The Pelican Brief (1993)

Actors: Cynthia Nixon (actress), James Sikking (actor), Stanley Tucci (actor), Denzel Washington (actor), William Atherton (actor), Sam Shepard (actor), Codie Scott (actor), Joe Chrest (actor), Tony Goldwyn (actor), John Heard (actor), Hume Cronyn (actor), Robert Culp (actor), John Lithgow (actor), Carol Sutton (actress), Julia Roberts (actress),

Plot: Two Supreme Court Justices have been killed. Now a college professor, who clerked for one of the two men, who's also having an affair with one of his students, is given a brief by her, that states who probably, wanted to see these two men dead. He then gives it to one of his friends, who works for the FBI. When the FBI director reads it, he is fascinated by it. One of the president's men who read it, is afraid that if it ever got out, the president could be smeared. So, he advises the president to tell the director to drop it, which he does. But later the professor and the girl were out and he was drunk and when he refused to give her the keys she stepped out of the car. When he started it, it blew up. She then discovers that her place has been burglarized and what was taken were her computer and her disks. Obviously, her brief has someone agitated. She then turns to her boyfriend's friend at the FBI, he agrees to come meet her but before he does someone shoots him and takes his place. At the meeting, he was about to kill her when someone shoots him. She then decides to turn to Gray Grantham, an investigative reporter, who was contacted by someone who says he has info on the killings but backed out at the last minute. He then meets her and tells her what her brief is, and basically, the man she suspects is a good friend of the president, who is trying to manipulate the outcome of a trial that is now before the Supreme Court. Grantham tells her that her brief can harm the president and all what they have are theories, he asks her to help him but she wants to leave the country. Then Grantham's editor tells him that they have nothing; that he should drop cause the man she implicated is extremely powerful. Grantham's about to drop it when she says that she will help him. But can they stay alive?

Keywords: assassin, assassination, bank, based-on-novel, bird, blockbuster, car-bomb, chase, college, conspiracy
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: Two Supreme Court Justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everybody else wants her dead. From the author of "The Firm" and "The Client" and the director of "Presumed Innocent" and "All The President's Men."

Quotes:

Gray Grantham: Do you want to talk about the brief?::Darby Shaw: Everyone I have told about the brief is dead.::Gray Grantham: I take my chances.

Edward Linney: You know, when you came in... I thought I was hallucinating again.::Darby Shaw: I'm sorry.::Edward Linney: Oh, no, I'll take a hallucination like that, anytime.

Gray Grantham: How'd you find me?::Darby Shaw: I called the paper and asked for your address.::Gray Grantham: And?::Darby Shaw: I told them I was your sister Mary in from out of town and couldn't find you.::Gray Grantham: [looks surprised] How'd you know I had a sister Mary?::Darby Shaw: You're not the only one who does research.

Parklane Administrator: [Gray is watching Darby on the stairs as he walks in] Mr. Grantham?::Gray Grantham: [Quickly looks down] Great architecture.

FBI Director Denton Voyles: So you're the little lady who started this great brouhaha.

Professor Thomas Callahan: Darby Shaw, you take my breath away.

Edwin Newman: She sounds almost too good to be true::Gray Grantham: [pause] She almost is

[first lines]::Justice Rosenberg: Any of those signs got my name on 'em?::Gray Grantham: Quite a few.::Justice Rosenberg: What do they say?::Gray Grantham: The usual: Death to Rosenberg, Retire Rosenberg, Cut off the oxygen.::Justice Rosenberg: [laughs] That's my favorite. Of course you, Mr Grantham, did pretty good by me your last time out: Rosenberg equals the government over business, the individual over government, the environment over everything. And the Indians? Oh, give 'em whatever they want.::Gray Grantham: Well with all due respects sir, that wasn't my line, that was a quote.::Justice Rosenberg: From one of your unnamed senior White House officials; senior White House son of a bitch I should have said, who got in there by stirring up these people, one against the other. It never fails to amaze me what a man will do to get into the Oval Office.

