Cloudburst (2011)

Actors: Brenda Fricker (actress), Olympia Dukakis (actress), Michael Ray Fox (actor), Jeremy Akerman (actor), John Dunsworth (actor), Kristin Booth (actress), Thom Fitzgerald (producer), Thom Fitzgerald (writer), Thom Fitzgerald (director), Sidney Kimmel (producer), Maggie Thomas (miscellaneous crew), Mark A. Owen (actor), Angela Baker (editor), Bruce Toll (producer), John Beale (actor),

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama,

Cass (2008)

Actors: Peter Wight (actor), Geoffrey Beevers (actor), Paul Kaye (actor), Tamer Hassan (actor), Ralph Ineson (actor), Joe Egan (actor), Leo Gregory (actor), Bronson Webb (actor), Yvette Rowland (actress), Carole Salisbury (miscellaneous crew), Linda Bassett (actress), Natalie Press (actress), Nick Bartlett (actor), Ricky Diamond (actor), David Lea (actor),

Plot: An orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London, became one of the most feared and respected men in Britain. CASS grew up in a time before political correctness and was forced to endure racist bullying on a daily basis, until one day when the years of pent up anger came out in a violent burst. CASS found through violence the respect he never had and became addicted to the buzz of fighting. His way of life finally caught up with him when an attempted assassination on his life, saw him shot three times at point blank range. His inner strength somehow managed to keep him alive but he was left with a dilemma; whether to seek vengeance as the street had taught him, or renounce his violent past.

Keywords: adoption, african-anglo, bare-breasts, biracial, biracial-child, bully, bullying, cell-mate, character-name-in-title, christmas
Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama,
Taglines: The hardest fight is knowing who you are.

Time Under Fire (1997)

Actors: David Wurst (composer), Marc Kunis (miscellaneous crew), Ashok Amritraj (producer), Richard Tyson (actor), Eric Wurst (composer), Greg Bronson (actor), Roger Corman (producer), Jeff Fahey (actor), Jeff Fahey (actor), Jay Acovone (actor), Bryan Cranston (actor), Andrew Stevens (producer), Larry Poindexter (actor), Marc Vahanian (actor), Chick Vennera (actor),

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi,

Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer (1993)

Actors: J. Winston Carroll (actor), Frank Moore (actor), Daniel MacIvor (actor), Daniel Kash (actor), Bruce McFee (actor), David Hemblen (actor), Barclay Hope (actor), Eugene Clark (actor), Shawn Ashmore (actor), Richard Blackburn (actor), Michael Hogan (actor), Peter MacNeill (actor), Craig Eldridge (actor), Philip Williams (actor), Raoul Trujillo (actor),

Plot: A look into the life of troubled former hockey player Brian Spencer, who got into problems both on the ice and off because of his temper. The film also has a close focus on Spencer's father, and shows how he influenced Brian's life both before and after his death.

Keywords: 1970s, adultery, arrest, based-on-novel, canada, child-narrates-own-future, courtroom, death-of-father, death-threat, domestic-violence
Genres: Drama, Sport,

Quotes:

Roy Spencer: You can live here, and be buried here. Or you can play hockey.

Grievous Bodily Harm (1988)

Actors: John Flaus (actor), Colin Friels (actor), Antony I. Ginnane (producer), Charles W. Fries (producer), John Waters (actor), Shane Briant (actor), Bruno Lawrence (actor), Richard Carter (actor), Richard Brennan (producer), Kim Gyngell (actor), Gary Waddell (actor), Jill Coverdale (miscellaneous crew), Chris Neal (composer), Sandy Gore (actress), Don Reid (actor),

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: Where does passion end, and obsession begin? When desire is obsession and passion turns to madness.

The Mango Tree (1977)

Actors: John Scott (editor), Tony Barry (actor), Michael Pate (producer), Michael Pate (writer), Geraldine Fitzgerald (actress), Bill Gooley (miscellaneous crew), Gerard Kennedy (actor), Michael Lake (producer), Tony Bonner (actor), Jonathan Hardy (actor), Robert Helpmann (actor), Gary Day (actor), Diane Craig (actress), Gerry Duggan (actor), Kevin James Dobson (director),

Plot: Jamie is a young man growing up in the small Australian town of Bundaberg during the early 1940's. Jamie loves his tranquil life, surrounded by the friendly locals, and being brought up by his warm caring grandmother. But when a local preacher goes nutty, all hell breaks loose for the community, and Jamie leaves Bundaberg for the city.

Keywords: based-on-novel, independent-film
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: A town of amazing people. A story that crowds a lifetime into a few, short years. And a young man who experienced it all. As a nation came of age, so did he.

The Firechasers (1971)

Actors: John Loder (actor), Roy Kinnear (actor), Allan Cuthbertson (actor), Chad Everett (actor), Marianne Stone (actress), James Hayter (actor), Sidney Hayers (director), Keith Barron (actor), Julian Wintle (producer), Laurie Johnson (composer), Robert Flemyng (actor), Rupert Davies (actor), Anjanette Comer (actress), Philip Levene (producer), Philip Levene (writer),

Genres: Crime, Drama,

Raton Pass (1951)

Actors: James Burke (actor), John Crawford (actor), Edward Hearn (actor), Louis Jean Heydt (actor), Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. (actor), Ted Mapes (actor), Dennis Morgan (actor), Dan White (actor), Roland Winters (actor), Patricia Neal (actress), Max Steiner (composer), Edwin L. Marin (director), Saul Elkins (producer), Steve Cochran (actor), Basil Ruysdael (actor),

