Posts Tagged ‘famous-score’

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Rennie | Patricia Neal | Hugh Marlowe | Sam Jaffe | Billy Gray | Frances Bavier | Lock Martin | Elmer Davis | H.V. Kaltenborn | Drew Pearson | Gabriel Heatter | Holly Bane | Marshall Bradford | John Brown | John Burton
Directors: Robert Wise
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A flying saucer orbits the 1950s Earth. It lands in Washington, DC, on the Mall. The lone occupant steps out and is shot by a jumpy soldier. Gort, a large and very powerful robot appears to save him and is able to melt tanks with the slightest bit of his power. The wounded alien orders Gort to stop his rampage and is taken to a hospital from which he escapes in order to learn more about this planet, even moving in as a boarder with an Earth family. When they begin to suspect him, he reveals himself, along with the news that Gort is a member of a race of super-robot enforcers invented to keep the peace of the galaxy that will destroy the Earth if provoked.

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: William Holden | Jack Hawkins | Alec Guinness | Sessue Hayakawa | James Donald | Geoffrey Horne | André Morell | Peter Williams | John Boxer | Percy Herbert | Harold Goodwin | Ann Sears | Heihachiro Okawa | Keiichiro Katsumoto | M.R.B. Chakrabandhu
Directors: David Lean
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The film deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during World War II who are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Their instinct is to sabotage the bridge but, under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), they are persuaded that the bridge should be constructed as a symbol of British morale, spirit and dignity in adverse circumstances. At first, the prisoners admire Nicholson when he bravely endures torture rather than compromise his principles for the benefit of the Japanese commandant Saito (Sessue Hayakawa). He is an honorable but arrogant man, who is slowly revealed to be a deluded obsessive. He convinces himself that the bridge is a monument to British character, but actually is a monument to himself, and his insistence on its construction becomes a subtle form of collaboration with the enemy. Unknown to him, the Allies have sent a mission into the jungle, led by Warden (Jack Hawkins) and an American, Shears (William Holden), to blow up the bridge.

West Side Story (1961)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Natalie Wood | Richard Beymer | Russ Tamblyn | Rita Moreno | George Chakiris | Simon Oakland | Ned Glass | William Bramley | Tucker Smith | Tony Mordente | David Winters | Eliot Feld | Bert Michaels | David Bean | Robert Banas
Directors: Jerome Robbins
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This movie transplants the classic tale of “Romeo and Juliet” to New York City in the 1950s. The two feuding families are replaced by brawling street gangs. The Montagues become the Anglo Jets, led by Riff (Russ Tamblyn), and the Capulets become the Puerto Rican Sharks, led by Bernardo (George Chakiris). At a dance, Tony (Richard Beymer), former leader of the Jets and Riff’s best friend, and Maria (Natalie Wood), Bernardo’s little sister, see each other across the room and it’s love at first sight. With opposition from both sides, they meet secretly and their love grows deeper. However, the gangs are plotting one last rumble, a fight that will finally end the battle for control of the streets. Will Tony and Maria’s love carry through a battle that threatens to destroy the people they love around them? With a young, talented cast, a gorgeous score and dance sequences that need to be seen to believe, West Side Story is a must-see!

The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Romance | War | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis | Madeleine Stowe | Russell Means | Eric Schweig | Jodhi May | Steven Waddington | Wes Studi | Maurice Roëves | Patrice Chéreau | Edward Blatchford | Terry Kinney | Tracey Ellis | Justin M. Rice | Dennis Banks | Pete Postlethwaite
Directors: Michael Mann
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In 18th century North America during the French and Indian War, a white man adopted by the last members of a dying tribe called the Mohicans unwittingly becomes the protector of the two daughters of a British colonel, who have been targeted by Magua, a sadistic and vengeful Huron warrior who has dedicated his life to destroying the girls’ father for a past injustice.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Crime | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Paul Newman | Robert Redford | Katharine Ross | Strother Martin | Henry Jones | Jeff Corey | George Furth | Cloris Leachman | Ted Cassidy | Kenneth Mars | Donnelly Rhodes | Jody Gilbert | Timothy Scott | Don Keefer | Charles Dierkop
Directors: George Roy Hill
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Butch and Sundance are the two leaders of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. Butch is all ideas, Sundance is all action and skill. The west is becoming civilized and when Butch and Sundance rob a train once too often, a special posse begins trailing them no matter where they run. Over rock, through towns, across rivers, the group is always just behind them. When they finally escape through sheer luck, Butch has another idea, “Let’s go to Bolivia”. Based on the exploits of the historical characters.

