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Hsien of the Dead (2012)

Actors: Darrell Britt (actor), Gary Ow (producer), Gary Ow (writer), Gary Ow (director), Jonathan Atherton (actor), Ernest Seah (actor), Vivienne Tseng (actress), Yana Schmitt (actor), Jevgeni Andronenko (actor), Leonard Cai (actor), David Lim (actor), Paul Dale (actor), Deborah Emmanuel (actor), David Junda Lim (actor), Victoria Chan (actor),

Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: Small Island, Big Problem

Quotes:

Hsien: Hasta la vista, Cheebye!

To tango ton Hristougennon (2011)

Actors: Giorgos Konstas (actor), Konstantina Vonorta (producer), Giannis Bezos (actor), Nikos Nikolettos (producer), Yannis Stankoglou (actor), Nikos Koutelidakis (director), Lambis Haralambidis (editor), Vicky Papadopoulou (actress), Vassilis Risvas (actor), Yannis Exintaris (producer), Giorgos Georgiou (costume designer), Jannos Eolou (composer), Giannis Papagiannis (actor), Thanos Hronis (actor), Eleni Kokkidou (actress),

Genres: Drama,

The War of the Worlds (1953)

Actors: Ralph Dumke (actor), Jimmie Dundee (actor), Eric Alden (actor), Russ Conway (actor), Robert Cornthwaite (actor), Pierre Cressoy (actor), Edgar Barrier (actor), Chet Brandenburg (actor), Henry Brandon (actor), Gene Barry (actor), Russ Bender (actor), Cliff Clark (actor), Paul Birch (actor), James Conaty (actor), Al Ferguson (actor),

Plot: H.G. Well's classic novel is brought to life is this tale of alien invasion. The residents of a small town in California are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills. Their joy is tempered somewhat when they discover that it has passengers who are not very friendly. The movie itself is understood better when you consider that it was made at the height of the Cold War--just replace Martian with Russian....

Keywords: 23rd-psalm, act-of-god, air-traffic-control, airplane, airplane-accident, alien, alien-civilization, alien-invasion, anarchy, anemia
Genres: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller,
Taglines: Amazing! terrifying! The most savage spectacle of all time! A mighty panorama of earth-shaking fury! They came to CONQUER the EARTH! Mighty panorama of Earth-shaking fury as an army from Mars invades! The original invasion!

Quotes:

Sylvia: They seem to murder everything that moves.

Forrester: If they're mortal, they must have mortal weaknesses. They'll be stopped, somehow.

Radio Reporter: All radio is dead, which means that these tape recordings I'm making are for the sake of future history - If any.

Duprey: I have never seen blood crystals as anemic as these. They may be mental giants but, physically, by our standards, they must be very primitive.

Salvatore: What do we say to them?::Wash Perry: "Welcome to California."

Reporter: The way he's hedging, maybe the Army didn't hold 'em. I've seen news off the Pacific cables: Sydney Australia, Penan, Rangoon, India. From what's coming through, nobody's stopped 'em yet.

Major General Mann: They'll probably move at dawn...

Col. Ralph Heffner: Everybody out of here, everybody out! The Air Force will take care of these babies now. Doctor Forrester, get out of here! Everybody out of here! everybody ou -...::Col. Ralph Heffner: [gets vaporized by Martian death ray]

Forrester: [to a well-dressed looter] Did the mob grab the trucks ahead of me? Did you see anything?::Well-Dressed Looter: I don't know what you're talking about other trucks. These mobs have been fighting on every street corner.::Forrester: This is important! There was a school bus among the trucks ahead of me. A girl was driving it. Did they take that?::Well-Dressed Looter: I don't know! If they saw it, they took it. They grab anything on wheels. You can't buy a ride anymore for love or money!

Marine Commanding Officer: Hey, you, better get out of here.::Dr Clayton Forrester: I'm looking for someone, a girl.::Marine Sergeant: Come on, get in.::Dr Clayton Forrester: She's kind of lost.::Marine Commanding Officer: You look kind of lost.

