Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder - The Case of the Earl of Erroll (2005)

Actors: Julian Fellowes (writer), David Calder (actor), Julian Fellowes (actor), John Warnaby (actor), David Weston (actor), William Scott-Masson (actor), David Griffin (actor), Josephine Butler (actress), Vivianne Royal (miscellaneous crew), Bryan Oates (editor), Sara Hamill (producer), Clare Alan (producer), Natalie Rogers (miscellaneous crew), Delyth Thomas (director), Elliot Jenkins (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: In the early morning hours of January 24, 1941 Joss Erroll, the 22nd Earl of Erroll, was shot through the head while his car was parked on a road just outside of Nairobi, Kenya. Erroll was known as a ladies man and he had for some time been having an affair with Diana Broughton, the young wife of Sir Jock Broughton. Their affair had become quite well known and Broughton had apparently accepted the situation having announced that he was leaving for Ceylon. After the killing, Broughton was tried and acquitted of the murder. In this dramatic re-creation of the events leading up to the shooting, Julian Fellowes adds commentary and context to the events. He identifies the killer and states that he knows for a fact this is correct as it is based on information provided to him by an impeccable source (which he will not name).

Keywords: 1940s, acquitted-of-murder, adultery, africa, anonymous-letter, aristocracy, aristocrat, bare-breasts, birthday-cake, birthday-candle
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery,

Quotes:

Himself - Presenter: The story had everything: high class, low morals.

Himself - Presenter: Gladys Delamere was almost unique in Kenya at that time in that she was not one of Erroll's mistresses, but oh, how she'd wished she'd been.

Himself - Presenter: [Josslyn Victor Hay] had lived largely for pleasure, in its infinite variety, at the center of the Happy Valley Set; a one-man model for the waggish joke, 'Are you married? Or do you live in Kenya?'

Himself - Presenter: [Diana] wanted to spend the war in Kenya, but in those male-dominated days a single woman was never given an entry permit.

Diana Broughton: [In the bathtub, while Hugh soaps her back] God, I'm glad to be out of England.::Hugh Dickenson: It must have been terrifying.::Diana Broughton: Oh, I could manage the bombing; it was the tax on stockings that nearly finished me off.

Gladys Delamere: Why is it all men like common tarts?

The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997)

Actors: Anna Chancellor (actress), Arnon Milchan (producer), Geraldine James (actress), John Standing (actor), Richard Wilson (actor), John Thomson (actor), Eddie Marsan (actor), Maxwell Caulfield (actor), Alfred Molina (actor), Peter Gallagher (actor), Bill Murray (actor), Harry Fielder (actor), Dexter Fletcher (actor), Andrew Jack (miscellaneous crew), Christopher Young (composer),

Plot: An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot unravels around him, he thinks it's all part of the act.

Keywords: american-abroad, american-in-the-uk, assassin, banquet, based-on-novel, bomb, car-chase, crossbow, dancing, dominatrix
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller,
Taglines: He's on a mission so secret, even he doesn't know about it. A comedy of ridiculous proportions Don't overestimate him The international intelligence community is about to get a lot less intelligent.

Quotes:

Wallace: Sorry I get a little bit insensitive, but I'm a hitman!

Wallace: [Wallace is being shot at] Time out! Time out! I got something in my eye, jagoff!

Lorelei 'Lori': What are you? C.I.A., Mafia?::Wallace: Both.

Wallace: Blockbuster... Des Moines.

Wallace: Please don't call me by my real name, it destroys the reality I'm trying to create.

Lorelei 'Lori': Are you going to bring me that martini, or do I have to suck it out of the glass from here?

Hawkins: Spencer, did you flush?::Wallace: I think she's gonna do that, don't you, pal? I'll ask her. Lori!::Hawkins: [Quietly to Daggenhurst] He's talking to her!::Sir Roger Daggenhurst: She's still in the bowl?::Hawkins: Maybe he tried to flush her, but she floated back up!::Sir Roger Daggenhurst: Tell him to flush her! Spencer knows how to deal with floaters.

Wallace: Stay away from that phone! [shoots phone]

Sir Roger Daggenhurst: What are you doing with one of our communicators, Cochran?::Chief Insp. Cockburn: This man refused to provide me with any identification.::Sir Roger Daggenhurst: Of course he didn't provide you with any identification. He's a secret agent.

