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568,415 | 2,721,657 | 234,393 | 8 | The man's betrayed you . . He's sewn up his veins and opened up yours ! | ( There May be Spoilers ) Freed after doing a six-month stretch in a federal prison for contempt of congress Hollywood writer / directer Herbert Biberman , Jeff Goldblum , as well as his actress wife Gale Sondergaard , Greta Scacchi , future in the world of the movies and theater in America is all but over . Being the ... |
568,557 | 2,721,657 | 69,436 | 8 | The only thing that will slow them down is how many people they kill | SPOILERS Breaking out of the San Carlos Indian Reservation Ulzana , Joaquim Martinez , and eight of his fellow Apaches go on a blood curdling rampage against the white homesteaders in the area . The US Calvary gets their best Indian fighter McIntosh , Burt Lancaster , and his Apache scout Ke-Ni-Tay , Jorge Luke , to he... |
568,840 | 2,721,657 | 71,315 | 8 | The day the dam broke | ( There are Spoilers ) It's Los Angeles 1937 where there's a major controversy over a dam being built outside of city limits . The dam is to divert precious water from the valley that will in effect drive the farmers there into bankruptcy and foreclosure of their homes and farmland . Private Eye J . J Jake Gittes , Jac... |
568,797 | 2,721,657 | 92,563 | 8 | The flesh is weak but the soul is eternal | ( There are Spoilers ) Voodoo and Satanic inspired film-noir detective story that at first starts out as a run of the mill missing person investigation by Brooklyn private dick Harry Angel , Mickey Rourke , that leads him to New Orleans and Algeries LA . and the discovery that the person he's looking for is not at all ... |
568,144 | 2,721,657 | 42,727 | 8 | The first step is always the hardest | ( Mild Spoilers ) Powerful drama , even though a bit dated now , about veterans who lost their ability to walk due to injuries on and off the battlefield trying to adjust to a new world . As well as renewing their relationships with those that they left behind , friends families and sweethearts , who in some cases try ... |
568,350 | 2,721,657 | 38,300 | 8 | Better Late Then Never | SPOLILERS Gangster Eddie Kagle , Paul Muni , serving his latest stretch in prison , is released and picked up by his fellow hood Smiley Williams , Hardie Albright . Smiley took over the criminal operation that Eddie ran while he was in the pen . Driving back to St . Louis Eddie tells Smiley what a good job he did while... |
567,959 | 2,721,657 | 82,783 | 8 | Andre to Wally : Do you really want to hear about all this ? | Former Broadway writer and now actor , whenever he can find work , Wally Shawn was very apprehensive at the news of his friend Avant-Grade director Andre Gregory inviting him for dinner that evening at a swanky upper East-Side restaurant to talk over old times . It was Andre who gave Wally his first big break on Broadw... |
568,108 | 2,721,657 | 77,158 | 8 | Rock & Roll is here to Stay it will never Die | Looking more like a young and slimmed down Rush Limbaugh then the legendary pioneer Rock & Roll DJ the late Tim Mcintire , who ironically died in 1986 at almost the same age that Freed passed away some twenty years earlier . " American Hot Wax " is tragic as well as prophetic story about Alan Freed who more then anyone... |
568,603 | 2,721,657 | 50,083 | 8 | High drama in a New York City courtroom with a man's life hanging in the balance | SPOILERS Given what at first glance seems to be an open and shut case by The State of New York vrs George Savoca in the murder , by Mr . Savoca stabbing , of his father . As the foreman of the Jury juror # 1 Martin Balsam takes a vote from the 12 jurors including himself he gets an 11 to 1 vote for the conviction of Mr... |
568,863 | 2,721,657 | 50,095 | 8 | There are some mysteries that are best kept secret | ( There are Spoilers ) At an obscure little village on the foothills of the mighty Himalayas world renowned British botanist Dr . John Rollason , Peter Cushing , and his fellow botanist wife Helen , Maureen Connell , are out studying the rare plants that are only indigenous in that part of the world . Unknown to Helen ... |
568,803 | 2,721,657 | 36,775 | 8 | Murder is never perfect , it always comes apart sooner or later | ( There are Spoilers ) Prefusely Bleeding from a gunshot wound insurance salesman Walter Neff , Fred MacMurray , instead of getting immediate medical attention drives to the Pacific All Risk Building in downtown L . A . After staggering into his office Walter sits down and pops a blank cylinder into his dicta-phone and... |
568,605 | 2,721,657 | 46,187 | 8 | What I do know about commies is that I just don't like them | SPOILERS Post WWII Film-Noir spy drama set in New York City with three-time loser and just released pick-pocket artist Skip McCoy , Richard Widmark , lifting a purse that contained an important piece of microfilm off Candy , Jean Peters , on the New York City Subway . Candy thinks that the microfilm is from a rival cor... |
