Posts Tagged ‘1950s’

Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Lancaster, Burt | Malden, Karl | Ritter, Thelma | Brand, Neville | Field, Betty | Savalas, Telly | O'Brien, Edmond | Marlowe, Hugh | Bissell, Whit | Denton, Crahan | Westerfield, James | Bailey, Robert | Burton, Robert | Charles, Lewis | Dennis, Nick
Directors: Frankenheimer, John
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As an inmate at Leavenworth prison, Robert Stroud has a series of confrontations with the guards and with the other convicts. When Stroud kills a guard, he is sentenced to be executed, and only his mother’s impassioned intervention gets his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, which he must serve in solitary confinement. As he serves out his sentence in boredom and despair, one day he finds a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard. Stroud soon takes a deep interest in caring for birds, which gives him a new purpose in life, but which also brings new conflicts with prison authorities.

My Favorite Year (1982)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: O'Toole, Peter | Linn-Baker, Mark | Harper, Jessica | Bologna, Joseph | Macy, Bill | Kazan, Lainie | De Salvo, Anne | Hoffman, Basil | Jacobi, Lou | Green, Adolph | DiBenedetto, Tony | Wyner, George | Diamond, Selma | Mitchell, Cameron | Neumann, Jenny
Directors: Benjamin, Richard
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It’s 1950’s New York and the age of live television. Benjy Stone is a young writer on a major comedy-variety show. He is assigned to chaperon that week’s guest Alan Swann, a faded movie-star and renowned womanizer and drinker. Benjy’s job is to try and keep Swann sober and above all else, make sure he shows up for the live broadcast on Saturday evening. Benjy and Swann have a number of adventures throughout the week, including dinner with Benjy’s somewhat eccentric family. In the end, both learn lessons in life from the other.

Hannibal Rising (2007)

Saturday, December 13th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | France | Italy | UK
Actors: Thomas, Aaran | Ulliel, Gaspard | Gong, Li | Tachovská, Helena-Lia | Leaf, Richard | West, Dominic | Ifans, Rhys | Wade, Michele | Brake, Richard | Hub, Martin | McKidd, Kevin | Dapkunaite, Ingeborga | Stadler, Joerg | Walters, Stephen | Marevich, Ivan
Directors: Webber, Peter
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Based on Thomas Harris’ book of the same name, this prequel shows a young Hannibal Lecter in three different phases of his life from childhood in Lithuania to his ten years in England up to his time in Russia before his capture by FBI agent Will Graham in Red Dragon.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)

Saturday, December 13th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Abbott, Bud | Costello, Lou | Guild, Nancy | Franz, Arthur | Jergens, Adele | Leonard, Sheldon | Frawley, William | Muir, Gavin | Balter, Sam | Daheim, John | Maxey, Paul | Appler, Walter F. | Banks, Howard | Barber, Bobby | Bartell, Richard
Directors: Lamont, Charles
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Boxer Tommy Nelson is accused of killing his manager. While detectives Bud and Lou investigate they come across an invisibility formula with which Tommy injects himself rather than face the police. This sparks an idea for trapping gangster Morgan by having Lou fight champ Rocky Hanlon, with Tommy’s invisible help.

Back to the Future Part II (1989)

Saturday, December 13th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: McClure, Marc | Flaherty, Joe | Di Cenzo, George | Fox, Michael J. | Lloyd, Christopher | Thompson, Lea | Wilson, Thomas F. | Shue, Elisabeth | Tolkan, James | Weissman, Jeffrey | Siemaszko, Casey | Zane, Billy | Cohen, J.J. | Fleischer, Charles | Evans, E. Casanova | Koch, Jay | Gherardi, Charles | Logan, Ricky Dean
Directors: Zemeckis, Robert
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This movie picks up where the last one left off; with Doc Brown and Marty going into the future to help Marty’s future offspring. After doing that they returned to their own time, only to discover that things have changed. They discovered that while in the future, Marty’s nemesis, Biff Tannen got the sports book that Marty bought so that he could know the results of sports events and make a killing, but Doc Brown nixed his plans, but Tannen who overheard their conversation, got the book and the time machine and went back into the past and gave the book to himself, who has not only amassed a fortune but also extremely powerful. So Doc and Marty have to go back to when Biff got the book and get it away from him. And it seems that it was in 1955 on the night of the dance that Biff got the book. So not only must they get the book but they must also avoid the other versions of themselves.

