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The Way Bobby Sees It (2008)

Actors: Jason Watkins (director), Jason Watkins (editor), Bobby McMullen (actor), Jason Allen (actor), Wendy Todd (director), Wendy Todd (producer), Andy Freesian (actor),

Plot: The Way Bobby Sees It is a gripping documentary about Bobby McMullen, a competitive mountain biker on a mission to race the most demanding downhill course in the country. Adding to the difficulty: Bobby is legally blind. With the help of a guide and a rigorous training schedule, Bobby is determined to race his bike down a course riddled with obstacles and flanked by steep, life-threatening cliffs. But, the racecourse isn't the only challenge in Bobby's life. Between thrills, spills and jaw dropping helmet camera footage, we see how Bobby uses humor, determination, and unshakeable optimism to battle adversity - both on and off the bike.

Keywords: biker, blind, disabled, mountain
Genres: Documentary,

Timbuktu (2004)

Actors: Ray Harman (composer), John McDonnell (producer), Eva Birthistle (actress), Emer Reynolds (editor), Alan Gilsenan (director), Karl Geary (actor), George Jackos (actor), Driss Gaidi (miscellaneous crew), Adil Abdelwahab (actor), Tony Brown (actor), Souheil Halaoui (miscellaneous crew), Emma Scott (producer), Martin Mahon (producer), Liam O'Maonlai (actor), Salah Dizane (actor),

Genres: Drama,
Taglines: For some people, life is about going too far.

Jean Geni (1985)

Actors: Traci Lords (actress), Dan T. Mann (actor), Gina Carrera (actress), Steve Drake (actor), Robert Bullock (actor), Eric Edwards (actor), Summer Rose (actress), Blake Palmer (actor), Beverly Bliss (actress), Ken Starbuck (actor), Ami Rogers (actress), Angel West (actress), Lana Burner (actress), Lana Burner (actress), David Michel (writer),

Genres: Adult,

The Bushido Blade (1981)

Actors: Yoshitami Kuroiwa (editor), Mako (actor), Toshirô Mifune (actor), Mike Starr (actor), Tetsurô Tanba (actor), Bin Amatsu (actor), Laura Gemser (actress), Jules Bass (producer), Arthur Rankin Jr. (producer), Richard Boone (actor), Shin'ichi Chiba (actor), James Earl Jones (actor), William Ross (actor), Maury Laws (composer), Frank Converse (actor),

Genres: Action, Drama, History,
Taglines: BUSHIDO means revenge - BUSHIDO means bloodshed - BUSHIDO means violent death! It cuts to the heart of courage. From the land of the Shogun... A ruthless struggle between two nations.

The Passage (1979)

Actors: Christopher Lee (actor), J. Lee Thompson (director), Patricia Neal (actress), Maurice Binder (producer), Jim Broadbent (actor), John Daly (producer), Robert Brown (actor), Michael Lonsdale (actor), Marcel Bozzuffi (actor), James Mason (actor), Malcolm McDowell (actor), Anthony Quinn (actor), Kay Lenz (actress), Gladys Goldsmith (miscellaneous crew), Geoff Freeman (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Action, Drama, War,
Taglines: An ice-swept escape route in front of them. A cold-blooded killer behind them. The only way out is up.

Teacher's Pet (1958)

Actors: Frank Richards (actor), Hal Taggart (actor), Jack Albertson (actor), Army Archerd (actor), James Bacon (actor), Charles Lane (actor), Harry Antrim (actor), George Cisar (actor), Hal K. Dawson (actor), Cyril Delevanti (actor), Clark Gable (actor), Clark Gable (actor), Peter Baldwin (actor), Kenner G. Kemp (actor), Gig Young (actor),

Plot: James Gannon, the hardboiled city editor of a newspaper, believes that the only way to learn the business is by way of the School of Hard Knocks, and has a very low regard for college-taught journalism, so he's not pleased when his managing editor orders him to help Erica Stone, a college professor, with her journalism class. Finding himself attracted to her, he pretends to be a student in her class, not revealing he's Gannon, whom she despises. As they bob and weave around their mutual growing attraction, they both begin to gain respect for each other's approaches to reporting news, but how will Erica react when she finds out who he really is?

