Phar Lap (1983)

Actors: Tim Robertson (actor), Jo Weeks (miscellaneous crew), Martin Vaughan (actor), Vincent Ball (actor), Simon Wincer (director), Judy Morris (actress), David Williamson (writer), Ron Leibman (actor), Gia Carides (actress), Randall Berger (actor), Les Foxcroft (actor), Bruce Rowland (composer), Terry Gill (actor), Cliff Ellen (actor), John Stanton (actor),

Plot: Phar Lap, the legendary Australian racing horse, is as well-known today for his mysterious death as for his fabulous accomplishments in life. Beginning at the end, the film flashes back to the day that Phar Lap, despite his lack of pedigree, is purchased on impulse by trainer Harry Telford. Phar Lap loses his first races, but Telford's faith in the animal is unshakable. Suddenly the horse becomes a winner, thanks to the love and diligence of stableboy Tommy Woodcock. American-promoter Dave Davis arranges for Phar Lap to be entered in several top races, where his "long shot" status results in heavy losses for the professional gamblers. Just after winning an important race in Mexico, Phar Lap collapses and dies; though the film never comes out and says as much, it is assumed that the horse was "murdered" by the gambling interests.

Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, american-abroad, animal, animal-name-in-title, anonymous-telephone-call, apology, australia, bicycle, binoculars
Genres: Biography, Drama, Family, History, Sport,
Taglines: Hero To A Nation When they learned he couldn't be beaten, they knew he had to be stopped. He was the long shot...heard 'round the world. When he beat the odds, they changed the rules. When he broke the records, they weighed him down. But he had one thing on his side...the faith of a boy. Together they lived a legend that inspired a nation and won the heart of the world. The Legend Remains

Phar Lap (1983)

Actors: Tim Robertson (actor), Jo Weeks (miscellaneous crew), Martin Vaughan (actor), Vincent Ball (actor), Simon Wincer (director), Judy Morris (actress), David Williamson (writer), Ron Leibman (actor), Gia Carides (actress), Randall Berger (actor), Les Foxcroft (actor), Bruce Rowland (composer), Terry Gill (actor), Cliff Ellen (actor), John Stanton (actor),

Plot: Phar Lap, the legendary Australian racing horse, is as well-known today for his mysterious death as for his fabulous accomplishments in life. Beginning at the end, the film flashes back to the day that Phar Lap, despite his lack of pedigree, is purchased on impulse by trainer Harry Telford. Phar Lap loses his first races, but Telford's faith in the animal is unshakable. Suddenly the horse becomes a winner, thanks to the love and diligence of stableboy Tommy Woodcock. American-promoter Dave Davis arranges for Phar Lap to be entered in several top races, where his "long shot" status results in heavy losses for the professional gamblers. Just after winning an important race in Mexico, Phar Lap collapses and dies; though the film never comes out and says as much, it is assumed that the horse was "murdered" by the gambling interests.

Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, american-abroad, animal, animal-name-in-title, anonymous-telephone-call, apology, australia, bicycle, binoculars
Genres: Biography, Drama, Family, History, Sport,
Taglines: Hero To A Nation When they learned he couldn't be beaten, they knew he had to be stopped. He was the long shot...heard 'round the world. When he beat the odds, they changed the rules. When he broke the records, they weighed him down. But he had one thing on his side...the faith of a boy. Together they lived a legend that inspired a nation and won the heart of the world. The Legend Remains

The Girl from Manhattan (1948)

Actors: Maurice Cass (actor), George Chandler (actor), William Frawley (actor), Howard Freeman (actor), Everett Glass (actor), Hugh Herbert (actor), Selmer Jackson (actor), Marie Blake (actress), Dorothy Lamour (actress), Lewis J. Rachmil (producer), Howard Estabrook (writer), Howard Estabrook (writer), Heinz Roemheld (composer), Alfred E. Green (director), James Smith (editor),

Plot: Tom Walker,former All-American fullback who gave up football to enter the ministry, returns to his old home town for his first assignment under the church Bishop , an old friend of his father. And Carol Maynard , a local girl who has become New York's most famous model, comes home to visit her uncle, Homer Purdy, a boarding-house keeper.She is dismayed to learn that the money she has been sending him to pay off his $3000 mortgage has been going to a bunch of non-paying guests, among them Aaror Goss, a radio contest fanatic, and a broken-down actress, Mrs. Brooke. Tom and Carol resume their romance which was interrupted when he went away to college and she to New York. This upsets the Bishop. Mr. Birch, holds the mortgage on Purdy's boarding house and is going to foreclose, and donate the property to Tom's church for a new building. Tom, clearly, has a conflict-of-interest situation on his hands.

