An American Christmas Carol (1979)

Actors: Gary Smith (producer), Charles Dickens (writer), Henry Winkler (actor), Michael Wincott (actor), R.H. Thomson (actor), Chris Wiggins (actor), Edgar J. Scherick (producer), Dorian Harewood (actor), David Wayne (actor), Cec Linder (actor), Susan Hogan (actress), Gerard Parkes (actor), Ken Pogue (actor), Ron Wisman (editor), Eric Till (director),

Plot: In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans. Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man.

Keywords: 1930s, based-on-novel, christmas, compassion, ghost, great-depression, new-england, redemption, remake
Genres: Drama, Fantasy,
Taglines: Charles Dicken's Victorian London becomes America's great Depression in this exciting new film Henry Winkler is Scrooge

Quotes:

Mr. Brewster: When the day of quality ends in this country, we'll all be in great trouble indeed.

Benedict Slade: [after watching his younger self make a deal with Jack Latham] Yup, that's me! I always moved in when the moment was good. I could always smell a good business deal.::Ghost of Christmas Past: So could Latham. Look where he ended up.

Benedict Slade: I know this place. I've never been here before. Why does it look so familiar?::Ghost of Christmas Present: A picture, maybe?::Benedict Slade: On my office wall. My... employee... over his desk...::Ghost of Christmas Present: Your former employee. Remember?::Benedict Slade: He deserved to be fired. Disagrees with everything I do. Conspires with others to pull money out of me. Who needs someone like that around?::Ghost of Christmas Present: There are three in here who do.

Benedict Slade: [seeing an overgrown gravesite] Wait, wait. There is something about this place. Something draws me right to it. The monument looks fairly new, and yet, neglected.::Ghost of Christmas Future: No one visits that grave.::Benedict Slade: Not ever?::Ghost of Christmas Future: Not ever.::Benedict Slade: To lie in a grave, un-loved and un-remembered, is as if the life was never lived.::Ghost of Christmas Future: That is the only... real death.

Ghost of Christmas Present: If ? That word can be found on dry river beds and trails overgrown by weeds.What's more important are the paths we follow now...

Adventures in Silverado (1948)

Actors: Irving Bacon (actor), George Magrill (actor), Edgar Barrier (actor), Robert Barron (actor), Trevor Bardette (actor), Jack Kenny (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor), Edgar Buchanan (actor), Paul E. Burns (actor), Charles Cane (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), Kernan Cripps (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor), Bud Osborne (actor),

Plot: "Into California's 1880 frontier country rides Robert Louis Stevenson ('Edgar Barrier' (qv)), the novelist, looking for story material 'in a land of stage-drivers and highwaymen', and soon finds it when Bill Foss ('William Bishop(I)') arrives in the mining town of Silverado with a new stagecoach." Foss barely breaks the city limits before he is challenged to a race by Zeke Butler ('Forrest Tucker' (qv)) , stage driver for the town's established stage-line operated by Jeannie Manning ('Gloria Henry' (qv)). During the race, Foss's coach is forced off the road and his best team-horse is injured. Doctor Henderson ('Edgar Buchanan' (qv)), noted for his philanthropies to the local miners, advises Foss he can't run his horse for some time to come, and Foss takes a job with Jeannie, hauling water to Squatter's Flats, a desert waste which requires irrigation. Later, Zeke, carrying gold from Last Dog Ditch Mine to Silverado is robbed by a mysterious bandit called The Monk,and he suspects Foss. To clear himself, Foss suggests both stages take the next gold shipment and see who gets robbed and who doesn't. This strikes all-concerned as a good idea. But it turns out otherwise.

Keywords: 1880s, b-movie, b-western, bandit, barfly, based-on-novel, california, challenge, cigarette-smoking, cigarettes
Genres: Action, Drama, Western,
Taglines: WILD LOVE FLARES in the flames of a bandit's fire! (original print ad) A GREAT STORY OF GREAT DAYS! (original poster-all caps) The wild frontier as ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON saw it and lived it! (original poster) MAN AGAINST MAN FOR A WOMAN...with the rule-book thrown away! (original print ad) KILLING! LOOTING! LOVING! - That was the West...this is its story...written in gunfire..(original print ad) SPECTACULAR ACTION AND ROMANCE ON THE OLD FRONTIER...immortalized by Robert Louis Stevenson ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'S Own Adventures in the Lusty West! The West of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON!

Life of the Party (1920)

Actors: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle (actor), Frank Campeau (actor), Julia Faye (actress), Winifred Greenwood (actress), Walter Woods (writer), Joseph Henabery (director), Jesse L. Lasky (miscellaneous crew), Roscoe Karns (actor), Irvin S. Cobb (writer), Ben Lewis (actor), Allen Connor (actor), Fred Starr (actor), Viora Daniel (actress),

Genres: Comedy, Drama,

The Weakness of Man (1916)

Actors: E. Lloyd Sheldon (writer), William A. Brady (miscellaneous crew), Johnny Hines (actor), Barry O'Neil (director), Leo Tolstoy (writer), Teddy Sampson (actress), Richard Wangermann (actor), Eleanor Woodruff (actress), Holbrook Blinn (actor), Alma Hanlon (actress), Walter Greene (actor), Charles Mackay (actor),

Genres: Drama,