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Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei (1999)

Actors: Rogério Fróes (actor), Fernando José (actor), Hugo Carvana (actor), Carlos Gregório (actor), Michael Byrne (actor), Antonio Pitanga (actor), Othon Bastos (actor), José de Abreu (actor), Paulo Betti (actor), Cláudio Corrêa e Castro (actor), Roberto Bomtempo (actor), Maria Alves (actress), Richard Durden (actor), Waldir Onofre (actor), Malu Mader (actress),

Plot: A movie about a Brazilian entrepreneur who rivalled American's richest man at his time, well-known Rockfeller. Irineu Evangelista de Souza in 1867 had $155.000 contos de reis, meanwhile the Brazilian Governement annual budget was 97.000 contos de reis. The movie shows his life from poverty to riches and back to poverty again, as is common in Brazil, rich people die poor.

Genres: Drama,

Carry on Regardless (1961)

Actors: Charles Hawtrey (actor), Bill Owen (actor), Eric Pohlmann (actor), Sid James (actor), Victor Maddern (actor), Terence Alexander (actor), Nicholas Parsons (actor), David Lodge (actor), Cyril Chamberlain (actor), Ed Devereaux (actor), Howard Marion-Crawford (actor), Fred Griffiths (actor), Kenneth Connor (actor), Kynaston Reeves (actor), Cyril Raymond (actor),

Plot: The Helping Hands agency employs some very strange people to perform some very strange jobs! Even the simplest of tasks get bungled by the incompetent but lovable staff, as they get given jobs ranging from taking animals for walks (no ordinary animals you understand) to demonstrating new products at a large and prestigious exhibition...

Keywords: carry-on, independent-film, knitting, nurse, photograph, policeman, sequel
Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: Can you stand the laughs? Do you cry real tears at comedy? Do your sides ache when you laugh too hard? [USA one sheet] Can You Stand The Laughs? [USA half sheet] The Wackybirds is Here! [USA] Laugh On . . . Regardless - with Carry on Regardless [Australia] Funniest Carry On Ever!

Quotes:

Sir Theodore, Testy Old Man: Do you provide substitutes?::Miss Cooling: [shocked] No! This is a respectable firm!

[Dimple has mistakenly arrived at a strip club instead of an aviary]::Strip Club Manager: What do you want?::Gabriel Dimple: Your birds, and I can't wait. Tell me, what sort are they?::Strip Club Manager: What sort you like?::Gabriel Dimple: Blue tits.::Strip Club Manager: Eh?::Gabriel Dimple: Have you got any?::Strip Club Manager: No. No, this place is centrally heated.

Lily Duveen: You know it'll take ninety-nine years to clear up this dump.::Bert Handy: Yeah, well, step by step. That's the method. Little by little.::Sam Twist: Okay then, boss, where do we start?::Bert Handy: Well, I reckon to make it easier for us to walk about, we ought to sweep the floor first.::Delia King: I don't wish to interfere, but I'd have thought it'd be better to start cleaning at the top of the house.::Lily Duveen: Yes, quite right, I mean disturbed dust will only fall down and muck up what we've already cleaned up.::Francis Courtenay: Ladies and gentlemen, may I submit, with the greatest of respect, and for the sake of efficient team working, that we all belt up!::Bert Handy: Hear, hear!::Lily Duveen: Always the gent!::Sam Twist: Ooh, ain't he common!::Francis Courtenay: Let us put ourselves in the hands of Mister Handy and listen to what he says.::Delia King: Well, I bow to the majority, of course, but I'd like it noted that I did suggest the suggestion I suggested.::Lily Duveen: And very suggestive it was, too!

Sam Twist: Bet you this has something to do with atomic energy.::Miss Cooling: Oh gracious! I do hope you don't finish up in Russia!::Sam Twist: Well if I do, Miss Cooling, I shall behave myself as an ex Corporal of the Pioneer Corps should. Name, rank, number and keep your hand off my shovel, and that's your lot.::Miss Cooling: Don't go! Think of brainwashing.::Sam Twist: [chuckles] How can they wash what isn't there?

[Lily is being fondled by an amorous actor whose hands are all over her]::Martin Paul: I *like* Helping Hands.::Lily Duveen: [primly] And I don't like "helping yourself" hands.

Three Cases of Murder (1955)

Actors: Orson Welles (director), Arthur Wontner (actor), John Salew (actor), Ian Dalrymple (writer), W. Somerset Maugham (writer), George More O'Ferrall (director), Ian Dalrymple (producer), Orson Welles (actor), Eddie Byrne (actor), Jack Lambert (actor), Patrick Macnee (actor), André Morell (actor), David Horne (actor), Olga Brook (miscellaneous crew), Maurice Kaufmann (actor),

Plot: Three stories of murder and the supernatural. In the first, a museum worker is introduced to a world behind the pictures he sees every day. Second, when two lifelong friends fall in love with the same woman and she is killed, they are obvious suspects. Is their friendship strong enough for them to alibi each other? Third, when a young politician is terribly hurt by the arrogant Secretary for Foreign Affairs Lord Mountdrago, he uses Mountdrago's dreams to get revenge.

Keywords: advertising-agency, anthology, art, bloody-nose, body-armor, bracelet, british-parliament, broken-glass, carnation, cigarette-smoking
Genres: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery,