Al malaika la tuhaliq fi al-dar albayda (2004)

Actors: Raimondo Aiello (editor), Gherardo Pagliei (producer), Mohamed Asli (writer), Mohamed Asli (producer), Mohamed Asli (director), Stephan Micus (composer), Siham Douguena (writer), Tham Hajjaj (producer), Abdessamad Meftahelkhair (actor), Naima Bouhmala (actress), Leila Oumami (costume designer), Leila El Hayani (actress), Mostapha Sabhi (actor), Ali Achtouk (actor), Fatima El Hadi (actress),

Plot: Three men from a failing Berber village in the Atlas Mountains find work in a Casablanca restaurant. Head Waiter Said dutifully sends money back to wife Aicha who is raising their son and new baby. Kitchen worker Ottman remembers riding his horse as a child with the Berber leaders. He sends back bread scraps to keep his horse from being slaughtered for meat. Waiter Ismail longs for a pair of black boots that costs 3 months' wages. The dream of each man turns sour as the film moves from light drama to disallusionment, humiliation and tragedy.

Keywords: despair, love
Genres: Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: Broken city dreams

Quotes:

Said: I know the wives of immigrants. I hope not to live their tragedy.

Man on bus: Very rarely is the dignity of an immigrant not stepped on.

Restaurant Owner: [universal comment about his staff] What riff-raff.

Story-teller: The bellies of the greedy shall burst.

Man at roadside: Afraid of the police and not of God?

Aicha: Casablanca has made widows of Berber wives.

Old Man: There aren't any men left here - even to bury the dead.

Restaurant Owner: A man with no money is worthless.

The Siege (1998)

Actors: Bruce Willis (actor), Matt Servitto (actor), Tony Shalhoub (actor), Denzel Washington (actor), Aasif Mandvi (actor), John Rothman (actor), Joey Naber (actor), David Proval (actor), Dave Mallow (actor), Dakin Matthews (actor), Said Faraj (actor), Bill Clinton (actor), Will Lyman (actor), Annette Bening (actress), Annette Bening (actress),

Plot: After the abduction by the US military of an Islamic religious leader, New York City becomes the target of escalating terrorist attacks. Anthony Hubbard, the head of the FBI's Counter-Terrorism Task Force in New York, teams up with CIA operative Elise Kraft to hunt down the terrorist cells responsible for the attacks. As the bombings continue, the US government responds by declaring martial law, sending US troops, led by Gen. Devereaux, into the streets of New York City.

Keywords: abduction, african-american, arab, arab-american, army, arrest, backfire, bill-clinton, blood, blood-spatter
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: On November 6th our freedom is history An enemy they can't see. A nation under siege. A crisis they can't control

Quotes:

General William Devereaux: This is the land of opportunity, gentlemen. The opportunity to turn yourselves in.

General William Devereaux: The CIA didn't know the Berlin Wall was coming down until bricks started hitting them in the head.

[Elise and Samir are having sex as Frank and Hub watch through a thermal imager]::Agent Frank Haddad: Beats the shit out of cable.

Sharon Bridger: We're the CIA, something always goes wrong.

Elise Kraft: [to Hubbard] I tend to be suspicious of all true believers. Present company included.

Soldier: Get out of my face Hubbard, or I might just decide you're an Ethiopian!::Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: You know, you are stupid enough to think that that's an insult.

Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: "London. Paris. Athens. Rome. Belfast. Beruit. We're not the first city to have to deal with terrorism. Tel Aviv. The day after they bombed the market in Tel Aviv the market was open and it was full. This is New York City. We can take it."

Elise Kraft: In this game, the most committed wins.

General William Deveroux: This is a new kind of war.

Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: [upon informing Devereaux that he is being arrested] William Devereaux, you are under arrest for the torture and murder of Tariq Husseini, an American citizen.::General William Devereaux: Is this some kind of a joke?::Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: You see me laughing, general?

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)

Actors: Donald Kerr (actor), Fred Clark (actor), Wilfrid Hyde-White (actor), Jim Backus (actor), Billy Curtis (actor), Richard Crenna (actor), Milton Frome (actor), Richard Deacon (actor), Scott Brady (actor), James Brolin (actor), Leon Askin (actor), Jerome Cowan (actor), Jackie Coogan (actor), Harry Morgan (actor), Charles Lane (actor),

Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: It's the happiest, wackiest, zaniest comedy you'll ever see! [UK] A Wild Whirl of Wacky Fun!

