Krishicher - Movies

There are 30 galleries of 10 titles Below

1   *   Rosemary's Baby (1968)
          Directed by Roman Polanski
          Writing credits: Ira Levin (novel) Roman Polanski (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Mia Farrow....Rosemary Woodhouse
          John Cassavetes....Guy Woodhouse
          Ruth Gordon....Minnie Castevet
          Sidney Blackmer....Roman Castevet
          Maurice Evans....Edward 'Hutch' Hutchins

          Tagline: Pray for Rosemary's Baby

          Plot Summary: Rosemary and her new husband, Guy, move into a new apartment in
          New York, befriending an elderly couple who live near by…

2   *   Nine to Five (1980)
          Directed by Colin Higgins
          Writing credits: Patricia Resnick (story) Colin Higgins (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Jane Fonda....Judy Bernly
          Lily Tomlin....Violet Newstead
          Dolly Parton....Doralee Rhodes
          Dabney Coleman....Mr. Franklin Hart, Jr.
          Elizabeth Wilson....Roz Keith

          Tagline: The power behind the throne

          Plot Outline: Three female employees of a "sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical
          bigot" find a way to turn the tables on him.

3   *   Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
          Directed by James Whale
          Writing credits: William Hurlbut (adaptation)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Boris Karloff....The Monster
          Colin Clive....Dr. Henry Frankenstein
          Valerie Hobson....Elizabeth Frankenstein
          Elsa Lanchester....Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley/The Monster's Mate
          Ernest Thesige ....Dr. Pretorius

          Tagline: Warning! The Monster demands a Mate!

          Plot Outline: Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Dr.
          Frankenstein (goaded by an even madder scientist) builds his monster a mate.

4   *   Nashville (1975)
          Directed by Robert Altman
          Writing credits: Joan Tewkesbury
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Ned Beatty....Delbert Reese
          Karen Black....Connie White
          Ronee Blakley....Barbara Jean
          Henry Gibson....Haven Hamilton
          Lily Tomlin....Linnea Reese

          Tagline: The Home of Country Music

          Plot Summary: This movie tells the intersecting stories of various people connected
          to the music business in Nashville...

5   *   Apartment Zero (1988)
          Directed by Martin Donovan
          Writing credits: Martin Donovan (story) Martin Donovan (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Hart Bochner....Jack Carney
          Colin Firth....Adrian LeDuc
          Dora Bryan....Margaret McKinney
          Liz Smith....Mary Louise McKinney
          Fabrizio Bentivoglio....Carlos Sanchez-Verne

          Tagline: The best Hitchcock movie Hitchcock never made

          Plot Summary: Set in modern day Buenos Aires, the film centers around a relationship
          between two emotionally crippled roommates...

6   *   Sunset Blvd. (1950)
          Directed by Billy Wilder
          Writing credits: Charles Brackett (screenplay) Charles Brackett (story)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          William Holden....Joe Gillis
          Gloria Swanson....Norma Desmond
          Erich von Stroheim....Max Von Mayerling
          Nancy Olson....Betty Schaefer
          Fred Clark....Sheldrake

          Tagline: A Hollywood Story

          Plot Outline: Recently deceased hack writer Joe Gillis tells of his excursions
          with delusional silent movie star Norma Desmond.

7   *   Young Frankenstein (1974)
          Directed by Mel Brooks
          Writing credits: Mary Shelley (novel) Gene Wilder
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Gene Wilder....Dr. Frankenstein
          Peter Boyle....The Monster
          Marty Feldman....Igor
          Madeline Kahn....Elizabeth
          Cloris Leachman....Frau Blucher

          Tagline: The scariest comedy of all time!

          Plot Outline: Dr. Frankenstein's grandson, after years of living down the
          family reputation, inherits granddad's castle and repeats the experiments.

8   *   Frankenstein (1931)
          Directed by James Whale
          Writing credits: Mary Shelley (novel) Peggy Webling (play)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Colin Clive....Henry Frankenstein
          Mae Clarke....Elizabeth
          John Boles....Victor Moritz
          Boris Karloff....The Monster (as ???)
          Edward Van Sloan....Doctor Waldman

          Tagline: A Monster Science Created - But Could Not Destroy!

          Plot Outline: Frankenstein creates a true android from dead human parts, but
          it gets out of his control and gets into trouble.

9   *   Place in the Sun, A (1951)
          Directed by George Stevens
          Writing credits: Harry Brown Theodore Dreiser (novel)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Montgomery Clift....George Eastman
          Elizabeth Taylor....Angela Vickers
          Shelley Winters....Alice Tripp
          Anne Revere....Hannah Eastman
          Keefe Brasselle....Earl Eastman

          Tagline: I'm in trouble, George...bad trouble

          Plot Summary: It really looks like George Eastman can at last have his place
          in the sun. A chance meeting with a long lost uncle...

10   *   Citizen Kane (1941)
          Directed by Orson Welles
          Writing credits: Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Joseph Cotten....Jedediah Leland/Newsreel Reporter
          Dorothy Comingore.…Susan Alexander Kane
          Agnes Moorehead....Mrs. Mary Kane
          Ruth Warrick....Emily Monroe Norton Kane
          Ray Collins....Boss James 'Jim' W. Gettys

          Tagline: It's Terrific!

          Plot Outline: Powerful newspaper owner Charles Foster Kane was many things
          to many people, both in life and, as seen in retrospective here, in death.

11   *   Sullivan's Travels (1942)
          Directed by Preston Sturges
          Writing credits: Preston Sturges
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Joel McCrea....John L. Sullivan
          Veronica Lake....The Girl
          Robert Warwick....Mr. Lebrand
          William Demarest....Mr. Jones
          Franklin Pangborn....Mr. Casalsis

          Tagline: Veronica Lake's on the take.

          Plot Outline: A director of escapist films goes on the road as a hobo to learn about
          Life...which gives him a rude awakening.

12   *   Silkwood (1983)
          Directed by Mike Nichols
          Writing credits: Alice Arlen, Nora Ephron
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Meryl Streep....Karen Silkwood
          Kurt Russell....Drew Stephens
          Cher....Dolly Pelliker
          Craig T. Nelson....Winston
          Diana Scarwid....Angela

          Tagline: On November 13, 1974, Karen Silkwood, an employee of a nuclear facility,
          left to meet with a reporter from the New York Times. She never got there.

          Plot Outline: The story of Karen Silkwood, a nuclear reactor worker who might have
          been murdered to prevent her expose of wrongdoing at the power plant.

13   *   Touch of Evil (1958)
          Directed by Orson Welles
          Writing credits: Whit Masterson (novel), Orson Welles
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Charlton Heston....Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas
          Janet Leigh....Susan Vargas
          Orson Welles....Capt. Hank Quinlan
          Joseph Calleia....Sgt. Pete Menzies
          Akim Tamiroff....Uncle Joe Grandi

          Tagline: The Strangest Vengeance Ever Planned!

          Plot Summary: A Mexican narcotics officer clashes with a corrupt American cop after
          a car explodes on the border, but complications set in...

14   *   Once Were Warriors (New Zealand, 1994)
          Directed by Lee Tamahori
          Writing credits: Riwia Brown, Alan Duff (novel)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Rena Owen....Beth Heke
          Temuera Morrison....Jake Heke
          Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell....Grace Heke
          Julian Arahanga....Nig Heke
          Taungaroa Emile....Boogie Heke

          Tagline: Her only chance for the future is to embrace the power of her past.

          Plot Outline: A family descended from Maori warriors is bedeviled by a violent
          father and the societal problems of being treated as outcasts.

15   *   Raising Arizona (1987)
          Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
          Writing credits: Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Nicolas Cage....H.I.
          Holly Hunter....Ed
          Trey Wilson....Nathan Arizona, Sr.
          John Goodman....Gale
          William Forsythe....Evelle

          Tagline: A comedy beyond belief.

          Plot Outline: When a childless couple of an ex-con and an ex-cop decide to help
          themselves to one of another family's quintupelets.

16   *   Invisible Man, The (1933)
          Directed by James Whale
          Writing credits: R.C. Sherriff, H.G. Wells (novel)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Claude Rains....The Invisible Man
          Gloria Stuart....Flora Cranley
          William Harrigan....Doctor Kemp
          Henry Travers....Doctor Cranley
          Una O'Connor....Jenny Hall, Innkeeper's Wife

          Tagline: Catch him if you can!

          Plot Outline: A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so,
          he becomes murderously insane.

17   *   3 Women (1977)
          Directed by Robert Altman
          Writing credits: Robert Altman, Patricia Resnick
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Shelley Duvall….Millie Lammoreaux
          Sissy Spacek….Pinky Rose
          Janice Rule….Willie Hart
          Robert Fortier….Edgar Hart
          Ruth Nelson….Mrs. Rose

          Tagline: 1 woman became 2/2 women became 3/3 women became 1

          Plot Summary: Pinky is an awkward young teen who starts work at a spa in the CA. Desert. She
          becomes overly attached to fellow spa attendant, Millie when she becomes Millie's roommate.

18   *   Airplane! (1980)
          Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
          Writing credits: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Lloyd Bridges….Steve McCroskey
          Peter Graves….Captain Clarence Oveur
          Julie Hagerty….Elaine Dickinson
          Robert Hays….Ted Striker
          Leslie Nielsen….Dr. Rumack

          Tagline: What's slower than a speeding bullet, and able to hit tall buildings at a single bound?

          Plot Summary: Still craving for the love of his life, Ted Striker follows Elaine onto
          the flight that she is working on as a member of the cabin crew.

19   *   Reservoir Dogs (1992)
          Directed by Quentin Tarantino
          Writing credits: Roger Avary (background radio dialog writer), Quentin Tarantino (written by)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Harvey Keitel....Mr. White/Lawrence 'Larry' Dimmick
          Tim Roth....Mr. Orange/Freddy Newandyke
          Michael Madsen....Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega
          Chris Penn....Nice Guy Eddie Cabot
          Steve Buscemi....Mr. Pink

          Tagline: Five Total Strangers Team Up For The Perfect Crime. They Don't Know Each
          Other's Name. But They've Got Each Other's Number.

          Plot Outline: After a bloody diamond heist, the crooks recall their previous actions
          and argue about what went wrong.

20   *   King Kong (1933)
          Directed by Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
          Writing credits: Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Fay Wray....Ann Darrow
          Robert Armstrong....Carl Denham, Leader of Expedition
          Bruce Cabot....Jack Driscoll, First Mate
          Frank Reicher....Captain Englehorn
          Sam Hardy....Charles Weston

          Tagline: The Most Awesome Thriller of All Time

          Plot Outline: An expedition team go to a tropical island and discover a colossal
          giant gorilla who takes a shine to their female blonde companion.

21   *   Room with a View, A (Great Britain, 1986)
          Directed by James Ivory
          Writing credits: E.M. Forster (novel), Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Maggie Smith....Charlotte Bartlett
          Helena Bonham Carter....Lucy Honeychurch
          Denholm Elliott....Mr. Emerson
          Julian Sands....George Emerson
          Simon Callow....The Reverend Mr. Beebe

          Tagline: none

          Plot Summary: When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett find themselves
          in Florence with rooms without views...

22   *   Hud (1963)
          Directed by Martin Ritt
          Writing credits: Harriet Frank Jr., Larry McMurtry (novel)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Paul Newman.... Hud Bannon
          Melvyn Douglas....Homer Bannon
          Patricia Neal....Alma Brown
          Brandon De Wilde....Lonnie Bannon (as Brandon de Wilde)
          Whit Bissell....Mr. Burris, Vet

          Tagline: The man with the barbed wire soul!

          Plot Summary: Hud Bannon has always preferred drinking, fighting and womanizing to
          the very traditional ways of his father...

23   *   After Hours (1985)
          Directed by Martin Scorsese
          Writing credits: Joseph Minion
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Griffin Dunne....Paul Hackett
          Rosanna Arquette....Marcy
          Linda Fiorentino....Kiki Bridges
          Teri Garr....Julie
          Catherine O'Hara....Gail

          Tagline: When it's after midnight in New York City, you don't have to look for love,
          laughter and trouble. They'll all find you!

          Plot Summary: Paul meets Marcy at a coffee shop after work, and gets her phone
          number. He calls her, she asks him to come over...

24   *   Wings of Desire (Himmel, ber Berlin) (Germany, 1987)
          Directed by Wim Wenders
          Writing credits: Peter Handke, Wim Wenders
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Bruno Ganz....Damiel
          Solveig Dommartin....Marion
          Otto Sander....Cassiel
          Curt Bois....Homer
          Peter Falk....Himself

          Tagline: There are angels on the streets of Berlin.

          Plot Outline: An angel tires of overseeing human activity and wishes to become
          human when he falls in love with a mortal.

25   *   Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
          Directed by Mike Nichols
          Writing credits: Edward Albee (play), Ernest Lehman
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Elizabeth Taylor....Martha
          Richard Burton....George
          George Segal....Nick
          Sandy Dennis....Honey

          Tagline: You are cordially invited to George and Martha's for an evening of fun and games.

          Plot Outline: A night of fun and drinks for two college professors (one old, one new)
          and their wives turns into an emotional and psychological nightmare.

26   *   Rules of the Game (Règle du jeu, La) (France,1939)
          Directed by Jean Renoir
          Writing credits: Carl Koch, Jean Renoir
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Nora Gregor....Christine de la Cheyniest
          Paulette Dubost....Lisette, sa CamÈriste
          Mila ParÈly....GeneviËve de Marras
          Odette Talazac....Mme de la Plante
          Claire GÈrard....Mme de la BruyËre

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: André Jurieux has just completed a record-setting flight, but when he is greeted by an admiring
          crowd, all he can say to them is how miserable he is that the woman he loves did not come to meet him.

27   *   Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)
          Directed by John Frankenheimer
          Writing credits: Richard Condon (novel), George Axelrod (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Frank Sinatra.... Captain/Major Bennett Marco
          Laurence Harvey....Raymond Shaw
          Janet Leigh....Eugenie Rose 'Rosie' Chaney
          Angela Lansbury....Mrs. Iselin
          Henry Silva....Chunjin

          Tagline: Once unbelievable. Now unthinkable. The chilling classic returns.

          Plot Outline: A group of American soldiers are captured and brainwashed into
          becoming sleeper agents.

28   *   Wizard of Oz, The (1939)
          Directed by Victor Fleming and Richard Thorpe
          Writing credits: L. Frank Baum (novel), Noel Langley
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Judy Garland....Dorothy Gale
          Frank Morgan....Professor Marvel/The Doorman/The Cabbie/The Wizard of Oz
          Ray Bolger....Hunk/The Scarecrow
          Jack Haley....Hickory/The Tin Man
          Bert Lahr....Zeke/The Cowardly Lion

          Tagline: Gaiety! Glory! Glamour!

          Plot Outline: Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks
          on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home.

29   *   Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The (1947)
          Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
          Writing credits: R.A. Dick (novel), Philip Dunne
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Gene Tierney .... Lucy Muir
          Rex Harrison .... Capt. Daniel Gregg
          George Sanders .... Miles Fairley
          Edna Best .... Martha Huggins
          Vanessa Brown .... Anna Muir as an Adult

          Tagline: Is Lucy Muir's love really a ghost, or is it a man of flesh and blood she yearns for?

          Plot Outline: In 1900, a young widow finds her seaside cottage is haunted...and forms a
          unique relationship with the ghost.

30   *   Lady from Shanghai, The (1948)
          Directed by Orson Welles
          Writing credits: Sherwood King (novel), Orson Welles
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Rita Hayworth....Mrs. Elsa 'Rosalie' Bannister
          Orson Welles....Michael O'Hara aka Black Irish/Narrator
          Everett Sloane....Arthur Bannister, Criminal Lawyer
          Glenn Anders....George Grisby, Bannister's Law Partn
          Ted de Corsia....Sidney Broome, Bannister's Butler

          Tagline: "I told you... you know nothing about wickedness"

          Plot Outline: Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a
          bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.

31   *   Brazil (Great Britain, 1985)
          Directed by Terry Gilliam
          Writing credits: Terry Gilliam, Charles McKeown
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Jonathan Pryce....Sam Lowry
          Robert De Niro....Archibald 'Harry' Tuttle
          Katherine Helmond....Mrs. Ida Lowry
          Ian Holm....Mr. M. Kurtzmann
          Bob Hoskins....Spoor

          Tagline: It's only a state of mind.

          Plot Outline: A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative
          error and himself becomes an enemy of the state.

32   *   Pulp Fiction (1994)
          Directed by Quentin Tarantino
          Writing credits: Quentin Tarantino (stories), Roger Avary (stories)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          John Travolta....Vincent Vega
          Samuel L. Jackson....Jules Winnfield
          Uma Thurman....Mia Wallace
          Eric Stoltz....Lance
          Rosanna Arquette....Jody

          Tagline: Girls like me don't make invitations like this to just anyone!

          Plot Outline: The stories of two mob hit men, a boxer and a pair of diner bandits
          intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.

33   *   Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
          Directed by Frank Capra
          Writing credits: Joseph Kesselring (play), Julius J. Epstein
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Cary Grant....Mortimer Brewster
          Priscilla Lane....Elaine Harper/Elaine Brewster
          Raymond Massey....Jonathan Brewster
          Jack Carson....Officer Patrick 'Pat' O'Hara
          Edward Everett Horton....Mr. Witherspoon

          Tagline: She Passed Out On Cary! No Wonder...She's just discovered his favorite aunts have poisoned their
          13th gentleman friend !

          Plot Outline: A man learns that his kindly old aunts and his sinister brother are all serial
          killers, and tries to sort it out fast so he can go on his honeymoon.

34   *   Search, The (1948)
          Directed by Fred Zinnemann
          Writing credits: Paul Jarrico, Richard Schweizer (also story)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Montgomery Clift....Ralph Stevenson
          Aline MacMahon....Mrs. Murray
          Wendell Corey....Jerry Fisher
          Jarmila Novotna....Mrs. Malik
          Ivan Jandl....Karel Malik

          Tagline: It's a wonderful motion picture!

          Plot Outline: A young Auschwitz survivor and his mother search for each other in
          postwar Germany.

35   *   Spirit of the Beehive, The (Espíritu de la colmena, La) (Spain, 1973)
          Directed by VÌctor Erice
          Writing credits: VÌctor Erice (also story), ¡ngel Fern·ndez Santos
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Fernando Fernán Gómez....Fernando
          Teresa Gimpera....Teresa
          Ana Torrent....Ana
          Isabel Tellería....Isabel
          Ketty de la Cámara….Milagros, la criada

          Tagline: none

          Plot Summary: In Castile c.1940, a travelling movie theatre brings James Whale's b/w
          film classic "Frankenstein" (1931) to a village...

