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Star Wars (1957)

Imagine if the original Star Wars trilogy was made twenty years earlier, in 1957. Who would play each character?

Casablanca (2012)

Imagine if the timeless classic romance movie Casablanca was made seventy years later, in 2012. Who would play each character?

Casablanca (2002)

Imagine if the timeless classic romance movie Casablanca was made sixty years later, in 2002. Who would play each character?

Casablanca (1992)

Imagine if the timeless classic romance movie Casablanca was made fifty years later, in 1992. Who would play each character?

Casablanca (1982)

Imagine if the timeless classic romance movie Casablanca was made forty years later, in 1982. Who would play each character?

Casablanca (1972)

Imagine if the timeless classic romance movie Casablanca was made thirty years later, in 1972. Who would play each character?

Casablanca (1962)

Imagine if the timeless classic romance movie Casablanca was made twenty years later, in 1962. Who would play each character?

Casablanca (1952)

Imagine if the timeless classic romance movie Casablanca was made ten years later, in 1952. Who would play each character?

The Big Sleep

Private investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by General Sternwood to help resolve the gambling debts of his wild young daughter, Carmen. Sternwood's older daughter, Vivian, provides assistance when she implies that the situation is more complex, and also involves casino owner and a recently disappeared family friend. As people linked to the Sternwoods start being murdered, Marlowe finds himself getting ever deeper into the case.

Multiple Cast & Crew Roles in Cinema

Usually, a person involved in movie production only does one thing for that movie, whether it is acting one character, directing, writing, editing, or something else. However, there are many cases of a person taking multiple roles in the creation of a film. Choose the people who succeeded best in such dual roles in cinema.

Manhattan

Isaac is a twice divorced New York writer with a 17 year-old girlfriend, Tracy, who has quit his job and is now afraid his upcoming book won't provide him with much of an income. It doesn't help that one of his ex-wives is also writing a book about their time together. He meets the somewhat pretentious Mary - who is seeing his married friend Yale - and he immediately takes a disliking to her. As they meet again however they begin to take an interest in each other and eventually fall in love. Tracy has a scholarship to a school in Europe and Isaac encourages her to take it, saying there is no future for them given the differences in their ages and the fact that he loves Mary. When Mary rekindles her affair with Yale, Isaac is left in the middle.

Mirror

A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.

The Earrings of Madame de...

When an aristocratic woman known only as "Madame de . . ." sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair.

The Sting

Following the murder of a mutual friend, aspiring con man Johnny Hooker teams up with old pro Henry Gondorff to take revenge on the ruthless crime boss responsible, Doyle Lonnegan. Hooker and Gondorff set about implementing an elaborate scheme, one so crafty that Lonnegan won't even know he's been swindled. As their big con unfolds, however, things don't go according to plan, requiring some last-minute improvisation by the undaunted duo.

City Lights

DescriptionA hapless but resilient tramp falls in love with a blind flower girl on the tough city streets. Upon learning that she and her grandmother are to be evicted from their home, the tramp undertakes a series of attempts to provide them with the money they need, all of which end in humiliating failure. But after a drunken millionaire lavishly rewards him for saving his life, the tramp can change the flower girl's life forever.

The General

One of the most revered comedies of the silent era, this film finds hapless Southern railroad engineer Johnnie Gray facing off against Union soldiers during the American Civil War. When Johnnie's fiancée, Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack), is accidentally taken away while on a train stolen by Northern forces, Gray pursues the soldiers, using various modes of transportation in comic action scenes that highlight Keaton's boundless wit and dexterity.

Rashomon

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Punch-Drunk Love

Although susceptible to violent outbursts, bathroom supply business owner Barry Egan is a timid and shy man by disposition, leading a lonely, uneventful life -- partly due to the constant berating he suffers from his seven sisters. However, several events transpire that shake up Egan's mundane existence, one of which is falling in love with one sister's co-worker, Lena Leonard. But the romance is threatened when Egan falls victim to an extortionist.

Lincoln

With the nation embroiled in still another year with the high death count of Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln brings the full measure of his passion, humanity and political skill to what would become his defining legacy: to end the war and permanently abolish slavery through the 13th Amendment. Having great courage, acumen and moral fortitude, Lincoln pushes forward to compel the nation, and those in government who oppose him, to aim toward a greater good for all mankind.

Tokyo Story

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.