To Have and Have Not is a romantic thriller war adventure film based on a novel by Ernest Hemingway. To Have and Have Not, a Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall starrer, was released in 1944. To Have and Have Not is notable for the on screen chemistry of Bogart and Bacall. And the equation was later used in some other films and one of such films was The Big Sleep
To Have and Have Not is set in the exotic backdrop of Martinique under the Vichy regime. Here the world-weary fishing boat captain Harry 'Steve' Morgan played by Humphrey Bogart arrived and was asked to help the French Resistance in smuggling some people onto the island. He could not make up his mind until and unless, the person, trying to hire his boat was shot accidentally. He was so depressed to realize that he would not be able to recover the money he had owed, that he joined hands with the French resistance and ended up in smuggling a wife and a husband to Martinique. Gradually, Harry fell for Marie 'Slim' Browning, played by Lauren Bacall, a pickpocket from America who came to the island. Through the movie, Harry supports Eddie, his buddy, a drunkard and stumbles from scene to scene with the lover duo. There are some beautiful tracks in To Have and Have Not. Bacall sang "How Little We Know" by Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer. Another Carmichael song, "Hong Kong Blues”, was also used. Incidentally, Carmichael had a role in the film as well. He was Cricket, the piano player in the film. There was another song in the film called "Am I Blue?” The song was penned by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke.
To Have and Have Not is the debut movie of Lauren Bacall who was then only 19. Howard Hawks's wife had found him from front cover of Harper's Bazaar. When she showed her to her husband, he promptly signed the contract with her. During the shooting, Bogart became romantically involved with the debutant actress and the hawks did not like it at all. The affair ended up in marriage, which signified the first marriage of Bacall and the end of Bogart marriage with Mayo Methot. In the novel, the plot was based in Key West, which was shifted to Martinique in the film. Hawks appointed William Faulkner, an archrival of Hemingway, for the screenplay. To use the on screen chemistry between Bogart and Bacall, the role of Slim was extended in the film. There was a rumor related to the making of the film. Hawks and Hemingway used to be best pals. It was said that there was a bet between Hawks and Hemingway and Hawks bet Hemingway that he could turn his worst book into a great film. Wikipedia
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Festen
The movie Festen was made in the year 1998 with the story of the movie being penned by the writer Thomas Vinterberg along with the screenplay. The movie was released on June 19th in the year 1998 at Denmark and the movie was also released at several other places like Sweden and Norway, in the same year.
A Special screening of the movie was done at the Cannes Film Festival as well as at the Montreal Film Festival, as also the prominent film festivals like the New York Film Festival.Basically the genre of the movie is drama which is very much reflected in the tagline that goes with the movie, which is Every Family Has a Secret. The cast of the movie is quite interesting as it consists of such prominent names such as Ulrich Thomsen who played the part of Christian Klingenfeldt as well as Henning Moritzen who played the part of Faderen or Father Helge Klingenfeldt-Hansen. Thomas Bo Larsen played the part of Michael and Paprika Steen who is oft remembered for playing the part of Helene. The part of Moderen/ Mother was played by Birthe Neumann. The movie Festen is also known as The Celebration in UK as well as in USA, and comes with the series title Dogme#1-Festen in Denmark while it is also known as Dogme 1. The movie have been rated R for having the over dosage of sexual content and the frequent usage of the sexual abusive words. The total runtime of the movie is a hundred and five minutes. While the movie has been filmed at such locations of Skjoldnaesholm, Jystrup Midtsj as well as in Denmark, the worldwide distribution of the movie has been done by the Danmarks Radio.