Wallace: [a constable asks Wallace to see his license after a high speed chase] No, you may not! But I do have this nifty communicator with which you can speak directly to my superiors.::Wallace: [On the communicator/cigarette case] Breaker, breaker, come on back to that big ol' HQ, come on back to me.::Sir Roger Daggenhurst: Who is this?::Wallace: This is Spencer.::Sir Roger Daggenhurst: So you're still using that name, are you?::Wallace: Well, I figured I would until 11:30.::Sir Roger Daggenhurst: [to his assistant] How he mocks us.

Soul of the Game (1996)

Actors: Isaiah Washington (actor), Mykelti Williamson (actor), Blair Underwood (actor), Delroy Lindo (actor), Bob Minor (actor), Richard Riehle (actor), Jerry Hardin (actor), Edward Herrmann (actor), Jeff Coopwood (actor), Cylk Cozart (actor), R. Lee Ermey (actor), Obba Babatundé (actor), Guy Boyd (actor), Salli Richardson-Whitfield (actress), Edith Fields (actress),

Plot: Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson are the greatest players in the Colored leagues, and everyone expects that one of them will make the leap to the Major Leagues, now that there is talk of integration. But, unexpectedly, it's the rookie with the army record, Jackie Robinson, that gets tapped to be the first.

Keywords: african-american, baseball, baseball-movie, birmingham-alabama, black-romance, friendship, racial
Genres: Drama, History, Sport,

The Mad Dog Gang (1983)

Actors: Ian Mune (writer), John Bach (actor), Bruno Lawrence (actor), Ian Watkin (actor), Ross Jennings (director), Eve Durning (actress), Buddy Ruruku (actor), Don Donner (actress), Ian Templeton (actor), Julie Wilson (actress), Brian Beresford (actor), David Kennelly (actor),

Genres: Adventure,

Making It (1971)

Actors: Bob Balaban (actor), David Doyle (actor), John Fiedler (actor), Joyce Van Patten (actress), John Erman (director), Charles Fox (composer), Albert S. Ruddy (producer), Lawrence Pressman (actor), Dick Van Patten (actor), Kristoffer Tabori (actor), Louise Latham (actress), Gray Frederickson (producer), Doris Grau (miscellaneous crew), Peter Bart (writer), Maxine Stuart (actress),

Genres: Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: Don't make up your mind about Phil Fuller until the very last frame of the film. "People are things. Things are to be used." That's the way it is.

Freud (1962)

Actors: Eric Portman (actor), Rosalie Crutchley (actress), Manfred Andrae (actor), Charles Regnier (actor), Larry Parks (actor), Friedrich von Ledebur (actor), Fernand Ledoux (actor), Paul Frees (actor), Ferdy Mayne (actor), Max Haufler (actor), Allan Cuthbertson (actor), David McCallum (actor), John Huston (actor), Maria Perschy (actress), Leonard Sachs (actor),

Plot: This pseudo-biographical movie depicts 5 years from 1885 on in the life of the Viennan psychologist Freud (1856-1939). At this time, most of his colleagues refuse to cure hysteric patients, because they believe they're just simulating to gain attention. But Freud learns to use hypnosis to find out the reasons for the psychosis. His main patient is a young woman who refuses to drink water and is plagued by always the same nightmare.

Keywords: character-name-in-title, one-word-title, psychoanalysis, sigmund-freud
Genres: Biography, Drama,

Quotes:

Narrator: Since ancient times there have been three great changes in man's idea of himself. Three major blows dealt us in our vanity. Before Copernicus, we thought we were the centre of the universe, that all the heavenly bodies revolved around our Earth. But the great astronomer shattered that conceit and we were forced to admit our planet is but one of many which swing around the sun, that there are other systems beyond our solar system in myriad worlds. Before Charles Darwin man believed he was a species unto himself separate and apart from the animal kingdom. But the great biologist made us see that our physical organism is the product of a vast evolutionary process whose laws are no different from us than for any other form of animal life. Before Sigmund Freud, man believed that what he said and did were the products of his conscious will alone. But the great psychologist demonstrate the existence of another part of our mind, which functions in darkest secrecy and can even rule our lives. This is the story of Freud's descent into a region almost as black as hell itself: Man's unconscious, and how he let in the light.

