Writing by: Noel Langley - (screenplay) and
Florence Ryerson - (screenplay) and
Edgar Allan Woolf - (screenplay)
Noel Langley - (adaptation)
L. Frank Baum - (novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz")
Irving Brecher - uncredited
William H. Cannon - uncredited
Herbert Fields - uncredited
Arthur Freed - uncredited
Jack Haley - additional dialogue (uncredited)
E.Y. Harburg - uncredited
Samuel Hoffenstein - uncredited
Bert Lahr - additional dialogue (uncredited)
John Lee Mahin - uncredited
Herman J. Mankiewicz - uncredited
Jack Mintz - uncredited
Sid Silvers - uncredited

Produced by: Mervyn LeRoy - producer
Arthur Freed - associate producer (uncredited)

Cast: Judy Garland - Dorothy Gale
Frank Morgan - Professor Marvel / The Gatekeeper / The Carriage Driver / The Guard Who Cries / The Wizard of Oz
Ray Bolger - Hunk / The Scarecrow
Bert Lahr - Zeke / The Cowardly Lion
Jack Haley - Hickory / The Tin Man
Billie Burke - Glinda
Margaret Hamilton - Elmira Gulch / The Wicked Witch of the West / The Wicked Witch of the East
Charley Grapewin - Uncle Henry
Pat Walshe - Nikko
Clara Blandick - Auntie Em
Terry - Toto (as Toto)

Music: Atli Örvarsson
Official Website: Visit Website


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.
Plot: In this charming film based on the popular L.Frank Baum stories, Dorothy and her dog Toto are caught in a tornados path and somehow end up in the land of Oz. Here she meets some memorable friends and foes in her journey to meet the Wizard of Oz who everyone says can help her return home and possibly grant her new friends their goals of a brain, heart and courage.

Crazy Credits: We know about 5 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The Oz characters that Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr and Margaret Hamilton play are not actually listed in the cast list at the end; only their Kansas counterparts are.

Goofs: We know about 83 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: When Dorothy walks over to the curtain where the wizard is, she leans down and picks up Toto who was tied to the curtain. When she picks him up hes already untied.

Trivia: There are 125 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• The title role was written with W.C. Fields in mind. Producer Mervyn LeRoy wanted Ed Wynn, who turned down the role. MGM executive Arthur Freed wanted Fields, and offered him $75,000. Fields supposedly wanted $100,000. According to a letter from Fields agent (which he claimed was written by Fields) Fields turned down the role to devote his time to writing the script for You Cant Cheat an Honest Man (1939).
• Ray Bolger was originally cast as the Tin Woodsman. However, he insisted that he would rather play the Scarecrow - his childhood idol, Fred Stone had originated that role on stage in 1902.
• Buddy Ebsen had been cast as the Scarecrow, and now switched roles with Bolger. But the aluminum powder makeup for the Tin Woodsman was toxic and Ebsen apparently had an allergic reaction to it as well. He left the picture, but his voice can still be heard in “Off to see the Wizard”.





]]> http://www.Movies-Rule.com/The-Wizard-of-Oz-08-2008/feed/ http://www.Movies-Rule.com/Fantasia-08-2008/ http://www.Movies-Rule.com/Fantasia-08-2008/#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:18:06 +0000 admin ]]> Category: Animation
All Genres: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Music
Release Year: 1940
Country: USA
Runtime: 120
Rating: 8.8 (0)
Languages: English
Director: James AlgarSamuel ArmstrongFord BeebeNorman FergusonJim HandleyT. HeeWilfred JacksonHamilton LuskeBill RobertsPaul SatterfieldBen Sharpsteen
Sound: 4-Track Stereo, 70 mm 6-Track, Dolby, Fantasound, Mono, Mono
Taglines:
• Superb! Enthralling! Amazing! Walt Disneys Incomparable FANTASIA
• Walt Disneys Technicolor FEATURE triumph
• Hear the pictures! See the music!
• All the BEAUTY…All the DELIGHT…All the EXCITEMENT of the worlds greatest music!
• Fantasia Will Amazia! (1942 re-release)