568,670 | 2,721,657 | 26,663 | 8 | I Gogol a poor peasant conquered The World of SCIENCE . . . Why can't I conquer The World of LOVE ! | SPOILERS Peter Lorre as the brilliant but love-sick Dr . Gogol who goes mad , madly in love , with the object of his obsession the beautiful actress Yvonne , Frances Drake , that in the end lead to his death and the destruction of his life work as a world famous surgeon . Blinded by his love for Yvonne Dr . Gogol atten... |
568,183 | 2,721,657 | 44,533 | 8 | Will Tomorrow See Another " Day " ? | SPOILER ALERT Solid newspaper drama that has a two tier storyline involving the hard hitting no nonsense managing editor Ed Hutcheson , Humphrey Bogart , of the big city newspaper " The Day " . Hutcheson is involved in a number of crisis in the 87 minute film including his wife Nora , Kim Hunter , leaving him for anoth... |
568,620 | 2,721,657 | 970,525 | 8 | Is this the right Mrs . Wright I'm talking to ? | ( Some Spoilers ) Bittersweet yet funny little short in how to coup with a personal tragedy under the most depressing of circumstances . Young cub reporter Niall , Thomas Nelstrop , is given the task to do a story for his newspaper-the Examiner-on the death of a local teenager-Michael Wright-who was killed in a car acc... |
568,147 | 2,721,657 | 92,923 | 8 | Crazy Harry | SPOILERS Pretty good made for TV murder mystery that has a man driven to murder his wife because she's can't take his schemings and wheeling and dealing at his job as a real-estate salesman . The scheming just about bankrupted both her as well as him . Mindlessly maxing out all his wife's , Connie , credit cards as wel... |
568,870 | 2,721,657 | 38,622 | 8 | He might have been following the organ grinder but it was the monkey that he was really after | ( There are Spoilers ) Almost unbearable at times to watch tear-jerker about a young man working himself up from he slums of New York City as a concert violinist . Then getting involved with a rich socialite who would have never as much as looked at him . Falling in love with the violin at a very young and tender age P... |
568,850 | 2,721,657 | 68,699 | 8 | Drifting Winds | Clint Eastwood revives his signature role as " The Man with no Name " as he seems to come out of nowhere from the distant prairie and descends upon the sleepy little town of Largo and after that things there will never be the same again for the people who live there . A film that has a lot more to it then what you see ... |
568,364 | 2,721,657 | 44,314 | 8 | There's no such thing as " Trust " in the spying business | ( There are Spoilers ) It's March 1944 and things aren't going that good for the Germans in Europe with them being thrown out of the USSR and desperately holding on to their former alley Italy holding off the allied forces there who are within artillery fire from Rome . With all this going on the Germans need all the h... |
568,639 | 2,721,657 | 40,525 | 8 | I don't like having a girlfriend that's married | SPOILERS " The Lady from Shanghai " is undoubtedly Orson Wells ' best Film-Noir movie even though at the time of it's release back in 1947 he was very upset with how the studio , Columbia Pictures , edited the films final print without his knowledge or permission . Michael O'Hara , Orson Wells , gets caught up with eve... |
568,261 | 2,721,657 | 49,944 | 8 | Atomic Age Wolfman | SPOILERS Updating the werewolf story to fit into the post WWII nuclear world " The Werewolf " is a much better movie about that subject then the many werewolf and wolf-man movies made since the movie that started those kinds of horror films " The Wolfman " with Lon Chaney Jr . back in 1941 . An unfortunate individual D... |
568,816 | 2,721,657 | 77,416 | 8 | Dear Hunter : | SPOILERS The movie " The Deer Hunter " opens in the small Russian / American Orthodox community of Clairton Penn . back in 1967 with Steven , John Savage , getting married to Angela , Rutanya Alda . The next day Steven and his two close friends Michael & Nick , Robert De Niro & Christopher Walken , spend their their la... |
568,719 | 2,721,657 | 48,254 | 8 | Stanley Kubrick deals with murderous obsessions in this 1955 Film-Noir Classic | Spoilers Stanley Kubrick's debut film about obsession and murder on the gritty and dangerous streets of midtown Manhattan and the empty and deserted factory lofts along the Brooklyn waterfront . With a number of fine performances by Jamie Smith & Gloria Price as the two unlikely lovebirds Davy Gordon & Irene Kane and e... |
568,111 | 2,721,657 | 118,887 | 8 | Oh My God . . He Jumped ! | SPOILERS Leaving the Scores nightclub after a bachelor party for a fellow three seven precinct cop young Murrary " Superboy " Babitch , Michael Rapaport , gets in his car and drives to the George Washington Bridge on his way home to Garrison NJ . As Babitch enters the bridge he's side-swiped by a car with two coke-head... |
568,401 | 2,721,657 | 72,973 | 8 | Seven ! seven people are dead and the police are driving away ! | SPOILER ALERT Having spent the last seven years behind bars for an armed robbery of over $80 , 000 . 00 six foot six 250 pound Moose Malloy , Jack O'Halloran , is out on parole and the first order of business for the big guy is to find his girlfriend and partner in crime Velma Velanto . Checking out a dime a dance club... |
