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Inn of the sixth happiness, The
Internal affairs
In the deep woods
In the heat of the night
In the line of fire
| Title: | INN OF THE SIXTH HAPINESS, THE |
| Year: | 1958 |
| Genre: | Adventure |
| Director: | Mark Robson |
| The players: | Ingrid
Bergman
Curt Jurgens Robert Donat Ronald Squire Athene Seyler |
| About the film: | Overlong story about an English woman who feels that her call in life is to become a missionary in China. The film starts out ok with Bergman earning the money to go and then the travels on the transsibiric railroad to China. Once she has arrived in China the film becomes a sleeping pill. It’s not only that it is slow but the film becomes so stony it’s no fun watching it. However, Bergman becomes very popular in China and gets the name Jen-Ai (the one who loves people). The end is awful, Jen-Ai saves the children of the village from the war as she takes them to the Yellow river. Donat’s last film. |
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| Title: | INTERNAL AFFAIRS |
| Year: | 1990 |
| Genre: | Thriller |
| Director: | Mike Figgis |
| The players: | Andy
Garcia
Richard Gere Nancy Travis Laurie Metcalf William Baldwin |
| About the film: | Garcia plays an internal police-investigator who tries to nail an old acquintance. Gere is ok as the bad guy but Garcia lacks charisma as the good. |
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| Title: | IN THE DEEP WOODS |
| Year: | 1993 |
| Genre: | Horror |
| Director: | C. Correll |
| The players: | Rosanna
Arquette
Anthony Perkins Will Patton Amy Ryan D. W. Moffett |
| About the film: | Exciting murder mystery, where everyone is suspected. Arquette is good in the leading role, mainly because she seems so frail. Perkins’ last film, he was really stuck in the horror genre after PSYCHO. |
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| Title: | IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT |
| Year: | 1967 |
| Genre: | Thriller |
| Director: | Norman Jewison |
| The players: |  Sidney
Poitier
Rod Steiger Warren Oates Lee Grant Scott Wilson |
| About the film: | Tremendous murder mystery which takes place down in the south. Black big city cop Tibbs has to help a sheriff who is incapable of solving a murder case himself. The plot and acting are equally terrific. Tibbs has to make good to save the jobs of the black workers in town but he’s having a real hard time with all the racism. The fact that he’s wearing a suit, "white man’s clothes", doesn’t exactly make things easier for him. Poitier is very good playing black men superior to most white but who has problems because of the colour of their skin. Steiger won a well deserved oscar as the town’s rough sheriff who has to solve the case quickly to keep his job. The only way to do that is to co-operate with a black detective who nobody believe will survive the week. Ray Charles’ music is very suiting. The film won five oscars. |
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| Title: | IN THE LINE OF FIRE |
| Year: | 1993 |
| Genre: | Thriller |
| Director: | Wolfgang Petersen |
| The players: | Clint
Eastwood
John Malkovich Rene Russo Dylan McDermott Gary Cole |
| About the film: | Eastwood and Russo play the presidents bodyguards. They better be prepared because Malkovich plans to assassinate him. The cast is good but this film is much too predictable and follows the same pattern as countless of other Hollywood movies. |
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