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Paris Blues (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Take The A Train "Take The A Train" is the number with Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier pretending to play in the opening to the pretty-much all Duke Ellington jazz movie Paris Blues, 1961, directed by Martin Ritt, also starring Joanne Woodward and Diahann Carroll.
Paris Blues (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Where's The Gypsy? American jazz-men Eddie (Sidney Poitier) and Ram (Paul Newman) with three French notables, actor-director Roger Blin as "the Gypsy," a guitar player probably derived from Django Reinhardt, rising star Françoise Brion as his girlfriend and legendary actress Hélène Dieudonne as a pusher, from Paris Blues, 1961.
Paris Blues (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Wild Man Moore Jazz ex-pat Ram (Paul Newman) arrives to meet "Wild Man Moore" (Louis Armstrong) at the train and is pleased to encounter tourists Connie (Diahann Carroll) and Lillian (Joanne Woodward) in Martin Ritt's Paris Blues, 1961.
Woman Under The Influence, A -- (Movie Clip) The Palisades Caved In Writer and director John Cassavetes' improbable and fascinating opening, Peter Falk, who was the film's main financier, as "Nick," with his construction crew, taking a firm and futile stand, in A Woman Under The Influence, 1974, starring Gena Rowlands.
Woman Under The Influence, A -- (Movie Clip) Your Mother's Terribly Nervous The introduction of the title character, John Cassavetes directs his wife Gena Rolands as Mabel, with her own mother (Lady Rowlands), demonstrating what seems like undue anxiety over a date-night with her husband, early in A Woman Under The Influence, 1974.
Woman Under The Influence, A -- (Movie Clip) Here's To Everybody! From the meal after the emergency overnight shift at the home of construction crew boss Nick (Peter Falk) and Mabel (Gena Rowlands), whose dalliance after he stood her up remains her secret, in A Woman Under The Influence, 1974, written and directed by Rowlands' husband John Cassavetes.
Husbands (1970) -- (Movie Clip) Walking No Running In Manhattan, the morning after the all-night bender following a friends' funeral, Archie (Peter Falk), Harry (Ben Gazzara) and Gus (writer and director John Cassavetes) find the place they wanted to get breakfast closed, and settle for basketball, early in Husbands, 1970.
Husbands (1970) -- (Movie Clip) Lies And Tensions Director John Cassavetes uses photographs of himself with friends and co-stars Ben Gazzara and Peter Falk in his opening, including a fourth pal, played by David Rowlands, the brother of Cassavetes' wife Gena, whose funeral they attend in the first filmed scene, in Husbands, 1970.
Husbands (1970) -- (Movie Clip) Mom, Get The Knife! True domestic violence as Harry (Ben Gazzara), philosophical about his marriage after an all-nighter with friends Archie and Gus (Peter Falk and writer-director John Cassavetes), tangles with his wife and mother-in-law (Meta Shaw, Lorraine McMartin), while picking up his passport, in Husbands, 1970.

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