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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)

Actors: Noble Willingham (actor), Sean Young (actress), Bill Zuckert (actor), Alice Drummond (actress), David Margulies (actor), Courteney Cox (actress), Raynor Scheine (actor), Mark Margolis (actor), Udo Kier (actor), Troy Evans (actor), Antoni Corone (actor), Jim Carrey (actor), John Capodice (actor), James G. Robinson (producer), Gary Barber (producer),

Plot: To be a Pet Detective, you have to understand both the criminals and animals. Ace Ventura goes even further... He behaves like a criminal animal. When a football team's mascot (a dolphin) is stolen just before the Superbowl, Ace Ventura is put on the case. Now, who would want to steal a dolphin, and why?

Keywords: 1990s, american-football, animal, aquarium, ass, bare-butt, bird, bodyguard, boy-dog-relationship, bra
Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: He's the best there is! (Actually, he's the only one there is.)

Quotes:

Man: Who are you?::Ace Ventura: Ace Ventura, Pet Detective. I've been sent in with a special play. Quarter back sneak

Melissa: Hi, I'm Melissa Robinson.::Ace Ventura: Pleasure to meet you.::Melissa: Did you have any trouble getting in?::Ace Ventura: No, the guy with the rubber glove was surprisingly gentle.

Ace Ventura: Be careful with that phone, Lieutenant. In time you could develop a tumour.

Dan Marino: Hey Ace?::Ace Ventura: Yeah, Dan?::Dan Marino: You got anymore of that gum?::Ace Ventura: That's none of your damn business and I'll thank you to stay out of my personal affairs.::Dan Marino: You're a weird guy, Ace. A weird guy.

Ace Ventura: If I'm not back in five minutes... just wait longer.

Mrs. Finkle: It was all that Dan Marino's fault, everyone knows that. If he had held the ball, laces out, like he was supposed to, Ray would never have missed that kick. Dan Marino should die of gonorrhea and rot in hell. Would you like a cookie, son?

Man: [aggressively] What do you want?::Ace Ventura: HDS, sir, and how are you this afternoon? All righty, then. I have a package for you.::Man: Sounds broken.::Ace Ventura: Most likely, sir. I'll bet it was something nice, though.

Ace Ventura: Excuse me, Ron, I need to use the bathroom.::[whispering loudly]::Ace Ventura: I think it's the pâté.::Ronald Camp: Sure, right over there.::Ace Ventura: Thanks! Stuff probably looks better on the way out, huh?

Ronald Camp: I'll have the plumbing checked immediately, Mr. Ace.::Ace Ventura: See that you do. If I'd been drinking out of the toilet, I might've been killed.

[Aguado stomps on a cockroach to provoke Ventura]::Aguado: Homicide, Ventura. Now how ya gonna solve that one? [everyone laughs]::Ace Ventura: Good question, Aguado. First, I'd establish a motive. In this case the killer saw the size of the bug's DICK, and became insanely jealous. [everybody "oohs"] Then I'd lose 30 pounds... porkin' his wife!::Aguado: Why you...! [Aguado charges Ace, but Ace makes him do a face-plant that ends with his face just an inch or so from the dead bug]::Ace Ventura: Now, kiss and make up.

Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (1988)

Actors: Nick Cave (writer), David Field (actor), John Flaus (actor), John Flaus (miscellaneous crew), Nick Cave (composer), Nick Cave (actor), Blixa Bargeld (composer), Mick Harvey (actor), Mick Harvey (composer), Bogdan Koca (actor), Vincent Gil (actor), Peter Lawless (actor), Mike Bishop (actor), Chris DeRose (actor), John Hillcoat (director),

Plot: The inmates and guards of a modern, clean and efficient maximum security wing are slowly and increasingly brutalised until they erupt in violence. Dark and macabre, and based in truth, the story is told in a traditional dramatic style combined with telephone interviews and narration.

Keywords: anger, australia, bare-chested-male, blood, blood-splatter, depression, drugs, ellipsis-in-title, gay-interest, hanging
Genres: Crime, Drama,

Quotes:

Maynard: Officer, come here. I wanna spit in your fucking eye!

A Walk in the Sun (1945)

Actors: John Ireland (actor), Burgess Meredith (actor), Norman Lloyd (actor), John Kellogg (actor), Alvin Hammer (actor), George Offerman Jr. (actor), Sterling Holloway (actor), Dana Andrews (actor), Richard Conte (actor), Steve Brodie (actor), Richard Benedict (actor), Lloyd Bridges (actor), Huntz Hall (actor), Matt Willis (actor), George Tyne (actor),

Plot: In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to blow up a bridge next to a fortified farmhouse, as tension and casualties mount. Unusually realistic picture of war as long quiet stretches of talk, punctuated by sharp, random bursts of violent action whose relevance to the big picture is often unknown to the soldiers.

