GoBots: War of the Rock Lords (1986)

Actors: Frank Welker (actor), Frank Welker (actor), Darryl Hickman (actor), Telly Savalas (actor), Michael Nouri (actor), Darryl Hickman (actor), Roddy McDowall (actor), Michael Bell (actor), Michael Bell (actor), Ike Eisenmann (actor), Michael Bell (actor), Peter Cullen (actor), Peter Cullen (actor), Frank Welker (actor), Peter Cullen (actor),

Plot: The GoBots, television's amazing transformable super heroes, star in their first full length feature film, "GoBots: War of the Rock Lords." It's wall-to-wall action and high tech fun as the heroic Guradian GoBots join the Rock Lords' battle for control of the ultimate super weapon. And they'd better hurry, because the Guardian GoBots' all-time worst enemies, the Renegades, are out to use the super weapon for their own evil purposes. War of the Rock Lords is a GoBots lover's dream come true!

Keywords: sequel, transforming-robot
Genres: Animation,
Taglines: At the edge of the universe... The adventure of a lifetime begins.

Quotes:

Leader-1: Nuggit, you're worth your weight in gold.

Cy-Kill: [meeting Magmar for the first time] Magmar, I presume?::Magmar: Your presume correctly. What are you?::Cy-Kill: I am Cy-Kill, leader of the Renegades! Surely, you've heard of me... the greatest warrior of all time, the most powerful GoBot that ever was!::Magmar: No, I've never heard of you. Now, what do you want?

Scooter: [watching Nuggit convert from rock to robot form for the first time] Would you look at that? That's amazing!::Turbo: Aw, what's so amazing about it? We do it all the time!

Turbo: I'm gonna wrap your spokes around your ugly face, Cy-Kill!::Cy-Kill: Dream on, Turbo.

Brimstone: When we've destroyed Boulder and his cohorts, Cordax is as good as ours.::Magmar: You mean *mine*, you presumptuous dirt clod!

Cy-Kill: [as Nuggit tries to escape] These stones have such gall!

Cy-Kill: [watching Solitaire struggle against her restraints] Save your strength, you cannot break free, Your Majesty. And if you did, I'd have one of my associates here turn you into costume jewelry.

Cy-Kill: I'm losing my patience! Which is Magmar?::Solitaire: Very well, I suppose it makes no difference now. [Solitaire points to Boulder] That's Magmar leading the charge.::Cy-Kill: Blast *that* rock!::Solitaire: What? No!::Crasher: I'll reduce him to sand! Ha ha ha!::Solitaire: Why attack Magmar?::Cy-Kill: Because you're not a very convincing liar. Ha ha ha ha!

Crasher: [to Solitaire upon seeing Cordax for the first time] What a primitive place. Ha ha! You can't tell the inhabitants from their surroundings. You call that a city? Huh?

Leader-1: Very good, Nuggit, you're a gem.::Nuggit: Not technically. You see, gems are quite different.::Turbo: This guy's as bad as Scooter.

Ramsbottom Rides Again (1956)

Actors: Sid James (actor), John Baxter (producer), Sam Kydd (actor), Campbell Singer (actor), John Carson (actor), Edie Martin (actress), John Baxter (writer), John Baxter (director), Marne Maitland (actor), Dennis Wyndham (actor), Deryck Guyler (actor), Arthur Askey (actor), Arthur Askey (writer), Beckett Bould (actor), Geoffrey Orme (writer),

Genres: Comedy, Western,

Riders of Death Valley (1941)

Actors: Ted Adams (actor), Richard Alexander (actor), Frank Austin (actor), Roy Barcroft (actor), Noah Beery Jr. (actor), Charles Bickford (actor), James Blaine (actor), Monte Blue (actor), Frank Brownlee (actor), Bob Burns (actor), Rod Cameron (actor), Leo Carrillo (actor), Lon Chaney Jr. (actor), Jack Clifford (actor), Ernie Adams (actor),

Plot: Promoted and advertised as "The Million Dollar Serial", most of which appears to have been spent on advertising and the most elaborate pressbook ever put out by Universal on a serial (or 95% of their feature films for that matter), Universal's 51st sound-era serial (following "Sky Raiders" and before "Sea Raiders" and, to quote the late Oliver Drake who wrote the original story,..."we were lucky they didn't call it 'Land Raiders'), "Riders of Death Valley" remains a favorite for the 7-12 year-old kids who saw in on original release in 1941, and a major disappointment for those who came later and never saw it in the 35mm version shown on a screen in a 350-seat grind-house theatre, and now question what all the excitement was about. Hey, you had to have been there. Actually, it is just one long prolonged chase after another for the most part and, even worse, it is usually the 5-6 good guys running from 2-3 of the bad guys (which even had eight-year-old kids of 1941 wondering what's up with this?) and has lots of stock-footage cliffhangers from earlier Universal western serials and features. The plot has Jim Benton (Dick Foran) as the head of a vigilante group, known as the Riders of Death Valley, organized to protect the miners from the take-over plots hatched by Joseph Kirby (James Blaine) and Rance Davis (Monte Blue.) They hire Wolf Reade (Charles Bickford) and his motley crew to do their dirty work, and spend most of their time lamenting their choice of sub-contractee as Reade deals his employees as much misery as he does the "Riders" and miners. Benton's "Riders" are Tombstone (Buck Jones), Pancho (Leo Carrillo), Smokey (Noah Beery, Jr, who is a no-show in most episodes), Borax Bill (Big Boy Williams) and Tex (Glenn Strange.) Always worth watching just for Foran, Jones, Carillo, and Jeanne Kelly (Jean Brooks), and especially if one flash forwards the chase scenes, which will serve to basically make a seven chapter offering out of the original 15.

Keywords: 1880s, ambush, archive-footage, avalanche, b-movie, b-western, barfly, bartender, borax-mining, bridge
Genres: Action, Western,
Taglines: THE GREATEST SERIAL...ever made by the master serial-makers! (original posters) A MILLION-DOLLAR SUPER SERIAL! With a thousand teeming thrills in 15 exciting chapters! (original posters) 'DESCENDING DOOM!" - Chapter 8 Of The Million Dollar Serial (chapter 8 original one-sheet poster)

Quotes:

Jim Benton: Let's Went!

Gangs of New York (1938)

Actors: William Morgan (editor), Charles Bickford (actor), Charles Bickford (actor), Maurice Cass (actor), Robert Gleckler (actor), Jonathan Hale (actor), Harold Huber (actor), Fred Kohler (actor), George Magrill (actor), Pat McKee (actor), Samuel Fuller (writer), Wellyn Totman (writer), Jack Townley (writer), Alberto Colombo (composer), James Cruze (director),

Plot: The undercover cop Rocky Thorpe infiltrates a crime syndicate being run by the incarcerated mob boss John Franklin. Franklin conducts his business via a short-wave radio concealed in his cell. One day Franklin is caught and placed in solitary confinement. Thorpe, Franklin's physical double, takes his place. Soon changes in the gang's activities are subtly made. Thorpe orders the mob to keep careful records of their activities, to gather enough evidence to convict them all. Trouble ensues when Franklin escapes from jail.

Keywords: cop, evil-man, gangster, police-shootout, prison
Genres: Crime, Drama,