Writing by: Lee Blair - (segment "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor") (story development) &
Elmer Plummer - (segment "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor") (story development) &
Phil Dike - (segment "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor") (story development)
Sylvia Moberly-Holland - (segment "The Nutcracker Suite") (story development) &
Norman Wright - (segment "The Nutcracker Suite") (story development) &
Albert Heath - (segment "The Nutcracker Suite") (story development) &
Bianca Majolie - (segment "The Nutcracker Suite") (story development) &
Graham Heid - (segment "The Nutcracker Suite") (story development)
Perce Pearce - (segment "The Sorcerers Apprentice") (story development) &
Carl Fallberg - (segment "The Sorcerers Apprentice") (story development)
William Martin - (segment "Rite of Spring") (story development and research) &
Leo Thiele - (segment "Rite of Spring") (story development and research) &
Robert Sterner - (segment "Rite of Spring") (story development and research) &
John McLeish - (segment "Rite of Spring") (story development and research) (as John Fraser McLeish)
Otto Englander - (segment "The Pastoral Symphony") (story development) &
Webb Smith - (segment "The Pastoral Symphony") (story development) &
Erdman Penner - (segment "The Pastoral Symphony") (story development) &
Joseph Sabo - (segment "The Pastoral Symphony") (story development) &
Bill Peet - (segment "The Pastoral Symphony") (story development) &
Vernon Stallings - (segment "The Pastoral Symphony") (story development) (as George Stallings)
Campbell Grant - (segment "Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria") (story development) &
Arthur Heinemann - (segment "Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria") (story development) &
Phil Dike - (segment "Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria") (story development)

Produced by: Walt Disney - producer
Ben Sharpsteen - producer (uncredited)

Cast: Leopold Stokowski - Himself (Conductor, The Philadelphia Orchestra)
Deems Taylor - Narrator (1940 original)
Julietta Novis - Soloist (segment "Ave Maria") (voice)
Corey Burton - Narrator: Deems Taylor overdubs (2000 restoration) (voice) (uncredited)
Walt Disney - Mickey Mouse (segment "The Sorcerers Apprentice") (voice) (uncredited)
James MacDonald - Percussionist (uncredited)
Paul J. Smith - Violinist (uncredited)

Music: Antonio Pinto
Official Website: Visit Website


Plot Outline: A collection of animated interpretations of great works of Western classical music.
Plot: Disney animators set pictures to Western classical music as Leopold Stokowski conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra. “The Sorcerers Apprentice” features Mickey Mouse as an aspiring magician who oversteps his limits. “The Rite of Spring” tells the story of evolution, from single-celled animals to the death of the dinosaurs. “Dance of the Hours” is a comic ballet performed by ostriches, hippos, elephants, and alligators. “Night on Bald Mountain” and “Ave Maria” set the forces of darkness and light against each other as a devilish revel is interrupted by the coming of a new day.

Crazy Credits: We know about 3 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The roadshow cut shows the title card at the intermission rather than the beginning, as on most prints.

Goofs: We know about 4 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: In the “Sorcerers Apprentice” sequence, as Mickey Mouse waves his hands in front of him to make the broom come to life, his sleeves spill over his hands. It then cuts to his shadow on the wall, where his hands are fully exposed.

Trivia: There are 43 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Igor Stravinsky, the composer of the “Rite of Spring” (who, until 1971, was the only one of the composers still living whose music was featured in the film) hated Leopold Stokowskis re-orchestration and re-organization of the piece (the original order of the sections was jumbled, and two of them were completely left out of the Disney version).
• Disney digitally re-recorded the soundtrack for the 1982 re-release because the original Leopold Stokowski soundtrack from 1940 sounded dated and very limited in fidelity. But for the 1990 50th Anniversary release, Disney reverted to the original soundtrack from 1940, which they cleaned up as best as possible (although the limited fidelity could not be corrected) and this is the soundtrack the film has today.
• The 2000 restoration was the first time the longer, so-called roadshow version of the film was seen after the initial release. This version contains much longer interstitials from Deems Taylor explaining what will be seen. The picture of these segments was easy to find and was cleaned up, since most of them were used in the 1990 restoration, but the soundtrack for the segments that had not been seen since the 1940s either could not be found or was in terrible shape. After much debate, actor Corey Burton was called in to dub all of Taylors speeches, including the “Sound Track” sequence halfway through the picture.





