Assignment 4
movies.xml
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<movie-list>
<movie>
<heading>
<title>The Maltese Falcon</title>
<rating>**</rating>
<technical-details>
<country>US</country>
<year>1931</year>
<running-time>80 minutes</running-time>
<color>bw</color>
</technical-details>
<production>
<studio>Warner</studio>
</production>
</heading>
<synopsis>
<para>After the death of his partner, private eye Sam
Spade is dragged into a quest for a priceless
statuette.</para>
<para>Excellent crime melodrama with smart pace and
performances. Remade as <ref>Satan Met a Lady</ref>
(1936); and see below.</para>
</synopsis>
<credits>
<writer>Maude Fulton, Lucien Hubbard, Brown Holmes
from the novel by Dashiell Hammett.</writer>
<director>Roy Del Ruth</director>
<photography>William Reese</photography>
<actors>
<actor special="yes" type="lead" gender="M">Ricardo
Cortez</actor>,
<actor type="lead" gender="F">Bebe
Daniels</actor>,
<actor type="lead" gender="M" special="yes">Dudley
Digges</actor>,
<actor gender="M">Dwight Frye</actor>,
<actor gender="M">Robert Elliott</actor>,
<actor gender="F">Thelma Todd</actor>,
and <actor gender="M">Oscar Apfel</actor>.
</actors>
</credits>
<reviews>
<review>"The best mystery thriller of the
year." <reviewer type="periodical">New York Times</reviewer>
</review>
</reviews>
</movie>
<movie>
<heading>
<title>The Maltese Falcon</title>
<rating>****</rating>
<technical-details>
<country>US</country>
<year>1941</year>
<running-time>101 minutes</running-time>
<color>bw</color>
</technical-details>
<production>
<studio>Warner</studio>
<producer>Henry Blanke</producer>
</production>
</heading>
<synopsis>
<para>A remake which shows the difference between
excellence and brilliance; here every nuance is
subtly stressed, and the cast is perfection.</para>
</synopsis>
<credits>
<writer special="yes">John Huston</writer>
<director special="yes">John Huston</director>
<photography special="yes">Arthur Edeson</photography>
<music special="yes">Adolph Deutsch</music>
<actors>
<actor special="yes" type="lead" gender="M">Humphrey
Bogart</actor>,
<actor type="lead" gender="F">Mary
Astor</actor>,
<actor type="lead" gender="M" special="yes">Sidney
Greenstreet</actor>,
<actor gender="M" special="yes">Elisha Cook Jr.</actor>,
<actor gender="M" special="yes">Barton MacLane</actor>,
<actor gender="F" special="yes">Lee Patrick</actor>,
<actor gender="M" special="yes">Peter Lorre</actor>,
<actor gender="F">Gladys George</actor>,
<actor gender="M" special="yes">Ward Bond</actor>, and
<actor gender="M" special="yes">Jerome Cowan</actor>.
</actors>
</credits>
<reviews>
<review>"The first crime melodrama with finish, speed
and bang to come along in what seems like ages."
<reviewer>Otis Ferguson</reviewer>
</review>
<review>"A work of entertainment that is yet so skillfully
constructed that after many years and many viewings, it
has the same brittle explosiveness - and some of the same
surprise - that it had in 1941."
<reviewer>Pauline Kael, 1968</reviewer>
</review>
</reviews>
</movie>
<movie>
<heading>
<title>Trouble In Paradise</title>
<rating>****</rating>
<technical-details>
<country>US</country>
<year>1932</year>
<running-time>86 minutes</running-time>
<color>bw</color>
</technical-details>
<production>
<studio>Paramount</studio>
<producer>Ernst Lubitsch</producer>
</production>
</heading>
<synopsis>
<para>Jewel thieves insinuate themselves into the household
of a rich Parisienne, and one falls in love with her.</para>
</synopsis>
<credits>
<writer>Samuel Raphaelson, Grover Jones (from play
The Honest Finder, by Laszlo Aladar)</writer>
<director special="yes">Ernst Lubitsch</director>
<photography>Victor Milner</photography>
<actors>
<actor type="lead" gender="M" special="yes">Herbert
Marshall</actor>,
<actor type="lead" special="yes" gender="F">Miriam
Hopkins</actor>,
<actor type="lead" special="yes" gender="F">Kay
Francis</actor>,
<actor special="yes" gender="M">Edward Everett
Horton</actor>,
<actor special="yes" gender="M">Charles Ruggles</actor>,
<actor gender="M">C. Aubrey Smith</actor>,
<actor gender="M">Robert Greig</actor>, and
<actor gender="M">Leonid Kinskey</actor>
</actors>
</credits>
<reviews>
<review>"One of the gossamer creations of Lubitsch's
narrative art...it would be impossible in this brief
notice to describe the innumerable touches of wit and
narrative skill with which it is unfolded."
<reviewer>Alexander Bakshy</reviewer>
</review>
<review>"A shimmering, engaging piece of work...in virtually
every scene a lively imagination shines forth."
<reviewer type="periodical">New York Times</reviewer>
</review>
</reviews>
</movie>
</movie-list>