Brian Abbott


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Nitwits, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) You Opened My Eyes George Stevens with a clever opening, directing his third feature and his second Wheeler & Woolsey vehicle, with a song introduced by Joey Ray, Joan Andrews also singing, the tune by Felix Bernard and L. Wolfe Gilbert, Donald Kerr the lackey, Hale Hamilton the music company boss, and the stars, Bert and Robert, running the cigar shop (Betty Grable in the photo!), in The Nitwits, 1935.
Cooley High (1975) -- (Movie Clip) Y'all Need To Go To Church After school Preach (Glynn Turman) in a dice game with Stone and Robert (recruited Chicago gang members Rick Stone and Norman Gibson, in their first scene), joined by Cochise (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs), the bothered Brenda (Cynthia Davis) and proprietor Martha (Juanita McConnell), Michael Schultz directing from Eric Monte's original screenplay, in Cooley High, 1975.
River Runs Through It, A (1992) -- (Movie Clip) The Body Fuels The Mind 1926, returning to Montana after six years at Dartmouth, Norman Maclean (Craig Sheffer) with his minister father (Tom Skerritt), then brother Paul (Brad Pitt), now a reporter in Helena, in director Robert Redford’s A River Runs Through It, 1992, from Maclean’s semi-autobiographical novella.
River Runs Through It, A (1992) -- (Movie Clip) Just The Macleans Montana, 1918, Maclean brothers Norman and Paul (Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt) prove more daring than pals (Michael Cudlitz, Rob Cox, Buck Simmonds) and “shoot the shoots” of the Blackfoot River, in A River Runs Through It, 1992, Robert Redford directing from Norman Maclean’s novella.
River Runs Through It, A (1992) -- (Movie Clip) Let The Fireworks Begin Home to Missoula, Montana in 1926, Dartmouth grad Norman Maclean (Craig Sheffer) inquires with Chub (Michael Cudlitz) about the striking Jesse Burns (Emily Lloyd), later discussing a then-new tune by Mort Dixon and Ray Henderson, in Robert Redford’s A River Runs Through It, 1992.
Robe, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) We The Nobles Of Rome Arresting narration from Richard Burton in his star-making role as fictional Roman tribune Gallio, tangling with a spurned (uncredited) girlfriend then meeting Christian slave Demetrius (Victor Mature), in Hollywood's first wide-screen feature, from 20th Century Fox, The Robe, 1953.
Les Carabiniers -- (Movie Clip) Letter From The King Improbable even by the writer-director's standards, two riflemen assail "Venus" and "Cleopatra," then brothers "Michelangelo" and "Ulysses" (Marino Mase, Albert Juross), who will become the principals, opening Jean-Luc Godard's Les carabiniers, shot in 1963, released in the U.S. in 1968.
Les Carabiniers -- (Movie Clip) Find A Pretty Spot Following expansive war montage footage, and having taken their first civilian prisoners, footloose soldiers Ulysses (Albert Juross) and Michelangelo (Marino Mase) encounter an officer, then seek a nice spot for an execution, in Jean-Luc Godard's Les carabiniers, 1963.

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