Alive and Kicking 1958  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Cyril Frankel
Cast: Sybil Thorndike, Kathleen Harrison, Estelle Winwood, Stanley Holloway, Eric Pohlmann, John Salew, Liam Redmond, Marjorie Rhodes, Richard Harris, Olive McFarland
When Dora (Sybil Thorndike), Rosie (Kathleen Harrison), and Mabel (Estelle Winwood) learn they are going to be moved from their "old folks" home, they escape the premises and set off on an adventure.
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Cabinet of Caligari 1962 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Roger Kay
Cast: Glynis Johns, Dan O'Herlihy, Richard Davalos, Lawrence Dobkin, Constance Ford, J. Pat O'Malley, Vicki Trickett, Estelle Winwood, Doreen Lang, Charles Fredericks
A young woman (Glynis Johns) takes refuge at a desolate estate where the inhabitants are strange, and mysterious owner Caligari (Dan O'Herlihy) is a sadistic pervert. Can she escape? Remake of the 1920 German classic.
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 Camelot 1967   N/R, 178 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Joshua Logan
Cast: Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero, David Hemmings, Lionel Jeffries, Laurence Naismith, Estelle Winwood, Gary Marshal, Pierre Olaf
Richard Harris plays King Arthur to Vanessa Redgrave's Queen Guinevere in this film, based on Lerner and Loewe's Broadway musical. This is one example of a big-budget film that resulted in financial disaster. BUT the film won Academy Awards for Art Direction, Costume Design, and Music Scoring. 1 User Review
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 Darby O'Gill and the Little People 1959  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery, Jimmy O'Dea, Kieron Moore, Estelle Winwood, Walter Fitzgerald, Denis O'Dea, J.G. Devlin, Jack MacGowran
Leprechauns come to life for Darby (Albert Sharpe), an Irish teller of tall tales. This delightful story relates how Darby tricks the Leprechauns into giving him three wishes.
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Dead Ringer 1964  N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Paul Henreid
Cast: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford, Philip Carey, Jean Hagen, George Macready, Estelle Winwood, George Chandler, Bert Remsen, Josh Mostel
Edith (Bette Davis) and Margaret (Bette Davis) are twins; one is very good, and the other is very bad! She is so bad, in fact, that she kills her rich sister to get her money.
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Games 1967 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Curtis Harrington
Cast: Simone Signoret, James Caan, Katharine Ross, Don Stroud, Estelle Winwood, Kent Smith, Marjorie Bennett, Ian Wolfe, Peter Brocco, Anthony Eustrel
Enjoying games as a big part of their marriage turns tragic for Paul (James Caan) and Jennifer (Katharine Ross) when their friend Norman (Don Stroud) is killed as a result of one of their practical jokes.
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The Magic Sword 1962 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Bert I. Gordon
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Anne Helm, Estelle Winwood, Gary Lockwood, Liam Sullivan, John Mauldin, Vampira, Angelo Rossitto, Richard Kiel, Leroy Johnson
Wizard Lodac (Basil Rathbone) places spells on Princess Helene (Anne Helm), but a gallant knight, St. George (Gary Lockwood), comes to her rescue.
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 The Misfits 1961 N/R, 124 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Huston
Cast: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach, Kevin McCarthy, James Barton, Estelle Winwood, Denis Shaw, Marietta Tree
A new divorcee, Roslyn Tabor (Marilyn Monroe), befriends some cowboys and falls in love with one of them–Gay Langland (Clark Gable)–in this story written by Monroe's husband, Arthur Miller. Gable's and Monroe's last film.
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The Notorious Landlady 1962 N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Comedy / Mystery
Director: Richard Quine
Cast: Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Fred Astaire, Lionel Jeffries, Estelle Winwood, Dick Crockett, Maxwell Reed, Henry Daniell, Doris Lloyd, Philippa Bevans, Ronald Long, Richard Peel, Anthony Eustrel, James Logan, Tudor Owen
William Gridley (Jack Lemmon) is an American diplomat who arrives in London and is asked by his boss, American Ambassador Franklyn Ambruster (Fred Astaire), to help clear the name of William's beautiful landlady, Carley Hardwicke (Kim Novak). Rumors fly that Carley has murdered her husband Miles (Maxwell Reed), and then Miles shows up alive–only to be killed by Carley in a fight over stolen jewels. Carley escapes, but a helicopter rescue and a chase to obtain the jewels lie in wait.