568,400 | 2,721,657 | 425,055 | 8 | Winning is easy losing is complicated , It's a lifetime's work | ( There are Spoilers ) with everything seemingly coming down on his head Broadway playwright Nicky Regan , Michael Keaton , has found out that he has an added crisis to his already hectic and troubled life . New York Times play reviewer and critic Steven Schwimmer , Robert Downey Jr . Schwimmer's word can make or beak ... |
568,037 | 2,721,657 | 49,829 | 8 | This is my first affair , so please be kind | Spoliers Coming of age movie with the stately and beautiful Deboarh Karr , Laura Reynolds , as the ignored and frustrated wife of he-man and collage athletic director Bill Reynolds , Leif Erickson . Laura's concern for young 18 year-old collage freshman Tom Lee , John Karr , leads to her bringing him out of his shell a... |
568,806 | 2,721,657 | 119,174 | 8 | Where As Once I Was Blind , Now I Can See | SPOILERS Multi-millionaire investment banker Nicholas Van Orton , Michael Douglas , has worked his way up to the top in the ruthless and dog eat dog world of high finance and and corporate investments that he lost all contact with his feeling for his fellow human beings . Approching his 48th birthday Nick is very unste... |
568,444 | 2,721,657 | 42,035 | 8 | Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God : Thomas Jefferson | SPOILERS Almost forgotten film about the White Terror that was unleashed on the Cuban people by the brutal and Fascist Gerardo Machado regime that lasted seven years from 1925 to 1933 when Marchado was finally driven from power in a popular and spontaneous revolution . Because of its more or less anti-corporate message... |
568,232 | 2,721,657 | 42,041 | 8 | A Copper ! A Copper ! How do you like that boys ! A Copper ! | ( Some Spoilers ) It's ironic that one of Mad Dog Cody Jarrett's , James Cagney , favorite bedtime story that his Ma , Margaret Wycherly , would lullaby him to sleep with when he was a little was the story of the Trojan Horse . It turned out to be a Trojan Horse in the person of undercover Federal Treasury Agent Hank F... |
568,027 | 2,721,657 | 799,954 | 8 | Now I can finally end it all ! | Gut wrenching documentary about people deciding to end their lives by taking that final plunge off the rust colored Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Harbor . The filmmaker , Eric Steel , of the movie " The Bridge " spent months filming the Golden Gate and caught , for the most part by accident , on film some two doz... |
568,131 | 2,721,657 | 1,000,771 | 8 | Who the Fk is the Colonel ! | The HBO film " Recount " takes us all back to a time that most of us would rather forget . Those wild crazy and confusing days back in the autumn of 2000 when for some 35 days after the Presidential Election nobody knew who was to be our next and 43th President of the United States . In the late evening of Election Day... |
568,616 | 2,721,657 | 88,146 | 8 | Some things need getting rid of ! | SPOILER ALERT Drinking himself into a drunken stupor US Army Sgt . Waters , Adolph Caesar , staggered out of Big Mary's Place and was later found by the Tynin Bridge beaten and shot to death . With Sgt . Waters being black it was immediately suspected that he was murdered by either members of the KKK or local townspeop... |
568,419 | 2,721,657 | 38,700 | 8 | You got him just were you want him , he's gonna make all the mistakes I did ! | ( Some Spoilers ) Deep and intricate Film-Noir that makes a complete 360 degree turn from start to finish . Young Nancy Monkes , Laraine Day , was given a locket by her friend Karen Willis , Gloria Donovan , and was soon made to give it back by Karen's mom Mrs . Willis , Katherin Emery . Later the locket was lost and N... |
568,361 | 2,721,657 | 119,256 | 8 | 4 + 4 = a hard 8 | ( Spoilers ) The film " Hard Eight " or " Sydney " , take your pick , begins at this little out of the way diner-Jack's Coffe Shop - outside Reno city limits . It's there where Sydney , Philip Baker Hall , spots this lonely and disheveled young man John , John C . Reily , sitting outside looking as if he needs a meal a... |
568,520 | 2,721,657 | 61,814 | 8 | Where was Bernie Goetz when we really needed him | SPOILERS Until I saw the movie " Henry : Portrait of a Serial Killer " in the late 1980's I never saw a major movie out of Hollywood more vicious and disturbing then " The Incident " . Two brutal and vicious thugs Joe Ferrone & Arti Connors , Tony Musante & Martin Sheen , after brutally murdering a man , Ben Levi , com... |
568,463 | 2,721,657 | 40,823 | 8 | What good is a dream when your too old to enjoy it ! | SPOILERS Being that " Sorry Wrong Number " was originally a 22 minute radio suspense / thriller staring Agnes Moorehead as the tragic and doomed Leona Stevenson . It had to have incorporated into it a number of multiple flashbacks , including a very long and effective flashback within a flashback , to put on enough run... |
568,042 | 2,721,657 | 434,409 | 8 | This world that I am a part of that I helped shaped will come to an end tonight with me | SPOILERS Futuristic drama set in 2020 Great Britian about a totalitarian government being confronted by a dark clothed freedom fighter determined to bring it down that it ends up costing him his life . Making himself know to the British people on midnight November 5 , V , Hugo Weaving , first rescues young British nati... |
568,882 | 2,721,657 | 976,051 | 8 | The lady with the little dog | ( There are Spoilers ) 15 year-old Michael Berg , David Cross , is suddenly taken ill on the streets of Neustadt Germany and nurses back to help by a total stranger who seems to have no one but herself to look after . The time is spring 1958 and the stranger in question is 36 year old trolley ticket stamper Hanna Schmi... |
568,335 | 2,721,657 | 56,279 | 8 | Mind Tricks | ( There are Spoilers ) Teaching psychology at the Hempwell Medical Center Prof . Norman Taylor , Peter Wyngard , is making his way up the ladder of success so fast at the school that his co-educators are a bit jealous of his amazing climb . Having a logical mind and not believing in magic or any other mumbo jumbo Prof ... |
568,467 | 2,721,657 | 21,079 | 8 | This is what I get for liking a guy too much ! | SPOILERS First of the great 1930's gangster movies that set the standers for the hundreds that followed it over the next 70 years . Basically a rag to riches , if that's the word for it , story about a local hood Cesar Enrico " Rico " Bandello , Edward G . Robinson , making it to the top of a big city crime syndicate o... |
568,948 | 2,721,657 | 23,238 | 8 | Death is for others not ourselves | Count Zaroff , Leslie Banks , was brought up in Czarist Russia and instilled by his father with a passion that took over his life , the passion of the hunt . when his country was taken over by the Communists in 1917 the Count escaped with most of his riches intact and while in exile found hunting his only reason for li... |
568,262 | 2,721,657 | 36,395 | 8 | Here Come Da Judge . . Here Come Da Judge | SPOILERS Taking a long needed vacation from his duties as a United States Supreme Court Justice the Honorable Judge John Josephus Grant , Frank Morgan , goes to the little sleepy town of Crownport to among other things go duck hunting . What the judge doesn't realize is what a den of corruption and thievery that town i... |
568,754 | 2,721,657 | 167,404 | 9 | Top Psychological Thriller ; When the analyzer becomes the analyzed | M . Night Shyamaina's " The Sixth Sense " has come a long way since movies about psychological issues hit the big screen back in 1945 with Alfred Hitchcock's " Spellbound " and shows how much we learned about the subject since then . Dr . Malcolm Crowe , Bruce Willis , is on top of the world a success in his chosen pro... |
568,257 | 2,721,657 | 65,086 | 9 | Suppressed emotions explode on screen in this early Robert Altman Classic | SPOILERS Feeling alone and needing companionship as well as love Frances Austen , Sandy Dennis , keeps all these emotions inside as she goes through life as a popular young single lady who has many high class friends . But for reasons of her own deep insecurity she keeps them at arms length . As for Frances male friend... |
568,169 | 2,721,657 | 268,690 | 9 | Put on a happy face | SPOILERS In dept story about a number of New Yorkers who's lives touch each other during the course of the movie and how it in the end changes their lives forever . Even though the movie seems complicated it has a simple and basic answer to a hard and unfeeling world : That faith and optimism are the best reasons to ge... |
568,900 | 2,721,657 | 52,311 | 9 | Isen't somebody going to come . . . and take him away ? | ( There are Spoilers ) The movie " Touch of Evil " explodes in your face right at the opening scene when prominent Los Robles citizen and building magnet Rudy Linnekar and his date local stripper Zita are blown to pieces when their car detonates just as it crosses the Mexican / USA border . At the scene in Mexican are ... |
568,194 | 2,721,657 | 26,529 | 9 | The Evil That Men Do | SPOILERS Powerhouse movie that shows how men in desperate situations can go so far as sacrifice their best friends and family members and not realize what monsters that they are by doing it . Until like in the case of bull-like Gypo Noland , Victor Mclaglen , it's too much too late . It's 1922 and the hight of the Blac... |
568,438 | 2,721,657 | 116,282 | 9 | Snowblind | SPOILERS The weird kidnap plan in the movie " Fargo " was hatched at the " King of Clubs " bar in Fargo ND . Ex-cons Carl Showalter & Gaear Grimsrud , Steve Buscemi & Peter Stormare , meet with Brainerd Minn . , The home of Paul Bunyan & the Blue Ox , car executive Jerry Lundergaard , William H . Macy , in this half-ba... |
568,459 | 2,721,657 | 180,093 | 9 | Something about life that you won't learn in school or college | SPOILER ALERT Dark and gruesome but at the same time extremely realistic movie about the use and addiction to drugs both legal and illegal and the tragic results to those involved . The movie " Requiem for a Dream " doesn't take place in the ghettos of the inner cities that we're used to seeing stories like this but in... |