[last lines]::Edwin Newman: Where is Darby Shaw?::Gray Grantham: I think that's also a question for Darby Shaw, but I know that she's not available to answer questions as long as this "feed frenzy" continues.::Edwin Newman: Does that mean that you don't know where she is?::Gray Grantham: No I didn't say that.::Edwin Newman: Then you do know...::Gray Grantham: [laughs]::Edwin Newman: I, I take it this cryptic smile means you'll not answer...::Gray Grantham: [smirking uncontrollably]::Edwin Newman: Okay Gray, you know that in view of all this, you know that there's a lot of speculation that this woman is a figment of your imagination. That you created her, from a lot of different sources. Just as there are people who believe there was no Deep Throat, there are those who believe that there is no Darby Shaw. In other words, she's just too good to be true.::Gray Grantham: She almost is.

Smith Keen: Didn't they also say they knew of no connection with the assassination?::Gray Grantham: Yes. But what else are they gonna say?

Chez nous (1978)

Actors: Bengt Forslund (producer), Kjell Bergqvist (actor), Per Oscarsson (actor), Wic Kjellin (editor), Ernst Günther (actor), Ernst-Hugo Järegård (actor), Ingvar Kjellson (actor), Sven Lindberg (actor), Ewa Fröling (actress), Örjan Ramberg (actor), Lis Nilheim (actress), Tomas Täng (editor), Palle Granditsky (actor), Jan Halldoff (director), Per Ragnar (actor),

Genres: ,
Taglines: It started with the killing of a prostitute... Det började med ett mord på en prostituerad, en skitsak egentligen.

La endemoniada (1975)

Actors: Roberto Camardiel (actor), Ángel del Pozo (actor), Fernando Hilbeck (actor), Daniel Martín (actor), Fernando Sancho (actor), María Kosty (actress), Amando de Ossorio (writer), Amando de Ossorio (director), Pedro del Rey (editor), Tota Alba (actress), Julián Mateos (actor), Concha Gómez Conde (actress), Lone Fleming (actress), Ernesto Vañes (actor), María Vidal (actress),

Plot: An old witch seeks vengence through the daughter of the politician who had her thrown in jail. Soon the little girl's head is spinning around, and an old priest is called in to perform an exorcism.

Keywords: blasphemy, blood, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, castration, chalice, child-in-peril, child-murder, child-sacrifice, church, crucifix
Genres: Horror,
Taglines: Good and evil battle for possession of the innocent!

The Last Hurrah (1958)

Actors: Jack Chefe (actor), Ricardo Cortez (actor), John Carradine (actor), Richard Alexander (actor), Frank Albertson (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), Danny Borzage (actor), Willis Bouchey (actor), Paul Bradley (actor), Chet Brandenburg (actor), Rand Brooks (actor), Edward Brophy (actor), Frank Baker (actor), Donald Crisp (actor),

Plot: An aging politician tries to get re-elected one last time in the changing world of the 1950s when TV started to play a bigger part in politics. Based loosely on the career of multi-term Boston Mayor James Michael Curley, this film examines the good and evil inherent in politics and all the things that go into an election. Tracy's uphill battle to stay in office is set against the political machinery that preyed on ethnic hatred and old-time money.

Keywords: based-on-novel, based-on-real-person, boston-massachusetts, dawn-of-television, deceased-wife, election, flowers, hat, hizzoner, irish-american
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: Ford's Finest! Big book! big cast! big picture! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! All the fun, the fury, and fabulous characters of the famous book!

Quotes:

Mayor Frank Skeffington: One more regret at my age won't make much difference.

Roger Sugrue: [standing by Skeffington's bed] Well, at least he made his peace with God. There's one thing we all can be sure of - if he had it to do over again, there's no doubt in the world he would do it very, very differently.::Mayor Frank Skeffington: [opening his eyes] Like hell I would.

