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Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Burl Ives | Billie Mae Richards | Paul Soles | Larry D. Mann | Stan Francis | Paul Kligman | Janet Orenstein | Alfie Scopp | Carl Banas | Corinne Conley | Peg Dixon
Directors: Kizo Nagashima
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Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his beaming honker, teams up with Hermey, an elf who wants to be a dentist, and Yukon Cornelius, the prospector. They run into the Abominable Snowman and find a whole island of misfit toys. Rudoph vows to see if he can get Santa to help the toys, and he goes back to the North Pole on Christmas Eve. But Santa’s sleigh is fogged in. But when Santa looks over Rudolph, he gets a very bright idea…

Mary Poppins (1964)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Julie Andrews | Dick Van Dyke | David Tomlinson | Glynis Johns | Hermione Baddeley | Reta Shaw | Karen Dotrice | Matthew Garber | Elsa Lanchester | Arthur Treacher | Reginald Owen | Ed Wynn | Jane Darwell | Arthur Malet | Robert Banas
Directors: Robert Stevenson
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The movie combines a diverting story, songs, color and sequences of live action blended with the movements of animated figures. Mary Poppins is a kind of Super-nanny who flies in with her umbrella in response to the request of the Banks children and proceeds to put things right with the aid of her rather extraordinary magical powers before flying off again.

007 Goldfinger (1964)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Sean Connery | Honor Blackman | Gert Fröbe | Shirley Eaton | Tania Mallet | Harold Sakata | Bernard Lee | Martin Benson | Cec Linder | Austin Willis | Lois Maxwell | Bill Nagy | Michael Mellinger | Peter Cranwell | Nadja Regin
Directors: Guy Hamilton
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The powerful tycoon Auric Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) has initiated “Operation Grand Slam,” a cataclysmic scheme to raid Fort Knox and obliterate the world economy. James Bond, armed with his specially equipped Aston Martin (its accessory package includes built-in machine guns, a smoke screen and an ejector seat), must stop the plan by overcoming several outrageous adversaries. First there’s Oddjob (Harold Sakata), the mute servant who kills at the toss of a lethal hat; next, the beautiful Jill Masterson (Shirley Eaton), who gives new meaning to the phrase “golden girl”; and finally, sexy pilot Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman), whose romantic feelings for Bond complicate her involvement in Goldfinger’s high-flying scheme.

Shot in the Dark, A (1964)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Mystery
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Peter Sellers | Elke Sommer | George Sanders | Herbert Lom | Tracy Reed | Graham Stark | Moira Redmond | Vanda Godsell | Maurice Kaufmann | Ann Lynn | David Lodge | André Maranne | Martin Benson | Burt Kwouk | Reginald Beckwith
Directors: Blake Edwards
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When rich M. Ballon’s spanish driver is found shot dead, Inspector Jacques Clouseau is the first official on the scene. All evidence suggests Maria Gambrelli, the maid, to be the murderer. But Clouseau, being attracted to the beautiful girl, is convinced that she is hiding something. So, he has her released from jail and tries to follow her secretly. Things do not work out the way the inspector wanted and people keep being murdered, and each time innocent Maria seems to be the killer. But with someone important wanting Clouseau and nobody else to cover this case, his tolerance-challenged boss Charles Dreyfuss is close to losing his mind when casualties keep turning up. And Clouseau keeps on causing trouble without knowing it…

Fistful of Dollars, A (1964)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Western
Countries: Italy | Spain | West Germany
Actors: Clint Eastwood | Marianne Koch | Gian Maria Volonté | Wolfgang Lukschy | Sieghardt Rupp | Joseph Egger | Antonio Prieto | José Calvo | Margarita Lozano | Daniel Martín | Benito Stefanelli | Mario Brega | Bruno Carotenuto | Aldo Sambrell
Directors: Sergio Leone
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An anonymous, but deadly man rides into a town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojo’s. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.