Off Limits (1953)

Actors: Robert Karnes (actor), Joe Gray (actor), Jerry James (actor), Jerry Hausner (actor), Johnny Duncan (actor), Tom Dugan (actor), Bing Crosby (actor), Bob Hope (actor), Pat Flaherty (actor), Stanley Clements (actor), Charles Bronson (actor), Jack Dempsey (actor), William Bryant (actor), Norman Leavitt (actor), Lyle Latell (actor),

Plot: Wally Hogan has things going his way. He is the manager-trainer of Bullet Bradley, a fighter who has just won the lightweight championship. Life suddenly takes a not-so-happy turn, however, when Bullet gets drafted. Hogan's gangster partners "persuade him to enlist and keep an eye on the fighter, who is subsequently declared psychologically unfit for the Army. Enter Herbet Tuttle, a draftee eager to have Hogan turn him into a fighter. Hogan Reluctantly agrees only after he discovers Tuttle's aunt is the beautiful singer at a nightclub. From then on it's a case of stringing Tuttle along while trying to get close to his aunt. To further complicate Hogan's life there is a rulebook Military Police Officer who tries to squish the shenanigans.

Keywords: announcer, applause, army, arrest, aunt-nephew-relationship, bar, bar-brawl, battleship, boxer, boxing
Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: It's Hilarious!

Quotes:

Wally Hogan: When I was born the doctor said, "Boil some water," and I've been in it ever since.

Wally Hogan: Connie, it may not show but I'm yellow.::Connie Curtis: It shows.

Wally Hogan: [running into Sergeant Danzig] Oh, Arsenic and Old Face.

Wally Hogan: [to Sergeant Danzig] A zebra's covered with stripes too, but underneath he's still a jackass.

Karl Danzig: Headquarters, federal building.::Wally Hogan: Yes, Lieutenant.::Karl Danzig: CAPTAIN now, Hogan.::Wally Hogan: Captain? [aside] Who's his agent?

Herbert Tuttle: [after seeing Big 7-foot Sailor] How'd he get in the navy?::Wally Hogan: He must've lied about his height.

Herbert Tuttle: You're Bullet Bradley's manager. I saw the fight on television over at my sister-in-law's. She has a 16-inch screen.::Wally Hogan: Sounds like a grand girl.

Wally Hogan: [to Connie] Come out from behind there, Spongecake, and I'll buy you a little drink or a chinchilla coat... something that will cover you from your chin to your chilla.

Target Unknown (1951)

Actors: Alberto Morin (actor), James Best (actor), James Craven (actor), Robert Douglas (actor), Leslie Denison (actor), Jean De Briac (actor), Charles La Torre (actor), Steven Geray (actor), Johnny Carpenter (actor), Rudolph Anders (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), Hugh Beaumont (actor), Ralph Brooks (actor), Gene Roth (actor), Alex Nicol (actor),

Plot: In 1944, an American bomber squadron is tense and discontented from too many missions over France. Luck runs out for Capt. Stevens and his crew; they must bail out and are promptly taken prisoner. Their wily German captors, sensing that they have valuable information unknown even to themselves, use every form of velvet-glove trickery to worm it out of them. Will Stevens discover the danger? If so, what can he do about it? The fate of 100 planes depends on the answer...

Keywords: bomber, nurse, prisoner-of-war, world-war-two
Genres: Drama, War,

Flying Leathernecks (1951)

Actors: Paul McGuire (actor), Frank Marlowe (actor), Jay C. Flippen (actor), Harry Lauter (actor), Chuck Hamilton (actor), James Craven (actor), Milton Kibbee (actor), James Bell (actor), Fred Graham (actor), Barry Kelley (actor), Barry Brooks (actor), Sam Edwards (actor), Chuck Courtney (actor), Al Murphy (actor), John Mitchum (actor),

Plot: Major Daniel Kirby takes command of a squadron of Marine fliers just before they are about to go into combat. While the men are well meaning, he finds them undisciplined and prone to always finding excuses to do what is easy rather than what is necessary. The root of the problem is the second in command, Capt. Carl 'Griff' Griffin. Griff is the best flier in the group but Kirby finds him a poor commander who is not prepared to the difficult decision that all commanders have to make - to put men in harm's way knowing that they may be killed.