]]> http://www.Movies-Rule.com/Fantasia-08-2008/feed/ http://www.Movies-Rule.com/Meet-John-Doe-08-2008/ http://www.Movies-Rule.com/Meet-John-Doe-08-2008/#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:14:21 +0000 admin ]]> Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release Year: 1941
Country: USA
Runtime: 122
Languages: English
Director: Frank Capra
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
• What happens when make-believe believes its real?
• In darkness, there can be light. In misery, there can be beauty. In death, there can be life….
• Open the door to another world and an exciting new vision in cinema
• An imaginative gothic fairytale for adults set in Spain during World War I
• Innocence Has A Power Evil Cannot Imagine.


Writing by: Richard Connell - (story) and
Robert Presnell Sr. - (story) (as Robert Presnell)
Robert Riskin - (writer)

Produced by: Frank Capra - producer

Cast: Gary Cooper - Long John Willoughby - John Doe
Barbara Stanwyck - Ann Mitchell
Edward Arnold - D. B. Norton
Walter Brennan - The Colonel
Spring Byington - Mrs. Mitchell
James Gleason - Henry Connell
Gene Lockhart - Mayor Lovett
Rod La Rocque - Ted Sheldon - Nortons Nephew
Irving Bacon - Beany
Regis Toomey - Bert Hansen - Soda Jerk
J. Farrell MacDonald - Sourpuss Smithers

Music: Dimitri Tiomkin
Official Website: Visit Website


Plot Outline: A man needing money agrees to impersonate a nonexistent person who said hed be committing suicide as a protest, and a political movement begins.
Plot: As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed “John Doe,” who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate “Doe.” Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all its worth, until the made-up “John Doe” philosophy starts a whole political movement. At last everyone, even Ann, takes her creation seriously…but publisher D.B. Norton has a secret plan.

Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The two “Stick Insects” are credited as Cheech and Chong, after which it says “MAY THEY REST IN PEACE”.

Goofs: We know about 2 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: The collar of John Does coat is alternately up and down between shots when Ann is persuading him not to jump off the roof.

Trivia: There are 5 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Director Frank Capra tested the film in different areas of the US with four different endings to determine which one to keep. In one, John Willoughby commits suicide. In another, Ann Mitchell persuades him not to leap from City Hall. Inspired by a letter signed “John Doe,” Capra filmed a fifth and final ending in which Mitchell talks some sense into Willoughby and then faints into his arms.
• The tune that the main characters constantly play on their sweet potatoes is “Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee (An Actors Life for Me)” from Pinocchio (1940)
• Frank Capras first choice for the role of Ann Mitchell was Ann Sheridan. However, she was vetoed by Warner Bros. in a contract dispute.





]]> http://www.Movies-Rule.com/Meet-John-Doe-08-2008/feed/ http://www.Movies-Rule.com/Casablanca-08-2008/ http://www.Movies-Rule.com/Casablanca-08-2008/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:05:36 +0000 admin ]]> Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Romance
Release Year: 1942
Country: USA
Runtime: 102
Rating: 8 (0)
Languages: English, French, German
Director: Michael Curtiz
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
• They had a date with fate in Casablanca!
• As big and timely a picture as ever youve seen! You can tell by the cast its important! gripping! big!
• As exciting as the landing at Casablanca! (NY Premiere Poster Ad)


Writing by: Murray Burnett - (play "Everybody Comes to Ricks") and
Joan Alison - (play "Everybody Comes to Ricks")
Julius J. Epstein - (screenplay) and
Philip G. Epstein - (screenplay) and
Howard Koch - (screenplay)
Casey Robinson - uncredited