It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Spencer Tracy | Milton Berle | Sid Caesar | Buddy Hackett | Ethel Merman | Mickey Rooney | Dick Shawn | Phil Silvers | Terry-Thomas | Jonathan Winters | Edie Adams | Dorothy Provine | Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson | Jim Backus | Ben Blue
Directors: Stanley Kramer
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After a long prison sentence Smiler Grogan is heading at high speed to a California park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He accidentally careers over a cliff in view of four cars whose occupants go down to help. The dying Grogan gives details of where the money is buried and when the witnesses fail to agree on sharing the cash, a crazy chase develops across the state.

007 You Only Live Twice (1967)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Sean Connery | Akiko Wakabayashi | Mie Hama | Tetsuro Tamba | Teru Shimada | Karin Dor | Donald Pleasence | Bernard Lee | Lois Maxwell | Desmond Llewelyn | Charles Gray | Tsai Chin | Peter Fanene Maivia | Burt Kwouk | Michael Chow
Directors: Lewis Gilbert
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When an American space capsule is swallowed up by what they believe to be a Russian spaceship, World War 3 nearly breaks out. The British Government, however, suspect that other powers are at work as the space craft went down near Japan. S.P.E.C.T.R.E. is the force behind the theft, as James Bond discovers, but its motives are far from clear, and he must first find out where the captured space capsule is held before America and Russia initiate another world war.

007 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: George Lazenby | Diana Rigg | Telly Savalas | Gabriele Ferzetti | Ilse Steppat | Lois Maxwell | George Baker | Bernard Lee | Bernard Horsfall | Desmond Llewelyn | Yuri Borionko | Virginia North | Geoffrey Cheshire | Irvin Allen | Terence Mountain
Directors: Peter R. Hunt
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Whilst on leave, British agent James Bond prevents a young woman, Tracy Draco, from committing suicide. Her father is the head of a powerful crime syndicate who is impressed by Bond and wants him to protect his daughter by marrying her. In exchange he offers Bond information which will lead 007 to his arch enemy Ernst Blofeld. At first Bond agrees to the deal purely to fulfil his objective to kill Blofeld but later he grows to love Tracy but when the British learn that Blofeld plans to destroy mankind with a deadly virus, 007 is torn between his loyalty to his county and his intent to marry Tracy.

Home Alone (1990)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Macaulay Culkin | Joe Pesci | Daniel Stern | John Heard | Roberts Blossom | Catherine O'Hara | Angela Goethals | Devin Ratray | Gerry Bamman | Terrie Snell | Hillary Wolf | Larry Hankin | Michael C. Maronna | Kristin Minter | Daiana Campeanu
Directors: Chris Columbus
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Kevin McAllister, 8 years old is accidentally left behind while his family rushes to the Airport to go to France for their Christmas vacation. Kevin learns that he made his family is gone. He spends his first day having fun in his house. Kevin learns that Mav and Harry (The Wet Bandits), two crooks are trying to rob his house. Kevin fends for himself and protects his house from the thieves, by setting traps everywhere. Meanwhile, Kevin’s mother discovers that they left Kevin in Chicago and tries to go back to Chicago while the other members of the family stay in Fance.

Glory (1989)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthew Broderick | Denzel Washington | Cary Elwes | Morgan Freeman | Jihmi Kennedy | Andre Braugher | John Finn | Donovan Leitch | JD Cullum | Alan North | Bob Gunton | Cliff De Young | Christian Baskous | RonReaco Lee | Jay O. Sanders
Directors: Edward Zwick
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Based on the letters of Colonel Robert G. Shaw. Shaw was an officer in the Federal Army during the American Civil War who volunteered to lead the first company of black soldiers. Shaw was forced to deal with the prejudices of both the enemy (who had orders to kill commanding officers of blacks), and of his own fellow officers.