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Here’s looking at warner bros.90 years of great filmmakingOn the 4th April 1923 four brothers Harry, Albert, Sam and, perhaps most famous of all, Jack established a studio. Its name, Warner Bros. Little could the brothers have known that ninety years later it would be one of the greatest names in motion pictures.

Early projects included the world’s first “four-legged superstar,” Rin Tin Tin, who would become known to the Warners as “the mortgage lifter” for his box-office reliability.

The big break for the Bros. came on October 6, 1927, when Warner Bros. Pictures released The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, and a whole new era began, with talking pictures bringing the studio to the forefront of the film industry.

During the golden age Warner Bros. counted amongst its roster of players such names as Bette Davis, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson and Errol Flynn. Behind the camera craftsmen like Hal B. Wallis, Darryl F. Zanuck, Busby Berkeley, Michael Curtiz, William Wellman, Howard Hawks and Mervyn LeRoy were responsible for the look of the studio output.

This golden age of the movies saw Warner Bros. producing some of the greatest films of all time including Little Caesar, The Public Enemy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Busby Berkeley’s 42nd Street and many lavish Errol Flynn swashbucklers including The Adventures of Robin Hood. By the 1940s, the Studio was in full swing releasing such classics as The Maltese Falcon, Now Voyager, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Mildred Pierce, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and perhaps, the greatest of them all, Casablanca.

Throughout the 50s and 60s Warner Bros. continued to change with the times and technology with such hits as A Streetcar Named Desire, A Star Is Born, Dial ‘M’ for Murder (in 3D), The Searchers, Rebel Without a Cause, Gypsy, The Music Man, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Bonnie and Clyde, Camelot, Cool Hand Luke and The Wild Bunch.

Having taken sole control of the studio some years earlier 1967 saw Jack L. Warner retire from the studio the brothers had founded ending the family connection.

The 1970s saw the release of such landmark films as Woodstock, A Clockwork Orange, Dirty Harry, The Exorcist, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and Superman.

Whilst the 1970s were phenomenally successful for the studio the 1980s saw even more success with hits including The Color Purple, Dangerous Liaisons, the Police Academy films, Arthur, Private Benjamin, The World According to Garp, the National Lampoon’s Vacation movies, Empire of the Sun, Full Metal Jacket, The Witches of Eastwick, Bird, Superman II, Lethal Weapon, and Batman.

In the 1990s, Warner Bros. Pictures continued to break records and earn critical raves around the world with films such as Driving Miss Daisy, Goodfellas, JFK, Unforgiven, The Fugitive and The Matrix. With the turn of the millennium Warner Bros.’ Harry Potter franchise became one of the most successful film series ever.

Today, Warner Bros. also owns a number of libraries it has acquired over the years. Most notably these include the pre-1986 MGM library, The Golden Harvest library and the productions of New Line and Lorimar. We have included a number of key titles from these libraries to demonstrate the diverse and expansive nature of the films Warner Bros. now controls.

In this anniversary year, Park Circus and Hollywood Classics are pleased to present a selection of newly restored Warner Bros. classic films in DCP format so that you too can celebrate the 90th anniversary with your own film festival.

In addition to the films featured, we have many other titles available and we have made suggestions in these pages for complimentary programming.

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Distribution MaterialsAll titles are available in DCP format and will be supplied with either original version language or with relevant local subtitling (where available).

DCPs are issued along with KDMs from Technicolor or Arts Alliance Media in the UK unless other local arrangements are in place.

Marketing MaterialsWe will have available a number of items to help you promote the season of films in your theatres.

These will include posters and leaflets as well as print ready files for you to duplicate locally to help promote screenings.

In addition we will have stills and copy for each film available for inclusion in your own brochures and websites.

CoMMerCial tie-insWe are working with our colleagues at Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on this project and there may be opportunities locally for you to work jointly with the local WBHE team.

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“Oh, Jerry, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We have the stars.”

DistributorsThe titles within this document are available from either Park Circus or Hollywood Classics. Please find details below each film of which distributor to contact to make bookings.

at Park CirCus, Please ContaCt:

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at HollywooD ClassiCs, Please ContaCt:

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tHe Jazz singer (1927)Dir: Alan Crossland Running Time: 88 minutesStarring: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland

“You ain’t heard nothing yet.” In 1926, Warner Bros.’ risky investment of a half million dollars with Western Electric in the Vitaphone sound system brought profits of $3.5 million at the box-office with this landmark talkie about a Cantor’s son who shows more interest in jazz and ragtime. It was a huge success, responsible for transforming Warners into Hollywood’s hottest film factory. The commercialisation of sound-on-film, and the transformation of the industry from silent films to talkies became a reality with the success of this film.

