Author Topic: ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!  (Read 2532813 times)

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"J" is The Jackpot
« Reply #1710 on: November 21, 2007, 03:46:44 pm »
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"K" is Key to the City
« Reply #1711 on: November 21, 2007, 03:50:29 pm »


From IMDb:
At a mayors convention in San Francisco, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New England. Fisk is mayor of "Puget City" and is proud of his rough and tumble background. Standish is mayor of "Winona, Maine", and is equally proud of her education and dedication to the people who elected her. Thrown together, the two opposites attract and their escapades during the convention get each of them in hot water back home.

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"L" is Lady Without Passport, A
« Reply #1712 on: November 21, 2007, 04:46:55 pm »

...or much clothing, it seems.

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"M" is The Magnificent Yankee
« Reply #1713 on: November 21, 2007, 05:46:31 pm »
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A story about the life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., famous lawyer and judge and member of the Supreme Court for a long time. Adapted from a stage play, Louis Calhern was nominated for an Oscar for his role as Holmes.

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"N" is The Next Voice You Hear
« Reply #1714 on: November 21, 2007, 06:03:09 pm »


Starring James Whitmore and Nancy Davis.

Interesting bit from Nancy Davis (aka Nancy Reagan)'s IMDb trivia page: "Was already three months pregnant at the time of her marriage to Ronald Reagan. Both Reagans are famously pro-family-values."

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"O" is Orphée
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"P" is Perfect Strangers
« Reply #1716 on: November 22, 2007, 12:33:30 am »
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Director: Bretaigne Windust
Starring: Ginger Rogers



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"Q" is Quicksand
« Reply #1717 on: November 22, 2007, 01:49:02 am »

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"R" is Rashomon
« Reply #1718 on: November 22, 2007, 03:31:24 am »


Directed by Akira Kurosawa, it stars Toshirō Mifune, Machiko Kyo and Masayuki Mori.  Rashomon can be said to have introduced Kurosawa and Japanese cinema to Western audiences, and is considered one of his masterpieces.

The film has an unusual narrative structure that reflects the impossibility of obtaining the truth about an event when there are conflicting witness accounts. In English and other languages, 'Rashomon' has become a byword for any situation in which the truth of an event is difficult to verify due to the conflicting accounts of different witnesses. In psychology, the film has lent its name to the 'Rashomon effect'.
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"S" is Storm Over Wyoming
« Reply #1719 on: November 22, 2007, 06:29:24 am »
Although there were other more well-known films like Stromboli, Stage Fright  & Sunset Blvd, I went with this sort of Brokeback reference

IMDb: Dave Saunders and his sidekick Chito, cowhands looking for work, arrive in Sundown Valley, Wyoming just in time to stop sheep ranch foreman Jess Rawlins from lynching cattleman Tug Caldwell.