Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Actors: Rance Howard (actor), Strother Martin (actor), Wayne Rogers (actor), Harry Dean Stanton (actor), Clifton James (actor), George Kennedy (actor), Paul Newman (actor), Lou Antonio (actor), Robert Donner (actor), James Gammon (actor), Joe Don Baker (actor), Chuck Hicks (actor), Dennis Hopper (actor), Anthony Zerbe (actor), Ralph Waite (actor),

Plot: Luke Jackson is a cool, gutsy prisoner in a Southern chain gang, who, while refusing to buckle under to authority, keeps escaping and being recaptured. The prisoners admire Luke because, as Dragline explains it, "You're an original, that's what you are!" Nevertheless, the camp staff actively works to crush Luke until he finally breaks.

Keywords: abuse, against-the-odds, against-the-system, aimlessness, alcoholism, anti-conformity, anti-hero, antihero, arrogance, atheist
Genres: Crime, Drama,
Taglines: "What we've got here is failure to communicate." On the chain gang, they'd seen every kind of man...but Luke became a legend. Sometimes, "Nothing" can be a really Cool Hand. No one can eat fifty eggs. The man...and the motion picture that simply do not conform. He was a cool customer. . .until the law made it hot for him!

Quotes:

Dragline: He's a natural born world-shaker.

Dragline: He was smiling... That's right. You know, that, that Luke smile of his. He had it on his face right to the very end. Hell, if they didn't know it 'fore, they could tell right then that they weren't a-gonna beat him. That old Luke smile. Oh, Luke. He was some boy. Cool Hand Luke. Hell, he's a natural-born world-shaker.

Dragline: [watching sexy girl wash a car] My Lord, whatever I done, don't strike me blind for another couple of minutes.

Dragline: That's my darling Luke. He grins like a baby but bites like a gator.

Luke: Well that oughta be easy for a genuine son of a bitch.

Boss Paul: That ditch is Boss Kean's ditch. And I told him that dirt in it's your dirt. What's your dirt doin' in his ditch?::Luke: I don't know, Boss.::Boss Paul: You better get in there and get it out, boy.

[Why he was cutting the heads off parking meters]::Luke: Small town, not much to do in the evenin'.

Dragline: Anything so innocent and built like that just gotta be named Lucille.

Carr: Any man playing grabass or fightin' in the building spends a night in the box.

Carr: Them clothes got laundry numbers on them. You remember your number and always wear the ones that has your number. Any man forgets his number spends a night in the box. These here spoons you keep with you. Any man loses his spoon spends a night in the box. There's no playing grab-ass or fighting in the building. You got a grudge against another man, you fight him Saturday afternoon. Any man playing grab-ass or fighting in the building spends a night in the box. First bell's at five minutes of eight when you will get in your bunk. Last bell is at eight. Any man not in his bunk at eight spends the night in the box. There is no smoking in the prone position in bed. To smoke you must have both legs over the side of your bunk. Any man caught smoking in the prone position in bed... spends a night in the box. You get two sheets. Every Saturday, you put the clean sheet on the top... the top sheet on the bottom... and the bottom sheet you turn in to the laundry boy. Any man turns in the wrong sheet spends a night in the box. No one'll sit in the bunks with dirty pants on. Any man with dirty pants on sitting on the bunks spends a night in the box. Any man don't bring back his empty pop bottle spends a night in the box. Any man loud talking spends a night in the box. You got questions, you come to me. I'm Carr, the floor walker. I'm responsible for order in here. Any man don't keep order spends a night in...::Luke: ...the box.::Carr: I hope you ain't going to be a hard case.::Luke: [Smiles, shakes head] .

Winterset (1959)

Actors: Martin Balsam (actor), Charles Bickford (actor), Don Murray (actor), George C. Scott (actor), Piper Laurie (actress), George Schaefer (producer), George Schaefer (director), Maxwell Anderson (writer), Gilbert Mack (actor), George Mathews (actor), Robert P. Lieb (actor), Robert Hartung (writer), Felice Orlandi (actor), Anatol Winogradoff (actor), Bernard West (actor),

Plot: Immigrant radical Bartolomeo Romagna is falsely condemned and executed for a payroll robbery. Years later, his son Mio sets out to find the truth of the crime and to bring to account the gangster Trock Estrella.

