Degrees of Latitude (2004)

Actors: William G. Wagner (producer), Frances Burroughs (producer), Frances Burroughs (miscellaneous crew), Michael Durling (director), Michael Durling (producer), Michael Durling (editor), William E. White (producer), Jim Survil (miscellaneous crew), Todd Norris (actor), Richard L. McCluney Jr. (producer), Linda Randulfe (miscellaneous crew), Henry McCoy (producer), Carson Hudson (writer), Carson Hudson (actor), James Smith (actor),

Plot: Charting the New World was the task of American surveyors and European mapmakers. This is a 21st-century look at the craftmanship and importance of 18th-century mapmaking that reveals for student historians the geography of a rapidly changing world.

Genres: Family,

The Devil and Daniel Webster (2003)

Actors: Randall Emmett (producer), George Furla (producer), Randall Emmett (producer), Amy Poehler (actress), Jennifer Love Hewitt (actress), Kim Cattrall (actress), Alec Baldwin (producer), Anthony Hopkins (actor), Bobby Cannavale (actor), John Savage (actor), Dan Aykroyd (actor), Darrell Hammond (actor), Alec Baldwin (actor), Michael Z. Gordon (producer), George Furla (producer),

Plot: In Manhattan, the aspirant writer Jabez Stone is a complete loser: he is not able to sell his novels, he lives in a lousy apartment and he does not have success with women. When one of his friends Julius Jenson sells his novel for US$ 190,000.00 to an editor, Jabez fells envy and promises to sell his soul to the devil for success and accidentally kills a woman with his typing machine. The Devil knocks on his door, fixes the situation and seals a contract with Jabez. His low quality novels have bad reviews but become best-sellers; Jabez enriches; has success with women, but has no time for his friends. Jabez meets with the publisher Daniel Webster who offers him a chance to break the contract with the devil.

Keywords: based-on-play, based-on-short-story, character-name-in-title, deal-with-the-devil, devil, fame, faustian, fortune, law, manhattan-new-york-city
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy,
Taglines: the devil is in the details.

Quotes:

Daniel Webster: Mr. Stone. Man of the hour. You're quite a success.::Jabez Stone: Thank you.::Daniel Webster: It wasn't meant as a compliment.

Aging Writer: Ah, the great Daniel Webster!::Daniel Webster: The drunk Mr. Hardy.::Aging Writer: Better drunk than a whore, I always say.::Daniel Webster: Better neither than both.

The Devil: Hmm. You know what they say. In order for one to succeed, another must fail.

Daniel Webster: And so it was that the chariot of the devil smote down Jensen. You see, Jensen was a loose end. And the devil doesn't like loose ends, if you know what I mean.

Legend of the Chupacabra (2000)

Actors: Joe Castro (director), Joe Castro (producer), Christian Remde (producer), Christian Remde (editor), Darlene Tygrett (actress), Elizabeth Del Sol (actress), Kevin Sloan (actor), Kevin Sloan (actor), Mauricio Zatarain (actor), Rudy Balli (writer), Rudy Balli (producer), Rudy Balli (composer), Brenda Ambrize (actress), Katsy Joiner (actress), Lewis Sarkozi (actor),

Plot: The Chupacabra (Spanish for "goat sucker")--Is it mere folklore? A government conspiracy? Some weirdo in a latex suit? When the mutilation of her uncle's goats (and her uncle) by the brutal Chupacabra is caught on tape, Maria Esperanza vows to find out despite the superstitious fears of the locals.

Keywords: creature-feature, fake-documentary, legend, troma, urban-legend
Genres: Horror,

Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble (2000)

Actors: Charles Bernstein (composer), Keith Carradine (actor), Jackie Richardson (actress), Jane Seymour (actress), Jane Seymour (producer), James Keach (director), Gerard Parkes (actor), Janet-Laine Green (actress), Colin Fox (actor), Kim Roberts (actress), James Keach (actor), James Keach (producer), Winnifred Jong (miscellaneous crew), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (actor), Richard Yearwood (actor),

Genres: Biography, Drama,

The Gores of Massachusetts (1999)

Actors: Bill Mootos (actor), Scott Shucher (editor), Nicole Jesson (actress), Robert Tarutis (producer), Jeff Loeb (composer), Robert Tarutis (director), Robert Murphy (actor), Victor Gregoire (actor), Erin Luhr (actress), Celeste McClain (actress), Robert J. Tarutis (writer), Micheal Henderson (actor), Ralph Stokes (actor), Mara Flynn (actress), Susan Hern (actress),

Genres: Biography, Short,

Race the Sun (1996)

Actors: Halle Berry (actress), Scott Allen Logan (miscellaneous crew), Graeme Revell (composer), Robyn Moore (actress), Steve Zahn (actor), Kerry Fetzer (miscellaneous crew), Eliza Dushku (actress), Marshall Napier (actor), Kevin Tighe (actor), Joel Edgerton (actor), James Belushi (actor), Casey Affleck (actor), Bill Hunter (actor), Reza Mokhtar (miscellaneous crew), Terry Lee (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: A bunch of high school misfits in Hawaii, introduced by their new teacher, attend a science fair in which they draw up inspiration to build their own solar car and win a trip to compete in the 1990 World Solar Challenge in Australia.

