'Earl Williams' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Frankenstein and Me (1997)
Actors:
Charles Edwin Powell (actor),
Burt Reynolds (actor),
Sam Stone (actor),
Louise Fletcher (actress),
Ryan Gosling (actor),
Roc LaFortune (actor),
Lynne Adams (actress),
Jason Cavalier (actor),
Normand Corbeil (composer),
Polly Shannon (actress),
Robert Tinnell (director),
Robert Tinnell (writer),
Gaétan Huot (editor),
Ricky Mabe (actor),
René Malo (producer),
Plot: Earl Williams is a dreamer teenager obsessed with monsters, who fantasizes his life as if he were living in the world of the monsters of the Universal Studios. Although being an excellent student, his intolerant and nasty school teacher Mrs. Perdue does not like him and punishes him for any minor fault. His supportive father Les Williams is also a dreamer, who has never been successful in life. When his father dies, his mother becomes lost with two boys, and tries to change the behavior of Earl. One day, the boy finds the "true Frankenstein" lost by a Carnival, and decides to bring the monster back to life.
Keywords: brother, carnival, children, daydream, frankenstein's-monster, halloween, horror-for-children, hospital, monster, mummy
Genres:
Comedy,
Family,
Fantasy,
Horror,
Sci-Fi,
The Front Page (1974)
Actors:
Susan Sarandon (actress),
Ben Hecht (writer),
David Wayne (actor),
Carol Burnett (actress),
Dick O'Neill (actor),
Austin Pendleton (actor),
Leonard Bremen (actor),
Vincent Gardenia (actor),
Allen Garfield (actor),
Harold Gould (actor),
Allen Jenkins (actor),
Charles Durning (actor),
Jack Lemmon (actor),
Walter Matthau (actor),
Charles MacArthur (writer),
Plot: Hildy Johnson is the top reporter on a Chicago newspaper during the 1920s. Tired of the whole game he's determined to quit his job to get married. His scheming editor, Walter Burns, has other plans though. It's the day before guilty (but insane) murderer, Earl Williams, is due to go to the gallows and Burns tempts Johnson to stay and write the story.
Keywords: ambulance, based-on-play, death-penalty, escape, execution, fiancee, hooker, independent-film, journalism, journalist
Genres:
Comedy,
Drama,
Romance,
Taglines: It's the hottest story since the Chicago Fire... And they're sitting on it.
Quotes:
Walter Burns: Get yer head back in there, you God Damned turtle!
[last lines]::Walter Burns: That train that just left, what's the first stop?::Telegrapher: Gary, Indiana.::Walter Burns: All right. Send a message to the police chief at Gary, Indiana. Tell him to meet the midnight train to Philadelphia and arrest one Hildy Johnson.::Telegrapher: Hildy Johnson?::Walter Burns: Yeah. Son of a bitch stole my watch.
Murphy: May the wind at your back never be your own.
Dr. Max J. Eggelhofer: [after being wounded by Earl Williams] Fruitcake, Fruitcake!
Roy Bensinger of the Tribune: [picks up his phone] This is Bensinger. Give me a rewrite man. Oh, Marty, is that you? [reads from notes] "New lead on the Earl Williams Hanging"... Yes, the execution is still set for seven o'clock in the morning. "The authorities are prepared for a general uprising of radicals at that time".::Murphy: [picks up his phone while playing poker] Murphy here. Get me rewrite.::Roy Bensinger of the Tribune: "Extra guards have just been thrown around the jail, the municipal building, railroad terminals, elevated stations".::Murphy: Update on the Williams hanging: Sheriff Hartman's just put 200 more relatives on the payroll to protect the city against the Red Army, which is leaving Moscow in a couple of minutes. Bet a dime.::Roy Bensinger of the Tribune: "Now, this is what the condemned man ordered for his final meal: shrimp cocktail with Thousand Island dressing, rare roast beef, Brussels sprouts, apple pie à la mode, Ovaltine".::Murphy: For his last meal, Williams is getting a 95-cent Blue Plate Special from the greasy spoon across the street.::Roy Bensinger of the Tribune: "At nine o'clock tonight, Williams will be examined by still another psycholigist, Dr. Max J. Eggelhofer, at the request of The Friends of American Liberty"... Eggelhofer. Yes, he's from Vienna... It's in my story this morning! He wrote that book, "Self-Abuse and Anti-Social Behavior".::Murphy: Poor bastard's gonna swing in the morning, and this big brain from Vienna wants to ask him if he played with himself when he was five. More later. [hangs up]
Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson: Goodbye, Duffy. Watch the diabetes. Walter, it's been fun.::Duffy: What's he mean by that?::Walter Burns: He's leaving us. Getting married.::Duffy: Yeah? That hostess at the Hotsy-Totsy Club?::Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson: You're not even close. Why, this is a very classy dame. Philadephia. Studied to be a concert pianist.::Walter Burns: Where in the hell would you meet a concert pianist?::Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson: Well, actually, she's a widow. Husband cracked up in a brand-new Packard. Only had 18 miles on it. So, to support herself, she's playing the organ at the Balaban & Katz Theater.::Walter Burns: The one in the Loop?::Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson: Yeah. We've been dating three months.::Walter Burns: Jeez, Hildy. why didn't you tell me? Kid, I woulda thrown you a little farewell party...::Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson: Oh, no, no, no! I know your farewell parties! When Ben Hecht was leaving for Hollywood, you slipped a micky in his gin fizz. It took four of us to get on the California Limited.
Walter Burns: [after unsuccessfully posing as probation officer Otto Fishbein] Tell Hildy I wish him all the luck in the world, and I mean it, or my name isn't Otto Fishbein.
Mollie Malloy: I never said that I loved Earl Williams and was willing to marry him on the gallows. You made that up!::Murphy: Oh, come on. You've been sucking around that cuckoo ever since he's been in the death house.::McHugh: Everybody knows you're his soul-mate.::Mollie Malloy: That's a lot of bunk! Like all that other stuff you been writing. Calling me an Angel of the Pavement and the Midnight Madonna. Who ya kiddin'? I'm a two-dollar whore from Division Street and you know it!
'Honest Pete' Hartman Sheriff of Clark County: [walks into the press room to see the reporters drinking liquor] Ah, what's the idea, fellas? You know better than that. This is a government building!::Kruger: Uh, hi, sheriff.::Endicott: What'll ya have?::'Honest Pete' Hartman Sheriff of Clark County: I got a good mind to have you all locked up!::Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson: The state's atterney wouldn't like it, because I bought that stuff from his brother.
'Honest Pete' Hartman Sheriff of Clark County: [the sheriff is passing out tickets to the execution] Daily News. Examiner.::Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson: Here you are, Rudy. The new man.::'Honest Pete' Hartman Sheriff of Clark County: Oh, what happened? They finally fire you?::Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson: I'm retiring to my country estate outside Philadelphia.::'Honest Pete' Hartman Sheriff of Clark County: Well, in that case, I will have a drink!::Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson: No, you won't. Not my liquor!::Rudy Keppler of the Chicago Examiner: What should I do with the second ticket?::Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson: Sell it to a scalper, like the sheriff does.
Reporter (1963)
Actors:
Lukas Ammann (actor),
Friedrich Joloff (actor),
Georg Lehn (actor),
Max Mairich (actor),
Hannes Messemer (actor),
Gerd Vespermann (actor),
Erni Mangold (actress),
Ben Hecht (writer),
Charles MacArthur (writer),
Michael Kehlmann (director),
Walter Buschhoff (actor),
Klaus Havenstein (actor),
Leopold Rudolf (actor),
Hertha Martin (actress),
Siegfried Breuer Jr. (actor),
Genres:
Drama,
The Front Page (1948)
Actors:
Sid James (actor),
Charles MacArthur (writer),
Michael Balfour (actor),
Ben Hecht (writer),
Bessie Love (actress),
MacDonald Parke (actor),
Basil Appleby (actor),
Ronan O'Casey (actor),
Harold Ayer (actor),
Harry Lane (actor),
Henry Gilbert (actor),
Launce Maraschal (actor),
Manning Wilson (actor),
Norman Williams (actor),
Margaret Gordon (actress),
Genres:
Comedy,
Drama,
Do You Love Me (1946)
Actors:
Paul Harvey (actor),
Sam Harris (actor),
Jesse Graves (actor),
Brooks Benedict (actor),
Ernie Adams (actor),
Reginald Gardiner (actor),
Fred Graham (actor),
William 'Billy' Benedict (actor),
Wilson Benge (actor),
Eugene Borden (actor),
Harlan Briggs (actor),
Chick Chandler (actor),
Harry Depp (actor),
Lex Barker (actor),
Wilbur Mack (actor),
Plot: Katharine Hilliard, mousy dean of a stuffy music school, meets and is insulted by swing band leader Barry Clayton on a train. To "show" him she takes a friend's advice, removes her glasses, and puts on a designer gown. Naturally, she becomes gorgeous. Soon, both Barry and crooner Jimmy Hale are after her, and she finds herself in the midst of triangles and misunderstandings.
