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Red Inkworks Film Noir: THE
HUMAN SPIRIT THROUGH FILM
A cross section of films
celebrating the determination, integrity and strength, of
the human spirit, to both survive and triumph over great
odds, including the increasingly dominate influence of the
second-hander in America.
ENTERTAINING FILMS OF
INTEGRITY AND COURAGE
12
Angry Men: (1957) A
dissenting juror in a murder trial slowly manages to
convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear
as it seemed in court.
39
Steps, The: (1935)
A man in London tries to help a counterespionage agent, and
is soon finding himself in one jam after another.
Apollo
13: (1995) True
story of the moon-bound mission that developed severe
trouble and the men that rescued it with skill and
dedication.
Big
Heat, The: (1953)
Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime
syndicate.
Casablanca: (1942)
Rick Blaine, a callous nightclub owner in a wartime
way-station, has his world turned upside down when his lost
love, Ilsa, returns.
Count
of Monte Cristo, The:
(2002) A young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous
"friends," escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his
revenge.
Dangerous Beauty:
(1998) An incredibly well-acted romance, offering a
compelling story of one woman's triumph over the forces of
the Roman Inquisition.
Death
Wish: (1974) Paul
Kersey is an architect, who is a peaceful man. But when his
wife and daughter are attacked in their apartment, his world
changes.
Die
Hard: (1988) New
York cop John McClane gives terrorists a dose of their own
medicine as they hold hostages in an LA office building.
Edge,
The: (1997) A
billionaire and two other men are stranded, unequipped, by a
plane crash in a dangerous wilderness. How many will survive
to be rescued?
Edison, the Man:
(1940) In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light
bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story.
English Patient, The:
(1996) At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a
badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in
flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love
affair.
E.T.
(1982) A group of Earth children help a stranded alien
botanist return home.
Executive Suite:
(1954) Avery Bullard, President of the Tredway Corporation
has died. But he never named a clear successor, so the Board
members must choose a replacement.
Fountainhead, The:
(1949) Gary Cooper plays Howard Roark, an idealistic
architect Howard who dares to stand alone against his
traditionalist contemporaries.
Fugitive, The:
(1993) Dr. Richard Kimble, unjustly accused of killing his
wife, must find the real one-armed killer while avoiding
Marshal Sam Gerard.
Fury:
(1936) Based on the story "Mob Rule" by Norman Krasna. Joe
Wilson and Katherine Grant are in love, but he doesn't have
enough money for them to get married.
Gattaca: (1997)
Futuristic story of a genetically imperfect man and his
seemingly unobtainable goal to travel in space.
Gone
with the Wind:
(1939) Epic story of a woman who can cope with everything in
the US Civil War except losing the love of the man.
Great
Escape, The: (1963)
Several hundred Allied POWs plan a mass escape from a German
POW camp.
High
Noon: (1952) Gary
Cooper as a sheriff who must stand entirely alone against
his deadly enemy, knowing that the citizens of the town he
has sworn to protect are too afraid to stand behind him.
High
Plains Drifter:
(1973) A small town with a dark secret hires a mysterious,
vengeance-minded drifter to protect it from three criminals.
Hombre: (1967) An
Indian policeman travels by stagecoach and encounters more
than his share of trouble.
Hunt
For Red October:
(1990) In 1984, the USSR's best submarine captain in their
newest sub violates orders and heads for the USA. Is he
trying to defect, or to start a war?
Inherit the Wind:
(1960) Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers
argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of
the 'crime' of teaching evolution.
In the
Heat of the Night:
(1967) An African American detective is asked to investigate
a murder in a racist southern town.
Jane
Eyre: (1996)
Small, plain and poor, Jane Eyre comes to Thornfield Hall as
governess to the young ward of Edward Rochester.
Judgment at Nuremberg:
(1961) In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries
four Nazi judges for war crimes.
Keeper
of the Flame:
(1942) Journalist Steve O'Malley is writing a biography of a
national hero who died when his car ran off a bridge.
Lady
Vanishes, The:
(1938) Travellers on a
trans-European
train are delayed for a night due to bad weather in an
unnamed country. The passengers cram into the small village
hotel where socialite Iris Henderson meets an old governess
called Miss Froy. Shortly after the journey restarts, Miss
Froy disappears.
Lean
on Me: (1989) The
dedicated, but tyrannical, Joe Clark is appointed as
principal of a decaying inner city school and he is
determined to improve it.
Les
Miserables: (1998)
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread,
must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit
consumes both men's lives.
Lifeboat: (1944)
Several survivors of a torpedoed ship find themselves in the
same boat with one of the men who sunk it.
Life
is Beautiful:
(1997) A Jewish man has a wonderful romance with the help of
his humour, but must use that same quality to protect his
son in a Nazi death camp.
