Carrington (film)

Carrington: Episode 1 - Get Away (2012)

Actors: Cooper Harris (actress), Jonathan Kells Phillips (producer), Joe Garland (producer), Ralph Jean-Pierre (editor), Josh Manning (actor), Christopher Leavins (writer), Kevin Carrington (producer), Kevin Carrington (writer), Kevin Carrington (writer), Kevin Carrington (director), Josh Duffy (actor), Justin Hudson (miscellaneous crew), Wes Joseph (composer), Mike Wogu (director), Gyasi Haynes (producer),

Genres: Short,

Just Us (1986)

Actors: Peter Hosking (actor), Kim Gyngell (actor), Gina Riley (actress), Don Reid (actor), Richard Moss (actor), David Ashton (actor), Denis Moore (actor), Ted Roberts (writer), Catherine McClements (actress), Tom Travers (actor), Gordon Glenn (director), Ron Pinnell (actor), Jay Mannering (actor), Douglas Hedge (actor), Scott Burgess (actor),

Plot: Young journalist Jessica Taylor (Catherine McClements) goes to the open day of a maximum security prison to watch a debate and gather up information for a story she is writing. There, she meets Billy Carter (Scott Burgess), an inmate who has served 11 of a 27 year imprisonment. While Billy is quite reluctant to open up to Jessica at first, the pair soon find themselves in love with each other and struggle not only to find a way to be together, but to fight the justice system which put Billy in jail.

Keywords: based-on-true-story, jail, love
Genres: Crime, Romance,

Quotes:

Max: I've got a couple of years left. Billy's got about 16. He's already done 11.::Jessica Taylor: [looks at Billy] What do you have to do to get 27 years?::Max: [Billy leaves] We don't want to be in your story.

Jessica Taylor: Can I help?::Billy Carter: What are you, a social worker?::Jessica Taylor: No, I'm a journalist. I told you.::Billy Carter: Well if you want a story, go talk to The Mouth. He'll make something up for you.

Christie: Well, we're here to help if we can. I think that you'll find the drama group pretty stimulating.::The Mouth: Yeah well I reckon we oughta keep up the debating.::Max: Yeah. Give you a chance to shoot your mouth off.::Christie: Well it needn't replace the debating. We could probably do both.::Royce: Like hell they could.

Jessica Taylor: Hi. They make me feel like a criminal.::Billy Carter: Yeah, they make me feel like one too. Don't let it worry you, they get off on it, that's all. [smiles]

Max: What's the matter with you?::Billy Carter: I'm in jail.::Max: [laughs] I feel sorry for ya. [pause] It's that sheila.::Billy Carter: Why don't you put it in your script, Max, alright? Leave me alone.

Carrington V.C. (1955)

Actors: Allan Cuthbertson (actor), Stuart Saunders (actor), Johnnie Schofield (actor), Clive Morton (actor), Victor Maddern (actor), Laurence Naismith (actor), David Niven (actor), Maurice Denham (actor), Basil Dignam (actor), Mark Dignam (actor), Timothy Bateson (actor), John Glyn-Jones (actor), Fred Griffiths (actor), Anthony Asquith (director), Geoffrey Keen (actor),

Genres: Drama,
Taglines: The Most Gripping Entertainment of the Year! (US poster)

The Purple Plain (1954)

Actors: Gregory Peck (actor), Earl St. John (producer), Anthony Bushell (actor), Robert Parrish (director), Maurice Denham (actor), Joan Bridge (miscellaneous crew), Bernard Lee (actor), Arthur Alcott (miscellaneous crew), Peter Arne (actor), Clive Donner (editor), Jack McNaughton (actor), Dorothy Alison (actress), Eric Ambler (writer), Harold Siddons (actor), Lyndon Brook (actor),

Plot: After losing his bride in a Luftwaffe air raid, bomber pilot Forrester becomes a solitary killing machine, who doesn't care whether he dies. The reckless Canadian pilot is both admired and feared by the rest of his squadron in World War II Burma. The squadron physician is assigned to determine the embittered Bill Forrester's fitness for duty. To break through the nightmare-haunted man's wall of silence, the physician drives Forrester to visit an outpost of English-speaking refugees, which includes an alluring young Burmese woman.

Keywords: airplane-accident, airplane-crash, based-on-novel, behind-enemy-lines, burma, canadian, color-in-title, enemy, escape, japanese-army
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, War,
Taglines: HIS PEAK OF ADVENTURE! (original print ad - all caps) ADVENTURE! ...With the sky as its canopy and Burma's "Purple Hell" as its arena!