Keywords: australia, car, car-racing, docudrama, hawaii, outback, solar-energy, solar-power, teacher, teacher-student-relationship
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: A dream can make all the difference under the sun.

Freedom to Speak (1982)

Actors: Darren McGavin (actor), Mason Adams (actor), Mason Adams (actor), Mason Adams (actor), Mason Adams (actor), Mason Adams (actor), James Earl Jones (actor), Mason Adams (actor), Edward Herrmann (actor), Edward Herrmann (actor), Edward Herrmann (actor), Edward Herrmann (actor), John Houseman (actor), James Earl Jones (actor), John Rubinstein (actor),

Genres: ,

All That Money Can Buy (1941)

Actors: William Alland (actor), Frank Austin (actor), Walter Baldwin (actor), Edward Arnold (actor), Sonny Bupp (actor), Bob Burns (actor), Horace B. Carpenter (actor), George Cleveland (actor), Eddie Borden (actor), Tex Cooper (actor), Jeff Corey (actor), Alec Craig (actor), James Craig (actor), Eddie Dew (actor), Robert Dudley (actor),

Plot: A down-on-his-luck farmer makes a deal with the devil for seven years of prosperity. When Mr. Scratch comes to collect, orator and hero of the common man Daniel Webster comes to the rescue. Based on the short story by Stephen Vincent Benet. Also known as "All That Money Can Buy."

Keywords: 1840s, 19th-century, accident, affection, alcoholic, americana, bad-luck, barnyard, based-on-short-story, battle
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy,
Taglines: A GREAT MOTION PICTURE DARES TO BE DIFFERENT! (original print media ad - all caps) STEPHEN VINCENT BENET'S Amazing Saturday Evening Post Story

Quotes:

[Webster is examing the contract Mr. Scratch has with Stone]::Daniel Webster: This appears - mind you, I say appears - to be properly drawn. But you shan't have this man. A man isn't a piece of property. Mr. Stone is an American citizen... and an American citizen cannot be forced into the service of a foreign prince.::Mr. Scratch: Foreign? Who calls me a foreigner?::Daniel Webster: Well, I never heard of the de... I never heard of you claiming American citizenship.::Mr. Scratch: And who has a better right? When the first wrong was done to the first Indian, I was there. When the first slaver put out for the Congo, I stood on the deck. Am I not still spoken of in every church in New England? It's true the North claims me for a Southerner and the South for a Northerner, but I'm neither. Tell the truth, Mr. Webster - though I don't like to boast of it - my name is older in the country than yours.::Daniel Webster: Then I stand on the Constitution. I demand a trial for my client.::Mr. Scratch: You mean a jury trial?::Daniel Webster: I do! And if I can't win this case with a jury you'll have me, too. If two New Hampshire men aren't a match for the devil, we better give the country back to the Indians.

[Ma Stone is reading out loud from the book of Job]::Mary Stone: Give me the book, Ma. I'm going to read us something cheerful from the book of Ruth. That is, if you don't mind changing the lesson.::Ma Stone: Land sakes, I don't mind. I never did hold much with Job, even if he is scripture. Took on too much to suit me. Course I don't want to malign the man; but he always sounded to me like he come from Massachusetts.

Jabez Stone: Money's a funny thing ain't it, Ma?::Ma Stone: I figure it depends a mite on how you get it and how you spend it.::Jabez Stone: But I don't spend any.::Ma Stone: But you should, son. That's all it's good for.::Jabez Stone: Do you really think that?::Ma Stone: That's just common sense. Now a man like Daniel Webster: guess they pay him high for what he does, but he's worth it. And he helps others... makes all the difference.::Jabez Stone: I know. But suppose a man got his money in bad ways?::Ma Stone: Wouldn't profit him none. You see, son: I'm old and I've lived. When a man gets his money in bad way... when he sees the better course and takes the worse... then the devil's in his heart. And that fixes him.::Jabez Stone: And yet... a man could change all that couldn't he?::Ma Stone: A man can always change things. That's what makes him different from the barnyard critters.

