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Zoo Radio (1991)

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Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) -- (Movie Clip) A Cyborg?

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927) -- (Movie Clip) Contented Servitors

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Zoo Radio (1991)

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Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) -- (Movie Clip) A Cyborg? Previously-friendly Godzilla’s mysterious rampage continues at a refinery, brothers Keisuke and Masahiko (Masaaki Daimon, Kazuya Aoyama), arriving with professor Miyajima (Akihiko Hiraka, with daughter Hiromi Matsushita) who figures it out when a second monster appears, but no explanation for a dude (Goro Mutsu Mutsumi) in some command center, in Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla, 1974.

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927) -- (Movie Clip) Contented Servitors Mentioned previously but only now introduced, James Lowe as the title character, in 1856 Kentucky, trusted by his owner Shelby (Jack Mower) to handle cash while visiting Ohio, confusing his business associate Haley (Adolph Milar), and bringing a gift to his wife (Gertrude Howard), in Universal’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1927.

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927) -- (Movie Clip) He Ain't For Sale On the evening of the happy wedding of light-skinned Kentucky slaves George (Arthur Edmund Carew) and Eliza (Margarita Fisher), his owner Harris (Skipper Zeliff) shows up to take possession, resisting attempts by the Shelby’s (Jack Mower, Vivian Oakland) to buy him, early in Universal’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1927.

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927) -- (Movie Clip) The Falls Are Just Below The famous ice-floe spectacle, from the Harriet Beecher Stowe novel, fugitive slave mother Eliza (Margarita Fisher) and child flee in a winter storm to a free state, famously re-shot entirely in Hollywood after an expensive, failed shoot in upstate New York, in Universal’s multi-million dollar epic treatment of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1927.

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927) -- (Movie Clip) Sold Down The River Not the origin but one of the more famous literary uses of the phrase, James Lowe, the title character, separated in Kentucky from the benevolent Shelby (Jack Mower) and his own wife (Gertrude Howard), then on the riverboat restored by Universal Pictures, shot on location on the Mississippi, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1927.

Roller Boogie -- (Movie Clip) Open Bobby (Jim Bray) and "Phones" (Stoney Jackson) lead the kids on a jaunt through Venice Beach in the days before roller blades in the opening of Roller Boogie, 1979.

Insect Woman, The (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Winter, 1918 The altogether weird opening of the controversial early feature by director Shohei Imamura, establishing (along with the bug) the heroine's mother En (Sumie Sasaki), the confused dad Chuji (Kazuo Kitamura) the midwife (Tanie Kitabayashi), and the date, in The Insect Woman, 1963.

Insect Woman, The (1963) -- (Movie Clip) To Die For Our Country First Tome (Sachiko Hidari), in rural WWII Japan, in a scene visually and socially almost identical to an earlier one in which she was conceived, confronted by rival Kane (Emiko Higashi), then visiting her own cynical mother (Sumie Sasaki), in Shohei Imamura's The Insect Woman, 1963.

Color Of Money, The (1986) -- (Movie Clip) Luck Itself Director Martin Scorsese narrates his opening, in which Paul Newman, in his Academy Award-winning performance reprising "Fast Eddie Felson," from The Hustler, 1961, is introduced, along with Helen Shaver and John Turturro, in The Color Of Money, 1986, also starring Tom Cruise.

Roller Boogie -- (Movie Clip) Shyster Gordo (Albert Insinnia) supplies the incongruous term "Shyster" as Bobby (Jim Bray), Terry (LInda Blair) and the gang realize they need a lawyer in Roller Boogie, 1979.

Rana's Wedding (2003) -- (Movie Clip) Stories Are No Use Searching in East Jerusalem for her boyfriend, on a deadline from her father, Rana (Clara Khoury) finds by chance the address of one of his candidates for marriage, then alarms Israeli soldiers, in director Hany Abu-Assad's Rana's Wedding, 2003.

Rana's Wedding (2003) -- (Movie Clip) You Have Until Tuesday The distinctive opening sequence, introducing the protagonist (Clara Khoury), much of her family's story, and the voice of her father (Zuher Fahoum), from director Hany Abu-Assad's Rana's Wedding, 2003.

Amityville Horror, The - (Original Trailer) Newlyweds (James Brolin, Margot Kidder) discover their dream home is haunted in The Amityville Horror (1979).

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