Spring Song (1946)

Actors: David Horne (actor), Finlay Currie (actor), Montgomery Tully (director), Lois Maxwell (actress), Charles Paton (actor), Montgomery Tully (writer), Hans May (composer), Howard Douglas (actor), George Carney (actor), Alan Wheatley (actor), David Keir (actor), Maire O'Neill (actress), James Seymour (writer), John Serret (actor), Peter Graves (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Butch Minds the Baby (1942)

Actors: Fuzzy Knight (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Cliff Clark (actor), Broderick Crawford (actor), Dick Foran (actor), Eddie Foster (actor), Jack Gardner (actor), Henry Hall (actor), Porter Hall (actor), Russell Hicks (actor), Shemp Howard (actor), Eddie Kane (actor), Tom Kennedy (actor), Joe King (actor), Richard Lane (actor),

Plot: The Broadway citizen Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan is known far and wide to be involved with criminal activities. Butch is motivated to pursue a life of crime in order to provide the lovely widow Susie O'Neill with the funds to support herself and her little son. Butch is the lookout for a gang of safe crackers. One of them is forced to bring his squalling baby son along with him on the job. Butch is obliged to mind the baby while the safe is being knocked over.

Keywords: character-name-in-title
Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: Hard-Boiled Yeggs with Soft-Boiled Hearts!

The Emperor Jones (1933)

Actors: Eugene O'Neill (writer), William C. de Mille (miscellaneous crew), Grant Whytock (editor), Harold Nicholas (actor), Dudley Digges (actor), Dudley Murphy (director), Rex Ingram (actor), Paul Robeson (actor), Billie Holiday (actress), Frank Tours (composer), Moms Mabley (actress), Lorenzo Tucker (actor), Fredi Washington (actress), DuBose Heyward (writer), DuBose Heyward (writer),

Plot: At a Baptist prayer meeting, the preacher leads a prayer for Brutus Jones, who is leaving to become a railway porter. Jones joins the congregation in a spiritual. Once on the train, Jeff, a porter, shows Jones the ropes. Jones secretly takes up with Jeff's girl, Undine. He makes some money in a deal with a rich businessman on the train. Jones proves to be a cunning manipulator and a good liar. In a crap game, Jones stabs Jeff over a pair of loaded dice. Now doing hard labour, Jones kills a white prison guard and escapes. Shovelling coal on a ship in the Caribbean, Jones swims to an island. He is brought before the island's ruler, where Smithers, a crooked white trader, buys his freedom. Jones schemes his way into a partnership in Smithers' business, then finally control of the entire island through a touch of witchcraft, or so it seems. Brutus declares himself to be The Emperor Jones... Smithers reports on the unrest that Jones' rule is causing. One morning, the palace is empty of servants. As rebel drums beat, Jones flees into the forest where he is haunted by visions from his past...

Keywords: african-american, based-on-play, black-stereotype, bullet, caribbean, chain-gang, character-name-in-title, church, dancing, dice-game
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Brutus Jones: [With bravado] It takes a silver bullet to kill Brutus Jones.

Brutus Jones: Ain't talking big what makes a man big, s'long as he makes folks believe it?

Brutus Jones: They's some things I don't got to be told. I can see 'em in folks' eyes.

Smithers: [Jones prepares to escape into the jungle] Give my regards to any ghosts yer 'appen to meet!::Brutus Jones: [pause] If dat ghost have money, I tells him never to haunt you lessen he wants to lose it!

Scandal for Sale (1932)

Actors: Charles Bickford (actor), Harry Beresford (actor), William Burress (actor), Berton Churchill (actor), Walter Brennan (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Edward Earle (actor), Robert Ellis (actor), Jim Farley (actor), Francis Ford (actor), Pat Harmon (actor), William B. Davidson (actor), Russell Hopton (actor), Alfred P. James (actor), Sydney Jarvis (actor),

Genres: Drama,

77 rue Chalgrin (1931)

Actors: Jean Murat (actor), Michael Powell (writer), Victor Vina (actor), Léon Bary (actor), Pierre Nay (actor), Suzy Pierson (actress), Max Lerel (actor), Walter C. Hackett (writer), Albert de Courville (director), Marc Dantzer (actor), Raymond Destac (actor), Lucette Desmoulins (actress), Paul Menant (actor), Robert Cuperly (actor),

Genres: Mystery,

Edged Tools (1917)

Actors: William Conklin (actor), Gayne Whitman (actor), Forrest Halsey (writer), Doris Schroeder (writer), Rollin S. Sturgeon (director), Edward Peil Sr. (actor), Frederick Vroom (actor), Gail Kane (actress), Mary Wise (actress), Charles P. Kellogg (actor), Jane Pascal (actress),

Genres: Drama,