Jabez Stone: What do you have on your mind?::Daniel Webster: You, Jabez Stone. You and a lot of poor farmers hereabouts... all good men of the earth and in trouble because of you. Or am I wrong about those contracts?::Jabez Stone: Without me and my money they wouldn't have anything.::Daniel Webster: They'd have a good neighbor - and that's worth more than anything else... much, much more.

[Webster and Stone are waiting for Mr. Scratch]::Daniel Webster: How long do we have to wait?::Jabez Stone: 'Til midnight.::Daniel Webster: Oh, that's fine - then we have time to christen a jug. Old Medford rum: aahh, there's nothing like it. You know, somehow or other, waiting becomes wonderfully shorter with a jug. I saw an inchworm once take a drop of this and he stood right up on his hind legs and bit a bee! [chuckles and takes a drink] Will you have a nip?::Jabez Stone: No, there's no joy in it for me.::Daniel Webster: Oh, come, come now. Just because you sold your soul to the devil that needn't make you a teetotaler.

Daniel Webster: I'd fight ten thousand devils to save a New Hampshire man.

Mr. Scratch: You'll never be president - I'll see to that!

Daniel Webster: If two New Hampshire men aren't a match for the devil, we'd better give this country back to the Indians.

Mr. Scratch: [Jabez, after noticing that one of Mr. Scratch's victims is now the size of a fly, asks him how big their souls are] Oh, I see what you mean; why, they vary... Now, in your case, I could probably keep you in my vest pocket.

Daniel Webster: Gentlemen of the jury, tonight it is my privilege to address a group of men I've long been acquainted with in song and story, but men I had never hoped to see. My worthy opponent, Mister Scratch, called you Americans all. Mister Scratch is right. You were Americans all. Oh, what a heritage you were born to share. Gentlemen of the jury, I envy you, for you were present at the birth of a mighty union. It was given to you to hear those first cries of pain and behold the shining babe, born of blood and tears. You are called upon tonight to judge a man named Jabez Stone. What is his case? He's accused of breach of contract. He made a deal to find a shortcut in his life, to get rich quickly, the same kind of a deal all of you once made. You, Benedict Arnold. I speak to you first because you are better known than the rest of your colleagues here. What a different song yours could have been. A friend of Washington and Lafayette, a soldier. General Arnold, you fought so gallantly for the American cause till - let me see, what was the date? - seventeen seventy-nine. That date, burned in your heart. The lure of gold made you betray that cause. And you, Simon Girty, now known to all as "Renegade" - a loathesome word - you also took that other way. And you, Walter Butler, what would you give for another chance to see the grasses grow in Cherry Valley without the stain of blood? I could go on and on and name you all but there's no need of that. Why stir the wounds? I know they pain enough. You were fooled like Jabez Stone, fooled and trapped in your desire to rebel against your fate. Gentlemen of the jury, it is the eternal right of every man to raise his fist against his fate. But when he does, these are crossroads. You took the wrong turn. So did Jabez Stone. But he found it out in time. He's here tonight to save his soul. Gentlemen of the jury, I ask you to give Jabez Stone another chance to walk upon this earth, among the trees, the growing corn, and the smell of grasses in the Spring. What would you all give for another chance to see those things you must all remember and often yearn to touch again? For you were all men once. Clean American air was in your lungs and you breathed it deeply. For it was free and blew across an earth you loved. These are common things I speak of, small things, but they are good things. Yet without your soul, they mean nothing. Without your soul, they sicken. Mister Scratch once told you that your soul meant nothing. And you believed him. And you lost your freedom. Freedom isn't just a big word. It is the morning and the bread and the risen sun. It was for freedom we came to these shores in boats and ships. It was a long journey and a hard one and a bitter one. Yes, there is sadness in being a man... but it is a proud thing, too. And out of the suffering and the starvation and the wrong and the right, a new thing has come: a free man. And when the whips of the oppressors are broken and their names forgotten and destroyed, free men will be talking and walking under a free star. Yes, we have planted freedom in this earth like wheat. And we have said to the skies above us, "A man shall own his own soul... " Now, here is this man. He is your brother. You were Americans all. [points to the Devil] You can't be on his side, the side of the oppressor. Let Jabez Stone keep his soul, a soul which doesn't belong to him alone but to his family, his son, and his country. Gentlemen of the jury, don't let this country go to the devil. Free Jabez Stone. God bless the United States and the men who made her free.

Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)

Actors: Trevor Bardette (actor), John Cromwell (actor), Clem Bevans (actor), Ted Billings (actor), Alec Craig (actor), Erville Alderson (actor), Ed Brady (actor), Harlan Briggs (actor), Sonny Bupp (actor), George Chandler (actor), Tom Chatterton (actor), Alan Baxter (actor), Wallis Clark (actor), Andy Clyde (actor), Howard Da Silva (actor),

Plot: Biopic of Abe Lincoln, 16th President of he United States, from his early days in backwoods Kentucky to his election as President. After a time running livestock to New Orleans, he settles in New Salem where he meets and falls in love with Ann Rutledge who is already engaged to someone. Abe makes a home for himself in New Salem, eventually running a store and becoming the postmaster. He's popular with the locals and is eventually elected to the State legislature but afterward established himself in the practice of law. He eventually meets Mary Todd who would become his wife and and is sent to Washington as a Congressman before he is elected president.

Keywords: 1800s, 1830s, 1860s, abraham-lincoln, ambition, based-on-play, cameo, campaign, character-name-in-title, debate
Genres: Biography, Drama, History,

Quotes:

Mentor Graham: Well, Abe, there are always two occupations open to those who have failed at everything else: school teaching and politics.

Abraham Lincoln: [discussing why he can't face Mary Todd before his marriage to her] I'd have to tell her that I have hatred for her infernal ambition. That I don't want to be ridden and driven onward and upward through life with her whip bashing me and her spurs digging in me. If her poor little soul craves importance in life let her marry Stephen Douglas. He's ambitious too. I want only to be left alone.

Sarah Bush Lincoln: Wherever you go, whatever you do, you remember what the Good Book Says: "The world passeth, but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever."::Abraham Lincoln: I'll remember, maw.

Abraham Lincoln: [after a particularly hysterical outburst by Mary, he comes up to her; her back is to him] Why do you take every opportunity you can to make a public fool out of me and yourself? It's bad enough when you act like that in the privacy of our own home, but here in front of people! You're not to do that again, do you hear? You're never to do that again!::Mary Todd Lincoln: [she turns to face him amazed, then] You never spoke to me like that before. You lost your temper, Abe... you've never done that before.::Abraham Lincoln: I'm sorry. [He turns and walks away from her] I still think youn should go home rather than stay here and endure the strain of this Death Watch.::Mary Todd Lincoln: [slowly goes to the door, opens it, pauses, then turns back to him] This is the night I dreamed about when I was a child... when I was an excited young girl and all the gay young gentlemen of Springfield were courting me... and I fell in love with the least likely of them. This is the night I'm waiting to hear that my husband is become President of the United States... and even if he does, it's ruined for me. [He turns to stare at her] It's too late. [She slowly leaves]

Mary Todd Lincoln: [Contemptuously as she hears crowd noises from outside] Stephen Douglas has arrived. Listen to them cheering for him!::Abraham Lincoln: [Laconically] They ought to cheer. He paid 'em enough for it.

Abraham Lincoln: A house divided against itself cannot stand. The government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

Aide to Stephen Douglas: You don't mean to say you're afraid of Abe Lincoln. Why, the country doesn't know him!::Stephen Douglas: Maybe the country doesn't... but I do.

Mr. Crimmin: Gentlemen, I may not know as much as you about economics and theology, but I do know politics and what is the essential quality that we demand in our candidate. It is simply this: that he be able to get himself elected.::Politician: Well, there's something in what you say.::Politician: And do you think he can do it?::Mr. Crimmin: I tell you, gentlemen, in that uncouth rail splitter you may observe one of the slickest, smoothest politicians that ever hoodwinked a yokel mob.

Ninian Edwards: [after he withdraws from politics] What'll yuh do, Abe?::Abraham Lincoln: Judge Stuart's offered me a chance to work in his law office in Springfield. Course I don't know much about the law, but there's one thing I've learned here in politics... that ignorance is no obstacle to advancement. In fact, in some cases it's quite an advantage.

Mentor Graham: Abe carried New Salem by 205 votes to 3.::Jack Armstrong: My boys are out tryin' to find the 3 skunks who voted wrong.

The Mighty Barnum (1934)

Actors: Jimmie Dundee (actor), James Cooley (actor), Jack Curtis (actor), Howard Davies (actor), Davison Clark (actor), Allan Cavan (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Wallace Beery (actor), Herman Bing (actor), Maurice Black (actor), Harry Bowen (actor), William Arnold (actor), Sam Appel (actor), E.H. Calvert (actor), Pat Flaherty (actor),

Genres: Biography, Comedy,
Taglines: Right This Way Folks to the Greatest Show in Town