Keywords: based-on-novel, battle-fatigue, infantry, italian-american, italy, landing-craft, mental-breakdown, patrol, reference-to-marlene-dietrich, sergeant
Genres: Drama, War,
Taglines: THEY FOUGHT BEST WHEN IT WAS HOPELESS! (print ad for reissue "Salerno Beachhead" - all caps)

Quotes:

Friedman: You ever think you'll live to make corporal?::Rivera: Baby, I just want to live long enough to make civilian.

Sergeant Tyne: It's a funny thing, how many people you meet in an army that cross your path for a few seconds and you never see 'em again.

Rivera: Nobody dies.

Sergeant Tyne: Nothing slower than crawling. Nothing in the world. How long would it take to crawl around the world? A hundred years? A thousand years?

Sergeant Tyne: Wonder what it'll be like when we hit France, Mac.::McWilliams: I don't know. I never seen France.::Sergeant Tyne: I bet its just a long concrete wall with a gun every yard. Maybe they'll set the water on fire with oil, too. Boy, when that day comes I wanna be somewhere else.

Windy: A man's hands never seem to get clean, even if he don't touch nothing. They just stay dirty. Sort of a special kind of dirt. G.I. dirt. I bet one of those criminologists could take a sample out of a guy's fingernail, put it under a microscope, and say, "That's G.I. dirt." The dirt's always the same color, no matter what country you're fighting in.

Windy: Hey, Tinker? How do you spell "Mare Nostrum?"::Tinker: What's that?::Windy: The Mediterranean. It's what the Eye-ties call it. It means "our sea."::Tinker: Why?::Windy: I'm writing to my sister.::Tinker: Whattya mean, you're writing to your sister? You're packed on a landing barge, bouncing on your Mare Nostrum, and waiting to hit the beach like the rest of us slobs.

Rivera: It could've been something else. It could've been the engineers or the tanks. It could even have been the Navy. They looked at me and said, "Here's a guy that can walk." They finished me, all right.::Friedman: Everybody walks. Even monkeys.

Friedman: Where are we going, Rivera?::Rivera: I am going someplace where I can set up this weapon. Then I am going to shoot this weapon. I am not gonna walk any more!

[Windy composes a letter while his landing craft is heading for the beachhead at Salerno under heavy fire]::Windy: Dear Frances, I am writing you this letter relaxing on the deck of a luxury liner. On shore the natives have evidently just spotted us and are getting up a reception - fireworks, music and that sort of stuff. Ha. The musicians in our own band have also struck up a little tune. Ha ha.

The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1938)

Actors: Gene Alsace (actor), Roscoe Ates (actor), Silver Tip Baker (actor), Hank Bell (actor), Monte Blue (actor), Dick Botiller (actor), Ed Brady (actor), Al Bridge (actor), Charles Brinley (actor), Bob Burns (actor), Budd Buster (actor), Horace B. Carpenter (actor), Allan Cavan (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Ernie Adams (actor),

Plot: A short plot summary finds Wild Bill Hickok ('Bill Elliott (III)' (qv)), the U.S. Marshal in Abilene, Kansas, opposing the Phantom Raiders, a gang of renegades raiding the cattle drives over the Chisholm Trail from Texas to Abilene. Hickok organizes the boys of the town into the "Flaming Arrows" to assist him. Finally, in the 15th chapter, "Trail's End", Hickok, the "Flaming Arrows" and army scout Kit Lawson ('Kermit Maynard' (qv)) combine to put an end to the Phantom Raiders.

Keywords: 1870s, abilene-kansas, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, ambush, b-movie, b-western, bar-shootout, barfly, bartender, bear-attack
Genres: Action, Western,

Cheaper to Marry (1925)

Actors: Robert Z. Leonard (director), Conrad Nagel (actor), Lewis Stone (actor), Louise Fazenda (actress), Fanny Hatton (writer), Frederic Hatton (writer), Claude Gillingwater (actor), Marguerite De La Motte (actress), Alice D.G. Miller (writer), Richard Wayne (actor), Paulette Duval (actress), Samuel Shipman (writer),

Genres: Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: He loved her---but to him a wedding ring meant bondage---and to her the silken luxuries of their Love Life were all that mattered. Too late they learned that Society is ruthless in its demands! See this revealing motion picture dramatization of the famed stage play. It will answer many vital questions for you! From the daring Broadway play by Samuel Shipman

The Stolen Treaty (1917)

Actors: Corinne Griffith (actress), Robert Gaillard (actor), Bernard Siegel (actor), Denton Vane (actor), Earle Williams (actor), Paul Scardon (director), Billie Billings (actress), Helmer Walton Bergman (writer), Jack Ellis (actor), Thomas Edgelow (writer),

Genres: Drama,