The Lone Wolf and His Lady (1949)

Actors: Robert Barrat (actor), Charles McAvoy (actor), George M. Carleton (actor), Kernan Cripps (actor), Douglass Dumbrille (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Steven Geray (actor), Sam Harris (actor), Harry Hayden (actor), I. Stanford Jolley (actor), Charles Jordan (actor), William Frawley (actor), Allen Mathews (actor), Alan Mowbray (actor),

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance,
Taglines: BULLETS AND MYSTERY PURSUE...."The Lone Wolf and His Lady" (original 11x14 lobby card)

Obliging Young Lady (1942)

Actors: George Chandler (actor), Luis Alberni (actor), Murray Alper (actor), Fortunio Bonanova (actor), Joseph E. Bernard (actor), James Carlisle (actor), Sidney Blackmer (actor), George Cleveland (actor), Jimmy Conlin (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), Eddie Borden (actor), Hal K. Dawson (actor), Dudley Dickerson (actor), John Dilson (actor), Harry Harvey (actor),

Plot: Linda Norton is instructed by her employer attorney to take young Bridget Potter, whose wealthy parents are engaged in a divorce suit, to an isolated country resort, to shelter the girl from newspaper reporters and publicity. To the same resort comes Red Reddy, a hope-to-be novelist with plans also of furthering a former brief acquaintance with Linda; Charles Baker, Linda's fiancée; a snooping private detective; and Space O'Shea, who hopes to get a story on Bridget and her divorce-seeking parents. The resort is also host to a convention-meeting of a group of bird lovers headed by the prissy Gibney. The mix gives rise to more than a few situations.

Keywords: birdcall, birdwatching, cafe, chef, child-custody, composer, doll, engagement, hoax, hotel
Genres: Comedy, Romance,

Quotes:

'Red' Reddy, aka Professor Stanley: [Chants the name of a baseball player in rhythm of the train in motion - soon picked up by everyone on the train] Heinie Manush-Heinie Manush-Heinie Manush-Heinie Manush...

Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

Actors: David Durand (actor), Humphrey Bogart (actor), Mike Donovan (actor), Steve Darrell (actor), John Dilson (actor), Joe Devlin (actor), Gabriel Dell (actor), George Bancroft (actor), James Cagney (actor), Sidney Bracey (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Frank Coghlan Jr. (actor), Sonny Bupp (actor), Joe Cunningham (actor), Earl Dwire (actor),

Plot: Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connolly were tough kids who grew up together in the toughest part of New York --- Hell's Kitchen. Early on, Rocky gets sent to reform school, where he learns how to be a first class criminal. Jerry, who had escaped from the law, goes straight and becomes a priest. As adults, they reunite in the old neighborhood: Jerry works with the kids who, like he and Rocky, could end up on either side of the law. Rocky has returned looking for a safe place to stay till he can get back into his old racketeering organization -- something that his old partner isn't anxious to have happen. Lots of rapid fire wisecracks, roughhousing and gunfire ensues.

Keywords: anti-hero, basketball, betrayal, blackmail, bowery-boys, boys'-choir, casino, catholic, catholic-priest, cellar
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller,
Taglines: The saga of America's dirty faced kids... And the breaks that life won't give them! Sensational Human Drama... Terrific Thrills And Suspense! A Big Time Cast in a Big City Drama Destined to be the Biggest Hit in Years!

Quotes:

[last lines]::Father Jerry: All right, fellas... let's go and say a prayer for a boy who couldn't run as fast as I could.

Rocky Sullivan: [to Jim Frazier] Look, I know you're a smart lawyer - very smart - but don't get smart with me.

Rocky Sullivan: 'Morning, gentlemen. Nice day for a murder.

Soapy: Hey! Call a fair game or I'll slap you right in the kisser!::Rocky Sullivan: You'll slap me? You slap me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize.

[repeated lines]::Rocky Sullivan: Whadda ya hear! Whadda ya say!

William 'Rocky' Sullivan, as a boy: Always remember: Don't be a sucker.

