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Repeat Performance (1947) — (Movie Clip) The Stars Look Down

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The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas - Publicity Stills

Here are a few Publicity Stills from The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas (1982), starring Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton. Publicity stills were specially-posed photos, usually taken off the set, for purposes of publicity or reference for promotional artwork.

The Loved One - Lobby Card Set

Here is a set of Lobby Cards from The Loved One (1965). Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

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Repeat Performance (1947) — (Movie Clip) The Stars Look Down John Ireland’s narration from the novel by William O’Farrell, schticky city-scape yields quickly to Joan Leslie in trouble, then into a becoming mink, and a New Year’s celebration where she meets partying Richard Basehart as William, Virginia Field as Paula, Benay Venuta as Bess, in the long underrated Noir Repeat Performance, 1947.

Repeat Performance (1947) — (Movie Clip) At The City Morgue Baffled because she’s jumped from New Year’s Eve 1946 when she shot and killed her husband, back in time to the previous year, Joan Leslie as actress Sheila is greatly relieved to find him (Louis Hayward in his first scene as playwright Barney) alive, affectionate and sober, in director Alfred Werker’s Noir Repeat Performance, 1947.

Repeat Performance (1947) — (Movie Clip) People Do Live Things Over We have reason to infer that William (Richard Basehart) may be lover as well as friend to actress Sheila (Joan Leslie) to whom she’s just confessed, at a New Year’s party, to killing her husband, prompting them to visit her intrepid producer Friday (Tom Conway) when things get metaphysical, John Ireland narrating, in Repeat Performance, 1947.

Wings Of Desire (1987) -- (Movie Clip) Open, When The Child Was A Child Spoken by Bruno Ganz as an angel called Damiel, composed by screenwriter Peter Handke and director Wim Wenders, the words are original though they suggest 1: Corinthians 13, the otherwise ethereal opening to the international hit Wings Of Desire, 1987, (the German title closer to Heaven Over Berlin), soaring over the then-divided city.

Wings Of Desire (1987) -- (Movie Clip) Less Effort, More Swing Now roaming West Berlin, angel Damiel (Bruno Ganz), who’s expressed broad discontent to a colleague, happens on a circus where Marion (Solveig Danmartin) is practicing, her first scene, in director Wim Wenders’ celebrated Wings Of Desire, 1987.

Wings Of Desire (1987) -- (Movie Clip) If Grandma Was Here Cutting from a plane over Berlin, another look at Bruno Ganz as (invisible) angel Damiel, as he sees and hears the thoughts of Peter Falk on board, sort-of playing himself, his narration mostly extemporized, after the shoot, in an L-A sound booth, guided by director Wim Wenders back in Germany, then observes other Berliners, early in Wings Of Desire, 1987.

Alice In The Cities (1974) -- (Movie Clip) Terrible Thing To Waste From the early, solo section of the trip, German freelance author Philip (Rudiger Vogler) making his way from southeast toward New York, where he'll meet the title character, with a visit from Henry Fonda in Young Mr. Lincoln, 1939, in Wim Wenders' Alice In The Cities, 1974.

Alice In The Cities (1974) -- (Movie Clip) She'll Join Us In Amsterdam Newly acquainted German travelers Philip (Rudiger Vogler) and Alice (Yella Rottlander) in Manhattan en route to meet her mother at the Empire State Building, which doesn't work out, thus launching their European journey, in Wim Wenders' Alice In The Cities, 1974.

Alice In The Cities (1974) -- (Movie Clip) What Does He Want From Us? Wim Wenders directs his protagonist, wandering German author Philip (Rudiger Vogler), to a Manhattan airline office, where he learns that the air traffic control strike back home is a problem, and meets Alice (Yella Rottlander) and Lisa (Elisabeth Kreuzer), in Alice In The Cities, 1974.

Nine To Five (1980) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Title Song Dolly Parton’s smash hit composition and recording opens director and co-writer Colin Higgins comedy hit, starring Parton, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dabney Coleman, with Jane and Lily briefly introduced, Tom Tarpey the office manager, in Nine To Five, from a story by Patricia Resnick.

Nine To Five (1980) -- (Movie Clip) I Got A Little Carried Away Sex-driven boss Franklin Hart (Dabney Coleman) plots an encounter with his personal secretary Doralee (country music superstar Dolly Parton, who wrote and performed the hit title song, in her first movie role), early in director Colin Higgins’ Nine To Five. 1980, co-starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.

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.

Foul Play (1978) -- (Original Trailer) Original trailer for the San Francisco action-comedy and the movie debut for Saturday Night Live sensation Chevy Chase, also starring Goldie Hawn and featuring Dudley Moore, from writer-director Colin Higgins, Foul Play, 1978,

Wings of Desire - (Original Trailer) An angel of death (Bruno Ganz) gives up his wings for love. Co-starring Peter Falk and directed by Wim Wenders.

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