A Hobo's Christmas (1987)

Actors: Barnard Hughes (actor), Wendy Crewson (actress), Mark Snow (composer), William Hickey (actor), Michael Flynn (actor), Gerald McRaney (actor), Corky Ehlers (editor), Lee Weaver (actor), Michael Ruud (actor), Donré Sampson (actor), Will Mackenzie (director), Curley Green (actor), Paul Freeman (producer), Sandy Dvore (miscellaneous crew), Helen Stenborg (actress),

Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Chance (Hobo): Courtesy pays big dividends and doesn't cost a penny.

Puss in Boots (1982)

Actors: Stephen Polk (actor), Anthony Johnson (actor), David Campbell (actor), John Driver (director), Oliver Osterberg (actor), Oliver Osterberg (actor), Oliver Osterberg (actor), Jonathan Stathakis (producer), Kim Landry (actress), John Clark Donahue (director), Tom Dunn (actor), Jerome Wallin (actor), Julee Cruise (actress), Jason McLean (actor), Scott Anderson (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Musical,

Quotes:

[last lines]::Mayor Daugette: She's barefoot!

[repeated line]::Beauregard Cazeau: There is no Marquis!

[Magnolia is trying to pronounce merci beaucoup]::Magnolia Daugette: Mercy buck up.

Murlis Boozer: Say, I didn't know cats could sing.::Puss: Betcha never asked 'em. Ain't ya got no curiosity?::Murlis Boozer: Yeah, I heard that killed a relative of yours!::Puss: Lies and slander! Lies and slander!

The Cincinnati Kid (1965)

Actors: Christopher Riordan (actor), Steve McQueen (actor), Burt Mustin (actor), Gene Coogan (actor), Robert DoQui (actor), William Challee (actor), Gregg Martell (actor), Cab Calloway (actor), Jeff Corey (actor), Karl Malden (actor), John Hart (actor), Harry Hines (actor), John Indrisano (actor), Colin Kenny (actor), Edward G. Robinson (actor),

Plot: In 1930s New Orleans, the Cincinnati Kid, a young stud poker player who travels from one big game to the next, stopping along the way up with various girls, is pitted against the legendary champion card-sharp Lancey Howard in a high-stakes poker game.

Keywords: 1930s, adultery, apple, based-on-novel, bathtub, beer, betting, billiards, blackmail, blues-club
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: A RAMBLING - GAMBLING MAN ... ! ! HIGH FURY AND GNAWING FEAR!! He'd take on anyone, at anything, anytime ....it was only a matter of who came first!

Quotes:

[Slade blackmails Shooter into cheating on his dealing so the Kid will beat Howard]::Shooter: Hey, why are you doing this? It can't be for money.::Slade: Yes, for my kind of money, gut money. I wanta to see that smug old bastard gutted. Gutted!::Shooter: Like he gutted you.::Slade: Yes, that's right, that's right!

Lancey Howard: [to Cincinnati Kid] You're good, kid, but as long as I'm around, you're only second best.

[Shooter's wife Melba is altering a jigsaw puzzle piece with a nail file]::Shooter: Melba, why do you do that?::Melba: So it'll fit, stupid.::Shooter: No, I'm not talking about that. What I'm asking is... do you, uh, have to cheat at everything?::Melba: At everything?::Shooter: Yes. At... solitaire. I've yet to see you play one game of solitaire without cheating.::Melba: So what?::Shooter: Look, you're just cheating yourself, don't you understand? You'll be the loser, no one else but yourself!... You've ruined the puzzle, now, that doesn't go in there.::[She forces the altered piece into place]::Melba: Does now.

Lancey Howard: Gets down to what it's all about, doesn't it? Making the wrong move at the right time.::Cincinnati Kid: Is that what it's all about?::Lancey Howard: Like life, I guess. You're good, kid, but as long as I'm around you're second best. You might as well learn to live with it.

Cincinnati Kid: Listen, Christian, after the game, I'll be The Man. I'll be the best there is. People will sit down at the table with you, just so they can say they played with The Man. And that's what I'm gonna be, Christian.::Christian: I know.

