There are eight million stories in the naked city; this is one of them: According to former WNEW-FM personality Jonathan Schwartz, New York City broadcaster Channel 9 had pink-slipped their technician, Tony Monte. On his last night at the WOR-TV controls, Monte was responsible for airing the 1947 Prison Film Brute Force, starring Burt Lancaster (Likely a 'Million Dollar Movie') - - - From behind the grim walls at Westgate Penitentiary in Brute Force, the prisoners file in watch the 1947 Screwball Comedy The Egg and I starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray. At the point in which The Egg and I's opening credits began to run, Monte cut to / edited in the entire 108 minute comedy the prison characters were watching. As The Egg and I's end credits rolled, he cut back to Brute Force and ran it to its conclusion. People watching the film on TV for the first time had no idea they were getting a two-for-one presentation with an hour and a half long 'film within a film' scene. Description: The bastard cousin of IMDB's "Featured In" section of their film title Connection pages: Non-Documentary Films which include excerpted scenes or clips of other films. They could be presented via montage, in a theater scene or shown on a television as part of the film's scene. Background images of film posters, shot for shot re-enactments, spoofs or dialogue references are not included. Artificial titles such as "Stolz der Nation" in Inglourious Basterds or "Disaster 76" in Drive-In are obviously not viable entries. Auto Approved Suggestions: Given the growing number of individual user lists focused around the book "1001 Films You Must Se Before You Die", maybe it's time for something a little less boring. Due to the fact there are probably tens of thousands of valid entries that are quite difficult to summon from memory, this list is set-up as having auto-approved suggestions. Add films [not TV programs], formatted as seen below and credit yourself. I'll alphabetize by their title [or English translation] as the list grows. Avoid titles without a poster (i.e. Le papillon fantastique in Hugo) - because lists with image holes are terrible to look at and read. |
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Cinematic Homage: Motion Pictures That Contain Excerpts Of Other Films Within Them
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