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angels witH Dirty FaCes (1938)Dir: Michael Curtiz Running Time: 97 minutesStarring: James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, Humphrey Bogart

“Always remember, don’t be a sucker.”Cagney, O’Brien and Bogart team up for this powerful social drama/thriller about a priest who tries to use a gangster on Sing Sing’s death row to dissuade street kids from turning to crime. This powerful issue movie is a gangster classic.

When first offered the project, Cagney’s agent was convinced that his star property would never consent to playing a role where he would be depicted as an abject coward being dragged to his execution. Cagney, however, was enthusiastic about the chance to play Rocky. He saw it as a suitable vehicle to prove to critics and front office honchos that he had a broad acting range that extended far beyond tough guy roles.

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tHe aDventures oF robin HooD (1938)Dir: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley Running Time: 102 minutesStarring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone

“Welcome to Sherwood, my lady.”Errol Flynn is eternally charming as Robin, defender of the poor, in this rousing family adventure that co-stars Olivia de Havilland and Claude Rains. It’s the classic tale of Sherwood Forest with Robin Hood robbing the rich to aid the poor, while trying to rid England of Prince John’s tyranny and gain the hand of the lovely Maid Marian at the same time.

Robin Hood was produced at an estimated cost of $2 million, and was Warner Bros.’ first color film utilising the three-strip Technicolor process. This was a new departure for the studio as it sought to capitalize on Flynn’s popularity and box office potential.

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gone witH tHe winD (1939)Dir: Victor FlemingRunning Time: 220 minutes.Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland

“Forget it Louis, no Civil war picture ever made a dime.” Irving G. Thalberg to Louis B. Mayer

It wasn’t often the Boy Wonder was wrong. MGM lost out to Mayer’s son in law David O. Selznick. But, ever the dealmaker LB agreed to loan his prize star (Clark Gable) in exchange for distribution rights to the biggest hit of 1939. The deal paid off and over the years re-releases of Gone With The Wind have made the difference between profit and loss for MGM.

Based on Margaret Mitchell’s Civil War-era epic, Gone With The Wind won an impressive 10 Academy Awards (including Best Picture). Hattie MacDaniel was the first African-American to be recognized by the Academy when she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

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CasablanCa (1942)Dir: Michael Curtiz Running Time: 102 minutesStarring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid

Capt. Louis Renault: “What on earth brought you to Casablanca?”Rick Blaine: “My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.”World War II Morocco – a viper’s nest of corrupt French police, spies, fleeing émigrés, gamblers and drinkers, it’s the perfect place for weary American expatriate nightclub owner Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) to hide out. Rick’s Cafe is the gathering place for the good, the bad and the ugly, but he doesn’t care, as long as they spend their money.

One day, out of all the bars in all the world, Rick’s long-lost love, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) walks in with her resistance leader husband, Victor (Paul Henreid), Rick is pulled into both a love triangle and a web of political intrigue. Ilsa and Victor need to escape from Casablanca, and Rick may be the only one who can help them.

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Mr skeFFington (1944)Dir: Vincent Sherman Running Time: 145 minutesStarring: Bette Davis, Claud Raines, Walter Abel

“I find one should never look for admirers whilst at the same time falling to bits.”Popular and beautiful Fanny Trellis is forced into a loveless marriage with an older man, banker Job Skeffington, in order to save her beloved brother Trippy from an embezzlement charge.

Davis was going through incredible personal torments at this time, which was reflected in her treatment of co-stars, and several others at the time, culminating in a vicious personal attack: apparently, while Davis was away from her dressing room, the eyewash she always used after filming the day’s scenes had been poisoned, causing Davis to scream out in pain. Director Vincent Sherman, with whom Davis had once been romantically involved, admitted to the detectives investigating the incident, “If you asked everyone on the set who had committed such a thing, everyone would raise their hand!”