36   *   Shampoo (1975)
          Directed by Hal Ashby
          Writing credits: Robert Towne (written by) and Warren Beatty (written by)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Warren Beatty....George Roundy
          Julie Christie....Jackie Shawn
          Goldie Hawn....Jill
          Lee Grant....Felicia
          Jack Warden....Lester

          Tagline: In a town where anything goes, everything does in this funny bedroom farce.

          Plot Summary: In this farcical satire of 70s sexual practices, Warren Beatty is a
          hairdresser who simply can't resist the women he glamorizes...

37   *   Knife in the Water (Nóz w wodzie) (Poland, 1962)
          Directed by Roman Polanski
          Writing credits: Jakub Goldberg, Roman Polanski
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Leon Niemczyk....Andrzej
          Jolanta Umecka....Krystyna
          Zygmunt Malanowicz....Young Boy
          Anna Ciepielewska….Krystyna (voice) (uncredited)
          Roman Polanski….Young Boy (voice) (uncredited)

          Tagline: none

          Plot Summary: A couple driving along a deserted road to a lake almost run over a
          young man, a student, who flags down the car almost too closely...

38   *   Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
          Directed by Billy Wilder
          Writing credits: Agatha Christie (play), Larry Marcus (adaptation)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Tyrone Power....Leonard Stephen Vole
          Marlene Dietrich....Christine Helm Vole
          Charles Laughton....Sir Wilfrid Robarts
          Elsa Lanchester....Miss Plimsoll
          John Williams....Mr. Brogan-Moore

          Tagline: Once in 50 years suspense like this!

          Plot Outline: Agatha Christie tale of a man on trial for murder: a trial featuring surprise
          after surprise.

39   *   Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
          Directed by Stanley Kubrick
          Writing credits: Peter George (novel), Stanley Kubrick
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Peter Sellers....Captain Lionel Mandrake/President Merkin Muffley/Dr. Strangelove
          George C. Scott....General 'Buck' Turgidson
          Sterling Hayden....Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper
          Keenan Wynn....Colonel 'Bat' Guano
          Slim Pickens....Major T.J. 'King' Kong

          Tagline: The hot-line suspense comedy.

          Plot Outline: An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of
          politicians and generals frantically try to stop.

40   *   Citizen Ruth (1996)
          Directed by Alexander Payne
          Writing credits: Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Laura Dern….Ruth Stoops
          Swoosie Kurtz….Diane Siegler
          Kurtwood Smith….Norm Stoney
          Mary Kay Place….Gail Stoney
          Kelly Preston….Rachel

          Tagline: Meet Ruth Stoops...One Bad Mother.

          Plot Outline: An irresponsible, drug-addicted, recently impregnated woman finds herself in the middle of
          an abortion debate when both parties attempt to sway her to their respective sides.

41   *   Gilda (1946)
          Directed by Charles Vidor
          Writing credits: Jo Eisinger (adaptation), E.A. Ellington (story)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Rita Hayworth....Gilda
          Glenn Ford....Johnny Farrell/Narrator
          George Macready....Ballin Mundson, Casino Owner
          Joseph Calleia....Detective Maurice Obregon
          Steven Geray....Uncle Pio, Mundson's Butler

          Tagline: There NEVER was a woman like Gilda!

          Plot Outline: The sinister boss of a South American casino finds that his right-hand man
          Johnny and his sensuous new wife Gilda already know each other.

42   *   Fisher King, The (1991)
          Directed by Terry Gilliam
          Writing credits: Richard LaGravenese
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Jeff Bridges....Jack Lucas
          Adam Bryant....Radio Engineer
          Robin Williams....Parry
          Paul J. Lombardi....Radio Engineer (as Paul Lombardi)
          Mercedes Ruehl....Anne

          Tagline: A Modern Day Tale About The Search For Love, Sanity, Ethel Merman, and the Holy Grail.

          Plot Outline: A radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a horrible mistake he made,
          finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was a victim of it.

43   *   Sleeping Beauty (1959)
          Directed by Clyde Geronimi
          Writing credits: Milt Banta, Winston Hibler
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Mary Costa....Princess Aurora/Briar Rose (voice)
          Bill Shirley....Prince Phillip (voice)
          Eleanor Audley....Maleficent (voice)
          Verna Felton....Flora (voice)
          Barbara Luddy....Merryweather (voice)

          Tagline: Wondrous to see... Glorious to hear... A magnificent new motion picture!

          Plot Outline: A snubbed malevolent fairy casts a curse on a princess that only a prince
          can break, with the help of three good fairies.

44   *   Women, The (1939)
          Directed by George Cukor
          Writing credits: Anita Loos, Clare Boothe Luce (play)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Norma Shearer....Mrs. Stephen Haines (Mary)
          Joan Crawford....Crystal Allen
          Rosalind Russell....Mrs. Howard Fowler (Sylvia)
          Mary Boland....The Countess DeLave (Flora)
          Paulette Goddard....Miriam Aarons

          Tagline: It's all about men!

          Plot Summary: Wealthy Mary Haines is unaware her husband is having an affair with
          shopgirl Crystal Allen. Sylvia Fowler and Edith Potter...

45   *   Blue Velvet (1986)
          Directed by David Lynch
          Writing credits: David Lynch
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Isabella Rossellini....Dorothy Vallens
          Kyle MacLachlan....Jeffrey Beaumont
          Dennis Hopper....Frank Booth
          Laura Dern....Sandy Williams
          Hope Lange....Mrs. Williams

          Tagline: It's a strange world.

          Plot Outline: An innocent young man discovers that a dark underworld exists beneath
          the surface of his seemingly quiet hometown.

46   *   Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
          Directed by Fred Schepisi
          Writing credits: John Guare
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Stockard Channing....Ouisa
          Will Smith....Paul
          Donald Sutherland....Flan
          Ian McKellen....Geoffrey
          Mary Beth Hurt....Kitty

          Tagline: For Paul, every person is a new door to a new world.

          Plot Summary: Flan and Ouisa Kittredge, rich NYC art dealers, are called on one night
          by a young man, Paul, who professes to be a friend of their kids' from Harvard...

47   *   Aladdin (1992)
          Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker
          Writing credits: Roger Allers (story), Ron Clements
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Scott Weinger....Aladdin 'Al'/Prince Ali Ababwa (voice)
          Robin Williams....The Blue Genie of the Lamp (voice)
          Linda Larkin....Princess Jasmine (voice)
          Jonathan Freeman....Grand Vizier Jafar (voice)
          Frank Welker....Abu the Monkey (voice)

          Tagline: Imagine if you had three wishes, three hopes, three dreams and they all could come ture.

          Plot Outline: Aladdin, a street urchin, accidentally meets Princess Jasmine, who is in the
          city undercover. They love each other, but she can only marry a prince.

48   *   Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
          Directed by David Hand
          Writing credits: Ted Sears (story) and Richard Creedon (story)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Adriana Caselotti....Snow White (uncredited) (voice)
          Pinto Colvig....Sleepy/Grumpy (uncredited) (voice)
          Billy Gilbert....Sneezy (uncredited) (voice)
          Otis Harlan....Happy (uncredited) (voice)
          Lucille La Verne....The Queen/Witch (uncredited) (voice)

          Tagline: Still the fairest of them all!

          Plot Outline: Snow, pursued by a jealous queen, hides with the Dwarfs; the queen feeds
          her a poison apple, but Prince Charming awakens her with a kiss.

49   *   This Gun for Hire (1942)
          Directed by Frank Tuttle
          Writing credits: Graham Greene (novel), Albert Maltz
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Veronica Lake....Ellen Graham
          Robert Preston....Lieut. Michael Crane
          Laird Cregar....Willard Gates, Owner Neptune Club
          Alan Ladd....Philip Raven
          Tully Marshall....Alvin Brewster, President Nitro Chemical Corp.

          Tagline: He's dynamite with a gun or a girl.

          Plot Summary: Hit man Philip Raven, who's kind to children and cats, kills a blackmailer
          and is paid off by traitor Willard Gates in "hot" money...

50   *   From Here to Eternity (1953)
          Directed by Fred Zinnemann
          Writing credits: James Jones (novel), Daniel Taradash
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Burt Lancaster....First Sergeant Milton Warden
          Montgomery Clift....Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt
          Deborah Kerr....Karen Holmes
          Donna Reed....Alma Burke (Lorene)
          Frank Sinatra....Pvt. Angelo Maggio

          Tagline: The boldest book of our time... Honestly, fearlessly on the screen!

          Plot Outline: In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's
          team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.

51      Schindler's List (1993)
          Directed by Steven Spielberg
          Writing credits: Thomas Keneally (novel), Steven Zaillian (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Liam Neeson....Oskar Schindler
          Ben Kingsley....Itzhak Stern
          Ralph Fiennes....Amon Goeth
          Caroline Goodall....Emilie Schindler
          Jonathan Sagall....Poldek Pfefferberg (as Jonathan Sagalle)

          Tagline: Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

          Plot Outline: Oskar Schindler uses Jews to start a factory in Poland during the war. He
          witnesses the horrors endured by the Jews, and starts to save them.

52   *   All About Eve (1950)
          Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
          Writing credits: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Bette Davis....Margo Channing
          Anne Baxter....Eve Harrington
          George Sanders....Addison DeWitt
          Celeste Holm....Karen Richards
          Gary Merrill....Bill Sampson

          Tagline: It's all about women---and their men!

          Plot Outline: An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an established but
          aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends.

53   *   Beauty and the Beast (Belle et la bête, La) (France, 1946)
          Directed by Jean Cocteau
          Writing credits: Jean Cocteau, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (story)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Jean Marais....Avenant/The Beast/The Prince
          Josette Day....Beauty
          Mila ParÈly....Felicie
          Nane Germon....Adelaide
          Michel Auclair....Ludovic

          Tagline: none

          Plot Summary: "Once upon a time..." A half-ruined merchant lives in the country with
          his son Ludovic and his three daughters...

54   *   Five Easy Pieces (1970)
          Directed by Bob Rafelson
          Writing credits: Bob Rafelson (story), Carole Eastman (also story)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Jack Nicholson....Robert Eroica Dupea
          Karen Black....Rayette Dipesto
          Billy Green Bush....Elton
          Fannie Flagg....Stoney
          Sally Struthers....Betty

          Tagline: He Rode the Fast Lane on the Road to Nowhere.

          Plot Outline: A trashy oil rigger returns home to comfort his dying father, where he is
          confronted with the past he ran away from: A successful career as a classical pianist.

55   *   Blowup (Great Britain, 1966)
          Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
          Writing credits: Julio Cort·zar (story) and Michelangelo Antonioni (story)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          David Hemmings....Thomas
          Vanessa Redgrave....Jane
          Peter Bowles....Ron
          Sarah Miles....Patricia
          John Castle....Bill

          Tagline: Antonioni's camera never flinches. At love without meaning. At murder
          without guilt. At the dazzle and madness of youth today.

          Plot Summary: A photographer who is talented but aimless has photographed violence
          and pain without feeling any involvement...

56   *   Rear Window (1954)
          Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
          Writing credits: John Michael Hayes, Cornell Woolrich (story)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          James Stewart....L. B. 'Jeff' Jeffries
          Grace Kelly....Lisa Carol Fremont
          Wendell Corey....Lieutenant Thomas J. Doyle
          Thelma Ritter....Stella
          Raymond Burr....Lars Thorwald

          Tagline: See It! - If your nerves can stand it.

          Plot Outline: A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his
          apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

57   *   2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
          Directed by Stanley Kubrick
          Writing credits: Arthur C. Clarke (story), Stanley Kubrick
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Keir Dullea....Dr. David 'Dave' Bowman, Mission Commander
          Gary Lockwood....Dr. Frank Poole, Astronaut
          William Sylvester....Dr. Heywood R. Floyd, National Council of Astronautics
          Daniel Richter....Moonwatcher
          Leonard Rossiter....Dr. Andre Smyslov, meets with Dr. Floyd at orbiting Hilton Hotel

          Tagline: An epic drama of adventure and exploration.

          Plot Outline: Mankind finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, artifact buried on the
          moon and, with the intelligent computer HAL, sets off on a quest.

58   *   Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
          Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
          Writing credits: Gordon McDonell (story), Thornton Wilder
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Teresa Wright....Young Charlie
          Joseph Cotten....Uncle Charlie
          Macdonald Carey....Detective Jack Graham
          Henry Travers....Joseph Newton
          Patricia Collinge....Emma Newton

          Tagline: A Blast of DRAMATIC Dynamite exploded right before your eyes!

          Plot Outline: A young woman discovers her visiting "Uncle Charlie" may not be the man he seems to be.


59   *   Snake Pit, The (1948)
          Directed by Anatole Litvak
          Writing credits: Millen Brand, Frank Partos
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Olivia de Havilland....Virginia Stuart Cunningham
          Mark Stevens....Robert Cunningham
          Leo Genn....Doctor Mark Kick
          Celeste Holm....Grace
          Glenn Langan....Doctor Terry

          Tagline: Married and in Love...with a Man She Didn't Know or Want!

          Plot Summary: Virginia Cunningham finds herself in a state insane asylum...and can't
          remember how she got there. In flashback...

60   *   Safety Last (1923)
          Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
          Writing credits: Jean C. Havez, Sam Taylor
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Harold Lloyd....Harold Lloyd
          Mildred Davis....The Girl (Mildred)
          Bill Strothers....The Pal (Limpy Bill)
          Noah Young....The Law
          Westcott Clarke....Head Floorwalker (Mr. Stubbs)

          Tagline: It's a Lloyd film--That's enough!

          Plot Outline: When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall
          building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.

61   *   Player, The (1992)
          Directed by Robert Altman
          Writing credits: Michael Tolkin
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Tim Robbins….Griffin Mill
          Greta Scacchi….June Gudmundsdottir
          Fred Ward….Walter Stuckel
          Whoopi Goldberg….Detective Avery
          Peter Gallagher….Larry Levy

          Tagline: Making movies can be murder.

          Plot Outline: A studio executive is being blackmailed by a writer whose script he rejected but which one?
          Loaded with Hollywood insider jokes.

62   *   Fearless (1993)
          Directed by Peter Weir
          Writing credits: Rafael Yglesias
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Jeff Bridges….Max Klein
          Isabella Rossellini….Laura Klein
          Rosie Perez….Carla Rodrigo
          Tom Hulce….Brillstein
          John Turturro….Dr. Bill Perlman

          Tagline: Some people are afraid of nothing.

          Plot Outline: A man's personality is dramatically changed after surviving a major airline crash.


63   *   Two Women (Ciociara, La) (Italy, 1961)
          Directed by Vittorio De Sica
          Writing credits: Alberto Moravia (novel), Cesare Zavattini (adaptation and screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Sophia Loren….Cesira
          Jean-Paul Belmondo….Michele Di Libero
          Eleonora Brown….Rosetta
          Carlo Ninchi….Filippo, il padre di Michele
          Andrea Checchi….Un fascista

          Tagline: Suddenly...Love Becomes Lust...Innocence becomes shame...As two women are trapped by violent
          passion and unforgettable terror!

          Plot Outline: Cesira and her 13-year-old daughter, Rosetta, flee from the allied bombs in Rome during the
          second world war...

64      Sophie's Choice (1982)
          Directed by: Alan J. Pakula
          Writing credits: William Styron (novel), Alan J. Pakula (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Meryl Streep….Sophie
          Kevin Kline….Nathan
          Peter MacNicol….Stingo
          Rita Karin….Yetta
          Stephen D. Newman….Larry

          Tagline: Between the innocent, the romantic, the sensual, and the unthinkable. There are still some things
          we have yet to imagine.

          Plot Outline: Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live in Nathan...

65   *   Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
          Directed by Jonathan Demme
          Writing credits: Thomas Harris (novel), Ted Tally (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Jodie Foster….Clarice Starling
          Anthony Hopkins….Dr. Hannibal Lecter
          Ted Levine….Jame Gumb
          Brooke Smith….Catherine Martin
          Scott Glenn….Jack Crawford

          Tagline: To enter the mind of a killer she must challenge the mind of a madman.

          Plot Outline: A young FBI cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help
          on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.

66   *   Charade (1963)
          Directed by Stanley Donen
          Writing credits: Peter Stone (screenplay), Peter Stone (story), Marc Behm (story)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Cary Grant….Peter Joshua
          Audrey Hepburn….Regina Lampert
          Walter Matthau….Hamilton Bartholemew
          James Coburn….Tex Panthollow
          George Kennedy….Herman Scobie

          Tagline: You can expect the unexpected when they play..."Charade"

          Plot Outline: Romance and suspense in Paris, as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune
          her murdered husband had stolen. Who can she trust?

67   *   Strangers on a Train (1951)
          Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
          Writing credits: Patricia Highsmith (novel), Raymond Chandler, Czenzi Ormonde (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Farley Granger….Guy Haines
          Ruth Roman….Anne Morton
          Robert Walker….Bruno Antony
          Leo G. Carroll….Sen. Morton
          Patricia Hitchcock….Barbara Morton

          Tagline: A tennis star plays a match with murder!

          Plot Outline: A psychotic socialite confronts a pro tennis star with a theory on how two complete
          strangers can get away with murder...a theory that he plans to implement.

68   *   Casablanca (1943)
          Directed by Michael Curtiz
          Writing credits: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Humphrey Bogart….Rick Blaine
          Ingrid Bergman….Ilsa Lund
          Paul Henreid….Victor Laszlo
          Claude Rains….Captain Louis Renault
          Conrad Veidt….Major Heinrich Strasser

          Tagline: As exciting as the landing at Casablanca!

          Plot Outline: Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate
          meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

69   *   Face in the Crowd, A (1957)
          Directed by Elia Kazan
          Writing credits: Budd Schulberg
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Andy Griffith….Larry 'Lonesome' Rhodes
          Patricia Neal….Marcia Jeffries
          Anthony Franciosa….Joey DePalma
          Walter Matthau….Mel Miller
          Lee Remick….Betty Lou Fleckum

          Tagline: POWER! He loved it! He took it raw in big gulpfuls...he liked the taste, the way it mixed
          with the bourbon and the sin in his blood!

          Plot Outline: An Arkansas hobo becomes an overnight media sensation. But as he becomes drunk with
          fame and power, will he ever be exposed as the fraud he has become?

70   *   To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
          Directed by Robert Mulligan
          Writing credits: Harper Lee (novel), Horton Foote (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Gregory Peck….Atticus Finch
          Mary Badham….Scout
          Phillip Alford….Jem
          John Megna….Dill Harris
          Ruth White….Mrs. Dubose

          Tagline: The most beloved Pulitzer Prize book now comes vividly alive on the screen!

          Plot Outline: Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against
          an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice.

71   *   It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
          Directed by Frank Capra
          Writing credits: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          James Stewart….George Bailey
          Donna Reed….Mary Hatch
          Lionel Barrymore….Henry F. Potter
          Thomas Mitchell….Uncle Billy Bailey
          Henry Travers….Clarence

          Tagline: They're making memories tonight!

