The Film-Maker's Son (2013)

Actors: Iain Smith (producer), Ethan J. Greene (miscellaneous crew), Bart Gavigan (writer), Bart Gavigan (editor), Bart Gavigan (director), Frank Henson (actor), Israel Oyelumade (actor), Gregg Burton (actor), Gregg Burton (producer), Sean Gavigan (actor), C.C. Smiff (actor), Frank Rautenbach (actor), Claudia Boysen (writer), Kevin O'Neill (producer), Aimee Berwick (actress),

Genres: Drama,

The Wind Blows Where It Wishes (2011)

Actors: Kenneth McGregor (actor), Daniel Kremer (miscellaneous crew), Daniel Kremer (actor), Daniel Kremer (actor), Daniel Kremer (producer), John Gross (producer), John Gross (editor), John Gross (writer), John Gross (director), Jason Taylor (actor), Eve Annenberg (producer), William Cully Allen (actor), William Cully Allen (actor), K.J. Linhein (actor), Katya Quinn-Judge (actress),

Plot: Carla Durkow (Maya Baruch) is a filmmaker from Istanbul who screens her latest work, entitled Farewell Mighty Spirit, at a Philadelphia art gallery. Her film-within-a-film details the aftermath of the death of the Grand Poet of Santa Maria (William Cully Allen), and the reading of his will.

Keywords: art-gallery, film-within-a-film, nihilist, poet, reading-of-will
Genres: Drama, Short,

The Leading Man (2011)

Actors: Jaimyon Parker (writer), Tiffany Stanley (actress), Tiffany Stanley (writer), Tiffany Stanley (producer), Malika Blessing (writer), Malika Blessing (producer), Malika Blessing (actress), Muslimah Muhammad (writer), Muslimah Muhammad (actress), Muslimah Muhammad (producer), Inda Reid (director), Allison Reeves (actress), Allison Reeves (writer), Allison Reeves (producer), Sophia Revelli (actress),

Genres: Comedy, Short,
Taglines: If Your Life Were A Movie..... Who Would You Cast?

Gefangen im Jemen (1999)

Actors: Peter Patzak (director), Heikko Deutschmann (actor), Roman Knizka (actor), Dieter Laser (actor), Peter Patzak (actor), Claudine Wilde (actress), Timo Berndt (writer), Simon Licht (actor), Peter Maffay (actor), Jeanne Tremsal (actress), Omar Chenbod (actor), Adil Abdelwahab (actor), Mohamen Mehdi Ouazanni (actor), Claudia Laux (miscellaneous crew), Holm Dressler (producer),

Genres: Adventure, Drama,

Deirdre (1965)

Actors: Fionnula Flanagan (actress), Brenda Fricker (actress), Cyril Cusack (actor), T.P. McKenna (actor), Gerry Alexander (actor), William Butler Yeats (writer), Dennis Brennan (actor), Michael Garvey (director), Meryl Gourley (actress), Brian Boydell (composer), Deirdre O'Meara (actress), Mercedes Bolger (actress),

Genres: Drama,

Carbine Williams (1952)

Actors: Michael Dugan (actor), Douglas Carter (actor), John Doucette (actor), Willis Bouchey (actor), Marshall Bradford (actor), Wade Crosby (actor), Jimmy Ames (actor), Harry Cheshire (actor), Ken Christy (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Henry Corden (actor), Wendell Corey (actor), Roy Butler (actor), James Arness (actor), Ralph Dumke (actor),

Plot: This is the story of David Marshall 'Marsh' Williams, the real life inventor of the world famous M-1 Carbine automatic rifle used in WWII. It all started when Marsh, who was one to do things his way, was caught distilling moonshine, and was accused and convicted of shooting a federal officer in the process. This at first placed him in the chain gang which labeled him as a hard case. Later, to make room for those more deserving, he was moved to a prison farm, where he came under the direction of Captain H.T. Peoples. The Captain was a mild mannered warden, who did not shy from discipline when necessary, but also believed that given the opportunity, most men will respond to good. Believing that Marsh was just such a person, the Captain gave him every opportunity to reform, so much so, that he eventually allowed Marsh to work in the tool shop on his spare time to develop and build by hand, a working rifle, inside the prison farm itself.

Keywords: carbine, chain-gang, character-name-in-title, deputy-sheriff, invention, inventor, m1-carbine-rifle, prison, prison-warden, rifle
Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama,
Taglines: This is my Story

The Damned Don't Cry (1950)

Actors: Charles Jordan (actor), Lyle Latell (actor), Weldon Heyburn (actor), Morris Ankrum (actor), Eddie Kane (actor), Fred Kelsey (actor), Dabbs Greer (actor), Paul Bradley (actor), Jay Eaton (actor), Richard Egan (actor), Tristram Coffin (actor), Tom Greenway (actor), Jack Gargan (actor), Ned Glass (actor), David Leonard (actor),

Plot: The murder of gangster Nick Prenta touches off an investigation of mysterious socialite Lorna Hansen Forbes, who seems to have no past, and has now disappeared. In flashback, we see the woman's anonymous roots; her poor working-class marriage, which ends in tragedy and her determination to find "better things." Soon finding that sex appeal is her only salable commodity, she climbs from man to man toward the center of a nationwide crime syndicate...a very perilous position.

