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Chicago Dracula (2009)

Actors: Christopher James Miller (director), Christopher James Miller (writer), Christopher James Miller (actor), Sean Stearley (actor), Roger Hunt (composer), Santino Ramos (editor), Santino Ramos (actor), Todd Brown (writer), Todd Brown (actor), Todd Brown (actor), Erin Blaisdell (actress), Kit Bateman (actor), Jonny Hart (actor),

Genres: Animation, Short,

The Archer Project (2007)

Actors: Michael Gaglio (actor), Michael Gaglio (producer), D.T. Carney (actor), Ariauna Albright (actress), Jed Rowen (actor), Jim Van Bebber (actor), Patrick Thomas (actor), Heidi Martinuzzi (actress), Lou Garcia (writer), Lou Garcia (director), Lou Garcia (actor), Lou Garcia (editor), Lou Garcia (producer), Annette Martinez (editor), Annette Martinez (actress),

Genres: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi,

The Education of a Vampire (2001)

Actors: Jimmy Williams (producer), Vernon Wells (actor), Jimmy Williams (director), Jimmy Williams (writer), Jimmy Williams (actor), Jimmy Williams (editor), Tommy Kirk (actor), Gerald Brodin (actor), Eric Lee (actor), Michael King (actor), Joe Haggerty (actor), David Neff (actor), Allan Piper (editor), Edward Sanchez (producer), Keith E. Lane (producer),

Genres: Horror,

Rover Dangerfield (1991)

Actors: Ronnie Schell (actor), Barbara Goodson (actress), Gregg Berger (actor), Robert Pine (actor), Bob Bergen (actor), Burton Sharp (actor), Danny Mann (actor), Rodney Dangerfield (actor), Bob Bergen (actor), Bill Farmer (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Sal Landi (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Tress MacNeille (actress), Tress MacNeille (actress),

Plot: Rover, a street-smart dog owned by a Las Vegas showgirl is dumped off Hoover Dam by the showgirl's boyfriend. Rather than drowning, Rover winds up in your basic idyllic farm in a classic city-boy-in-country shtick.

Keywords: actor-shares-last-name-with-character, anthropomorphic-animal, anthropomorphism, birthday, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, cat, character-name-in-title, chicken, christmas, christmas-tree
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Family,
Taglines: You'll laugh! You'll sing! You'll dance! You'll sit up and beg for more! The dog who gets no respect. Rodney Dangerfield is Rover, a big city hound who trades bright lights for barnyard laughs!

Quotes:

Rover Dangerfield: [after attacking one of the wolves] That one's for the three little pigs!

Rover Dangerfield: All night I'd sit up and beg, she told me I was too old to beg!

[about playing fetch]::Rover Dangerfield: He throws a stick, you run and get it, you bring it back and he throws it again! I don't get it! I mean, what's the point?::Raffles: Because it makes them happy and it gives them lots of exercise::Rover Dangerfield: If they want exercise, let them run and get it.::Raffles: So what should I do?::Rover Dangerfield: It's very simple. You do nothing.

Rover Dangerfield: Where's Flappy?::Queenie: Carmine fired him. He couldn't remember the routines.::Rover Dangerfield: Oh, I saw that coming. Flappy was dumb. Yeah, he used to walk backwards and wag his head. I mean dumb! Carmine taught him to sit, he forgot how to stand! And when Carmine paper-trained him, that was something. He went right on the paper. The only trouble is, Carmine was reading it!

[after "I'll Never do it on a Christmas Tree" he knocks on the front door, door opens,]::Rover Dangerfield: Hey folks! I'll never dampen your holidays! [door slams shut]::Rover Dangerfield: No respect. No respect at all.

Eddie: Boy, that Count's really got class.::Rover Dangerfield: I guess that's my trouble, no class. I looked up my family tree, two dogs were using it!

Turkey: Let me tell you, I won't be here very long.::Rover Dangerfield: I tell ya, the way I see it, you probably won't be around after Christmas!::Turkey: Well, that would suit me just fine! Well, I might have known: There's absolutely nothing to eat here!::Rover Dangerfield: Yeah? Look in a mirror!::Turkey: Oh... I don't get it.::Rover Dangerfield: Don't worry about it, drumstick. You will!