568,864 | 2,721,657 | 56,930 | 9 | It can happen to anyone ! It happened to a sister of the President of the United States ! | SOME SPOILERSHard hitting as well as moving story about a subject matter that at the time , 1963 , was almost never mentioned even by those affected by it afflicting a family member , much less made into a major motion picture : mental retardation . As the movie " A Child Is Waiting " begins we see 12 year-old Reuben ,... |
568,433 | 2,721,657 | 47,296 | 9 | I thought that they were just gonna lean on him a little not knock him off ! | SPOILERS The Hoboken docks were coming under the scrutiny of a major Federal Crime Commission to investigate the mob connections of local 374 the longshoreman union in the area and it's president Michael J . Skelly aka Johnny Friendly , Lee J . Cobb . It's when longshoreman Joey Doyle agreed to testify against Friendly... |
568,843 | 2,721,657 | 70,047 | 9 | THEE Classic Modern Horror Movie | The Exorcist is a film that goes full-circle from modern Twentieth Century medicine to the church exorcism of the middle ages , all within the two hours that it's on the screen . The movie revolves around three characters in it : Father Merrin , Max Von Sydow , Father Karras , Jason Miller , and Regan MacNeil , Linda... |
568,242 | 2,721,657 | 50,976 | 9 | A Game of Chess | SPOILERS Traveling back to his castle in Scandinavia Christian Knight Antonius Block , Max Von Sydow , has seen enough death and horror in the Crusade that he went on into the Holy Land , where he fought the last ten years . The Crusades took almost all the faith that he had in man as well as his belief in God out of h... |
568,002 | 2,721,657 | 37,604 | 9 | If people thought about all the things that could happen they'd never do anything ! | SPOILERS The film " The Clock " ends where it began at the vast spacious and impersonal Pennsylvania Train Station in NYC as we see Alice , Judy Garland , disappear as the camera pull away and she's become just a small speck in the mass of humanity milling around there . During the proceeding 48 hours Alice met by chan... |
568,420 | 2,721,657 | 109,279 | 9 | Beauty is as Beauty does | ( Some Spoilers ) Heart-felt and touching movie based on the Anna Sewell story of a majestic prince of a horse who both reveled and suffered through a slew of owners , good and bad , and in the end came back to the one person who saved his life twice . Once from a deadly case of chills and later from a raging barn fire... |
568,099 | 2,721,657 | 29,947 | 9 | No if's why's or bone's about it ! | ( Some Spoilers ) With things looking up for nerdy paleontologist Dr . David " Bone " Huxley , Cary Grant , all of a sudden out of the blue , or better yet the green , nutty socialite Susan Vance , Katharine Hepburn , walked into his life ! And Bone or David's life would never be the same again ! Having finally found t... |
568,178 | 2,721,657 | 22,100 | 9 | The Mark of Cain | SPOILERS Ground-breaking Fritz Lang crime drama , that's also considered by many to be the very first film-noir , about a serial child murder terrorizing the streets of Weimar Germanys Berlin . Baffled by the elusive killer and unable to catch or track him down the Berlin police start to put pressure on the city's begg... |
568,156 | 2,721,657 | 62,765 | 9 | A Bullitt For Steve | SPOILERS Even though the movie " Bullitt " is known for it's legendary car chase scene , this in 1968 when everything was done for real not in a studio with computer enhanced imagery , the movie is also a very fine crime / drama straight out of todays headlines and has a very good and brainy plot too . Senator Walter C... |
568,668 | 2,721,657 | 317,248 | 9 | Life & Death on the mean streets in " The City of God " | SPOILERS The movie " The City of God " starts where it ends with a bloody showdown between the Li'lZe mob and their very young allies " The Young Runts " having it out with the Carrot and Ned Knockout gang . Sandwiched between those two scenes are a number of brutal killings that dull your senses and condition you for ... |
568,498 | 2,721,657 | 71,532 | 9 | The only thing thats standing between your skull and a baseball bat is my word | SPOILERS Terribly depressing character study of a degenerate gambler who's luck hit rock bottom with him getting into the hole for $44 , 000 . 00 to the mob who's been bankrolling his action . James Caan in one of his most memorable roles as Axel Freed a collage English professor , at the prestigious Fordham University... |
568,015 | 2,721,657 | 81,398 | 9 | I've done a lot of bad things in my life Joey , maybe now I'ts coming back to me | ( There Are Spoilers ) Unlike most professional prize-fighters who keep their aggressions inside of the boxing-ring and outside of it would rather walk away from a fight then participate or provoke one boxer , and later Middleweight Champion , Jake La Matta , Robert Di Niro , was the exact opposite . Brutal rude petty ... |
