Michael Abbott


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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Premiere Brochure
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Our Time (1974) -- (Movie Clip) You'd Never Hurt Me, Would You? Outside the mixer for the neighboring Massachusetts prep schools, we’ve learned that Abby and Michael (Pamela Sue Martin, Parker Stevenson, later partners in TV’s Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries) shared a summer romance, with George O’Hanlon Jr. as pesky Malcolm, in Our Time, 1974.
Our Time (1974) -- (Movie Clip) The Pennington Academy Opening the teen boarding school melodrama from later-prominent director Peter Hyams, Roderick Cook the preachy headmaster, Pamela Sue Martin is Abby late to assembly, Betsy Slade her friend Muffy and Karen Balkin the prissier Laura, in Warner Bros.’ Our Time, 1974, also starring Parker Stevenson.
Lacombe, Lucien (1974) -- (Movie Clip) A Rich And Stingy Jew Having casually ingratiated himself with the local Nazi collaborators, farm-boy Pierre Blaise (title character) is introduced by Vichy youth Jean (Stephane Bouy) to the Jewish tailor (Holger Lowenadler) who gets relative safety in exchange for his services, in Louis Malle’s Lacombe, Lucien, 1974.
Lacombe, Lucien (1974) -- (Movie Clip) I Should Have Been An Actor In southwestern France, 1944, conducting regular business with the local Nazi sympathizers, Pierre Blaise (the politically indifferent title character) with Jean-Bernard (Stephane Bouy) faking an injury, tricking a vacationing doctor and his family, in Louis Malle’s Lacombe, Lucien, 1974.
Harder They Come, The -- (Movie Clip) Pressure Drop Turncoat Jose (Carl Bradshaw) is pursuing his former friend, our hero, Ivan (Jimmy Cliff) through the slums of Kingston, with Toots and the Maytals' "Pressure Drop" in the background in The Harder They Come, 1972.
Harder They Come, The (1972) -- (Movie Clip) Sweet And Dandy Country boy Ivan (Jimmy Cliff), taking work in Kingston as a delivery man, happens in on Toots and the Maytals' recording of "Sweet and Dandy," and schedules his own date with producer Hylton (Bobby Charlton) in The Harder They Come, 1972.
Back To The Future (1985) -- (Movie Clip) A Case Of Missing Plutonium The sometimes overlooked opening, filled with broad exposition, from the original screenplay by Bob Gale and director Robert Zemeckis, as presented by executive producer Steven Spielberg, star Michael J. Fox appearing just at the ending, in the hit time-travel comedy Back To The Future, 1985.
Back To The Future (1985) -- (Movie Clip) It's A Delorean Meeting his pal the freelance mad scientist “Doc” Brown (Christopher Lloyd) at the mall after midnight, high-schooler Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is surprised to see he’s really on to something, the first big special effects sequence from director Robert Zemeckis, in Back To The Future, 1985.
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Nothing But Pots Potter Genjuro (Masayuki Mori) risks his life, running to the village to check his kiln before the soldiers have left, and gets lucky, in Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu Monogatari, 1953.
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, A New Re-Fashioning Opening sequence from Kenji Mizoguchi's landmark Ugetsu Monogatari, 1953, from stories by Akinari Ueda, starring Masayuki Mori, Kasae Ozawa and Machiko Kyo.
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Ghost Of The Lake Genjuro (Masayuki Mori), Tobei (Kasae Ozawa) and their wives meet a dying traveler in the famous boat sequence from Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu Monogatari, 1953.
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Big Future Potter Genjuro (Masayuki Mori), wife Miyagi (Kinuyo Tanaka), malcontent Tobei (Kasae Ozawa) and his wife Ohama (Mitsuko Mito) are introduced in the first scene from Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu Monogatari, 1953.

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