Joseph Adler - Turner Classic Movies

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Convention Girls (1978)

Sammy Somebody (1976)

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Cinderella Liberty (1973) -- (Movie Clip) The Ship Is Under Way

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) -- (Movie Clip) Credits, Rock Candy Mountain

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Convention Girls (1978)

Sammy Somebody (1976)

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Cinderella Liberty (1973) -- (Movie Clip) The Ship Is Under Way After opening with his ship arriving in Seattle, Navy Boatswain Dobbs (James Caan), having just learned he’ll have to stay behind for a medical test, wishes his mates farewell and learns (from nurse Diane Schenker) that he has liberty until midnight, thus the title, cueing the credits, in Mark Rydell’s film from Darryl Ponsican’s novel and screenplay, Cinderella Liberty, 1973, also starring Marsha Mason.

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) -- (Movie Clip) Credits, Rock Candy Mountain Credit sequence, to "Big Rock Candy Mountain" performed by Harry McClintock, from Joel and Ethan Coen's O Brother, Where Art Thou?, 2000, starring George Clooney, Tim Blake Nelson and John Turturro.

Generation (1955) -- (Movie Clip) The Ghetto Rose Up Polish partisans (Tadeusz Janczar, Roman Polanski, Ryszard Kotas) joined by pal Stach (Tadeusz Lomnicki) and leader Dorota (Urszula Modrzynska), then veteran Sekula (Janusz Paluszkiewicz) brings news of the Warsaw ghetto, in Andrzej Wajda's Generation, 1955.

First Family (1980) -- (Movie Clip) Meet A Nice Tall Average Blonde Guy First scene for Madeline Kahn as first lady Constance Link, with Gilda Radner as daughter Gloria, who’s just been thwarted by the Secret Service in what is apparently one of many inept attempts at a tryst, in writer-director Buck Henry’s First Family, 1980, starring Bob Newhart as the president.

First Family (1980) -- (Movie Clip) The President Is Not A Depraved Half-Wit Opening with Bob Newhart as president Manfred Link delivering a State Of The Union address, though from the oval office, William Sylvester the TV commentator, Roger Bowen the senator, Gilda Radner, whom we’ll learn is the president’s daughter, busted by the Secret Service, in writer-director Buck Henry’s First Family, 1980.

First Family (1980) -- (Movie Clip) Can I Deny Something? A forerunner of the walk-and-talk scenes known from The West Wing and other TV shows, Bob Newhart the president, Madeline Kahn the first lady, Fred Willard the aide Feebleman, Richard Benjamin the press secretary, Gilda Radner the daughter attempting another escape, in writer-director Buck Henry’s First Family, 1980.

Carol For Another Christmas, A (1964) -- (Movie Clip) No More Faces Singer Steve Lawrence, impressive as the doughboy "Ghost Of Christmas Past," brings Scrooge-derived Drudge (Sterling Hayden) to Hiroshima, recalling nurse Eva Marie Saint and doctor James Shigeta, in the Rod Serling scripted TV movie riff on Dickens, A Carol For Another Christmas, 1964.

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Films Of Georges Melies -- (Movie Clip) Magical Movies From the second segment of the documentary The Films Of Georges Melies: First Wizard Of The Cinema, featuring The Triple Conjurer And The Living Head from 1900, and Excelsior, from 1901.

Mysterious House Of Dr. C.. The -- (Movie Clip) Festival Dancers After early exposition, the floor is cleared for "The Festival Dancers," in The Mysterious House Of Dr. C., 1976, as choreographed by Jo Anna Kneeland, directed by her husband Ted, based on a Leo Delibes ballet.

Mysterious House Of Dr. C.. The -- (Movie Clip) How Vulgar! Swanilda (Claudia Corday) and friends escape after invading the home of Dr. C. (Walter Slezak), who then enters his first animated reverie, Terry-Thomas voicing "The Bull," in The Mysterious House Of Dr. C., 1976.

Mysterious House Of Dr. C.. The -- (Movie Clip) Finishing Touches Following the opening credits, narration about the quirky title character (Walter Slezak), in the Spanish-produced ballet-cartoon-musical The Mysterious House of Dr. C., as re-released in 1976, and previously known as Dr. Coppelius, 1968.

Hurt Locker, The (2008) -- Original Trailer Original trailer for Academy Award-winner Kathryn Bigelow’s acclaimed 2008 Best Picture winner, The Hurt Locker.

Last Detail, The - (Original Trailer) Two shore patrolmen decide to show a prisoner a good time on his way to the brig in The Last Detail (1973) starring Jack Nicholson and Randy Quaid.

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