          Plot Outline: An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by
          showing what life would have been like if he never existed.

72   *   Midnight Cowboy (1969)
          Directed by John Schlesinger
          Writing credits: James Leo Herlihy (novel), Waldo Salt (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Dustin Hoffman….Ratso
          Jon Voight….Joe Buck
          Sylvia Miles….Cass
          John McGiver….Mr. O'Daniel
          Brenda Vaccaro….Shirley

          Tagline: Whatever you hear about Midnight Cowboy is true.

          Plot Outline: A naive male prostitute and his sickly friend struggle to survive on the streets
          of New York City.

73   *   Cabaret (1972)
          Directed by Bob Fosse
          Writing credits: Joe Masteroff (play), Jay Presson Allen (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Liza Minnelli….Sally Bowles
          Michael York….Brian Roberts
          Helmut Griem….Maximilian von Heune
          Joel Grey….Master of Ceremonies
          Fritz Wepper….Fritz Wendel

          Tagline: Life is a Cabaret

          Plot Outline: A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men
          while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.

74   *   Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
          Directed by Steven Spielberg
          Writing credits: Steven Spielberg
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Richard Dreyfuss….Roy Neary
          François Truffaut….Claude Lacombe
          Teri Garr….Ronnie Neary
          Melinda Dillon….Jillian Guiler
          Bob Balaban….David Laughlin

          Tagline: We are not alone

          Plot Outline: After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated
          area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

75   *   Metropolis (Germany, 1926)
          Directed by Fritz Lang
          Writing credits: Thea von Harbou
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Alfred Abel….Joh Fredersen
          Gustav Fröhlich….Freder - Joh Fredersen's Son
          Rudolf Klein-Rogge….C.A. Rotwang - the Inventor
          Fritz Rasp….The Thin Man
          Theodor Loos….Josaphat

          Tagline: There can be no understanding between the hands and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.

          Plot Outline: In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's
          mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

76   *   Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, Das) (Germany, 1919)
          Directed by Robert Wiene
          Writing credits: Carl Mayer, Hans Janowitz
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Werner Krauss….Dr. Caligari
          Conrad Veidt….Cesare
          Friedrich Feher….Francis
          Lil Dagover….Jane Olsen
          Hans Heinrich von Twardowski….Alan

          Tagline: The most amazing story ever screened.

          Plot Outline: Dr. Caligari's somnambulist, Cesare, and his deadly predictions.


77   *   Planet of the Apes (1968)
          Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
          Writing credits: Pierre Boulle (novel), Michael Wilson, Rod Serling (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Charlton Heston….George Taylor
          Roddy McDowall….Cornelius
          Kim Hunter….Zira
          Maurice Evans….Dr. Zaius
          James Whitmore….President of the Assembly

          Tagline: Somewhere in the Universe, there must be something better than man!

          Plot Outline: An astronaut crew crash lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking
          apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.

78   *   Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens) (Germany, 1935)
          Directed by Leni Riefenstahl
          Writing credits: Leni Riefenstahl, Walter Ruttmann
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Adolf Hitler….Himself
          Max Amann….Himself
          Martin Bormann….Himself
          Walter Buch….Himself
          Walter Darré….Himself

          Tagline: none

          Outline: The infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany.


79   *   Diabolique (Diaboliques, Les) (France, 1955)
          Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
          Writing credits: Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac (novel), Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jérôme Géronimi (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Simone Signoret….Nicole Horner
          Véra Clouzot….Christina Delassalle
          Paul Meurisse….Michel Delassalle
          Charles Vanel….Alfred Fichet, le commissaire
          Jean Brochard….Plantiveau, le concierge

          Tagline: See it, be amazed at it, but...BE QUIET ABOUT IT!

          Plot Outline: The wife of a cruel headmaster and his mistress conspire to kill him, but after the murder
          is committed, his body disappears, and strange events begin to plague the two women.

80   *   Enchanted April (Great Britain, 1992)
          Directed by Mike Newell
          Writing credits: Elizabeth von Arnim (novel), Peter Barnes
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Josie Lawrence….Lottie Wilkins
          Miranda Richardson….Rose Arbuthnot
          Alfred Molina….Mellersh Wilkins
          Neville Phillips….Vicar
          Jim Broadbent….Frederick Arbuthnot

          Tagline: It's April in Italy, and anything can happen...even love.

          Plot Outline: This slow-paced gem is about the civilizing influence of Italy on beleaguered Londoners
          both male and female and has it's own civilizing influence on the viewer...

81   *   Hudsucker Proxy, The (1994)
          Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
          Writing credits: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Sam Raimi
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Tim Robbins….Norville Barnes
          Jennifer Jason Leigh….Amy Archer
          Paul Newman….Sidney J. Mussburger
          Charles Durning….Waring Hudsucker
          John Mahoney….Chief

          Tagline: They took him for a fall guy... but he threw them for a hoop.

          Plot Outline: A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.


82   *   The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
          Directed by Robert Wise
          Writing credits: Edmund H. North (screenplay), Harry Bates (story)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Michael Rennie….Klaatu
          Patricia Neal….Helen Benson
          Hugh Marlowe….Tom Stevens
          Sam Jaffe….Professor Jacob Barnhardt
          Billy Gray….Bobby Benson

          Tagline: What is this invader from another planet... Can it destroy the Earth?

          Plot Outline: An alien lands and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully
          or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.

83   *   Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
          Directed by Anatole Litvak
          Writing credits: Lucille Fletcher
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Barbara Stanwyck….Leona Stevenson
          Burt Lancaster….Henry Stevenson
          Ann Richards….Sally Hunt Lord
          Wendell Corey….Dr. Alexander
          Harold Vermilyea….Waldo Evans

          Tagline: She overheard the plans for her own destruction!

          Plot Outline: Whilst on the telephone, an invalid woman overhears what she thinks is a plot to murder her.


84   *   Letter to Three Wives, A (1949)
          Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
          Writing credits: Vera Caspary (adaptation), John Klempner (novel), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Jeanne Crain….Deborah Bishop
          Linda Darnell….Lora Mae Hollingsway
          Ann Sothern….Rita Phipps
          Kirk Douglas….George Phipps
          Paul Douglas….Porter Hollingsway

          Tagline: All of them wondered while one of them wandered!

          Plot Outline: A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that
          she is running away with one of their husbands--but she doesn't say which one.

85   *   I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
          Directed by Jacques Tourneur
          Writing credits: Inez Wallace (original story), Curt Siodmak (screenplay), Ardel Wray (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          James Ellison….Wesley Rand
          Frances Dee….Betsy Connell
          Tom Conway….Paul Holland
          Edith Barrett….Mrs. Rand
          James Bell….Dr. Maxwell

          Tagline: The blackest magic of voodoo keeps this beautiful woman alive...yet DEAD!

          Plot Outline: A young Canadian nurse comes to the West Indies to care for Jessica, the wife of a plantation manager.
          Jessica seems to be suffering from a kind of mental paralysis as a result of fever…

86   *   Gone with the Wind (1939)
          Directed by Victor Fleming
          Writing credits: Margaret Mitchell (novel), Sidney Howard (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Vivien Leigh….Scarlett O'Hara
          Clark Gable….Rhett Butler
          Olivia de Havilland….Melanie Hamilton
          Leslie Howard….Ashley Wilkes
          Hattie McDaniel….Mammy

          Tagline: The most magnificent picture ever!

          Plot Outline: A manipulative woman and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love affair in the
          American south during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

87   *   Freaks (1932)
          Directed by Tod Browning
          Writing credits: Clarence Aaron 'Tod' Robbins
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Wallace Ford….Phroso
          Leila Hyams….Venus
          Olga Baclanova….Cleopatra
          Roscoe Ates….Roscoe
          Henry Victor….Hercules

          Tagline: Can a full grown woman truly love a MIDGET?

          Plot Outline: A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers,
          but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

88   *   Double Indemnity (1944)
          Directed by Billy Wilder
          Writing credits: James M. Cain (novel), Billy Wilder (screenplay), Raymond Chandler (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Fred MacMurray….Walter Neff
          Barbara Stanwyck….Phyllis Dietrichson
          Edward G. Robinson….Barton Keyes
          Porter Hall….Mr. Jackson
          Jean Heather….Lola Dietrichson

          Tagline: From the Moment they met it was Murder!

          Plot Outline: An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme
          that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.

89   *   Flirting with Disaster (1996)
          Directed by David O. Russell
          Writing credits: David O. Russell
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Ben Stiller….Mel Coplin
          Patricia Arquette….Nancy Coplin
          Téa Leoni….Tina Kalb
          Mary Tyler Moore….Pearl Coplin
          George Segal….Ed Coplin

          Tagline: Have you flirted yet?

          Plot Outline: A young man, his wife, and his incompetent case worker travel across country to find his birth parents.


90   *   Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
          Directed by Buster Keaton
          Writing credits: Jean C. Havez, Joseph A. Mitchell, Clyde Bruckman
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Buster Keaton….Projectionist/Sherlock, Jr.
          Kathryn McGuire….The Girl
          Joe Keaton….The Girl's Father/Man on film screen
          Erwin Connelly...The Hired Man/The Butler
          Ward Crane….The Local Sheik/The Villain

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work
          when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

91   *   Graduate, The (1967)
          Directed by Mike Nichols
          Writing credits: Charles Webb (novel), Calder Willingham (screenplay), Buck Henry (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Anne Bancroft….Mrs. Robinson
          Dustin Hoffman….Ben Braddock
          Katharine Ross….Elaine Robinson
          William Daniels….Mr. Braddock
          Murray Hamilton….Mr. Robinson

          Tagline: This is Benjamin. He's a little worried about his future.

          Plot Outline: Recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock is trapped into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, who happens
          to be the wife of his father's business partner and then finds himself falling in love with her daughter, Elaine.

92      Empire Strikes Back, The (1980)
          Directed by Irvin Kershner
          Writing credits: Leigh Brackett (screenplay), Lawrence Kasdan (screenplay), George Lucas (story)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Mark Hamill….Luke Skywalker
          Harrison Ford….Han Solo
          Carrie Fisher….Princess Leia
          Billy Dee Williams….Lando Calrissian
          Anthony Daniels….C-3PO

          Tagline: The Star Wars saga continues

          Plot Outline: As Luke trains with Master Yoda to become a Jedi Knight, his friends evade the Imperial fleet under
          the command of Darth Vader who is obsessed with turning Skywalker to the Dark Side of the Force.

93   *   Boyz N the Hood (1991)
          Directed by John Singleton
          Writing credits: John Singleton
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Ice Cube….Doughboy / Darren
          Cuba Gooding Jr....Tre Styles
          Morris Chestnut….Ricky Baker
          Angela Bassett....Reva Styles
          Laurence Fishburne….Furious Styles

          Tagline: Increase the peace

          Plot Outline: Saga of a group of childhood friends growing up in a Los Angeles ghetto.


94   *   In a Lonely Place (1950)
          Directed by Nicholas Ray
          Writing credits: Andrew Solt (screenplay), Edmund H. North (adaptation), Dorothy B. Hughes (story)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Humphrey Bogart….Dixon Steele
          Gloria Grahame….Laurel Gray
          Frank Lovejoy….Det. Sgt. Brub Nicolai
          Carl Benton Reid….Capt. Lochner
          Art Smith….Agent Mel Lippman

          Tagline: THE BOGART SUSPENSE PICTURE WITH THE SURPRISE FINISH

          Plot Outline: A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him.
          But she begins to have doubts...

95      Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942)
          Directed by Orson Welles, Fred Fleck
          Writing credits: Booth Tarkington (novel), Orson Welles
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Joseph Cotten....Eugene
          Dolores Costello....Isabel
          Anne Baxter....Lucy
          Tim Holt….George
          Agnes Moorehead....Fanny

          Tagline: Real life screened more daringly than it's ever been before!

          Plot Summary: The young, handsome, but somewhat wild Eugene Morgan wants to
          marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a rich upper-class family...

96   *   Night of the Hunter, The (1955)
          Directed by Charles Laughton
          Writing credits: Davis Grubb (novel), James Agee (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Robert Mitchum….Harry Powell
          Shelley Winters.…Willa Harper
          Lillian Gish....Rachel Cooper
          James Gleason….Birdie Steptoe
          Evelyn Varden….Icey Spoon

          Tagline: The wedding night, the anticipation, the kiss, the knife, BUT ABOVE ALL...THE SUSPENSE!

          Plot Outline: A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell
          him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.

97   *   Babette's Feast (Babettes gæstebud) (Denmark, 1987)
          Directed by Gabriel Axel
          Writing credits: Karen Blixen (novel), Gabriel Axel (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Stéphane Audran….Babette Hersant
          Bodil Kjer….Filippa
          Birgitte Federspiel….Martine
          Jarl Kulle….Gen. Lorens Löwenhielm
          Jean-Philippe Lafont….Achille Papin

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: In 19th century Denmark, two adult sisters live in an isolated village with their father, who is
          the honored pastor of a small Protestant church that is almost a sect unto itself...

98   *   Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
          Directed by John M. Stahl
          Writing credits: Ben Ames Williams (novel), Jo Swerling (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Gene Tierney….Ellen Berent Harland
          Cornel Wilde….Richard Harland
          Jeanne Crain….Ruth Berent
          Vincent Price….Russell Quinton
          Mary Philips….Mrs. Berent

          Tagline: Hers was the deadliest of the seven sins.

          Plot Outline: A writer meets a young socialite on board a train. The two fall in love and are married soon after,
          but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of both them and everyone else around them.

99   *   Now, Voyager (1942)
          Directed by Irving Rapper
          Writing credits: Olive Higgins Prouty (novel), Casey Robinson (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Bette Davis….Charlotte Vale
          Paul Henreid….Jerry Durrance
          Claude Rain….Dr. Jaquith
          Gladys Cooper….Mrs. Henry Vale
          Bonita Granville….June Vale

          Tagline: I'm the maiden aunt. Every family has one you know.

          Plot Outline: Boston spinster blossoms under therapy and finds impossible romance.


100   * Psycho (1960)
          Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
          Writing credits: Robert Bloch (novel), Joseph Stefano (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Anthony Perkins….Norman Bates
          Vera Miles….Lila Crane
          John Gavin….Sam Loomis
          Janet Leigh….Marion Crane
          Martin Balsam….Det. Milton Arbogast

          Tagline: Don't give away the ending - it's the only one we have!

          Plot Outline: A young woman steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and subsequently
                              encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother.

101   * Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
          Directed by Rouben Mamoulian
          Writing credits: Robert Louis Stevenson (novel), Samuel Hoffenstein (screenplay), Percy Heath (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Fredric March….Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Hyde
          Miriam Hopkins….Ivy Pearson
          Rose Hobart….Muriel Carew
          Holmes Herbert….Dr. Lanyon
          Halliwell Hobbes….Brigadier-General Sir Danvers Carew

          Tagline: Put yourself in her place! The dreaded night when her lover became a madman!

          Plot Outline: Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with
          a potion that changes him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.

102   * Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985)
          Directed by Tim Burton
          Writing credits: Phil Hartman, Paul Reubens, Michael Varhol
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Paul Reubens….Pee-wee Herman
          Elizabeth Daily….Dottie
          Mark Holton….Francis Buxton
          Diane Salinger….Simone
          Judd Omen….Mickey

          Tagline: The story of a rebel and his bike.

          Plot Outline: Eccentric man-child Pee-Wee Herman embarks on the big adventure of his life across the
          US mainland, as he sets out to find his beloved bike, when it is stolen in broad daylight.

103   * Short Cuts (1993)
          Directed by Robert Altman
          Writing credits: Raymond Carver (writings), Robert Altman (screenplay), Frank Barhydt (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Andie MacDowell….Ann Finnigan
          Bruce Davison….Howard Finnigan
          Jack Lemmon….Paul Finnigan
          Zane Cassidy….Casey Finnigan
          Julianne Moore….Marian Wyman

          Tagline: Short Cuts raises the roof on America

          Plot Outline: The everyday lives of a number of suburban Los Angeles residents are the
          subject of this loosely-knitted collection of short stories.

104   * Fugitives (Fugitivas) (Spain, 2000)
          Directed by Miguel Hermoso
          Writing credits: Raúl Brambilla, Miguel Hermoso, Óscar Plasencia
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Laia Marull….Tony
          Beatriz Coronel….Laura
          Juan Diego….Raimundo
          María Galiana….Ascensión
          Miguel Hermoso Arnao….Maxi

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: Born in a poor neighborhood, Tony hides hides behind the image of a tough woman. She has
          a boyfriend and they decide to hold up a Lottery Administration in Madrid…

105      Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
          Directed by Woody Allen
          Writing credits: Woody Allen, Douglas McGrath
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          John Cusack….David Shayne
          Dianne Wiest….Helen Sinclair
          Jennifer Tilly….Olive Neal
          Chazz Palminteri….Cheech
          Mary-Louise Parker….Ellen

          Tagline: A killer comedy!

          Plot Outline: In 1920s New York, a struggling playwright is forced to cast a mobster's talentless
          girlfriend in his latest drama in order to get it produced.

106   * Tom Jones (Great Britain, 1963)
          Directed by Tony Richardson
          Writing credits: Henry Fielding (novel), John Osborne (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Albert Finney….Tom Jones
          Susannah York….Sophie Western
          Hugh Griffith….Squire Western
          Edith Evans….Miss Western
          Joan Greenwood….Lady Bellaston

          Tagline: The whole world loves Tom Jones!

          Plot Outline: Tom Jones, the adopted son of a British country squire, is a love-'em-and-leave-'em lady charmer who goes
          blithely from bed to bed, while managing to get into enough other mischief to come within moments of being hanged.

107   * Last Picture Show, The (1971)
          Directed by Peter Bogdanovich
          Writing credits: Larry McMurtry (novel), Larry McMurtry (screenplay), Peter Bogdanovich (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Timothy Bottoms….Sonny Crawford
          Jeff Bridges….Duane Jackson
          Cybill Shepherd….Jacy Farrow
          Ben Johnson….Sam the Lion
          Cloris Leachman….Ruth Popper

          Tagline: Anarene, Texas, 1951. Nothing much has changed…

          Plot Outline: A group of 50's high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas
          town that is slowly dying, both economically and culturally.

108   * Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956)
          Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
          Writing credits: Charles Bennett, D.B. Wyndham-Lewis (based on a story by), John Michael Hayes (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          James Stewart….Dr. Benjamin McKenna
          Doris Day….Josephine Conway McKenna
          Brenda De Banzie….Lucy Drayton
          Bernard Miles….Edward Drayton
          Ralph Truman….Inspector Buchanan

          Tagline: A little knowledge can be a deadly thing!

          Plot Outline: A family vacationing in Morocco accidentally stumble on to an assassination plot and the
          conspirators are determined to prevent them from interfering.

