The Search for Simon (2013)

Actors: Martin Gooch (writer), Chase Masterson (actress), Martin Gooch (director), Martin Gooch (miscellaneous crew), Martin Gooch (writer), Martin Gooch (editor), Carol Cleveland (actress), Martin Gooch (producer), Martin Gooch (actor), Martin Gooch (writer), Simon Jones (actor), Phelim Kelly (actor), Matt Lasky (actor), Sophie Aldred (actress), Jonathan Hansler (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi,
Taglines: If you look hard enough - you can find anything...

Split Paths (2011)

Actors: Tom Metcalf (editor), Aden Evans (actor), Ginnie Breakwell (actress), Sophy Evans (actress), Georgie Homersham (actress),

Plot: An ordinary week becomes a deadly trap as a new experiment begins and everyone in the world vanishes. Jack Smith and Kate Jones are hunted down by a secret organisation whose motives are grim. As people are captured and killed, time is running out for those left behind and those who have vanished. Jack and Kate are running for their lives as the unknown forces begin to surround them.

Genres: Thriller,
Taglines: If the path from life to death is so simple... What about the other way around?

Prime Time (1986)

Actors: Ben Mendelsohn (actor), Gary Sweet (actor), Charles 'Bud' Tingwell (director), Jeremy Kewley (actor), Peter Phelps (actor), Peter Whitford (actor), Ivar Kants (actor), Terry Stapleton (writer), Terry Stapleton (producer), Peter Andrikidis (director), David Whitney (actor), Anthony Hawkins (actor), Paul Dawber (actor), Rick Maier (writer), Peter Kowitz (actor),

Genres: Drama,

The Big Sleep (1978)

Actors: Dudley Sutton (actor), Richard Todd (actor), Robert Mitchum (actor), Harry Andrews (actor), Oliver Reed (actor), James Stewart (actor), Simon Fisher-Turner (actor), Colin Blakely (actor), Edward Fox (actor), Don Henderson (actor), Richard Boone (actor), Norman Mitchell (actor), Roy Evans (actor), John Mills (actor), Candy Clark (actress),

Plot: Set in England, rather than California, the story follows Raymond Chandler's book fairly closely otherwise. Philip Marlowe is asked by the elderly (and near death) General Sternwood to investigate an attempt at blackmail on one of his daughters. He soon finds that the attempt is half hearted at best and seems to be more connected with the disappearance of the other daughter's husband, Rusty Regan. Rusty's wife, seems unconcerned with his disappearance, further complicating the mystery. Only General Sternwood seems concerned as mobsters and hired killers continue to appear in the path of the investigation.

Keywords: affair, based-on-novel, blackmail, bookstore, clerk, craziness, cynicism, degeneration, detective, ex-boyfriend
Genres: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller,
Taglines: Some days business is good - and some days it's murder! Meet Philip Marlowe, the toughest private eye whoever wore a trench coat, slapped a dame, and split his knuckles on a jawbone.

Quotes:

Philip Marlowe: What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a stagnant lake or in a marble tower on the top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was. But the old man didn't have to be. He could lie quiet in his canopied bed, with his bloodless hands folded on the sheet, waiting. His heart was a brief, uncertain murmur. His thoughts were as gray as ashes. And in a little while he too, like Rusty Regan, would be sleeping the big sleep.

Philip Marlowe: So many guns lately; so few brains.

Philip Marlowe: [of Mrs. Regan] She'd make a jazzy weekend, but she'd be a bit wearing for a steady diet.

Charlotte Sternwood: [when Marlowe declines to blackmail her] Wha-? You don't want money?::Philip Marlowe: Oh sure. All I itch for is money. I'm so greedy that for fifty pounds a day plus expenses on the day I work, I risk my future, the hatred of the cops, of Eddie Mars and his pals, I dodge bullets and put up with slaps and say "Thank you very much. If you have any further trouble please call me: I'll just put my card here on the table." I do all that for a few pounds. And maybe just a little bit to protect what little pride a sick and broken old man has in his family, so that he can believe his blood is not poisoned. That his little girls - though they may be a trifle wild - are not perverts and killers.