Produced by: Hal B. Wallis - producer
Jack L. Warner - executive producer

Cast: Humphrey Bogart - Rick Blaine
Ingrid Bergman - Ilsa Lund
Paul Henreid - Victor Laszlo
Claude Rains - Captain Renault
Conrad Veidt - Major Strasser
Sydney Greenstreet - Signor Ferrari
Peter Lorre - Ugarte
S.Z. Sakall - Carl (as S.K. Sakall)
Madeleine LeBeau - Yvonne
Dooley Wilson - Sam
Joy Page - Annina Brandel

Music: Max Steiner
Official Website: Visit Website


Plot Outline: Classic film set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Plot: In World War II Casablanca, Rick Blaine, exiled American and former freedom fighter, runs the most popular nightspot in town. The cynical lone wolf Blaine comes into the possession of two valuable letters of transit. When Nazi Major Strasser arrives in Casablanca, the sycophantic police Captain Renault does what he can to please him, including detaining Czech underground leader Victor Laszlo. Much to Ricks surprise, Lazslo arrives with Ilsa, Ricks one time love. Rick is very bitter towards Ilsa, who ran out on him in Paris, but when he learns she had good reason to, they plan to run off together again using the letters of transit. Well, that was their original plan….

Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The series does not have an opening credits sequence. Instead, the lead actor credits play out over a scene. Now commonplace in sitcoms and drama series, this was considered a novelty in 1990 and sparked a debate over the future of opening credits in TV series.

Goofs: We know about 43 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: A knight on the chessboard disappears momentarily in the opening chess game.

Trivia: There are 93 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Studio publicity in 1941 claimed that Ronald Reagan and Ann Sheridan were scheduled to appear in this film, and Dennis Morgan is mentioned as the third lead. This was never the case, however, and the false story was planted, either by a studio publicist or a press agent for the three other actors, to keep their names in the press. Meanwhile George Raft was angling for the part with Jack L. Warner, but Hal B. Wallis had been assigned to search for what would be Humphrey Bogarts next starring role. He wrote to Warner that he had found the next movie for Bogart and the role was perfect for him. Nobody else was ever considered for the part.
• The Allies invaded Casablanca in real life on 8 November 1942. As the film was not due for release until spring, studio executives suggested it be changed to incorporate the invasion. Warner Bros. chief Jack L. Warner objected, as he thought that an invasion was a subject worth a whole film, not just an epilogue, and that the main story of this film demanded a pre-invasion setting. Eventually he gave in, though, and producer Hal B. Wallis prepared to shoot an epilogue where Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains hear about the invasion. However, before Rains could travel to the studio for this, David O. Selznick (whose studio owned Bergmans contract) previewed the film and urged Warner to release it unaltered and as fast as possible. Warner agreed and the premiered in New York on November 26. It did not play in Los Angeles until its general release the following January, and hence competed against 1943 films for the Oscars.
• Ingrid Bergmans contract was owned by producer David O. Selznick, and producer Hal B. Wallis sent the films writers, Philip G. Epstein and Julius J. Epstein, to persuade Selznick to loan her to Warner Bros. for the picture. After 20 minutes of describing the plot to Selznick, Julius gave up and said, “Oh, what the hell! Its a lot of shit like Algiers (1938)!” Selznick nodded and agreed to the loan.





]]> http://www.Movies-Rule.com/Casablanca-08-2008/feed/ http://www.Movies-Rule.com/Gone-with-the-Wind-08-2008/ http://www.Movies-Rule.com/Gone-with-the-Wind-08-2008/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:54:43 +0000 admin ]]> Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Romance, War
Release Year: 1939
Country: USA
Runtime: 226
Rating: 6.4 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Victor FlemingGeorge CukorSam Wood
Sound: Mono, 70 mm 6-Track, DTS, Dolby Digital, Matrix Surround, Perspecta Stereo, SDDS
Taglines:
• Now in 70mm. wide screen and full stereophonic sound! [reissue]
• For the thousands who remember its unparalleled drama, action and romance! For the new thousands to whom the wonders will be revealed for the first time! Breathtaking spectacle, inspired acting by the greatest cast ever assembled! The screens most exciting love story! The most-talked about picture ever made! [reissue]
• Winner of Ten Academy Awards [reissue]
• The most magnificent picture ever!


