The Recognitions (2010)

Actors: Lori Felker (actress), Jerzy Rose (actor), William Goss (actor), Tommy Heffron (actor), Jared Larson (actor), Crispin Rosenkranz (actor), Jordan Scrivner (actor), Geoffrey Hughes (producer), Geoffrey Hughes (editor), Geoffrey Hughes (director), Adam Strohm (actor), Matt Griffin (miscellaneous crew), Eric Sosnoff (actor), Lydia Bottom (actor),

Plot: This film is inspired by an excerpt from William Gaddis' 1955 novel, The Recognitions. In line with the author's intent, this humorous narrative short criticizes frivolity in a world haunted by loss and filled with losers. 'There is here everything imaginable in the way of confusion, darkness, and horror... I know from personal experience that in this place there is neither piety nor charity. Faith is absent; there is nothing holy, nothing just, nothing human. Friendship, modesty, and decency are unknown. Houses drip with lies. The hope of a future life is considered an illusion; virtue is regarded as proof of stupidity, and prostitution lead to fame.' -Petrarch

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Short,

Sisters (1993)

Actors: T.T. Boy (actor), John Decker (actor), E.Z. Ryder (actor), Marc Wallice (actor), Tami Monroe (actress), Sahara Sands (actress), Cash Markman (writer), Frank Marino (director), Tara Monroe (actress), Wednesday (actress), Charles Zicari (producer),

Genres: Adult, Comedy,
Taglines: It's a family affair.

So You Want to Be an Heir (1953)

Actors: George O'Hanlon (actor), George O'Hanlon (actor), George O'Hanlon (actor), George O'Hanlon (actor), George O'Hanlon (actor), Philip Van Zandt (actor), Phyllis Coates (actress), Richard L. Bare (writer), George O'Hanlon (writer), William Lava (composer), Richard L. Bare (director), Rex Steele (editor),

Plot: Joe McDoakes receives a wire telling him he will inherit his grandmother's million dollar estate if he reaches her before she dies. He rushes to her home where he is met by some weird relatives and a weird lawyer. Grandmother informs him the wire is a gag but that the others don't know and will probably try to murder him for the inheritance.

Keywords: actor-playing-female-role, actor-playing-multiple-roles, attempted-murder, cauldron, cuckoo-clock, farce, grandmother, half-brother, heir, hoax
Genres: Comedy, Short, Thriller,

Quotes:

The Lawyer: [without physical co-ordination] Walk this way!

Bright Leaf (1950)

Actors: Dick Gordon (actor), James Griffith (actor), John Alvin (actor), Jack Carson (actor), Gary Cooper (actor), James Conaty (actor), Marshall Bradford (actor), Jeff Corey (actor), Donald Crisp (actor), Boyd Davis (actor), Chick Chandler (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), Pat Flaherty (actor), Sam Flint (actor), Thurston Hall (actor),

Plot: Once, magnate Major Singleton ran the Royles out of the Kingsmont tobacco country for daring to make lowly cigarettes. Now in 1894, Brant Royle, last of his name, is back. Forceful and macho, Brant intends to re-establish his family no matter what it takes. Two lovely women have waited for him: bordello keeper Sonia, with love; Singleton's daughter Margaret, with hatred and desire. As automation rears its head, the struggle attains an epic quality. Will Royle Cigarettes flood the market? Will Brant pick the wrong woman?

Keywords: 1800s, 1890s, african-american, agriculture, ambition, based-on-novel, betrayal, blacksmith, bordello, brothel
Genres: Drama, Romance,

Quotes:

Brant Royle: Goodbye, Carpetbagger. If it means anything to you now, the worst mistake I made was you.

Blacksmith: Say, don't I know you from some place?::Brant Royle: I've never been there.

Lawyer Calhoun: We all felt pretty bad about your... trouble.::Brant Royle: Yeah, I'll bet you cried hour after hour.

Major Singleton: I'm afraid I don't believe in cigarettes, much less a machine for makin' them. It turns my stomach, sir, every time I have occasion to witness someone pokin' one of those vile concoctions into their face. I deal in cigars, sir. Nothing less.

John Barton: I've learned a great deal from you, Brant. If I weren't an honest man, I might be able to use it.

Major Singleton: I'm too old a horse to change my gait.

Margaret Jane Singleton: You know, I'll say one thing for Brant Royle: when he looks at me, I know I'm a woman.

Sonia Kovac: No woman who wants something is a lady. If she is, she doesn't get it.

Chris Malley: The nice thing about being rich is having so much money.

Brant Royle: Sonia, it's Christmas!::Sonia Kovac: You're not getting any presents from me.

Trail of the Vigilantes (1940)

Actors: Mischa Auer (actor), Hank Bell (actor), Frank Brownlee (actor), George Chandler (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Harry Cording (actor), Broderick Crawford (actor), Andy Devine (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor), Jim Farley (actor), Paul Fix (actor), Porter Hall (actor), Samuel S. Hinds (actor), Ted Adams (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Western,