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This film noir featured three stars in atypical roles, the female star singularly ill-suited for a "damsel in distress" role. The male star played against type, as did a supporting actor soon to be famous for his roles in film noirs. Name this movie and the three stars mentioned.

Sunday/Monday, Sept. 11th/12th; All times E.S.T.: 12:00 p.m. "Agatha" (1979)--Fictional account of Christie's 1926 disappearance. 12:45 a.m. "The Navigator" (1924)--Good Buster Keaton comedy.

JAMES CAMERON--Titanic (1997) FRANK CAPRA--Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) JOHN CARPENTER--Halloween (1977) WILLIAM CASTLE--When Strangers Marry (1944) CHARLIE CHAPLIN--The Gold Rush (1924) MICHAEL CIMINO-- RENE CLAIR--I Married A Witch (1942) JACK CLAYTON--The Innocents (1961) HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT--Diabolique (1955) JEAN COCTEAU--Beauty and the Beast (1946) JACK CONWAY--Libeled Lady (1936) FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA--The Godfather Part II (1974) ROGER CORMAN--The Masque of the Red Death (1964) JOHN CROMWELL-- Caged (1950) DAVID CRONENBERG--Videodrome JAMES CRUZE--I Cover the Waterfront (1933) GEORGE CUKOR--Adam's Rib (1949) IRVING CUMMINGS--My Gal Sal (1942) MICHAEL CURTIZ--Casablanca (1943) JOE DANTE--The Howling (1981) JULES DASSIN--Brute Force (1947) DELMER DAVES--The Last Wagon (1956) CECIL B. DE MILLE--The Ten Commandments (1956) BRIAN DE PALMA--Carrie (1976) ANDRE DE TOTH--House of Wax (1953) ROY DEL RUTH--Born to Dance (1936) JONATHAN DEMME--The Silence of the Lambs (1991) WILLIAM DIETERLE--Portrait of Jennie (1949) EDWARD DMYTRYK--Murder My Sweet (1944) STANLEY DONEN--Funny Face (1957) RICHARD DONNER--Superman (1978) GORDON DOUGLAS--Them! (1954) CARL THEODORE DREYER--The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) ALLAN DWAN--The Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)

Saturday, Sept. 10th/11th: All times E.S.T.: 6:00 p.m. "Colorado Territory" (1949)--Good Raoul Walsh western remake of "High Sierra" (1941) 12:15 a.m. "The Player" (1992)--Bitterly funny look at Hollywood by Robert Altman

Every director--talk about ambitious! I'll try to follow the rules set out by OP, will post list in parts, like LawrenceA--I'll add some classic era directors, and leave out the directors I have seen less than a third of their work (that will shorten my list considerably, LOL). If I dislike All the films I've seen by a director, there will be a blank space: My lists: ROBERT ALDRICH--Kiss Me Deadly (1955) LEWIS ALLEN--The Uninvited (1944) WOODY ALLEN--Annie Hall (1977) PEDRO ALMODOVAR--Talk to Her ROBERT ALTMAN--M*A*S*H (1970) MICHAELANGELO ANTONIONI-- JACK ARNOLD--The Mouse That Roared (1959) DOROTHY ARZNER--Craig's Wife (1936) HAL ASHBY--Shampoo (1975) JOHN AVILDSEN--W.W. and The Dixie Dance Kings (1975) LLOYD BACON--Footlight Parade (1933) JOHN BADHAM--Dracula (1979) MARIO BAVA--Black Sunday (1960) ROBERT BENTON--The Late Show (1977) BUSBY BERKELEY--The Gang's All Here (1943) CURTIS BERNHARDT--Possessed (1947) BUDD BOETTICHER--The Tall T (1957) PETER BOGDANOVICH--What's Up Doc? (1972) RICHARD BOLESLAWSKI--Theodora Goes Wild (1936) JOHN BOORMAN--Excalibur (1981) FRANK BORZAGE--Seventh Heaven (1927) JAMES BRIDGES--The China Syndrome (1979) ALBERT BROOKS--Modern Romance JAMES L.BROOKS--Broadcast News (1987) MEL BROOKS--Young Frankenstein (1974) RICHARD BROOKS--Elmer Gantry (1960) CLARENCE BROWN--Intruder in the Dust (1949) TOD BROWNING--Freaks (1932) TIM BURTON--Ed Wood (1994) DAVID BUTLER--The Road to Morocco (1940) EDWARD BUZZELL--Neptune's Daughter (1949)

Wild River Next--Florida

Spielberg, Steven

"Summer Storm" (1944). Next--Wales.

"The Helen Morgan Story" (1957), with Ann Blyth?

Lawrence--You are Correct. Your thread, or open thread, whichever you wish.

I haven't seen "Manos..."--but for some films I find MST3K a necessity. I like watching Enjoyably Bad films, but when they're Painful--as in the case of "City on Fire" (1979) or"Eegah! (1962), even MST3K's help isn't enough to get me through those films. I give up on Eegah! when the cats start howling along with the male leads' singing.

Friday, Sept.9th/10th: Three Y films; all times E.S.T.: 12:15 p.m. "Yolanda and the Thief" (1945)--Unique musical set in a South American Never-Never Land. The sixteen minute dream ballet is one of the oddest I've seen. The number "Coffee Time" is also notable. 12:00 a.m. "Young Frankenstein" (1974)--Mel Brooks' and Gene Wilder's funniest film. 4:00 a.m. "Young Man With a Horn" (1950)--Excellent musical/drama based on Bix Biederbecke's (sp?) life.