Keywords: based-on-play
Genres: Drama,

Vintersolhverv (1959)

Actors: Axel Strøbye (actor), Frits Helmuth (actor), Johannes Meyer (actor), Elith Pio (actor), Jørn Jeppesen (actor), Preben Lerdorff Rye (actor), Maxwell Anderson (writer), Edvin Tiemroth (director), Hugo Herrestrup (actor), Einar Rosenbaum (actor), Mogens Hermansen (actor), Bent Thalmay (actor), Børge Andersen (actor), Sonja Bjarne (actress),

Genres: ,

Between Midnight and Dawn (1950)

Actors: Harry Harvey (actor), Chuck Hamilton (actor), Billy Gray (actor), James Brown (actor), Wheaton Chambers (actor), Jack Gargan (actor), Alex Gerry (actor), Ralph Brooks (actor), Dudley Dickerson (actor), Douglas Evans (actor), Charles Ferguson (actor), Robert Bice (actor), Robert Foulk (actor), John Butler (actor), Myron Healey (actor),

Plot: Rocky and Dan, war buddies, are prowl car cops on night duty. Dan is a cynic who views all lawbreakers as scum; Rocky feels more lenient. Both are attracted to the radio voice of communicator Kate Mallory; but in person, Kate proves reluctant to get involved with men who just might stop a bullet. By lucky chance, Rocky and Dan cause big trouble for murderous racketeer Ritchie Garris; but when he swears vengeance, Kate's fears may prove justified.

Keywords: arrest, brother-brother-relationship, car-accident, child-in-peril, date, death-of-friend, face-slap, flirting, hostage, juvenile-delinquency
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir,
Taglines: A ROBBERY IN THE NIGHT! A KILLER ON THE LOOSE! A DOLL ON THE SPOT! (original print ad - all caps) THE STORY OF PROWL CAR 13...BASED ON THE POLICE FILES OF A GREAT CITY! (original print ad - all caps) BEHIND THE WHEEL - BEHIND THE GUNS - OF PROWL CAR 13! (original poster - all caps) Hot from the police files of a great city! (original poster) The Shoot To Kill Story Of Prowl Car 13!

Quotes:

Rocky Barnes: Miss Mallory... Do you mind if I call you Kate?::Katharine Mallory: You might as well. I've a feeling you'll get around to it in a minute anyway.

Red, Hot and Blue (1949)

Actors: Billy Engle (actor), William Hall (actor), Al Ferguson (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Jimmie Dundee (actor), Roy Engel (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Douglas Carter (actor), James Conaty (actor), Ralph Brooks (actor), William Demarest (actor), Billy Daniel (actor), James Burke (actor), Percy Helton (actor),

Plot: Eleanor Collier wants to become a successful actress and agrees to a series of publicity stunts thought up by her press agent, Charley Baxter. The result is trouble and a bad impression. Eleanor quarrels with her boyfriend when he blames her publicity mania for getting her involved in an underworld killing. A gangster kidnaps her for being, unwittingly, the finger woman in the killing, but a Boradway columnist comes to her rescue.

Keywords: 1940s, actress, ambition, apartment-house, bartender, baseball, broadway-manhattan-new-york-city, cigar-smoking, cigarette-smoking, color-in-title
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Musical, Romance,
Taglines: We've widened the aisles so you can roll in 'em ... at the Years's LAFFIEST, DAFFIEST FUN-SHOW!

King of the Turf (1939)

Actors: Phil Arnold (actor), Walter Abel (actor), Barlowe Borland (actor), Eddy Chandler (actor), George Chandler (actor), William Bakewell (actor), William Demarest (actor), Alan Dinehart (actor), Tom Hanlon (actor), Robert Homans (actor), Harold Huber (actor), Donald Kerr (actor), Charles McAvoy (actor), George McKay (actor), Adolphe Menjou (actor),

Plot: Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has run away from home, hoping to find a job around horses; his biggest hobby. When he finds out the real identity of Mason, Goldie takes care of him. The two find an occasion to buy a horse for only two dollars, and start entering competitions. Goldie is an instant celebrity, but his mom reads the newspapers and tracks him down. Mason is very surprised to see her, his ex-wife, and even more astonished to hear that Goldie is his own son. However, Goldie must go back to school and so they decide to keep the secret. Since Goldie does not want to leave Mason behind, he goes to the bookies and fixes the next race, hoping to disappoint Goldie by asking him to lose on purpose.

Keywords: horse
Genres: Drama,

Winterset (1936)

Actors: George Humbert (actor), Murray Alper (actor), Mischa Auer (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), Eduardo Ciannelli (actor), Alec Craig (actor), Alan Curtis (actor), John Carradine (actor), Paul Fix (actor), Paul Guilfoyle (actor), Eddie Hart (actor), Al Hill (actor), Otto Hoffman (actor), Allen 'Farina' Hoskins (actor), Murray Kinnell (actor),

Plot: Immigrant radical Bartolomeo Romagna is falsely condemned and executed for a payroll robbery. Years later, his son Mio sets out to find the truth of the crime and to bring to account the gangster Trock Estrella.

