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Movies tagged with the "based-on-novel" keyword
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Biography |
Drama |
History |
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Kirsten Dunst |
Jason Schwartzman |
Judy Davis |
Rip Torn |
Rose Byrne |
Asia Argento |
Molly Shannon |
Shirley Henderson |
Danny Huston |
Marianne Faithfull |
Mary Nighy |
Sebastian Armesto |
Jamie Dornan |
Aurore Clément |
Guillaume Gallienne |
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Sofia Coppola |
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Based on Antonia Fraser's book about the ill-fated Archduchess of Austria and later Queen of France, 'Marie Antoinette' tells the story of the most misunderstood and abused woman in history, from her birth in Imperial Austria to her later life in France.
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Drama |
Horror |
Mystery |
Thriller |
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Rob Lowe |
Andre Braugher |
Donald Sutherland |
Samantha Mathis |
Robert Mammone |
Dan Byrd |
Rutger Hauer |
James Cromwell |
Andy Anderson |
Robert Grubb |
Steven Vidler |
Penny McNamee |
Brendan Cowell |
Christopher Morris |
Todd MacDonald |
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Mikael Salomon |
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Ben Mears, a writer returns to the small Maine town of Jerusalem's Lot (also known as Salem's Lot), where he spent the first few years of his life, to write a book. Little does he or the townfolk realize that a couple of other new residents are coming...Straker, a antiques dealer, and his partner and master Barlow, a ancient and malevolent vampire bent on making Salem's Lot his new home.
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Action |
Adventure |
Thriller |
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Daniel Craig |
Eva Green |
Mads Mikkelsen |
Judi Dench |
Jeffrey Wright |
Giancarlo Giannini |
Caterina Murino |
Simon Abkarian |
Isaach De Bankolé |
Jesper Christensen |
Ivana Milicevic |
Tobias Menzies |
Claudio Santamaria |
Sebastien Foucan |
Malcolm Sinclair |
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Martin Campbell |
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After receiving license to kill from the MI-6, the secret agent James Bond follows his leads and avoids the destruction of the greatest airplane in the world in Miami plotted by the evil banker Le Chiffre to crash the bonds in the stock market and break the air flight company. The banker loses the funds of international terrorist organizations and organizes a poker game in Casino Royale, in Montenegro, to raise the money of the investors. James Bond travels with the British accountant Vesper Lynd to bet and defeat La Chiffre and force him to look for protection with the MI-6, disclosing the names of the terrorists. James wins, but is double-crossed, in a game of betrayals and murders.
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Adventure |
Sci-Fi |
Thriller |
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Sean Connery |
Jill St. John |
Charles Gray |
Lana Wood |
Jimmy Dean |
Bruce Cabot |
Putter Smith |
Bruce Glover |
Norman Burton |
Joseph Fürst |
Bernard Lee |
Desmond Llewelyn |
Leonard Barr |
Lois Maxwell |
Margaret Lacey |
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Guy Hamilton |
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When Bond investigates mysterious activities in the world diamond market, he discovers that the evil Ernst Blofeld (Charles Gray) is stockpiling the precious gems to use in a deadly laser satellite capable of destroying massive targets on land, sea and air. Bond, with the help of beautiful smuggler Tiffany Case (Jill St. John), sets out to stop the madman, but first he must grapple with a host of enemies. He confronts offbeat assassins Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd, as well as Bambi and Thumper--two scantily-clad beauties who are more than a match for Bond in hand-to-hand combat! Finally, there's the reclusive billionaire Willard Whyte (Jimmy Dean), who may just hold a vital clue to Blofeld's whereabouts.
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Action |
Adventure |
Thriller |
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Sean Connery |
Bernard Lee |
Ursula Andress |
Joseph Wiseman |
Jack Lord |
Eunice Gayson |
John Kitzmiller |
Margaret Le Wars |
Zena Marshall |
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Terence Young |
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An agent of the British Secret Service, James Bond (007), is sent out to the West Indies in order to find out why another of his number was killed. His arrival is not welcomed by everyone, but it is not long before he is on the trail of the killer. The trail leads to a secretive scientist, Dr. No, but the discovery has wider implications...
