Takashi Asai


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Shadow On The Wall(1950) -- (Movie Clip) It's My Time To Live! Wild turns, as cheating spouse Celia (Kristine Miller), who just knocked out her husband (now-unconscious Zachary Scott) as he held a gun on her, gets lucky because her sister (Ann Sothern as Dell, whose fiancè she was cheating-with) turned up, intending one kind of confrontation, but improvising another, in Shadow On The Wall, 1950.
Shadow On The Wall (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Twice A Minute Clever-ish opening, credits, then the introduction of Gigi Perreau and Zachary Scott, both billed above the title with Ann Sothern, as father and daughter David and Susan, appearing nothing but innocent, in the little-noticed MGM Noir Shadow On The Wall, 1950, co-starring Nancy Reagan.
Shadow On The Wall (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Nobody Can Resist You New Yorker David (Zachary Scott), home from a business trip, escorts Bobby (Anthony Sydes), friend of his daughter, through the lobby when he spies his wife Celia (Kristine Miller) arriving with Crane (Tom Helmore), with whom we know she’s having an affair, though it’s his first clue, but he doesn’t let on, in MGM’s Shadow On The Wall, 1950.
Shadow On The Wall (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Black Harvest Joining the first scene for Ann Sothern as Dell, sister of the hostess, Kristine Miller as Celia, whom we know is having an affair with Ann’s fiancè Crane (Tom Helmore) which is revealed after dinner and many drinks, by husband and brother-in-law David (Zachary Scott), who’s realized their stories about that afternoon don’t match, in MGM’s Shadow On The Wall, 1950.
French Connection, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Popeye's Here! Cop Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman), with partner Russo (Roy Scheider), blows into a rough Manhattan bar with a torrent of profanity, his real aim being to divert attention away from a consultation with his informant Hector (Al Fann) in William Friedkin's The French Connection, 1971.
French Connection, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) You Like Santa Claus? Outrageous first scene for Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman) playing Santa and Cloudy Russo (Roy Scheider) posing as a hot-dog man, and chasing a suspect in Brooklyn, in William Friedkin's The French Connection, 1971.
Badge 373 -- (Movie Clip) Independencia! Fine Manhattan shots as suspended cop Eddie (Robert Duvall) trails a suspect to a Puerto Rican independence rally at Central Park, where Ruben (Felipe Luciano) is speaking, in Badge 373, 1973.
Badge 373 -- (Movie Clip) Rita Suspended cop Eddie (Robert Duvall) tries to question stoned Latina Rita (Marina Durell) in what will be her final scene in Badge 373, 1973, from a script by Pete Hamill.
Badge 373 -- (Movie Clip) Caputo Funeral Handsome reporter Pete (Screenwriter Pete Hamill) buttonholes cop Eddie (Robert Duvall) before and after he visits widow Marie (Tina Cristiani) at his partner's funeral in Badge 373, 1973.

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