The Valley of Gwangi (1969)

Actors: Ray Harryhausen (producer), Laurence Naismith (actor), Richard Carlson (actor), Gustavo Rojo (actor), James Franciscus (actor), Gladys Goldsmith (miscellaneous crew), Henry Richardson (editor), Jim O'Connolly (director), William Bast (writer), Charles H. Schneer (producer), Freda Jackson (actress), Juan Maján (miscellaneous crew), Willis H. O'Brien (writer), Jerome Moross (composer), Mario De Barros (actor),

Plot: Cowboy James Franciscus seeks fame and fortune by capturing a Tyrannosaurus Rex living in the Forbidden Valley and putting it in a Mexican circus. His victim, called the Gwangi, turns out to have an aversion to being shown in public. Another film featuring the stop-action special effects talents of Ray Harryhausen.

Keywords: 1900s, adventurer, allosaurus, british, building-collapse, bull, bullring, burned-to-death, burning-church, cathedral
Genres: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western,
Taglines: Cowboys Battle Monsters in the Lost World of Forbidden Valley.

Quotes:

Rowdy: In all my travels I never seen anything like that two-ton lizard. If we could just get him back alive.::Tuck: Yeah, the only thing I want to get back alive is me.

Tia Zorina: He who takes from Gwangi the evil one is cursed.::Carlos: Only by an old woman's tongue.::Tia Zorina: I tell you, if he does not go back to the forbidden vally we shall all suffer a terrible fate. My eyes are blind but I can still see the signs.::Carlos: Keep your superstitions to yourself, old woman.::Tia Zorina: Fool! One day he will learn to obey the law of Gwangi, or like his brother he will perish!

Professor Bromley: Eohippus, if you are one, what are you doing here over 50 million years after you should be extinct. Could be a freak of nature, of course.::Tuck: Is there any way you can tell?::Professor Bromley: By checking its origin. If I could prove that this is the genuine article I should undoubtedly receive a knighthood, Mr Kirby, for the greatest scientific discover of the age.::Tuck: The greatest scientific discovery of the age? T.J. doesn't know what she's got herself.

Professor Bromley: I'm prepared to pay a guide handsomely.::Tia Zorina: To lead to you the forbidden valley? No, not for all the gold in the world.::Tuck: What's this forbidden valley?::Tia Zorina: From there came the little horse and until he is returned a great evil will fall upon us.::Professor Bromley: Rubbish!::Tia Zorina: I tell you, unless the little horse is returned we shall all suffer the curse of hell.::Professor Bromley: Superstitious clap-trap! There's nothing hocus-pocus about that little horse. Don't you realise, we've discovered a living specimen of the Eohippus.::Tuck: What, you mean that thing really is an Eohippus?::Professor Bromley: Of course!...well, naturally we'd have to prove it by scientific research.

Professor Bromley: Don't you see...we must follow the gypsy trail to the forbidden valley because where there is one Eohippus there must be others. At least two, the sire and the mare, possibly more. Just think what you and Miss Breckenridge could do with a dozen Eohippi?

Professor Bromley: This circle of mountains, jagged peaks, steep cliffs, could be the perfect barrier against man and the elements.::Tuck: No wonder they call it the forbidden valley.::Professor Bromley: Yes, it might be the answer to many things. We shall soon see, Mr Kirby.

Lope: What kind of bird is it, professor?::Professor Bromley: Oh, no bird...a giant pterydactyl...a flying reptile. It's been extinct for over 50 million years.::T.J.: Then what is it doing here?::Professor Bromley: Precisely...what is it doing here?

Professor Bromley: I can't go now!::Tuck: Professor, there's a big lizard back there and he's heading this way. Now get aboard!

Tia Zorina: It is as I foretold. Gwangi has killed Carlos just as he killed his brother, Miguel.::Tuck: Well, how d'ya know that?::Tia Zorina: In a dream I saw it...the great jaws snapping, the riderless horse. He was doomed and so will you be doomed ALL OF YOU unless the evil one is set free!::Professor Bromley: Balderedash, my good woman, balderdash! He's no more evil than an alligator. The only thing evil about him are his jaws. Spells? He can cast no spells.

