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The 300 Spartans (1962)

Monday, April 28th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Richard Egan | Ralph Richardson | Diane Baker | Barry Coe | David Farrar | Donald Houston | Anna Synodinou | Kieron Moore | John Crawford | Robert Brown | Laurence Naismith | Anne Wakefield | Ivan Triesault | Charles Fawcett | Michalis Nikolinakos
Directors: Rudolph Maté
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Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of them his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army more than 20 times as large. The actual heroism of those who stood (and ultimately died) with Leonidas helped shape the course of Western Civilization, allowing the Greek city states time to organize an army which repelled the Persians. Set in 480 BC.

Geronimo (1962)

Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Genres: Action | Biography | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Chuck Connors | Kamala Devi | Pat Conway | Armando Silvestre | Adam West | Lawrence Dobkin | John Anderson | Enid Jaynes | Ross Martin | Denver Pyle | Nancy Rodman | Amanda Ames | Eduardo Noriega | Claudio Brook | Joe Higgins
Directors: Arnold Laven
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An Apache warrior who defies U.S. attempts to bring the Indians under control grapples with an array of U.S. soldiers sent to subdue his revolt. Sympathetic scouts seek to bring Geronimo back to the reservation before he is hunted down.

Dr. No (1962)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Sean Connery | Bernard Lee | Ursula Andress | Joseph Wiseman | Jack Lord | Eunice Gayson | John Kitzmiller | Margaret Le Wars | Zena Marshall
Directors: Terence Young
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An agent of the British Secret Service, James Bond (007), is sent out to the West Indies in order to find out why another of his number was killed. His arrival is not welcomed by everyone, but it is not long before he is on the trail of the killer. The trail leads to a secretive scientist, Dr. No, but the discovery has wider implications…

Mamma Roma (1962)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: Italy
Actors: Anna Magnani | Ettore Garofolo | Franco Citti | Silvana Corsini | Luisa Loiano | Paolo Volponi | Luciano Gonini | Vittorio La Paglia | Piero Morgia | Lanfranco Ceccarelli | Marcello Sorrentino | Sandro Meschino | Franco Tovo | Pasquale Ferrarese | Leandro Santarelli
Directors: Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Mamma Roma is a middle-aged whore of Roma. Now she can quit her job to become a fruit seller. And she can take back her 16-year-old son, Ettore. For him, she dreams of a good position. But it is perhaps too late for Ettore, whose company includes mostly teenaged louts…