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Owing a rather tidy sum to the restaurant owner (played by wily Adolphe Menjou), he is blackmailed into passing himself off as Russian royalty to charm a Yankee heiress.
Every time someone speaks there's a horrible noise that sounds like a passing train.
It was our last opportunity to see her act before her passing in Oct 1989.
The film is painfully aware of its aspirations -never approached in quality, sadly - of successfully passing as a mere mediocrity.
Brutally honest, sympathetic insight into the fall of the many Native American peoples... some of the material is painful, sometimes bleak, but an absolute MUST SEE for any feeling person with even a passing interest in the history of America.
The passing in and out of realities begs the question of what will happen to the characters when they make it back?
All but Barabara Bain are gone now and we should mourn their passing.
For anyone with a passing interest in Cagney, or gangster films, or film-noir, or film violence, watch this film!!!!!!!
Lets face it, Dean and Jerry probably considered this one for about 14.5 seconds before passing.
Starting with the ultra ridiculous scene at the car show, the movie deteriorates with each passing minute.
Miss Marple's closest friend Elspeth McGillicuddy (Pam Ferris) sees a man strangling a woman on a passing train.
To emphasize that point, the very next scene has a veiled, what-looks-like, sexy woman with a great body passing by, the guys whistle....until she lifts the veil and we see a toothless old hag!
After passing on The Full Monty in favour of Brassed Off, the now all-but defunct Film Four were quick to throw money at Peter Cattaneo's next comedy and confidently launched a huge marketing campaign for Lucky Break secure in the knowledge that they had the big local hit of the year.
As for passing judgement on historical accuracy--folks, it's a movie, OK?
It's always interesting to meet people just passing through Thailand doing a documentary.
Viewers with even a passing knowledge of the KKK will find it almost unrecognizable in 'Storm Warning.'
Frank spends the time drinking Scotch, masturbating to his mom's underwear, and passing out on the bathroom floor.
"The Hunter" appeared in theaters in the summer of 1980, just a few months before Steve McQueen's premature passing.
I was doing fine, my wife and I actually have more than a passing interest in books and the publishing industry, in general.
Like all good plans a flaw is discovered when a succeeding mayor dies without passing on the box.
Strasberg plays a woman afflicted by the cinema's most annoying peach blouse....er, make that a huge knot on the back of her neck, which is getting bigger and bigger with each passing day and confounding all the doctors examining it.
In the original story, the plague was never really specified as to where it came from and how-it just kind of happened, however in the 1964 Vincent Price film of the same book, it was hinted at that it was something that escaped from a Eastern bloc country's biological weapons lab but it was only in passing.
No, Jane did not have a blessed event in the traditional sense, nor did Tarzan start passing out bananas in place of cigars in the waiting room to other expectant African native fathers in the waiting room of a jungle cottage hospital, nor did Cheetah act as the midwife.
I think this was the first time Mark Mothersbaugh(of Devo) didn't do the music, and it kinda shows, it all sounded like Anderson's ipod left to shuffle (i almost thought this was gonna be a theme of the film, but it was just a passing in-joke), the music highlighted where emotion was happening on screen, but didn't really give me any sense of "what emotions" we were supposed to be experiencing(save for the i-pod scene already mentioned), it all just felt kinda vague like someone left the radio on in the other room.
Creative use of modern film editing to bring the supernatural to realistic visions.The importance of passing on the ancient Native American stories from one generation to the next.
They (the Hollywood types) are so out of touch as far as knowing what the average movie-goer is looking for - they made a big mistake passing on this movie.
hate myself for passing it up as a dollar movie a while back,but i see it again I'm grabbing it.although
The time passing early on being marked by the fighter-jets evolution was very subtle.
(There is also a very ingeniously-worked little sequence in the park, in which a passing encounter with a complete stranger turns out to provide the subsequent denouement to the lovers' interview.)
Directed by Roy William Neil, the master of deductive reasoning Sherlock Holmes(Basil Rathbone)and his often bumbling parter Dr. Watson(Nigel Bruce)make a trip to Washington, D.C. after a top-secret agent is kidnapped and murdered after passing off hidden valuable microfilm inside the cover of a matchbook.
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