109   * Duck Soup (1933)
          Directed by Leo McCarey
          Writing credits: Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Groucho Marx….Rufus T. Firefly
          Harpo Marx….Pinky
          Chico Marx….Chicolini
          Zeppo Marx….Bob Roland
          Margaret Dumont….Mrs. Teasdale

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on
          neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.

110   * Missing (1982)
          Directed by Costa-Gavras
          Writing credits: Thomas Hauser (based on the book), Costa-Gavras (screenplay), Donald Stewart (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Jack Lemmon….Ed Horman
          Sissy Spacek….Beth Horman
          Melanie Mayron….Terry Simon
          John Shea….Charles Horman
          Charles Cioffi….Captain Ray Tower

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: When an idealistic writer disappears during the Right Wing military coup in 1973 Chile,
          his wife and American businessman father try to find him.

111      Elephant Man, The (1980)
          Directed by David Lynch
          Writing credits: Frederick Treves (based on the book), Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren, David Lynch (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Anthony Hopkins….Frederick Treves
          John Hurt….John Merrick
          Anne Bancroft….Mrs. Kendal
          John Gielgud….Carr Gomm
          Wendy Hiller….Mothershead

          Tagline: I am not an animal! I am a human being! I...am...a man!

          Plot Outline: A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a
          side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.

112   * Breathless (À bout de souffle) (France, 1959)
          Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
          Writing credits: François Truffaut
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Jean Seberg….Patricia Franchini
          Jean-Paul Belmondo….Michel Poiccard/Laszlo Kovacs
          Daniel Boulanger….Police Inspector Vital
          Henri-Jacques Huet….Antonio Berrutti
          Roger Hanin….Carl Zubart

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: A young car thief kills a policeman and tries to persuade a girl to hide in Italy with him.


113   * Heiress, The (1949)
          Directed by William Wyler
          Writing credits: Henry James (novel, Washington Square), Ruth Goetz (screenplay), Augustus Goetz (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Olivia de Havilland….Catherine Sloper
          Montgomery Clift….Morris Townsend
          Ralph Richardson….Dr. Austin Sloper
          Miriam Hopkins….Lavinia Penniman
          Vanessa Brown….Maria

          Tagline: She Was Taught To Love And Hate...By Masters!

          Plot Outline: A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally
          abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.

114   * Judgment at Nuremburg (1961)
          Directed by Stanley Kramer
          Writing credits: Abby Mann
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Spencer Tracy….Chief Judge Dan Haywood
          Burt Lancaster….Dr. Ernst Janning
          Richard Widmark….Col. Tad Lawson
          Marlene Dietrich….Mrs. Bertholt
          Maximilian Schell….Hans Rolfe

          Tagline: The event the world will never forget.

          Plot Outline: In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazi judges for war crimes.


115   * Rebecca (1940)
          Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
          Writing credits: Daphne Du Maurier (novel), Robert E. Sherwood (screen play), Joan Harrison (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Laurence Olivier….'Maxim' de Winter
          Joan Fontaine….Mrs. de Winter
          George Sanders….Jack Favell
          Judith Anderson….Mrs. Danvers
          Nigel Bruce….Major Giles Lacy

          Tagline: A lonely man, a lovely girl... struggling against the secret of Manderley

          Plotline: When a naive young woman marries a rich widower and settles in his gigantic mansion,
          she finds the memory of the first wife maintaining a grip on her husband and the servants.

116   * 8½ (Italy, 1963)
          Directed by Federico Fellini
          Writing credits: Federico Fellini (story), Ennio Flaiano (story)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Marcello Mastroianni….Guido Anselmi
          Claudia Cardinale….Claudia
          Anouk Aimée….Luisa Anselmi
          Sandra Milo….Carla
          Rossella Falk….Rossella

          Tagline: A picture that goes beyond what men think about - because no man ever thought about it in quite this way!

          Plot Outline: A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.


117   * Beauty and the Beast (1991)
          Directed by Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
          Writing credits: Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (story), Linda Woolverton (animation screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Paige O'Hara….Belle (voice)
          Robby Benson….Beast (voice)
          Richard White….Gaston (voice)
          Jerry Orbach….Lumiere (voice)
          David Ogden Stiers….Cogsworth / Narrator (voice)

          Tagline: The most beautiful love story ever told.

          Plot Outline: Belle, whose father is imprisoned by the Beast, offers herself instead and discovers her
          captor to be an enchanted prince.

118   * Taxi Driver (1976)
          Directed by Martin Scorsese
          Writing credits: Paul Schrader
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Robert De Niro….Travis Bickle
          Cybill Shepherd….Betsy
          Jodie Foster….Iris
          Harvey Keitel….Sport
          Albert Brooks….Tom

          Tagline: On every street in every city, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody.

          Plot Outline: A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City where the per-
          ceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out, attempting to save a teenage prostitute in the process.

119   * Network (1976)
          Directed by Sidney Lumet
          Writing credits: Paddy Chayefsky
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Faye Dunaway….Diana Christensen
          William Holden….Max Schumacher
          Peter Finch….Howard Beale
          Robert Duvall….Frank Hackett
          Wesley Addy….Nelson Chaney

          Tagline: Not since the dawn of time has America experienced a man like Howard Beale!

          Plot Outline: A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations
          about the media for their own profit.

120   * Siesta (1987)
          Directed by Mary Lambert
          Writing credits: Patrice Chaplin (novel), Patricia Louisianna Knop
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Ellen Barkin….Claire
          Gabriel Byrne….Augustine
          Julian Sands….Kit
          Isabella Rossellini….Marie
          Martin Sheen….Del

          Tagline: The time of day when mystery and passion become one.

          Plot Outline: Claire (an American) wakes up in a terrible state at the end of a runway in Spain.
          As she tries to account for her state (blood-soaked and bruised)…

121   * North by Northwest (1959)
          Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
          Writing credits: Ernest Lehman
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Cary Grant….Roger O. Thornhill
          Eva Marie Saint….Eve Kendall
          James Mason….Phillip Vandamm
          Jessie Royce Landis….Clara Thornhill
          Leo G. Carroll….The Professor

          Tagline: It's a deadly game of "tag" and Cary Grant is "it"!

          Plot Outline: A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of
          foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.

122   * Heathers (1988)
          Directed by Michael Lehmann
          Writing credits: Daniel Waters
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Winona Ryder….Veronica
          Christian Slater….J.D.
          Shannen Doherty….Heather (Duke)
          Lisanne Falk….Heather (McNamara)
          Kim Walker….Heather (Chandler)

          Tagline: Best friends, social trends and occasional murder.

          Plot Outline: A girl who half-heartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel
          who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics.

123   * Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The (1966)
          Directed by Sergio Leone
          Writing credits: Luciano Vincenzoni, Sergio Leone
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Eli Wallach….Tuco
          Clint Eastwood….Blondie
          Lee Van Cleef….Sentenza/Angel Eyes
          Aldo Giuffrè….Alcoholic Union Captain
          Luigi Pistilli….Father Pablo Ramirez

          Tagline: They formed an alliance of hate to steal a fortune in dead man's gold

          Plot Outline: A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a
          race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.

124   * Laura (1944)
          Directed by Otto Preminger
          Writing credits: Vera Caspary (novel), Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, Elizabeth Reinhardt (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Gene Tierney….Laura Hunt
          Dana Andrews….Det. Lt. Mark McPherson
          Clifton Webb….Waldo Lydecker
          Vincent Price….Shelby Carpenter
          Judith Anderson….Ann Treadwell

          Tagline: The story of a love that became the most fearful thing that ever happened to a woman!

          Plot Outline: A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

125   * Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
          Directed by Michael Apted
          Writing credits: Loretta Lynn (autobiography), George Vecsey (autobiography), Thomas Rickman (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Sissy Spacek….Loretta Lynn
          Tommy Lee Jones….Doolittle Lynn
          Levon Helm….Ted Webb
          Phyllis Boyens….'Clary' Webb
          Beverly D'Angelo….Patsy Cline

          Tagline: She was married at 13. She had four kids by the time she was 20. She's been hungry and poor. She's been
          oved and cheated on. She became a singer because it was the only thing she could do. She became a star because it
          was the only way she could do it.

          Plot Outline: Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.

126      You Are Free (To Azadi) (Iran, 2001)
          Directed by Mohammad-Ali Talebi
          Writing credits: Mohammad-Ali Talebi
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Abdolreza Akbari
          Ali Bokaeian
          Ehsan Ghasemi….Mohsen Ghaderi
          Assyeh Kalani
          Siavash Lashkari….Sohrab

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: A number of inmates from a reformatory school are scheduled for release. As a condition for their dis-
          charge, it is specified that the younger boys should live either with their families or in government supervision centers.

127   * Wolf Man, The (1941)
          Directed by George Waggner
          Writing credits: Curt Siodmak
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Lon Chaney Jr….The Wolf Man
          Claude Rains….Sir John Talbot
          Ralph Bellamy….Col. Montford
          Warren William….Dr. Lloyd
          Patric Knowles….Frank Andrews

          Tagline: Night monster with the blood lust of a savage beast!

          Plot Outline: A practical man returns to his homeland, is attacked by a creature of folklore, and
          infected with a horrific disease his disciplined mind tells him can not possibly exist.

128   * Blue Angel, The (Blaue Engel, Der) (Germany, 1930)
          Directed by Josef von Sternberg
          Writing credits: Heinrich Mann (novel), Carl Zuckmayer, Karl Vollmöller, Robert Liebmann
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Emil Jannings….Prof. Immanuel Rath
          Marlene Dietrich….Lola Lola
          Kurt Gerron….Kiepert - the Magician
          Rosa Valetti….Guste - the Magician's Wife
          Hans Albers….Mazeppa - the Strongman

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: Immanuel Rath, an old bachelor, is a professor at the town's university. When he discovers that
          some of his pupils often go into a speakeasy…

129   * Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso) (Italy, 1988)
          Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
          Writing credits: Giuseppe Tornatore (story), Giuseppe Tornatore (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Antonella Attili….Maria Di Vita - Younger
          Enzo Cannavale….Spaccafico
          Isa Danieli….Anna
          Leo Gullotta….Usher
          Marco Leonardi….Salvatore 'Totò' Di Vita - Teenager

          Tagline: A celebration of youth, friendship, and the everlasting magic of the movies.

          Plot Outline: A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his
          village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

130   * Central Station (Central do Brasil) (Brazil, 1998)
          Directed by Walter Salles
          Writing credits: Marcos Bernstein, João Emanuel Carneiro, Walter Salles
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Fernanda Montenegro….Isadora
          Marília Pêra….Irene
          Vinícius de Oliveira….Josué
          Soia Lira….Ana
          Othon Bastos….Cezar

          Tagline: He was looking for the father he never knew. She was looking for a second chance.

          Plot Outline: An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people,
          and a young boy, whose mother has just died, in search for the father he never knew.

131   * Testament (1983)
          Directed by Lynne Littman
          Writing credits: Carol Amen (based on the story "The Last Testament" by), John Sacret Young (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Jane Alexander….Carol Wetherly
          William Devane….Tom Wetherly
          Rossie Harris….Brad Wetherly
          Roxana Zal….Mary Liz Wetherly
          Lukas Haas….Scottie Wetherly

          Tagline: Testament...to a nuclear holocaust

          Plot Outline: Nuclear war in the United States is portrayed in a realistic and believable manner. The story is
          told through the eyes of a woman who is struggling to take care of her family…

132      Europa Europa (Germany, France, Poland, 1990)
          Directed by Agnieszka Holland
          Writing credits: Solomon Perel (based on the book), Agnieszka Holland, Paul Hengge
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Marco Hofschneider….Salomon 'Solly' 'Salek' Perel/Josef 'Jupp' Peters
          Julie Delpy….Leni
          René Hofschneider….Isaak Perel
          Piotr Kozlowski….David Perel
          André Wilms….Soldier Robert Kellerman

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.


133   * Peter Pan (1953)
          Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
          Writing credits: J.M. Barrie (play), Ted Sears, Erdman Penner, Bill Peet, Winston Hibler, Joe Rinaldi, Milt Banta,
          Ralph Wright, William Cottrell
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Bobby Driscoll....Peter Pan (voice)
          Kathryn Beaumont….Wendy Darling (voice)
          Hans Conried….Captain Hook/Mr. Darling (voice)
          Bill Thompson….Mr. Smee/Other Pirates (voice)
          Heather Angel….Mrs. Darling (voice)

          Tagline: It will live in your heart forever!

          Plot Outline: Wendy and her brothers are whisked away to Neverland with the hero of their stories, Peter Pan.

134   * Big Chill, The (1983)
          Directed by Lawrence Kasdan
          Writing credits: Lawrence Kasdan, Barbara Benedek
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Tom Berenger….Sam Weber
          Glenn Close….Sarah Cooper
          Jeff Goldblum….Michael Gold
          William Hurt….Nick Carlton
          Kevin Kline….Harold Cooper

          Tagline: In a cold world, you need your friends to keep you warm!

          Plot Outline: A group of seven former college friends gather for a weekend reunion at a posh
          South Carolina winter house after the funeral of one of their friends.

135   * True Romance (1993)
          Directed by Tony Scott
          Writing credits: Quentin Tarantino
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Christian Slater….Clarence Worley
          Patricia Arquette….Alabama Whitman
          Dennis Hopper….Clifford Worley
          Val Kilmer….Mentor
          Gary Oldman….Drexl Spivey

          Tagline: Not since Bonnie and Clyde have two people been so good at being bad.

          Plot Outline: Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in
          Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

136   * Broadcast News (1987)
          Directed by James L. Brooks
          Writing credits: James L. Brooks
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          William Hurt….Tom Grunick
          Albert Brooks….Aaron Altman
          Holly Hunter….Jane Craig
          Robert Prosky….Ernie Merriman
          Lois Chiles….Jennifer Mack

          Tagline: It's the story of their lives.

          Plot Outline: Take two rival TV reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one producer, female.
          Mix well and watch the sparks fly.

137      Lost Weekend, The (1945)
          Directed by Billy Wilder
          Writing credits: Charles R. Jackson (novel), Charles Brackett (screenplay), Billy Wilder (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Ray Milland….Don Birnam
          Jane Wyman….Helen St. James
          Phillip Terry….Wick Birnam
          Howard Da Silva….Nat
          Doris Dowling....Gloria

          Tagline: How daring can the screen dare to be? No adult man or woman can risk missing the
          startling frankness of The Lost Weekend!

          Plot Outline: The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four day drinking bout.

138      JFK (1991)
          Directed by Oliver Stone
          Writing credits: Jim Garrison and Jim Marrs (book), Oliver Stone and Zachary Sklar (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Kevin Costner….Jim Garrison
          Kevin Bacon….Willie O'Keefe
          Tommy Lee Jones….Clay Shaw
          Laurie Metcalf….Susie Cox
          Gary Oldman….Lee Harvey Oswald

          Tagline: The Story That Won't Go Away

          Plot Outline: A New Orleans DA discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.


139   * Easy Rider (1969)
          Directed by Dennis Hopper
          Writing credits: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Peter Fonda….Wyatt
          Dennis Hopper….Billy
          Antonio Mendoza….Jesus
          Phil Spector….Connection
          Mac Mashourian….Bodyguard

          Tagline: A man went looking for America. And couldn't find it anywhere…

          Plot Outline: Two counterculture bikers travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans in search of America.


140   * Crossfire (1947)
          Directed by Edward Dmytryk
          Writing credits: Richard Brooks (novel), John Paxton (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Robert Young….Finlay
          Robert Mitchum….Keeley
          Robert Ryan….Montgomery
          Gloria Grahame….Ginny
          Paul Kelly….The Man

          Tagline: Hate Is Like A Loaded Gun!

          Plot Outline: A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army.
          But which one? And why?

141   * Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
          Directed by Otto Preminger
          Writing credits: John D. Voelker (novel), Wendell Mayes (screenplay
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          James Stewart….Paul Biegler
          Lee Remick….Laura Manion
          Ben Gazzara….Lt. Frederick Manion
          Arthur O'Connell….Parnell Emmett McCarthy
          Eve Arden….Maida Rutledge

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: In a murder trial, the defendant says he suffered temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife.
          What is the truth, and will he win his case?

142   * Tremors (1990)
          Directed by Ron Underwood
          Writing credits: S.S. Wilson, Brent Maddock, Ron Underwood
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Kevin Bacon….Valentine McKee
          Fred Ward….Earl Bassett
          Finn Carter….Rhonda LeBeck
          Michael Gross….Burt Gummer
          Reba McEntire….Heather Gummer

          Tagline: The monster movie that breaks new ground.

          Plot Outline: Natives of a small isolated town defend themselves against strange underground
          creatures which are killing them one by one.

143   * Parting Glances (1986)
          Directed by Bill Sherwood
          Writing credits: Bill Sherwood
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Richard Ganoung….Michael
          John Bolger….Robert
          Steve Buscemi….Nick
          Adam Nathan….Peter
          Kathy Kinney….Joan

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: As Michael and Robert, a gay couple in New York, prepare for Robert's departure
          for a two-year work assignment in Africa…

144      Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
          Directed by Steven Spielberg
          Writing credits: Lawrence Kasdan (screenplay), George Lucas (story), Philip Kaufman (story)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Harrison Ford….Indiana Jones
          Karen Allen….Marion Ravenwood
          Paul Freeman….Dr. René Belloq
          Ronald Lacey….Major Arnold Toht
          John Rhys-Davies….Sallah

          Tagline: Indiana Jones - the new hero from the creators of JAWS and STAR WARS.

          Plot Outline: Archeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government to find
          the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis.

145   * Darling (Great Britain, 1965)
          Directed by John Schlesinger
          Writing credits: Frederic Raphael (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Julie Christie ….Diana Scott
          Laurence Harvey….Miles Brand
          Dirk Bogarde….Robert Gold
          José Luis de Vilallonga….Prince Cesare della Romita
          Roland Curram….Malcolm

          Tagline: A powerful and bold motion picture...made by adults...with adults...for adults!

          Plot Outline: A beautiful but amoral model sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion
          scene at the height of the Swinging Sixties.

146   * American Werewolf in London, An (1981)
          Directed by John Landis
          Writing credits: John Landis
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          David Naughton….David Kessler
          Griffin Dunne….Jack Goodman
          Jenny Agutter….Nurse Alex Price
          John Woodvine….Dr. J. S. Hirsch
          Don McKillop….Inspector Villiers

          Tagline: A masterpiece of terror

          Plot Outline: Two American tourists in Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.


147   * Red (Rouge) (France, Switzerland, Poland, 1994)
          Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski
          Writing credits: Krzysztof Kieslowski , Krzysztof Piesiewicz
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Irène Jacob….Valentine
          Jean-Louis Trintignant….Le juge
          Frédérique Feder….Karin
          Jean-Pierre Lorit….Auguste
          Samuel Le Bihan….Le photographe

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: Final entry in a trilogy of films dealing with contemporary French society concerns a model who
          discovers her neighbour is keen on invading people's privacy.