Quotes:

Sakalakis: [looking at bench] Rimsky, in for Korsakoff!

Kismet (1955)

Actors: Norman Leavitt (actor), Frank Mitchell (actor), Ethan Laidlaw (actor), Jay C. Flippen (actor), John Bleifer (actor), Mike Mazurki (actor), Howard Keel (actor), Jack Elam (actor), David Bond (actor), George Bruggeman (actor), Ted de Corsia (actor), Jamie Farr (actor), Sebastian Cabot (actor), Aaron Spelling (actor), Leonard Mudie (actor),

Plot: Like a tale spun by Scheherazade, Kismet follows the remarkable and repeated changes of fortune that engulf a poor poet. It all happens in one incredible day when Kismet (Fate) takes a hand.

Keywords: 1001-nights, arabian-nights, baghdad-mesopotamia, based-on-play, based-on-stage-musical, based-on-stage-musical-based-on-stage-play, beggar, caliph, dancer, dancing
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance,
Taglines: ECSTASY OF SONG, SPECTACLE AND LOVE! {poster - all caps] FAMED STAGE HIT GLORIFIED ON THE SCREEN! [poster - all caps]

Quotes:

The Poet: May your taxes increase! [Said when acting as a beggar to get the Baghdad merchants to give him alms]

Caliph Guard: [closing lines] Is this man to be pardoned, O Caliph?::Omar: Pardon him, All Highest. His crime was a service. Let him go free.::The Poet: No, don't ask that. Under the circumstances it would embarrass the All Highest to pardon his father-in-law. No, O Prince of Justice, let me help you to compose this most difficult of verdicts against a man who in his life never once did right and who never once wronged anyone. Condemn the scoundrel to some dreadful oasis at least a week's camel's journey away. Force him to take with him the widow of the soon to be late Wazir and all the property she can get her hands on before the accounts are audited. Condemn him to lighten her sorrow and to toil ceaselessly to remove all grief from her heart.::Lalume: You have just condemned yourself for life, My Lord.::The Poet: And finally, O Prince of True Believers, take from me my greatest treasure, my daughter, Marsinah. Take her away forever by marrying her til the end of her days.::The Caliph: Such is the Caliph's pleasure. And so he orders.::The Poet: [singing] Princes come/Princes go. An hour of pomp and show./ They know. /Princes come/ And over the sands and over the sands of time./ They go./ Wise men come./Ever promising/the riddle of life to know./Wise men come./But over the sands./ The silent sands of time./ They go./Lovers come./Lovers go./And all that there is to know/Lovers know./Only lovers know.

Lalume: [singing] On days when my lord groweth restless, and bored by his staff and his plume... his handmaiden hath what he needeth- and what doth he need? Rahadlakum!

Marsinah: [on being told that the Wazir intends to visit her room that night] If you do I'll kill myself, I swear it!::Wazir: Really? It'll be one of the most interesting wedding nights I've had in years.

Chief Policeman: [Hajj the poet has just been sentenced by the Wazir, and the Chief Policeman enters to find him and Lalume, the Wazir's wife, kissing] Is that his sentence?

The Caliph: I was stepped upon!::Manservant: Oh inconceivable, All Highest, but true. You were incontrovertibly stepped upon.

Kismet (1955)

Actors: Norman Leavitt (actor), Frank Mitchell (actor), Ethan Laidlaw (actor), Jay C. Flippen (actor), John Bleifer (actor), Mike Mazurki (actor), Howard Keel (actor), Jack Elam (actor), David Bond (actor), George Bruggeman (actor), Ted de Corsia (actor), Jamie Farr (actor), Sebastian Cabot (actor), Aaron Spelling (actor), Leonard Mudie (actor),

Plot: Like a tale spun by Scheherazade, Kismet follows the remarkable and repeated changes of fortune that engulf a poor poet. It all happens in one incredible day when Kismet (Fate) takes a hand.