Keywords: bandleader, classical-music, music-school, musician, swing-music
Genres:
Musical,
Taglines: Glorious! WITH SONG, GAIETY AND ROMANCE...WEAVING A MAGIC SPELL! (original pressbook ad - Mostly caps)
Quotes:
Katherine 'Kitten' Hilliard: But, I already had dinner::Jimmy Hale: Well Lets walk::Katherine 'Kitten' Hilliard: But I::Jimmy Hale: It couldn't be that your afraid::Katherine 'Kitten' Hilliard: Afraid! Such conceit, such ego. I'm engaged you must understand that and the man that I'm going to marry also associate with me at the school. Our lives are inseparable bond together.
Girls of the Big House (1945)
Actors:
Virginia Christine (actress),
Symona Boniface (actress),
Gertrude Astor (actress),
Roy Barcroft (actor),
Tom Keene (actor),
Charles Sullivan (actor),
Dick Elliott (actor),
Tom London (actor),
Lee Phelps (actor),
William Forrest (actor),
John Ince (actor),
Walter Shumway (actor),
Barry Bernard (actor),
Brick Sullivan (actor),
Grace Cunard (actress),
Genres:
Drama,
Mystery,
Sunday Sinners (1940)
Actors:
Robert O. Crandall (editor),
Arthur Dreifuss (director),
Edna Mae Harris (actress),
Augustus Smith (actor),
Alec Lovejoy (actor),
Sidney Easton (actor),
Vincent Valentini (writer),
Percy Verwayen (actor),
Donald Heywood (composer),
George Williams (actor),
Mamie Smith (actress),
Jack Goldberg (producer),
Emily Santos (actress),
Emily Santos (actress),
Al Young (actor),
Genres:
Comedy,
Drama,
Musical,
Taglines: A Startling Dramatic Thunderbolt!
His Girl Friday (1940)
Actors:
Ralph Bellamy (actor),
Abner Biberman (actor),
Wade Boteler (actor),
Harry C. Bradley (actor),
Wheaton Chambers (actor),
Edmund Cobb (actor),
Ralph Dunn (actor),
Earl Dwire (actor),
Cliff Edwards (actor),
Pat Flaherty (actor),
Jack Gardner (actor),
Billy Gilbert (actor),
Cary Grant (actor),
Porter Hall (actor),
Irving Bacon (actor),
Plot: Walter Burns, editor of a major Chicago newspaper, is about to lose his ace reporter and former wife, Hildy Johnson, to insurance salesman Bruce Baldwin, but not without a fight! The crafty editor uses every trick in his fedora to get Hildy to write one last big story, about murderer Earl Williams and the inept Sheriff Hartwell. The comedy snowballs as William's friend, Molly Malloy, the crooked Mayor, and Bruce's mother all get tied up in Walter's web.
Keywords: 1940s, arrest, automobile-accident, based-on-play, battle-of-the-sexes, bribery, broken-engagement, business, capital-punishment, captive
Genres:
Comedy,
Drama,
Romance,
Taglines: She learned about men from him! The Year's Wildest, Wittiest Whirlwind of a Love Battle... Outrageously Racy... Sparkling... Gay!
