Almost Blue (1996)

Actors: Garrett Morris (actor), Yaphet Kotto (actor), Michael Madsen (actor), Keoni Waxman (writer), Keoni Waxman (director), Keoni Waxman (producer), Marian Ceo (costume designer), Jennifer Owensby (miscellaneous crew), Gale Mayron (actress), Patrick Healy (miscellaneous crew), Lynette Walden (actress), John Venzon (editor), Eric Peter Abramson (miscellaneous crew), Ernie Watts (actor), Anthony Parker (producer),

Plot: The young jazz saxophonist Morris Poole is at the height of his career. When his wife dies he is almost overcome by grief and blames himself. When after a while he finds a new love, he ends up in a situation that reminds him of his wife's mysterious death.

Keywords: independent-film
Genres: Drama, Thriller,

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.

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

Actors: Walter Mirisch (producer), Stirling Silliphant (writer), Rod Steiger (actor), Peter Whitney (actor), Lee Grant (actress), Scott Wilson (actor), Alan Oppenheimer (actor), Timothy Scott (actor), Sidney Poitier (actor), William Schallert (actor), Matt Clark (actor), Warren Oates (actor), Larry D. Mann (actor), Norman Jewison (director), Quincy Jones (composer),

Plot: Detective Virgil Tibbs is caught up in the racial tension of the US South when he is arrested after the murder of a prominent businessman. Tibbs was simply waiting for his next train at the station in Sparta, Mississippi and the confusion is soon resolved but when local police chief Gillespie learns that Tibbs is the Philadelphia PD's number one homicide expert, he reluctantly asks for his assistance. The murdered man, Mr. Colbert, had come to Sparta from the North to build a new factory and his wife and business associates immediately point the finger at Endicott, the most powerful man in the county and the one who had the most to lose if a major new employer comes to the area. Tibbs' life is clearly in danger but he perseveres in a highly charged and racially explosive environment until the killer is found.

Keywords: abortion, abortionist, african-american, african-american-protagonist, american-south, anger, autopsy, bank, based-on-novel, black-cop
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: They got a murder on their hands . . . they don't know what to do with it. They're going to pin something on that smart cop from Philidelphia . . . maybe a medal . . . maybe a murder!

Quotes:

Gillespie: Whatcha hit him with?::Tibbs: Hit whom?::Gillespie: "Whom"? "Whom"? Well, you a northern boy? What's a northern boy like you doing all the way down here?

Chief Gillespie: I got the motive which is money and the body which is dead.

Virgil Tibbs: They call me MISTER Tibbs!

Chief Gillespie: Mr. Tibbs! Well Mr. Woods take Mr. Tibbs! Take him down to the depot and I mean boy like now!

[first lines]::Ofcr. Sam Wood: Where you keeping the pie tonight?::Ralph Henshaw, diner counterman: I ate the last piece just before you came in.

[last lines]::Chief Gillespie: You take care, y'hear?::Virgil Tibbs: Yeah.

Mayor Webb Schubert: Bill... what's made you change your mind about Tibbs?::Gillespie: Who says I have?::Mayor Webb Schubert: [referring to Tibbs slapping Endicott] Last Chief we had... he'd have shot Tibbs one second after he slapped Endicott, claim self-defense.

Ofcr. Sam Wood: [to Virgil] Take me ten minutes to get a king size Coke and a wedge of pie. That is if that peckerwood ain't sold out yet.

Gillespie: [on telephone to Tibbs' chief] I do want to thank you for offering such a powerful piece of manpower as Virgil Tibbs.

[describing Chief Gillespie]::Harvey Oberst: Got no more smile than a turnip.

Spéciale dernière (1967)

Actors: Ben Hecht (writer), Jacques Balutin (actor), Gérard Buhr (actor), Catherine Hiegel (actress), Pascale Roberts (actress), Charles MacArthur (writer), Jacques Deval (writer), Maurice Chevit (actor), Pierre Collet (actor), Robert Dalban (actor), Hubert de Lapparent (actor), Georges Douking (actor), Pierre Mondy (actor), Philippe Nicaud (actor), Jacques Richard (actor),

Genres: ,

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,

Five Guns to Tombstone (1960)

Actors: Bob Woodward (actor), James Brown (actor), Robert E. Kent (producer), Al Wyatt Sr. (actor), Willis Bouchey (actor), John Eldredge (actor), Joe Haworth (actor), Robert Karnes (actor), Edward L. Cahn (director), Boyd 'Red' Morgan (actor), Gregg Palmer (actor), Bert Shefter (composer), Paul Sawtell (composer), Boyd Stockman (actor), Richard Schayer (writer),

Plot: Matt Wade escapes from prison and tries to persuade his brother Bill, a reformed gunslinger, to participate in a hold-up. Billy refuses but Matt frames him and he is forced to ride off with the gang. Billy fights with his brother and accidentally kills him, while Matt's teen-aged son, Ted, who thinks his father had been paroled from prison, sees the shooting. Returning to town to explain the true situation, Billy is almost lynched by the townsmen mob who think he was part of the robbery. He escapes and goes back to the gang, pretending to join them but actually looking for evidence to clear himself and turn gang leader, Ike Garvey, over to Marshal Sam Jennings. Only his fiancée Arlene knows of his plan.

Keywords: archive-footage, arizona, b-movie, b-western, bank, bank-robbery, banker, blackmail, brother-brother-relationship, brother-murders-brother
Genres: Action, Crime, Romance, Western,
Taglines: The Story That Gave Tombstone Its Name THE BLOODY DAY TOMBSTONE GOT ITS NAME (original posters and print ads-all caps) 'GUN DOWN THE KILLERS!" - The Bloody Day Tombstone got its name! (oiginal print ad) Billy Wade out to gun down the killers! (original print ad) KILLER OUTLAWS HUNGRY FOR GOLD---and Hell comes to Arizona!

Quotes:

[the bank has refused to extend Billy's loan]::Arlene: Bill, what will you do now?::Billy Wade: Well, there's only one way out - sell the calves and start all over again.::Arlene: You mean *we* start all over.::Billy Wade: When I square myself with the bank, there won't be enough left to pay the preacher.::Arlene: The bank won't give you an extension and neither will I.

[Landon's plan to rob a Wells Fargo shipment is contingent upon Billy Wade leading the gang]::Matt Wade: What makes you think he'll listen to me?::George Landon: I sorta figure blood is thicker than good resolutions... especially since there's half a million in the pot.::Matt Wade: George, you know Billy is a stubborn man. Well, I'll see what he says, but you know yourself a reformed gun is worse than a reformed drunk.::George Landon: Well, it's up to you. No Billy, no deal.

[Matt Wade is on the run after killing a guard and escaping from prison]::Ted Wade: Billy, can't you do somethin' to help him?::Billy Wade: There's nothin' we can do to help him. He's goin' to sleep with his boots on and his horse saddled for the rest of his life.

Billy Wade: They're talkin' about a half million in cash. That kind of money doesn't lie around loose.::George Landon: No, not often, Billy. Just once in a while, when they run short of cash around here and the bank has a big shipment from the Federal Reserve in San Francisco.::Billy Wade: Yeah, I remember those hauls, those Wells Fargo wagons from Benton - twenty shotgun and rifle guards.::George Landon: No. They only use six guns now - since you retired.

George Landon: Billy, don't forget about Ike Garvey. He calls himself my silent partner. Let's make that a fact.

Ike Garvey: Billy Wade was in here yesterday.::George Landon: Oh, that... could I help that? Well, he just came in to see if I would throw something his way is all.::Ike Garvey: So you threw me to him.::George Landon: But why would I do something like that?::Ike Garvey: Because it's exactly what I would do if I wanted to get rid of you!::George Landon: You're talking nonsense.::Ike Garvey: Probably, but I'm dissolving our partnership.::[Ike shoots Landon]

[Billy's gang is about to go into action]::Billy Wade: Well, your last chance to pull out, so say your say one at a time.::Hoke: That breakfast bacon sure smells good.::Dixon: Well, anybody can die in bed.::Kolloway: You couldn't have a prettier day for it.

