Blazing Saddles
Year: 1974
Actors: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman
Directors: Mel Brooks
Writers: Mel Brooks (screenplay), Norman Steinberg (screenplay), Andrew Bergman (screenplay), Richard Pryor (screenplay), Alan Uger (screenplay), Andrew Bergman (story)
Plot: In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
Sunset Boulevard
Year: 1950
Actors: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson
Directors: Billy Wilder
Writers: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr.
Plot: A screenwriter is hired to rework a faded silent film star’s script, only to find himself developing a dangerous relationship.
King of New York
Year: 1990
Actors: Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne, Victor Argo
Directors: Abel Ferrara
Writers: Nicholas St. John
Plot: A drug kingpin is released from prison and seeks to take total control of the criminal underworld in order to give back to the community.
The Fly
Year: 1986
Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel
Directors: David Cronenberg
Writers: George Langelaan (short story), Charles Edward Pogue (screenplay), David Cronenberg (screenplay)
Plot: A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
The Harder They Come
Year: 1972
Actors: Jimmy Cliff, Janet Bartley, Carl Bradshaw, Ras Daniel Hartman
Directors: Perry Henzell
Writers: Perry Henzell, Trevor D. Rhone
Plot: Wishing to become a successful Reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds himself tied to corrupt record producers and drug pushers.
The Elephant Man
Year: 1980
Actors: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud
Directors: David Lynch
Writers: Christopher De Vore (screenplay), Eric Bergren (screenplay), David Lynch (screenplay), Frederick Treves (book), Ashley Montagu (in part on the book “The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity”)
Plot: A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.
The Assassination Bureau
Year: 1969
Actors: Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Curd Jürgens
Directors: Basil Dearden
Writers: Michael Relph (screenplay), Jack London (unfinished novel), Robert L. Fish (novel), Wolf Mankowitz (additional dialogue)
Plot: The Assassination Bureau has existed for decades (perhaps centuries) until Diana Rigg begins to investigate it. The high moral standing of the Bureau (only killing those who deserve it) is …