The movie Festen revolves around the father of the family turning sixty years of age. Being the head of a big family, the celebrations of his family begin at a castle, where every member of the family assembles to the turn the affair in to a social event. But the question is now put before the viewers, which whether the family members actually adore their father, or do they simply make a sham of everything that they apparently do for their father. The younger son of the family has been trying to fulfill his father’s aspirations regarding him. He is engaged as the owner of a grill bar that is located at a not so clean area of Copenhagen in Denmark. The older son of the family is the owner of a restaurant at France, while his sister is occupied as a lawyer. But the sad part of the movie is that the older sister in the family had been such tormented that she had to take away her own life. At the birthday celebration, the father now asks the older brother in the family to say a few words about the deceased sister on the occasion. Two colored speeches – one yellow and a green one are rendered on the occasion, of which the father chooses the Green speech (The speech of Truth). At this hour of sad remembrance, the father now anticipates that the cause of her daughter committing suicide might fall out before everybody.Imdb
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A Special screening of the movie was done at the Cannes Film Festival as well as at the Montreal Film Festival, as also the prominent film festivals like the New York Film Festival.Basically the genre of the movie is drama which is very much reflected in the tagline that goes with the movie, which is Every Family Has a Secret. The cast of the movie is quite interesting as it consists of such prominent names such as Ulrich Thomsen who played the part of Christian Klingenfeldt as well as Henning Moritzen who played the part of Faderen or Father Helge Klingenfeldt-Hansen. Thomas Bo Larsen played the part of Michael and Paprika Steen who is oft remembered for playing the part of Helene. The part of Moderen/ Mother was played by Birthe Neumann. The movie Festen is also known as The Celebration in UK as well as in USA, and comes with the series title Dogme#1-Festen in Denmark while it is also known as Dogme 1. The movie have been rated R for having the over dosage of sexual content and the frequent usage of the sexual abusive words. The total runtime of the movie is a hundred and five minutes. While the movie has been filmed at such locations of Skjoldnaesholm, Jystrup Midtsj as well as in Denmark, the worldwide distribution of the movie has been done by the Danmarks Radio.
The movie Festen revolves around the father of the family turning sixty years of age. Being the head of a big family, the celebrations of his family begin at a castle, where every member of the family assembles to the turn the affair in to a social event. But the question is now put before the viewers, which whether the family members actually adore their father, or do they simply make a sham of everything that they apparently do for their father. The younger son of the family has been trying to fulfill his father’s aspirations regarding him. He is engaged as the owner of a grill bar that is located at a not so clean area of Copenhagen in Denmark. The older son of the family is the owner of a restaurant at France, while his sister is occupied as a lawyer. But the sad part of the movie is that the older sister in the family had been such tormented that she had to take away her own life. At the birthday celebration, the father now asks the older brother in the family to say a few words about the deceased sister on the occasion. Two colored speeches – one yellow and a green one are rendered on the occasion, of which the father chooses the Green speech (The speech of Truth). At this hour of sad remembrance, the father now anticipates that the cause of her daughter committing suicide might fall out before everybody.Imdb
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Independence Day
The movie Independence Day was made in the year 1996, by the director Roland Emmerich. The writers of the story of the movie Independence Day were Dean Devlin and also Roland Emmerich.
The movie is basically a sci-fi thriller action based movie which was released on June in the year 1996 in the United States of America. It was here that a special screening of the movie was done at a place called Westwood in California through a premiere. Not only in English, but the action thriller Independence Day was also released in several other languages. Some of these were in the different nations of Brazil and Spain and also at some other nations of Russia, Hungary, Slovenia, and Portugal and also in Poland. The movie was made so brilliantly, that it went to win an Oscar Award along with twenty six other wins and 21 nominations at different award programs. In the movie Independence Day, memorable performances were rendered by the prominent Hollywood stars. Some of them were the stalwarts inn acting such as will Smith who performed as Captain Steven Hiller as also Bill Pullman, who acted as the President Thomas J. Whitmore. There were other prominent portrayals in the movie, comprising of Jeff Goldblum for playing the part of David Levinson. There were other prominent actors such as Mary McDonnell who acted as the US First lady Marilyn Whitmore as well as Judd Hirsch, who played the role of Julius Levinson.
The movie is very well known for its content of sci-fi destruction and violence. The total run time of the movie is about a hundred and forty five minutes and the sound mixing of the movie is done for near about seventy millimeters. The film was shot at the different locations of the second Street Tunnel, at Downtown and at Los Angeles in California in the United States of America. The movie was distributed through out the world by the Twentieth Century fox release. The communications system across the world suffers a strange chaos in the atmosphere. It becomes known that the surface of the earth is going to get collided with numerous objects of the outer world. The external objects were at first thought to be meteors which later turn out to be gigantic spacecrafts. David Levinson, an ex scientist turns into a cable technician. It is he who finds out that the aliens are going to launch sudden attacks at certain parts of the earth. It is on July 3rd that the aliens lodge their attacks on the different venues of New York, Los Angeles as well as in Washington. The survivors of the attack now head towards Area 51 in armed convoys, and a fight for freedom is waged, to get back independence on July 4th, which is their Independence Day.Imdb
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The movie is basically a sci-fi thriller action based movie which was released on June in the year 1996 in the United States of America. It was here that a special screening of the movie was done at a place called Westwood in California through a premiere. Not only in English, but the action thriller Independence Day was also released in several other languages. Some of these were in the different nations of Brazil and Spain and also at some other nations of Russia, Hungary, Slovenia, and Portugal and also in Poland. The movie was made so brilliantly, that it went to win an Oscar Award along with twenty six other wins and 21 nominations at different award programs. In the movie Independence Day, memorable performances were rendered by the prominent Hollywood stars. Some of them were the stalwarts inn acting such as will Smith who performed as Captain Steven Hiller as also Bill Pullman, who acted as the President Thomas J. Whitmore. There were other prominent portrayals in the movie, comprising of Jeff Goldblum for playing the part of David Levinson. There were other prominent actors such as Mary McDonnell who acted as the US First lady Marilyn Whitmore as well as Judd Hirsch, who played the role of Julius Levinson.