568,184 | 2,721,657 | 49,601 | 9 | Learning to accept success is harder then learning to accept failure | SPOILERS Hard knuckle drama about the dog eat dog world of those who run corporate American . Being highly successful in charge of industrial relations in Mansfield Ohio at a company that the giant Ramsey Corp . swallowed up Fred Staples , Van Heflin , is picked by the corporation's president Walter Ramsey , Everett Sl... |
568,868 | 2,721,657 | 119,488 | 9 | Hold up your badge so they'll know your a policeman | SPOILERS With big time L . A hoodlum Mickey Cohen , Paul Guilfoyle , sent up the river in a federal penitentiary on a tax-evasion rap a vacuum had been created in the city's organized crime hierarchy . Hoodlums descend on L . A , like a hoard of locusts , from all over the country in order to fill it . The L . A police... |
568,804 | 2,721,657 | 75,005 | 9 | The Devil's Apprentice | ( There are Spoilers ) After the 1973 release of the devilishly inspired movie " The Exorcist " scores of films about the Devil were cranked out of the movie studios in Hollywood and overseas to take advantage , in their box office sales , of that ground-breaking horror classic . It wasn't until three later in 1976 tha... |
568,143 | 2,721,657 | 42,530 | 9 | Deadlier then the Male | ( There are Spoilers ) Obsessed with guns since he was a little boy Bert Tare , John Dall , never developed the killer instinct that goes in many instances along with them . Having shot and killed a chick as a boy Bert never shot a gun in anger or at anyone , animal or human , again even though he served in the US mili... |
568,817 | 2,721,657 | 397,313 | 9 | An unbreakable bond between man and his best friend | SPOILERS Just before the winter season hits the frozen continent a sled team mushes out to the 8913 foot Mt . Melborne on the shores of the frozen Ross Sea . With the guide Jerry Shepard , Paul Walker , rescuing his passenger archaeologist Dr . David McClaren , Bruce Greenwood , from a dangerous fall through the meltin... |
568,662 | 2,721,657 | 40,366 | 9 | The only way to successfully defeat evil is to expose it | SPOILERS John Garfield as big time mob lawyer Joe Morse at his best in a Cain and Able like story about the numbers racket in New York City . Where his brother Leo , Thomas Gomez , has a small neighborhood numbers bank that gets wiped out on July 4th when the number 776 which was heavily bet comes out not by chance but... |
568,065 | 2,721,657 | 20,686 | 9 | Breakout at Noon | ( Some Spoilers ) Brutal prison drama that ends in a storm of fire and bullets with a jail break that turns the state penitentiary into a free-fire zone . Young Kent Marlow , Robert Montgomery , is given ten years for a New Years Day car accident that killed a pedestrian . Kent is put in a cell with two hardened and ca... |
568,186 | 2,721,657 | 75,148 | 9 | You Take My Heart Away | Rocky both starts and ends in the boxing ring . We first see Rocky , Sylvester Stallone , in the ring fighting journeyman boxer Spider Rico , Pedro Lovell . After getting illegally butted by the Spider a mad and outraged Rocky pounds him into the ring and into defeat . Pushing 30 and with his best fighting days behin... |
568,327 | 2,721,657 | 82,694 | 9 | He lives now only in my memories | SPOILERS The very best of the thee apocalyptic and futuristic " Mad Max " action movies has Max , Mel Gibson , getting hooked up with this group of people stuck in the Australian desert in an oil refinery campsite that's being besieged by a gang of murderous outlaw bikers . Rescuing a member of the refinery group , who... |
568,460 | 2,721,657 | 75,314 | 9 | God's lonely man | SPOILERS Seeming out of nowhere a taxi rolls out of the night mist and as it turns sideways on the screen facing the theater audience the title of the movie appears in eerie neon , so starts Martin Scorese's " Taxi Driver " . Travis Bickle , Robert De Niro , keeps a diary at home where he records his thoughts as well a... |
568,487 | 2,721,657 | 57,840 | 9 | Don't show me how profitable it would be for me to fall in love with you Charlie , don't try to Americanize me | ( There are Spoilers ) You at first think that your watching an adult romantic WWII comedy set in England on the eve of D-Day until about a half hour into the movie . It's when Lt . Cmdr . Charlie Madison , James Garner , is having a talk with his pretty British driver Emiley Barham's , Julie Andrews , widowed mom Mrs ... |
568,167 | 2,721,657 | 82,089 | 9 | Steam Heat | SPOILERS Steamy melodrama set in Florida during the middle of a record heat wave which was nothing like the heat generated on the screen by the two stars , William Hurt & Kathleen Turner , in the movie . Ned Racine , William Hurt , a local lawyer one hot steamy night at a town concert meets sexy and sultry Matty Walker... |
568,450 | 2,721,657 | 436,720 | 9 | Bad Blood | The film " Ring of Fire " centers around the three Emile Griffith Benny " Kid " Paret Welterweights Championship bouts . The first taking place in Miami Beach on April 1 , 1961 . Griffith looking sluggish and behind on points suddenly came to life and wrestled the championship belt away from Paret flooring him in the 1... |
