: accountant, altered-version-of-studio-logo, anti-hero, art-theft, axe, bag-over-head, bare-chested-male, beating, black-comedy, blood-splatter
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller,
Taglines: A story of sex, thugs and rock 'n roll.

Quotes:

Lenny Cole: I thought you lot drink vodka.::Uri: Whisky is the new vodka.::Lenny Cole: You're not joining me?::Uri: I don't drink.

Johnny Quid: [Archie has Johnnie Quid by his lapels and backed up against the wall] Don't hurt me Arch... I'm only little!

[first lines]::Archie: People ask the question... what's a RocknRolla? And I tell 'em - it's not about drums, drugs, and hospital drips, oh no. There's more there than that, my friend. We all like a bit of the good life - some the money, some the drugs, others the sex game, the glamour, or the fame. But a RocknRolla, oh, he's different. Why? Because a real RocknRolla wants the fucking lot.

One Two: Hello?::Stella: It's me?::One Two: Who?::Stella: ME.::One Two: Ahh. Well, what do you want?::Stella: You.::One Two: Well, you had better come in then.

Pete: I'I'm sorry. I thought you might've liked a bit of company.::Johnny Quid: I'm dead, Pete. What does that tell you? It tells you that dead people don't like company.

Lenny Cole: [wearing a hat, suit, and glasses] What d'you think we are? Gangsters?

Johnny Quid: No need to worry just yet, boys. They're not going to do it while we're standing in the lift. Because then they'd have to carry the corpses to the cars, and that seems too much like hard work. In about two minutes there, Danny boy there is gonna turn and pop me two in the head, then one in the throat just to be sure. You shouldn't have brought me here, fellas, you're just going to end up as witnesses. Once they've "dealt" with us, they will put our corpses in the boot of a stolen car, then pour six gallons of petrol on the car. I'll let your imagination do the rest. Now, Danny boy here is rattled, because he knows that you know. And so, he's going to fight.::[Danny turns, but a forewarned Mickey and Roman manage to kill him and his friend]::Johnny Quid: Pass me the gun, Mickey. Quickly. QUICKLY! Don't worry, he can't defend himself, he's got no head!

Lenny Cole: He tried to poison me, that dirty Cossack!

Lenny Cole: Archie, slap him, send him to school, 'cause I can't take no more of this.

One Two: Nice shoes by the way.::Stella: Thank you. You will be able to afford a pair of your own in a couple of days.

Manderlay (2005)

Actors: Gunnar Carlsson (producer), Chloë Sevigny (actress), Isaach De Bankolé (actor), Lauren Bacall (actress), Michael André (producer), Humbert Balsan (producer), Zeljko Ivanek (actor), Jean-Marc Barr (actor), Danny Glover (actor), Udo Kier (actor), Willem Dafoe (actor), John Hurt (actor), Michaël Abiteboul (actor), Peter Aalbæk Jensen (producer), Tomas Eskilsson (producer),

Plot: After gangster Mulligan's cars colony, fleeing northern justice, finds a hiding place in Alabama, spoiled, naive daughter Grace refuses to travel on after seeing the Manderlay cotton plantation being run under slavery rules, called Mam's law, inclusive flogging. She keeps half of dad's goons as guard to force the dying matriarch-owner's heirs, which she shamelessly dispossesses and reduces to 'staff', to taste destitution under absurd, gun-imposed contracts. The 'slaves' are made free partners, supposed to vote for progress after lessons from Grace. But almost all her democracy-pupils prove fickle, dumb and selfish, except old Willem. Her and their ignorance in Southern planting and crafty Dixie ways means more problems are created then solved. By the time dad returns to pick her up or abandon her for good, she's the one who has learned and changed the most.

Keywords: 1930s, actress-breaking-typecast, actual-animal-killed, alabama, arson, art, bare-butt, bare-chested-male, beating, bed
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: A case of mistaken identity Liberation. Whether They Want It Or Not.

Quotes:

[first lines]::Narrator: It was in the year of 1933, when Grace and her father were heading southward with their army of gangsters.

[last lines]::Narrator: America had proffered its hand, discreetly perhaps, if anybody refused to see a helping hand he really only had himself to blame.

Mam: I beg you, one woman to another.::Grace Margaret Mulligan: Woman to woman, makes no difference to me. The sins of the past are sins I cannot and do not wish to help you erase.

Grace Margaret Mulligan: There's nothing to be afraid of. We've taken all of the family's weapons.::Wilhelm: No. I'm afraid of what will happen now. I feel we ain't ready - for a completely new way of life. At Manderlay we slaves took supper at seven. When do people take supper when they're free? We don't know these things.

Grace Margaret Mulligan: Listen, Mr. Hector, let me just say that I have never met a man who I've instantly despised so wholeheartedly, both for his personality and his occupation.::Dr. Hector: Does that mean you're turning down my offer?

