The Ape
The Ape (1940) starring Boris Karloff
The Ape is an unusual horror film. It has a kindly doctor (Boris Karloff), who’s working on a cure for polio. So, that’s good, although his cure requires human spinal fluid. He has a strong affection for Frances Clifford, suffering from polio. The audience never finds out why, but that’s okay. Then, a circus gorilla escapes. A rather vicious gorilla, that’s terrorizes the townspeople. And it breaks into the doctor’s home!
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Happy Go Lovely [musical]
Happy Go Lovely (1951) starring Vera-Ellen, David Niven, Cesar Romero
In Happy Go Lovely, a chorus girl becomes the star in a broke producer’s show after she’s mistakenly linked with a millionaire in Scotland.
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Beans [song lyrics]
Song lyrics to Beans. Lyrics by Mack David, Music by Jerry Livingston. Sung by Jerry Lewis and cast in At War With the Army
“The Navy gets the gravy, but the Army gets the beans” – a comedy song where Jerry Lewis, on KP duty, complains about the low-quality food that the Army gets.
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Curse of the Fly
Curse of the Fly deals with the descendants of the scientist from The Fly. They’re trying to perfect the teleportation technology that’s previously caused so much trouble. What consequences will they face?
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The Dirty Dozen
The Dirty Dozen (1967) starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Jim Brown
Synopsis of The Dirty Dozen
World War II. An impossible mission … The fate of the Allied invasion hanging in the balance … 12 men with nothing left to lose. Now the fate of the free world depends on a group of convicted murderers, thieves and thugs–The Dirty Dozen. Twelve American military prisoners are offered parole–if they complete a suicide mission behind enemy lines just before D-Day. After weeks of grueling training, they are dressed in German uniforms, dropped deep behind enemy lines and left on their own to complete their mission and try to get out alive. Based on the novel by E.M. Nathanson.
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The Angry Red Planet
The Angry Red Planet (1969) starring Gerald Mohr, Nora Hayden
The Angry Red Planet deals with the fictional first manned exploration of Mars. Our intrepid explorers find all sorts of “interesting” wildlife, and barely escape.
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Real Steel
Real Steel (2011) starring Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lily, Dakota Goyo, Anthony Mackie
A divorced dad is forced to reconcile with the son he barely knows, over their love of fighting robots. Can they go from zeroes to champions in Real Steel?
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You’ve Got Me This Way [song lyrics]
Song lyrics to You’ve Got Me This Way, music by Jimmy McHugh, Lyrics by Johnny Mercer 1940
Song lyrics to You’ve Got Me This Way (1940). Played by the Kay Kyser Band and sung by Harry Babbitt. in You’ll Find Out
You got me this way, say,
What are you gonna do about it?
What are you gonna do about it?
You got me this way, crazy for you!
All About Eve
All About Eve (1950) starring Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Gary Merrill
All About Eve: Fasten your seat belts for a bumpy ride. This is the story of an aging actress, undone by a young, ambitious fan. Sophisticated performances by Davis, Sanders and Baxter shine in this scathing look at the world of the theater.
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