Writing by: Margaret Mitchell - (novel)
Sidney Howard - (screenplay)
Oliver H.P. Garrett - contributing writer (uncredited)
Ben Hecht - contributing writer (uncredited)
Jo Swerling - contributing writer (uncredited)
John Van Druten - contributing writer (uncredited)

Produced by: David O. Selznick - producer

Cast: Thomas Mitchell - Gerald OHara
Barbara ONeil - Ellen OHara - His Wife (as Barbara ONeill)
Vivien Leigh - Scarlett OHara - Their Daughter
Evelyn Keyes - Suellen OHara - Their Daughter
Ann Rutherford - Carreen OHara - Their Daughter
George Reeves - Brent Tarleton - Scarletts Beau
Fred Crane - Stuart Tarleton - Scarletts Beau
Hattie McDaniel - Mammy - OHara House Servant
Oscar Polk - Pork - OHara House Servant
Butterfly McQueen - Prissy - OHara House Servant
Victor Jory - Jonas Wilkerson - OHara Field Overseer

Music: Max Steiner
Official Website: Visit Website


Plot Outline: American classic in which a manipulative woman and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love affair in the American south during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Plot: Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
George Reeves is credited as playing the part of Brent Tarleton, and Fred Crane is billed as Stuart Tarleton. This is incorrect: Crane played Brent, and Reeves played Stuart.

Goofs: We know about 56 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Boom mic visible: Shadow on the right hand white door when Scarlett leaves the makeshift hospital.

Trivia: There are 118 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• When Gary Cooper turned down the role for Rhett Butler, he was passionately against it. He is quoted saying both, “Gone With The Wind is going to be the biggest flop in Hollywood history,” and, “Im just glad itll be Clark Gable whos falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.”
• In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #6 Greatest Movie of All Time.
• [June 2008] Ranked #4 on the American Film Institutes list of the 10 greatest films in the genre “Epic”.





]]> http://www.Movies-Rule.com/Gone-with-the-Wind-08-2008/feed/ http://www.Movies-Rule.com/Citizen-Kane-08-2008/ http://www.Movies-Rule.com/Citizen-Kane-08-2008/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:52:13 +0000 admin ]]> Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Mystery
Release Year: 1941
Country: USA
Runtime: 119
Rating: 7.5 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Orson Welles
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
• 365 days in the making - and every minute of it an exciting NEW thrill for you !
• Radios Most Dynamic Artist . . The Man At Whose Voice A Nation Trembled . . . Now the screens most exciting NEW star ! ORSON WELLES in the picture Hollywood said hed never make
• Its Terrific!
• Everybodys talking about it!
• The classic story of power and the press.
• I hate him! I love him! Hes a scoundrel! Hes a saint! Hes crazy! Hes a genius!
• Some called him a hero. Others called him a heel…


Writing by: Herman J. Mankiewicz - (screenplay) and
Orson Welles - (screenplay)

Produced by: Orson Welles - producer
George Schaefer - executive producer (uncredited)

Cast: Joseph Cotten - Jedediah Leland
Dorothy Comingore - Susan Alexander Kane
Agnes Moorehead - Mary Kane
Ruth Warrick - Emily Monroe Norton Kane
Ray Collins - James W. Gettys
Erskine Sanford - Herbert Carter
Everett Sloane - Mr. Bernstein
William Alland - Jerry Thompson
Paul Stewart - Raymond
George Coulouris - Walter Parks Thatcher
Fortunio Bonanova - Signor Matiste

Music: Bernard Herrmann
Official Website: Visit Website


Plot Outline: Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.
Plot: Orson Welles “Citizen Kane” is widely considered to be the greatest film to ever come out of Hollywood. The film is basically about a group of reporters who are trying to decipher the last word ever spoke by Charles Foster Kane, the millionaire newspaper tycoon: “Rosebud.” The film begins with a news reel detailing Kanes life for the masses, and then from there, we are shown flashbacks from Kanes life. As the reporters investigate further, the viewers see a display of a fascinating mans rise to fame, and how he eventually fell off the “top of the world.”