568,766 | 2,721,657 | 55,872 | 9 | Penetrating and Thought Provoking Movie | SPOILERS A movie that you can really say is ahead of it's time about the aftermath of a nuclear war that destroyed over 90 % of the human race . And due to the radiation left over from the nuclear bombardment lowered the birth-rate to 1 . 4 % . Making it impossible for the human race to survive without the creation of ... |
568,691 | 2,721,657 | 23,427 | 9 | My shutters , they don't work ! | ( There are Spoilers ) Unoubtaly the best of the depression era gangster movies that came out of Hollywood in the 1930's " Scarface " was so chilling and effective that it had it's director Howard Hawks , who owed the film , lock up all the prints and take the movie out of circulation back in 1932 the year it was relea... |
568,493 | 2,721,657 | 41,996 | 9 | Maximum Effort can't turn men into machines | ( Some Spoilers ) The movie starts in London in 1949 with former USAAF desk officer now American living in England Harvey Stovall , Dean Jagger , spotting in an antique shop window the cup mascot of his old Air Force unit , the 918th bomber group . After buying the cup Harvey drives with his bicycle to the old Archbury... |
568,011 | 2,721,657 | 363,163 | 10 | All Is Lost ! | Berlin April 1945 : The Red Army has launched it's last great offensive of the Second World War with a massive armored and infantry assault on the German capital . Deep inside a bunker underneath the German Reichstag is the German Fhurer Adolf Hitler , Bruno Ganz , and his general staff conducting the last desperate de... |
568,983 | 2,721,657 | 360,717 | 10 | Movie about a Big Gorilla with a Heart of Gold | Light years ahead of the 1976 re-make , courtesy of legendary hack movie producer Dino De Laurentis , this new version is not just better then he 1976 opus but actually improves over the 1933 unforgettable film classic . Starting out during the Great Depression in New York City circa 1932 hack movie maker , much like t... |
568,413 | 2,721,657 | 204,058 | 10 | How do you tell someone to be the last man to die for a mistake ? : John F . Kerry April 23 , 1971 | Powerful thought-provoking and sometimes almost unwatchable documentary about the men who were sent to South-East Asia to fight what has became the worst diplomatic and military disaster in America's 230 year history the Vietnam War . Filmed in late January and early February 1971 in a Detroit Howard Johnson that inclu... |
568,745 | 2,721,657 | 57,012 | 10 | We'll Meet Again Don't Know Were Don't Know when | SPOILERS Even though the movie " Dr . Strangelove " opens to the romantic and tender music of " Try A Little Tenderness " , as we see a B52 bomber being refiled in mid-air , and ends to the touching and sweet sound of " We'll Meet Again " , as we see the world go up in flames in a series of thermonuclear explosions , t... |
568,792 | 2,721,657 | 74,695 | 10 | Men ' O War | SPOILERS It's spring 1943 in the Taman Peninsula with the once invincible German Army in full retreat . After the German Wehrmacht suffered a disastrous defeat at Stalingrad earlier in the year the Red Army then launched a massive 500 mile offensive along the souther sector of the Eastern Front . One of it's main objec... |
568,502 | 2,721,657 | 183,649 | 10 | Terror On The Phone Line | Phone Booth is a one of a kind thriller even though the movie is under 90 minutes long , a rarity now a days for a feature film , not a minute or even second is wasted in the movie . " Phone Booth " could have easily been padded with extra and useless footage to make it seem impressive as a feature length film . It's... |
568,769 | 2,721,657 | 67,116 | 10 | Still holds up after all these years | Gritty and realistic police crime drama with the most exciting car chase in movie history . As Det . Jimmy " Popeye " Doyle , Gene Hackman , chases down assassin Pierre Nicoli , Marcel Bozzuffi , under the Brooklyn El-train that is as heart thumping now as it was some thirty years ago . True story of " The French Conne... |
568,845 | 2,721,657 | 117,381 | 10 | Extremely underrated thriller ; Not to be missed | SPOILER ALERT I was surprised looking at the IMDb top 250 movies that " Primal Fear " isn't among them while the more elaborately made and overrated thriller " The Usual Subjects " is listed as # 17 among the all time best in motion picture history . Both movies have narratives that build up to a shocking and surprisin... |
568,507 | 2,721,657 | 335,345 | 10 | Powerfully Gripping & Deeply Moving Motion Picture | I saw " The Passion of the Christ " the other day at a neighborhood theater and have to say this ; Never in my life was I so moved as well as emotionally drained and left speechless from a movie like this movie about the last day of Jesus Christ . When the movie ended and the lights went on as the credits rolled up the... |