148   * Aliens (1986)
          Directed by James Cameron
          Writing credits: James Cameron, David Giler, Walter Hill
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Sigourney Weaver….Ellen Ripley
          Carrie Henn….Rebecca 'Newt' Jorden
          Michael Biehn….Cpl. Dwayne Hicks
          Paul Reiser….Carter Burke
          Lance Henriksen….Bishop

          Tagline: The bitch is back.

          Plot Outline: The planet from Alien has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, the rescue team has
          impressive firepower, but will it be enough?

149      Pillow Talk (1959)
          Directed by Michael Gordon
          Writing credits: Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin (screenplay), Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene (story)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Rock Hudson….Brad Allen
          Doris Day….Jan Morrow
          Tony Randall….Jonathan Forbes
          Thelma Ritter….Alma
          Nick Adams….Tony Walters

          Tagline: It's what goes on when the lights go off!

          Plot Outline: A man and woman share a telephone line and despise each other, but then he has
          fun by romancing her with his voice disguised.

150   * Cat People (1942)
          Directed by Jacques Tourneur
          Writing credits: DeWitt Bodeen
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Simone Simon….Irena Dubrovna Reed
          Kent Smith….Oliver Reed
          Tom Conway….Dr. Louis Judd
          Jane Randolph….Alice Moore
          Jack Holt….The Commodore

          Tagline: She Was Marked With The Curse Of Those Who Slink And Court And Kill By Night!

          Plot Outline: An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the
          cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together.

151   * It's a Gift (1934)
          Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
          Writing credits: W.C. Fields (based upon story by), J.P. McEvoy, Jack Cunningham (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          W.C. Fields….Harold Bissonette
          Kathleen Howard….Amelia Bissonette
          Jean Rouverol….Mildred Bissonette
          Julian Madison….John Durston
          Tommy Bupp….Norman Bissonette

          Tagline: LOOK THIS GIFT IN THE FACE IF YOU WANT A BIG HORSE-LAUGH

          Plot Outline: A henpecked New Jersey grocer makes plans to move to California to grow oranges,
          despite the resistance of his overbearing wife.

152   * Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin) (Soviet Union, 1925)
          Directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein
          Writing credits: Nina Agadzhanova
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Aleksandr Antonov….Grigory Vakulinchuk - Bolshevik Sailor
          Vladimir Barsky….Commander Golikov
          Grigori Aleksandrov….Chief Officer Giliarovsky
          Ivan Bobrov….Young Sailor Flogged While Sleeping
          Mikhail Gomorov….Militant Sailor

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resulting street
          demonstration which brought on a police massacre.

153   * Blazing Saddles (1974)
          Directed by Mel Brooks
          Writing credits: Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Alan Uger
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Cleavon Little….Bart
          Gene Wilder….Jim
          Slim Pickens….Taggart
          Harvey Korman….Hedley Lamarr
          Madeline Kahn….Lili Von Shtupp

          Tagline: Never give a saga an even break!

          Plot Outline: To ruin a western town, a corrupt political boss appoints a black sheriff,
          who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.

154   * Ninotchka (1939)
          Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
          Writing credits: Melchior Lengyel (original story), Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch (screen play)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Greta Garbo….Ninotchka
          Melvyn Douglas….Leon
          Ina Claire….Swana
          Bela Lugosi….Razinin
          Sig Ruman….Iranoff

          Tagline: Garbo laughs

          Plot Outline: A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a
          man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

155   * To Each His Own (1946)
          Directed by Mitchell Leisen
          Writing credits: Charles Brackett
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Olivia de Havilland....Miss Josephine Norris
          Mary Anderson....Corinne Piersen
          Roland Culver....Lord Desham
          Phillip Terry....Alex Piersen
          Bill Goodwin....Mac Tilton

          Tagline: none

          Plot Summary: During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has
          an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. After a scheme...

156      Purple Rose of Cairo, The (1985)
          Directed by Woody Allen
          Writing credits: Woody Allen
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Mia Farrow….Cecilia
          Jeff Daniels….Tom Baxter/Gil Shepherd
          Danny Aiello….Monk
          Irving Metzman….Theater Manager
          Stephanie Farrow….Cecilia's Sister

          Tagline: She's finally met the man of her dreams. He's not real but you can't have everything.

          Plot Outline: In 1930's New Jersey, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.


157      Meet John Doe (1941)
          Directed by Frank Capra
          Writing credits: Richard Connell, Robert Presnell Sr. (based on a story by), Robert Riskin (screen play)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Gary Cooper….John Doe
          Barbara Stanwyck….Ann Mitchell
          Edward Arnold….D.B. Norton
          Walter Brennan….The 'Colonel'
          Spring Byington….Mrs. Mitchell

          Tagline: ALL AMERICA WANTS TO MEET THE "MR. DEEDS" OF 1941!

          Plot Outline: A man needing money agrees to impersonate a nonexistent person who said he'd be
          committing suicide as a protest, and a political movement begins.

158      Princess Bride, The (1987)
          Directed by Rob Reiner
          Writing credits: William Goldman
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Cary Elwes….Westley
          Robin Wright….The Princess Bride
          Mandy Patinkin….Inigo Montoya
          Chris Sarandon….Prince Humperdinck
          Christopher Guest….Count Tyrone Rugen

          Tagline: Heroes, giants, villains, wizards, true love

          Plot Outline: A classic fairy tale, with swordplay, giants, an evil prince, a beautiful princess,
          and yes, some kissing (as read by a kindly grandfather).

159   * A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
          Directed by Steven Spielberg
          Writing credits: Brian Aldiss (short story), Ian Watson (screen story),Steven Spielberg (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Haley Joel Osment….David
          Frances O'Connor….Monica Swinton
          Sam Robards….Henry Swinton
          Jake Thomas….Martin Swinton
          Jude Law….Gigolo Joe

          Tagline: This Is Not A Game

          Plot Outline: A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love
          of his human mother.

160   * Grifters, The (1990)
          Directed by Stephen Frears
          Writing credits: Jim Thompson (novel), Donald E. Westlake (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Anjelica Huston….Lilly Dillon
          John Cusack....Roy Dillon
          Annette Bening….Myra Langtry
          Jan Munroe….Guy at Bar
          Robert Weems....Racetrack Announcer

          Tagline: Seduction. Betrayal. Murder. Who's Conning Who?

          Plot Outline: A small-time conman has torn loyalties between his estranged mother and new girlfriend--
          both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.

161   * Dial M for Murder (1954)
          Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
          Writing credits: Frederick Knott
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Ray Milland….Tony Wendice
          Grace Kelly….Margot Mary Wendice
          Robert Cummings….Mark Halliday
          John Williams….Chief Inspector Hubbard
          Anthony Dawson….Captain Lesgate - aka Charles Alexander Swann

          Tagline: If a woman answers...hang on for dear life!

          Plot Outline: An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong,
   he improvises a brilliant plan B.

162   * This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
          Directed by Rob Reiner
          Writing credits: Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Rob Reiner
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Christopher Guest….Nigel Tufnel
          Michael McKean….David St. Hubbins
          Harry Shearer….Derek Smalls
          Fran Drescher….Bobbi Flekman
          Billy Crystal….Morty the Mime

          Tagline: Does for rock and roll what "The Sound of Music" did for hills

          Plot Outline: Spinal Tap, the world's loudest band, is chronicled by hack documentarian
          Marty DeBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.

163   * Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
          Directed by Sergio Leone
          Writing credits: Dario Argento, Bernardo Bertolucci, Sergio Leone (story), Sergio Leone, Sergio Donati (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Claudia Cardinale….Jill McBain
          Henry Fonda….Frank
          Jason Robards….Cheyenne
          Charles Bronson….Harmonica
          Gabriele Ferzetti....Morton - Railroad Baron

          Tagline: There were three men in her life. One to take her... one to love her... and one to kill her.

          Plot Outline: Epic story of a mysterious stranger with a harmonica who joins forces with a notorious
          desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.

164   * Jackie Brown (1997)
          Directed by Quentin Tarantino
          Writing credits: Elmore Leonard (novel), Quentin Tarantino (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Pam Grier….Jackie Brown
          Samuel L. Jackson….Ordell Robbie
          Robert Forster….Max Cherry
          Bridget Fonda….Melanie Ralston
          Michael Keaton….Ray Nicolette

          Tagline: Six players on the trail of a half a million in Cash. There's only one question... Who's playing who?

          Plot Outline: A female flight attendant becomes a key figure in a plot between the police and an arms dealer.


165   * War of the Roses, The (1989)
          Directed by Danny DeVito
          Writing credits: Warren Adler (novel), Michael Leeson (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Michael Douglas….Oliver Rose
          Kathleen Turner….Barbara Rose
          Danny DeVito….Gavin D'Amato
          Marianne Sägebrecht….Susan
          Sean Astin….Josh at 17

          Tagline: Once in a lifetime comes a motion picture that makes you feel like falling in love all
          over again. This is not that movie.

          Plot Outline: A married couple try everything to get each other to leave the house in a vicious divorce battle.

166   * Jerk, The (1979)
          Directed by Carl Reiner
          Writing credits: Steve Martin, Carl Gottlieb, Michael Elias
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Steve Martin….Navin/Cat Juggler (as Pig Eye Jackson also)
          Bernadette Peters….Marie
          Catlin Adams….Patty Bernstein
          Mabel King….Mother
          Richard Ward….Father

          Tagline: A rags to riches to rags story

          Plot Outline: A complete imbecile struggles to make it through life on his own, until a strange
          invention makes him unbelievably wealthy.

167      Roman Holiday (1953)
          Directed by William Wyler
          Writing credits: Dalton Trumbo, Ian McLellan Hunter, John Dighton
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Gregory Peck….Joe Bradley
          Audrey Hepburn….Princess Ann
          Eddie Albert….Irving Radovich
          Hartley Power....Mr. Hennessy
          Harcourt Williams….Ambassador

          Tagline: Romance in romantic Rome!

          Plot Outline: A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with
          an American newsman in Rome.

168   * Nosferatu (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens) (Germany, 1922)
          Directed by F. W. Murnau
          Writing credits: Henrik Galeen (screen play)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Max Schreck….Graf Orlok/Nosferatu
          Gustav von Wangenheim….Hutter
          Greta Schröder….Ellen Hutter - seine Frau
          Alexander Granach….Knock - ein Häusermakler
          Georg H. Schnell….Harding - Hutters Freund

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.


169      Star Wars (1977)
          Directed by George Lucas
          Writing credits: George Lucas
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Mark Hamill….Luke Skywalker
          Harrison Ford….Han Solo
          Carrie Fisher….Princess Leia Organa
          Peter Cushing….Grand Moff Tarkin
          Alec Guinness….Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi

          Tagline: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…

          Plot Outline: Luke Skywalker, a spirited farm boy, joins rebel forces to save Princess Leia from
          the evil Darth Vader, and the galaxy from the Empire's planet-destroying Death Star.

170   * Lone Star (1996)
          Directed by John Sayles
          Writing credits: John Sayles
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Chris Cooper….Sam
          Elizabeth Peña….Pilar
          Kris Kristofferson….Charlie Wade
          Matthew McConaughey….Buddy Deeds
          Joe Morton….Del

          Tagline: John Sayles invites you to return to the scene of the crime.

          Plot Outline: When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds
          unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.

171   City of God (Cidade de Deus) (Brazil, 2002)
          Directed by Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
          Paulo Lins (novel), Bráulio Mantovani (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Alexandre Rodrigues….Buscapé - Rocket
          Leandro Firmino….Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé
          Phellipe Haagensen….Bené - Benny
          Douglas Silva….Dadinho - Li'l Dice
          Jonathan Haagensen….Cabeleira - Shaggy

          Tagline: If you run you're dead...if you stay, you're dead again. Period.

          Plot Outline: Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths:
          one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.

172   * Mummy, The (1932)
          Directed by Karl Freund
          Writing credits: Nina Wilcox Putnam, Richard Schayer (from a story by), John L. Balderston (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Boris Karloff….Imhotep
          Zita Johann….Helen Grosvenor
          David Manners….Frank Whemple
          Arthur Byron….Sir Joseph Whemple
          Edward Van Sloan….Dr. Muller

          Tagline: It comes to life!

          Plot Outline: In 1921 a field expedition in Egypt discovers the mummy of ancient Egyptian prince Imhotep,
          who was condemned and buried alive for sacrilege…

173   * Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
          Directed by Don Siegel
          Writing credits: Jack Finney (Collier's magazine serial), Daniel Mainwaring (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Kevin McCarthy….Dr. Miles J. Bennell
          Dana Wynter….Becky Driscoll
          Larry Gates….Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman
          King Donovan….Jack Belicec
          Carolyn Jones….Theodora 'Teddy' Belicec

          Tagline: They come from another world!

          Plot Outline: A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being
          replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

174      Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
          Directed by Richard Brooks
          Writing credits: Tennessee Williams (play), Richard Brooks, James Poe (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Elizabeth Taylor….Maggie Pollitt
          Paul Newman….Brick Pollitt
          Burl Ives….Big Daddy Pollitt
          Jack Carson….Gooper Pollitt
          Judith Anderson….Big Momma Pollitt

          Tagline: This is Maggie the Cat…

          Plot Outline: Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie.
          His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

175   * Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
          Directed by Sidney J. Furie
          Writing credits: William Dufty, Billie Holiday (book), Chris Clark, Suzanne De Passe, Terence McCloy (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Diana Ross….Billie Holiday
          Billy Dee Williams….Louis McKay
          Richard Pryor….Piano Man
          James T. Callahan….Reg Hanley
          Paul Hampton….Harry

          Tagline: Diana Ross IS Billie Holiday

          Plot Outline: The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.


176      His Girl Friday (1940)
          Directed by Howard Hawks
          Writing credits: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur (play), Charles Lederer (screenplay),
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Cary Grant….Walter Burns
          Rosalind Russell….Hildy Johnson
          Ralph Bellamy….Bruce Baldwin
          Gene Lockhart….Sheriff Hartwell
          Porter Hall….Murphy

          Tagline: She learned about men from him!

          Plot Outline: A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter
          ex-wife from remarrying.

177   * Paris, Texas (1984)
          Directed by Wim Wenders
          Writing credits: L.M. Kit Carson (adaptation), Sam Shepard
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Harry Dean Stanton….Travis Henderson
          Nastassja Kinski….Jane Henderson
          Dean Stockwell….Walt Henderson
          Bernhard Wicki….Doctor Ulmer
          Hunter Carson….Hunter Henderson

          Tagline: Where lost love is found…

          A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his
          memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his wife and son four years before…

178   * Manny & Lo (1996)
          Directed by Lisa Krueger
          Writing credits: Lisa Krueger
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Mary Kay Place….Elaine
          Scarlett Johansson….Amanda
          Aleksa Palladino….Laurel
          Paul Guilfoyle….Country House Owner
          Novella Nelson….Georgine

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: A pregnant teen and her younger sister run away from foster homes and kidnap
          a woman whom they believe can help with the pregnancy.

179      Stage Door (1937)
          Directed by Gregory La Cava
          Writing credits: Edna Ferber, George S. Kaufman (play), Morrie Ryskind, Anthony Veiller (screen play)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Katharine Hepburn….Terry Randall
          Ginger Rogers….Jean Maitland
          Adolphe Menjou….Anthony Powell
          Lucille Ball….Judith
          Eve Arden….Eve

          Tagline: The gaiety...glamour...foolishness and fun of showbusiness...played on the Great White Way

          Plot Outline: A boardinghouse full of aspiring actresses and their ambitions, dreams and disappointments.


180      Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
          Directed by Arthur Penn
          Writing credits: David Newman, Robert Benton
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Warren Beatty….Clyde Barrow
          Faye Dunaway….Bonnie Parker
          Michael J. Pollard….C.W. Moss
          Gene Hackman….Buck Barrow
          Estelle Parsons….Blanche

          Tagline: They're young... they're in love... and they kill people.

          Plot Outline: A somewhat romanticized account of the career of the notoriously violent bank robbing
          couple and their gang.

181   * Opposite of Sex, The (1998)
          Directed by: Don Roos
          Writing credits: Don Roos
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Christina Ricci….Dede Truitt
          Martin Donovan….Bill Truitt
          Lisa Kudrow….Lucia DeLury
          Lyle Lovett….Sheriff Carl Tippett
          Johnny Galecki….Jason Bock

          Tagline: You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll be offended

          Plot Outline: A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend,
          thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.

182   * It Happened One Night (1934)
          Directed by Frank Capra
          Writing credits: Samuel Hopkins Adams (short story), Robert Riskin (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Clark Gable….Peter Warne
          Claudette Colbert….Ellie
          Walter Connolly….Andrews
          Roscoe Karns….Shapeley
          Jameson Thomas….Westley

          Tagline: Two great lovers of the screen in the grandest of romantic comedies!

          Plot Outline: A spoiled heiress, running away from her family, is helped by a man who's actually a
          reporter looking for a story.

183   * Fargo (1996)
          Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
          Writing credits: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          William H. Macy….Jerry Lundegaard
          Steve Buscemi….Carl Showalter
          Frances McDormand….Marge Gunderson
          Harve Presnell….Wade Gustafson
          Peter Stormare….Gaear Grimsrud

          Tagline: Small town. Big crime. Dead cold.

          Plot Outline: Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and
          the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.

184      Clockwork Orange, A (Great Britain, 1971)
          Directed by Stanley Kubrick
          Writing credits: Anthony Burgess (novel), Stanley Kubrick (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Malcolm McDowell….Alex
          Patrick Magee….Mr Alexander
          Michael Bates….Chief Guard
          Warren Clarke….Dim
          John Clive….Stage Actor

          Tagline: Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven.

          Plot Outline: In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion
          therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem... but not all goes to plan.

185      Wait Until Dark (1967)
          Directed by Terence Young
          Frederick Knott (play), Robert Carrington, Jane-Howard Carrington (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Audrey Hepburn….Susy Hendrix
          Alan Arkin….Roat/Roat Jr./Roat Sr.
          Richard Crenna….Mike Talman
          Efrem Zimbalist Jr.…Sam Hendrix
          Jack Weston….Carlino

          Tagline: A blind woman plays a deadly game of survival

          Plot Outline: A recently blinded woman is terrorized by a trio of thugs while they search for a heroin
          stuffed doll they believe is in her apartment.