Cincinnati Kid: You call that an argument?::Slade: No, that's a fact. The argument's leaning over there against the door jamb.::[Referring to his muscleman]

Slade: How the hell did you know I didn't have the king or the ace?::Lancey Howard: I recollect a young man putting the same question to Eddie the Dude. "Son," Eddie told him, "all you paid was the looking price. Lessons are extra."

Slade: Six stacks, is that right, Shooter?::Shooter: Six.::Slade: Well, we've been playing 30 hours... uh, that rate, six thousand, that makes roughly, uh, $200 an hour. Thank you for the entertainment, gentlemen. I am particularly grateful to Lancey, here; it's been a rewarding experience to watch a great artist at work. Thank you for the privilege, sir.::Lancey Howard: Well now, you're quite welcome, son. It's a pleasure to meet someone who understands that to the true gambler, money is never an end in itself, it's simply a tool, as a language is to thought. Good evening, uh... Mr. Slade.::Slade: Good evening, Mr. Howard.

Lady Fingers: How you holdin' up, Lancey?::Lancey Howard: Lady Fingers, that young man is a stud poker playing son of a...::Lady Fingers: He's gettin' to you, ain't he?::Lancey Howard: No, Lady, he hasn't gotten to me.

Lancey Howard: [thinking on what he said to Lady Fingers] No, Lady; he hasn't gotten to me. Not yet; but he might, he just might.

The Mystery of the Riverboat (1944)

Actors: Ray Bennett (actor), Jack Cheatham (actor), Jack Clifford (actor), Budd Buster (actor), Alec Craig (actor), Dick Curtis (actor), Joe Devlin (actor), Jimmie Dodd (actor), Clancy Cooper (actor), Charles Evans (actor), Byron Foulger (actor), Al Hill (actor), Earle Hodgins (actor), Arthur Hohl (actor), Charles Jordan (actor),

Plot: "The Mystery of the Riverboat" while ending each chapter with a cliffhanger is more episodic in nature than the usual Universal serial and somewhat similar to Universal's 1934 "Tailspin Tommy" in that aspect as some plot lines are completed as a story within the overall story. Plus, while some serials often contained a title song or motif throughout, this one has six songs scattered around and about performed by either Marion Martin - and we have no idea if she was dubbed or did her own warbling - and former Three Mesquiteer and future head Mouseketeer Jimmie Dodd, who did his own. The overly-plotted (for juvenile Saturday matinée audiences to keep up with over a period of 13 weeks) story finds three Louisiana families, the Langtrys, Perrins and Duvals, as co-owners of swamp land in the Louisiana bayou country. Unaware that the property contains rich "nitrolene" deposits, they are considering an offer from speculator Herman Einreich, who is well aware of the secret, having killed the scientist who discovered it and stolen his geological maps and notes. He boards a river boat, "The Morning Glory", heading for Duval's Landing. Others on the boat are the skipper, Captain Ethan Perrin, his daughter Jenny; Steve Langtry; Rudolph Toller; Bruno Bloch and Louis Shaber who represent a foreign faction also interested in the land; and a bearded man named Clayton, who is really the disinherited renegade son of the Duvals, Paul Duval, who thinks his brother Jean has cheated him out of his share of the Duval estate and going home to get even. With the aid of Batiste, "Clayton" murders Einreich, steals his maps and almost kills Steve and Jenny, who are saved by Napoleon, ship steward and Steve's friend. The Toller gang, assisted by ship entertainer Celeste Eltree, and headed by Rudolph Toller, pin Einreich's murder on Steve, who heads for the swamps at the end of chapter six, where he encounters some hostile Cajuns in Chapter 7, and ends up in a jail that ends up floating down the river when the levee breaks. But there are still six chapters to go, with lots of plot left, including chapter 12, where Steve, in a twist from the usual serial hero, manages to blow himself up as opposed to the villains doing it for him.

Keywords: explosion, lawyer, levee, louisiana, mississippi-river, murder, new-orleans-louisiana, porter, quicksand, riverboat
Genres: Action, Adventure,