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Superfly (1972) -- (Movie Clip) Little Child Runnin' Wild The opening shot minus one from director Gordon Parks Jr., with one of the better-known songs from the smash Curtis Mayfield soundtrack, tracking two users through Harlem before we meet Ron O’Neal as dealer Priest, the nickname derived from his gold coke spoon, in Superfly, 1972.
Superfly (1972) -- (Movie Clip) Before Somebody Ices Me Harlem cocaine dealer Priest (Ron O’Neal) visits his partner Eddie (Carl Lee) and explains his complex scheme to get out of the business while they’re still young, with drug use and plenty of rough language, early in director Gordon Parks Jr.’s Superfly, 1972.
Hunger, The (1983) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Bela Lugosi's Dead Director Tony Scott’s opening, introducing billed stars Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie but not Susan Sarandon, the song not from Bowie but from Peter Murphy, an original by his band Bauhaus, which has featured in several recent vampire-related TV shows, from The Hunger, 1983.
Hunger, The (1983) -- (Movie Clip) He's Gone To Switzerland New York vampire Miriam (Catherine Deneuve) has just completed rites for her husband (David Bowie), who killed a local teenager then died from accelerated aging, when gerontology researcher Sarah (Susan Sarandon), who failed to recognize his condition, visits her at home, in The Hunger, 1983.
Hunger, The (1983) -- (Movie Clip) That's A Two Thousand Dollar Monkey More artful work from director Tony Scott, probably-vampire David Bowie arising, with partner Catherine Deneuve, then joining Susan Sarandon, who evidently is a researcher at a lab where the primates went wild during the couple’s lustful evening activities, early in The Hunger, 1983.
Hunger, The (1983) -- (Movie Clip) Age Is A Disease Manhattan cellist-vampire John (David Bowie) has evidently entered a rapid-aging stage, so he proceeds to visit gerontology researcher Sarah (Susan Sarandon), whose work he and his partner (Catherine Deneuve) have noted, to little effect, in director Tony Scott’s The Hunger, 1983.
Wife vs. Secretary -- (Movie Clip) I'll Wear The Pants First scene for Dave (James Stewart), boyfriend of secretary Whitey (Jean Harlow), dining with her parents (William Newell, Mary MacGregor), planning a big date when her boss Stanhope (Clark Gable) calls, in Wife Vs. Secretary, 1936.
Chandler (1971) -- (Movie Clip) About The Same Size Private eye Warren Oates (title character) visits movie veterans Richard Loo (as pawn-broker "Leo") and Gloria Grahame (as "Selma"), wife of an ex-partner, preparing for a job in Chandler, 1971, related only by allusion to the famous writer Raymond.
Bob Le Flambeur -- (Movie Clip) Legend Of The Recent Past The opening with the director's narration and credits, the Montmartre district of Paris and the loose introduction of the protagonist, Roger Duchesne, in New Wave forerunner Jean-Pierre Melville's, Bob Le Flambeur, 1955.
Peppermint Frappe -- (Movie Clip) Don't Stay Late `Intense opening sequence with fashion magazines, and the introduction of principals Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez (as doctor "Julian") and Geraldine Chaplin (here as his assistant "Ana"), from director Carlos Saura's Peppermint Frappe, 1968.
Peppermint Frappe -- (Movie Clip) No Wife In View? Spanish doctor Julian (Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez) greeted by brother Pablo (Alfredo Mayo), who introduces his new wife Elena (Geraldine Chaplin) who's a dead ringer for his assistant (also played by Chaplin), early in director Carlos Saura's Peppermint Frappe, 1968.
Chandler (1971) -- (Movie Clip) How About Lunch? Warren Oates (in the title role) and Leslie Caron (as Katherine, the French painter he's hired to protect) killing time on a train in Chandler, 1971.

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