Philip Marlowe: Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!

Helter Skelter (1976)

Actors: Read Morgan (actor), Richard Venture (actor), Ralph Montgomery (actor), Roy Jenson (actor), Alan Oppenheimer (actor), Steve Railsback (actor), Linden Chiles (actor), Bruce French (actor), Robert Ito (actor), David Clennon (actor), Jon Gries (actor), George DiCenzo (actor), Robert F. Hoy (actor), Lee Rich (producer), Eileen Dietz (actress),

Plot: Chilling story of the investigation and trial of Charles Manson, leader of a strange cult which under his direction and 'control' committed numerous murders.

Keywords: 1960s, 1970s, attorney, based-on-book, capital-punishment, charles-manson, commune, counter-culture, courtroom, cult
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller,

Quotes:

Charlie: It ain't nice to snitch, Shorty.

Charles Manson: "You beat a man with a whip... and he likes the whip... (laughs) you're just makin' a fool of yourself!"

Housekeeper: MURDER! MURDER! MURDER!

Dist. Atty. Vincent Bugliosi: [narrating] It was so quiet, one of the killers would later say, you could almost hear the sound of ice rattling in cocktail shakers in the homes way down the canyon.

Dist. Atty. Vincent Bugliosi: Are you always this happy?::Cindy Jane Orelia: Uh-huh.::Dist. Atty. Vincent Bugliosi: What's the secret?::Lisa Armbruster: We found the truth.::Dist. Atty. Vincent Bugliosi: What's the truth?::Lisa Armbruster: Charlie is love.

Dist. Atty. Vincent Bugliosi: Good Evening, you're about to see a dramatization based on actual facts. We may not like to accept the fact that those in the story of Helter Skelter exist in our lives. Yet, they do. And while they do we can not say that the story of Helter Skelter has ended.

Prison Inmate: What's your name?::Susan Atkins: Sadie. Sexy Sadie.

Dist. Atty. Vincent Bugliosi: Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, Sharon Tate... Jay Sebring... Voytek Frykowski... Abigail Folger... Steven Parent... Leno LaBianca... and Rosemary LaBianca are not here with us right now in this courtroom. But from their graves, they cry out for justice! And justice can only be served by you returning to this courtroom with a verdict of guilty.

Dist. Atty. Vincent Bugliosi: Boots is no longer with us.::Danny DeCarlo: What do you mean, Boots is no longer with us?::Dist. Atty. Vincent Bugliosi: He's among the dead. He shot himself the other night, playing Russian Roulette.::Danny DeCarlo: Oh, terrific. Who was with him?::Dist. Atty. Vincent Bugliosi: Cisco Budge.::Danny DeCarlo: Cisco Budge. That's it. I ain't talking no more. I'm riding out of here on the wind, mister.::Dist. Atty. Vincent Bugliosi: There are a couple of warrants outstanding against you, Danny. I don't think you'd feel very safe in prison. That's where Charlie is.::Danny DeCarlo: [slight pause] That sure is cold, man.

Strange Bedfellows (1965)

Actors: Melvin Frank (producer), Melvin Frank (writer), Gig Young (actor), Henry Corden (actor), Melvin Frank (writer), Terry-Thomas (actor), Gina Lollobrigida (actress), Arthur Gould-Porter (actor), John Alderson (actor), Rock Hudson (actor), Les Tremayne (actor), Norman Panama (producer), Frederick Worlock (actor), Michael Pertwee (writer), Norman Panama (writer),

Plot: In London, stuffy statesman Carter Harrison meets Toni, a Bohemian artist with a hot Italian temper. The two impulsively marry and then find that they disagree on everything. Shortly afterward they separate. We then meet them five years later on the eve before their divorce becomes final. After seeing each other again, sparks are reignited and they spend the night together. Reality sets in when morning comes and they begin arguing again. Once again, divorce proceedings are on, until Carter that an important promotion hinges on whether he's married. He schemes to win back Toni and eventually succeeds. But can he keep her from destroying his career by posing as Lady Godiva in a protest movement?