186   * Amadeus (1984)
          Directed by Milos Forman
          Writing credits: Peter Shaffer
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          F. Murray Abraham….Antonio Salieri
          Tom Hulce….Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
          Elizabeth Berridge….Constanze Mozart
          Simon Callow….Emanuel Schikaneder/Papageno in 'The Magic Flute'
          Roy Dotrice….Leopold Mozart

          Tagline: The man... The music... The madness... The murder... The motion picture…

          Plot Outline: The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told in flashback by his peer and
          secret rival Antonio Salieri - now confined to an insane asylum.

187   * Pinocchio (1940)
          Directed by Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske
          Writing credits: Carlo Collodi (story), Ted Sears, Otto Englander, Webb Smith, William Cottrell, Joseph Sabo,
          Erdman Penner, Aurelius Battaglia (story and adaptation)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Dickie Jones….Pinocchio/Alexander (voice)
          Christian Rub….Geppetto (voice)
          Cliff Edwards….Jiminy Cricket (voice)
          Frankie Darro….Lampwick (voice)
          Charles Judels….Stromboli/The Coachman (voice)

          Tagline: For The Young In Heart Of Every Age ! !

          Plot Outline: A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove
          himself worthy to become a real boy.

188   * Alice (1990)
          Directed by Woody Allen
          Writing credits: Woody Allen
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Joe Mantegna....Joe
          Mia Farrow....Alice
          William Hurt....Doug
          June Squibb....Hilda
          Marceline Hugot....Monica

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: A spoiled Manhattan housewife re-evaluates her life after visiting a Chinatown healer.

189   * McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)
          Directed by Robert Altman
          Writing credits: Edmund Naughton (novel), Robert Altman, Brian McKay(screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Warren Beatty….John McCabe
          Julie Christie….Constance Miller
          Rene Auberjonois….Sheehan
          William Devane….The Lawyer
          John Schuck….Smalley

          Tagline: Purveyors of Paradise.

          Plot Outline: A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town,
          and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.

190   * Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
          Directed by Robert Aldrich
          Writing credits: Henry Farrell, Lukas Heller (screenplay), Henry Farrell (story)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Bette Davis….Charlotte
          Olivia de Havilland….Miriam
          Joseph Cotten….Drew
          Agnes Moorehead….Velma
          Cecil Kellaway….Harry

          Tagline: The years will soon erase a lover's lies...the blood on his face!

          Plot Outline: An aging, reclusive southern belle, plagued by a horrifying family secret,
          descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.

191   * Klute (1971)
          Directed by Alan J. Pakula
          Writing credits: Andy Lewis, David P. Lewis
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Jane Fonda….Bree Daniel
          Donald Sutherland….John Klute
          Charles Cioffi….Peter Cable
          Roy Scheider….Frank Ligourin
          Dorothy Tristan….Arlyn Page

          Tagline: Lots of guys swing with a call girl like Bree. One guy just wants to kill her.

          Plot Outline: A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead:
          a connection with a New York prostitute.

192      I Married a Witch (1942)
          Directed by René Clair
          Writing credits: Thorne Smith (based on a story by), Robert Pirosh, Marc Connelly (screen play)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Fredric March….Jonathan Wooley/Nathaniel Wooley/Samuel Wooley/Wallace Wooley
          Veronica Lake….Jennifer
          Robert Benchley….Dr. Dudley White
          Susan Hayward….Estelle Masterson
          Cecil Kellaway….Daniel

          Tagline: When she finishes with him, he won't know witch is which!

          Plot Outline: A beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician
          Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.

193   * Saboteur (1942)
          Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
          Writing credits: Peter Viertel, Joan Harrison, Dorothy Parker (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Priscilla Lane….Pat
          Robert Cummings….Barry
          Otto Kruger….Tobin
          Alan Baxter….Freeman
          Clem Bevans….Neilson

          Tagline: 3000 miles of terror!

          Plot Outline: Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane goes on the run across the United States
          when he is wrongly accused of starting a fire that killed his best friend.

194      Tales of Manhattan (1942)
          Directed by Julien Duvivier
          Writing credits: Henry Blankfort, Alan Campbell, Ladislas Fodor, László Görög, Ben Hecht,
          Samuel Hoffenstein, Ferenc Molnár, Donald Ogden Stewart, Lamar Trotti, László Vadnay
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Charles Boyer….Paul Orman
          Rita Hayworth….Ethel Halloway
          Ginger Rogers….Diane
          Henry Fonda….George
          Charles Laughton….Charles Smith

          Tagline: An Experience You'll never forget!

          Plot Outline: An actor, Paul Orman, is accidentally told that his new, custom made tail
          coat has been cursed and it will bring misfortune to all who wear it…

195   * One of Our Aircraft is Missing (Great Britain, 1942)
          Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
          Writing credits: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Godfrey Tearle….Sir George Corbett, Rear Gunner in B for Bertie
          Eric Portman….Tom Earnshaw, Copilot in B for Bertie
          Hugh Williams….Frank Shelley, Observer/Navigator in B for Bertie
          Bernard Miles….Geoff Hickman, Front Gunner in B for Bertie
          Hugh Burden….John Glyn Haggard, Pilot in B for Bertie

          Tagline: This time WE are the invaders!

          Plot Outline: When the Nazis shoot down a British bomber, its crew seeks help from the Dutch underground.

196   * Nightmare Before Christmas, The (1993)
          Directed by Henry Selick
          Writing credits: Tim Burton (story), Michael McDowell (adaptation), Caroline Thompson (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Danny Elfman….Jack Skellington - Singing Voice/Barrel/Clown with the Tear Away Face (voice)
          Chris Sarandon….Jack Skellington (voice)
          Catherine O'Hara….Sally/Shock (voice)
          William Hickey….Dr. Finklestein (voice)
          Glenn Shadix….Mayor (voice)

          Tagline: A ghoulish tale with wicked humour & stunning animation.

          Plot Outline: Jack Skellington, king of Halloweentown, discovers Christmas Town,
          but doesn't quite understand the concept.

197   * What's Up Doc? (1972)
          Directed by Peter Bogdanovich
          Writing credits: Peter Bogdanovich (story), Buck Henry, David Newman, Robert Benton (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Barbra Streisand….Judy Maxwell
          Ryan O'Neal….Howard Bannister
          Madeline Kahn….Eunice Burns
          Kenneth Mars….Hugh Simon
          Austin Pendleton….Frederick Larrabee

          Tagline: A screwball comedy. Remember them?

          Plot Outline: The accidental mix up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a
          series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

198   * Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
          Directed by Mel Stuart
          Writing credits: Roald Dahl (book), Roald Dahl (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Gene Wilder….Willy Wonka
          Jack Albertson….Grandpa Joe
          Peter Ostrum….Charlie
          Roy Kinnear….Mr. Salt
          Julie Dawn Cole….Veruca Salt

          Tagline: It's Scrumdiddlyumptious!

          Plot Outline: A poor boy wins the opportunity to tour the most eccentric and wonderful candy factory of all.


199   * What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
          Directed by Robert Aldrich
          Writing credits: Henry Farrell (novel), Lukas Heller (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Bette Davis….Baby Jane Hudson
          Joan Crawford….Blanche Hudson
          Victor Buono….Edwin Flagg
          Wesley Addy….Marty Mc Donald
          Julie Allred….Baby Jane Hudson, in 1917

          Tagline: Sister, sister, oh so fair, why is there blood all over your hair?

          Plot Outline: In a decaying Hollywood mansion, Jane Hudson, a former child star, and her sister Blanche,
          a movie queen forced into retirement after a crippling accident, live in virtual isolation.

200   * Misfits, The (1961)
          Directed by John Huston
          Writing credits: Arthur Miller (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Clark Gable….Gay Langland
          Marilyn Monroe….Roslyn Taber
          Montgomery Clift….Perce Howland
          Thelma Ritter….Isabelle Steers
          Eli Wallach….Guido

          Tagline: It shouts and sings with life ... explodes with love!

          Plot Outline: A sexy divorcée falls for an over-the-hill cowboy who is struggling to
          maintain his romantically independent lifestyle in early-sixties Nevada.

201      Badlands (1973)
          Directed by Terrence Malick
          Writing credits: Terrence Malick
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Martin Sheen….Kit
          Sissy Spacek….Holly
          Warren Oates….Father
          Ramon Bieri….Cato
          Alan Vint….Deputy

          Tagline: In 1959 a lot of people were killing time. Kit and Holly were killing people.

          Plot Outline: Based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1958, in which a fifteen-year-old girl and
          her twenty-five-year-old boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.

202      Sleuth (1972)
          Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
          Writing credits: Anthony Shaffer (play), Anthony Shaffer (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Laurence Olivier….Andrew Wyke
          Michael Caine….Milo Tindle
          Alec Cawthorne….Inspector Doppler
          John Matthews….Detective Sergeant Tarrant
          Eve Channing….Marguerite Wyke

          Tagline: If it was murder, where's the body?

          Plot Outline: A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him,
          setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.

203   * Other Side of the Street, The (O Outro Lado da Rua) (Brazil, 2004)
          Directed by Marcos Bernstein
          Writing credits: Marcos Bernstein (story), Melanie Dimantas
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Fernanda Montenegro….Regina
          Raul Cortez ….Camargo
          Laura Cardoso....Patolina
          Luiz Carlos Persy….Alcides
          Miguel Lunardi….Regina's Son

          Tagline: You're being watched

          Plot Outline: A retired woman keeps snooping on everybody in her neighborhood until she thinks she
          sees an ex cop commit murder and becomes a police informant.

204   * Bambi (1942)
          Directed by Samuel Armstrong, David Hand
          Writing credits: Felix Salten (from the story by), Perce Pearce (story direction), Larry Morey (story adaptation)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Hardie Albright….Adolescent Bambi (voice)
          Stan Alexander….Young Flower (voice)
          Peter Behn….Young Thumper (voice)
          Ann Gillis….Adult Faline (voice)
          Donnie Dunagan….Young Bambi (voice)

          Tagline: Love Comes To The Forest Folk...and to you, in one of the world's greatest love stories!

          Plot Outline: Animated film about a young deer, Bambi, growing up in the wild after his mother is shot by hunters.

205   * White (Blanc) (France, Poland, Switzerland, 1994)
          Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski
          Writing credits: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz (scenario), Agnieszka Holland,
          Edward Zebrowski, Edward Klosinski (scenario collaborators)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Zbigniew Zamachowski….Karol Karol
          Julie Delpy….Dominique
          Janusz Gajos….Mikolaj
          Jerzy Stuhr….Jurek
          Aleksander Bardini….Le notaire (The Lawyer)

          Tagline: There's nothing sweeter than revenge.

          Plot Outline: Second of a trilogy of films dealing with contemporary French society
          shows a Polish immigrant who wants to get even with his ex-wife.

206   * Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)
          Directed by William Wyler
          Writing credits: MacKinlay Kantor (novel), Robert E. Sherwood (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Myrna Loy….Milly Stephenson
          Fredric March….Al Stephenson
          Dana Andrews….Fred Derry
          Teresa Wright….Peggy Stephenson
          Virginia Mayo….Marie Derry

          Tagline: Filled with all the love and warmth and joy...the human heart can hold!

          Plot Outline: Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to discover that
          they and their families have been irreparably changed.

207      Maurice (Great Britain, 1987)
          Directed by James Ivory
          Writing credits: E.M. Forster (novel), Kit Hesketh-Harvey, James Ivory (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          James Wilby….Maurice Hall
          Hugh Grant….Clive Durham
          Rupert Graves….Alec Scudder
          Denholm Elliott….Doctor Barry
          Simon Callow….Mr. Ducie

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of
          Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.

208   * Impromptu (Great Britain, 1991)
          Directed by James Lapine
          Writing credits: Sarah Kernochan
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Judy Davis….George Sand/Aurora
          Hugh Grant….Frederic Chopin
          Mandy Patinkin….Alfred De Musset
          Bernadette Peters….Marie D'Agoult
          Julian Sands….Franz Liszt

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by
          the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.

209   * The Day of the Locust (1975)
          Directed by John Schlesinger
          Writing credits: Nathanael West (novel), Waldo Salt (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Donald Sutherland….Homer Simpson
          Karen Black….Faye Greener
          Burgess Meredith….Harry Greener
          William Atherton….Tod Hackett
          Geraldine Page….Big Sister

          Tagline: It happenend in Hollywood. But it could have happened in hell.

          Plot Outline: The film tells the twin tales of talentless wannabe actress Faye Greener and Homer Simpson,
          a lovelorn accountant who couldn't care less about movies.

210      Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
          Directed by Sidney Lumet
          Writing credits: P.F. Kluge, Thomas Moore (article), Frank Pierson (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Al Pacino….Sonny Wortzik
          John Cazale….Sal
          James Broderick….Sheldon
          Charles Durning….Moretti
          Chris Sarandon….Leon Shermer

          Tagline: Anything can happen during the dog days of summer. On August 22nd, 1972, everything did

          Plot Outline: A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns
          into a hostage situation and a media circus.

211      Murder by Death (1976)
          Directed by Robert Moore
          Writing credits: Neil Simon
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Eileen Brennan….Tess Skeffington
          Truman Capote….Lionel Twain
          James Coco….Milo Perrier
          Peter Falk….Sam Diamond
          Alec Guinness….Bensonmum

          Tagline: By the time the world's greatest detectives figure out whodunnit...you could die laughing!

          Plot Outline: Five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are
          invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.

212   * I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
          Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
          Writing credits: Robert E. Burns (by), Howard J. Green, Brown Holmes (screen play)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Paul Muni….James Allen
          Glenda Farrell….Marie
          Helen Vinson….Helen
          Noel Francis….Linda
          Preston Foster….Pete

          Tagline: Six sticks of dynamite that blasted his way to freedom... and awoke America's conscience!

          Plot Outline: Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions
          of a southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.

213      Ball of Fire (1941)
          Directed by Howard Hawks
          Writing credits: Billy Wilder, Thomas Monroe (story), Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Gary Cooper….Prof. Bertram Potts
          Barbara Stanwyck….Sugarpuss O'Shea
          Oskar Homolka….Prof. Gurkakoff
          Henry Travers….Prof. Jerome
          S.Z. Sakall….Prof. Magenbruch

          Tagline: "I LOVE HIM because he doesn't know how to kiss -- THE JERK!"

          Plot Outline: A group of ivory-tower lexicographers realize they need to hear how real people talk,
          and end up helping a beautiful singer avoid police and escape from the Mob.

214   * Blue Dahlia, The (1946)
          Directed by George Marshall
          Writing credits: Raymond Chandler
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Alan Ladd….Johnny Morrison - Lt.Cmdr., ret.
          Veronica Lake….Joyce Harwood
          William Bendix….Buzz Wanchek
          Howard Da Silva….Eddie Harwood
          Doris Dowling….Helen Morrison

          Tagline: Tamed by a brunette - framed by a blonde - blamed by the cops!

          Plot Outline: An ex-bomber pilot is suspected of murdering his unfaithful wife.


215      Magnolia (1999)
          Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
          Writing credits: Paul Thomas Anderson
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Julianne Moore....Linda Partridge
          William H. Macy….Donnie Smith
          John C. Reilly….Officer Jim Kurring
          Tom Cruise….Frank T.J. Mackey
          Philip Baker Hall….Jimmy Gator

          Tagline: Things fall down. People look up. And when it rains, it pours.

          Plot Outline: An epic mosaic of several interrelated characters in search of happiness,
          forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.

216   * Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
          Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
          Writing credits: Tennessee Williams (play), Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Elizabeth Taylor….Catherine Holly
          Katharine Hepburn….Mrs. Violet Venable
          Montgomery Clift….Dr. Cukrowicz
          Albert Dekker….Dr. Lawrence J. Hockstader
          Mercedes McCambridge….Mrs. Grace Holly

          Tagline: Suddenly, last summer, Cathy knew she was being used for something evil!

          Plot Outline: The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the
          girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.

217   * Haunting, The (1963)
          Directed by Robert Wise
          Writing credits: Shirley Jackson (novel), Nelson Gidding (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Julie Harris….Eleanor 'Nell' Lance
          Claire Bloom….Theodora 'Theo'
          Richard Johnson….Dr. John Markway
          Russ Tamblyn….Luke Sanderson
          Fay Compton….Mrs. Sanderson

          Tagline: You may not believe in ghosts but you cannot deny terror

          Plot Outline: Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House,
          a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity…

218   * Big Lift, The (1950)
          Directed by George Seaton
          Writing credits: George Seaton
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Montgomery Clift….Sgt. 1st Class Danny MacCullough
          Paul Douglas….MSgt. Henry 'Hank' Kowalski
          Cornell Borchers….Frederica Burkhardt
          Bruni Löbel….Gerda
          O.E. Hasse….Stieber

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: Experiences of two Air Force sergeants during the 1948 Berlin Airlift.


219   * General, The (1926)
          Directed by Buster Keaton
          Writing credits: William Pittenger (book), Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Buster Keaton….Johnny Gray
          Marion Mack….Annabelle Lee
          Glen Cavender….Captain Anderson
          Jim Farley….General Thatcher
          Frederick Vroom….A Southern General

          Tagline: Love, Locomotives and Laughs

          Plot Outline: When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive, he pursues it
          single handedly and straight through enemy lines.

220   Kandahar (Safar e Ghandehar) (Iran, France, 2001)
          Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
          Writing credits: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Ike Ogut….Naghadar
          Nelofer Pazira….Nafas
          Hassan Tantai….Tabib Sahid
          Sadou Teymouri….Khak
          Hoyatala Hakimi….Hayat

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her
          suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.

221      Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
          Directed by Frank Capra
          Writing credits: Sidney Buchman (screenplay), Lewis R. Foster (story)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Jean Arthur….Clarissa Saunders
          James Stewart….Jefferson Smith
          Claude Rains….Sen. Joseph Harrison Paine
          Edward Arnold….Jim Taylor
          Guy Kibbee….Gov. Hubert Hopper

          Tagline: Stirring - In the seeing! Precious - In the remembering!

          Plot Outline: A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the US Senate. His plans
          promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn't back down.

222      Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
          Directed by Martin Scorsese
          Writing credits: Robert Getchell
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Ellen Burstyn….Alice Hyatt
          Alfred Lutter III….Tommy
          Kris Kristofferson….David
          Diane Ladd….Flo
          Vic Tayback….Mel

          Tagline: A picture for anyone who has ever dreamed of a second chance!

          Plot Outline: A recently widowed woman on the road with her precocious young son,
          determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.

223   * Moonstruck (1987)
          Directed by Norman Jewison
          Writing credits: John Patrick Shanley
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Cher….Loretta Castorini
          Nicolas Cage….Ronny Cammareri
          Vincent Gardenia….Cosmo Castorini
          Olympia Dukakis….Rose Castorini
          Danny Aiello….Mr. Johnny Cammareri

          Tagline: Life. Family. Love.

          Plot Outline: Loretta Castorini, a book keeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls
          for the brother of the man she agreed to marry (the best friend of her late husband who died seven years previously).

