John Adams


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Odessa File, The (1974) -- (Movie Clip) People Burning Like Torches Jon Voight as reporter Miller, with his girlfriend (Mary Tamm) in Hamburg, 1963, visiting his German mother (Maria Schell, only 12 years Voight's senior) as he considers investigating leads left by a now-deceased Holocaust survivor, Hans Wyprächtiger his landlord, in Ronald Neame's The Odessa File, 1974.
Chariots Of Fire (1981) -- (Movie Clip) Scotland's Finest Wing Beginning the back-story for Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson), born to missionary parents in China, already a rugby star in Scotland, appearing at a highland fair, his sister (Cheryl Campbell) attending and friend Sandy (Struan Rodger) promoting an exhibition, in Chariots Of Fire, 1981.
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Just Like This Widowed Alice (Ellen Burstyn) with Rita (Lane Bradbury) who's just arrived to tell her that new boyfriend Ben (Harvey Keitel) is her husband, when he shows up, in a bad temper, in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, 1974.
Thunder In The City (1937) -- (Movie Clip) You Mean The Blimps? Auto baron Snyderling (James Carew) and minions are talking about ad-man Armstrong, the character played by Edward G. Robinson, who personally arranged a re-write by his friend Robert E. Sherwood, for this picture for which he was loaned out to Columbia's English subsidiary, opening Thunder In The City, 1937.
Dead Poets Society (1989) -- (Movie Clip) As Tough As They Say After the churchy opening of the prep school term, cohorts begin their greetings, Neil, Todd, Cameron, Charlie, Meeks and Knox (Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Dylan Kussman, Gale Hansen, Allelon Ruggiero, Josh Charles), plus Neil's father (Kurtwood Smith), in Dead Poets Society, 1987.
Dead Poets Society (1989) -- (Movie Clip) Seize The Day Having abandoned the classroom, Keating (Robin Williams) unveils his approach to poetry for Meeks, Pitts, Neil, Charlie, Todd (Allelon Ruggerio, James Waterson, Robert Sean Leonard, Gale Hansen, Ethan Hawke) and friends, a famous scene from Peter Weir's Dead Poets Society, 1989.
Dead Poets Society (1989) -- (Movie Clip) Who's In? The prep school gang led by Neil (Robert Sean Leonard) gets background on their eclectic new English teacher Keating (Robin Williams), who reveals the truth to Knox, Charlie, Meeks, Todd (Josh Charles, Gale Hansen, Allelon Ruggiero, Ethan Hawke) et al, in Peter Weir's Dead Poet's Society, 1989.
Casey's Shadow -- (Movie Clip) Count Your Blessings Dr. John's Coonass plays, goings on at the south-Louisiana Bourdelle horse farm, dad Lloyd (Walter Matthau) with sons Randy (Stephen Burns), Casey (Michael Hershewe) and Buddy (Andrew Rubin), in Martin Ritt's Casey's Shadow, 1978.
Last Emperor, The -- (Movie Clip) Opening Credits Opening title sequence for director Bernardo Bertolucci's Academy Award-winning epic biography of China's last hereditary ruler, The Last Emperor, 1987, starring John Lone.
Last Emperor, The -- (Movie Clip) Manchurian Rats A flashback to 1924, in which Pu-Yi (John Lone) turns to his English tutor "RJ" (Peter O'Toole) for advice when he is overthrown during a tennis game, in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor, 1987.
Last Emperor, The -- (Movie Clip) Empress Dowager A youngster named Richard Vuu here portrays 3-year-old Pu-Yi, meeting the Empress Dowager (Lisa Lu) and being introduced to his new gig, in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor, 1987.

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