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Great Escape, The (1963)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | War
Countries: USA
Actors: McQueen, Steve | Garner, James | Attenborough, Richard | Donald, James | Bronson, Charles | Pleasence, Donald | Coburn, James | Messemer, Hannes | McCallum, David | Jackson, Gordon | Leyton, John | Lennie, Angus | Stock, Nigel | Graf, Robert | Taylor, Jud
Directors: Sturges, John
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Based on a true story, “The Great Escape” deals with the largest Allied escape attempt from a German POW camp during the Second World War. The first part of the film focuses on the escape efforts within the camp and the process of secretly digging an escape tunnel. The second half of the film deals with the massive effort by the German Gestapo to track down the over 70 escaped prisoners who are at this point throughout the Third Reich attempting to make their way to England and various neutral countries.

Guns of Navarone, The (1961)

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Peck, Gregory | Niven, David | Quinn, Anthony | Baker, Stanley | Quayle, Anthony | Darren, James | Papas, Irene | Scala, Gia | Justice, James Robertson | Harris, Richard | Forbes, Bryan | Cuthbertson, Allan | Trubshawe, Michael | Herbert, Percy | Mikell, George
Directors: Lee Thompson, J.
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1943. With the battle of Stalingrad turning the war against them, the Germans are attempting to bully neutral Turkey into joining the Axis; to this end they have trapped 2,000 British soldiers on Kiros, an island in the Aegean, with only one sea route for evacuation, a sea route commanded by two gigantic German antiship batteries deployed in a massive cliffside bunker on the island of Navarone. Immune to air attack and too much for Allied battleships to suppress, the British muster Keith Mallory, a commando officer who has been working on occupied Crete for nearly two years and who is an expert mountaineer, to ferry a team of British commandos to the only area of Navarone that is not monitored by the Germans, a 400-foot cliff. Greek resistance is to meet the team inland and guide them around German patrols to the area of the German guns. However, the commanding officer of the British team suffers grave injury in the climb and Mallory must take control of the mission, despite clashes with explosives expert John Anthony Miller, who upon the arrival of the night of the raid finds his equipment has been sabotaged, thus exposing a traitor in the team’s ranks.

Batman Begins (2005)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bale, Christian | Caine, Michael | Neeson, Liam | Holmes, Katie | Oldman, Gary | Murphy, Cillian | Wilkinson, Tom | Hauer, Rutger | Watanabe, Ken | Boone Junior, Mark | Roache, Linus | Freeman, Morgan | Holden, Larry | Murphy, Gerard | McFarlane, Colin
Directors: Nolan, Christopher
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In tone with the early “Batman: Year One” style comics. As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes, a trauma which led him to become obsessed with revenge but his chance is cruelly taken away from him by fate. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with the dangerous but honorable ninja cult leader known as Ra’s Al-Ghul, he returns to his now decaying Gotham City overrun by organized crime and dangerous individuals manipulating the system whilst the company he inherited is slowly being pulled out from under him. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, and a prototype armored suit leads him to take on a new persona, one which will strike fear into the hearts of men who do wrong - he becomes, Batman. In the new guise, and with the help of rising cop Jim Gordon, Batman sets out to take down the various nefarious schemes in motion by individuals such as mafia don Falcone, the twisted doctor/drug dealer Jonathan ‘The Scarecrow’ Crane, and a mysterious third party that is quite familiar with Wayne and waiting to strike when the time is right.

Final Analysis (1992)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gere, Richard | Basinger, Kim | Thurman, Uma | Roberts, Eric | Guilfoyle, Paul | David, Keith | Harper, Robert | Rodriguez, Agustin | Zohar, Rita | Murdock, George | Prestia, Shirley | Genaro, Tony | Cortez, Katherine | Moy, Wood | Fischer, Corey
Directors: Joanou, Phil
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Barr is a psychiatrist who falls in love with the sister of one of his clients. She’s beautiful and married (to a gangster). She hates her husband but is unable to escape from him. To avoid spoilers, someone dies, but who did what and why ?