DMB (2000)

Actors: Ivan Okhlobystin (actor), Aleksandr Belyavskiy (actor), Viktor Pavlov (actor), Juozas Budraitis (actor), Ivan Okhlobystin (writer), Aleksey Panin (actor), Vladimir Shainskiy (actor), Natalya Kharakhorina (actress), Stanislav Duzhnikov (actor), Aleksandr Tyutin (actor), Vladimir Smirnov (actor), Pyotr Fyodorov (actor), Sergey Gabrielyan (actor), Sergey Artsibashev (actor), Sergey Galkin (actor),

Plot: The student, Rifle, has managed to seduce his professor's wife, Bomber, an average working guy, has bought a factory and Bullet, the casino lover, is hiding from creditors. They all share a common path and conscription. In the army they teach you that everything must be smart and in order - cockades, straps and all, otherwise you're not fit to call yourself a person, you're a maggot. For a real man, there's no better place than the army.

Keywords: acronym-in-title, army, discipline, military, russian-soldier, uniform
Genres: Comedy,

Longitude (2000)

Actors: Ian McNeice (actor), Tim McInnerny (actor), T.P. McKenna (actor), Alec McCowen (actor), Ian Hart (actor), Roger Lloyd-Pack (actor), Frank Finlay (actor), Jeremy Irons (actor), Nigel Davenport (actor), Michael Gambon (actor), Brian Cox (actor), Stephen Fry (actor), Charles Gray (actor), Bill Nighy (actor), Steve Morphew (actor),

Plot: In the 18th century, the only way to navigate accurately at sea was to follow a coastline all the way, which would not get you from Europe to the West Indies or the Americas. Observing the sun or stars would give you the latitude, but not the longitude unless done in conjunction with a clock that would keep time accurately at sea, and no such clock existed. After one too many maritime disasters due to navigational errors, the British Parliament set up a substantial prize for a way to find the longitude at sea. The film's main story is that of craftsman John Harrison: he built a clock that would do the job, what we would now call a marine chronometer. But the Board of Longitude was biased against this approach and claiming the prize was no simple matter. Told in parallel is the 20th century story of Rupert Gould, for whom the restoration of Harrison's clocks to working order became first a hobby, then an obsession that threatened to wreck his life.

Keywords: 1700s, 1920s, admiration, based-on-book, based-on-true-story, british-navy, bureaucracy, chronometer, clock, father-son-relationship
Genres: Drama, History,

Quotes:

George Graham: One second a month, sir! You're either a liar or a fool. --Who're your makers?::John Harrison: Myself, and my brother James.::George Graham: Really? Who were you apprenticed to?::John Harrison: My father, as was he. I am a carpenter by profession.::George Graham: A carpenter?!::John Harrison: My timekeepers are made of wood. I've brought some drawings with me.::George Graham: I'm sorry, I mistook you. This is a joke, sir, am I right? Mr. Halley seeks to derive some pleasure from this contrivance? Is he here, perhaps, hiding in a corner to watch my performance?::John Harrison: It is I who am sorry, sir! The fault is mine. It was my impression I was here to see a clockmaker; I find myself in a toy shop by mistake! William!::[turns to leave]

George Graham: Mr. Harrison! Summer and winter... how is it done? How is it done, the compensation?::John Harrison: I use a pendulum of different metals that work against each other.::George Graham: Impossible. Doesn't work. I've tried it.::John Harrison: It is possible. It does work. I've built it.

Rupert Gould: Sir Frank, I'm not asking to mechanically alter the Harrison machines; I just want to bring them back to their proper condition. If they're left as they are much longer, I fear they may become unrecoverable. I know my qualifications appear unlikely; I can only plead that they're no more so than Harrison's own.

Muriel Gould: I want you to give up the clock.::Rupert Gould: I will... when it's finished.::Muriel Gould: Yes, I knew you'd say that. Silly of me, really.

John Harrison: I'm afraid you must excuse me, but I should go back on deck. The air in here is...::John Campbell: Poisonous? You'll get used to it. Most people don't notice it after the first couple of years.

Minister for the Navy: [to Parliament] Honorable Members who mourn with us the recent tragic loss off the Scilly Isles of four of Her Majesty's ships, and 2,000 wretched souls therein, under the command of Admiral Sir Cloudisley Shovell, will be pleased to know that Her Majesty's government is to offer a reward -- a prize of twenty thousand pounds -- to any man offering a practicable and useful solution to the problem of finding longitude at sea. A Board of Longitude will be set up, whose sole business will be to investigate any serious suggestions, and finally, it is profoundly to be hoped, to award this prize.

John Harrison: It's not just beautiful, it's divine: that's where the beauty lies, you see. Each note on the scale is calculated by mathematical formula, based on the circumference of a circle, you see.::Sir Charles Pelham: Uh, almost...::John Harrison: The step between each note is composed of larger and lesser intervals, each derived from pi. It is divine because for the first time we are listening to music as the Lord intended.

Sir Charles Pelham: How can you tell if a clock is running 5 seconds faster, or slower?::John Harrison: My own pendulum clock is adjusted to one second a month.::Sir Charles Pelham: O-ho-ho, no clock can be that accurate.::John Harrison: Mine can.