Keywords: london-england
Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: It's Rock's Most Riotous Love Bout! It's Love Italian Style...With a Hilarious American Twist! They love to fight... but not at night!

The Guiding Light (1952)

Actors: Thomas Gibson (actor), Michael Higgins (actor), Taye Diggs (actor), Peter Gallagher (actor), Victor Garber (actor), Dana Elcar (actor), Philip Bosco (actor), Jack Betts (actor), Gregory Burke (actor), Keir Dullea (actor), Giancarlo Esposito (actor), Ed Begley (actor), Joseph Campanella (actor), Graham Jarvis (actor), Barnard Hughes (actor),

Plot: Guiding Light takes place in the fictional Midwestern town of Springfield. In its early years the stories centered on the middle class Bauer family, but later the wealthy Spauldings, Chamberlains, and Lewises, along with the working class Reardons and others, took their own places of prominence, though the Bauers remained the heart of the show.

Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 20th-century, 21st-century, based-on-radio-show, fictional-city
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: Life happens here.

Quotes:

[Harley brings take-out food to Gus while he's at work at Spaulding]::Gus: Thank you. My favorite kind of food - the kind that sweats in the bag before you open it.

[Later, the two of them discuss their day]::Harley: Did you buy or seel any small countries today?::Gus: No, that's tomorrow at 4.

[Blake explains why she thinks Gus is already investigating the missing persons case that Harley's Angels is handling]::Harley: Great. Then we'll be on the same track.::Blake: No. You'll be on separate, parallel tracks.::Harley: Is this some sort of, 'If train A is going somewhere and train B . . .'

Rick: I'm pregnant! I'm pregnant! Well, I'm not. My wife is. I'm just overweight.

Alan: Alexandra, you look like you've been frightened badly.::Buzz: You look radiant.::Alex: Thank you. I was out taking a ride on Buzz's sow.::Buzz: Hog.::Alex: Whatever.

Harley: Susan, I don't know whether to hug you or strangle you.::Susan Lemay #2: Kill me, I'd feel better.

Dinah: Do you know how sick and twisted I am? I'd just like to explain it to you. I have played Princess Cassie for so long that I actually started to believe I was her. That everything she had should be mine. And at the same time, I hated her for taking everything, everything that should be mine in my dream. So being her and hating her is what my life has become. That's who I am. And I didn't see that until last night. And I am nothing without Cassie.::Bill: Stop it. Listen to me. Listen to me. That's the whiskey talking. That is not you.::Dinah: No. It is.::Bill: No, it isn't.::Dinah: Bill, I saw it in your eyes and I saw it in Daddy's eyes when you guys did not care, you were very excited to pack me off to Italy, so you could keep me away from Cassie and she could go on with her life.::Bill: You know what? This is what it's all about. It's you getting a fresh start. That's what you need. That's all you need, Dinah.::Dinah: She has everything that I have ever wanted, and I have needed that to stay alive.

Edmund: Dinah, why are you stalking me?::Edmund: Stalking you? [laughs] Okay, so obviously I am not the only one that is hitting the bourbon so early in the morning.

Dinah: Well, don't you want to hear my tale of woe?::Edmund: Dinah, I don't have time to hear it right now.::Dinah: Oh, okay. Well, just kick me to the kerb, like everybody else has. It's cool.::Edmund: Look, Dinah, I've been where you are, wanting to live someone else's life, willing to do just about anything to have it. It's no good. It doesn't work. My obsession with my brother Richard cost me everything I cared about. I hate to see you make the same mistake.::Dinah: My whole life's been a mistake, Eddie.::Edmund: It's not a mistake, Dinah. Take it from someone who's been there. Your life hasn't even begun yet.