Keywords: assumed-identity, class, classroom, deception, diva, editor, hangover, journalism, may-december-romance, newspaper
Genres: Comedy, Romance,
Taglines: Their mixed-up romance adds up to this: GREAT DAY! GREAT GUY! GREAT FUN!

Quotes:

James Gannon: [referring to Dr. Pine, Prof. Stone's boyfriend] So he's got more degrees than a thermometer, so he speaks seven languages, so he's read every book. So what? The important thing is he's had no experience. He didn't start at the bottom and work up. That's the only way you can learn.::Peggy DeFore: You're so right, Jim-zee. Take me. Where would I be if I just read books?

Erica Stone: As my father used to say, a reporter has to do a lot of sweating before he earns the right to perspire.

Peggy DeFore: Jimsy, what's a psychologist?::James Gannon: A guy who gives all kinds of advice about things he knows nothing about.

James Gannon: How could you give up a real newspaper job for teaching?::Erica Stone: Well, that's a very good question, Mr. Gallagher. Maybe for the same reason that occasionally a musician wants to be a conductor, he wants to hear a hundred people play music the way he hears it.

Erica Stone: Newspapers can't compete in reporting what happened any more, but they can and should tell the public why it happened.

James Gannon: Morning. Hangover?::Dr. Hugo Pine: Calling what I have a 'hangover' is like referring to the Johnstown flood as a slight drizzle.

Dr. Hugo Pine: To me, journalism is, ah, like a hangover. You can read about it for years, but until you've actually experienced it, you have no conception of what it's really like.

James Gannon: [while reading the Eureka Bulletin] Joel Barlow Stone. I'm sorry, but you stink!

Dr. Hugo Pine: I can drink any amount of alcohol I like and it doesn't bother me a bit.::James Gannon: Well it doesn't bither me a bot either!

James Gannon: [providing an impromptu lesson to Barney] By the way, you heard about it, didn't you?::Barney Kovac: What?::James Gannon: Found him dead.::Barney Kovac: Who?::James Gannon: Boss.::Barney Kovac: No kidding. When?::James Gannon: Two minutes ago.::Barney Kovac: Where did they find him?::James Gannon: In his office.::Barney Kovac: What did happen?::James Gannon: Some dame shot him.::James Gannon: Some dame sho... Why?::James Gannon: Barney, you have just asked me six very important questions: who, what, where, when, how, and why. That's what every news story should answer.

Who Goes There! (1952)

Actors: Joss Ambler (actor), Anthony Bushell (actor), George Cole (actor), A.E. Matthews (actor), Valerie Hobson (actress), Anthony Kimmins (producer), Anthony Kimmins (director), Nigel Patrick (actor), John Dighton (writer), John Dighton (writer), Gerald Turney-Smith (editor), Peggy Cummins (actress), Jean Graham (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: "Five-Sided Triangle", while geometrically incorrect, might be a better title for this film that the two it has. A private in the Guards is forced to leave his girl friend in the (not-for-long) empty house of a high-ranking civil servant. The son discovers her and promptly falls in love. When the daughter returns, she decides that it would be best if the girl got together with her boy friend, not realizing that the sentry has worshipped her from afar, the daughter. A further complication is that the sentry's commanding officer is in love with her also.

Keywords: based-on-play
Genres: Comedy,

All That Money Can Buy (1941)

Actors: William Alland (actor), Frank Austin (actor), Walter Baldwin (actor), Edward Arnold (actor), Sonny Bupp (actor), Bob Burns (actor), Horace B. Carpenter (actor), George Cleveland (actor), Eddie Borden (actor), Tex Cooper (actor), Jeff Corey (actor), Alec Craig (actor), James Craig (actor), Eddie Dew (actor), Robert Dudley (actor),

Plot: A down-on-his-luck farmer makes a deal with the devil for seven years of prosperity. When Mr. Scratch comes to collect, orator and hero of the common man Daniel Webster comes to the rescue. Based on the short story by Stephen Vincent Benet. Also known as "All That Money Can Buy."

