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Drunken Angel (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Think Like A Slave!

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That Splendid November (1968)

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Drunken Angel (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Think Like A Slave! First domestic scene for Takashi Shimura as the title character, inebriate Tokyo doctor Sanada, arguing with granny (Choko Iida) and scolding his assistant and friend Miyo (Chieko Nakakita) for her fear of a gangster due to be released from prison, in Akira Kurosawa’s Drunken Angel, 1948.

Drunken Angel (1948) -- (Movie Clip) There's Nothing Left To Drink Doctor Sanada (Takashi Shimura, title character) has contrived an excuse to visit his new patient, gangster Matsunaga (Toshiro Mifune) at his night club, aiming to scold him for failing to show him a damning x-ray, in grungy post-WWII Tokyo, in Kurosawa’s landmark Drunken Angel,1948.

Drunken Angel (1948) -- (Movie Clip) You Already Look Like A Ghost Staggering home in the Tokyo slums after a bad night, consumptive gangster Matsunaga (Toshiro Mifune, in his first picture for director Akira Kurosawa) tangles with snarky sometime-girlfriend Nanae (Michiyo Kogure), then meets dreaded crime boss Okada (Reizaburo Namamoto), just released from prison, in Drunken Angel, 1948.

Last Wave, The (1977) -- (Movie Clip) There's No Clouds Miss... Idyllic outback afternoon when an inexplicable storm breaks, schoolteacher (Penny Leach) scrambling to protect her charges, opening Peter Weir's supernatural-aboriginal drama The Last Wave, 1977.

Last Wave, The (1977) -- (Movie Clip) Billy Died Aboriginal legal-aid defendants (Walter Amagula, Roy Bara, Cedric Lalara, Morris Lalara) arrive to meet Sydney corporate lawyer Burton (Richard Chamberlain), who's taking their case, in Peter Weir's The Last Wave, 1977.

Soldier's Story, A (1984) -- (Movie Clip) They Still Hate You Joining director Norman Jewison’s opening, Patti LaBelle the maybe implausibly excellent vocalist in fictional Tynin, La, 1944, and Adolph Caesar the intoxicated African American Army drill sergeant whose murder forms the premise, Wings Hauser the white officer debriefing troops including Denzel Washington and Larry Riley, in A Soldier’s Story, 1984.

Soldier's Story, A (1984) -- (Movie Clip) White Folks In The Town Robert Townshend is Corporal Ellis, enthusiastic driver for Captain Davenport (Howard E Rollins), the prosecutor sent to Louisiana to investigate the murder of a black sergeant, and who must report to Colonel Nivens (Trey Wilson), who has an attitude, in A Soldier’s Story, 1984, directed by Norman Jewison from Charles Fuller’s play and screenplay.

Soldier's Story, A (1984) -- (Movie Clip) PFC Melvin Peterson Investigating the murder of Sgt. Waters (Adolph Caesar), Captain Davenport (Howard E. Rollins Jr.) deposes Private Peterson (Denzel Washington) who recalls a baseball game starring CJ (Larry Riley), in Norman Jewison's A Soldier's Story, 1984, from Charles Fuller's play and screenplay.

Soldier's Story, A (1984) -- (Movie Ciip) Crazy Kind of Hate Prosecutor Captain Davenport (Howard E. Rollins Jr.) questions Private Wilkie (Art Evans), leading into a flashback sequence further exposing the character of murder victim Sergeant Waters (Adolph Caesar) in 1944 Louisiana, in A Soldier's Story 1984.

Journey To Italy (1954) -- (Movie Clip) So Much Time Alone Roberto Rossellini directing his wife Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders who, later reports indicate, he had deliberately aimed to irritate, an English couple on the road opening the once derided, now celebrated Journey To Italy, released in 1954.

Journey To Italy (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Temple Of The Spirit Now killing time at the near-Naples villa inherited from his ex-pat uncle, disharmonious couple Alex (George Sanders) and Katherine (Ingrid Bergman, married at the time to the director) have another chilly exchange, in Roberto Rossellini's Journey To Italy, 1954.

My Life As A Dog (1987) -- (Movie Clip) It Could Have Been Worse Disjointed yet smooth, the opening to Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom's international hit My Life As A Dog, 1987, starring Anton Glazenlius, introduced here as young Ingemar, Anki Liden as his mother.

Gymkata (1985) -- (Original Trailer) Original trailer for (still) the only feature promoting the martial art here christened Gymkata, 1985, starring U.S. Olympic athlete and World Champion Kurt Thomas.

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