Archive for December, 2009

Good Morning, Babylon (1987)

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: France | Italy | USA
Actors: Vincent Spano | Joaquim de Almeida | Greta Scacchi | Désirée Nosbusch | Omero Antonutti | Bérangère Bonvoisin | David Brandon | Brian Freilino | Margarita Lozano | Massimo Venturiello | Andrea Prodan | Charles Dance | Dorotea Ausenda | Ugo Bencini | Daniel Bosch
Directors: Paolo Taviani
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After the bankruptcy of their father’s stonemasonry firm, brothers Nicola and Andrea emigrate to America to restore their fortunes. After many adventures and near-disasters, they end up in Hollywood designing sets for D.W.Griffith and marry beautiful actresses, but tragedy strikes with the arrival of World War I, which finds the brothers fighting on opposite sides…

DuckTales: The Movie - Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990)

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Alan Young | Rip Taylor | Christopher Lloyd | Russi Taylor | Richard Libertini | Terence McGovern | Joan Gerber | Chuck McCann | June Foray | Charles Adler | Jack Angel | Steve Bulen
Directors: Bob Hathcock
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Scrooge McDuck, along with his grandnephews Huey, Dewey and Louie, Webby Vanderquack and dimwitted pilot Launchpad McQuack search for the treasure of Collie Baba and his forty thieves. They find a magic lamp and a genie that can grant them all kinds of wishes. Unfortunately, Merlock the Magician wants that lamp, and he and his sidekick, Dijon the Thief, would do anything to get their hands on it.

Pete’s Dragon (1977)

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Helen Reddy | Jim Dale | Mickey Rooney | Red Buttons | Shelley Winters | Sean Marshall | Jane Kean | Jim Backus | Charles Tyner | Gary Morgan | Jeff Conaway | Cal Bartlett | Charlie Callas | Walter Barnes | Al Checco
Directors: Don Chaffey
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A young troubled boy named Pete and his guardian dragon Elliott elude the abusive Gogan family, who all use Pete as a slave instead of a loved child. When Pete can successfully run away from them with his dragon, he stumbles into the town of Passamaquaddy- an ocean front harbor town filled with superstitious fishermen, drunken hooligans and wary townsfolk. Pete’s arrival does not mix well with the citizens, as his dragon Elliott accidentally causes town rioting and gossip among the town drunks about the dragon. Expecting to be an outcast yet again, Pete is taken in by the kind Nora who lives in a lighthouse with her father Lampy. While Pete bonds with Nora and Lampy, the townsfolk have not lowered their guards and suspicions about the dragon. And when Dr. Terminus arrives, a phony con artist posing as a doctor, he sees Elliott the Dragon as the ultimate profit to his fame. With Passamaquaddy filled with superstition, greed and lack of imagination, life will not be easy before the town can ever believe Pete’s dragon.

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Genres: Animation | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Bing Crosby | Basil Rathbone | Eric Blore | J. Pat O'Malley | John McLeish | Colin Campbell | Campbell Grant | Claud Allister | The Rhythmaires | Oliver Wallace
Directors: James Algar
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Disney brings animated versions of 2 literary works to the screen here. The first is ‘The Adventures of Mr. Toad’, based on the characters from Kenneth Grahame’s ‘The Wind in the Willows’. The second is based on Washinton Irving’s masterpiece ‘The Headless Horseman’, in which schoolteacher Ichabod Crane, smitten with Katrina Van Tassel, attends a party hosted by her father. Town thug Brom Bones, who also has his eye on Katrina, tries to intimidate Ichabod with the chilling story of ‘The Headless Horseman’, a ghost of a soldier in the revolutionary war who lost his head in a fight. When Ichabod rides home through Sleepy Hollow late at night, he finds himself confronted by the Headless Horseman who wants Ichabod’s head for himself! Will Ichabod escape the terrifying, sword-wielding ghost….or will the Headless Horseman claim Ichabod’s head for himself?