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an aMeriCan in Paris (1951)Dir: Vincente MinnelliRunning Time: 113 minutesStarring: Gene Kelly, Oscar Levant, Nina Foch

“I got rhythm, I got music, I got my gal - who could ask for anything more.”Gene Kelly is at his best as Jerry Mulligan, a former GI whose dreams of becoming a successful artist have led him to the city of light, love and the Impressionists where he falls in love with Lesley Caron (in her first Hollywood role). Together they sing and dance through the Gershwin song book culminating in the stunning, 17 minute, An American In Paris ballet which closes the film.

Produced by the famous Freed Unit at MGM, the film won six Academy awards including Best Picture. In 1993 the film was selected for preservation by the United States Film Registry.

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singin’ in tHe rain (1952)Dir: Stanley Donen, Gene KellyRunning Time: 102 minutesStarring: Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds

“If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, it makes us feel as though our hard work ain’t been in vain for nothin’. Bless you all.”Presenting an irreverent look at how the movie business transitioned from silent films to talkies, Singin’ In The Rain is one of the best remembered of all MGM musicals. It made a star of Debbie Reynolds and was the third of the three superlative films Gene Kelly made for the Freed unit (the other two being On The Town and An American In Paris).

Screenwriters Comden and Green cleverly use the catalogue of songs written by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown to illustrate the confusion of the late 1920’s. Whilst the film made a star of Debbie Reynolds the best lines are reserved for Jean Hagen and that voice that could peel paint.

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Dial M For MurDer (3D) (1955)Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Running Time: 105 minutesStarring: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings

“Do you really believe in the perfect murder?”Originally shot in 3D and newly remastered and restored, Alfred Hitchcock’s screen version of Frederick Knott’s stage hit Dial M for Murder is a tasty blend of elegance and suspense casting Grace Kelly, Ray Milland and Robert Cummings as the points of a romantic triangle.

Kelly won the New York Film Critics and National Board of Review Best Actress Awards for this and two other acclaimed 1954 performances. She loves Cummings; her husband Milland plots her murder. But when he dials a Mayfair exchange to set the plot in motion, his right number gets the wrong answer - and gleaming scissors become a deadly weapon. Dial “M” for the Master of Suspense at his most stylish.

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tHe searCHers (1956) Dir: John FordRunning Time: 119 minutesStarring: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles

“Well, Reverend, that tears it! From now on, you stay out of this. All of ya. I don’t want you with me. I don’t need ya for what I got to do.”With The Searchers, John Wayne and director John Ford forged an indelible saga of the frontier and the men and women who challenged it.

Wayne plays Ethan Edwards, an ex-Confederate who sets out to find his niece, captured by Comanches who massacred his family. He won’t surrender to hunger, thirst, the elements or loneliness. And in his obsessive quest, Ethan finds something unexpected: his own humanity.

Since its release, The Searchers has come to be considered a masterpiece, and one of the greatest films ever made. It was named the Greatest American Western of all time by the American Film Institute in 2008.

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rio bravo (1959)Dir: Howard Hawks Running Time: 141 minutesStarring: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson

“If I ever saw a man holding a bull by the tail, you’re it.”A classic Western packing solid heroics around a strong emotional core, Rio Bravo stars John Wayne as Sheriff John T. Chance. He’s joined by Dean Martin as a drunk, former deputy; Walter Brenna as an old coot whose fiery spirit outmatches his hobbled stride; Ricky Nelson as a youngster out to prove himself; and Angie Dickinson as a woman with a mysterious past.

Director Howard Hawks had already lifted the Western to new heights with Red River. With Rio Bravo, Hawkes does it again, capturing the straight-from-the-barrel Old West many grew up with - a legendary West that fits all the tall talents of Wayne and Hawkes like a Colt 44 fits a weathered holster.

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ben-Hur (1959)Director: William WylerRunning Time: 217 minutesStarring: Charlton Heston, Haya Harareet, Jack Hawkins

“Judah, either you help me or you oppose me, you have no other choice. You’re either for me or against me!”This 1959 version of Lew Wallace’s best-selling novel, which had already been adapted as an early MGM production in 1925, went on to win 11 Academy Awards. The word epic really doesn’t do justice to this film and Kevin Brownlow has called the chariot race sequence as creative and influential a piece of cinema as the famous Odessa Steps sequence in Sergei Eisenstein’s The Battleship Potemkin.