Crazy Credits: We know about 5 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The films opening title card is presented briefly with no music.

Goofs: We know about 27 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: When Leland and Bernstein are inspecting Kanes art purchases, Leland moves a statue which wobbles too quickly for it to be made of a dense stone such as marble.

Trivia: There are 69 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz wrote the balance of the screenplay for this film from a hospital bed recovering from illness.
• The scene where Kane destroys Susans room after shes left him was done on the first take. Director/star Orson Welles hands were bleeding, and he is quoted as saying, “I really felt it.”
• The camera looks up at Charles Foster Kane and his best friend Jedediah Leland and down at weaker characters like Susan Alexander Kane. This was a technique that Orson Welles borrowed from John Ford who had used it two years previously on Stagecoach (1939). Welles privately watched Stagecoach (1939) about 40 times while making this film.





]]> http://www.Movies-Rule.com/Citizen-Kane-08-2008/feed/ http://www.Movies-Rule.com/M-08-2008/ http://www.Movies-Rule.com/M-08-2008/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:35:33 +0000 admin ]]> Category: Crime
All Genres: Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Release Year: 1931
Country: Germany
Runtime: 117
Rating: 6.9 (0)
Languages: German
Director: Fritz Lang
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
• Where everything seems possible and nothing is what it seems.
• A mazing tale of never-ending fantasy.
• Where anything is possible.
• Jim Henson, George Lucas and David Bowie take you into a dazzling world of fantasy and adventure.


Writing by: Egon Jacobson - (article) uncredited
Thea von Harbou - (script) and
Fritz Lang - (script)

Produced by: Seymour Nebenzal - producer (uncredited)

Cast: Peter Lorre - Hans Beckert
Ellen Widmann - Frau Beckmann
Inge Landgut - Elsie Beckmann
Otto Wernicke - Inspector Karl Lohmann
Theodor Loos - Inspector Groeber
Gustaf Gründgens - Schränker
Friedrich Gnaß - Franz, the burglar
Fritz Odemar - The cheater
Paul Kemp - Pickpocket with six watches
Theo Lingen - Bauernfänger
Rudolf Blümner - Beckerts defender

Music: Mark Hinton Stewart
Official Website: Visit Website


Plot Outline: When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
Plot: Someone is murdering children in a German city. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the normal criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
All of the original credits appear only in the beginning with no music.

Goofs: We know about 21 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: Flying wires visible on Sarah and Jareth near the end of the movie when the stairs are floating in the background.

Trivia: There are 15 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• The tune that Peter Lorres character whistles is “In the Hall of the Mountain King,” from the “Peer Gynt” suite, by Edvard Grieg.
• Peter Lorre was Jewish and fled Germany in fear of Nazi persecution shortly after the movies release. Fritz Lang, who was half Jewish, fled two years later.
• Contrary to popular belief, Fritz Lang did not change the title from “The Murderers are Among Us” to “M” due to fear of persecution by the Nazis. He changed the title during filming, influenced by the scene where one of the criminals writes the letter on his hand. Lang thought “M” was a more interesting title.





]]> http://www.Movies-Rule.com/M-08-2008/feed/ http://www.Movies-Rule.com/Metropolis-08-2008/ http://www.Movies-Rule.com/Metropolis-08-2008/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:09:49 +0000 admin ]]> Category: Action
All Genres: Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Release Year: 1927
Country: Germany
Runtime: 153
Rating: 8.6 (0)
Languages: German
Director: Fritz Lang
Sound: Dolby Digital, Silent
Taglines:
• There can be no understanding between the hands and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.