Uneasy Terms (1948)

Actors: Paul Carpenter (actor), Sydney Tafler (actor), Tony Quinn (actor), Vernon Sewell (director), Michael Rennie (actor), Hans May (composer), Nigel Patrick (actor), Terence de Marney (actor), Barry Jones (actor), Faith Brook (actress), Clifford Buckton (actor), Alex Bernard (actor), Moira Lister (actress), J.H. Roberts (actor), John Robinson (actor),

Genres: Thriller,

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Actors: Russ Clark (actor), Harry Cording (actor), Cliff Clark (actor), Erville Alderson (actor), Charles D. Brown (actor), John Carradine (actor), Trevor Bardette (actor), John Arledge (actor), Ward Bond (actor), Joe Bordeaux (actor), Arthur Aylesworth (actor), Wally Albright (actor), George P. Breakston (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Jim Corey (actor),

Plot: Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncles farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.

Keywords: 1930s, american-literature, based-on-novel, bearing-witness, brother-brother-relationship, brother-sister-relationship, burial, cabin, california, california-history
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: The thousands who have read the book will know why WE WILL NOT SELL ANY CHILDREN TICKETS to see this picture! The Joads step right out of the pages of the novel that has shocked millions ! The most discussed book in years - now comes to the screen to become the most discussed picture in ages

Quotes:

Tom Joad: Takes no nerve to do something, ain't nothin' else you can do.

Tom Joad: Sure don't look none too prosperous.

Grandpa Joad: It's my dirt! Eh-heh! No good, but it's - it's mine, all mine.

Tom Joad: Seems like the government's got more interest in a dead man than a live one.

Casy: I wouldn't pray just for a old man that's dead, 'cause he's all right. If I was to pray, I'd pray for folks that's alive and don't know which way to turn.

Ma Joad: There, gramma! There's California.::Grandma Joad: Phbbtt!

Gasoline Attendant: You and me got sense. Them Okies got no sense and no feeling. They ain't human. Human being wouldn't live the way they do. Human being couldn't stand to be so miserable.

Tom Joad: If there was a law, they was workin' with maybe we could take it, but it ain't the law. They're workin' away our spirits, tryin' to make us cringe and crawl, takin' away our decency.

Casy: Tom, you gotta learn like I'm learnin'. I don't know it right yet myself. That's why I can't ever be a preacher again. Preachers gotta know. I don't know. I gotta ask.

Tom Joad: That Casy. He might have been a preacher but he seen things clear. He was like a lantern. He helped me to see things clear.

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940)

Actors: Don Beddoe (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Harlan Briggs (actor), James Burke (actor), Leo G. Carroll (actor), Cliff Clark (actor), John Dilson (actor), Sherry Hall (actor), J. Anthony Hughes (actor), Richard Keene (actor), Robert Lowery (actor), Paul McVey (actor), Charles Middleton (actor), Walter Miller (actor), Lionel Atwill (actor),

Plot: On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a Scotland Yard friend.

Keywords: 30-pieces-of-silver, aphorism, archeologist, asian-comedian, asian-detective, asian-hero, character-name-in-title, chinese-hero, cruise-ship, detective-series
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: Along the moonlit decks of a gay luxury liner a pair of happy lovers stroll... and so does... THE DEADLIEST KILLER ON THE HIGH SEAS! CHAN'S BEST FRIEND MURDERED!... and clutched in his fingers... thirty pieces of silver!

Quotes:

Charlie Chan: Truth, like oil, will in time rise to surface.

Charlie Chan: Better a father lose his son than a detective his memory.

Charlie Chan: To speak without thinking is to shoot without aiming.

Charlie Chan: Elusive offspring, like privacy, sometimes hard to find.

Charlie Chan: Young man's explanation, like skin of sensitive woman, very thin.

Dick Kenyon: That's fantastic! My uncle never hurt anybody in his life. He didn't have an enemy in the world.::Wilkie: Well, it certainly wasn't a friend who came in here and killed him.

Charlie Chan: When Chinese Emperor have eight suspects of murder, he solve problem very quickly.::Prof. Gordon: Really? How?::Charlie Chan: Chop off eight heads. Always sure getting one criminal.

Charlie Chan: In darkness, sometimes difficult to distinguish hawk from vulture.

Charlie Chan: Life has been risked for jewels far less valuable than friendship.

Charlie Chan: Sometimes quickest way to brain of young sprout is by impression on other end.

No Limit (1931)

Actors: Mischa Auer (actor), Maurice Black (actor), Allan Cavan (actor), G. Pat Collins (actor), William B. Davidson (actor), Kenne Duncan (actor), Stuart Erwin (actor), Norman Foster (actor), Lee Phelps (actor), Syd Saylor (actor), Clara Bow (actress), Thelma Todd (actress), B.P. Schulberg (producer), George Marion Jr. (writer), Frank Tuttle (director),

Genres: Comedy, Drama,