Keywords: 1940s, actress, all-american, american-football, attorney, bishop, boarding-house, church, church-bell, cigarette-smoking
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport,
Taglines: Dottie's on the road to laughter again! The delicious story of America's most beautiful model! SHE'S A BIG CITY GAL WHO KNOWS HER WAY AROUND...around men! - What she does to the home talent isn't meant to keep the home fires burning...but it keeps the home boys learning... Dorothy is De-lovely as America's most famous cover girl...with the maddest crew south of BING and BOB! 3 GUYS GO COMPLETLY L'AMOUR...in the gayest, zaniest comedy since "You Can't Take It With You"!

Remember the Day (1941)

Actors: Harry Harvey Jr. (actor), Paul Harvey (actor), Thurston Hall (actor), William Halligan (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), George Chandler (actor), James Blaine (actor), William B. Davidson (actor), Harry Carter (actor), Edgar Dearing (actor), Chick Chandler (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), George Ernest (actor), Byron Foulger (actor), Harry Hayden (actor),

Plot: Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.

Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, baseball-coach, baseball-game, baseball-pitcher, based-on-play, bellhop, canadian-army, candidate
Genres: Drama, Romance, War,

Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Actors: Buster Slaven (actor), Gerald Oliver Smith (actor), Melville Cooper (actor), Bruce Lester (actor), Barlowe Borland (actor), Lowden Adams (actor), Laurence Olivier (actor), Wilson Benge (actor), Frank Elliott (actor), Claud Allister (actor), Edmund Gwenn (actor), Ben Hall (actor), Payne B. Johnson (actor), E.E. Clive (actor), Wyndham Standing (actor),

Plot: Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. But pride, prejudice, and misunderstandings all combine to complicate their relationships and to make happiness difficult.

Keywords: 1810s, 19th-century, arranged-marriage, arrogance, aunt-niece-relationship, based-on-novel, betrayal, comedy-of-manners, courtship, cousin-cousin-relationship
Genres: Drama, Romance,
Taglines: The Gayest Comedy Hit of the Screen! Five Gorgeous Beauties on a Mad-Cap Manhunt! With the Stars of "Mr. Chips" and "Rebecca"...and a Superb Cast! It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. When pretty girls t-e-a-s-e-d men into marriage...

Quotes:

Caroline Bingley: ...and her sisters Jane and Elizabeth were seen running down Market Street in an attempt to escape their disgrace. Isn't that exquisitely funny, Mr. Darcy?::Mr. Darcy: Exquisitely. Just think how you would roar with laughter if it happened to yourself.

Mr. Darcy: You must allow me to tell you how much I admire and love you.

Mr. Bennett: An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins. And I will never see you again if you do.

Mr. Bennet: Well, we're hoping Elizabeth can manage to catch a cold of her own and stay long enough to get engaged to Mr. Darcy. Then, if a good snowstorm could be arranged, we'd send Kitty over. But if a young man should happen to be in the house - a young man who likes singing, of course, who can discuss philosophy - Mary could go. Then, if a dashing young soldier in a handsome uniform should appear for Lydia, everything would be perfect, my dear.

Lydia Bennet: Has anybody heard how Jane is this morning?::Mrs. Bennet: Eh, Mr. Bingley sent a note over by his groom. She's much better. Such a happy idea of mine sending her off in the rain.::Mr. Bennet: Yes, but to Jane must go all the credit for having caught the cold, my dear.

Mrs. Bennet: Look at them! Five of them without dowries. What's to become of them?::Mr. Bennet: Yes, what's to become of the wretched creatures? Perhaps we should have drowned some of them at birth.

Mr. Darcy: I have made the mistake of being honest with you.::Elizabeth Bennet: Honesty is a greatly overrated virtue. Silence in this case would have been more agreeable.

Caroline Bingley: [observing the Bennet family at the party at Netherfield] Entertaining the rustics is not as difficult as I feared. Any simple, childish game seems to amuse them excessively.

Mr. Darcy: Yes, she looks tolerable enough, but I am in no humor tonight to give consequence to the middle classes at play.

Elizabeth Bennet: Oh Mr. Darcy, Miss Bingley here is eager for her lesson. I hope you will enjoy it, Miss Bingley, and that you will learn to direct your darts with greater accuracy.