224   * 101 Dalmatians (1961)
          Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman
          Writing credits: Dodie Smith (novel), Bill Peet (story)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Rod Taylor….Pongo (voice)
          J. Pat O'Malley….Colonel/Jasper (voice)
          Betty Lou Gerson….Cruella De Vil/Miss Birdwell (voice)
          Martha Wentworth….Nanny/Queenie/Lucy (voice)
          Ben Wright….Roger (voice)

          Tagline: One great big ONEderful motion picture

          Plot Outline: When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil,
          the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement.

225      Midsummer Night's Dream, A (1935)
          Directed by William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt
          Writing credits: William Shakespeare (play), Charles Kenyon, Mary C. McCall Jr. (arranged for the screen by)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          James Cagney….Bottom, the Weaver
          Joe E. Brown….Flute, the Bellows-mender
          Dick Powell….Lysander, In love with Hermia
          Jean Muir….Helena, In love with Demetrius
          Victor Jory….Oberon, King of the Fairies

          Tagline: Three hundred years in the making!

          Plot Summary: Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons.
          Demetrius is engaged with Hermia…

226   * Deathtrap (1982)
          Directed by Sidney Lumet
          Writing credits: Ira Levin (play), Jay Presson Allen (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Michael Caine….Sidney Bruhl
          Christopher Reeve….Clifford Anderson
          Dyan Cannon….Myra Bruhl
          Irene Worth….Helga ten Dorp
          Henry Jones….Porter Milgrim

          Tagline: A wickedly amusing who'll do it.

          Plot Outline: A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.


227   * Rope (1948)
          Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
          Writing credits: Patrick Hamilton (play), Hume Cronyn (adaptation), Arthur Laurents (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Dick Hogan….David Kentley
          John Dall….Brandon - His Friend
          Farley Granger….Phillip - His Friend
          James Stewart….Rupert Cadell
          Douglas Dick….Kenneth - Their Rival

          Tagline: Nothing ever held you like Alfred Hitchcock's Rope

          Plot Outline: Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite
          his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime.

228   * Strait-Jacket (1964)
          Directed by William Castle
          Writing credits: Robert Bloch
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Joan Crawford….Lucy Harbin
          Diane Baker….Carol Harbin
          Leif Erickson….Bill Cutler
          Howard St. John….Raymond Fields
          John Anthony Hayes….Michael Fields

          Tagline: WARNING! 'Strait-Jacket' vividly depicts ax murders!

          Plot Outline: After a 20 year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to
          her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.

229   * Dumbo (1941)
          Directed by Ben Sharpsteen
          Writing credits: Helen Aberson, Harold Pearl (book), Joe Grant, Dick Huemer (screen story)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Herman Bing….The Ringmaster (voice)
          Edward Brophy….Timothy Q. Mouse (voice)
          Cliff Edwards….Jim Crow (voice)
          Verna Felton….The Elephant Matriarch/Mrs. Jumbo (voice)
          Noreen Gammill….Catty the Elephant (voice)

          Tagline: Walt Disney's Latest . . . Most Lovable . . . Funable Characters!

          Plot Outline: Ridiculed because of his enormous ears, a young circus elephant is assisted by
          a mouse to achieve his full potential.

230   * Grease (1978)
          Directed by Randal Kleiser
          Writing credits: Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey (musical), Bronte Woodard (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          John Travolta….Danny Zuko
          Olivia Newton-John….Sandy Olsen
          Stockard Channing….Betty Rizzo
          Jeff Conaway….Kenickie
          Barry Pearl….Doody

          Tagline: Grease is the word

          Plot Outline: Good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly
          discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?

231   * Rashomon (Rashômon) (Japan, 1950)
          Directed by Akira Kurosawa
          Writing credtis: Ryûnosuke Akutagawa (stories), Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Toshirô Mifune….Tajômaru
          Machiko Kyô….Masako Kanazawa
          Masayuki Mori….Takehiro Kanazawa
          Takashi Shimura….Woodcutter
          Minoru Chiaki….Priest

          Tagline: The husband, the wife...or the bandit?

          Plot Outline: A heinous crime and its aftermath are recalled from differing points of view.


232   * Happiness (1998)
          Directed by Todd Solondz
          Writing credits: Todd Solondz
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Jane Adams….Joy Jordan
          Jon Lovitz….Andy Kornbluth
          Philip Seymour Hoffman….Allen
          Dylan Baker….Bill Maplewood
          Lara Flynn Boyle….Helen Jordan

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: The lives of many individuals connected by the desire for happiness, often from
          sources usually considered dark or evil.

233      Memento (2000)
          Directed by Christopher Nolan
          Writing credits: Jonathan Nolan (short story "Memento Mori"), Christopher Nolan (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Guy Pearce….Leonard Shelby
          Carrie-Anne Moss….Natalie
          Joe Pantoliano….Teddy Gammell
          Mark Boone Junior….Burt
          Russ Fega….Waiter

          Tagline: Some memories are best forgotten

          Plot Outline: A man, suffering from short-term memory loss, uses notes and tattoos to
          hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife.

234      Grand Illusion, The (Grande illusion, La) (France, 1937)
          Directed by Jean Renoir
          Writing credits: Charles Spaak (scenario and dialogue), Jean Renoir (scenario and dialogue)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Jean Gabin….Le lieutenant Maréchal
          Dita Parlo….Elsa - Farm Woman
          Pierre Fresnay….Le captaine de Boeldieu
          Erich von Stroheim….Le captaine von Rauffenstein
          Julien Carette….Cartier - l'acteur

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: During the First World War, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German POW camp. Several
          escape attempts follow until they are sent to a seemingly impenetrable fortress which seems impossible to escape from.

235      Last of Sheila, The (1973)
          Directed by Herbert Ross
          Writing credits: Anthony Perkins, Stephen Sondheim
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Richard Benjamin….Tom
          Dyan Cannon….Christine
          James Coburn….Clinton Green
          Joan Hackett….Lee
          James Mason….Philip

          Tagline: Any number can play. Any number can die.

          Plot Outline: A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multi-millionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a
          week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game. The game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.

236   * Sayonara (1957)
          Directed by Joshua Logan
          Writing credits: James Michener (novel), Paul Osborn (screen play)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Marlon Brando….Major Gruver
          Patricia Owens….Eileen Webster
          Red Buttons….Joe Kelly
          Miiko Taka….Hana-Ogi
          Ricardo Montalban….Nakamura

          Tagline: Worlds apart...theirs was the daring love affair violating every rule, every custom, every centuries-old belief!

          Plot Outline: A US air force major in Kobe confronts his own opposition to marriages between
          American servicemen and Japanese women when he falls for a beautiful performer.

237      World According to Garp, The (1982)
          Directed by George Roy Hill
          Writing credits: John Irving (novel), Steve Tesich (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Robin Williams….Garp
          Mary Beth Hurt….Helen Holm
          Glenn Close….Jenny Fields
          John Lithgow….Roberta Muldoon
          Hume Cronyn…,Mr. Fields

          Tagline: Robin Williams is Garp. He's got a funny way of looking at life.

          Plot Summary: Based on the John Irving novel, this film chronicles the life of T S Garp, and
          his mother, Jenny. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer…

238   * Seventh Seal, The (Sjunde inseglet, Det) (Sweden, 1957)
          Directed by Ingmar Bergman
          Writing credits: Ingmar Bergman
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Gunnar Björnstrand….Jöns, squire
          Bengt Ekerot….Death
          Nils Poppe….Jof/Joseph
          Max von Sydow….Antonius Block
          Bibi Andersson….Mia/Mary - Jof's wife

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: A man seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays
          chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.

239      My Man Godfrey (1936)
          Directed by Gregory La Cava
          Writing credits: Eric Hatch (novel), Morrie Ryskind, Eric Hatch (screen play)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          William Powell….Godfrey
          Carole Lombard….Irene Bullock
          Alice Brady….Angelica Bullock
          Gail Patrick….Cornelia Bullock
          Eugene Pallette….Alexander Bullock

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler...but
          there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye.

240      Return of the Jedi (1983)
          Directed by Richard Marquand
          Writing credits: Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Mark Hamill….Luke Skywalker
          Harrison Ford….Han Solo
          Carrie Fisher….Princess Leia
          Billy Dee Williams….Lando Calrissian
          Anthony Daniels….C-3PO

          Tagline: Return To A Galaxy... Far, Far Away

          Plot Outline: After rescuing Han Solo from the palace of Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels attempt to destroy the
          Second Death Star, while Luke Skywalker tries to bring his father back to the Light Side of the Force.

241      Arthur (1981)
          Directed by Steve Gordon
          Writing credits: Steve Gordon
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Dudley Moore….Arthur Bach
          Liza Minnelli….Linda Marolla
          John Gielgud….Hobson
          Geraldine Fitzgerald….Martha Bach
          Jill Eikenberry….Susan Johnson

          Tagline: The most fun money can buy

          Plot Summary: Arthur is a happy drunk with no pretensions at any ambition. He is also the heir
          to a vast fortune which he is told will only be his if he marries Susan…

242   * Hairspray (1988)
          Directed by John Waters
          Writing credits: John Waters
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Sonny Bono….Franklin von Tussle
          Ruth Brown….Motormouth Maybelle
          Divine….Edna Turnblad/Arvin Hodgepile
          Deborah Harry….Velma Von Tussle
          Ricki Lake….Tracy Turnblad

          Tagline: The world was in a mess... but their hair was perfect!!

          Plot Outline: A 'pleasantly plump' teenager teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two
          about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.

243      L.A. Confidential (1997)
          Directed by Curtis Hanson
          Writing credits: James Ellroy (novel), Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson, (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Kevin Spacey….Jack Vincennes
          Russell Crowe….Wendell 'Bud' White
          Guy Pearce….Edmund J. Exley
          James Cromwell….Dudley Smith
          Kim Basinger….Lynn Bracken

          Tagline: Everything is suspect...everyone is for sale...and nothing is what it seems.

          Plot Outline: As corruption grows in 1950's LA, three policemen - the straight-laced, the brutal,
          and the sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.

244   * Some Like It Hot (1959)
          Directed by Billy Wilder
          Writing credits: Robert Thoeren, Michael Logan (suggested by a story by) Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Marilyn Monroe….Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
          Tony Curtis….Joe
          Jack Lemmon….Jerry
          George Raft….Spats Colombo
          Pat O'Brien….Det. Mulligan

          Tagline: Marilyn Monroe and her bosom companions

          Plot Outline: When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female
          band disguised as women, but further complications set in.

245   * Alice in Wonderland (1933)
          Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
          Writing credits: Lewis Carroll (novels), Joseph L. Mankiewicz, William Cameron Menzies (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Richard Arlen….Cheshire Cat
          Roscoe Ates….Fish
          William Austin….Gryphon
          Gary Cooper….White Knight
          Leon Errol….Uncle Gilbert

          Tagline: The Entertainment Miracle Of All Times!

          Plot Outline: In Victorian England a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy
          world called Wonderland populated by even more fantastic characters.

246   * Lady in a Cage (1964)
          Directed by Walter Grauman
          Writing credits: Luther Davis
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Olivia de Havilland….Mrs. Cornelia Hilyard
          James Caan….Randall Simpson O'Connell
          Jennifer Billingsley….Elaine
          Rafael Campos….Essie
          William Swan….Malcolm Hilyard

          Tagline: Do not see "Lady in a Cage" alone!

          Plot Summary: The lady is Mrs. Hilyard, a wealthy poetess who lives in a
          three-story city mansion and her cage is her elevator…

247      Exorcist, The (1973)
          Directed by William Friedkin
          Writing credits: William Peter Blatty (novel), William Peter Blatty (written for the screen by)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Ellen Burstyn….Chris MacNeil
          Max von Sydow….Father Merrin
          Jason Miller….Father Damian Karras
          Linda Blair….Regan MacNeil
          Mercedes McCambridge….Demon (voice)

          Tagline: The Devil Inside

          Plot Outline: When a girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother
          seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.

248   * You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
          Directed by William A. Seiter
          Writing credits: Michael Fessier, Ernest Pagano, Delmer Daves (screenplay), Carlos A. Olivari, Sixto Pondal Ríos (story)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Fred Astaire….Robert Davis
          Rita Hayworth….Maria Acuña
          Adolphe Menjou….Eduardo Acuña
          Isobel Elsom….Mrs. Maria Castro
          Leslie Brooks….Cecy Acuña

          Tagline: Hayworth's glowing beauty! Astaire's glorious rhythm! Kern's greatest score since "Show Boat"!

          Plot Summary: The Acuñas, a rich Argentine family, have the tradition that the daughters have to get married in order...


249   * To Have and Have Not (1944)
          Directed by Howard Hawks
          Writing credits: Ernest Hemingway (novel), Jules Furthman, William Faulkner (screen play)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Humphrey Bogart ... Harry Morgan
          Walter Brennan….Eddie
          Lauren Bacall….Marie 'Slim' Browning
          Dolores Moran….Mme. Hellene de Bursac
          Hoagy Carmichael….Cricket

          Tagline: "If you want anything...just whistle!"

          Plot Outline: Expatriate American Harry Morgan helps to transport a Free French Resistance leader and
          his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sexy lounge singer.

250   * Serial Mom (1994)
          Directed by John Waters
          Writing credits: John Waters
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Kathleen Turner….Beverly R. Sutphin
          Sam Waterston….Eugene Sutphin, D.D.S.
          Ricki Lake….Misty Sutphin
          Matthew Lillard….Chip Sutphin
          Scott Morgan….Detective Pike

          Tagline: At least she meant well

          Plot Outline: A sweet mother takes a little too much at heart for the defense of her family.

251   * Tootsie (1982)
          Directed by Sydney Pollack
          Writing credits: Don McGuire, Larry Gelbart (story), Larry Gelbart, Murray Schisgal (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Dustin Hoffman….Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels
          Jessica Lange….Julie
          Teri Garr….Sandy
          Dabney Coleman….Ron
          Charles Durning….Les

          Tagline: He's Tootsie... She's Dustin Hoffman

          Plot Outline: An unemployed actor with a reputation for being difficult disguises
          himself as a woman to get a role in a soap opera.

252   * Wedding Banquet, The (1993)
          Directed by Ang Lee
          Writing credits: Ang Lee, Neil Peng, James Schamus
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Ya-lei Kuei….Mrs. Gao (as Ah-Leh Gua)
          Sihung Lung….Mr. Gao
          May Chin….Wei-Wei
          Winston Chao….Wai-Tung Gao
          Mitchell Lichtenstein….Simon

          Tagline: A little deception in the reception.

          Plot Outline: To satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage
          of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand.

253   * Adaptation. (2002)
          Directed by Spike Jonze
          Writing credits: Susan Orlean (book), Charlie Kaufman, Donald Kaufman (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Nicolas Cage….Charlie Kaufman/Donald Kaufman
          Tilda Swinton….Valerie Thomas
          Meryl Streep….Susan Orlean
          Chris Cooper….John Laroche
          Jay Tavare….Matthew Osceola

          Tagline: From the creator of Being John Malkovich, comes the story about the creator of Being John Malkovich.

          Plot Outline: A lovelorn screenwriter turns to his less talented twin brother for
          help when his efforts to adapt a non-fiction book go nowhere.

254      City of Lost Children, The (Cité des enfants perdus, La) (France, 1995)
          Directed by Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
          Writing credits: Gilles Adrien, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Ron Perlman….One
          Daniel Emilfork….Krank
          Judith Vittet….Miette
          Dominique Pinon….le scaphandrier/les clones
          Jean-Claude Dreyfus….Marcello

          Tagline: Where happily ever after is just a dream.

          Plot Outline: A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal
          their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.

255   * Run Lola Run (Lola rennt) (Germany 1998)
          Directed by Tom Tykwer
          Writing credits: Tom Tykwer
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Franka Potente….Lola
          Moritz Bleibtreu….Manni
          Herbert Knaup….Vater
          Nina Petri….Jutta Hansen
          Armin Rohde….Herr Schuster

          Tagline: The difference between life or death can be decided in a split

          Plot Outline: A young woman in Germany has twenty minutes to find and bring 100,000
          Deutschmarks to her boyfriend before he robs a supermarket.

256      Life Is Beautiful (Vita è bella, La) (Italy, 1997)
          Directed by Roberto Benigni
          Writing credits: Vincenzo Cerami, Roberto Benigni (story)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Roberto Benigni….Guido Orefice
          Nicoletta Braschi….Dora
          Giorgio Cantarini….Giosué Orefice
          Giustino Durano….Eliseo Orefice
          Sergio Bini Bustric….Ferruccio Papini

          Tagline: An unforgettable fable that proves love, family and imagination conquer all.

          Plot Outline: A Jewish man has a wonderful romance with the help of his humour,
          but must use that same quality to protect his son in a Nazi death camp.

257      Stand By Me (1986)
          Directed by Rob Reiner
          Writing credits: Stephen King (novel), Raynold Gideon, Bruce A. Evans (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Wil Wheaton….Gordie Lachance
          River Phoenix….Chris Chambers
          Corey Feldman….Teddy Duchamp
          Jerry O'Connell….Vern Tessio
          Kiefer Sutherland….Ace Merrill

          Tagline: For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life. But for
          everyone, it's the time that memories are made of.

          Plot Outline: After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy.

258      Amélie (Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le) (France, 2001)
          Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
          Writing credits: Guillaume Laurant, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Audrey Tautou….Amélie Poulain
          Mathieu Kassovitz….Nino Quincampoix
          Rufus….Raphaël Poulain
          Lorella Cravotta….Amandine Poulain
          Serge Merlin….Raymond Dufayel

          Tagline: One person can change your life forever.

          Plot Outline: Amélie, an innocent and naive girl in Paris, with her own sense of justice,
          decides to help those around her and along the way, discovers love.

259   * Fellini Satyricon (Italy, 1969)
          Directed by Federico Fellini
          Writing credits: Petronius (book), Federico Fellini, Bernardino Zapponi
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Martin Potter….Encolpio
          Hiram Keller ….Ascilto
          Max Born….Gitone
          Salvo Randone….Eumolpo
          Mario Romagnoli….Trimalcione

          Tagline: Rome. Before Christ. After Fellini.

          Plot Summary: In first century Rome, two student friends, Encolpio and Ascilto,
          argue about ownership of the boy Gitone…

260   * Harvey (1950)
          Directed by Henry Koster
          Writing credits: Mary Chase (play), Mary Chase, Oscar Brodney (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          James Stewart….Elwood P. Dowd
          Josephine Hull….Veta Louise Simmons
          Peggy Dow….Miss Kelly
          Charles Drake….Dr. Sanderson
          Cecil Kellaway….Dr. Chumley

          Tagline: The Wonderful Pulitzer Prize Play... becomes one of the Great Motion Pictures of our Time!