Little
Women: (1994) The
March sisters live and grow in post-Civil War America.
Madison: (2001) A
story about a man's personal struggle to victory in the 1971
Madison, Indiana hydro-plane regatta.
Maltese Falcon, The:
(1941) Sam Spade, a private
detective, gets involved in a murderous hunt for a valuable
statuette.
Miracle Worker, The:
(1962) The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the
blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
Naked
Jungle, The:
(1954) The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is
threatened by a 2 miles column of army ants.
No
Name on the Bullet:
(1959) John Gant, hired assassin rides into town. No one is
sure of the identity of his intended victim.
North
by Northwest:
(1959) An advertising executive is mistaken for a spy and is
pursued across the country while he looks for a way to
survive.
October Sky: (1999)
The true story of Homer Hickam, the son of an American coal
miner. A boy who triumphed over his father's wishes and
became a force in the world of rocketry.
On The
Waterfront: (1954)
One of my all time favourite Marlon Brando movies. Brando
plays Terry Malloy, an ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman
who stands up to corrupt union bosses.
Pale
Rider: (1985) A
small mining town is terrorized by a local gangster, and
salvation arrives in the form of a gun-toting preacher.
Queen
Christina: (1933)
Young Christina ascends to the Swedish throne at age 5.
While she rules, Sweden becomes a dominant European power at
the end of the Thirty Years War.
Quiet
Man, The: (1952) A
disgraced American boxer retires to Ireland, where he finds
love.
Schindler's List:
(1993) Oskar Schindler uses Jews to start a factory in
Poland during the war. He witnesses the horrors endured by
the Jews, and starts to save them.
Sense
and Sensibility:
(1995) Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and
her daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Two
daughters are the titular opposites.
Starship Troopers:
(1997) Humans of the future do battle with giant alien bugs
in a fight for survival is the main thrust of the story.
But the bonus part of the story is that it takes place in a
world where you have to earn your citizenship. And judging
from the number of people willing to face almost certain
death at the mandibles of the ferocious bugs - citizenship
in this robust and healthy society was worth earning!
Story
of Louis Pasteur, The:
(1935) Biography of the man who invented pasteurization and
made the first vaccine against rabies.
Strangers on a Train:
(1951) You'd like your wife killed, wouldn't you? I'll do it
for you if you'll kill someone for me, and since we're
strangers we'll be free of suspicion.
Strictly Ballroom:
(1992) Brave new steps put Scott's career in jeopardy. With
a new partner and determination, can he still succeed?
Terminator, The:
(1984) A human-looking, apparently unstoppable cyborg is
sent from the future to kill Sarah Connor; Kyle Reese is
sent to stop it.
Terminator 2: Judgement Day:
(1991) A shape-shifting Cyborg is sent back from the future
to kill John Connor before he can grow up to lead the
resistance; a protector is sent, too.
Things
to Come: (1936) A
story of 100 years: a decades-long second world war leaves
plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds
civilization and tries space travel.
This
Land is Mine: (1943
Albert Lory is a teacher at a school in German-occupied
France. He is a coward, but he is drawn into the actions of
the resistance. Red Inkworks Recommended...
Titanic: (1997)
Fictional romantic tale of a rich girl and poor boy who meet
on the ill-fated voyage of the 'unsinkable' ship.
Tucker: The Man and His Dream:
(1988) The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car
designer and his ill fated challenge to the auto industry
with his revolutionary car concept.
United 93:
(2006) Emotionally-packed and moving fact-based story about
the passengers aboard doomed flight United 93 that was the
fourth attack on a plane on September 11, 2001. The
passengers on the flight, as a result of a delay on takeoff
that placed them behind the sinister attacks on the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon, are able to learn of the
attacks and discern that this is no mere high-jacking.
While the real events that caused the ultimate crash of the
plane can never be known, the events depicted would appear
to be as might be expected. A truly magnificent tale of
ordinary Americans thwarting ignorant, cowardly,
freedom-hating, terrorists.
Untouchables, The:
(1959) Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of
incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s
Chicago.
We The
Living: (1942)
Doomed love within a corrupt political world. At 18, the
beautiful and smart Kira comes to Petersburg as the
Communists consolidate power.
While
the City Sleeps:
(1956) Death of media magnate Amos Kyne is causing power
struggle between his executives. In the meantime New York
women become prey of a serial killer.
Winslow Boy, The:
(1948) In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a
naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a
political furor by demanding a trial.
World Trade Center:
(2006) World War
III is brought home to America in this portrayal of the
tragic wake-up call as two Port Authority police officers
become trapped under the rubble of the World Trade Center.
Wuthering Heights:
(1939) The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early
19th Century.
You
Came Along: (1945)
War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour
with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss.
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