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

Actors: James Finlayson (actor), Herbert Evans (actor), Harry Depp (actor), Harry Davenport (actor), E.E. Clive (actor), Eduardo Ciannelli (actor), Gino Corrado (actor), Robert Benchley (actor), Ken Christy (actor), John Burton (actor), Horace B. Carpenter (actor), Barry Bernard (actor), Albert Bassermann (actor), Wheaton Chambers (actor), George B. French (actor),

Plot: Johnny Jones is an action reporter on a New York newspaper. The editor appoints him European correspondent because he is fed up with the dry, reports he currently gets. Jones' first assignment is to get the inside story on a secret treaty agreed between two European countries by the famous diplomat, Mr. Van Meer. However things don't go to plan and Jones enlists the help of a young woman to help track down a group of spies.

Keywords: accidental-death, airplane, airplane-accident, airplane-crash, amsterdam-netherlands, assassination, attempted-murder, awkwardness, awning, banana
Genres: Mystery, Romance, Thriller, War,
Taglines: MYSTERY IN WHISPERS that cracks like THUNDER! (original print ad - many caps) The thrill spectacle of the year!

Quotes:

Captain of Mohican: Mr. Haverstock, I want a talk with you.::Johnny Jones: Yes sir?::Captain of Mohican: I just found out you're a newspaperman.::Johnny Jones: I guess that's right.::Captain of Mohican: Oh, it is, eh? Why didn't you tell me that when I questioned you? You lied to me, sir!::Johnny Jones: My dear captain, when you've been shot down in a British plane by a German destroyer, 300 miles off the coast of England, latitude 45, and have been hanging on to a half-submerged wing for hours, waiting to drown, with half a dozen other stricken human beings, you're liable to forget you're a newspaperman for a moment or two!

Johnny Jones: I'm in love with a girl, and I'm going to help hang her father.

Johnny Jones: I'm in love with you, and I want to marry you.::Carol Fisher: I'm in love with you, and I want to marry you.::Johnny Jones: Hmm... that cuts down our love scene quite a bit, doesn't it?

Johnny Jones: I came 4,000 miles to get a story. I get shot at like a duck in a shooting gallery, I get pushed off buildings, I *get* the story, and then I've got to shut up!

[last lines]::[Radio broadcast from London]::Johnny Jones: Hello, America. I've been watching a part of the world being blown to pieces. A part of the world as nice as Vermont, and Ohio::[siren sounds]::Johnny Jones: , and Virginia, and California, and Illinois lies ripped up and bleeding like a steer in a slaughterhouse, and I've seen things that make the history of the savages read like Pollyanna legends. I've seen women...::[bombs begin exploding]::English Announcer: It's a raid; we shall have to postpone the broadcast.::Johnny Jones: Oh, postpone, nothing! Let's go on as long as we can.::English Announcer: Madam, we have a shelter downstairs.::Johnny Jones: How about it, Carol?::Carol Fisher: They're listening in America, Johnny.::Johnny Jones: Okay, we'll tell 'em, then. I can't read the rest of the speech I had, because the lights have gone out, so I'll just have to talk off the cuff. All that noise you hear isn't static - it's death, coming to London. Yes, they're coming here now. You can hear the bombs falling on the streets and the homes. Don't tune me out, hang on a while - this is a big story, and you're part of it. It's too late to do anything here now except stand in the dark and let them come... as if the lights were all out everywhere, except in America. Keep those lights burning, cover them with steel, ring them with guns, build a canopy of battleships and bombing planes around them. Hello, America, hang on to your lights: they're the only lights left in the world!

Carol Fisher: I think the world has been run long enough by well-meaning professionals. We might give the amateurs a chance now.

Johnny Jones: If you knew how much I love you, you'd faint.

Carol Fisher: You never hear of circumstances out of our control rushing us into peace, have you?

Johnny Jones: This is Scott ffolliott, newspaperman same as you. Foreign correspondent. Mr. Haverstock, Mr. ffolliott.::Scott ffolliott: With a double 'F'.::Johnny Jones: How do you do?::Scott ffolliott: How do you do?::Johnny Jones: I don't get the double 'F'.::Scott ffolliott: They're at the beginning. Both small 'F's::Johnny Jones: They can't be at the beginning.::Scott ffolliott: One of my ancestors was beheaded by Henry VIII. His wife dropped the capital letter to commemorate it. There it is.::Johnny Jones: How do you say it, like a stutter?::Scott ffolliott: Just a straight 'fuh'.

