frank-talker's - FAVOURITES List

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"My name is Jim, but most people call me...Jim." And most people call Blazing Saddles deliriously funny.

Filmmaker, star and paddle-ball whiz Mel Brooks goes way out West and way out of his mind with a spiffy spoof set in an 1874 Old West where 1974 Hollywood is just one soundstage away-and where nonstop fun blasts prejudices to the high comedy heavens. Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn and more join for horseplay and horselaughs, making Blazing Saddles the # 6 choice among the American Film Institute's Top-100 Comedies. Give these out to the boys in Lieu of pay. And enjoy

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Sanna (Victoria Vetri), a beautiful blonde woman, is condemned to death when she is blamed for a sudden aberration of the sun.

Fortunately, the girl is rescued by fisherman Tara (Robin Hawdon), a member of the nearby Sand Tribe, but Sanna's presence infuriates Tara's girlfriend Ayak (Imogen Hassall). While others run from the carnivorous dinosaurs, Tara trains one of the beasts who believes she is one of her offspring. A typhoon leaves four survivors to fight for survival in this prehistorically inaccurate science fiction story.

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From its seemingly placid opening, "Village of the Damned" keeps piling one eerie and disquieting detail upon another, creating that rarest of achievements - an utterly believable masterpiece of horror! Starring the ever-imperturbable George Sanders (who does not remain that way for long), this

classic, havoc-filled tale of mind reading and hypnotism will have you completely hypnotized...and shaken to the core! The "monsters" of this film are a band of innocent-faced platinum-blond children, all of whom are born in a small, peaceful village on the same day. Their rapid physical development is matched by their fast-growing mental powers and with calm, blood-curdling efficiency, they are soon terrorizing the tiny hamlet. They can read the thoughts that are forming in your mind...which makes them an altogether unstoppable enemy!

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In the chaotic aftermath of WWII, a group of German POWs are accidentally sent to a female-run Soviet prison camp run by Soviet Officer Pavlov, played by John Malkovich and Natalia, played by multi award nominated star Vera Famiga.

When the guards are given the task of weeding out the SS officers, they play a bitter game of cat and mouse with the prisoners. Each group slowly learns that situations are not what they seem; prejudices are sometimes unjustly held; and love can be found in even the harshest places.

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The story of a young writer who sacrifices his life in the present to find happiness in the past where true love awaits him. Young Richard Collier (Christopher Reeve) is approached by an elderly woman who gives him an antique gold watch and who pleads with him to return in time with her.

Years later, Richard Collier is overwhelmed by a photograph of a beautiful young woman (Jane Seymour). Another picture of this woman in her later years reveals to him that she is the same woman who had given him the gold watch. Collier then becomes obsessed with returning to 1912 and the beautiful young woman who awaits him there.

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After the brutal murder of two British agents, secret agent Quiller (George Segal) is assigned to West Berlin where he must uncover the operations of the mysterious neo-Nazi organisation believed responsible. His methods of exposing this menace are as unorthodox as the ruthless men he encounters.

His investigations lead him to school where he falls for beautiful teacher, Inge. Soon after this encounter he is brought before the menacing "Oktober", Reichsfuhrer the man in charge of the new Nazis. A dangerous game ensues of uncovering the truth, but at what cost?

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When a Chinese criminal mastermind flees to Paris, there's only one culture clashed, crime-fighting duo for the job.

Ready to raise hell in the city of lights, Chief Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan) and Detective Carter (Chris Tucker) instead get caught in an explosive battle between the French police, the Triad gang and two gorgeous femme fatales!

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Welcome to the future. Biological war has decimated life on Earth. Los Angeles is a windswept ghost town where Robert Neville tools his convertible through sunlit streets foraging for supplies. And makes damn sure he gets undercover before sundown, when other 'inhabitants' emerge.

The Omega Man adapts Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend into a high-impact high-tension saga of a fate not so far removed from reality. Charlton Heston is Neville, fending off attacks by The Family, sinister neopeople spawned by the plague. He also becomes a man with a mission after meeting Lisa (Rosalind Cash), another uninfected survivor - and guardian of some healthy children representing our species' hope.

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Steve Jackson (Sidney Poitier) and Wardell Franklin (Bill Cosby) sneak out of their houses to visit Madame Zenobia's (Lee Chamberlin)'s: a high-class but illegal nightclub. During their visit, however, the place is robbed and they are forced to hand over their wallets.

Steve's wallet turns out to have contained a winning lottery ticket, and together they must recover their stolen property.

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Korean War vet and retired autoworker Walt Kowalski doesn't much like how his life or his neighbourhood has turned out. He especially doesn't like the people next door, Hmong immigrants from Southeast Asia.

But events force Walt to defend those neighbours against a local gang that feeds on violence and fear.

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Sunday dinner at Mother Joe's (Irma P. Hall) is a mouth-watering, 40-year tradition. As seen through the eyes of her grandson Ahmad (Brandon Hammond), love and laughs are always on the menu, despite the usual rivalries simmering between his mum Maxine and her sisters Teri and Bird.

But when serious bickering starts to tear the family apart, the good times suddenly stop. Now it's up to Ahmad to get everyone back together and teach them the true meaning of soul food.

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Paradise police chief Jesse Stone (Tom Selleck) takes some well-deserved vacation time and chooses to spend it in Boston, where the Assistant State Homicide Commander, Lieutenant Sydney Greenstreet (Leslie Hope), aware of his previous experience as an LA Homicide detective, has sought his expertise

in evaluating a packet of cold case murders. His cop-ly intuition leads him to a case that has already been closed, but when something about it catches his eye, it sets him off on an investigation filled with surprises, unlikely suspects and grave danger.

When "The Man" murders his brother, pumps heroin into local orphanages, and floods the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor, Black Dynamite is the one hero willing to fight all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House.

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Luchino Visconti, the father of Neo Realism revisits the dramatic themes from his award winning 'The Leopard' in his final work of art "The Innocent".

Driven by a powerful performance by Giancarlo Giannini (Casino Royale and Quantum Of Solace) whose antihero displays hitherto uncharted monstrosity, "The Innocent" is set against the opulent backdrop of the decadent aristocratic life of late 19th century and its hypocritical social conventions; telling the story of Tullio (Giancarlo Giannini) who, having left his wife for his latest mistress, is seized by jealous fury when he discovers that his wife has also taken a lover. Outraged by this unsuspected audacity, he will do everything to reconquer her...