Professor Bromley: In the name of world science I beg you...I implore you to think again.::Tuck: Later, professor, we've got a show to put on.::Professor Bromley: A show! A show! But it's disgraceful to think of putting this fabulous creature on display in a cheap circus.::T.J.: We can do what we like with Gwangi. He's our property.::Professor Bromley: He belongs to us all, to mankind, to scientific research.::Tuck: Easy, professor.::T.J.: You can do your research in the time we give you. You can follow us on our world tour.::Professor: You must be mad...raving mad. World tour? We'll see what The Royal Society has to say about this.

Last of the Pony Riders (1953)

Actors: George Archainbaud (director), Gregg Barton (actor), Kermit Maynard (actor), Arthur Space (actor), Armand Schaefer (producer), Smiley Burnette (actor), Champion (actor), Art Dillard (actor), Gene Autry (actor), Herman Hack (actor), Robert 'Buzz' Henry (actor), Harry Hines (actor), Dickie Jones (actor), James Sweeney (editor), Frankie Marvin (actor),

Plot: The last, and aptly-titled, of Gene Autry's starring westerns finds Pony Express rider Gene Autry ('Gene Autry (I)' (qv)) deciding to start a stage line to carry the mail, since with the coming of the telegraph, the need for the Pony Express no longer exists. He is fired by his boss Tom McEwen ('John Downey (I)' (qv)) for being disloyal. Scheming townsmen Clyde Vesey ('Howard Wright (I)' (qv)), Jess Hogan (Arthur Space') and Dutch Murdoch ('Gregg Barton' (qv)), in order to get a government mail contract for themselves, try to discredit McEwen's Pony Express riders by holding up rider Johnny Blair 'Dickie Jones' (qv)), who is in love with McEwen's daughter Katie (Kathlee Case'). Gene and his pal Smiley (Smiley Burnette') smash the renegades and finally establish their own stage line, and Gene and which every version of "Champion' (Champion(II)' he was riding at the moment exit after 18 years of genre-changing B-westerns. And leaving with the question of why was a name not seen before on a B-western, Ruth Woodman, credited with the story and screenplay?

Keywords: 1860s, actor-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, archive-footage, b-movie, b-western, california, comic-sidekick, daughter
Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama, Music, Western,
Taglines: GENE HITS THE DANGER TRAIL...to crush the badmen out to cripple the Pony Express! (original print ad) THE PONY EXPRESS ROUTE BECOMES DEAD MAN'S TRAIL!!!...Till Geene rides into the badlands and routs out the wreckers! (original print ad) PONY EXPRESS RIDEERS UNDER FIRE...Till Gene, Smiley and Champion track down the renegade wreckers! (original poster) GENE'S A PONY EXPRESS RIDER NOW...and he's riding the Express wreckers right out of the territory! (original print ad) GENE CRACKS DOWN ON MAIL CROOKS (original print ad-all caps)

Carolina Moon (1940)

Actors: Gene Autry (actor), Chuck Baldra (actor), Don Brodie (actor), Smiley Burnette (actor), Fred Burns (actor), Bob Card (actor), Burr Caruth (actor), Champion (actor), Frank Dae (actor), Joe Devlin (actor), Robert Fiske (actor), Al Haskell (actor), Eddie Kane (actor), Milton Kibbee (actor), Hardie Albright (actor),

Plot: Gene Autry (Himself) and Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette) encounter Caroline Stanhope (June Storey) who has come to town with her father, Colonel Stanhope (Eddy Waller), to enter her horse in the rodeo, hoping to clear enough money to clear the mortgage on their home back in Carolina. She ignores Gene's advice that the horse is too temperamental for the rodeo noise and commotion, and the horse sprains an ankle. The Colonel, taken by a couple of crooks, loses a thousand dollars in wagers and refuses to turn over his only asset, the horse, in lieu of the cash. Gene, wishing to help, offers Stanhope a thousand dollars for the horse but Caroline thinking Gene is in with the crooks, loads the horse in a trailer and heads back for Carolina. Gene, thinking the Stanhopes are in a scheme to beat him out of his money, takes Frog and follows them. There, they discover the Stanhopes are honest people, who, along with their neighbors are hard-pressed by poverty and a threatened foreclosure of their land and estates by the county's only solvent landowner, Henry Wheeler (Hardie Albright). Wheeler is behind a scheme to get their lands as these timberlands, once thought worthless, are now valuable because of a new lumber-treating process. Gene talks the landowners into holding their property and cutting and selling the timber themselves. Wheeler blocks this by holding up the timberjacks so that the owners will be unable to meet their contract terms. Gene sends for his rodeo band cowboy friends to (between songs) help cut the timber.

Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, african-american, blackface, colonel, contract, cowboy, crooked-gambling, debt, disguise, drunkenness
Genres: Western,
Taglines: A RODEO STAR OF THE WEST... becomes a shooting star... way down in Carolina!

Quotes:

[first lines]::Grandfather Stanhope: I don't know what the younger generation is comin' to. I never thought I'd see the day when a Stanhope lady, my own granddaughter, would go traipsin' off up North do a thing like this.

Grandfather Stanhope: My own granddaughter in a-a - what do you call it - a rodeo. It's unladylike. It's worse than that. It's downright Northern!::Caroline Stanhope: If I could just win enough money to pay our debts. At least our taxes...::Grandfather Stanhope: Debts! Taxes! There wouldn't be any if the South had won the war!::Caroline Stanhope: Yes, Grandpop, but they didn't.

[Billy is playing his harmonica]::Grandfather Stanhope: Quit that squalkin', Billy!::Billy: Yessir, Colonel. I was just keepin' my mouth warm.

Frog Millhouse: Can I borrow a buck? I'll pay it back out of your winnin's.::Gene Autry: What if I don't win?::Frog Millhouse: Well, you'll be broke anyhow.

Frog Millhouse: Say, can you tell where an old muskrat names Stanhope lives?::Patsy Stanhope: Just follow this road - go that way, this way, that way and that's it.::Frog Millhouse: That's it... You're a pretty smart girl. What's your name?::Patsy Stanhope: Stanhope.::Frog Millhouse: Well, we... With my luck I mighta known that.::Gene Autry: You have to excuse us, Miss. You see, we have a knack for getting' in wrong with Stanhope women.

[Gene's car stalls leaving the Stanhope plantation]::Gene Autry: See how we're fixed for gas.::Frog Millhouse: Plumb full - see. Hey, that don't smell like gasoline! That ain't gasoline - that's water!::Gene Autry: Water?::Frog Millhouse: Plain old H2O. We've been framed!::Caroline Stanhope: A fine way to treat our guests.::Patsy Stanhope: Well, I only wanted them to be guests a little longer.

Caroline Stanhope: I hope Barrelena's going to like it out there.::Gene Autry: I think you'd like it out there, too, Caroline.::Caroline Stanhope: Well, I think I'd better wait to hear from the horse.

[last lines]::[Frog flees from Evangeline's proposal of matrimony]::Evangeline Jefferson: Just wing him, Pa!::[Colonel Jefferson shoots Frog in the seat of his pants]::Caroline Stanhope: It's the same old South.

Gaucho Serenade (1940)

Actors: Ted Adams (actor), Joel Friedkin (actor), Gene Autry (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Ralph Bucko (actor), Chuck Baldra (actor), Fred Burns (actor), Ed Cassidy (actor), Champion (actor), Jim Corey (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), Kernan Cripps (actor), Joe Dominguez (actor), Smiley Burnette (actor), Olaf Hytten (actor),

Plot: Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's horse, Champion. They discover that Ronnie Willoughby, a young boy just off the boat from school in England, has hitched a ride, thinking that Gene and Frog were sent by his father to meet him. Ronnie thinks his father is a big rancher in the west and doesn't know that his father, Alfred Willoughby, is serving time in San Quentin prison because of a frame-up by the officials of a packing company. To keep the father from testifying against them, the packing company officials, Carter, Jenkins and Martin, have arranged for the boy to be kidnapped. Along the way a runaway bride, Joyce Halloway, and her young sister Patsy join the troupe. Various members of the cast sing and dance their way through The Singing Hills, Gaucho Serenade, Give Out With a Song, Heading For the Wide Open Spaces, 'Tis Be, Keep Rollin' and A Song of Sunset before every situation is solved, and Gene gets Joyce, Frog gets Ringeye, the father is cleared and reunited with his UK-accented son and the villains are sent to the Republic Big House.

