Pure Quill - Pinto Bennet & Famous Motel Cowboys

Advantages: For lovers of the film, the period or the music of John Barry.
Disadvantages: A bit too easy listening for some

...for admirers of the movie, the period or the music of John Barry. Track Listing: 1. Everybody's Talkin' Harry Nilsson 2. Joe Buck Rides Again John Barry 3. A Famous Myth The Groop 4. Fun City John Barry 5. He Quit Me Leslie Miller 6. Jungle Gym at the Zoo Elephant's Memory 7. Midnight Cowboy John Barry 8. Old Man Willow Elephant's Memory 9. Florida Fantasy John Barry 10. Tears and Joys The Groop  11. Science Fiction John Barry  12. Everybody's Talkin' Harry Nilsson... Read review

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Advantages: Acting, Storyline
Disadvantages: Not to everyone's taste

...The story for Quills is set around a myriad of characters in the Charenton Asylum, a mental institution during the newly established Napoleonic regime of the early nineteenth century. Chiefly, the film is about the controversial French writer, the Marquis de Sade (Geoffrey Rush) and his writings of the time. While the film could have taken the route of many period films by tracing his life as a child through to an adult, Quills presents the final stages of his life. Incarcerated uner the First Empire for his illicit works in the asylum run by the Abbe Coulmier (Joaquin Phoenix), Quills spins a superbly constructed narrative around the Marquis, mutual love interest Madeleine (Kate Winslet), his many inmates and the Doctor Royer Collard (Michael Cain). Beyond the immediate conflicts and hypocrisies that run rampant throughout the film... Read review

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Advantages: Good routines, some good songs and fun story
Disadvantages: A bit of an oddity by todays standards

...than 25 films. Ride ?Em Cowboy sees Abbott and Costello playing two hotdog and peanut sellers at a rodeo show in New York. Duke (Bud) and Willoughby (Lou) are their normal incompetent selves and soon find themselves trying to get away from their boss. In doing so they soon find themselves on a dude ranch employed as cowboys, something they are really not good at. Mixed into the plot is the famous singer ?Bronco? Bill (Dick Foran) and the girl he falls for, who is also the daughter of the owner of the ranch. She thinks he is a fraud because he has built himself a reputation as a rooting tooting cowboy, when it is all made up so he has a great stage persona. Bill?s only chance to win her over is to help the ranch out. Throw in a bunch of crooks and some Indians after Willoughby because he inadvertently proposed to a squaw and you have all... Read review

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