[confronting Harley about her goodbye letter to him]::Gus: Oh, so this is nice. This is like a "Dear John" letter. You're going to kiss me off with a letter?::Harley: I couldn't figure out any other way to do this.::Gus: You make the decision without me, you don't even consult me, and this is what you want to do?::Harley: Well, you said you weren't going to be in court today. So...::Gus: Yeah, I'm not going to court. I'm not going to stand there and watch you throw your life away.::Harley: That's fine, but I'm still going through with this. Ten years. Ten. I mean, even with time off with good behavior, that's a really long time. So my life will be in the state pen and yours will be here. That's the reality.::Gus: I don't really have a reality without you in my life, okay? So if they send you to Vailsburg, I'll just buy the house next door to prison.::Harley: No.::Gus: If they send you out of state, I'll just... I'll hit the road. I'll be the first one in, the last one out every single visiting day. You can count on it.::Harley: That is not...::Gus: In fact, I'll get a job. I'll get a job...::Harley: ... a life for you. You deserve more than that, Gus.::Gus: I'm not walking out of your life.::Harley: Well, you have to! Okay? You have to. Because I can't live with anything else. None of this is the way it's supposed to be, okay? None of this is the way I wanted it. Starting with Phillip. But he's dead, okay? And now we are, too. And I've got to go.::Gus: Wait a second. Just wait a second.::Harley: You know what? I don't want to be late for court. And this is the part you said you couldn't watch. So don't.

The Big Sleep (1946)

Actors: Max Barwyn (actor), Trevor Bardette (actor), Charles D. Brown (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), Elisha Cook Jr. (actor), Humphrey Bogart (actor), Jay Eaton (actor), Tom Fadden (actor), James Flavin (actor), Louis Jean Heydt (actor), Shep Houghton (actor), Thomas E. Jackson (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), Forbes Murray (actor), Jack Perry (actor),

Plot: Summoned by the dying General Sternwood, Philip Marlowe is asked to deal with several problems that are troubling his family. Marlowe finds that each problem centers about the disappearance of Sternwood's favoured employee who has left with a mobster's wife. Each of the problems becomes a cover for something else as Marlowe probes.

Keywords: assault, based-on-novel, bead-curtain, beating, beret, betrayal, blackmail, book, book-seller, bookstore
Genres: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: The type of man she hated . . . was the type she wanted ! TEEMING WITH STAR-TEAM EXCITEMENT! (re-release print ad - all caps) It's terrific! It's a smash! The Violence-Screen's All-Time Rocker-Shocker! The picture they were born for!

Quotes:

Philip Marlowe: [speaking into the phone] Bernie? This is Marlowe. I got some more red points for you.::Chief Inspector Bernie Ohls: Who is it this time?

Carmen Sternwood: You're not very tall are you?::Philip Marlowe: Well, I, uh, I try to be.

Eddie Mars: Convenient, the door being open when you didn't have a key, eh?::Philip Marlowe: Yeah, wasn't it. By the way, how'd you happen to have one?::Eddie Mars: Is that any of your business?::Philip Marlowe: I could make it my business.::Eddie Mars: I could make your business mine.::Philip Marlowe: Oh, you wouldn't like it. The pay's too small.

General Sternwood: Do you like orchids?::Philip Marlowe: Not particularly.::General Sternwood: Ugh. Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, and their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.

Philip Marlowe: Oh, Eddie, you don't have anybody watching me, do you? Tailing me in a gray Plymouth coupe, maybe?::Eddie Mars: No, why should I?::Philip Marlowe: Well, I can't imagine, unless you're worried about where I am all the time.::Eddie Mars: I don't like you that well.

Vivian: How did you find her?::Marlowe: I didn't find her.::Vivian: Well then how did you-...::Marlowe: I haven't been here, you haven't seen me, and she hasn't been out of the house all evening.

Vivian: So you do get up, I was beginning to think you worked in bed like Marcel Proust.::Marlowe: Who's he?::Vivian: You wouldn't know him, a French writer.::Marlowe: Come into my boudoir.

Vivian: Speaking of horses, I like to play them myself. But I like to see them workout a little first, see if they're front runners or comefrom behind, find out what their whole card is, what makes them run.::Marlowe: Find out mine?::Vivian: I think so.::Marlowe: Go ahead.::Vivian: I'd say you don't like to be rated. You like to get out in front, open up a little lead, take a little breather in the backstretch, and then come home free.::Marlowe: You don't like to be rated yourself.::Vivian: I haven't met anyone yet that can do it. Any suggestions?::Marlowe: Well, I can't tell till I've seen you over a distance of ground. You've got a touch of class, but I don't know how, how far you can go.::Vivian: A lot depends on who's in the saddle.