Keywords: 1930s, actor-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, automobile-accident, b-movie, b-western, barn, battle, blow-out
Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama, Music, Western,
Taglines: It's Gene at his best ! Singing, riding, fighting his way into great new adventure ! GENE AUTRY...THE SIX-GUN ACTION KING...BACK IN ANOTHER RANGELAND HIT! (original pint ad-all caps) THE IDOL OF MILLIONS...FLASHING ACROSS THE SCREEN IN HIS GREATEST HIT! (original print ad-all caps) A MUSICAL ACTION HIT LOADED with EXCITING THRILLS and LAUGHS! (original print ad)

Quotes:

[Patsy doesn't understand why the police are pursuing them after Joyce left her fiancee at the altar]::Joyce Halloway: Darling, you forget that we borrowed the bridegroom's car without his permission and that's, well, that's...::Patsy Halloway: I know - that's arson!

Patsy Halloway: I wonder if we'll have to walk all the way to the ranch.::Joyce Halloway: Oh, it's only two or three thousand miles.::Patsy Halloway: Two or three thousand miles! You got me into this...::Joyce Halloway: Listen, Rebecca of Sunstroke Farm, coming along was your idea.

Joyce Halloway: There ought to be a law against road hogs like you!::Gene Autry: Yeah, and there ought to be a law against women driving down the road at 100 miles an hour.::Joyce Halloway: Don't you dare tell me how fast I was going, I was only going 45.::Gene Autry: A hundred!::Joyce Halloway: Forty- five!::Gene Autry: A hundred!::Joyce Halloway: Forty-five!::Gene Autry: A hundred!::Patsy Halloway: You were doing eighty!::Gene Autry: Hooray! I finally won an arguement with a woman!

Blue Montana Skies (1939)

Actors: Gene Autry (actor), Al Bridge (actor), Smiley Burnette (actor), Allan Cavan (actor), Champion (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Curley Dresden (actor), Augie Gomez (actor), Jack Hendricks (actor), Jack Ingram (actor), Jack Kenney (actor), Elmo Lincoln (actor), Ted Mapes (actor), Tully Marshall (actor), Frankie Marvin (actor),

Plot: Hendricks is smuggling furs across the border. Gene's partner sees them and is murdered. But before he died he wrote the initials HH. So Gene and Frog head to the HH dude ranch to investigate. They eventually get wise to Hendricks game but as soon as they find the furs they are made prisoners.

Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, avalanche, burglar-alarm, canada, cattle, cattle-drive, comic-sidekick, cowboy, customs, customs-officer
Genres: Western,

Quotes:

[first lines]::Bob Causer: Well, that half-breed sure knows what he's talkin' about. This trading post has got half of the white fox in Canada.

The Champ (1931)

Actors: King Vidor (producer), Wallace Beery (actor), Edward Brophy (actor), Jackie Cooper (actor), Roscoe Ates (actor), Frank Hagney (actor), Hale Hamilton (actor), Dell Henderson (actor), Tom McGuire (actor), Bob Perry (actor), Lee Phelps (actor), King Vidor (director), Frances Marion (writer), William M. Weiss (producer), Marcia Mae Jones (actress),

Plot: Dink Purcell loves his alcoholic father, ex-heavyweight champion Andy "Champ" Purcell, despite his frequent binges, his frequent gambling and their squalid living conditions. And there's nothing Andy wouldn't do for Dink. When Andy wins a race horse gambling, he gives it to Dink and they race it at a Tijuana track. There, Dink meets Linda Carleton, a race horse owner herself, and they have an immediate rapport. But Linda's rich husband sees Andy and realizes Dink is Linda's son, who she gave up when she and Andy divorced. Andy is bribed $200 to allow Dink to visit with Linda, but refuses to allow Dink to spend six months with the Carletons. When Andy loses the horse gambling and winds up in jail after a drunken tirade, he realizes Dink's place is with his mother. Dink tearfully goes but sneaks out and returns at his first opportunity, filling a depressed Andy with a desire to make good. So Andy goes into training after his managers arrange a boxing match with the Mexican champion.

Keywords: alcoholic, arrest, box-office-hit, boxer, boxing, casino, child-driving-car, craps, crying, divorce
Genres: Drama, Family, Sport,
Taglines: Don't fail to get a ringside seat! The knockout picture of the year!

Quotes:

[Dink compares the swanky home to his own]::Dink Purcell: The Champ and I ain't fixed up swell as this, but our joint's more lively.