Keywords: 1840s, 19th-century, accident, affection, alcoholic, americana, bad-luck, barnyard, based-on-short-story, battle
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy,
Taglines: A GREAT MOTION PICTURE DARES TO BE DIFFERENT! (original print media ad - all caps) STEPHEN VINCENT BENET'S Amazing Saturday Evening Post Story

Quotes:

[Webster is examing the contract Mr. Scratch has with Stone]::Daniel Webster: This appears - mind you, I say appears - to be properly drawn. But you shan't have this man. A man isn't a piece of property. Mr. Stone is an American citizen... and an American citizen cannot be forced into the service of a foreign prince.::Mr. Scratch: Foreign? Who calls me a foreigner?::Daniel Webster: Well, I never heard of the de... I never heard of you claiming American citizenship.::Mr. Scratch: And who has a better right? When the first wrong was done to the first Indian, I was there. When the first slaver put out for the Congo, I stood on the deck. Am I not still spoken of in every church in New England? It's true the North claims me for a Southerner and the South for a Northerner, but I'm neither. Tell the truth, Mr. Webster - though I don't like to boast of it - my name is older in the country than yours.::Daniel Webster: Then I stand on the Constitution. I demand a trial for my client.::Mr. Scratch: You mean a jury trial?::Daniel Webster: I do! And if I can't win this case with a jury you'll have me, too. If two New Hampshire men aren't a match for the devil, we better give the country back to the Indians.

[Ma Stone is reading out loud from the book of Job]::Mary Stone: Give me the book, Ma. I'm going to read us something cheerful from the book of Ruth. That is, if you don't mind changing the lesson.::Ma Stone: Land sakes, I don't mind. I never did hold much with Job, even if he is scripture. Took on too much to suit me. Course I don't want to malign the man; but he always sounded to me like he come from Massachusetts.

Jabez Stone: Money's a funny thing ain't it, Ma?::Ma Stone: I figure it depends a mite on how you get it and how you spend it.::Jabez Stone: But I don't spend any.::Ma Stone: But you should, son. That's all it's good for.::Jabez Stone: Do you really think that?::Ma Stone: That's just common sense. Now a man like Daniel Webster: guess they pay him high for what he does, but he's worth it. And he helps others... makes all the difference.::Jabez Stone: I know. But suppose a man got his money in bad ways?::Ma Stone: Wouldn't profit him none. You see, son: I'm old and I've lived. When a man gets his money in bad way... when he sees the better course and takes the worse... then the devil's in his heart. And that fixes him.::Jabez Stone: And yet... a man could change all that couldn't he?::Ma Stone: A man can always change things. That's what makes him different from the barnyard critters.

Jabez Stone: What do you have on your mind?::Daniel Webster: You, Jabez Stone. You and a lot of poor farmers hereabouts... all good men of the earth and in trouble because of you. Or am I wrong about those contracts?::Jabez Stone: Without me and my money they wouldn't have anything.::Daniel Webster: They'd have a good neighbor - and that's worth more than anything else... much, much more.

[Webster and Stone are waiting for Mr. Scratch]::Daniel Webster: How long do we have to wait?::Jabez Stone: 'Til midnight.::Daniel Webster: Oh, that's fine - then we have time to christen a jug. Old Medford rum: aahh, there's nothing like it. You know, somehow or other, waiting becomes wonderfully shorter with a jug. I saw an inchworm once take a drop of this and he stood right up on his hind legs and bit a bee! [chuckles and takes a drink] Will you have a nip?::Jabez Stone: No, there's no joy in it for me.::Daniel Webster: Oh, come, come now. Just because you sold your soul to the devil that needn't make you a teetotaler.

Daniel Webster: I'd fight ten thousand devils to save a New Hampshire man.

Mr. Scratch: You'll never be president - I'll see to that!

Daniel Webster: If two New Hampshire men aren't a match for the devil, we'd better give this country back to the Indians.

Mr. Scratch: [Jabez, after noticing that one of Mr. Scratch's victims is now the size of a fly, asks him how big their souls are] Oh, I see what you mean; why, they vary... Now, in your case, I could probably keep you in my vest pocket.