On a point of trivia, concerned that a roaring Leo the Lion would create the wrong mood for the sensitive and sacred nativity scene, Wyler received permission to replace the traditional MGM logo with one in which Leo is quiet. It was the first time in MGM history that the lion logo was not seen roaring.

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nortH by nortHwest (1959)Director: Alfred HitchcockRunning Time: 136 minutesStarring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason

“You gentlemen aren’t REALLY trying to kill my son, are you?”Cary Grant teams with Hitchcock for the fourth and final time in this superlative espionage caper judged one of the American Film Institute’s Top 100 American Films.

North by Northwest is a tale of mistaken identity, with an innocent man pursued across the United States by agents of a mysterious organization who want to stop his interference in their plans to smuggle out microfilm containing government secrets.

With a music score by Bernard Herrmann and opening title sequence by Saul Bass, North by Northwest was one of the few MGM films to be made in VistaVision. It was nominated for three Academy awards and was entered into the US Film Registry in 1995.

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How tHe west was won (1962)Dir: Henry Hathaway, John Ford, George Marshall, Richard ThorpeRunning Time: 162 minutesStarring: John Wayne, James Stewart, Gregory Peck

“There’s only one kind of peace I know of, Marshal. That’s the kind my brother’s got.”With courage, sinew and conflict: that’s how the West was won. With three directors, five interlocked stories, some of the most legendary action scenes in movie history and a constellation of acting talent: that’s how How The West Was Won was filmed.

Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart and John Wayne are among the big names in this big-event saga following a dauntless family’s move West through generations - underscored by the spectacles of a heart-pounding raging river ride, a thunderous buffalo stampede and a bracing runaway train shootout. The winner of three Academy Awards, How The West Was Won was one of the few commercial films to be filmed in the three camera Cinerama process.

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DoCtor zHivago (1965)Dir: David LeanRunning Time: 192 minutesStarring: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness

“They rode them down, Lara. Women and children, begging for bread. There will be no more ‘peaceful’ demonstrations.”Omar Sharif stars as the surgeon-poet Zhivago, who is married to Tonya but also in love with Lara. Repeatedly brought together and separated from each woman by war and revolution, Zhivago is torn apart by conflict. He loves Tonya deeply but his poetic soul belongs to Lara. Much like his beloved country, Zhivago’s spirit becomes battered by the devastation of war as he struggles to maintain his individualism in the face of overwhelming odds.

David Lean’s production of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago gave MGM a selling problem: at first the masses couldn’t pronounce the title or care less about Russian literature and the discriminating were put off by mixed reviews. Gradually however, the film was rescued by that most potent show-business asset: word-of-mouth praise. Doctor Zhivago became the third highest grossing film for the studio behind Gone With The Wind and Ben-Hur and also won five Academy awards.

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bonnie anD ClyDe (1967)Dir: Arthur Penn Running Time: 112 minutesStarring: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard

“This here’s Miss Bonnie Parker, I’m Clyde Burrows. We rob banks.”Bonnie and Clyde balances itself on a knife-edge of laughter and terror, thanks to vivid title role performances by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway and superb support from Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman and Estelle Parsons. Director Arthur Penn keeps the film’s sensibilities tough but never cruel. It continually dazzles, especially in the work of cinematographer Burnett Guffey and editor Dede Allen. And as film lovers since have discovered, it’s no ordinary gangster movie.

Bonnie and Clyde is regarded as one of the first films of the New Hollywood. Its success motivated other filmmakers to be more forward about presenting sex and violence in their films. The film’s ending also became iconic as one of the bloodiest death scenes in cinematic history.

The film received Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress (Estelle Parsons) and Best Cinematography (Burnett Guffey). It was among the first 100 films selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

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2001: a sPaCe oDyssey (1968)Dir: Stanley KubrickRunning Time: 141 minutes.Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester

“Look Dave, I can see you’re really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.”To begin his voyage into the future, Kubrick visits our prehistoric ape-ancestry past, then leaps millennia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever conceived) into colonized space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman into uncharted realms of space, perhaps even into immortality.

2001: A Space Odyssey is a countdown to tomorrow, a road map to human destiny, a quest for the infinite. It is a dazzling, Academy Award-winning visual achievement, a compelling drama of man vs. machine, a stunning meld of music and motion. It is the masterwork of director Stanley Kubrick (who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke).