Keywords: accessory-before-the-fact, accidental-death, accountant, adulteress, adulterous-husband, adultery, ambition, apostrophe-in-title, aspirin, assumed-identity
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller,
Taglines: Warner Bros.' Flaming Stars of 'Flamingo Road' Meet in Scarlet Shadows Again! She's the Private Lady of a Public Enemy!

Quotes:

Ethel Whitehead: He's promised me the world, Marty, and I've got to have it.

Ethel Whitehead: The only thing that counts is that stuff you take to the bank, that filthy buck that everybody sneers at, but slugs to get.

Patricia Longworth: [at the roulette table] What's happened to that system of yours, darling? I thought you always quit while you were still ahead.::Ethel Whitehead: I've been experimenting with a new one: stay to the bitter end. [to croupier] If you'll write out the obituary, I'll give you a check.

Nick Prenta: [intercepting and examining the check she's offered for her gambling losses] Your check's no good, Mrs. Forbes.::Ethel Whitehead: [coldly] My check's good anywhere.::Nick Prenta: [tearing up the check] Except here.::Ethel Whitehead: [looks annoyed]::Nick Prenta: That's right. I'm fresh. But I'm also generous. Tonight, you're the guest of the house. Now tomorrow night, that's different. Tomorrow night you can lose your shirt. [looks her over and bends closer] I'll even pay to see that.

[Ethel and George kiss]::Ethel Whitehead: You're asking for trouble, aren't you?::George Castleman: I never got anything yet worthwhile, without trouble. Only don't take this for anything more than it's worth.::Ethel Whitehead: It might be worth more than you think.

Ethel Whitehead: Don't talk to me about self-respect. That's something you tell yourself you got when you got nothing else.

Martin Blackford: [when she wants to stop helping a gangster friend] This isn't a party you can leave when you get bored. We could have left, you and I, a long time ago. We were only guests then. But we stayed too late.

Sandra: I'm gettin' myself a new partner!::Ethel Whitehead: You should get yourself a couple of other new items, if you'll pardon the expression.

Ethel Whitehead: Don't talk to me about self-respect. That's something you tell yourself you got when you got nothing else. What kind of self-respect is there living on aspirin tablets and chicken salad sandwiches? [beat] Look Marty, the only thing that counts is that stuff you take to the bank, that filthy buck that everybody sneers at, but slugs to get. [beat] I know how you feel. You're a nice guy. But the world isn't for nice guys. You've got to kick and punch and belt your way up because nobody's going to give you a lift. You've got to do it yourself, cuz nobody cares about us except ourselves.

The Unsuspected (1947)

Actors: Carl M. Leviness (actor), David Leonard (actor), Walter Baldwin (actor), Jack Cheatham (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Hal Craig (actor), George Eldredge (actor), Edward Biby (actor), Art Gilmore (actor), Sam Harris (actor), Fred Clark (actor), Charles Horvath (actor), Douglas Kennedy (actor), Jack Lambert (actor), Rory Mallinson (actor),

Plot: A girl has been murdered. A woman cannot remember a man who claims to be her husband. Her uncle hosts a radio murder mystery show called "The Unsuspected". Who killed the girl? Why? And who is this mystery husband?

Keywords: accomplice, airplane, airport, alcoholic, amnesia, attempted-murder, back-from-the-dead, ballistics-test, barbiturate, based-on-novel
Genres: Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: YOU CAN'T FORSEE IT! YOU CAN'T FORGET IT!

Quotes:

Victor Grandison: The nicest thing about guests is their departure

Steven Howard: You don't look like you could deny yourself anything::Althea Keane: I generally get what I want

Victor Grandison: His day of reckoning must come. He is tormented by fear that someday he will make one false move, one slip that will betray him, and when he does, the lightning of justice will strike... the unsuspected.

Steven Howard: Quite a large party, isn't it?::Althea Keane: Would you like to meet anyone?::Steven Howard: No.::Althea Keane: It's not very appetizing. It's Victor's birthday. Once a year his friends crawl out of the woodwork. [Sarcastically] This year it's a SURPRISE party! [Lights cigarette] Will he be surprised to see you?::Steven Howard: [He takes her hand with the lit match] I like matches. You never have to refill them... [He pulls her hand toward him to light his own cigartte]... and when you're through with them, you simply throw them away... [He blows out the match]... like people.

