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Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975) -- (Movie Clip) This We Do For Pleasure

Sparkle (1976) -- (Movie Clip) She's Bustin' At The Seams

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Licence to Kill (1989)

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Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975) -- (Movie Clip) This We Do For Pleasure In Victoria, Australia, on Valentine's Day, 1900, Mrs. Appleyard (Rachel Roberts) dispatches students in the care of driver Hussey (Martin Vaughan), Miss McCraw (Vivean Gray) and Mlle. De Portiers (Helen Morse) for the fateful event, in Peter Weir's Picnic At Hanging Rock, 1975.

Sparkle (1976) -- (Movie Clip) She's Bustin' At The Seams Neat two opening scenes, introducing Phillip Michael Thomas and Dorian Harewood on the front steps, with Lonette McKee, Irene Cara and Dwan Smith as “Sister,” Sparkle and Delores, Mary Alice their mom, Beatrice Winde the neighbor, Sam O’Steen directing, in the cult hit (re-made by Whitney Houston in 2012), Sparkle, 1976.

Sparkle (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Hooked On Your Love Among the reasons for buzz about Lonette McKee, singing the lead as eldest sister “Sister,” backed up by 16 year-old Irene Cara (title character) and Dwan Smith (as Delores), with a Curtis Mayfield original, certainly more in the contemporary style than that of the setting, Harlem ca. 1958, in the fictional show-biz drama Sparkle, 1976.

Sparkle (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Jump (Curtis Mayfield Composition) The first musical number, an original from Curtis Mayfield, not to be confused with the Pointer Sisters’ 1984 hit, the fictional Williams sisters (Lonette McKee, Irene Cara and Dwan Smith), with Philip Michael Thomas and Dorian Harewood, all doing their own vocals, performing at a Harlem amateur show, in Sparkle, 1976.

Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel With The World (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Courage Is The Virtue Shirley Clarke directs, in what is credited as “A Film By Robert Hughes and Charlotte Zwerin,” opening the TV documentary made for WGBH Boston, introducing the poet Robert Frost, released in the year he died, Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel With The World, 1963.

Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel -- (Movie Clip) Hell Is A Half-Filled Auditorium From an address by president John F. Kennedy about Robert Frost, to whom he next presents a Congressional Gold Medal, and coverage of Frost on tour “saying” his poems, as he liked to call it, in director Shirley Clarke’s Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel With The World, 1963.

Unsuspected, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Attractive Young Secretary The opening, in which Claude Rains, as radio star Grandison, might be the guy upside-down in the reflection, as we briefly meet his secretary (Barbara Woodell), his niece (Audrey Totter) and his over-dressed producer (Constance Bennett), Michael Curtiz directing in high Noir style, in The Unsuspected, 1947.

Unsuspected, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Sure I'd Remember Radio mystery host Victor Grandison (Claude Rains) counsels his neice Matilda (Joan Caulfield), thought dead but now returned from Brazil, who's come home to a husband she doesn't remember marrying, in director Michael Curtiz's The Unsuspected, 1947.

Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975) -- (Movie Clip) Miranda Is A Botticelli Angel Victoria, Australia, 1900, well into the afternoon, watches stop and Miranda (Anne Louise Lambert) leads friends (Karen Robson, Jane Vallis, Christine Schuler) on a trek, Mlle. De Portiers (Helen Morse) commenting, in Peter Weir's Picnic At Hanging Rock, 1975.

Agatha (1979) -- (Movie Clip) This Isn't Quite Cricket In the spa town of Harrogate, Yorkshire. 1926, American reporter Stanton (Dustin Hoffman), using a false identity, realizes Vanessa Redgrave must be the officially missing author Agatha Christie, approaching her without giving away the game, in Michael Apted’s speculative drama Agatha, 1979.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) -- (Movie Clip) Getting Things Off Your Chest McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) joins group session on the psych ward, Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) leading, Brad Dourif, Danny DeVito, William Redfield, Christopher Lloyd and Sydney Lassick as “Cheswick” among the inmates, in Milos Forman’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, 1975.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) -- (Movie Clip) You All Crazy? With assist from the Chief (Will Sampson), McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) grabs a bus and leads fellow mental patients (Danny DeVito, Brad Dourif, William Redfield, Vincent Schiavelli et al) on a breakout, picking up Candy (Marya Small), in Milos Forman’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, 1975.

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