Raging Bull (1980)

Friday, December 12th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Moriarty, Cathy | Pesci, Joe | Vincent, Frank | Colasanto, Nicholas | Saldana, Theresa | Gallo, Mario | Adonis, Frank | Bono, Joseph | Topham, Frank | Flax, Lori Anne | Scorsese, Charles | Dunphy, Don | Hanrahan, Bill | Bennett, Rita
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he’s a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he’s a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his family’s love, something always seems to come between them. Perhaps it’s his violent bouts of paranoia and jealousy. This kind of rage helped make him a champ, but in real life, he winds up in the ring alone.

Beyond the Sea (2004)

Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music | Musical
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Bosworth, Kate | Goodman, John | Hoskins, Bob | Blethyn, Brenda | Scacchi, Greta | Aaron, Caroline | Cincotti, Peter | Ullrich, William | Byrne, Michael | Rippy, Matt | Whelan, Gary | Broder, Jake | Bademsoy, Tayfun | Spencer, Tomas
Directors: Spacey, Kevin
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Consummate entertainer Bobby Darin (1936-1973) is making a movie about his life. He’s volatile, driven by the love of performing, ambition, perfectionism, and belief that he’s living on borrowed time. He begins in the Bronx: a fatherless lad learning music and dance from his mom. His career starts slowly, then “Splish Splash” puts him at the top of the charts and on “Bandstand.” He wants to be an entertainer, not a pop star, so he aims for the Copacabana; then it’s on to the movies, where he meets and marries Sandra Dee. After, it’s balancing career, health, marriage and family life, balances he doesn’t always keep. Throughout, conversations with his boyhood self give him perspective.

Martin and Lewis (2002)

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Hayes, Sean | Northam, Jeremy | Cale, Paula | Manninen, Sarah | Levering, Kate | McCord, Scott | Brinder, Steve | Shekter, Rhona | Dunn, Conrad | Lake, Bill | Nappo, Tony | Eisner, David | Tager, Aron | Morelli, Robert | Parilo, Markus
Directors: Gray, John
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Even at the start of his singing career, Dean Martin is an impressive gentleman, big, tall, hansom, exquisitely dressed, fitting his nightingale voice and naturally classy appeal, even though his womanizing costs him enough in alimony to declare bankruptcy. Jerry Lewis on the other hand is an unsightly schmuck, whose buffoon version of stand-up comedy is an agent’s nightmare. When he accepts playing MC in a show with Dean, he tries interacting with him, and they hit gold judging by the audience’s reactions. Initially Dean wants to walk off and stay a solo act, but success as a duo is irresistible, and they rocket together, even in Hollywood. However in time they fall out of friendship as their characters and lifestyle clash, and Dean still dreams of solo success.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

Friday, August 8th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Hauer, Rutger | Roberts, Julia | Westley, Jennifer Rae | Clark, Dick | Rockwell, Sam | Sweeney, Michelle | Barrymore, Drew | Ceci, Chelsea | Pitt, Brad | Damon, Matt | Cera, Michael | Rose Ambroziak, Aimee | Blais, Isabelle | Carter, Melissa | Hall, Jennifer | Elkin, Ilona | Tucker, Sean | Morgan, Jaye P. | Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Hirsh, David Julian
Directors: Clooney, George
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Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” is the story of a legendary showman’s double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.

Fido (2006)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Connolly, Billy | Skorzewski, Jan | Moss, Carrie-Anne | Baker, Dylan | Tyell, Kevin | Ray, K'Sun | Czerny, Henry | Nelson, Tim Blake | Bennett, Sonja | Clement, Jennifer | Kepinski, Raphael | Brown, Aaron | Olds, Brandon | Fast, Alexia | Cuffling, Bernard
Directors: Currie, Andrew
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Timmy Robinson’s best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when FIDO eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the family. A boy-and-his-dog movie for grown ups, “FIDO” will rip your heart out.