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 The Producers 1968  N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mel Brooks
Cast: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Dick Shawn, Lee Meredith, Christopher Hewett, Estelle Winwood, Renee Taylor, Frank Campanella, Andreas Voutsinas, David Patch, William Hickey, Barney Martin, Shimen Ruskin, Josip Elic
Mel Brooks won the Oscar for Best Screenplay in this film about two characters, Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) and Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder), who con people into investing in a non-existent Broadway show: "Springtime for Hitler." Wilder received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. 2 User Reviews
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| | Parts of this are the funniest movie ever made | 1fatts 03/27/2007 | Mel Brooks is a cannon on the loose. It is his strength and his weakness. The 2000-year-old man sketches with Carl Reiner are classic for Brooks' unpredictable leaps from political humor to burlesque inuendo to bizarre non-sequitur. At his best, he can take your breath away. At his worst, he is a runaway train.
Stand-up comedy benefits most from this kind of wildness; movies suffer most. Movies need plot and structure and discipline.
Brooks' best film, as a work of cinema, is probably Young Frankenstein because Gene Wilder shared writing credit and imposed some order which Mel Brooks simply cannot supply -- see all the shotgun "sometimes the magic works and sometimes it doesn't" humor of "Robin Hood - Men in Tights", "Spaceballs", et al.
But even in a movie that is all over the map (they pretty much run out of central joke and plot in The Producers after the play is a hit), there are a half a dozen scenes that are perhaps the funniest stuff every put on film. Brooks' writing is certainly a major factor, and the other is the casting. Only Zero Mostel was Zero Mostel. He was a life force, a stampede, a landslide. He defined this role . . . and Tevye in Fiddler . . . and Pseudolus in "Funny Thing Happened. . . " Other people may have played his roles, but they were never near the standared. His Max Biolystock is incomparable. His teaming with the young, intensely neurotic Leo Bloom (Wilder), the outrageous Hold Me Touch Me (Estelle Winwood), Kenneth Mars' Nazi, Christopher Hewitt's gay director ("Max, he's wearing a dress."), etc. are the best scenes Brooks has every directed, the funniest filmwork he has ever done.
The first twenty minutes of the film are incomparable. I forgive Brooks all the dead ends and ramblings that may go on elsewhere. I take it as the price we have to pay to be allowed into the near-perfection of the scenes that work.
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| | Outstanding | Googleeyes 03/01/2007 | | One of Mel Brooks finest achievements, maybe the best of his achievements. |
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Quality Street 1937 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Franchot Tone, Eric Blore, Fay Bainter, Bonita Granville, Joan Fontaine, Cora Witherspoon, Estelle Winwood, Florence Lake, Helena Grant
This is a good film adaptation of a James Barrie play about Phoebe Throssel (Katharine Hepburn) who pretends to be her own niece in an effort to regain the love of a man who has been absent from her life for 10 years.
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The Swan 1956 N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Vidor
Cast: Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness, Louis Jourdan, Agnes Moorehead, Jessie Royce Landis, Brian Aherne, Leo G. Carroll, Estelle Winwood, Robert Coote, Doris Lloyd
Set in 1910's Hungary, Princess Alexandra (Grace Kelly) finds herself falling in love with Dr. Nicholas Agi (Louis Jourdan) although she is promised in marriage to Prince Albert (Alec Guinness).
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This Happy Feeling 1958 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Curt Jurgens, John Saxon, Alexis Smith, Mary Astor, Estelle Winwood, Hayden Rorke, Troy Donahue, Gloria Holden, Alex Gerry
Young Janet Blake (Debbie Reynolds) has a crush on an older man, Preston Mitchell (Curt Jurgens), while neighbor Bill Tremaine (John Saxon) pines for her attentions.
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| 1. Alive and Kicking (1958)
2. Cabinet of Caligari (1962)
3. Camelot (1967)
4. Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)
5. Dead Ringer (1964)
6. Games (1967)
7. The Glass Slipper (1955)
8. The Magic Sword (1962)
9. The Misfits (1961)
10. The Notorious Landlady (1962)
11. The Producers (1968)
12. Quality Street (1937)
13. The Swan (1956)
14. This Happy Feeling (1958)
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