Nick Abdo


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System, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Going Down On Holiday? English lads Andrew Ray and Jeremy Burnham hop a train to the coast, from which they’ve just come, to snag travelers for their schemes, notably Jane Merrow, ringleader Oliver Reed at the station, song by The Searchers, in Michael Winner’s The System, a.k.a. The Girl Getters, 1964.
King's Speech, The (2010) -- (Movie Clip) It's Better If We're Equals Joining the delicate first meeting between Albert, Duke Of York (Colin Firth) and the unorthodox Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue (Australian Geoffrey Rush), at his London office, ca.1934, some liberties taken but largely accurate, in director Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech, 2010.
King's Speech, The (2010) -- (Movie Clip) Steady Red Means You're Live In director Tom Hooper’s opening, Albert, Duke of York (Colin Firth), with the duchess (Helena Bonham Carter), cued by a BBC announcer (Adrian Scarborough), having a bad time addressing the closing of the Empire Exhibition, 1925, in the Best Picture Academy Award-winning The King’s Speech, 2010.
Xala (1975) -- (Movie Clip) And Straddle A Pestle? The first two wives (Seune Samb, Younouss Seye) of the hero (Thierno Leye) chat during the preliminaries before he marries a third (Myriam Niang), her mother pushing a tribal potency practice, in Senegalese novelist and film-maker Ousmane Sembene's award-winning political comedy Xala, 1975.
Xala (1975) -- (Movie Clip) Our Indepencence Is Complete Almost cruel comedy, the Senegalese writer and director Ousmane Sembene using his native country as a nameless African state, as locals led by Kebe (Makhouredia Gueye) gently oust colonial officials, opening the internationally acclaimed Xala, 1975.
Xala (1975) -- (Movie Clip) This Box Is Full Of Gold The new local officials, bought-off by their colonial predecessors and switched to Western garb, followed by the opening credits, then the mother whose daughter will become the hero's third wife, bragging, from Senegalese writer-director Ousmane Sembene's Xala, 1975.
Two Thousand Maniacs -- (Movie Clip) Harper and Bea An injury to the inexplicably besotted Yankee girl Bea (Shelby Livingston) at the hands of homeboy Harper (Mark Douglas) is a sign of things to come in Two Thousand Maniacs, 1964.
Two Thousand Maniacs -- (Movie Clip) Horse Race Intoxicated Johnny (Jerome Eden) is separated from fellow Yankees (Yvonne Gilbert and Michael Korb) then "loses" a horse race staged by Rufe (Gary Bakeman) and Lester (Ben Moore) in Two Thousand Maniacs, 1964.

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