Daniel Webster: Gentlemen of the jury, tonight it is my privilege to address a group of men I've long been acquainted with in song and story, but men I had never hoped to see. My worthy opponent, Mister Scratch, called you Americans all. Mister Scratch is right. You were Americans all. Oh, what a heritage you were born to share. Gentlemen of the jury, I envy you, for you were present at the birth of a mighty union. It was given to you to hear those first cries of pain and behold the shining babe, born of blood and tears. You are called upon tonight to judge a man named Jabez Stone. What is his case? He's accused of breach of contract. He made a deal to find a shortcut in his life, to get rich quickly, the same kind of a deal all of you once made. You, Benedict Arnold. I speak to you first because you are better known than the rest of your colleagues here. What a different song yours could have been. A friend of Washington and Lafayette, a soldier. General Arnold, you fought so gallantly for the American cause till - let me see, what was the date? - seventeen seventy-nine. That date, burned in your heart. The lure of gold made you betray that cause. And you, Simon Girty, now known to all as "Renegade" - a loathesome word - you also took that other way. And you, Walter Butler, what would you give for another chance to see the grasses grow in Cherry Valley without the stain of blood? I could go on and on and name you all but there's no need of that. Why stir the wounds? I know they pain enough. You were fooled like Jabez Stone, fooled and trapped in your desire to rebel against your fate. Gentlemen of the jury, it is the eternal right of every man to raise his fist against his fate. But when he does, these are crossroads. You took the wrong turn. So did Jabez Stone. But he found it out in time. He's here tonight to save his soul. Gentlemen of the jury, I ask you to give Jabez Stone another chance to walk upon this earth, among the trees, the growing corn, and the smell of grasses in the Spring. What would you all give for another chance to see those things you must all remember and often yearn to touch again? For you were all men once. Clean American air was in your lungs and you breathed it deeply. For it was free and blew across an earth you loved. These are common things I speak of, small things, but they are good things. Yet without your soul, they mean nothing. Without your soul, they sicken. Mister Scratch once told you that your soul meant nothing. And you believed him. And you lost your freedom. Freedom isn't just a big word. It is the morning and the bread and the risen sun. It was for freedom we came to these shores in boats and ships. It was a long journey and a hard one and a bitter one. Yes, there is sadness in being a man... but it is a proud thing, too. And out of the suffering and the starvation and the wrong and the right, a new thing has come: a free man. And when the whips of the oppressors are broken and their names forgotten and destroyed, free men will be talking and walking under a free star. Yes, we have planted freedom in this earth like wheat. And we have said to the skies above us, "A man shall own his own soul... " Now, here is this man. He is your brother. You were Americans all. [points to the Devil] You can't be on his side, the side of the oppressor. Let Jabez Stone keep his soul, a soul which doesn't belong to him alone but to his family, his son, and his country. Gentlemen of the jury, don't let this country go to the devil. Free Jabez Stone. God bless the United States and the men who made her free.

Sailor's Lady (1940)

Actors: Ralph Dunn (actor), Edward Earle (actor), Murray Alper (actor), Eddie Acuff (actor), Dana Andrews (actor), Charles D. Brown (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Jack Cohn (actor), Don 'Red' Barry (actor), Buster Crabbe (actor), William B. Davidson (actor), Ward Bond (actor), Edgar Dearing (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Pat Flaherty (actor),

Plot: Sailor (Hall) is going to marry his girlfriend (Kelly) when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.

Keywords: navy, sailor
Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: 50,000 SAILORS... Can't Go Wrong!

Das Ekel (1931)

Actors: Rosa Valetti (actress), Paul Henckels (actor), Emeric Pressburger (writer), Ernst Pröckl (actor), Hans Hermann Schaufuß (actor), Erich Kästner (writer), Alfred Abel (actor), Rudolf Biebrach (actor), Max Adalbert (actor), Bruno Duday (producer), Viktor Franz (actor), Martha Ziegler (actress), Julius E. Herrmann (actor), Evelyn Holt (actress), Emilia Unda (actress),

Genres: Comedy,