Ike Garvey: That's close enough, Billy. Start talkin'.::Billy Wade: I'll give it to you fast, Ike. I'm countin' myself in.::Ike Garvey: In what? A hole in Boot Hill?

Billy Wade: Let's take that express wagon and settle our personal dispute later.::Ike Garvey: We're two to your one, Billy. We can settle it now.::Billy Wade: No argument - but you wouldn't have enough men left to stick up a Sunday school.

Billy Wade: There's the bank shipment. The rest of the loot is on Dixon there.::Marshal Sam Jennings: Then he's sure worth more dead than alive.

Gun Belt (1953)

Actors: Jack Low (actor), Rex Lease (actor), Robert Bice (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Willis Bouchey (actor), Edgar Dearing (actor), John Dehner (actor), Jack Elam (actor), Byron Foulger (actor), Joe Haworth (actor), Al Hill (actor), Tab Hunter (actor), Douglas Kennedy (actor), James Millican (actor),

Plot: Gunfighter Billy Ringo decides to hang up his guns, buy a ranch and marry Arlene Reach. His brother Matt, father of Chip, the nephew Ringo is trying to keep on the straight and narrow, with three other outlaws, Dixon, Hollaway and Hoke, frame Ringo into pulling a bank robbery with them. Pretending to side with them, after accidentally killing Matt, Ringo informs Marshal Wyatt Earp of their plan to rob a Wells Fargo express wagon. A gunfight ensues at the robbery and the three outlaws are killed and Ike Clinton, the ringleader, is turned over to Marshal Earp by Ringo.

Keywords: accidental-death, accidental-killing, arizona, b-movie, b-western, bank-robbery, brother-brother-relationship, bullet, cattle, desert
Genres: Romance, Western,
Taglines: BILLY RINGO...Once more he strapped on his guns...once more the West felt his fury! (original poster) THE KID...Hot-headed, hot-triggered...the most-feared name history ever ran from! (original poster) THE GIRL...She was all the women who ever faced terror for their men! (original poster) THE OUTLAW...He grinned, gunned and plundered away the life-blood of a nation (original poster) THE LAW...Wyatt Earp - no badge ever had a quicker gun behind it! (original poster)

Quotes:

Billy Ringo: Anyone who doesn't want to hang can step out and get shot!

Hoke: Anybody can die in bed.

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,

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.

Fighting to Live (1934)

Actors: Chris Allen (actor), Horace B. Carpenter (actor), Buck Connors (actor), Gordon De Main (actor), Bruce Mitchell (actor), Steve Pendleton (actor), Eddie Phillips (actor), Ted Stroback (actor), Sol Lesser (producer), Edward F. Cline (director), Billy Franey (actor), Henry Hall (actor), John Ince (actor), Lloyd Ingraham (actor), Carl Himm (editor),

Plot: When attacked by two dogs, Joe Gilmore leaves them on the desert to die. Later one of the dogs saves John Blake from drowning. Men arrive claiming the dog is killing their chickens. They want to kill the dog but John convinces them the dog's fate should be determined by a trial.

Keywords: actor-shares-full-name-with-character, actress-shares-full-name-with-character, animal-rights, attack, b-movie, b-western, chicken-coop, chicken-thief, courtroom, coyote
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Western,
Taglines: A MSYTERY MELODRAMA OF THRILLS AND ACTION! (original 3-sheet poster-all caps) A DRAMA OF TWO DOGS (original 1-sheet poster - all caps) TWO FAMOUS DOG STARS IN A DOUBLE-BARRELED ACTION THRILLS (original print ad -all caps)