The movie is very well known for its content of sci-fi destruction and violence. The total run time of the movie is about a hundred and forty five minutes and the sound mixing of the movie is done for near about seventy millimeters. The film was shot at the different locations of the second Street Tunnel, at Downtown and at Los Angeles in California in the United States of America. The movie was distributed through out the world by the Twentieth Century fox release. The communications system across the world suffers a strange chaos in the atmosphere. It becomes known that the surface of the earth is going to get collided with numerous objects of the outer world. The external objects were at first thought to be meteors which later turn out to be gigantic spacecrafts. David Levinson, an ex scientist turns into a cable technician. It is he who finds out that the aliens are going to launch sudden attacks at certain parts of the earth. It is on July 3rd that the aliens lodge their attacks on the different venues of New York, Los Angeles as well as in Washington. The survivors of the attack now head towards Area 51 in armed convoys, and a fight for freedom is waged, to get back independence on July 4th, which is their Independence Day.Imdb
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Indecent Proposal
The movie Indecent Proposal was made in the year 1993 by the director Adrian Lyne. The writers of the movie were Amy Holden Jones who did the screenplay of the movie while the original novel was penned by Jack Engelhard.
The movie was released in the United States in the year 1993 on Seventh April. Though the movie Indecent Proposal became very popular in English, the movie was also made in some other languages to be viewed across Canada, France, Brazil, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Poland, Slovenia and others. The cast of the movie comprised of the actors like Robert Redford who performed as John Gage, Demi Moore the star performer of Hollywood who performed as Diana Murphy, Woody Harrelson who acted as David Murphy in the movie, and Seymour Cassel who acted as Mr. Shackle ford and there was Oliver Platt who performed as Jeremy. The total runtime of the movie comprised of a hundred and seventeen minutes, while the movie was filmed at the different locations of Benihana village, the Las Vegas as well as in certain parts of Nevada of the United States of America. The world wide distribution of the movie was done by the Paramount Pictures.
The story of the movie revolves around a couple who are very much in love. But being in love does not mean that they are estranged from the outer world. They have to remain professionally inclined yet they were very much concerned about each other. While the lady is a real estate broker, the man of the story is an architect. The lady in the movie has a special dream concerning her dream house, as well her plans regarding it. Both the partners now try to procure a loan in order to finance for their dream home. At this time a sudden slump occurs on the economy. Both of them are left penniless because of this recession and begin to lose everything what ever they used to possess. Now they plan to move to Las Vegas in order to repossess whatever they have lost during the process of recession. But they went to lose out everything at the gambling table. It is at this instance that they are offered a million dollars by a millionaire, in order to pull them out of their distress. But in lieu of this offer, he asks the man to lend his wife for a night. This indecent proposal from the millionaire’s part leads the couple in some more difficulties. It seems that this turn of events make the bonding between the two partners stronger along with the renewal of their relationship. No financial distress could make the feelings of each other die out, not even the ‘Indecent Proposal’. Imdb
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The movie was released in the United States in the year 1993 on Seventh April. Though the movie Indecent Proposal became very popular in English, the movie was also made in some other languages to be viewed across Canada, France, Brazil, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Poland, Slovenia and others. The cast of the movie comprised of the actors like Robert Redford who performed as John Gage, Demi Moore the star performer of Hollywood who performed as Diana Murphy, Woody Harrelson who acted as David Murphy in the movie, and Seymour Cassel who acted as Mr. Shackle ford and there was Oliver Platt who performed as Jeremy. The total runtime of the movie comprised of a hundred and seventeen minutes, while the movie was filmed at the different locations of Benihana village, the Las Vegas as well as in certain parts of Nevada of the United States of America. The world wide distribution of the movie was done by the Paramount Pictures.