568,209 | 2,721,657 | 63,522 | 10 | Year of the Devil | ( There are Spoilers ) One of the best horror movies ever made with almost no blood or splatters scenes at all with the exception of Terry , Victoria Vetri , jumping , off camera , to her death form the seventh floor of the Bramford Building . " Rosemary ' Baby " has to do with the most darkest fears one can conjure up... |
568,092 | 2,721,657 | 40,636 | 10 | Raw and naked emotions makes the city of New York the real star in this classic crime drama | SPOILERS Made on the hot and sweltering streets of New York City in the broiling summer of 1947 " The Naked City " is the first of many thousands , 4 , 450 according to the IMDb , of movies and TV shows that was filmed on location in the city of New York . Released in March of 1948 " The Naked City " at first became a ... |
568,842 | 2,721,657 | 63,663 | 10 | Cleansing of the Soul | The Swimmer was a critical and financial disappointment back in 1968 when it was released because it was a subject matter that was never covered before in the movies , as far as I know . The film was so ahead of it's time that the viewers back then couldn't quite understand just what it was trying to tell them . The ... |
568,462 | 2,721,657 | 48,545 | 10 | Friends always keep their Promises | ( There are Spoilers ) Being picked up for drunkenness Jim Stark , James Dean , is at the police station where he meets , without any formal introduction , Judy and Plato , Natalie Wood & Sal Mineo , who would become bonded with him later in the movie to the point where their a family . A family that they've never had ... |
568,664 | 2,721,657 | 361,596 | 10 | War Is a Racket | Major General Smedley Butler of the US Marine Corps wrote back in 1933 his famous essay on modern warfare entitled " War is a Racket " . Smedley Butler served his country for over thirty years in the US Marine Corps on three different continents in some dozen military engagements . Having won the Congressional Medal of... |
504,016 | 2,911,571 | 338,088 | 1 | Watching paint dry is better than this . . . | A low budget effort from Texas that's at least filmed well , but that is little consolation . Bad acting , or , should I say , bad over-acting , a pretty limp story line that's nothing new , bad special effects , bad , bad , bad . Seems like a bunch of young folks are putting together a haunted house for Halloween , wh... |
504,613 | 2,911,571 | 95,734 | 1 | Ptooey | Dan Haggerty has sure been in some fine movies . Elves , and this . . . and maybe some other equally fine movies . Grizzly Adams stuff , I reckon . I guess you could call this Nightmare on Elm Street meets Platoon , but that's an insult to Nightmare On Elm Street and I've never seen Platoon , but that's the first war m... |
504,981 | 2,911,571 | 1,224,436 | 1 | Huh ? | A young woman , driving along on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere , is having phone sex with her boyfriend ( ? ! ) when she realizes she's lost ( like she didn't appear to be already ) . She stops near an abandoned school bus with the words HELP ME written on the inside of the windows , gets two flat tires & of cou... |
504,014 | 2,911,571 | 244,800 | 1 | they don't get much worse than this | I've seen some bad and badly-made movies in my time but this might take the cake . And the whole birthday party right along with it . Seems that years ago some little boy got locked in the closet in this remote house by his mom , so she and her boyfriend could make whoopee , and he got out and killed them with ( wait f... |
505,603 | 2,911,571 | 378,491 | 1 | wow yet ANOTHER dead teen movie already ? | I'm a sucker every time for Hollywood video's 4 for $20 sales , meaning I find two I really want and then have to find two that might not be TOO bad but I'm generally WRONG about that . And here is one of my two rejects , " One of Them " , some low budget ca-ca about some teens that were on their way to see where one o... |
504,292 | 2,911,571 | 478,125 | 1 | the least fun you can have not being scared | Warning : Creepshow 3 has nothing to do with one and two , and why the makers were allowed to slap this name on it is beyond me . No involvement of any of the original players that made the first two enjoyable , no George Romero , no Stephen King . Now the first Creepshow was wonderful , with the takeoffs on EC comics ... |
505,604 | 2,911,571 | 405,308 | 1 | Awful doesn't quite say enough | First question is : Is First Look a " vanity " movie company ? As in , do would-be Steven Spielbergs put their money down to have their hunk-a-junk movies released ? Now THAT would make sense . What doesn't make sense is that someone at First Look would view this awful piece of garbage and actually think it was worth g... |
505,595 | 2,911,571 | 818,672 | 1 | a new low for Troma and the British Empire as well | OK , in theory this film does sound interesting . In execution , it's terrible , far more terrible than one could ever ask for . The idea is that there's a dog-napping ring that's supplying a neo-Nazi fast food empire run by a Hitler-like Pope , which is all well & good , and there's a junkie fetus and a drunken ventri... |
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