[Father Jerry is returning the $10,000 Rocky has sent him 'anonymously' to help build the recreation center]::Rocky Sullivan: Suppose the dough is hot? Nobody knows that but you and me.::Father Jerry: That's just it.::Rocky Sullivan: Oh, come on, don't be such an angel. You wanna get the center built, don't you? Well, go ahead - get it started.::Father Jerry: Sure I wanna get it started; but I don't wanna get it started on rotten foundations.::Rocky Sullivan: Aw, don't be a sucker!::Father Jerry: All right, Rocky, supposin' I take the money... and I kid myself that it's a means to an end - well it isn't. It never will be. Inside the center my boys would be clean... and outside they'd be surrounded by the same rotten corruption and crime and criminals. Yes, yourself included. Criminals on all sides for my boys to look up to and revere... and respect and admire and imitate. What earthly good is it for me to teach that honesty is the best policy when all around they see that dishonesty is a better policy? That the hoodlum and the gangster is looked up to with the same respect as the successful businessman or the popular hero? You and the Fraziers and the Keefers and all the rest of those rotten politicians you've got in the palm of your hand. Yes, and you've got my boys, too. Whatever I teach them, you... you show me up. You show them the easiest way - the quickest way is with a racket or a gun.::Rocky Sullivan: Well, it's so, ain't it?::Father Jerry: Yes, it's so... God help us.

[first lines]::Jerry, As a Boy: Bulls eye!::William 'Rocky' Sullivan, as a boy: It's as dead as a door nail around here.::Jerry, As a Boy: Yeah.

Jerry, As a Boy: [to Rocky] Come on, Rocky. Jump!

William 'Rocky' Sullivan, as a boy: Hi Jerry.::Jerry, As a Boy: Hello.::William 'Rocky' Sullivan, as a boy: Whadda ya hear! Whadda ya say!

The Gilded Lily (1935)

Actors: Edward Gargan (actor), Georgie Billings (actor), Dick French (actor), Jay Eaton (actor), Jack Egan (actor), Jay Belasco (actor), Luis Alberni (actor), Eddie Borden (actor), Ralph Brooks (actor), Reginald Barlow (actor), Jimmy Aubrey (actor), Eddie Dunn (actor), Robert Dudley (actor), Tom Dugan (actor), Chuck Hamilton (actor),

Plot: New York stenographer Marilyn David meets Englishman Charles Gray and they fall in love. But Charles leaves town and Marilyn discovers he is a duke's son and already engaged. Marilyn confides in her platonic friend, reporter Peter Dawes, who publicizes her as the 'No Girl' who refused nobility. So Marilyn cashes in on her unwelcome notoriety by becoming a cafe entertainer; in an unexpected way, she succeeds. But can she decide between her two loves?

Keywords: popcorn, reporter, singer
Genres: Comedy, Romance,

Quotes:

Peter Dawes: But popcorn - ah, popcorn was made for watching the world go by. Look. I stick my hand in the bag without taking my eyes off the street. I throw some popcorn in my craw. I chew... and I'm still looking. That's what I call class.::Marilyn David: Sure. Peanut eaters don't know how to live.

Marilyn David: Pete, you're a smart fellow. What do poor little working girls usually do next?::Peter Dawes: Well, they usually drown themselves, one way or the other.::Marilyn David: I'll take the other.

Marilyn David: I'm just a freak!

Marilyn David: I want a glass. About this big. Mmm, no, maybe about THIS big. And I don't care what you put in it - whiskey, hair tonic, rat poison - but whatever it is, when I finish drinking it, I want to be curled up in a little heap, right HERE.

Attorney for the Defense (1932)

Actors: Gene Havlick (editor), Wallis Clark (actor), Don Dillaway (actor), Eddie Foster (actor), Dwight Frye (actor), Jo Swerling (writer), Irving Cummings (director), Oscar Apfel (actor), Sherry Hall (actor), Eddie Kane (actor), Edmund Lowe (actor), Clarence Muse (actor), Pat O'Malley (actor), Bradley Page (actor), Nat Pendleton (actor),

Genres: Drama,

The Floor Below (1918)

Actors: Elaine S. Carrington (writer), Lincoln Plumer (actor), Clarence G. Badger (director), Mabel Normand (actress), Samuel Goldwyn (producer), Tom Moore (actor), Romaine Callender (actor), William Black (actor), Louis R. Grisel (actor), Charlotte Granville (actress), Wallace McCutcheon Jr. (actor), Willard Dashiell (actor), Helen Dahl (actress), Tex Charwate (actress), Lorraine Harding (actress),

Genres: Comedy, Drama,