Keywords: 1001-nights, arabian-nights, baghdad-mesopotamia, based-on-play, based-on-stage-musical, based-on-stage-musical-based-on-stage-play, beggar, caliph, dancer, dancing
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance,
Taglines: ECSTASY OF SONG, SPECTACLE AND LOVE! {poster - all caps] FAMED STAGE HIT GLORIFIED ON THE SCREEN! [poster - all caps]

Quotes:

The Poet: May your taxes increase! [Said when acting as a beggar to get the Baghdad merchants to give him alms]

Caliph Guard: [closing lines] Is this man to be pardoned, O Caliph?::Omar: Pardon him, All Highest. His crime was a service. Let him go free.::The Poet: No, don't ask that. Under the circumstances it would embarrass the All Highest to pardon his father-in-law. No, O Prince of Justice, let me help you to compose this most difficult of verdicts against a man who in his life never once did right and who never once wronged anyone. Condemn the scoundrel to some dreadful oasis at least a week's camel's journey away. Force him to take with him the widow of the soon to be late Wazir and all the property she can get her hands on before the accounts are audited. Condemn him to lighten her sorrow and to toil ceaselessly to remove all grief from her heart.::Lalume: You have just condemned yourself for life, My Lord.::The Poet: And finally, O Prince of True Believers, take from me my greatest treasure, my daughter, Marsinah. Take her away forever by marrying her til the end of her days.::The Caliph: Such is the Caliph's pleasure. And so he orders.::The Poet: [singing] Princes come/Princes go. An hour of pomp and show./ They know. /Princes come/ And over the sands and over the sands of time./ They go./ Wise men come./Ever promising/the riddle of life to know./Wise men come./But over the sands./ The silent sands of time./ They go./Lovers come./Lovers go./And all that there is to know/Lovers know./Only lovers know.

Lalume: [singing] On days when my lord groweth restless, and bored by his staff and his plume... his handmaiden hath what he needeth- and what doth he need? Rahadlakum!

Marsinah: [on being told that the Wazir intends to visit her room that night] If you do I'll kill myself, I swear it!::Wazir: Really? It'll be one of the most interesting wedding nights I've had in years.

Chief Policeman: [Hajj the poet has just been sentenced by the Wazir, and the Chief Policeman enters to find him and Lalume, the Wazir's wife, kissing] Is that his sentence?

The Caliph: I was stepped upon!::Manservant: Oh inconceivable, All Highest, but true. You were incontrovertibly stepped upon.

King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)

Actors: Robin Hughes (actor), Bruce Lester (actor), John Holland (actor), Lumsden Hare (actor), Frank Hagney (actor), Laurence Harvey (actor), Rex Harrison (actor), Robert Douglas (actor), John Alderson (actor), Henry Corden (actor), Harry Cording (actor), Wilton Graff (actor), Leslie Bradley (actor), Paul Marion (actor), Rudolph Anders (actor),

Plot: In 1191, King Richard the Lionhearted, along with several other European monarchs, is in the Holy Land intent on retaking Jerusalem from the Saracens. There is much infighting and outright treachery in the European encampment encampment however. Two nobles in particular, Sir Giles Amaury and Conrad of Montferrat, want to eliminate the English king and attempt to have him assassinated. Severely wounded and on his death bed, Richard is brought back to health by a Saracen doctor recruited by one of his loyal knights, Sir Kenneth of the Leopard. The king recovers from his wounds but when he hears that Sir Lawrence wishes to marry Lady Edith Plantagenet, the knight is banished only to be taken in by the very doctor who treated the king and who has an altogether different identity.

Keywords: 1190s, 12th-century, arab, armor, austrian, banner, based-on-novel, based-on-true-story, battle, battle-axe
Genres: Adventure, History, Romance, War,
Taglines: Theirs was the mightiest challenge of them all! The Mighty Story of Richard the Lion-Hearted! From Sir Walter Scott's Epic Adventure-Romance... "The Talisman"!

Quotes:

Lady Edith: War, war! That's all you ever think about, Dick Plantagenet! You burner, you pillager!

[Sir Kenneth tries to steal a kiss]::Lady Edith: No, no, my dearly betrothed. Richard would set the headsman on your neck - he has said as much.::Sir Kenneth: Then kiss me quickly, my bonnie, while these lips are still warm.::Lady Edith: No, no! (they kiss) Ah, this is a pleasant madness.::Sir Kenneth: A lunacy with which I would love to be afflicted... to the end of my life. If Richard would take my life, I must kiss softly.