"Here Come The Girls" (1953)--Starring Bob Hope, Rosemary Clooney, Tony Martin, and Arlene Dahl. Mildly entertaining musical set in 1900 New York City mixes music, Hope as an inept, wildly overconfident, overaged chorus boy, and a Jack the Ripper inspired subplot. The fun is in watching Hope destroy the production numbers, a running gag that targets Bing Crosby, and the asides from various cast members. Clooney sings well but has little to do aside from that. Martin is in excellent voice, but only has two songs. Dahl is appropriately Diva-ish, and is the target of Hope's mayhem. Your enjoyment will depend on how much you like Hope. The script is shallow, some of the humor forced, but the film's a painless way to spend 90 minutes. 2.3/4

Lawrence--I see you did have Horror of Dracula listed--My bad, LOL. So, in its' place in my list, I"ll list "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1919), the film that moved the horror genre to exploring its possibilities. VIY (1967) sounds wonderful; I had to go to imdb to read a summary of it because TCM only gave Roman numerals when I searched. "O Cacador de Bruxas"--"The Conqueror Worm" was on YouTube in May, under the Portuguese(?) name, with subtitles, but in English--I don't know if it's still there or not. Looked like a good copy when I saw it in May. Lon Chaney Sr. Has to have one film--I know this is overplayed, but "The Phantom of the Opera" got me into Silent horror films. The unmasking is classic.

LawrenceA--Ten I would pick or add to the list; (1)--"The Bride of Frankenstein" (1935) (2)--"The Black Cat" (1934) (3)--"The Old Dark House" (1932) (4)--"I Walked With A Zombie" (1943) (5)--"The Masque of the Red Death" (1964) (6)--"The Body Snatcher (1945) (7)--"Isle of the Dead" (1945) (8)--"Horror of Dracula" (1958) (9)--"The Conqueror Worm" (1968) (10)--"The Lair of the White Worm" (1988)--Bram Stoker plus Ken Russell mesh for a fun parody/horror film.

Hint: Nature's Revenge themed.

Hibi--it was on Sunday. About the outro to "Dracula" (1931) and the intro to "The West Point Story" (1950); the fellow who did the outro to Dracula seemed to know what he was talking about and was pleasant to listen to. The lady who did the intro to "The West Point Story" seemed overwhelmed by being on camera--Ben Mankiewicz ended up telling about the film. In her defense, TWPS was pleasant fluff.

"Doctor Cyclops" (1940)--Starring Albert Dekker, directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack. "Doctor Cyclops" is supposed to be 75 minutes long; the version I saw was 64 minutes long. With that said: Film is marvelous piece of silliness from Universal, which gave it the full Technicolor and Special Effects treatment. Dr. Thorkel (Dekker) is doing strange experiments in the Amazon. He summons help from other scientists because his vision is failing. After they arrive, and Thorkel gets his information, the scientists are ordered to leave. They don't. Film goes from there. The beautiful Technicolor photography is by Henry Sharp. The Oscar nominated Special Effects are by Gordon Jennings, who won Best Special Effects for 1942's "Reap the Wild Wind" and 1951's "When Worlds Collide". Schoedsack is best known for directing 1933's "King Kong" and 1932's "The Most Dangerous Game". He finally won the Best Special Effects Oscar for 1949's "Mighty Joe Young". "Doctor Cyclops" is a programmer elevated by Excellent Special Effects and Photography, and a good performance by Dekker. Very worth a watch just for those elements. 2.7/4.

"Arrowhead" (1953)--Starring Charlton Heston, Brian Keith, Jack Palance, and Katy Jurado. Mix racism towards Apaches in 1886 Texas, a semi-intelligent script, good performances by the stars, and a Shake N' Bake approach toward history (Apaches Didn't wear feathered warbonnets?! So What! Have the extras wear them anyway! It looks good, and Audiences will Never Know!) and Paramount came up with a watchable programmer that every so often sabotages itself with idiotic plot points. Palance is especially good as an Apache who went East and got a college diploma in order to eventually lead an Apache uprising. Jurado is just as good as Heston's half Mexican/half Apache "laundress". Heston is surprisingly good as the self hating civilian scout who lived among/is part Apache (the script is unclear about this). If you can ignore all the inaccuracies of the script, film is very watchable. 2.4/4

Wed., Sept. 7th/8th--All times E.S.T.: 4:00 p.m. "Good News" (1947)--Energetic college musical set in 1920's; star June Allyson's teary scenes are kept at a minimum; fine song and dance numbers makes this worth watching, especially "Pass That Peace Pipe". 12:00 a.m. "Steamboat Bill Jr." (1928)--Good Buster Keaton comedy. 5:15 a.m. "Charley My Boy!" (1926)--Early Leo McCarey short.

Three films with four or more alternate titles; "Desire Me" (1947)--AKA "A Woman of My Own", "As You Desire Me", "Beloved Stranger", "Carl and Anna", "Great Temptation", "Sacred and Profane", "The Intruder". "The Tomb of Ligeia" (1965)--AKA "House At The End of The World", "Ligeia", "The Last Tomb of Ligeia", "Tomb of The Cat". "Tam Lin" (1971)--AKA "Games and Toys", "The Ballad of Tam Lin", "The Devil's Widow", "The Devil's Woman", "Tom Lynn", "Toys".

This little gem features an old Hollywood star and a future star of night time soap operas. In the end credits, there is a animated human hand being eaten by one of the things in the film. Please name the film, year of release, the two stars mentioned, and the two nighttime soaps the lady starred in.

The Southerner Next--HRAAMBA CNLONIL

Lawrence--The film is "Gorilla at Large" (1954). The two future Oscar winners are Anne Bancroft and Lee Marvin. The multiple Oscar nominee is Lee J. Cobb. The two future television stars are Raymond Burr, who played Perry Mason, and Cameron Mitchell, who was on a television western; "High Chaparral (sp?) or "The Big Valley".

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