Writing by: Thea von Harbou - (screenplay)
Thea von Harbou - (novel)
Fritz Lang - screenplay (uncredited)

Produced by: Giorgio Moroder - producer (1984 restoration)
Erich Pommer - producer

Cast: Alfred Abel - Joh Fredersen
Gustav Fröhlich - Freder, Joh Fredersens son
Rudolf Klein-Rogge - C. A. Rotwang, the inventor
Fritz Rasp - The Thin Man
Theodor Loos - Josaphat
Erwin Biswanger - 11811
Heinrich George - Grot, the guardian of the Heart Machine
Brigitte Helm - Maria
Fritz Alberti - Creative human - man who convinces Babel (uncredited)
Grete Berger - Working woman (uncredited)
Olly Boeheim - Working woman (uncredited)

Music: Gottfried Huppertz Abel Korzeniowski Giorgio Moroder Peter Osborne Bernd Schultheis Wetfish
Official Website: Visit Website


Plot Outline: In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the citys mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Plot: It is the future, and humans are divided into two groups: the thinkers, who make plans (but dont know how anything works), and the workers, who achieve goals (but dont have the vision). Completely separate, neither group is complete, but together they make a whole. One man from the “thinkers” dares visit the underground where the workers toil, and is astonished by what he sees…

Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
In the opening credits, the roles of “The Creative Man”, “The Machine Man”, “Death” and “The Seven Deadly Sins” are listed, but no performers are named.

Goofs: We know about 5 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: When Fredersen and Rotwang leave Rotwangs laboratory to observe Marias secret meeting, they descend a spiral staircase that spirals clockwise. When they reach the bottom of the stairs, they are seen descending a spiral staircase that spirals counterclockwise. This is repeated when Freder uses the same staircase later in the film.

Trivia: There are 11 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Film included more than 37,000 extras including 25,000 men, 11,000 women, 1,100 bald men, 750 children, 100 dark-skinned people and 25 Asians.
• Reportedly one of Adolf Hitlers favorite films.
• Being one of the most expensive movies of the time, costing around 5,000,000 marks, this film nearly sent UFA (Universum Film) into bankruptcy.





]]> http://www.Movies-Rule.com/Metropolis-08-2008/feed/ http://www.Movies-Rule.com/Snow-White-and-the-Seven-Dwarfs-08-2008/ http://www.Movies-Rule.com/Snow-White-and-the-Seven-Dwarfs-08-2008/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:05:47 +0000 admin ]]> Category: Animation
All Genres: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Release Year: 1937
Country: USA
Runtime: 83
Rating: 8.6 (0)
Languages: English
Director: David Hand
Sound: Dolby, Mono
Taglines:
• Walt Disneys New characters in his first full-length production!
• The Happiest, Dopiest, Grumpiest, Sneeziest movie of the year.
• Still the fairest of them all!
• The Best Loved Musical Of All Time
• The Show Sensation Of The Generation!
• Walt Disneys First Full Length Feature Production
• Behold - The Miracle Of The Movies! - Coming To Amaze You, Charm You, Thrill You!
• The One That Started It All


Writing by: Brothers Grimm - (fairy tales) (as Grimm)
Ted Sears - (story adaptation) &
Richard Creedon - (story adaptation) &
Otto Englander - (story adaptation) &
Dick Rickard - (story adaptation) &
Earl Hurd - (story adaptation) &
Merrill De Maris - (story adaptation) &
Dorothy Ann Blank - (story adaptation) &
Webb Smith - (story adaptation)

Produced by: Walt Disney - producer (uncredited)

Cast: Roy Atwell - Doc (voice) (uncredited)
Stuart Buchanan - Huntsman (voice) (uncredited)
Adriana Caselotti - Snow White (voice) (uncredited)
Eddie Collins - Dopey (voice) (uncredited)
Pinto Colvig - Sleepy / Grumpy (voice) (uncredited)
Marion Darlington - Bird Sounds and Warbling (voice) (uncredited)
Billy Gilbert - Sneezy (voice) (uncredited)
Otis Harlan - Happy (voice) (uncredited)
Lucille La Verne - Queen / Witch (voice) (uncredited)
James MacDonald - Yodeling Man (voice) (uncredited)
Scotty Mattraw - Bashful (voice) (uncredited)