Saladin: May the Seven Doves rest on your shoulders.::Sir Kenneth: Doves or vultures, you slippery infidel?::Saladin: Come, I invite you to share the waters of the oasis with me.

Lady Edith: I'm a Plantagenet, yet somehow I feel less proud. I'm beginning to despise war. The dread, the wondering each time you ride away if you'll come back among the living.

Saladin: These strange pale-eyed Goths, they show their hearts like the bumps on a pomegranate.

King Richard I: Go squat on your Alps!

King Richard I: Loyalty - as high a virtue as majesty sometimes.

Sir Kenneth: In the desert no man meets a friend.

A Thousand and One Nights (1945)

Actors: Ethan Laidlaw (actor), Nestor Paiva (actor), Frank Lackteen (actor), David Bond (actor), Dick Botiller (actor), Trevor Bardette (actor), John Abbott (actor), Charles La Torre (actor), John George (actor), Richard Hale (actor), Dennis Hoey (actor), Dennis Hoey (actor), Tommy Cook (actor), Cy Kendall (actor), Frank J. Scannell (actor),

Plot: On the run after being found sweet-talking the Sultan's daughter, Aladdin comes upon a lamp which, when rubbed, summons up Babs the genie. He uses it to return as a visiting prince asking for the princess's hand. Unfortunately for him, the sultan's wicked twin brother has secretly usurped the throne, someone else is after the lamp for his own ends, and Babs has taken a shine to Aladdin herself and is bent on wrecking his endeavours.

Keywords: arabian, arabian-nights, genie
Genres: Adventure,
Taglines: THE TECHNICOLOR STORY OF ALADDIN and his wonderful VAMP! (original ad - many caps)

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)

Actors: Rollo Lloyd (actor), Claude King (actor), Harry Cording (actor), Leonid Kinskey (actor), Sam Harris (actor), Noble Johnson (actor), Mischa Auer (actor), Monte Blue (actor), Ralph Bucko (actor), James Dime (actor), Douglass Dumbrille (actor), Gary Cooper (actor), James Bell (actor), Lumsden Hare (actor), Clive Morgan (actor),

Plot: The 41st Bengal Lancers are stationed on the Northwest Frontier of British India, guarding against Afridi invaders led by wily Mohammed Khan. Experienced (though insubordinate) Lieut. McGregor is joined by two new arrivals, haughty Forsythe and callow Donald Stone...son of the commanding colonel. We follow the three through varied adventures and hardships. Will they uphold the honor of the regiment? Will Stone and the Colonel come to terms with their difficult relationship?

Keywords: 1910s, ammunition, animal-attack, army, based-on-novel, bathtub, battle, behind-enemy-lines, bolt-action-rifle, british
Genres: Adventure, Drama,
Taglines: 1750 to 1! Always out-numbered! Never out-fought! These are the Bengal Lancers...heroes all...guarding each other's lives, sharing each other's tortures, fighting each other's battles... Set in the spectacle of mystic India with its glittering mosques, oirental palaces, weird music, bronzed nautch dancers

Quotes:

Mohammed Khan: We have ways to make men talk.

Lieutenant Forsythe: You don't like poetry?::Lieutenant Alan McGregor: How should I know? I never read any.::Lieutenant Forsythe: Perhaps something more rugged. "Ever the faith endures, England, my England, take and break us we're yours, England my own. Life is good, joy runs high, between English earth and sky. Death is death, and we shall die, to the song on your bugles blown, to the star on your bugles blown.::Lieutenant Forsythe: [pause] If I'd known I was gonna say all this I would have brought my violin!

Lieutenant Alan McGregor: He's in there all right, no doubt about that. And doing rather well, too.::Lieutenant Forsythe: Clicquot. I saw the label. Iced. If that's the way Mohammed Khan tortures his victims, I'd like to change places with him for ten minutes.::Lieutenant Alan McGregor: That guard's got a key all right. If we can last till night, hit the guard over the head, get the kid out, and try and steal some horses -::Lieutenant Forsythe: - jump them over the 40 foot wall, and then that mad dash for the border! [imitates hooves clomping]::Lieutenant Alan McGregor: Well, you think of something better!

Colonel Tom Stone: [Repeated line] You're improperly dressed.