Mr. Powers: Foreign correspondent! I could get more news out of Europe looking in a crystal ball.

Waterfront (1939)

Actors: William Gould (actor), Al Lloyd (actor), Ward Bond (actor), Eddy Chandler (actor), Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian (actor), John Hamilton (actor), Joe Devlin (actor), Paul Bryar (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor), Frank Faylen (actor), Hal Craig (actor), Arthur Gardner (actor), Charles Delaney (actor), Sol Gorss (actor), George Lloyd (actor),

Plot: Jim Dolan, head a a dock-worker's union, can't resist a good fight until Ann Stacey makes him promise to give up fighting to marry her. But when his brother Dan Dolan is killed by Mart Hendler, Jim, with the aid of his pal Frankie Donahue, sneaks out to get Mart, who is hiding out with his girl friend Marie.

Keywords: 1930s, accidental-death, archive-footage, b-movie, based-on-play, dance, death-of-brother, detective, dock, drunkenness
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: Violence is King...Terror is Law...on the 'WATERFRONT" (original ad) THEY TURN THE 'Waterfront" Into The BATTLEFRONT of America's bloodiest harbor war! (original ad) Death Rides With Every Cargo... Passions Explode Like T.N.T.... Love Drives Men To Kill...

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Actors: Al Bridge (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), Edward Arnold (actor), Erville Alderson (actor), Sam Ash (actor), Edwin August (actor), Frank Austin (actor), Harry A. Bailey (actor), William Arnold (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Wilson Benge (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Harry C. Bradley (actor), Lynton Brent (actor), Harlan Briggs (actor),

Plot: Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed on a lark by the spineless governor of his state. He is reunited with the state's senior senator--presidential hopeful and childhood hero, Senator Joseph Paine. In Washington, however, Smith discovers many of the shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss, Jim Taylor. Taylor first tries to corrupt Smith and then later attempts to destroy Smith through a scandal.

Keywords: aide, american, american-politics, appointment, band, banquet, bill, briefcase, camp, car-accident
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: Capra at his greatest! Stirring - In the seeing! Precious - In the remembering! Capra's Greatest Hit --- The Screen At Its Most Inspired! Entertainment As Powerful As the Strength of the People! As Great As the Genius of Capra! Romance, drama, laughter and heartbreak ... created out of the very heart and soil of America ... by a great director and cast!

Quotes:

Jefferson Smith: You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading The Land of the Free in history books. Then they get to be men they forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will. Boys ought to grow up remembering that.

Jefferson Smith: Either I'm dead right, or I'm crazy!

[the filibuster begins]::President of Senate: The Chair recognizes... Senator Smith!::Jefferson Smith: Thank you, sir.::Clarissa Saunders: Diz, here we go.::Jefferson Smith: Well, I guess the gentlemen are in a pretty tall hurry to get me out of here. The way the evidence has piled up against me, I can't say I blame them much. And I'm quite willing to go, sir, when they vote it that way - but before that happens I've got a few things I want to say to this body. I tried to say them once before, and I got stopped colder than a mackerel. Well, I'd like to get them said this time, sir. And as a matter of fact, I'm not going to leave this body until I do get them said.::Senator Joseph Paine: Mr. President, will the Senator yield?::President of Senate: Will the Senator yield?::Jefferson Smith: No, sir, I'm afraid not, no sir. I yielded the floor once before, if you can remember, and I was practically never heard of again. No sir. And we might as well all get together on this yielding business right off the bat, now. [laughter from the gallery] Now, I had some pretty good coaching last night, and I find that if I yield only for a question or a point of order or a personal privilege, that I can hold this floor almost until doomsday. In other words, I've got a piece to speak, and blow hot or cold, I'm going to speak it.::Senator Joseph Paine: Will the Senator yield?::President of Senate: Will Senator Smith yield?::Jefferson Smith: Yield how, sir?::Senator Joseph Paine: Will he yield for a question?::Jefferson Smith: For a question, all right.