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Action |
Adventure |
Thriller |
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Roger Moore |
Carole Bouquet |
Topol |
Lynn-Holly Johnson |
Julian Glover |
Cassandra Harris |
Jill Bennett |
Michael Gothard |
John Wyman |
Jack Hedley |
Lois Maxwell |
Desmond Llewelyn |
Geoffrey Keen |
Walter Gotell |
James Villiers |
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John Glen |
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James Bond Adventure. A British spy-ship, the St. Georges, accidently hits a mine and sinks near a Warsaw Pact country. On aboard is ATAC, a communications device that could order Western subs to attack friendly areas. 007 is sent to recover the ATAC and the Russians, interested in getting ATAC, send a message to their local "contact". Bond's investigations leads to Greece and he meets Melina Havelock, out for revenge, as the "Contact" has had her parents murdered. Bond also meets Aristotle Kristatos and Milos Colombo (known as "The Dove") and evidence leads that one of them is the Russian's "Contact" but both accuses the other. Melina and Bond sets out to recover the ATAC and not only goes up against the "Contract" but also against Bibi, a young ice-skater, who has a major crush on 007...
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Action |
Adventure |
Thriller |
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Sean Connery |
Daniela Bianchi |
Pedro Armendáriz |
Lotte Lenya |
Robert Shaw |
Bernard Lee |
Eunice Gayson |
Walter Gotell |
Francis De Wolff |
George Pastell |
Nadja Regin |
Lois Maxwell |
Aliza Gur |
Martine Beswick |
Vladek Sheybal |
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Terence Young |
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James Bond 007 is on the search for a Russian decoding machine, known as Lektor. Bond needs to find this machine, before the evil SPECTRE organization discovers it first. Whilst being romantically linked with Russian girl, Tatiana Romanova, Bond sneaks his way around Istanbul, whilst each SPECTRE agent tries to pick him off, including the over powering Donald 'Red' Grant and ex-KGB agent Rosa Klebb who knows all the tricks in the books and even possesses an incredible poison tipped shoe!
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Action |
Adventure |
Thriller |
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Sean Connery |
Honor Blackman |
Gert Fröbe |
Shirley Eaton |
Tania Mallet |
Harold Sakata |
Bernard Lee |
Martin Benson |
Cec Linder |
Austin Willis |
Lois Maxwell |
Bill Nagy |
Michael Mellinger |
Peter Cranwell |
Nadja Regin |
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Guy Hamilton |
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The powerful tycoon Auric Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) has initiated "Operation Grand Slam," a cataclysmic scheme to raid Fort Knox and obliterate the world economy. James Bond, armed with his specially equipped Aston Martin (its accessory package includes built-in machine guns, a smoke screen and an ejector seat), must stop the plan by overcoming several outrageous adversaries. First there's Oddjob (Harold Sakata), the mute servant who kills at the toss of a lethal hat; next, the beautiful Jill Masterson (Shirley Eaton), who gives new meaning to the phrase "golden girl"; and finally, sexy pilot Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman), whose romantic feelings for Bond complicate her involvement in Goldfinger's high-flying scheme.
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Action |
Adventure |
Crime |
Thriller |
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| Actors: |
Bernard Lee |
Roger Moore |
Yaphet Kotto |
Jane Seymour |
Clifton James |
Julius Harris |
Geoffrey Holder |
David Hedison |
Gloria Hendry |
Lois Maxwell |
Tommy Lane |
Earl Jolly Brown |
Roy Stewart |
Lon Satton |
Arnold Williams |
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| Directors: |
Guy Hamilton |
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When Bond investigates the murders of three fellow agents, he soon finds himself a target, evading the vicious assassins as he closes in on the powerful Kananga (Yaphet Kotto). Known as "Mr. Big," Kananga is coordinating a globally threatening scheme using tons of self-produced heroin. As Bond tries to unravel the mastermind's plan, he meet Solitaire (Jane Seymour), the beautiful Tarot card reader whose magical gifts are crucial to the crime lord. Bond, of course, works his own magic on her, and the stage is set for pulse-pounding action sequences involving voodoo, hungry crocodiles and turbo-charged speedboats.
