Glasgow Film Festival 2018

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The Defiant Ones The Defiant Ones
The Defiant Ones and The Grapes Of Wrath
Angels With Dirty Faces (Country: US; Year: 1938; Director: Michael Curtiz; Writer: John Wexley, Warren Duff; Stars: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Billy Halop)
A troubled priest tries to save street kids from the influence of a gangster.
Breathless (À Bout De Souffle) (Country: France; Year: 1960; Director: Jean-Luc Godard; Writer: Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut; Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville, Henri-Jacques Huet), Trailer
A young criminal hides out with a woman who can't decide whether or not she loves him. Plus read our exclusive interview with assistant director Pierre Rissient.
Bullitt (Country: US; Year: 1968; Director: Peter Yates; Writer: Alan Trustman, Harry Kleiner; Stars: Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn , Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, Simon Oakland)
An all guts, no glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection.
Cool Hand Luke (Country: US; Year: 1967; Director: Stuart Rosenberg; Writer: Donn Pearce, Frank Pierson; Stars: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin)
A laid back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.
The Defiant Ones (Country: US; Year: 1956; Director: Stanley Kramer; Writer: Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith; Stars: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel)
Two escaped convicts chained together, white and black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.
Breathless Breathless
Breathless and Rebel Without A Cause
Dog Day Afternoon (Country: US; Year: 1975; Director: Sidney Lumet; Writer: Frank Pierson, based on the book by Leslie Waller and articles by PF Kluge, Thomas Moore; Stars: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, Chris Sarandon, Sully Boyar, Penelope Allen, James Broderick, Carol Kane, Beulah Garrick, Sandra Kazan, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Amy Levitt, John Marriott, Estelle Omens, Gary Springer), Trailer
A bank job goes horribly wrong.
The Grapes Of Wrath (Country: US; Year: 1940; Director: John Ford; Writer: Nunnally Johnson, based on the book by John Steinbeck; Stars: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Dorris Bowdon)
A poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
Jailhouse Rock (Country: US; Year: 1957; Director: Richard Thorpe; Writer: Guy Trosper, Nedrick Young; Stars: Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy)
After serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star.
On The Waterfront (Country: US; Year: 1954; Director: Elia Kazan; Writer: Budd Schulberg; Stars: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning)
An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.
Rebel Without A Cause (Country: US; Year: 1955; Director: Nicholas Ray; Writer: Irving Shulman and Stewart Stern, based on a story by Nicholas Ray.; Stars: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Ann Doran, Corey Allen, William Hopper, Rochelle Hudson, Dennis Hopper)
The film which invented the teenager and introduced the world to James Dean.
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