The story of the movie revolves around a couple who are very much in love. But being in love does not mean that they are estranged from the outer world. They have to remain professionally inclined yet they were very much concerned about each other. While the lady is a real estate broker, the man of the story is an architect. The lady in the movie has a special dream concerning her dream house, as well her plans regarding it. Both the partners now try to procure a loan in order to finance for their dream home. At this time a sudden slump occurs on the economy. Both of them are left penniless because of this recession and begin to lose everything what ever they used to possess. Now they plan to move to Las Vegas in order to repossess whatever they have lost during the process of recession. But they went to lose out everything at the gambling table. It is at this instance that they are offered a million dollars by a millionaire, in order to pull them out of their distress. But in lieu of this offer, he asks the man to lend his wife for a night. This indecent proposal from the millionaire’s part leads the couple in some more difficulties. It seems that this turn of events make the bonding between the two partners stronger along with the renewal of their relationship. No financial distress could make the feelings of each other die out, not even the ‘Indecent Proposal’. Imdb
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Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade
The movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was made in the year 1989 by director Steven Spielberg. The story of Indiana Jones and the last Crusade was penned by the writers George Lucas and Philip Kaufman
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was released on May 24th in the year 1989 in the United States. A special screening of the movie was done at the Venice Film festival at Italy was done on September 9th in the year 1989. The movie was also awarded with an Oscar and went on to nominated for another seventeen awards along with four other wins at different award ceremony. The interesting cast of the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade comprised of such names of Harrison Ford who played the title role of Indiana Jones and Sean Connery who portrayed the role of Professor Henry Jones. The star cast of Indiana Jones and the last Crusade comprising of such names as Den Holm Elliott as Dr.Marcus Brody and Alison Doody who acted as Dr. Elsa Schneider in the action filled fantasy thriller. The total runtime of the movie comprised of a hundred and twenty seven minutes. Besides English the movie was also made in the different languages of German and Greek. Mainly shot at the different locales of California in the United States, the movie was distributed worldwide by the film distributors Lucas film.
The plot of the adventure flick Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade revolved around well known archaeologist and occult specialist Dr. Indiana Jones. Indiana Jones and his father form a group and set forth on expedition in search of the Holy Grail. It is discovered that the Nazis are also after the same prized possession. It is at this juncture that the two groups encounter each other, where the Nazis try to drive away the duo from their desired destination. When the Nazis, headed by Adolf Hitler could not obtain the coveted Ark of covenant, Hitler places an order over SS and Wehrmacht to get the cup of Christ which is more popular as the Holy Grail. Due to all these events that Indiana Jones is brought back into action after a well known magnate gets lost out of everybody’s site almost immediately. More interestingly, is none other than the father of Indiana Jones, Professor Henry Jones. In this war against the hordes of perils like the rats, gunmen, fire as also the waterway, Indiana Jones goes on to discover that his father is kept as a hostage at a castle at the border of Germany with Austria. In the action packed sequences Indiana Jones has to move into the Lion’s Den in order to recuperate the Holy Grail, his father and his father’s diary from the Nazis. Imdb
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was released on May 24th in the year 1989 in the United States. A special screening of the movie was done at the Venice Film festival at Italy was done on September 9th in the year 1989. The movie was also awarded with an Oscar and went on to nominated for another seventeen awards along with four other wins at different award ceremony. The interesting cast of the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade comprised of such names of Harrison Ford who played the title role of Indiana Jones and Sean Connery who portrayed the role of Professor Henry Jones. The star cast of Indiana Jones and the last Crusade comprising of such names as Den Holm Elliott as Dr.Marcus Brody and Alison Doody who acted as Dr. Elsa Schneider in the action filled fantasy thriller. The total runtime of the movie comprised of a hundred and twenty seven minutes. Besides English the movie was also made in the different languages of German and Greek. Mainly shot at the different locales of California in the United States, the movie was distributed worldwide by the film distributors Lucas film.
The plot of the adventure flick Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade revolved around well known archaeologist and occult specialist Dr. Indiana Jones. Indiana Jones and his father form a group and set forth on expedition in search of the Holy Grail. It is discovered that the Nazis are also after the same prized possession. It is at this juncture that the two groups encounter each other, where the Nazis try to drive away the duo from their desired destination. When the Nazis, headed by Adolf Hitler could not obtain the coveted Ark of covenant, Hitler places an order over SS and Wehrmacht to get the cup of Christ which is more popular as the Holy Grail. Due to all these events that Indiana Jones is brought back into action after a well known magnate gets lost out of everybody’s site almost immediately. More interestingly, is none other than the father of Indiana Jones, Professor Henry Jones. In this war against the hordes of perils like the rats, gunmen, fire as also the waterway, Indiana Jones goes on to discover that his father is kept as a hostage at a castle at the border of Germany with Austria. In the action packed sequences Indiana Jones has to move into the Lion’s Den in order to recuperate the Holy Grail, his father and his father’s diary from the Nazis. Imdb
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Indiana Jones And The Temple of Doom
The movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of doom was made in the year 1984c by the well known sci-fi director Steven Spielberg. The story of the movie was penned by George Lucas while the screenplay for the movie was done by Willard Huyck.