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Action |
Adventure |
Thriller |
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Roger Moore |
Christopher Lee |
Britt Ekland |
Maud Adams |
Hervé Villechaize |
Clifton James |
Richard Loo |
Soon-Tek Oh |
Marc Lawrence |
Bernard Lee |
Lois Maxwell |
Marne Maitland |
Desmond Llewelyn |
James Cossins |
Yiu Lam Chan |
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Guy Hamilton |
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Scaramanga is a hit-man who charges a million dollars per job. He becomes linked to the death of a scientist working on a powerful solar cell, and James Bond is called in to investigate. As he tracks down Scaramanga, he realises that he is highly respected by the killer, but will this prove to be an advantage in the final showdown?
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Action |
Adventure |
Sci-Fi |
Thriller |
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| Actors: |
Roger Moore |
Lois Chiles |
Michael Lonsdale |
Richard Kiel |
Corinne Clery |
Bernard Lee |
Geoffrey Keen |
Desmond Llewelyn |
Lois Maxwell |
Toshirô Suga |
Emily Bolton |
Blanche Ravalec |
Irka Bochenko |
Mike Marshall |
Leila Shenna |
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Lewis Gilbert |
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A Boeing 747 carrying a US space shuttle on loan to the UK crashes into the Atlantic Ocean. When the British examine the wreckage they can find no trace of the spacecraft and send agent James Bond to the shuttle's manufacturers, Drax Industries, to investigate.
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Action |
Adventure |
Drama |
Romance |
Thriller |
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George Lazenby |
Diana Rigg |
Telly Savalas |
Gabriele Ferzetti |
Ilse Steppat |
Lois Maxwell |
George Baker |
Bernard Lee |
Bernard Horsfall |
Desmond Llewelyn |
Yuri Borionko |
Virginia North |
Geoffrey Cheshire |
Irvin Allen |
Terence Mountain |
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Peter R. Hunt |
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Whilst on leave, British agent James Bond prevents a young woman, Tracy Draco, from committing suicide. Her father is the head of a powerful crime syndicate who is impressed by Bond and wants him to protect his daughter by marrying her. In exchange he offers Bond information which will lead 007 to his arch enemy Ernst Blofeld. At first Bond agrees to the deal purely to fulfil his objective to kill Blofeld but later he grows to love Tracy but when the British learn that Blofeld plans to destroy mankind with a deadly virus, 007 is torn between his loyalty to his county and his intent to marry Tracy.
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007 Thunderball
[1965,
UK] from $1.99
Look Up! Look Down! Look Out! Here Comes The Biggest Bond Of All! ["Look" is formed from the 007 ...
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Action |
Adventure |
Thriller |
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Sean Connery |
Adolfo Celi |
Rik Van Nutter |
Guy Doleman |
Bernard Lee |
Desmond Llewelyn |
Roland Culver |
Earl Cameron |
Paul Stassino |
Philip Locke |
George Pravda |
Michael Brennan |
Leonard Sachs |
Edward Underdown |
Reginald Beckwith |
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When two colleagues of James Bond are murdered, James follows the widow of a double agent who has been killed - and a confrontation ensues. The double agent is part of SPECTRE, and the organization's meeting in a secret lair in Paris regrets the agent's passing as it deals with new criminal business. Emilio Largo, a ruthless and flamboyant one-eyed enforcer, has hatched a scheme against the North Atlantic Treaty powers that begins at a rehabilitation clinic near an RAF airbase. Scheduled to pilot an RAF Vulcan strategic bomber on a normal "fail-safe" flight is Francois Derval, who is having a passionate affair with the magnificently endowed beauty Fiona Volpe - an affair that SPECTRE exploits. Soon, the Vulcan and its warload of two nuclear bombs has been hijacked, the bombs seized by Largo, for use in SPECTRE's most audacious extortion scheme yet. James Bond, however, finds a key clue in the sister of Francois Derval, Dominique "Domino" Derval, a beautiful young woman who is a passionate scuba-diver living in Nassau. When James investigates Domino, he comes into contact with a SPECTRE operation on the island, and he gets help from HMSS' man in Nassau, Pinder, and in old CIA chum Felix Leiter. But when James and Felix find out what SPECTRE is up to, it may be to late to save a major US coastal city from nuclear annihilation.
