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Also, the beautiful effects used to create the illusion of millions of wasps sells easily and was revolutionary at the time.
In Northeastern of Brazil, the father of the twelve years old illiterate Maria (Fernanda Carvalho) sells his daughter to the middle man of a prostitution organization, Tadeu (Chico Dias), to be employed as a housemaid and have a better life.
He also sells her to men.
Gary Cooper plays Wild Bill and Jean Arthur plays Calamity Jane and Charles Bickford plays the bad guy who sells weapons to the Indians and you can hardly recognize him.
For instance, when his soon-to-be father-in-law asks him how much he earns, Candy says "Oh, I pull down anywhere between thirty and...eleven thousand dollars a year, sir." Oh course, it is Candy's delivery that sells it.
Filmmaker David Redmon should be lauded for getting excellent and rare footage of everyday life inside a Chinese factory compound, and for landing a revealing on-camera interview with the head of the U.S. company that imports and sells the beads.
Okay, my title is kinda lame, and almost sells this flick short.
Skip can only be traced through Moe (Thelma Ritter) who sells information on criminals.
Although the film was originally plotted as a vehicle for Patsy Kelly, sunny Jack Haley stars as Joe Jenkins, a young Kansan who sells his auto repair business and journeys to Hollywood, where he attempts to wangle a screen role for the girl he loves, star-struck Cecilia (Rosina Lawrence).
Judd Crandall (plays Fred Gwynne) fits his role perfectly and really sells it to you.
This is a good story of a playboy type who needs money and inadvertently sells his soul to Satan for a lot of money.
In this truly fascinating, dark film, a young impoverished student sells his soul to the devil for a lot of money, in return the devil takes his mirror image (this is done brilliantly in the movie and eerily presaged when Balduin, the student is earlier practicing swordsmanship in front of the mirror), a visual metaphor for a "man at war with himself" which portents his immediate future.
As Moe a weary street peddler selling neck ties (and who also sells information) she is terrific in a role that brought her another Oscar nomination.
The ONLY place to get this recording that I have found is on the movie soundtrack, which sells for something like $50 on amazon.
Are we supposed to enjoy a film where the anti-hero betrays his kindly commanding officer, sleeps with his wife, sleeps with a teenager, deals heroin on the side, consorts with Turkish gangsters, sells stolen weapons to said gangsters yet comes up the good guy?
The plot: A man sells his house to rich snobs and, after being tricked, changes his mind.
I took it to a place that sells used videos, and the guy behind the counter had heard of it as the worst movie ever made.
Directed by Craig Lucas (I loved his LONGTIME COMPANION, also starring this film's star, Campbell Scott) it is adapted from the play centering around a young screenwriter who sells his story for a cool million.
The owner refuse to sell it, but the kid sees dollar signs and sells it to Mr. Peltzer, telling him three things never to do to the creature.
Is it any wonder that he sells his killing services for whoever pays the best price...but wait, he does like little kids, does like cats, is willing to consider replacing the blouse of an obnoxious maid he had a fight with, and he does start a type of patriotic reform with the aid of understanding (and pretty) Veronica Lake.
A girl sells her soul to the devil to keep her witch sister alive.
A friend sells her to a brothel where she is frequented by Anand.
This film is full of surprises and never sells out to the moral crusaders of the time.
In medieval garb, scholarly Richard Burton (as Doctor Faustus) sells his soul to Lucifer (David McIntosh) in exchange for knowledge denied ordinary mortal men, visitations with a beautifully mute Elizabeth Taylor (with a body double), and Satanic servant Andreas Teuber (as Mephistopheles).
After Superdweeb sells his time machine to Bob Evil he discovers the FUTURE has been harmed.
Kinda weird from the standpoint of how you might expect a special ops team to act, but it really sells the idea of Section 9 as humane and ethical.
???ughhh A hard core surfer played by Sean Penn sells his home so he can trek through the Central American underworld in search of his best friend, a fellow surfer named Captain Zero ??? ugggh NOW THIS.
Meanwhile back in Manhattan Lou (Jason Evers), the editor of a newspaper called the 'Judge and Jury' is putting pressure on one of his journalists named Marcie Elliott (Kathryn Meisle) to keep the Bradley twins story going as it sells newspapers and suggests she visits an old lady they used to write loads of story's about and who they nicknamed Dr. Freak, real name Ruth Smoeller.
As the two leads they carry the film; and Richard Masur,as Russell's editor, sells every line of his characters dialogue with complete conviction.
Many times "inspired by" films feel like hard sells or bids for Oscar glory.
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