John Harrison: Impossible, sir. Clock needs a pendulum. Can't take a pendulum to sea.::Sir Charles Pelham: Not like you to say "impossible," John.::John Harrison: No, sir.

Elizabeth Harrison: You've found a way to build this sea-clock, haven't you?::John Harrison: With God's help it might be possible. --I mean, why did He encourage me to build a perfect timepiece in the first place? So the blacksmith might start work 5 seconds earlier or later? Or was it to give us the ability to explore His creation in safety, to move without fear in the space He's given us to inhabit?

The Heroes (1988)

Actors: John Bach (actor), Cameron Daddo (actor), Jason Donovan (actor), John Ewart (actor), John Hargreaves (actor), Bill Kerr (actor), Tim Robertson (actor), David Wenham (actor), Anthony Buckley (producer), Kerry Fetzer (miscellaneous crew), Peter Best (composer), Peter Yeldham (writer), Donald Crombie (director), Paul Rhys (actor), Gus Mercurio (actor),

Genres: Drama, War,

Quotes:

U.S. Navy Captain: [referring to a captured Japanese fishing boat] I wouldn't put to sea on that old tub for all the oil in *Texas*!

Paddy McDowell: [referring to a broken-down Japanese fishing boat] They should have given it back to the *Japs*!

Colonel Mott: [to Major Lyon] *I* think your "absurd, impractical, scheme" just might *work*!... so pick a team, the best you can find, and leave the brass hats to *me*!

We Joined the Navy (1962)

Actors: Warren Mitchell (actor), Laurence Naismith (actor), Paul Maxwell (actor), Arthur Lovegrove (actor), Mischa Auer (actor), Kenneth More (actor), Dirk Bogarde (actor), Kenneth Griffith (actor), Graham Crowden (actor), Tutte Lemkow (actor), Sid James (actor), Jeremy Lloyd (actor), Ronald Leigh-Hunt (actor), John Le Mesurier (actor), Lloyd Nolan (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Romance,

The Navy Lark (1959)

Actors: Gordon Jackson (actor), Ronald Shiner (actor), Herbert Wilcox (miscellaneous crew), Reginald Beckwith (actor), Harold Kasket (actor), Tom Gill (actor), Herbert Wilcox (producer), Clive Morton (actor), Cecil Parker (actor), Leslie Phillips (actor), Nicholas Phipps (actor), Hattie Jacques (actress), Doreen Dearnaley (miscellaneous crew), Kenneth J. Warren (actor), Walter Hudd (actor),

Genres: Comedy,

The Eternal Sea (1955)

Actors: Clark Howat (actor), Louis Jean Heydt (actor), Chuck Courtney (actor), Morris Ankrum (actor), Sterling Hayden (actor), Nicolas Coster (actor), James Best (actor), Richard Crane (actor), Robert Carson (actor), Frank Ferguson (actor), Willis Bouchey (actor), Art Gilmore (actor), Don Haggerty (actor), Harry Harvey Jr. (actor), William Hudson (actor),

Genres: Drama, War,

The Flying Missile (1950)

Actors: Selmer Jackson (actor), Anthony Jochim (actor), John Hamilton (actor), Harry Cheshire (actor), Paul Harvey (actor), Al Hill (actor), John Dehner (actor), Hugh Beaumont (actor), John Doucette (actor), Paul Dubov (actor), Robert Bice (actor), Charles Evans (actor), Glenn Ford (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), Harry Lauter (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943)

Actors: George Irving (actor), Jerry Jerome (actor), Ted Adams (actor), William Haade (actor), Lionel Barrymore (actor), Richard Crane (actor), Richard Bartell (actor), Boyd Davis (actor), John Dilson (actor), Roy Barcroft (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor), Edward Earle (actor), Byron Foulger (actor), Douglas Fowley (actor), Van Johnson (actor),

Plot: When Roy, a homicidal maniac was put away for murder, Gillespie tried to get him committed to an insane asylum instead. Now the guy's ex-fiancee wants to marry a soldier, and she goes to Gillespie for advice about Roy. Meanwhile, Red's pursued by a pretty socialite, Lee encourages a double-amputee to live, Gillespie and the boys fight to save little Margaret from an epidemic in the children's ward, and Roy breaks out of prison...with a gun...

Keywords: amputee, birthday-party, character-name-in-title, crime-wave, doctor, erysipelas, hospital, prison-break, sequel
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery,

Quotes:

Dr. Lee Wong How: I'm small, but I'm from Brooklyn!

Dr. Lee Wong How: [referring to a double amputee patient from Pearl Harbor] Shall I take him back to the ward?::Dr. Leonard B. Gillespie: Ward? No, get him a private room and, oh, see that he has a carton of cigarettes and a radio and the prettiest nurse you can find.

The Devil's Playground (1937)

Actors: William Arnold (actor), Herbert Ashley (actor), Harry Bernard (actor), Sammy Blum (actor), Ward Bond (actor), Harvey Clark (actor), Nick Copeland (actor), Richard Dix (actor), Art Dupuis (actor), Eddie Fetherston (actor), Robert Fiske (actor), John Gallaudet (actor), Bud Geary (actor), Eddie Hart (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor),

Genres: Drama, Romance,