Grace Margaret Mulligan: Dammit Wilhelm, they're not free. That's what matters.::Wilhelm: I'd call that a philosophical argument.

Grace Margaret Mulligan: You think the Negroes wanted to leave their homes in Africa, wasn't it us who brought them to America? We have done them a great wrong. It's our abuses which made them what they are.

Grace Margaret Mulligan: [confused after a womans cry for help] What are you talking about? Who are they gonna whip?::Flora: Timothy!::Grace Margaret Mulligan: Why?::Flora: That's how they do us slaves.::Grace Margaret Mulligan: Slaves?::Flora: Yes ma'am, surely you have heard of slaves? That's what we is at Manderlay, this godforsaken place.

Wilhelm: Just as you thought the notion of community would be good for us, you were so sure that you've permitted yourself to use force to convince us. I'd be sorry if we have to do likewise.::Grace Margaret Mulligan: What do you mean? Do you intend to keep me prisoner?::Wilhelm: Only until you understand what you wanted us to understand. The gate has been repaired and is closed. The fences are in good shape, but of course they aint particularly high. Those fences... come on. Two men with a rusty shot gun and a toy pistol. How dumb do you really think we are?

Timothy: You are forgetting one thing.::Grace Margaret Mulligan: What's that?::Timothy: You made us.

Sword of Honour (2001)

Actors: Richard Morrison (miscellaneous crew), Robert Pugh (actor), Greg Bennett (actor), Leslie Phillips (actor), Julian Rhind-Tutt (actor), Daniel Craig (actor), William Hope (actor), Simon Williams (actor), Dean Wares (miscellaneous crew), Stephen Mangan (actor), Norman Campbell Rees (miscellaneous crew), Norman Campbell Rees (actor), Richard Coyle (actor), Simon Chandler (actor), Christopher Benjamin (actor),

Plot: Guy Crouchback,heir to a declining English Roman Catholic family returns to England from Italy at the start of World War Two and joins the Royal Corps of Halberdiers,along with various eccentrics though his attempts to get back with his wife Virginia,from whom he is separated,fail. After being implicated in a colleague's death he is sent to train a commando brigade on a Scottish island and ends up on Crete,taking part in its evacuation and escaping to Egypt with fellow officers Ludovic and Ivor Claire. He is returned to England courtesy of Mrs Stitch to possibly prevent him from naming Claire as a deserter. Guy marries Virginia a second time by which timer she has a child by ex-lover Trimmer. Whilst Guy is in Yugoslavia having a confusing time with the partisans Virginia is killed,along with Guy's uncle Peregrine,by a doodlebug bomb. Guy returns to England after getting involved in charitable agencies and eventually remarries.

Keywords: based-on-novel
Genres: Drama, War,

Black Christmas (1977)

Actors: Stephen Frears (director), Stefan Kalipha (actor), Peter Ansorge (miscellaneous crew), Carmen Munroe (actress), Norman Beaton (actor), Tara Prem (producer), Andrew Page (editor), Michael Abbensetts (writer), Shope Shodeinde (actress), Janet Bartley (actress), Linda Goddard (actress),

Genres: Drama,

Comment ne pas épouser un milliardaire (1966)

Actors: Louis Velle (actor), René Havard (actor), Jacques Sereys (actor), Pierre Tornade (actor), Philippe Castelli (actor), Harry-Max (actor), Fernand Sardou (actor), Jean-Jacques Delbo (actor), Georges Aminel (actor), Bernard Musson (actor), Michel Nastorg (actor), Jean Galland (actor), Jean-Claude Pascal (actor), Paul Pavel (actor), Geneviève Fontanel (actress),

Genres: Comedy,

Robinson soll nicht sterben (1957)

Actors: Mario Adorf (actor), Horst Buchholz (actor), Günther Lüders (actor), Joseph Offenbach (actor), Karl-Heinz Peters (actor), Erich Ponto (actor), Rudolf Rhomberg (actor), Rudolf Vogel (actor), Mathias Wieman (actor), Elisabeth Flickenschildt (actress), Magda Schneider (actress), Romy Schneider (actress), Charlotte Flemming (costume designer), Gert Fröbe (actor), Ernst Fritz Fürbringer (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Riding High (1950)

Actors: Edgar Dearing (actor), Harry Davenport (actor), Bing Crosby (actor), Charles Bickford (actor), Frankie Darro (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), Paul Bradley (actor), Rand Brooks (actor), Benny Burt (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Bill Cartledge (actor), Ward Bond (actor), Harry C. Bradley (actor), William Demarest (actor),

Genres: Comedy,

The Shining Hour (1938)

Actors: Edwin Stanley (actor), Granville Bates (actor), Frank Albertson (actor), Cyril Ring (actor), Charles Coleman (actor), Jimmy Conlin (actor), Ralph Bushman (actor), Harry Barris (actor), Melvyn Douglas (actor), George Chandler (actor), Buddy Messinger (actor), Oscar O'Shea (actor), Frank Puglia (actor), Jack Raymond (actor), E. Alyn Warren (actor),

Genres: Drama, Romance,

Quotes:

Judy Linden: Oh, and if they show any immediate tendency to break an important commandment, whistle, will you?