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Action |
Adventure |
Sci-Fi |
Thriller |
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Sean Connery |
Akiko Wakabayashi |
Mie Hama |
Tetsuro Tamba |
Teru Shimada |
Karin Dor |
Donald Pleasence |
Bernard Lee |
Lois Maxwell |
Desmond Llewelyn |
Charles Gray |
Tsai Chin |
Peter Fanene Maivia |
Burt Kwouk |
Michael Chow |
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Lewis Gilbert |
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When an American space capsule is swallowed up by what they believe to be a Russian spaceship, World War 3 nearly breaks out. The British Government, however, suspect that other powers are at work as the space craft went down near Japan. S.P.E.C.T.R.E. is the force behind the theft, as James Bond discovers, but its motives are far from clear, and he must first find out where the captured space capsule is held before America and Russia initiate another world war.
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Action |
Adventure |
Fantasy |
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Diane Venora |
Antonio Banderas |
Vladimir Kulich |
Dennis Storhoi |
Daniel Southern |
Neil Maffin |
John DeSantis |
Clive Russell |
Mischa Hausserman |
Oliver Sveinall |
Asbjørn 'Bear' Riis |
Richard Bremmer |
Tony Curran |
Albie Woodington |
Omar Sharif |
Erick Avari |
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John McTiernan |
Michael Crichton |
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In AD 922, an important emissary who is banished from his homeland. The nomadic outcast comes across a band of Norse warriors who coerce him into joining them when they are summoned to fight mysterious creatures legendary for consuming every living thing in their path. Eventually surrounded by the frightening and ferocious foe, Ibn must conquer his personal fears and help battle the illusive invaders—who emerge out of the shroud of fog in the black of the night.
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Adventure |
Mystery |
Sci-Fi |
Thriller |
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Roy Scheider |
John Lithgow |
Helen Mirren |
Bob Balaban |
Keir Dullea |
Douglas Rain |
Madolyn Smith Osborne |
Dana Elcar |
Taliesin Jaffe |
James McEachin |
Mary Jo Deschanel |
Elya Baskin |
Saveli Kramarov |
Oleg Rudnik |
Natasha Shneider |
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Peter Hyams |
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In the year 2001, Dave Bowman was taken by the Jupiter monolith and transformed into a powerful being. Now, in the year 2010, Dr. Heywood Floyd, the man held responsible for Discovery's failure, is going to Jupiter. He and his crewmates must reactivate the psychotic HAL-9000 computer, so they may learn what happened, and they must find out the meaning of Dave Bowman's last transmission... "My God, it's full of stars..."
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Crime |
Drama |
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Edward Norton |
Philip Seymour Hoffman |
Barry Pepper |
Rosario Dawson |
Anna Paquin |
Brian Cox |
Tony Siragusa |
Levani Outchaneichvili |
Tony Devon |
Misha Kuznetsov |
Isiah Whitlock Jr. |
Michael Genet |
Patrice O'Neal |
Al Palagonia |
Aaron Stanford |
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Spike Lee |
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The 25th Hour depicts the last day of freedom for a young man before he begins serving a seven-year jail term for drug dealing. Prowling through the city until dawn with his two close male friends and his girlfriend, he is forced to re-examine his life and how he got himself into his predicament, which leads to a shocking, disturbing finale.