Quotes:
Walter Burns: Take Hitler and stick him on the funny page.
Walter Burns: Listen, you insignificant, square-toed, pimpled-headed spy.
Hildy Johnson: Walter, you're wonderful, in a loathsome sort of way.
Hildy Johnson: [speaking on the phone to Bruce] There's an old newspaper superstition that the first big check you get, you put in the lining of your hat. In your hat! It brings good luck.::Murphy: I've been a reporter for 20 years - I never heard that before.::Hildy Johnson: [to Murphy] Neither did I.
Wilson, reporter: Any dope on how he escaped?::McCue, reporter: Maybe the sheriff let him out so Williams could vote for him.
Bruce Baldwin: [Concerning Walter] I like him; he's got a lot of charm.::Hildy Johnson: Well he comes by it naturally his grandfather was a snake.
Hildy Johnson: [Hildy's on the phone telling Walter how Earl Williams escsaped] Of course he had to have a gun to re-enact the crime with. And who do you think supplied it? Peter B. Hartwell. B For brains.
Sheriff Hartwell: Please don't call me 'Pinky'.::Murphy: Why not?::Sheriff Hartwell: Because I got a name, see... and it's Peter B. Hartwell.::McCue, reporter: What's the "B" for?::Murphy: Bull.
Bruce Baldwin: Mighty nice little town, Albany. They've got the state capitol there, you know.
Walter Burns: Diabetes! I ought to know better than to hire anybody with a disease.
The Front Page (1931)
Actors:
Maurice Black (actor),
Walter Catlett (actor),
Spencer Charters (actor),
James Donlan (actor),
Francis Ford (actor),
Clark Gable (actor),
James Gordon (actor),
Sol Gorss (actor),
Edward Everett Horton (actor),
Fred Howard (actor),
Herman J. Mankiewicz (actor),
Frank McHugh (actor),
Adolphe Menjou (actor),
Lewis Milestone (actor),
Richard Alexander (actor),
Plot: Hildy Johnson, newspaper reporter, is engaged to Peggy Grant and planning to move to New York for a higher paying advertising job. The court press room is full of lame reporters who invent stories as much as write them. All are waiting to cover the hanging of Earl Williams. When Williams escapes from the inept Sheriff, Hildy seizes the opportunity by using his $260 honeymoon money to payoff an insider and get the scoop on the escape. However, Walter Burns, the Post's editor, is slow to repay Hildy back, hoping that he will stay on the story. Getting a major scoop looks possible when Hildy stumbles onto the bewildered escapee and hides him in a roll-top desk in the press room. Burns shows up to help. Can they keep Williams' whereabouts secret long enough to get the scoop, especially with the Sheriff and other reporters hovering around?
Keywords: anarchist, based-on-play, bribery, chicago-illinois, editor, escape, execution, newspaper, press-room, prostitution
Genres:
Comedy,
Quotes:
[first lines]::Title card: This story is laid in a mythical kingdom.
[McCue is questioning a woman via the telephone]::'Mac' McCue: Is it true that you took the part of Lady Godiva for charity seven years ago? Hello? She cut off!::Jimmy Murphy: What? Her hair? Tell her I'll be right over.
[Hildy tries to explain to his fiancee why he's still working for Walter Burns' newspaper when he promised to resign]::Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson: Listen, dear, something terrific has happened. I was going to tell but I couldn't!::Walter Burns: Tell her nothing. She's a woman, you fool!
Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson: I'm all washed up.::Walter Burns: What's that?::Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson: I mean it this time, Walter.::Peggy Grant: Oh, Hildy, if I only thought you did!::Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson: If I'm not telling you the absolute truth, may I fall dead. I'm going to New York tonight with you, if you give me one last chance. I'm going to cut out drinking and swearing and everything connected with the crazy newspaper business! Honey, I'll never even read a newspaper.
[last lines]::Walter Burns: The son of a...::[Walter's elbow conveniently hits a typewriter keyboard]::Walter Burns: ...stole my watch!
'Mac' McCue: [phone rings, he answer] Start hollerin'! Hildebrand!