          Plot Outline: Elwood P. Dowd is a mild-mannered, pleasant man, who just happens (he says)
          to have an invisible friend resembling a 6-foot rabbit.

261      Icicle Thief, The (Ladri di saponette) (Italy, 1989)
          Directed by Maurizio Nichetti
          Writing credits: Mauro Monti, Maurizio Nichetti (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Heidi Komarek….The Model
          Carlina Torta….TV-watching Mother
          Massimo Sacilotto….TV-watching Father
          Claudio G. Fava….The Film Critic
          Lella Costa….The TV Producer

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: A movie resembling Bicycle Thieves is shown on TV, but the real-life
          world gets muddled with the film and the TV commercials.

262   * Singin' in the Rain (1952)
          Directed by Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
          Writing credits: Adolph Green, Betty Comden
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Gene Kelly….Don Lockwood
          Donald O'Connor….Cosmo Brown
          Debbie Reynolds….Kathy Selden
          Jean Hagen….Lina Lamont
          Millard Mitchell….R.F. Simpson

          Tagline: Singin' Swingin' Glorious Feelin' Technicolor Musical

          Plot Outline: A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.


263   * Phantom of the Opera, The (1925)
          Directed by Rupert Julian
          Writing credits: Gaston Leroux (novel)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Lon Chaney….The Phantom
          Mary Philbin….Christine Daae
          Norman Kerry….Vicomte Raoul de Chagny
          Arthur Edmund Carewe….Ledoux
          Gibson Gowland….Simon Buquet

          Tagline: The greatest horror film of modern cinema!

          Plot Outline: A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.


264      Bringing Up Baby (1938)
          Directed by Howard Hawks
          Writing credits: Hagar Wilde (from the story by), Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Katharine Hepburn….Susan
          Cary Grant….David
          Charles Ruggles….Major Applegate
          Walter Catlett….Slocum
          Barry Fitzgerald….Mr. Gogarty

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist
          is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard "Baby."

265   * Grey Gardens (1975)
          Directed by Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer
          Writing credits: none
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale….Herself
          Edith Bouvier Beale….Herself
          Brooks Hyers….Himself - Gardener
          Norman Vincent Peale….Himself (voice)

          Tagline: none

          Outline: An old mother and her middle-aged daughter, the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis,
          live their eccentric lives in a filthy, decaying mansion in East Hampton.


266      Persona (Sweden, 1966)
          Directed by Ingmar Bergman
          Writing credits: Ingmar Bergman
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Bibi Andersson….Alma, The Nurse
          Liv Ullmann….Elisabeth Vogler, The Actress
          Margaretha Krook….The Doctor
          Gunnar Björnstrand….Mr. Vogler
          Jörgen Lindström….The Boy, Elisabeth's Son

          Tagline: A new film by Ingmar Bergman

          Plot Outline: A nurse is put in charge of an actress who can't talk and finds
          that the actress's persona is melding with hers.

267      Sixth Sense, The (1999)
          Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
          Writing credits: M. Night Shyamalan
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Bruce Willis….Dr. Malcolm Crowe
          Haley Joel Osment….Cole Sear
          Toni Collette….Lynn Sear
          Olivia Williams….Anna Crowe
          Trevor Morgan….Tommy Tammisimo

          Tagline: Can You Keep the Secret?

          Plot Outline: A boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead
          seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.

268      Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
          Directed by Robert Zemeckis
          Writing credits: Gary K. Wolf (novel), Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Bob Hoskins….Eddie Valiant
          Christopher Lloyd….Judge Doom
          Joanna Cassidy….Dolores
          Charles Fleischer….Roger Rabbit/Benny The Cab/Greasy/Psycho (voice)
          Stubby Kaye….Marvin Acme

          Tagline: It's the story of a man, a woman, and a rabbit in a triangle of trouble.

          Plot Outline: A toon-hating detective is a cartoon rabbit's only hope to
          prove his innocence when he is accused of murder.

269   * Old Dark House, The (1932)
          Directed by James Whale
          Writing credits: J.B. Priestley (novel), Benn W. Levy (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Boris Karloff….Morgan
          Melvyn Douglas….Penderel
          Charles Laughton….Sir William Porterhouse
          Lilian Bond….Gladys
          Ernest Thesiger….Horace Femm

          Tagline: Beware the night!

          Plot Outline: Seeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and
          terrifying night when the stumble upon the Femm family estate.

270   * Talented Mr. Ripley, The (1999)
          Directed by Anthony Minghella
          Writing credits: Patricia Highsmith (novel), Anthony Minghella (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Matt Damon….Tom Ripley
          Gwyneth Paltrow….Marge Sherwood
          Jude Law….Dickie Greenleaf
          Cate Blanchett….Meredith Logue
          Philip Seymour Hoffman….Freddie Miles

          Tagline: Everybody should have one talent... what's yours?

          Plot Outline: In late 1950s New York, Tom Ripley, a young underachiever, is sent to Europe to retrieve a rich and
          spoiled millionaire playboy, named Dickie Greenleaf. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.

271   * Chaos (France, 2001)
          Directed by Coline Serreau
          Writing credits: Coline Serreau
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Vincent Lindon….Paul
          Catherine Frot….Hélène
          Rachida Brakni….Noémie/Malika
          Line Renaud….Mamie
          Aurélien Wiik….Fabrice

          Tagline: none

          Plot Summary: A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by
          accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives…

272   Pan's Labyrinth (Laberinto del fauno, El) (Spain, 2006)
          Directed by Guillermo del Toro
          Writing credits: Guillermo del Toro
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Ivana Baquero….Ofelia
          Sergi López….Vidal
          Maribel Verdú….Mercedes
          Doug Jones….Fauno/Pale Man
          Ariadna Gil….Carmen

          Tagline: What happens when make-believe believes it's real?

          Plot Outline: In the fascist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic
          army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.

273      Hoop Dreams (1994)
          Directed by Steve James
          Writing credits: Steve James, Frederick Marx
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          William Gates….Himself
          Arthur Agee….Himself
          Emma Gates….Herself - William's Mother
          Curtis Gates….Himself - William's Brother
          Sheila Agee….Herself - Arthur's Mother

          Tagline: An Extraordinary True Story.

          Outline: A film following the lives of two African American boys who struggle to
          become college basketball players on the road to going professional.

274   * Eat Drink Man Woman (Yin shi nan nu) (Taiwan, 1994)
          Directed by Ang Lee
          Writing credits: Ang Lee, James Schamus, Hui-Ling Wang
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Sihung Lung….Chu
          Yu-Wen Wang….Jia-Ning
          Chien-lien Wu….Jia-Chien
          Kuei-Mei Yang….Jia-Jen
          Sylvia Chang….Jin-Rong

          Tagline: The Ingredients of Life

          Plot Outline: A senior chef lives with his three grown daughters; the middle one finds her future
          plans affected by unexpected events and the life changes of the other household members.

275      American Beauty (1999)
          Directed by Sam Mendes
          Writing credits: Alan Ball
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Kevin Spacey….Lester Burnham
          Annette Bening….Carolyn Burnham
          Thora Birch….Jane Burnham
          Wes Bentley….Ricky Fitts
          Mena Suvari….Angela Hayes

          Tagline: ...look closer

          Plot Outline: Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his
          hectic life around after developing an infatuation for his daughter's attractive friend.

276      Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate) (Mexico, 1992)
          Directed by Alfonso Arau
          Writing credits: Laura Esquivel (novel), Laura Esquivel (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Marco Leonardi….Pedro Muzquiz
          Lumi Cavazos….Tita
          Regina Torné….Mamá Elena
          Mario Iván Martínez….Doctor John Brown
          Ada Carrasco….Nacha

          Tagline: A feast for the senses!

          Plot Summary: Tita, is forbidden to marry because of a family tradition. Therefore, when the boy she has been
          flirting with, Pedro, and his father come to ask for Tita’s hand in marriage, Tita's mother, Mama Elena, refuses.

277   * Being John Malkovich (1999)
          Directed by Spike Jonze
          Writing credits: Charlie Kaufman
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          John Cusack….Craig Schwartz
          Cameron Diaz….Lotte Schwartz
          Catherine Keener….Maxine Lund
          John Malkovich….John Horatio Malkovich
          Orson Bean….Dr. Lester

          Tagline: Ever wanted to be someone else? Now you can.

          Plot Outline: A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of the movie star, John Malkovich.


278   * Valley of the Dolls (1967)
          Directed by Mark Robson
          Writing credits: Jacqueline Susann (novel), Helen Deutsch, Dorothy Kingsley (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Barbara Parkins….Anne Welles
          Patty Duke….Neely O'Hara
          Paul Burke….Lyon Burke
          Sharon Tate….Jennifer North
          Tony Scotti….Tony Polar

          Tagline: The nation's most startling and hotly discussed best-seller now on the screen with every shock and sensation intact

          Plot Outline: Film version of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel chronicling the
          rise and fall of three young ladies in show business.

279   * Blue (Bleu) (France, Poland, Switzerland, 1993)
          Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski
          Writing credits: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz (scenario)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Juliette Binoche….Julie Vignon - de Courcy
          Benoît Régent….Olivier
          Florence Pernel….Sandrine
          Charlotte Véry….Lucille
          Hélène Vincent….La journaliste

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: First of a trilogy of films dealing with contemporary French society concerns how
          the wife of a composer deals with the death of her husband and child.

280   * No Man's Land (Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2001)
          Directed by Danis Tanovic
          Writing credits: Danis Tanovic
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Branko Djuric….Ciki
          Rene Bitorajac….Nino
          Filip Sovagovic….Cera
          Georges Siatidis….Marchand
          Serge-Henri Valcke….Dubois

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between
          the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become
          trapped in no man's land, while a third soldier becomes a living booby trap.

281   * Splash (1984)
          Directed by Ron Howard
          Writing credits: Brian Grazer (story), Bruce Jay Friedman (screen story), Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel,
          Bruce Jay Friedman (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Tom Hanks….Allen Bauer
          Daryl Hannah….Madison
          Eugene Levy….Walter Kornbluth
          John Candy….Freddie Bauer
          Dody Goodman….Mrs. Stimler

          Tagline: Allen Bauer Thought He'd Never Find The Right Woman... He Was Only Half Wrong!

          Plot Outline: A man is reunited with a mermaid who saves him from drowning
          as a boy and falls in love not knowing who/what she is.

282   * Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette) (Italy, 1948)
          Directed by Vittorio De Sica
          Writing credits: Luigi Bartolini (novel), Cesare Zavattini, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Vittorio De Sica,
          Oreste Biancoli, Adolfo Franci, Gerardo Guerrieri
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Lamberto Maggiorani….Antonio Ricci
          Enzo Staiola….Bruno Ricci
          Lianella Carell….Maria Ricci
          Gino Saltamerenda….Baiocco
          Vittorio Antonucci….The Thief

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: A man and his son search for a stolen bicycle vital for his job.

283   * Election (1999)
          Directed by Alexander Payne
          Writing credits: Tom Perrotta (novel), Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Matthew Broderick….Jim McAllister
          Reese Witherspoon….Tracy Flick
          Chris Klein….Paul Metzler
          Jessica Campbell….Tammy Metzler
          Mark Harelik….Dave Novotny

          Tagline: Reading, Writing, Revenge.

          Plot Outline: A high school teacher's personal life becomes complicated as he
          works with students during the school elections.

284   * Groundhog Day (1993)
          Directed by Harold Ramis
          Writing credits: Danny Rubin, Harold Ramis
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Bill Murray….Phil
          Andie MacDowell….Rita
          Chris Elliott….Larry
          Stephen Tobolowsky….Ned
          Brian Doyle-Murray….Buster

          Tagline: He's having the worst day of his life... over, and over…

          Plot Outline: A weatherman finds himself living the same day over and over again.


285   * Family Plot (1976)
          Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
          Writing credits: Victor Canning (from the novel by: "The Rainbird Pattern"), Ernest Lehman (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Karen Black….Fran
          Bruce Dern….George Lumley
          Barbara Harris….Blanche Tyler
          William Devane….Arthur Adamson
          Ed Lauter….Maloney

          Tagline: From the devious mind of Alfred Hitchcock, a diabolically entertaining motion picture.

          Plot Outline: Lighthearted suspense film about a phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/private
          investigator boyfriend who encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.

286      Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
          Directed by Elia Kazan
          Writing credits: Laura Z. Hobson (novel), Moss Hart (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Gregory Peck….Philip Schuyler Green
          Dorothy McGuire….Kathy Lacy
          John Garfield….Dave Goldman
          Celeste Holm….Anne Dettrey
          Anne Revere….Mrs. Green

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and
          personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.

287   * Changeling, The (1980)
          Directed by Peter Medak
          Writing credits: Russell Hunter (story), William Gray, Diana Maddox (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          George C. Scott….John Russell
          Trish Van Devere….Claire Norman
          Melvyn Douglas….Senator Joe Carmichael
          Jean Marsh….Joanna Russell
          John Colicos….Captain DeWitt

          Tagline: Whatever you do...DON'T GO INTO THE ATTIC.

          Plot Outline: A man staying at a secluded historical mansion, finds his life
          being haunted by the presence of a spectre.

288      Chinatown (1974)
          Directed by Roman Polanski
          Writing credits: Robert Towne
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Jack Nicholson....J.J. Gittes
          Faye Dunaway….Evelyn Mulwray
          John Huston….Noah Cross
          Perry Lopez….Escobar
          John Hillerman….Yelburton

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: A private detective investigating an adultery case stumbles on to a
          scheme of murder that has something to do with water.

289      Woodstock (1970)
          Directed by Michael Wadleigh
          Writing credits: none
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Richie Havens….Himself
          Joan Baez….Herself
          The Who….Themselves
          Sha-Na-Na….Themselves
          Joe Cocker….Himself

          Tagline: Where It All Began.

          Outline: The film chronicle of the legendary 1969 music festival.


290      Omen, The (1976)
          Directed by Richard Donner
          Writing credits: David Seltzer
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Gregory Peck….Robert Thorn
          Lee Remick….Katherine Thorn
          David Warner….Jennings
          Billie Whitelaw….Mrs. Baylock
          Harvey Stephens….Damien

          Tagline: Good morning. You are one day closer to the end of the world. You have been warned.

          Plot Outline: An American ambassador learns to his horror that his son is actually the literal Antichrist.

291      One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
          Directed by Milos Forman
          Writing credits: Ken Kesey (novel), Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Michael Berryman….Ellis
          Peter Brocco….Col. Matterson
          Dean R. Brooks….Dr. Spivey
          Alonzo Brown….Miller
          Scatman Crothers….Turkle

          Tagline: If he's crazy, what does that make you?

          Plot Outline: Upon arriving at a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients to take
          on the oppressive Nurse Ratched, a woman more dictator than nurse.

292   * Cape Fear (1962)
          Directed by J. Lee Thompson
          Writing credits: John D. MacDonald (novel), James R. Webb (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Gregory Peck….Sam Bowden
          Robert Mitchum….Max Cady
          Polly Bergen….Peggy Bowden
          Lori Martin….Nancy Bowden
          Martin Balsam….Police Chief Mark Dutton

          Tagline: Their ordeal of terror triggers the screen's most savage war of nerves!

          Plot Outline: A lawyer's family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail.


293      Unforgiven (1992)
          Directed by Clint Eastwood
          Writing credits: David Webb Peoples
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Clint Eastwood….Will Munny
          Gene Hackman….Little Bill Daggett
          Morgan Freeman….Ned Logan
          Richard Harris….English Bob
          Jaimz Woolvett….The 'Schofield Kid'

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job,
          with the help of his old partner and a young man.

294   * Gold Rush, The (1925)
          Directed by Charles Chaplin
          Writing credits: Charles Chaplin
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Charles Chaplin….The Lone Prospector
          Mack Swain….Big Jim McKay
          Tom Murray….Black Larsen
          Henry Bergman….Hank Curtis
          Malcolm Waite….Jack Cameron

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: The Tramp goes the Klondike in search of gold and finds it and more.


295   * Straight Story, The (1999)
          Directed by David Lynch
          Writing credits: John Roach, Mary Sweeney
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Sissy Spacek….Rose
          Jane Galloway Heitz….Dorothy
          Joseph A. Carpenter….Bud
          Donald Wiegert….Sig
          Richard Farnsworth….Alvin

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: An old man makes a long journey by tractor to mend his relationship with an ill brother.


296   * The Rainmaker (1997)
          Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
          Writing credits: John Grisham (novel), Francis Ford Coppola (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Matt Damon….Rudy Baylor
          Danny DeVito….Deck Shifflet
          Claire Danes….Kelly Riker
          Jon Voight….Leo F. Drummond
          Mary Kay Place….Dot Black

          Tagline: They were totally unqualified to try the case of a lifetime... but every underdog has his day.

          Plot Outline: An idealistic young lawyer and his cynical partner take on a powerful
          law firm representing a corrupt insurance company.

297      Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
          Directed by Stanley Kramer
          Writing credits: William Rose
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Spencer Tracy…. Matt Drayton
          Sidney Poitier….John Prentice
          Katharine Hepburn….Christina Drayton
          Katharine Houghton….Joey Drayton
          Cecil Kellaway….Monsignor Ryan

          Tagline: a love story of today

          Plot Outline: Matt and Christina Drayton are a couple whose attitudes are challenged
          when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.

298   * Edukators, The (Fetten Jahre sind vorbei, Die) (Germany, 2004)
          Directed by Hans Weingartner
          Writing credits: Hans Weingartner, Katharina Held
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Daniel Brühl….Jan
          Julia Jentsch….Jule
          Stipe Erceg….Peter
          Burghart Klaußner….Hardenberg
          Peer Martiny….Villenbesitzer Jürgen

          Tagline: Your Days Of Plenty Are Numbered

          Plot Outline: Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they
          encounter a businessman in his home.

299      Ran (Japan, 1985)
          Directed by Akira Kurosawa
          Writing credits: William Shakespeare (play "King Lear") Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Masato Ide (screenplay)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Tatsuya Nakadai….Lord Hidetora Ichimonji
          Akira Terao….Taro Takatora Ichimonji
          Jinpachi Nezu….Jiro Masatora Ichimonji
          Daisuke Ryû….Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
          Mieko Harada….Lady Kaede

          Tagline: none

          Plot Outline: An elderly lord abdicates to his three sons, and the two corrupt ones turn against him.


300   * Why Worry? (1923)
          Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
          Writing credits: Sam Taylor, Ted Wilde, Tim Whelan (story)
          Cast overview, first billed only:
          Harold Lloyd….Harold Van Pelham
          Jobyna Ralston….The Nurse
          John Aasen….Colosso
          Wallace Howe….The Valet
          Jim Mason….Jim Blake

          Tagline: none

          Plot summary: Harold Van Pelham (Lloyd) is a hypochondriac, rich businessman who
          sails to the tropics for his 'health.' Instead of the peace and seclusion he is seeking...


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