Flawed but commendable black comedy set during a twenty four hour period in a large teaching hospital in Manhattan. It begins exuberantly with narration describing the series of blunders and misdiagnoses that lead to the death of a perfectly healthy patient (Roberts Blossom), a referral from a nursing home. His demise frees up a gurney, [...]

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Warren Beatty stars as Joe Frady, a second rate investigative reporter who has a habit of making enemies wherever he goes. He receives a frantic call from colleague Lee (Paula Prentiss) who years ago witnessed the assassination of a presidential hopeful at the Space Needle in Seattle. Since, witnesses have started dying mysteriously. Lee feels [...]

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This Academy Award winner for Best Picture involves Gene Hackman and Roy Schneider as NYPD vice cops (based on Eddie Egan and Sonny “Cloudy” Grosso) and their obsession with stopping a shipment of heroin from being smuggled into New York from Marseilles. Fernando Rey was cast as Alain Charnier – alias “Frog One” – the [...]

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