Keywords: air-raid, american-indian, american-soldier, aviation, dogfight, drunkenness, general, guadalcanal, japanese-military, marriage
Genres: Action, Drama, War,
Taglines: AIR-DEVILS OF THE SKY! From Guadalcanal to Okinawa...the Marine air-devils blazed a trail of glory...while the women they left behind fought battles of their own! (1956 reissue poster)

The Red Danube (1949)

Actors: Emil Rameau (actor), Alan Napier (actor), Eric Wilton (actor), Tito Vuolo (actor), Louis Calhern (actor), Walter Pidgeon (actor), Francis L. Sullivan (actor), Clive Morgan (actor), Melville Cooper (actor), Kenner G. Kemp (actor), Robert Coote (actor), Henry Kulky (actor), Peter Lawford (actor), Argentina Brunetti (actress), Antonio Filauri (actor),

Plot: Shortly after the end of World War II, British Colonel Michael 'Hooky' Nicobar is assigned to a unit in the British Zone of Vienna. His duty is to aid the Soviet authorities to repatriate citizens of the Soviet Union, many of whom prefer not to return to their home country. Billeted in the convent run by Mother Auxilia, Nicobar, and his military aides Major John 'Twingo' McPhimister and Audrey Quail, become involved in the plight of a young ballerina who is trying to avoid being returned to Moscow. Nicobar's sense of duty is tested as he sees first hand the plight of the people he is helping return to the Soviet Union; his lack of religious faith is also shaken by his contact with the Mother Superior.

Keywords: 1940s, army, austria, ballerina, based-on-novel, british-accent, british-army, catholic-church, cigarette-smoking, citizen
Genres: Drama, Romance, War,
Taglines: Beautiful Maria...the four lives that touched hers were never the same again!

Quotes:

Mother Superior: [Referring to a previous conversation about religion and its inefficacy in Wartime] Like that ladder...::Col. Michael S. 'Hooky' Nicobar: The ladder?::Mother Superior: There is the ladder, there is the ceiling and there is the paint. If you want the ceiling painted, someone must climb the ladder.::Col. Michael S. 'Hooky' Nicobar: Yes, you, um, need a painter.::Mother Superior: But suppose the painter remains at the foot of the ladder? You cannot say that the ladder has failed you, or the paint has failed you, or the ceiling has failed you.::Col. Michael S. 'Hooky' Nicobar: No, no you can't.::Mother Superior: I know about you more than you know about yourself. You want the ceiling painted but... all the cruelty in the world, all the horror and tragedy you see, these you do not oppose with your own courage. You do not try to replace them with your own high hopes for the world and the human race. You complain that God has failed you. No, my friend. God has not failed man- man has failed God. For every man knows what God wants him to do.

The Beginning or the End (1947)

Actors: Stanley Blystone (actor), Paul Bryar (actor), Larry J. Blake (actor), Kirk Alyn (actor), Erville Alderson (actor), Robert Bice (actor), Art Baker (actor), Frank Baker (actor), Walter Baldwin (actor), John Banner (actor), Trevor Bardette (actor), Gregg Barton (actor), Joseph E. Bernard (actor), Lee Bennett (actor), James Bush (actor),

Plot: Docudrama on the development of the first atomic bomb. Told from the perspective of a film recovered from a time capsule several hundred years into the future, the story is narrated by Robert Oppenheimer ('Hume Cronyn' (qv)) and Major General Leslie Groves ('Brian Donlevy' (qv)) beginning with the Nazis stated goal of developing an atomic bomb. Along with Britain and Canada, the U.S. reacts by beginning its own atomic program. The major developments are all presented: Fermi's successful atomic chain reaction; building the huge complex at Oak Ridge, Tenn.; the production of the first supply of plutonium; the testing in the Nevada desert; and finally the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