Swiss Family Robinson (1960)

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: John Mills | Dorothy McGuire | James MacArthur | Janet Munro | Sessue Hayakawa | Tommy Kirk | Kevin Corcoran | Cecil Parker | Andy Ho | Milton Reid | Larry Taylor
Directors: Ken Annakin
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A family in route to New Guinea is shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island. They are forced to remain on the island because of the damage to the ship and the pirates that are roaming the islands. They create a home on the island (centering around a huge treehouse) and explore the island and it’s wildlife. Plenty of adventure ensues as the family deals with issues of survival, pirates, and the brothers must learn how to live on the island with an uncertain future.

Victory Through Air Power (1943)

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Genres: Animation | Documentary | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Alexander de Seversky | Art Baker | Billy Mitchell
Directors: James Algar
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This is a unique film in Disney Production’s history. This film is essentially a propaganda film selling Major Alexander de Seversky’s theories about the practical uses of long range strategic bombing. Using a combination of animation humorously telling about the development of air warfare, the film switches to the Major illustrating his ideas could win the war for the allies.

Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998)

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Irene Bedard | Jim Cummings | Donal Gibson | Finola Hughes | Linda Hunt | Judy Kuhn | Russell Means | Jean Stapleton | David Ogden Stiers | Billy Zane | Jeff Bennett | Bob Bergen | Mark S. Brien | Rodger Bumpass | Amick Byram
Directors: Tom Ellery
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When news of John Smith’s death reaches America, Pocahontas is devastated. She sets off to London with John Rolfe, to meet with the King of England on a diplomatic mission: to create peace and respect between the two great lands. However, Governor Ratcliffe is still around; he wants to return to Jamestown and take over, no matter what the cost. He will stop at nothing to discredit the young princess.

The Rescuers Down Under (1990)

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Crime | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Bob Newhart | Eva Gabor | John Candy | Tristan Rogers | Adam Ryen | George C. Scott | Wayne Robson | Douglas Seale | Frank Welker | Bernard Fox | Peter Firth | Billy Barty | Ed Gilbert | Carla Meyer
Directors: Hendel Butoy
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Cody, a boy from Mugwomp Flats responds to a distress call about a trapped giant Golden Eagle called Marahute. Freeing her, he gains a close friendship with the bird. However, Cody is soon abducted by the murderous poacher, Percival McLeach, who is after that bird which is of a highly endangered species and therefore an extremely profitable quarry. In a panic, a mouse Cody freed from one of McLeach’s traps sends a desperate call for help to the Rescue Aid Society in New York City who assigns their top agents, Miss Bianca and Bernard to the task. With transportation provided by the goofy Albatross, Wilbur, the agents arrive in Austrailia and link up with the RAS’ local field operative, Jake The Kangaroo Rat. Together, the trio must race against time to find Cody, stop McLeach and save Marahute.

The Great Mouse Detective (1986)

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Musical | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Vincent Price | Barrie Ingham | Val Bettin | Susanne Pollatschek | Candy Candido | Diana Chesney | Eve Brenner | Alan Young | Laurie Main | Shani Wallis | Ellen Fitzhugh | Walker Edmiston
Directors: Ron Clements
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In Victorian London, England, a little mouse girl’s toymaker father is abducted by a peglegged bat. She enlists the aid of Basil of Baker Street, the rodent world’s answer to Sherlock Holmes. The case expands as Basil uncovers the crime’s link to a plot against the Crown itself.

Sid and Nancy (1986)

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music
Countries: UK
Actors: Gary Oldman | Chloe Webb | David Hayman | Debby Bishop | Andrew Schofield | Xander Berkeley | Perry Benson | Tony London | Sandy Baron | Sy Richardson | Edward Tudor-Pole | Biff Yeager | Courtney Love | Rusty Blitz | John Spaceley
Directors: Alex Cox
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Based on the true story of Sid Vicious, bass player for the legendary punk rock band “The Sex Pistols”, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. Their the music of the Sex Pistols, their relationship was always volatile.