Archive for February, 2007

Movie Title: So You Want to Be a Paperhanger (1951)

Movie Plot Summary: Joe McDoakes, ever obliging and always helpful, volunteers to hang the new wallpaper for his wife. With the help of his neighbor, Marvin, and despite interruptions and mishaps – lots of mishaps – Joe completes the job. There is a minor problem; Marvin has been papered to the wall.

Movie Title: Saturday Supercade (1983)

Movie Plot Summary: Video games were exploding in popularity in the 1980s. Characters from several of the more popular games were featured in Saturday Supercade, a weekly cartoon series perhaps most notable for being Donkey Kong’s first starring appearance in a cartoon series. The famous gorilla starred in his own segment, this time as a well-meaning but slow-witted (and sometimes easily manipulated) gorilla who had escaped the circus; his trainer, Mario, and then-girlfriend Pauline (of whom Donkey Kong had a huge crush), tried to capture the large ape. Other segments included Donkey Kong Jr., the famous gorilla’s young son who was aided in his search by his human friend, Bones; Frogger, about an investigative amphibious reporter for the Swamp Gazette; Pitfall, featuring the adventures of Pitfall Harry, his pet mountain lion Quickclaw and his niece Rhonda as they traveled through the forest in search of treasure; and Q*Bert, about the misadventures of a teen-aged orange creature. The latter two segments were shown on alternate weeks during the first season. During the show’s second season, only Donkey Kong and Q*Bert returned. Two new segments included Kangaroo, about a young mother kangaroo and her son, Joey, who were constantly harassed by a quartet of mischievous monkeys; and Space Ace, a teen-ager who fought aliens plotting to invade Earth.

Movie Title: Too Many Girls (1940)

Movie Plot Summary: Mr Casey’s daughter Connie wants to go to the Pottawatomie college and he sends without her knowlege four football players as her bodyguards. The college is in finacial trouble, so her bodyguards use their salery for the college. The football players join the college team, and so the team becomes one of the best. One of the football players, Clint, falls in love with Connie, but when she discovers, that he is her bodyguard she decides to go back to the East, her bodyguards follow her, so the football team is very weak for the game next day.

Movie Title: Halo 2 (2004) (VG)

Movie Plot Summary: The last protectorates of the outer colonies are destroyed; now Earth is all alone. After the destruction of Halo, the Master Chief and Cortana heads home for Earth. And the Covenant finds their way to earth to eliminate the human race. The Master Chief is their last hope.

Movie Title: Child of Darkness, Child of Light (1991) (TV)

Movie Plot Summary: A Catholic priest is sent to investigate reports of two immaculate conceptions. One is about to give birth to the child of God and the other is the child of the Devil and he must decide which one is good and which one is evil before Satan’s followers can stop him.

Movie Title: So You Want to Keep Your Hair (1946)

Movie Plot Summary: A humorous look at how men cope with hair loss. Joe McDoakes starts finding too much hair in his comb. He first asks for advice at the barber-shop. Each barber has a different solution. He reads books on the subject and tries different shampoos, all to no avail. In desperation he visits the ‘Mo-Hair Institute’, whose motto is If your hair is unbecoming to you…You should be coming to us.

Movie Title: Parineeta (1953)

Movie Plot Summary: In Calcutta at the turn of the century, two families (one wealthier than the other but both belonging to the same caste) live in adjoining properties. Their respective patriarchs fall out over the repayment of a loan and the intervention of a member of a lower caste in the families’ financial arrangements. The rift causes much heartache to the younger members of the families, two of whom have secretly plighted their troth to each other.

Movie Title: White Lies (1998) (TV)

Movie Plot Summary: Catherine (Sarah Polley), a first-year university student who feels alienated from the liberal campus, joins a hate group through the Internet and becomes their voice, only to gradually question their beliefs even as she becomes more deeply involved.

Movie Title: Switchin’ Kitten (1961)

Movie Plot Summary: A mad scientist, assisted by Jerry, swaps the brains of a dog and a cat. Tom happens by this castle and is baffled by the dog-like cat’s behavior. He keeps trying to convince the cat that it is a cat, but in the absence of a mirror, that proves difficult. He tries to leave, but instead encounters several more mixed-up animals, including a Jerry that’s been swapped with Leo the MGM lion.

Movie Title: Fall für TKKG: Drachenauge, Ein (1992)

Movie Plot Summary: The four young snoopers Tim, Karl, Kloesschen and Gaby by chance discover a hidden cave near an old castle. In it there’s a board that seems to describe the way to a legendary sword. They ask their history teacher Schindler about it. He forbids them further actions, but secretly continues investigations with help of two ruthless criminals. But our young heros don’t give up on an adventure so fast…

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