Keywords: bomb, expectant-father, expectant-mother, hiroshima-japan, lincoln-memorial, manhattan-project, nuclear-weapons, pregnancy, pregnant, pregnant-wife
Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War,

True to the Army (1942)

Actors: Eddie Acuff (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor), Harry Barris (actor), Rod Cameron (actor), Cliff Clark (actor), Jerry Colonna (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), Edgar Dearing (actor), William Demarest (actor), Joe Devlin (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor), Walter Fenner (actor), Frank Hagney (actor), Howard C. Hickman (actor), Al Hill (actor),

Plot: While doing her tight-rope act in a local circus, Daisy Hawkins ('Judy Canova' (qv)), sees the owner shot by gangsters. The gangsters are after her to eliminate the only eye witness and the police chase her to testify against the gangsters. Daisy goes to the nearby army camp where her sweetheart, J. Wethersby "Pinky" Fothergill ('Jerry Colonna' (qv)), is the chief carrier pigeon trainer. Rehearsal for the big army show is being held by Private Stephen Chandler ('Allan Jones (I)' (qv). Daisy, looking like just another female impersonator to him, is mistaken for one of the boys in the chorus. Pinky sets him straight and they cut Daisy's hair and get her into a uniform, but have to work hard to convince Sergeant Butts ('William Demarest' (qv)) she is one of the boys. Some honest-to-goodness pulchritude comes to the show when Vicki Marlowe ('Ann Miller (I)' (qv)), the daughter of General Marlowe ('Clarence Kolb' (qv)), becomes interested in Chandler. Daisy wins a medal for marksmanship and the soldiers insist on taking "him" to celebrate at the town's hot spot. There, she is spotted by the gangsters when they see him/her polishing his/her nose.

Keywords: 1940s, army-sergeant, bartender, based-on-novel, based-on-play, carrier-pigeon, chorus-boy, chorus-girl, cigarette-smoking, cigarettes
Genres: Comedy, Music,
Taglines: It's All-Out Fun When Judy Canova Crashes This Man's Army! From "Taps" to revelry... FUN is the order of the day!

British Intelligence (1940)

Actors: Lester Matthews (actor), Crauford Kent (actor), Arno Frey (actor), Bruce Lester (actor), William Bailey (actor), Boris Karloff (actor), Glen Cavender (actor), Frederick Giermann (actor), Lawrence Grant (actor), Carl Harbaugh (actor), Sam Harris (actor), Holmes Herbert (actor), Leyland Hodgson (actor), Stuart Holmes (actor), Frank Mayo (actor),

Plot: During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.

Keywords: air-raid, airplane-crash, assassination-attempt, based-on-play, berlin-germany, betrayal, bomb, bombing, british, british-agent
Genres: Romance, Thriller, War,

Quotes:

Helene Von Lorbeer, aka Frances Hautry: [hoping to meet Strendler] I'm so anxious to meet him, his work, his methods - a genius!::Valdar, aka Karl Schiller: No! A symbol of blind duty!::Helene Von Lorbeer, aka Frances Hautry: Or a complete patriot?::Valdar, aka Karl Schiller: Perhaps he has no soul, no conscience, nothing! He'd kill you or me - for duty!

[last lines]::Arthur Benneft: But, tell me, Yeats, these sacrifices we are all making - do you think they will eventually mean something to mankind?::Colonel James Yeats: I wish I were able to answer that question. We want to help humanity. We fight wars only because we crave peace so ardently and pray that each war will be the last. But always in the strange scheme of things some maniac with a lust for power arises and, in one moment, destroys the peace and tranquility we've created through the years. We hate war! We despise it, but when war comes, we must and will fight on and on.