Music: Frank Churchill Leigh Harline Paul J. Smith
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Plot Outline: Snow White, pursued by a jealous queen, hides with the Dwarfs; the queen feeds her a poison apple, but Prince Charming awakens her with a kiss.
Plot: The first, and by far most memorable full-length animated feature from the Disney Studios, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” may have been superseded technically by many of the films that followed it. But its simple story of a charming little princess saved from the evil deeds of her wicked step-mother, the queen, by a group of seven adorable dwarfs made history when it was first released in December, 1937 and has since become an incomparable screen classic.

Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
My sincere appreciation to the members of my staff whose loyalty and creative endeavor made possible this production - (signed) Walt Disney

Goofs: We know about 19 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: Docs lantern disappears when they reach the house after working in the mine.

Trivia: There are 39 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Fifty ideas for the dwarves names and personalities were listed in the films proposal; the list included all of the names finally included except Dopey and Doc (Dopey being the last to be developed). Some of the dwarves were: Awful, Biggy, Blabby, Dirty, Gabby, Gaspy, Gloomy, Hoppy, Hotsy, Jaunty, Jumpy, Nifty, and Shifty. Sneezy was a last-minute replacement for Jumpy.
• The “special” Academy Award granted to the picture consisted of one regular sized award and seven smaller sized awards.
• Convinced that it would fail, the Hollywood film industry labeled the film “Disneys Folly”.





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All Genres: Drama, History, War
Release Year: 1944
Country: USA
Runtime: 138
Rating: 8.1 (0)
Languages: English, Mandarin
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
• Heart-Warming Romance . . . Stark, Sensational Drama! Thrills! Action! Adventure! …Ripped From The Heart!


Writing by: Robert Considine - book
Ted W. Lawson - book (as Major Ted W. Lawson)
Dalton Trumbo - writer

Produced by: Sam Zimbalist - producer

Cast: Van Johnson - Lt. Ted Lawson
Robert Walker - Cpl. David Thatcher
Tim Murdock - Lt. Dean Davenport
Scott McKay - Capt. Davey Jones
Herbert Gunn - Bob Clever (as Gordon McDonald)
Don DeFore - Lt. Charles McClure
Robert Mitchum - Lt. Bob Gray
John R. Reilly - Lt. Jacob Shorty Manch
Stephen McNally - Lt. Thomas Doc White (as Horace McNally)
Spencer Tracy - Gen. James Doolittle
Phyllis Thaxter - Ellen Lawson

Music: Herbert Stothart
Official Website: Visit Website


Plot Outline: In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
Plot: The amazingly detailed true story of “The Doolittle Raid” based on the novel of the same name. Stunned by Pearl Harbor and a string of defeats, America needed a victory - badly. To that end, Colonel Jimmy Dolittle, a former air racer and stunt pilot, devises a plan for a daring raid on the heart of Japan itself. To do this, he must train army bomber pilots to to something no one ever dreamed possible - launch 16 fully load bombers from an aircraft carrier! This movie is remarkable in its accuracy and even uses film footage from the actual raid.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
After the closing credits, some Japanese business men ask Iggy and Spike about appearing in a video game based on the incidents in the movie.

Goofs: We know about 7 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: Ted Lawsons amputated left leg is briefly visible when he puts the sandal on his right foot.

Trivia: There are 7 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Actual footage of the B-25 Mitchell bombers taking off from the U.S.S. Hornet was used in the film.
• Feature film debuts of Tim Murdock, Scott McKay and John R. Reilly.
• Scenes of Lt. Col. Dolittle briefing the B-25 crews on the USS Hornet show a hornets nest on a branch in the background on the overhead behind Dolittles left. Because the actual Hornet was sunk in 1942 soon after the raid, this must be subtle tribute to the original ship and its crew.





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