Vivian: You go too far, Marlowe.::Marlowe: Those are harsh words to throw at a man, especially when he's walking out of your bedroom.

Marlowe: You know what he'll do when he comes back? Beat my teeth out, then kick me in the stomach for mumbling.

Beware (1946)

Actors: Bud Pollard (producer), Bud Pollard (editor), Bud Pollard (director), William 'Wee Willie' Davis (actor), Louis Jordan (actor), Frank L. Wilson (actor), Emory Richardson (actor), Milton Woods (actor), John E. Gordon (writer), Aaron Izenhall (actor), Valerie Black (actress), Walter Earle (actor), Dimples Daniels (actress), John Frant (actor), Joseph Hiliard (actor),

Plot: Ware College is a small Black college in Ware, Ohio. Once prominent, it is now low in attendance, low in enrollment and low on money; and at a meeting with instructors Drury and Annabelle Brown, Dean Hargreaves reveals that CEO Benjamin Ware III, grandson of the college's founder, claims the estate of his late grandfather is now also destitute, which they believe is untrue and a result of Annabelle's having spurned his affections. They decide to appeal to their famous alumni for financial help thru a reunion, and invitations are sent. Many could help; but surely not Lucius Jordan, a timid lad who loved Annabelle too but dropped out under pressure from Ware. What they don't know is, he's now Louis Jordan, king of swing and leader of the Tympani Band. By accident, Jordan and his band's train is sidelined in Ware for repairs and when he learns of the college's plight, he agrees to pitch in. Though the stuffy faculty are unaware of his reputation, the kids are, and class attendance soars with Jordan's presence in the classroom. Flames of romance with Annabelle are rekindled. But things start looking bleak: other alumni are all declining to help, and Ware has found out about the fundraising scheme and orders the Dean to resign immediately... The plot serves as a structure for about a dozen swing numbers by Jordan's group, with dancing by the Aristo-Genes Girls' Club.

Keywords: african-american, all-black-cast, america, b-movie, bandleader, black-heroine, blues, campus, classroom, college
Genres: Musical, Romance,
Taglines: Here Comes That Laughin', Lovin', Jumpin' and Jivin' MAESTRO WITH A BEAT! (original poster) Starring in his first feature-length, ALL COLORED, fun-packed musical screen show! (original poster) Look UP! Look OUT! Look SWEET! - The Maestro With A Beat!

The Hidden Master (1940)

Actors: Albert Akst (editor), Louis Jean Heydt (actor), John Nesbitt (actor), Sammy Lee (director), Peter Cushing (actor), Emmett Vogan (actor), Dorothy Granger (actress), John Nesbitt (producer), Daniele Amfitheatrof (composer), David Snell (composer), Doane R. Hoag (writer), Richard Nichols (actor),

Plot: This telling of life's passing parade focuses on the theme of luck as told in three true stories. In the first story which takes place in 1744, a young man working for the British East India Company is depressed about his lot with the company. He is stuck with a clerical job, rather than be assigned to military action as he had wanted. He contemplates suicide. If he is successful, he would miss the opportunity to do for the company what he wanted. Luck intervening in what would end up being those failed suicide attempts would lead to a great military life. In the second story, Dr. Wilhelm Röntgen, on November 8, 1895, is working in his lab when an old piece of chemical cardboard on his shelf falls next to an illuminated Leonard vacuum tube. This several million to one accident would lead to one of the most important discoveries within medical history. In the final story, average joe Harry Jones feels that he doesn't get any breaks in life. A wrong number telephone call he receives in the middle of the night may be on the surface considered a continuation of that bad luck, but it alerts him to a menace far greater that probably would have killed him and his family otherwise.

Keywords: john-nesbitt's-passing-parade, narration
Genres: Short,