Lieutenant Alan McGregor: Who's she?::Lieutenant Forsythe: I met her on the train, if you don't mind.::Lieutenant Alan McGregor: Bad business talking to strange people out here. You know, this is India, you don't who they are, and you might...::Lieutenant Forsythe: Oh, I see. Beautiful spy meets young Lancer officer, makes him give away important military secrets. The Empire goes smash! Melodrama, my dear McGregor, melodrama!::Lieutenant Alan McGregor: It might not be as funny as it sounds, Mr. Stone.::Lieutenant Forsythe: I don't suppose it matters to you, but my name isn't Stone.::Lieutenant Alan McGregor: [Confused] No?::Lieutenant Forsythe: No. It's Forsythe.::Lieutenant Alan McGregor: [Points to well dressed man walking down the platform] Well then, that must be Stone right there.::Lieutenant Forsythe: That's very good you know, really very good. It's almost brilliant.

Major Hamilton: McGregor, you'll meet the two replacement officers this morning. lieutenants Forsythe and Stone.::Lieutenant Alan McGregor: Yes, sir. Stone?::Major Hamilton: His son.::Lieutenant Alan McGregor: His what?::Major Hamilton: I said, his son.::Lieutenant Alan McGregor: [chuckles] I can't imagine the old Ramrod ever having been that human. [imitating Col. Stone] Madam, you'll marry me Tuesday the 29th. Be at the church at 10:00. That's an order! [pause] Furthermore, you're improperly dressed!

Major Hamilton: [the men are arguing over Col. Stone's refusal to disobey orders in order to go after his captured son] He'll have nothing, if his boy doesn't carry on in this regiment.::Lieutenant Forsythe: Then he'd have everything?::Major Hamilton: Of course he would! That's what it means to him. But d'you think he'd let that make any difference to his orders, to his job?::Lieutenant Alan McGregor: Well, why shouldn't it? Why can't he be a little less of a soldier and more of a man? Why can't he forget his blasted duty for once?::Major Hamilton: Man, you *are* blind! Have you never thought how, for generation after generation here, a handful of men have ordered the lives of 300 million people? It's because he's here, and a few more like him! Men of his breed have *made* British India. Men who put their jobs above everything. He wouldn't let death move him from it. But he won't let love move him from it. When his breed of man dies out - that's the end. And it's a better breed of man than any of us will ever make. Good night, gentlemen.

Lieutenant Forsythe: Well, I must say you spoke your mind, old colonial... If there's any virtue in that.

Lieutenant Alan McGregor: I'm fed up with this cat and mouse business. Let's talk sense. You've got us here, and now what are you going to do with us?::Lieutenant Forsythe: Oh Mac - manners, manners.

Lieutenant Alan McGregor: I suppose if it were your son, you'd sit here too, like a dummy.::Major Hamilton: No, I should probably ordered the regiment out. But that's because I'm not the man the Colonel is. Nor the soldier.::Lieutenant Alan McGregor: Well, if that's what you call being a man, or a soldier, I don't want any part of it.

The Black Watch (1929)

Actors: Gregory Gaye (actor), Jack Pennick (actor), Harry Allen (actor), Roy D'Arcy (actor), Cyril Chadwick (actor), Francis Ford (actor), Frank Baker (actor), Lumsden Hare (actor), Claude King (actor), Bob Kortman (actor), Mitchell Lewis (actor), Tom London (actor), Walter Long (actor), Victor McLaglen (actor), Randolph Scott (actor),

Plot: Captain Donald King of the British Army goes to India just as World War I breaks out, convincing his comrades that he is a coward. In reality, he is on a secret mission to rescue British soldiers held prisoner there.

Keywords: based-on-novel
Genres: Adventure, Drama,

Kismet (1920)

Actors: Jimmie Adams (actor), Léon Bary (actor), Tom Kennedy (actor), Emmett King (actor), Harry Lorraine (actor), Herschel Mayall (actor), Sidney Smith (actor), Paul Weigel (actor), Elinor Fair (actress), Rosemary Theby (actress), Charles E. Whittaker (writer), Louis J. Gasnier (director), Edward Knoblock (writer), Nicholas Dunaew (actor), Sam Kaufman (actor),

Plot: Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.

Keywords: based-on-play, masque, mecca-south-africa, murder
Genres: Drama,