Plot: The ambitious Ann arrives with the stagecoach in Raton Pass to find herself in the midst of a feud between the Challon and the Pozner families. Ann immediately seeks out Marc Challon, a young man from the richest cattle ranch family, who is in love with Lena Casamajor. Seductively Ann works her way into Marc's heart. Marc marries her and Ann is given deed to half the ranch by Marc's father Pierre. When her husband brings home an even richer man (Prentice), who owns a railroad in hopes of getting him to financially back the ranch, Ann convinces Marc to leave the job to her. Instead, Ann seduces Prentice into falling in love with her also and talks him into buying out her husband. He agrees. Suddenly, Ann and Prentice find themselves totally alone as Marc and all the hands have quit the ranch. So Ann sends for the gunslinger Cy Van Cleave, she met in the past. Cy brings in his fellow outlaws and they begin to take over the cattle ranch.

Keywords: based-on-novel
Genres: Western,
Taglines: The "Lady" against the girl who never tried to be one! Where The Mountains Were Blasted Open---And Men Fought Gun-To-Gun For The Treasured Land In The Middle! "Hold Raton Pass And You Hold The Rest Of The West By The Throat!" Gun Against Gun - Peak Against Peak...for the Gap of Gold they called 'RATON PASS" "I don't care if he is my husband---he's standing in the way of my plans. Go after him!"

Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance (1950)

Actors: Almira Sessions (actress), Frank Sully (actor), Andrew Tombes (actor), Chester Conklin (actor), Tim Ryan (actor), Joel Friedkin (actor), Iris Adrian (actress), Eddie Gribbon (actor), Clarence Hennecke (actor), Chester Clute (actor), Leon Errol (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Hank Mann (actor), Tom Neal (actor), Bernard W. Burton (producer),

Plot: The Square Deal Boxing Corporation (crooked as a snake's hind leg), through Gordon Rogers, tries to make a deal with Knobby Walsh whereby it will own thirty percent of the contract with Heavyweight Champion Joe Palooka Knobby refuses, saying even in West Wokkington Falls he could stage a record bout. He only mentions the town because that is where he is going with Joe and his wife, Anne Howe Palooka, to visit their friend Humphrey Pennyworth. Rogers assumes Walsh is going to stage a bout between Palooka and Pennyworth and hastens to block it. Rogers tricks Pennyworth into signing with him for a bout and then arranges for the crooked town mayor, Phiffeny, and his cousins who run the town to erect a fight stadium. Knobby tells Humphrey that the only way to get out of his contract is a recall election replacing the present town officials with honest ones. Humphrey, the most-liked citizen agrees to run for mayor. At a campaign picnic, a child actress hired by Rogers rushes up to the unmarried candidate, crying "Daddy."

Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, arkansas, b-movie, based-on-comic, boxing, boxing-gloves, boxing-ring, bribe, brother-sister-relationship, campaign
Genres: Action, Comedy, Sport,
Taglines: HILARIOUS HUMPHREY! He's worth his weight in LAUGHS (original poster) IT'S HAPPY HEFTY HILARIOUS HUMPHREY!...showing the champ how to fight crooks...OUTSIDE the ring! (original poster)

Pursued (1947)

Actors: Tom Fadden (actor), Ian Wolfe (actor), Jack Montgomery (actor), Erville Alderson (actor), Eddy Waller (actor), Harry Carey Jr. (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Alan Hale (actor), Ben Corbett (actor), Dean Jagger (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Ray Teal (actor), Ian MacDonald (actor), Robert Mitchum (actor), Clifton Young (actor),

Plot: After his family is murdered in the 1880s, orphan Jeb Rand is raised by the Callum family on their nearby horse ranch. He remains haunted by this childhood trauma in a recurring nightmare of flashing spurs and confinement inside a trap door as his family is slaughtered. Widow Callum does her best to make Jeb feel loved as he is growing up, but the young man stubbornly maintains a sense of his own identity. While he has great affection for his foster-sister Thor, his relationship with her brother Adam is tenuous at best, especially when Jeb blames him for shooting a colt that he was riding. Although Mrs. Callum blames the incident on deer hunters, she is aware that the it was actually the attempted murder of the youngster by her brother-in-law Grant, a shadowy figure who, for vague reasons, is determined to harm Jeb. Jeb loses a coin flip with Adam, and becomes the designated family volunteer to fight in the Spanish-American War. Jeb returns a hero, but does not find happiness. Although Thor loves him, Adam is resentful about sharing the farm's profits, and the omnipresent, enigmatic Grant remains at the fringes of Jeb's life, waiting for a chance to revenge himself on the young man in some mysterious vendetta as Jeb continues trying to exorcise his demons.

Keywords: attempted-murder, bankbook, brother-in-law, buckboard, burned-out-house, bushwhack, card-playing, casino, childhood-love, childhood-trauma
Genres: Drama, Romance, Thriller, Western,

Quotes:

Jeb: [Narrating] One day I rode up in the butte country... [Approaching the burned out shell of a cabin] Came straight to this place just like I'd known the way. There was something in my life that ruined that house. That house was myself. [Entering the charred remains] I'd seen it a million times before... the fireplace... the trap door... [Walking outside again] Out back there was some cattle bones. All of a sudden I couldn't breathe, and then as I walked around the side, I came upon some unmarked graves. If that house was me, what part of me was buried in those graves?

Mrs. Callum: [to Jeb] A person's gotta find his own answers. We're alone... each of us. Each in a different way.

Jeb: [to Thor] There was a black dog riding my back and yours.