Judy Linden: Hannah's quoting the bible again. One of these days we're going to put her in all the hotel rooms.

Judy Linden: Oh, your maid got in this morning... she has already been chased by bulls.::Olivia 'Maggie' Riley Linden: Well, don't worry about Belvedere; by tomorrow she'll be chasing them!

Olivia 'Maggie' Riley Linden: [to Henry] If only I liked you a little less and loved you a little more.

Henry Linden: [Referring to Maggie] Hannah, isn't she all I said?::Hannah Linden: [Cattily] I'm sure she is, Henry, and more.

Henry Linden: [Sarcastically] Hannah, why don't you have all your teeth pulled out? It sometimes helps.

Navy Spy (1937)

Actors: Don Barclay (actor), Phil Dunham (actor), Crauford Kent (actor), Conrad Nagel (actor), Crane Wilbur (writer), Joseph H. Lewis (director), Crane Wilbur (director), Tony Martinelli (editor), Edward L. Alperson (miscellaneous crew), George A. Hirliman (producer), Judith Allen (actress), Dan Wolheim (actor), Eleanor Hunt (actress), Howard Lang (actor), Ramon Ros (actor),

Plot: A group of international and American criminals are trying to learn the secret formula of a concentrated vapor fuel invented by a U. S. Navy officer, Lieutenant Dan Carrington ('Jack Doyle (I)' (qv)), who mysteriously disappears. Secret Service agent Alan O'Connor ('Conrad Nagel' (qv)), assisted by federal agent Bobbie Reynolds ('Eleanor Hunt (I)' (qv)), is assigned to the case. Anna Novna ('Judith Allen (I)' (qv)), a nightclub dancer who was involved with Carrington may know more about where Carrington is than she cares to divulge.

Keywords: 1930s, aircraft-carrier, airplane, b-movie, betrayal, cigarette-case, damsel-in-distress, death, disguise, doctor
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: DANGER WAS HIS GAME ---AND THE STAKES---DEATH! (original poster-all caps) A FEARLESS G-MAN ACE SMASHES A DESPERATE BAND OF INTERNATIONAL CROOKS! (original poster-all caps0

Riptide (1934)

Actors: Ralph Forbes (actor), George K. Arthur (actor), Herbert Evans (actor), Barlowe Borland (actor), Bruce Bennett (actor), Robert Bolder (actor), T. Roy Barnes (actor), Walter Brennan (actor), Harry Allen (actor), Robert Adair (actor), Emile Chautard (actor), André Cheron (actor), E.E. Clive (actor), Albert Conti (actor), Otto Fries (actor),

Plot: Park Avenue socialite Mary ('Norma Shearer' (qv)) and staid English nobleman, Lord Phillip Rexford ('Herbert Marshall (I)' (qv)) are married as a lark, but she is very happy for several years with her husband and child. But on a trip to the Riviera she meets again an old flame, Tommie Treal ('Robert Montgomery (I)' (qv)), and under the spell of the sea breezes and the Mediterranean moon (a semi-excuse for adultery to keep Queen Norma's image clean, as this was a post-Production Code film), Mary is the "innocent" victim of a romantic escapade that makes the headlines and the scandal sheets. None of Mary's explanations can soothe Lord Phillip, reaping the fallout of marrying "down", and his cold indifference drives Mary, who fights against it (a minor and feeble struggle at best), closer to Tommie. As the two lovers surrender to their ardor, Lord R. learns from his secretary that Mary had been telling the truth, and he calls for her to join him in Cannes with a clean slate. O.K, but as 'Chief Sky Eagle' (qv) told 'John Wayne (I)' (qv) in _She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)_ (qv), "too late, Nathan, toooooo late."

Keywords: aunt, businessman, cannes, casino, child-custody, confession, costume-ball, costume-party, detective, divorce
Genres: Drama, Romance,

Quotes:

Tommie Trent: All I needed was that girl.::Erskine: Listen, you can write her off your next year's income tax as an unavoidable loss.::Tommie Trent: She trembled! She fluttered!::Erskine: I know. But she'll flutter just as well tomorrow.::Tommie Trent: Oh, no, she won't; not her. She's got 'conscience' written all over her face. At this moment, she is cooling off - like some beautiful volcano that has decided not to wipe out a lot of Italian villages.