Keywords: agitator, anarchist, based-on-play, brother-sister-relationship, crime-boss, death-of-father, false-accusation, judge, love, revenge
Genres: Crime, Drama, Romance,

Captain Calamity (1936)

Actors: Vince Barnett (actor), Roy D'Arcy (actor), Lloyd Ingraham (actor), Gordon Jones (actor), George J. Lewis (actor), Louis Natheaux (actor), Barry Norton (actor), Crane Wilbur (actor), Marian Nixon (actress), Charles J. Hunt (producer), Crane Wilbur (writer), John Reinhardt (director), Tony Martinelli (editor), Edward L. Alperson (miscellaneous crew), Bobby Hale (actor),

Plot: In the South Seas, Bill Jones, captain of the schooner "Marigold", is known as Captain Calamity as he is quick to fight or frolic. Stone broke on the island of Quica and with his ship in need or re-stocking, Bill accepts an ancient Spanish doubloon from a young Australian named Carr in exchange for taking him to Tapillo, where Carr can take a ship to Sidney. Bill gives the doubloon to trader Joblin for supplies, and does not bother to correct the trader's impression that he has found a fabulous horde of pirate gold. With Madame Gruen), a slatternly jade who runs a waterfront boarding house, and Samson, her oily paramour, Joblin schemes to seize Captain Bill's supposed treasure trove. Together, they gather a a crew of cutthroats, led by Black Pierre, leader of the scum of the waterfront dives, to seize the treasure. Bill also meets Dr. Kelkey, loser in many bouts with a brandy bottle, and his ward, Madge Lewis, on a mission to find the man who murdered and robbed her father in Australia. Bill agrees to help her, but does not remember her as the young girl he had saved from a sinking ship a dozen years before.

Keywords: 1930s, action-hero, american, ancient-myth, australia, b-movie, bare-chested-male, boarding-house, bottle, brandy
Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime, Musical, Romance,
Taglines: ROMANCE! THRILLS! GLORIOUS SONGS! With the Screen's Newest Singing Sensation in a Gripping Romantic Drama. A FIGHT FOR GOLD AND LOVE...ON A TROPICAL SEA! A Story that is rich and racy...thrilling in its action and torrid lovemaking...packed with adventure and romance. The Screen's Newest Action-Singing Sensation as a Two-Fisted Sea Ranger Who Loved to Fight and Fought to Love. HE WAS A TWO-FISTED SINGING SEA-RANGER...WHO NEVER SIDE-STEPPED TROUBLE OR A SWEETHEART...AND FOUND PLENTY OF BOTH AS HE BATTLED AS DESPERATE A BAND OF CUT-THROATS AS EVER RANGED THE SOUTH SEAS! He was a two-fisted, singing sea-ranger!

Quotes:

Dr. James Kelkey: You're one of the richest men on earth, Bill. All the money in the world couldn't buy that body of yours.::Captain Bill Jones: Yeah, I suppose I oughta be thankful. The trouble is, it costs so much to feed it.

Madge Lewis: I've never seen such fine tattooing.

Someday (1935)

Actors: Bert Bates (editor), Esmond Knight (actor), Raymond Lovell (actor), Margaret Lockwood (actress), Irving Asher (producer), Brock Williams (writer), Michael Powell (director), Ivor Barnard (actor), Henry Mollison (actor), I.A.R. Wylie (writer), Sunday Wilshin (actress), George Pughe (actor), Jane Cornell (actress),

Plot: Curley Blake is a lift operator in a block of flats. He is in love with Emily, the cleaning girl. When Emily returns from a stay in hospital, Curley arranges to treat her to dinner in one of the flats. Unfortunately, the owner returns early.

Keywords: based-on-novel, lost-film, quota-quickie, true-love
Genres: Drama,

The Menace (1932)

Actors: Gene Havlick (editor), Frank Atkinson (actor), Walter Byron (actor), Walter Byron (actor), William B. Davidson (actor), Charles K. Gerrard (actor), Halliwell Hobbes (actor), Crauford Kent (actor), Murray Kinnell (actor), Frank Rice (actor), H.B. Warner (actor), Bette Davis (actress), Natalie Moorhead (actress), Oscar Apfel (actor), Roy Chanslor (writer),

Plot: Ronald Quayle escapes from prison. He was sent there for murdering his father, based on the testimony of his stepmother, Caroline. An explosion disfigures him, but plastic surgery gives him an opportunity to return to England and investigate his father's murder under a new identity. As Robert Crockett he romances his stepmother, ultimately trapping her by creating the appearance of a double-cross among her accomplices, now guests at her house.

Keywords: based-on-novel, burn, death, deception, disfigurement, false-accusation, family-relationships, frame-up, greed, identity-swap
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery,