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World War Z (2013)

Actors: J. Michael Straczynski (writer), Marco Beltrami (composer), Pierfrancesco Favino (actor), Gino Picciano (actor), Brad Pitt (actor), Brad Pitt (producer), Peter Capaldi (actor), Moritz Bleibtreu (actor), Iván Kamarás (actor), Nikola Djuricko (actor), Féodor Atkine (actor), Lee Nicholas Harris (actor), David Morse (actor), Hélène Cardona (miscellaneous crew), Unjoo Lee Byars (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.

Keywords: 12-seconds, 3-dimensional, accidental-death, action-hero, air-strip, aircraft-carrier, airfield, airplane, airplane-accident, airplane-crash
Genres: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller,
Taglines: Remember Philly!

Quotes:

[last lines]::Gerry Lane: If you can fight, fight. Be prepared for anything. Our war has just begun.

Andrew Fassbach: Mother Nature is a serial killer. No one's better. More creative. Like all serial killers, she can't help but the urge to want to get caught. But what good are all those brilliant crimes if no one takes the credit? So she leaves crumbs. Now the hard part, while you spent decades in school, is seeing the crumbs for the clues they are. Sometimes the thing you thought was the most brutal aspect of the virus, turns out to be the chink in its armor. And she loves disguising her weaknesses as strengths. She's a bitch.

Jurgen Warmbrunn: Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

Thierry Umutoni: The president is dead. Four of six joint chiefs, VP missing. Reports of gunbattles in the streets of the capital.

Gerry Lane: Why did you sell guns to the North?::Ex-CIA Agent: Why not?

Gerry Lane: [Preparing to enter zombie-infested building] Sure you wanna do this?::W.H.O. Doctor: Course I'm not. Let's go.

Gerry Lane: You're with CIA?::Ex-CIA Agent: But they're not with me.

Karin Lane: [upon seeing cramped ship accommodations] It's bigger than our apartment on 72nd.

Gerry Lane: You're letting people in!::Jurgen Warmbrunn: Every person we save is one less zombie to fight.

W.H.O. Doctor: You can't make a dead person sick.

The First Great Train Robbery (1978)

Actors: Jerry Goldsmith (composer), Anthony Mendleson (costume designer), Michael Crichton (writer), André Morell (actor), Brooke Adams (actress), Michael Crichton (writer), Donald Sutherland (actor), Patrick Barr (actor), Peter Butterworth (actor), Robert Lang (actor), Michael Elphick (actor), Sean Connery (actor), Lesley-Anne Down (actress), Dino De Laurentiis (miscellaneous crew), Michael Crichton (director),

Plot: Sutherland and Connery wish to rob a moving train's safe in Victorian England. They need wax impressions of keys, coffins, dead cats, and a great deal of planning in order to pull it off.

Keywords: 1850s, 19th-century, adaptation-directed-by-original-author, ambush, arrest, baboon, bare-chested-male, based-on-novel, based-on-true-story, bell
Genres: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: Never have so few taken so much from so many.

Quotes:

[first lines]::Edward Pierce: [narration] In the year 1855, England and France were at war with Russia in the Crimea. The English troops were paid in gold. Once a month, twenty-five thousand pounds in gold was loaded into strongboxes inside the London bank of Huddleston and Bradford and taken by trusted armed guards to the railway station. The convoy followed no fixed route or timetable. At the station, the gold was loaded into the luggage van of the Folkestone train for shipment to the coast and from there to the Crimea. The strongboxes were placed into two specially-built Chubb safes constructed of three-quarter inch tempered steel. Each safe weighed five hundred and fifty pounds. Each safe was fitted with two locks, requiring two keys, or four keys altogether. For security, each key was individually protected. Two keys were entrusted to the railway dispatcher who kept them locked in his office. A third was in the custody of Mr. Edgar Trent, president of the Huddleston and Bradford. And the fourth key was given to Mr. Henry Fowler, manager of the Huddleston and Bradford. The presence of so much gold in one place naturally aroused the interest of the English criminal elements. But in 1855 there had never been a robbery from a moving railway train.

Edward Pierce: [after he learns that Trent ignored the sexual advances of Miriam] No respectable gentleman is THAT respectable.

Edward Pierce: What exactly are you constructing?::Emily Trent: We thought a water wheel. It will be so delightful, especially when there will be the rusted curve of the water wheel itself. Don't you agree?::Edgar Trent: We are building the rusted wheel at considerable expense.::Emily Trent: It is constructed of previously rusted metal, the craftsmen are most ingenious. And of course we must wait for the weeds to grow up around the site before it takes on the proper appearance.::Edward Pierce: Oh I'm sure it'll be a handsome ruin.::Edgar Trent: Where is Elizabeth?::Emily Trent: I have passed many pleasant hours here, watching the workman fit each piece into its precise slot. Such skill!::Edward Pierce: They screw it together do they?::Edgar Trent: No, bolt it actually. With long bolts, fitted tightly.::Emily Trent: Yes. *Long* bolts, fitted tightly.::Edward Pierce: I've just returned from America, a country of many prominent erections.::Emily Trent: It *is* exciting to see things come together, so long as the quality does not suffer.::Edward Pierce: Tight-fitting joints, that's the secret.::Emily Trent: It's *so* rare these days.::Edward Pierce: [It] depends on the skill of the workman, of course.::Emily Trent: And he *must* have the proper tools.

Judge: [Judgementally] Now, on the matter of motive, we ask you: Why did you conceive, plan and execute this dastardly and scandalous crime?::Edward Pierce: I wanted the money. [the court spectators roar with laughter]

[Edward Pierce arrives from on top of the train]::Robert Agar, Screwsman: You look a sight.::Edward Pierce: *I* look a sight?::Robert Agar, Screwsman: Yes, but you're all covered in soot.::Edward Pierce: [aghast] The soot! I haven't brought a change of clothes.::[Edward Pierce looks at Robert Agar's clothes]::Robert Agar, Screwsman: No. You pick me clean, you put me in a coffin with a rotten, stinking cat, and now you strip me bollock naked.

Miriam: Do you ever tell anyone the truth?::Edward Pierce: The truth?... The truth?... no.

Miriam: All you ever think about is money.::Edward Pierce: All anyone ever thinks about is money.

Robert Agar, Screwsman: You didn't do the Barclay Hills job, did you?::Edward Pierce: Barclay Hills? Shit job!

Robert Agar, Screwsman: [referring to the London Bridge Station train dispatcher's office] What's your pogue up there, anyway?::Edward Pierce: Two Chubb keys in that green cupboard.::Robert Agar, Screwsman: What might they be, them keys?::Edward Pierce: Two keys that I happen to want.::Robert Agar, Screwsman: [turns to look at Pierce] We're partners, aren't we? Of course, if you're trying to say that you don't trust me completely...::Edward Pierce: [turns and looks at Agar] I don't trust you at all.::Robert Agar, Screwsman: [smiles and nods] Good.

Robert Agar, Screwsman: [They're at the train station about to do the "Jolly Gaff" to get the two keys] Where's the chavvy?::Edward Pierce: There. [He nods towards a boy street urchin] He's your son.::Robert Agar, Screwsman: I don't have no son!::Edward Pierce: Louisa says he's your son.::Robert Agar, Screwsman: [snorts a laugh] Louisa! She wouldn't know, would she? IS THAT HIM? He's not my son! He's too ugly to be my son! [pause, then:] What's the sweetener?::Edward Pierce: A guinea.::Robert Agar, Screwsman: [thinks about it for a moment, then:] Well, if he is my son he'll be worth it.

Northville Cemetery Massacre (1976)

Actors: William Dear (director), Michael Nesmith (composer), Nick Nolte (actor), William Dear (writer), William Dear (producer), Terence McGovern (actor), Robert Skotak (miscellaneous crew), Don Franklin (actor), Christa Kindt (editor), Richard Duggan (actor), Susan Kingsley (actress), Jim Pappas (writer), Thomas L. Dyke (director), Thomas L. Dyke (producer), Thomas L. Dyke (writer),

Genres: Action, Crime, Drama,
Taglines: The day that law and order went beserk...

Beautiful But Broke (1944)

Actors: Ferris Taylor (actor), Ben Taggart (actor), John Eldredge (actor), Byron Foulger (actor), John Dilson (actor), Chuck Hamilton (actor), Kernan Cripps (actor), John Hubbard (actor), Lew Kelly (actor), Joe King (actor), George McKay (actor), Gary Gray (actor), Brian O'Hara (actor), Joe Palma (actor), John Tyrrell (actor),

Plot: Theatrical agent Waldo Main ('John Eldredge (I)' (qv)) is inducted into the army, and turns his (now clientless) agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan ('Joan Davis (I)' (qv)). Dottie decides to organize an all-girl orchestra to fill the void caused by so many orchestra members being called to service due to WWII, and joins struggling singers/songwriters Sally Richards ('Jane Frazee' (qv)) and Sue Ford ('Judy Clark') in this endeavor. Dottie's screwball schemes to get engagements for the group often lead to disaster.

Keywords: 1940s, all-girl-band, army-sergeant, b-movie, bomb, carpenter, cigarette-smoking, deceit, deception, defense-plant
Genres: Comedy, Music,
Taglines: Radio's No. 1 Laugh Hit! (original 1-sheet poster)

Quotes:

Radio Announcer: This is the beginning of duck season...::[An artillery shell blasts through the shack's window]::Sally Richards: What kind of ducks have they *got* around here?