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willy wonka anD tHe CHoColate FaCtory (1971)Dir: Mel Stuart Running Time: 100 minutesStarring: Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum

“It happens every time, they all become blueberries.”Young Charlie Bucket wins one of the coveted ‘Golden Tickets’ from a Wonka Bar that allows its holder to take a trip around the eccentric Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. Charlie and the rest of the winners find themselves in a magical world of chocolate rivers, Oompa Loompas, everlasting gobstoppers, lickable wallpaper, golden egg-laying geese and chilling tales to warn children not to misbehave. Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay from his own book.

Production designer Harper Goff centered the factory on the massive Chocolate Room. The chocolate river and waterfall were created by adding chocolate cream mix to 150,000 gallons of water, which eventually turned rancid and created a foul odor that permeated the entire soundstage.

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DeliveranCe (1972)Dir: John Boorman Running Time: 110 minutesStarring: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox

“Sometimes you have to lose yourself ‘fore you can find anything.”In the unfamiliar Appalachian backwoods, a weekend of male bonding for four inexperienced campers turns into a gut-wrenching fight for survival against the merciless forces of nature and the brutality of man. Their only escape is a terrifying canoe ride down the raging rapids of the Chattooga River. If their heartless pursuers don’t kill them, the treacherous waters just might.

The instrumental song “Dueling Banjos” won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance. The film was included in The New York Times list of the best thousand movies ever made. In 2008 the film was selected for preservation by the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.

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enter tHe Dragon (1973)Dir: Robert Clouse Running Time: 98 minutesStarring: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly

Recruited by an intelligence agency, an outstanding martial arts student (Bruce Lee) participates in a brutal karate tournament hosted by the evil Han. Along with champions Roper and Williams, he uncovers Han’s white slavery and drug trafficking ring located on a secret island fortress. In the exciting climax, hundreds of freed prisoners fight in an epic battle with Lee and Han locked in a deadly duel.

Argentinian musician Lalo Schifrin composed the film’s musical score. While Schifrin was widely-known at the time for his jazz scores, he also incorporated funk and traditional film score elements into the film’s soundtrack.

The film has been parodied and referenced in many films such as the 1976 film The Pink Panther Strikes Again, the Japanese game-show Takeshi’s Castle, and the 1977 John Landis comedy anthology film Kentucky Fried Movie (in its lengthy “A Fistful of Yen” sequence).

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tHe outlaw Josey wales (1976)Dir: Clint Eastwood Running Time: 135 minutesStarring: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Chief Dan George

“Get ready little lady, Hell is coming to breakfast.”As the outlaw Josey Wales, Clint Eastwood is ideal as a wary, fast drawing loner, akin to the “Man with No Name” from his European Westerns. But unlike that other mythic outlaw, Josey Wales has a name and a heart.

That heart opens up as the action unfolds. After avenging his family’s brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of killers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can’t bring himself to leave them unprotected.

In 1996, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. It was also one of the few Western films to receive critical and commercial success in the 1970s at a time when the Western was thought to be dying as a major genre in Hollywood.

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a nigHtMare on elM street (1984)Dir: Wes CravenRunning Time: 91 minutesStarring: Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund

“Whatever you do, don’t fall asleep.”From Wes Craven comes a timeless shocker that remains the standard bearer for terror.

Nancy is having grisly nightmares. Meanwhile, her high-school friends, who are having the very same dreams, are being slaughtered in their sleep by the hideous fiend of their shared nightmares. When the police ignore her explanation, she herself must confront the killer in his shadowy realm.

Featuring John Saxon with Johnny Depp in his first starring role and mind-bending special effects, this horror classic gave birth to one of the most infamous undead villains in cinematic history: Freddy Krueger...

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Full Metal JaCket (1987)Dir: Stanley Kubrick Running Time: 116 minutesStarring: Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D’Onofrio

“A day without blood is like a day without sunshine.”A superb ensemble cast falls in for action in Stanley Kubrick’s brilliant saga about the Vietnam War and the dehumanising process that turns people into trained killers. Joker, Animal Mother, Gomer, Eightball, Cowboy and more, are all plunged into a boot-camp hell pitbulled by a leatherlung D.I. who views the would-be devil dogs as grunts, maggots or something less. The action is savage, the story unsparing, the dialogue spiked with scathing humour. Full Metal Jacket, from its rigours of basic training to its nightmare of combat in Hue City, scores a cinematic direct hit.

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