The release date of Indiana Jones and the temple of Doom is on May 23rd in the year 1984 in the United States of America. Besides being made in English, the movie was also made in the languages Sinhala and Shanghainese. The color movie has been filmed at the different locations at the American River, the Placerville and the California in the United States of America. The movie has been incorporated to the distributors Lucas film for getting distributed through out the world. The total runtime of the movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom are near about a hundred and eighteen minutes. The interesting star cast of the action filled adventure flick includes such names as- Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, Kate Capshew as Wilhelmina ‘Willie’ Scott and Jonathan Ke Quan as Ke Huy Quan. There was also the Indian actor Amrish Puri who appeared as Mola Ram and Roshan Seth who acted as Chattar Lal. There were other actors like Philip Stone who performed as Captain Philip Blumburtt and Roy Chiao who acted as Lao Che. This movie second in the line of the Indy movies has Dr. Indiana Jones and the strange cycle of events.
Indiana Jones is an archaeologist of eminence. He is also an expert in his occult. In this movie he makes up a team with a night club singer and a twelve year old named as Short Round. In this movie they appear at an Indian Village, where the local people feel that some curse or something evil have crept in the village. It appears to them that their children had been taken away by some evil spirit, as a very sacred stone get stolen away. It is at this juncture that the help of Indiana Jones is sought by the villagers and Indiana Jones agrees to retrieve the villagers from the grasp of the evil spirit.Indiana Jones now frequents to a night club, where he happens to meet Lao Che , a Gangster by his profession, who is featured in the wanted list, in return of the ashes of a Ming dynasty emperor. Indiana Jones is however not to be relieved by the Gangster’s sons out from a trade. Indiana Jones happens to be in India, after a crash landing of an airplane happens. It is under these tensed circumstances, which Indiana gets to strike to a secret passage to a booby trapped temple and again meets something that he used to think had gone out of existence. Indiana now strives to resist the fraud campaign, recuperate the children, who were lost and win the girl and the Temple of doom. Imdb
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The release date of Indiana Jones and the temple of Doom is on May 23rd in the year 1984 in the United States of America. Besides being made in English, the movie was also made in the languages Sinhala and Shanghainese. The color movie has been filmed at the different locations at the American River, the Placerville and the California in the United States of America. The movie has been incorporated to the distributors Lucas film for getting distributed through out the world. The total runtime of the movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom are near about a hundred and eighteen minutes. The interesting star cast of the action filled adventure flick includes such names as- Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, Kate Capshew as Wilhelmina ‘Willie’ Scott and Jonathan Ke Quan as Ke Huy Quan. There was also the Indian actor Amrish Puri who appeared as Mola Ram and Roshan Seth who acted as Chattar Lal. There were other actors like Philip Stone who performed as Captain Philip Blumburtt and Roy Chiao who acted as Lao Che. This movie second in the line of the Indy movies has Dr. Indiana Jones and the strange cycle of events.
Indiana Jones is an archaeologist of eminence. He is also an expert in his occult. In this movie he makes up a team with a night club singer and a twelve year old named as Short Round. In this movie they appear at an Indian Village, where the local people feel that some curse or something evil have crept in the village. It appears to them that their children had been taken away by some evil spirit, as a very sacred stone get stolen away. It is at this juncture that the help of Indiana Jones is sought by the villagers and Indiana Jones agrees to retrieve the villagers from the grasp of the evil spirit.Indiana Jones now frequents to a night club, where he happens to meet Lao Che , a Gangster by his profession, who is featured in the wanted list, in return of the ashes of a Ming dynasty emperor. Indiana Jones is however not to be relieved by the Gangster’s sons out from a trade. Indiana Jones happens to be in India, after a crash landing of an airplane happens. It is under these tensed circumstances, which Indiana gets to strike to a secret passage to a booby trapped temple and again meets something that he used to think had gone out of existence. Indiana now strives to resist the fraud campaign, recuperate the children, who were lost and win the girl and the Temple of doom. Imdb
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