Révolte dans la prison (1931)

Actors: Blanche Sewell (editor), Charles Boyer (actor), Robert Graves (actor), Georges Mauloy (actor), Rolla Norman (actor), Albert Petit (actor), Mona Goya (actress), Frances Marion (writer), Yves Mirande (writer), Pál Fejös (director), Jacques Feyder (director), Emile Chautard (actor), George Davis (actor), André Berley (actor), Geymond Vital (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Menschen hinter Gittern (1931)

Actors: Blanche Sewell (editor), Gustav Diessl (actor), Egon von Jordan (actor), Hans Heinrich von Twardowski (actor), Irving Thalberg (producer), Frances Marion (writer), Pál Fejös (director), Herman Bing (actor), Karl Etlinger (actor), Heinrich George (actor), Adolf E. Licho (actor), Paul Morgan (actor), Anton Pointner (actor), David Cox (costume designer), Dita Parlo (actress),

Genres: Drama,

The Big House (1930)

Actors: Chester Morris (actor), Louis Natheaux (actor), Matthew Betz (actor), Noah Beery Jr. (actor), Roscoe Ates (actor), Wallace Beery (actor), DeWitt Jennings (actor), Tom Kennedy (actor), Ethan Laidlaw (actor), Karl Dane (actor), George Magrill (actor), Edgar Dearing (actor), Chris-Pin Martin (actor), Robert Montgomery (actor), Robert Emmett O'Connor (actor),

Plot: After a manslaughter conviction from drunk driving, nice but foolish Kent is sent to a prison over-crowded and unable to properly deal with it's inmates. There he meets veteran criminals like Morgan and his hardened pal Butch. And the system punishes them all, turning them against each other and bringing out the worst.

Keywords: book-seller, bookstore, boom-shot, box-office-hit, brother-sister-relationship, bunk-bed, calendar, chapel, chaplain, cockroach
Genres: Drama, Romance, Thriller,
Taglines: Timely! Tremendous! Thrilling! Drama of Love and a Jail-Break!

Quotes:

[repeated line]::'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt: Who, me?

John Morgan: You know it means the rope, Butch, if they catch you? Who's in on it?::'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt: Well, me and Olsen and Joe and the Hawk.::John Morgan: The Hawk? That means blood.::'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt: No, he promised me he wouldn't bump nobody off.::John Morgan: Why, he croaked his own mother.::'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt: Sure he did. He cut her throat. He was sorry for it. He's all right.

'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt: [Looking at a picture of Kent's sister] Gee... it reminds me of Sadie. Gee, Sadie was a good skirt. I shouldn't have slipped her that ant poison. I should have just battered her in the jaw a few times.

'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt: What's your name?::'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt: [after getting no response] I said what's your name?::Kent: Kent Moreland.::'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt: Mine's Schmidt. I'm known the world over as "Machine Gun Butch." You heard of me naturally.::'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt: [after Kent shakes his head 'no.'] Ever hear of the Delaney Gang bein' wiped out?

Warden: [to Kent] And remember, this prison does not give a man a yellow streak, but if he has one, it brings it out.

Prison guard: If you don't open the gates and let 'em out, they're gonna kill all the guards beginning with Wallace.::Warden: I'll see 'em in Hell first. Let 'em have it!

'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt: [to Morgan] Say, listen. Don't let the guys know you've gone straight. They used to have a lot of respect for you.

Casey at the Bat (1927)

Actors: Wallace Beery (actor), Sterling Holloway (actor), Sydney Jarvis (actor), Robert Livingston (actor), Spec O'Donnell (actor), Ford Sterling (actor), Sally Blane (actress), Zasu Pitts (actress), Monte Brice (writer), Jules Furthman (writer), Reggie Morris (writer), Monte Brice (director), Jesse L. Lasky (miscellaneous crew), Adolph Zukor (miscellaneous crew), Sam Hellman (writer),

Genres: Comedy,

Determination (1922)

Actors: Joseph Levering (director), Maurice Costello (actor), Hayden Stevenson (actor), Louis Wolheim (actor), Garfield Thompson (writer), Bernard Randall (actor), Pat J. O'Brien (actor), Corene Uzzell (actress), Byron Russell (actor), Charles Ascot (actor), Irene Tams (actress), Alpheus Lincoln (actor), Gene Burnell (actress), Nina Herbert (actress), Alpheus Lincoln (actor),

Genres: ,

The Child of Destiny (1916)

Actors: Harry O. Hoyt (writer), William Nigh (director), William Nigh (writer), William B. Davidson (actor), Robert Elliott (actor), Martin Faust (actor), Roy Applegate (actor), Irene Fenwick (actress), R.A. Bresee (actor), William Yearance (actor), Roy Clair (actor), Elizabeth Le Roy (actress), Madama Ganna Walska (actress),

Genres: Drama,