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Action |
Drama |
History |
War |
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Gerard Butler |
Lena Headey |
Dominic West |
David Wenham |
Vincent Regan |
Michael Fassbender |
Tom Wisdom |
Andrew Pleavin |
Andrew Tiernan |
Rodrigo Santoro |
Giovani Cimmino |
Stephen McHattie |
Greg Kramer |
Alex Ivanovici |
Craig Kelly |
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Zack Snyder |
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It is spring 480 BC, Persian King Xerxes, continuing his father Darius' master plan to conquer the Hellenic city-states, arrives in Hellas. The previous Persian invasion and diplomatic attempts have already turned most northern Hellas tribes and states to the Persian side. But the people of Athens and Sparta, the largest Hellenic powers at the time, feel quite insulted by the Persian emissaries' request to surrender to Xerxes, and so slay them. In Sparta, King Leonidas consults the local oracle, who gives two options: Either a spartan king will have to be sacrificed, or Sparta will be burned to the ground. A year earlier (481, BC) a Panhellenic consortium of all southern city-states had already recognized the superiority of the Spartan army (the best organized and trained army at the time) and had declared King Leonidas as supreme commander of the combined Hellenic army. It is then decided that a small force should block Xerxes' way to southern Hellas in the Thermopylae passage. This passage was, at that time, 12 meters wide. The great historian Herodotus, possibly exaggerating, states that there were 1,700,000 Persians (their true number could have been anywhere from 100,000 to 1,000,000) against 7,000 Hellenic hoplites and slaves, including the 300 men of the Spartan King elite guard. King Xerxes waited four days for the Hellenes to be frightened and eventually surrender and was quite astonished by his opponents' complete apathy. Xerxes tried to convince Leonidas to drop weapons, give up his position, kneel before him and live on as a local governor under Xerxes. King Leonidas replied "molon lave," which means "Come and get them." The three-day battle began, with the 300 Spartans and 700 Thespians (the other Hellenes where sent by Leonidas to protect passages to their flanks) slaying thousands of Persians with minimal losses. The whole Persian campaign would have failed if it hadn't been for Efialtes, who showed Xerxes a secret passage to the Hellenic flanks. After a final battle led by King Xerxes himself, the Hellenic force was slain and their heroism and glory was written forever in history. From the beginning of the battle, the Hellenes buried their dead in the spot where they fell. Then battle signs where made for the dead of each Hellenic faction. For the Pelloponisians, (including the 300 Spartans) the sign generally read (free translation) "In this place 4,000 Pelloponisians fought 30 millions)." For the 300 Spartans (Lakaedaemonians), the sign reads (free translation) "Oh foreigner, tell the Lakaedaemonians that we are buried here obeying their laws," meaning that they never hesitated and never retreated from the enemy. The impact of the battle was enormous for both sides. The Persians' morale dropped to zero, and the Hellenes lost their fear for the Persian conqueror and organized their defense. After several successful battles, the Hellenes ultimately defeated the Persian army and repelled their invasion in the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC.
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Crime |
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Joan Hickson |
Juliette Mole |
David Beames |
Mona Bruce |
Nicholas Blane |
Katy Jarrett |
Leslie Adams |
David Horovitch |
Ian Brimble |
Rhoda Lewis |
Jill Meager |
Joanna David |
Maurice Denham |
Andrew Burt |
Pamela Pitchford |
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Martyn Friend |
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Elspeth McGillicuddy, an old friend of Miss Marple's, witnesses a strangulation murder in a passing train through the window of her coach compartment. When Police Inspector Slack can't find a body along the tracks and doubts the validity of the story, Miss Marple and Elspeth locate the area where the body was probably thrown from the train, the isolated manor house of an aged, cantankerous millionaire, Luther Crackenthorpe. Miss Marple's niece Lucy is recruited to apply for a job on the estate in hopes of locating the corpse. When she finds it in an ancient sarcophagus in an outbuilding housing Egyptian and Etruscan art treasures, the police and Miss Marple are brought in. Obviously someone in the large household is involved, but who?
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Drama |
Musical |
Romance |
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Warner Baxter |
Bebe Daniels |
George Brent |
Ruby Keeler |
Guy Kibbee |
Una Merkel |
Ginger Rogers |
Ned Sparks |
Dick Powell |
Allen Jenkins |
Edward J. Nugent |
Robert McWade |
George E. Stone |
Harry Akst |
Wallis Clark |
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Lloyd Bacon |
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The source from which all modern musicals flow: An ailing Broadway director returns to produce one final show, but his leading lady is injured and must be replaced by a novice. Call it dated, but it's aged to perfection, and the final twenty minute sequence will leave you tapping your toes, with a smile on your face and a song in your heart. Movies—never mind musicals—just don't get any better than this.
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