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The Blues Brothers
(1980)
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John Landis
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John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, John Candy, Ray Charles, Carrie Fisher
Expanding on their Saturday Night Live characters, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd star as Jake and Elwood Blues, two white boys with black soul. Sporting cool shades and look-alike suits, Jake and Elwood are dispatched on a "mission from God" by their former teacher, Sister Mary Stigmata (Kathleen Freeman). Said mission is to raise $5000 to save an ...
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Going My Way
(1944)
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directed by
Leo McCarey
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Bing Crosby, Rise Stevens, Barry Fitzgerald, Gene Lockhart, Frank McHugh, James Brown
It took some doing to persuade the staunchly Catholic Bing Crosby to play a happy-go-lucky priest in Going My Way; luckily he acquiesced, winning an Academy Award in the process. Crosby is cast as Father Chuck O'Malley, newly arrived at rundown, heavily in debt St. Dominic's Church. Father Fitzgibbon (Barry Fitzgerald), the cranky, set-in-his-ways ...
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The Mercenaries
(1968)
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directed by
Jack Cardiff
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Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, James Brown, Kenneth More
Curry (Rod Taylor) is a veteran soldier-of-fortune hired by the president of the Congo for a three day mission. He and native Congoan Ruffo (Jim Brown) are to oversee the safe passage of a train through hostile enemy territory and bring back some uncut diamonds and a human cargo of fugitives loyal to the Congo cause. The two employ the drunken ...
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Objective, Burma!
(1945)
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directed by
Raoul Walsh
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Errol Flynn, Henry Hull, William Prince, James Brown, George Tobias
A few corny moments aside, Objective Burma must rate as one of the best combat films of WW2. Errol Flynn stars as Captain Nelson, who leads a hardy band of paratroopers behind enemy lines in Burma, for the purpose of destroying a Japanese radar station. Their mission accomplished, Nelson and his men prepare to make their escape by plane, but this ...
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When We Were Kings
(1996)
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directed by
Leon Gast
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Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, James Brown, B.B. King, Norman Mailer
In 1974, boxers Muhammad Ali and George Foreman came to the still-emerging and politically unstable African nation of Zaire for what Ali called the "Rumble in the Jungle," a highly publicized world heavyweight championship fight. Documentarian Leon Gast flew to Zaire to film both the fight and a music festival (featuring B.B. King, The Pointer ...
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Montana
(1950)
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directed by
Ray Enright
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Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Douglas Kennedy, James Brown
Unlike his earlier Warner Bros. westerns, Errol Flynn's Montana was strictly a programmer, inexpensively produced and modestly promoted. Flynn plays Morgan Lane, an Australian sheepherder who arrives in the middle of Montana's cattle country. He faces opposition from wealthy cattle rancher Maria Singleton (Alexis Smith), not to mention several ...
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Targets
(1968)
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Peter Bogdanovich
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Boris Karloff, Tim O'Kelly, Nancy Hsueh, James Brown, Sandy Baron
Together with Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and John Singleton's Boyz 'n the Hood, director Peter Bogdanovich's Targets is among the most impressive first features ever made. When Bogdanovich's cinematic mentor Roger Corman suggested that Bogdanovich might want to make his directorial debut, he offered to "donate" 20 minutes' worth of footage of the ...
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Live Forever
(2003)
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directed by
John Dower
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Damon Albarn, Ozwald Boateng, James Brown, Jarvis Cocker, Kevin Cummins
Documentarian John Dower turns his attention toward the 1990s British musical movement dubbed Brit-pop in his 2003 film, Live Forever. Going back to an early 1990 concert by the now-defunct band the Stone Roses, Dower traces the roots of the Brit-pop movement as originating from Britain's simultaneously discontented and disenfranchised youth, a ...
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James Brown: Soul Survivor
(2003)
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directed by
Jeremy Marre
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James Brown
James Brown: Soul Survivor spans more than four decades of the one and only Godfather of Soul, documenting the rise and fall of the "hardest working man in show business." Through archival footage, excerpts read from his biography, and interviews with the people closest to the man, you get an inside look at the music and political times which ...
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Chain Lightning
(1950)
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directed by
Stuart Heisler
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Humphrey Bogart, Eleanor Parker, Raymond Massey, Richard Whorf, James Brown
This second-echelon Humphrey Bogart vehicle casts Bogie as a bomber pilot who becomes a free-lance flyboy after the war. Eleanor Parker, Bogart's wartime love, is now the secretary of aircraft manufacturer Raymond Massey. Partly out of an effort to link up with Parker again, Bogart signs on as a test pilot for Massey's firm. Richard Whorf, Massey ...
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The Fireball
(1950)
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directed by
Tay Garnett
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Mickey Rooney, Pat O'Brien, Beverly Tyler, James Brown, Marilyn Monroe
Mickey Rooney is The Fireball in this independently produced sports film. The sport in this case is roller-skating, which was enjoying a resurgence of popularity in 1950 thanks to the various "Roller Derby" telecasts. Rooney plays Johnny Cesar, an orphan kid who rises to fame and fortune on the basis of his skill on skates. As his popularity grows ...
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The Groom Wore Spurs
(1951)
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directed by
Richard Whorf
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Ginger Rogers, Jack Carson, Joan Davis, Stanley Ridges, James Brown
Since someone had already used the title The Bride Wore Boots, it follows that there'd eventually be a film called The Groom Wore Spurs. Jack Carson stars as movie cowboy hero Ben Castle, who in "real life" is exactly the opposite of his screen image. When Castle gets into a scrape in Las Vegas, he is bailed out by lady lawyer Abigail Furnival ...
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James Brown: Get Up I Feel Like Being A [Sex Machine]
(2004)
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The brief performance film James Brown: Get Up I Feel Like Being a (Sex Machine) interweaves five hyper-charged numbers from the "Godfather of Soul," culled from live, electrifying in-concert performance footage. The tunes on this release include: the title track, "I Got You (I Feel Good)", "I Got the Feeling," "Gonna Have a Funky Good Time," and ...
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American Soul, Vol. 2
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James Brown: Live
(2007)
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James Brown: Live at the Boston Garden - April 5, 1968
(1968)
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The day after Martin Luther King Jr. died from an assassin's bullet, the legendary soul singer James Brown performed a live televised concert in Boston in the hopes that he could alleviate the racial tension. This release contains that entire performance which included renditions of "Kansas City," "Get It Together," "I Got You (I Feel Good)," and ...
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