Senator Joseph Paine: I wish to ask my distinguished colleague, has he one scrap of evidence to add now to the defense he did not give and could not give at that same hearing?::Jefferson Smith: I have no defense against forged papers!::Senator Joseph Paine: The Committee ruled otherwise! The gentleman stands guilty, as charged. And I believe I speak for every member when I say that no one cares to hear what a man of his condemned character has to say about any section of any legislation before this House.::President of Senate: Order, order, gentlemen.::Jefferson Smith: Mr. President, I stand guilty as FRAMED! Because section 40 is graft! And I was ready to say so, I was ready to tell you that a certain man in my state, a Mr. James Taylor, wanted to put through this dam for his own profit. A man who controls a political machine! And controls everything else worth controlling in my state. Yes, and a man even powerful enough to control Congressmen - and I saw three of them in his room the day I went up to see him!::Senator Joseph Paine: Will the Senator yield?::Jefferson Smith: No, sir, I will not yield! And this same man, Mr. James Taylor, came down here and offered me a seat in this Senate for the next 20 years if I voted for a dam that he knew, and I knew, was a fraud. But if I dared to open my mouth against that dam, he promised to break me in two.

[after all the other Senators walk out]::Jefferson Smith: Oh, Mr. President, we seem to be alone. I, I'm not complaining for a social reason; it's just, I think it'd be a pity if these gentlemen missed any of this, and...::[Clarissa starts waving from the visitors gallery, and making hand signals]::Jefferson Smith: And, uh...::[he grabs the rule book]::Jefferson Smith: I, I call the chair's attention to... to, uh... Rule 5 of the Standing Rules of the Senate, Section... Section 3. "If it shall be found that a quorum is not present, a majority of the Senators present" - and that looks like me - uh, uh, "may direct the Sergeant-at-Arms to request, and if necessary compel, the attendance of the absent Senators." Well, Mr. President, I so direct.

Diz Moore: [dictating into phone] In protest, the whole Senate body rose and walked out.::Clarissa Saunders: No! No, not that straight stuff. Now listen, kick it up, get on his side, fight for him! Understand?::Diz Moore: You love this monkey - don't you?::Clarissa Saunders: What do you think? Now listen, go to work. Do as I tell you.::Diz Moore: [into phone] Throw out that last, take this. This is the most titanic battle of modern times. A David without even a slingshot rises to do battle against the mighty Goliath, the Taylor machine, allegedly crooked inside and out. Yeah, and for my money, you can cut out the "allegedly."

Senator Joseph Paine: He can raise public opinion against us - if any part of this sticks...::James Taylor: Aah, he'll never get started. I'll make public opinion out there within five hours! I've done it all my life. I'll blacken this punk so that he'll - You leave public opinion to me. Now, Joe, I think you'd better go back into the Senate and keep those Senators lined up.

Jefferson Smith: [His voice very hoarse] Just get up off the ground, that's all I ask. Get up there with that lady that's up on top of this Capitol dome, that lady that stands for liberty. Take a look at this country through her eyes if you really want to see something. And you won't just see scenery; you'll see the whole parade of what Man's carved out for himself, after centuries of fighting. Fighting for something better than just jungle law, fighting so's he can stand on his own two feet, free and decent, like he was created, no matter what his race, color, or creed. That's what you'd see. There's no place out there for graft, or greed, or lies, or compromise with human liberties. And, uh, if that's what the grownups have done with this world that was given to them, then we'd better get those boys' camps started fast and see what the kids can do. And it's not too late, because this country is bigger than the Taylors, or you, or me, or anything else. Great principles don't get lost once they come to light. They're right here; you just have to see them again!

[when Smith is announced as the newly appointed Senator]::James Taylor: I want you to let the ballyhoo boys loose, plan a celebration, and declare a holiday.

Jefferson Smith: I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.

Down on the Farm (1938)

Actors: Sidney Blackmer (actor), John T. Murray (actor), Dick Elliott (actor), George Ernest (actor), Russell Gleason (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), William Haade (actor), Donald Haines (actor), Kenneth Howell (actor), William Irving (actor), Si Jenks (actor), Fred Kelsey (actor), Harrison Greene (actor), Wilfred Lucas (actor), Jed Prouty (actor),

Genres: Comedy,

Ladies Love Brutes (1930)

Actors: Eda Warren (editor), Henry Armetta (actor), George Bancroft (actor), E.H. Calvert (actor), Lawford Davidson (actor), Mike Donlin (actor), David Durand (actor), John Elliott (actor), Stanley Fields (actor), Paul Fix (actor), Herman J. Mankiewicz (writer), Waldemar Young (writer), Rowland V. Lee (director), Claud Allister (actor), Ben Hendricks Jr. (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: THE MIGHTY THUNDERBOLT! (original poster - all caps) Fighting, Loving, Roaring His Way to Success on a Cyclondic Storm of Thrills and Romance..Packed With DRAMATIC DYNAMITE! (original ad)