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William Cuthbert Faulkner (/ˈfɔːlknər/, September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays, and screenplays. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life.
Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers in American literature generally and Southern literature specifically. Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, for which he became the only Mississippi-born Nobel laureate. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; also on the list were As I Lay Dying (1930) and Light in August (1932). Absalom, Absalom! (1936) is often included on similar lists.
Actors: Roy Frumkes (actor), Brooke Lewis (producer), Roy Frumkes (producer), Mars Homeworld (composer), Lloyd Kaufman (actor), Lee Perkins (actor), Brooke Lewis (actress), Debbie Rochon (actress), Eric Mache (actor), Michael O'Hear (actor), Robert Bozek (actor), Greg Lamberson (writer), Greg Lamberson (producer), Greg Lamberson (director), Alexander S. McBryde (actor),
Plot: In the wake of a "dirty bomb" attack, a New York City neighborhood known as "Slime City" has been evacuated, except for the homeless ("displaced refugees"). Four squatters searching for food in the ruins of the Zachary Devon Soup Kitchen (Jennifer Bihl, Kealan Patrick Burke, Debbie Rochon, Lee Perkins) discover a supply of Zachary Devon's Home Brewed Elixir and Himalayan Yogurt. When they drink the elixir and eat the yogurt, they are transformed into hideous slime creatures driven to murder - an intermediate step as they are possessed by the spirits of Zachary Devon (Robert Sabin) and the members of his Coven of Flesh, who committed suicide years earlier. When a greedy developer (Roy Frumkes) sets his sites on Slime City, he hires a team of mercenaries (Nelron Hubbard, Tommy Sweeney, T.J. Merrick, Eric Mache, and Nicholas John Morgan Anderson) to wipe out the homeless population. It's a battle royal between the Slime Heads, the mercenaries, and bloodthirsty mutant cannibals! A loving tribute to the over the top splatter films of the 1980s, featuring Brooke Lewis, Mary Bogle, and Lloyd Kaufman.
Keywords: cult-film, new-york-city, sequel, slime, wineActors: Alice Walker (actress), Ross Spears (editor), Ross Spears (director), Ross Spears (producer), Ross Spears (writer), Nikki Giovanni (actress), Eudora Welty (actress), Devorah Cutler (director), Vertamae Grosvenor (actress), Shelby Foote (actor), Lenny Steinline (actor), Pat Conroy (actor), Rita Dove (actress), Kenton Coe (composer), Willie Morris (actor),
Plot: This is the first part of a trilogy of films telling the history of Modern Southern Literature. Entitled Tell About the South, Part One, this film includes such writers as the Fugitive Poets, the Blues Poets, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Thomas Wolfe, Erskine Caldwell, Tennessee Williams and many others.
Keywords: american-literatureActors: Naveen Andrews (actor), Danny John-Jules (actor), Brad Dourif (actor), Fiona Shaw (actress), Alun Armstrong (actor), Tim Bevan (producer), Roshan Seth (actor), Tony Haygarth (actor), Sean Pertwee (actor), Steven Mackintosh (actor), Philip Glenister (actor), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (actress), Bill Darby (miscellaneous crew), Amy Roberts (costume designer), Charlie Creed-Miles (actor),
Plot: For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe... a young man's life is almost lost, which is exactly what this film is all about: a man barely twenty who wants desperately to pull out of London's drug world by taking a job as a waiter in a 'normal' restaurant. But to do this he must come up with a "sensible pair of shoes," an item that his homeless meanderings hasn't provided him. In fact, the shoes become a symbol of his striving to break away from those, like himself, who are caught up in the tragedy of drugs and lasciviousness which is so aptly described... sometimes graphically, always realistically... in this film.
Keywords: acid-the-drug, african-anglo, ale, angel-wings, art-gallery, asian-indian, ballet-shoes, bar, bare-breasts, barefootActors: Armand Mastroianni (director), Dennis Farina (actor), Bruce Greenwood (actor), Cree Summer (actress), Fred Silverman (producer), Roy Huggins (producer), Roy Huggins (writer), Michael Bowen (actor), Steve Eastin (actor), Lisa Hartman (actress), T.J. Castronovo (actor), T.J. Castronovo (actor), Raymond Cruz (actor), Khrystyne Haje (actress), R.J. Stewart (writer),
Genres: Crime,Actors: Bruno Ganz (actor), Hugh Laurie (actor), Nick Bicât (composer), Michael Gough (actor), Blair Brown (actress), Bridget Fonda (actress), Rick McCallum (producer), David Hare (director), David Hare (writer), Ann Firbank (actress), Penny Rose (costume designer), Annie Penn (miscellaneous crew), Alan Howard (actor), Ruth Halliday (miscellaneous crew), Charles Salmon (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama, Romance,Actors: June Lockhart (actress), Jackie Cooper (director), Billy Curtis (actor), Robert Halmi Jr. (producer), Mason Adams (actor), Charles Gross (composer), Robert Halmi Sr. (producer), Jaclyn Smith (actress), Art Carney (actor), Paul Williams (actor), R.J. Williams (actor), Anne Haney (actress), Jack Haley Jr. (producer), Paul Le Mat (actor), Albert Hall (actor),
Plot: An oil company is exploring two Arctic sites for oil. The needed blasting at the first site rocks Santa Claus' North Pole village. He realizes that any blasting at the second site will destroy his home. He enlists the aid of a woman and her children to convince her husband (who works for the company) that the first site is where the oil they want is. Along the way, Santa explains all his secrets in delivering presents all around the world.
Keywords: arctic, christmas, christmas-in-danger, five-word-title, holiday-in-title, oil, santa-claus, saving-christmas, sent-to-one's-roomActors: Gertan Klauber (actor), Graham Armitage (actor), Cyril Luckham (actor), Lila Kaye (actress), Alan Bromly (director), Alan Bromly (producer), David Bauer (actor), Gerald Harper (actor), Bernard Rebel (actor), Michael Anthony (actor), Milo Sperber (actor), Chuck Julian (actor), Miki Iveria (actress), Alexis Chesnakov (actor), Jennifer Daniel (actress),
Genres: Thriller,Actors: Pat Flaherty (actor), Douglas Carter (actor), Ross Elliott (actor), Gene Evans (actor), Mike Donovan (actor), Paul E. Burns (actor), Richard Anderson (actor), Walter Baldwin (actor), Paul Brinegar (actor), Tom Coleman (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), King Donovan (actor), Sayre Dearing (actor), Don Dillaway (actor), Alex Gerry (actor),
Plot: En route to a job, New York based model Marsha Mitchell decides to stop for less than 24 hours in the southern American town of Rock Point to visit her sister, Lucy Rice, who she has not seen in two years, and meet Lucy's husband, Hank Rice, for the first time. Upon arriving in Rock Point, Marsha witnesses a Ku Klux Klan slaying of who she would later learn is Walter Adams, an out of town reporter who was going to write an exposé on the Klan. Marsha even saw two of the men's faces after they removed their hoods, but they didn't see Marsha. Upon later arriving at Lucy's house, Marsha is shocked to see that Hank was one of the Klansmen committing the murder, he being a Klansman of which Lucy is unaware. Marsha decides to confront Hank and Lucy about what she saw. Meanwhile, county prosecutor Burt Rainey knows that the Klan committed the murder, everyone in town is aware that the Klan committed the murder, but Rainey knows that no one will come forward to implicate the Klan for what they see is the good of the town. He is also aware that Marsha would have been in the area when the murder was committed and wants to talk to her and hope that being an outsider will allow her to speak freely if she did indeed see anything. Marsha has to decide what to say to Rainey specifically taking into account how best to protect her and Lucy's welfare, which includes the fact that Lucy is pregnant with Hank's baby.
Keywords: bowling-alley, burning-cross, bus-trip, christmas, conspiracy, coroner, coroner's-jury, corruption, district-attorney, eye-witnessActors: Archie Mayo (director), Vince Barnett (actor), Frank Beal (actor), Robert Dudley (actor), Vera Lewis (actress), Patsy Ruth Miller (actress), Edna Murphy (actress), T. Roy Barnes (actor), Edward Everett Horton (actor), Lloyd Ingraham (actor), Fred Kelsey (actor), E.J. Ratcliffe (actor), Louise Beavers (actress), Louise Fazenda (actress), Louise Lester (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Chester Barnett (actor), Charles Perley (actor), Augusta Anderson (actress), George Reehm (director), Clarette Clare (actress),
Genres: Drama, Short,