Althea Keane: [noticing Steve's interest in the portrait of Mathilda] You seem interested.::Steven Howard: Fascinated. You know, it's very much like Montreux in his middle period. Who painted it?::Althea Keane: My husband... in his sober period... before he married me.

Althea Keane: Victor's the only man who can turn my blood to ice water.

Victor Grandison: [Gazing out of window] It's much too nice a day for murder.::Jane Moynihan: What's wrong, Victor? You've lost all your zip. You're as limp as an old girdle.

Victor Grandison: [to an arguing Althea and Oliver] I think you better excuse me. I detest scenes not of my own making. You know, the more I see of marriage, the more thankful I am to be the last of a long line of bachelors.

Althea Keane: [sarcastically to Mathilda] You look as though you'd been fished out of several oceans!

Victor Grandison: [to Max] Only thieves and home-grown Casanovas catch the 7:15 train in the morning!

Wife Wanted (1946)

Actors: Robert Shayne (actor), Bert Roach (actor), George M. Carleton (actor), Tim Ryan (actor), John Gallaudet (actor), Paul Cavanagh (actor), Paul Everton (actor), Jonathan Hale (actor), John Hamilton (actor), Budd Fine (actor), Selmer Jackson (actor), Wilbur Mack (actor), Charles Marsh (actor), Buddy Gorman (actor), Will Stanton (actor),

Plot: Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond (Kay Francis) buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell (Paul Cavanagh). Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed (Veda Ann Borg), Caldwell runs a matrimonial bureau and, with the aid of his associate, Lee Kirby (John Gallaudet), they defraud and blackmail a large group of lonely people. Carole, unknowingly, is used as bait for one of their victims, Walter Desmond (Barton Yarborough), who "commits suicide." Reporter William Tyler (Robert Shayne) thinks otherwise and, posing as a rich rancher, contacts Miss Raymond. The latter, now being blackmailed by Caldwell, is forced to persuade Tyler to invest in a fraudulent oil deal. In her own attempt to break the racket, Carole uncovers Mildred Hayes (Teala Loring), another innocent victim of the Desmond case. Despite leading each other on for their own purposes, Carole and Tyler fall in love and combine their efforts.

Keywords: based-on-novel
Genres: Crime, Drama,
Taglines: Here's The Whole Shocking Story Of So-Called "Friendship Clubs" That Sell Marriage, Companionship and Romance, But Deliver Shame and Extortion!

Jungle Queen (1945)

Actors: Cy Kendall (actor), Wilton Graff (actor), Lumsden Hare (actor), Boyd Irwin (actor), Budd Buster (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Sherry Hall (actor), Oliver Blake (actor), Harry Cording (actor), Cyril Delevanti (actor), Douglass Dumbrille (actor), George Eldredge (actor), Arno Frey (actor), Joel Fluellen (actor), Colin Kenny (actor),

Plot: Universal Pictures 63rd sound-era serial (between "Mystery of the River Boat" and "The Masater Key") finds that Nazi agents are trying to arouse the tribes of the middle jungle in Africa to revolt against the British. Americans Bob Elliott ('Edward Norris' (qv)) and Chuck Kelly ('Eddie Quillan' (qv)) arrive to help the British agents. Lothel ('Ruth Roman' (qv)), the mysterious Queen of the Jungle, appears and disappears always in the nick of time to save them, and also Pam Courtney ('Lois Collier' (qv)), niece of the explorer Alan Courtney ('Boyd Irwin' (q)). Dr. Elise Bork ('Tala Birell' (qv)) and her henchman Lang ('Douglass Dumbrille' (qv)) are the Nazi chiefs, posing as scientists. Lang has great influence on some of the tribesman, especially with Chief Maata (Napoleon Simpson') who wants to keep Kyba ('Clarence Muse' (qv)) from becoming judge over all the tribes. A Secret Sword is the key to the ruler of the jungles, and the holder of this secret is sought by both the British and the Nazis. Courtney is the only white man who knows the secret but is killed before he can reveal it to his niece Pamela. The forces of good finally prevail in Chapter 13, "The Secret of the Sword!", through the help of Lotel, who disappears in the same sheet of flame that has marked her coming and going.

Keywords: 1940s, africa, airplane-crash, airplane-pilot, ambush, american, attacked-by-lion, brush-fire, ceremonial-cave, character-name-in-title
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama,
Taglines: 1000 JUNGLE TERRORS! 1000 DARING ADVENTURES! (original poster-all caps) 13 CHAPTERS OF SAVAGE THRILLS! (original poster-all caps) BEAUTY RULES THE BEASTS OF DEATH! (original print ad-all caps) TROPICAL TERROR IN WILDEST AFRICA!..a beauty and her beasts ruling a Congo death-trap! (original print ad)