Nick Brown

Q for Death (2010)

Actors: Jeremy London (actor), Dave Vescio (actor), Justin Ferrari (producer), Justin Ferrari (actor), Alan Noel Vega (producer), Heather Casterlin (miscellaneous crew), Erik Aude (actor), Thomas F. Evans (actor), Alex Kazan (producer), Alex Kazan (actor), Alex Kazan (director), Alex Kazan (producer), Alex Kazan (writer), Alex Ballar (actor), Ace Underhill (actor),

Genres: Action, Horror, Thriller,

The Roaring Twenties (1939)

Actors: Eddie Acuff (actor), Murray Alper (actor), Ernie Alexander (actor), Raymond Bailey (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Abner Biberman (actor), James Blaine (actor), Robert Armstrong (actor), Humphrey Bogart (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Harry C. Bradley (actor), Al Bridge (actor), Paul Bryar (actor), James Cagney (actor), Nat Carr (actor),

Plot: After the WWI Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

Keywords: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, alcohol, armed-robbery, audition, battle, benefactor, benito-mussolini, betrayal
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller,
Taglines: The land of the free gone wild! The heyday of the hotcha! The shock-crammed days G-men took ten whole years to lick! America's Most Colorful Era ! 1920 . . . Bootleggers, Jazz, Babe Ruth, Speakeasies, Jack Dempsey, Dames, Molls, Easy Living - Quick Dying . . . the torrid . . . blazing . . . wild . . . lush . . . lurid - ROARING TWENTIES ! ! !

Quotes:

Panama Smith: I'm sick of watching you try to put out that torch you carry for her with a lot of cheap hooch. Who does the kid look like?::Eddie Bartlett: Like her.::Panama Smith: And they got a nice house.::Eddie Bartlett: Yeah, it's a nice house if you like that kind of a house, but for me, uh, I'll take a hotel anytime. You know that.::Panama Smith: Me too. Ain't it funny how our tastes have always run the same? Ever since the first time we met. I can just picture you living in the suburbs, working in a garden, raising flowers and kids. Wouldn't that be a laugh.::Eddie Bartlett: Yeah, wouldn't I look cute?

Eddie Bartlett: One thing, Lloyd. They tell me your boss is building a case against our old friend, George.::Lloyd Hart: The case is already built, Eddie.::Eddie Bartlett: Yeah, well, you remember what he said would happen if you ever told what you knew about him?::Lloyd Hart: I remember.::Eddie Bartlett: So does he.

Eddie Bartlett: I trust my friends. [Walks off]::George Halley: That guys a sucker. I don't trust any of my friends.::Panama Smith: The feeling's mutual, George. They don't trust you either.

Eddie Bartlett: You always said you were going to take real good care of me, didn't you George?::George Halley: Wait a minute Eddie, I can explain!::Eddie Bartlett: Here's one rap you ain't gonna beat!::[fires twice]

[last lines]::Panama Smith: He's dead.::Cop: Well, who is this guy?::Panama Smith: This is Eddie Bartlett.::Cop: Well, how're you hooked up with him?::Panama Smith: I could never figure it out.::Cop: What was his business?::Panama Smith: He used to be a big shot.

Panama Smith: I think you're a pretty decent guy. I like to talk to decent guys. They're hard to find.

Panama Smith: Things have been pretty tough, haven't they?::Eddie Bartlett: They could be tougher. A guy in the cell with me was talkin' about bumpin' himself off. Until I get around to that, I'm doin' all right.

George Hally: I always say, when you got a job to do, get somebody else to do it.

Narrator: 1929. As the dizzy decade nears its end, the country is stock market crazy. The great and the humble... the rich man and the working man... the housewife and the shop girl. All take their daily flyer in the market, and no one seems to lose. Then like a bombshell comes that never-to-be-forgotten Black Tuesday, October 29. Confusion spreads throught the canyons of New York's financial district. And men stare wild-eyed at the spectacle of complete ruin. More than 16 and a half million shares change hands in a single day of frenzied selling. The paper fortunes built up over the last few years crumble into nothing before this disaster which is to touch every man woman and child in America.

Narrator: [Opening lines - various clips of 1930's news footages are shown] Today, while the earth shakes beneath the heels of marching troops, while a great portion of the world trembles before the threats of acquisitive power-mad men, we of America have little time to remember an astounding era in our own recent history. An era which will grow more and more incredible with each passing generation until someday people will say it never could have happened at all. April, 1918: almost a million American young men are engaged in a struggle which, they have been told, will make the world safe for democracy. [Scene switches to World War I battlefield action, somewhere in France]