They were aware that soldiers went to town, in more ways than one, because of the monotony of camp life, to find the only release available in the absence of movies, reading rooms, and playing fields with adequate athletic equipment.

When he came to the movies -- more or less by accident -- they were still cheap entertainment capable of enthralling the unthinking for an idle few minutes.

The honored professionals were awarded for all the work done in a certain category for the qualifying period ; for example, Jannings received the award for two movies in which he starred during that period.

Unlike earlier adaptations that were set during the time in which the novels were written, however, these TV movies were set in the contemporary era.

Two other television movies were to be planned.

One of the oldest genres in film, some of the very first silent movies were comedies.

Individual movies from Alien to Midnight Run were pastiched.

For nine years after his father died, he worked the night shift wrapping bread at a Los Angeles bakery, attended USC, reviewed some movies, and wrote 88 short stories and six novels that were rejected for publication.

The Gulf War and similar skirmishes were an inspiration for dramatic films in war drama movies like Black Hawk Down ( 2001 ) and Jarhead ( 2005 ).

Original manga based on the Doraemon movies were also released in CoroCoro Comic.

Six more digital 3-D movies were released in 2006 and 2007 ( including Beowulf, Monster House and Meet the Robinsons ).

Until high school, of which he attended Saint Xavier High School in Louisville, Kentucky his featured characters were a large cast of stick figures featured in comedy-adventures like the Barks comics and old movies Don enjoyed most.

123 German movies were produced in 1955, only 65 in 1965.

The majority of films produced in the Federal Republic in the 1960s were genre works: westerns, especially the series of movies adapted from Karl May's popular genre novels which starred Pierre Brice as the Apache Winnetou and Lex Barker as his white blood brother Old Shatterhand ; thrillers and crime films, notably a series of Edgar Wallace movies in which Klaus Kinski, Heinz Drache, Wolfgang Völz, and Joachim Fuchsberger were among the regular players ; and softcore sex films, both the relatively serious Aufklärungsfilme ( sex education films ) of Oswalt Kolle and such exploitation films as Schulmädchen-Report ( Schoolgirl Report ) ( 1970 ) and its successors.

Such movies were commercially successful and often enjoyed international distribution, but won little acclaim from critics.

Most of these classic Soviet movies were produced by Mosfilm and other state-owned film studios.

Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Alberto Sordi, Claudia Cardinale, Monica Vitti and Nino Manfredi were among the stars of these movies, that described the years of the economical reprise and investigated Italian customs, a sort of self-ethnological research.

Most of the film noirs of the classic period were similarly low-and modestly budgeted features without major stars — B movies either literally or in spirit.

Her first film under RKO was The Most Dangerous Game ( 1932 ), co-starring Joel McCrea and shot at night on the same jungle sets that were being used for King Kong during the day, with the leads from both films, Wray and Robert Armstrong, appearing in both movies.

A significant example is Sam Raimi's Evil Dead movies, which were low-budget gorefests but had a very original plotline which was later praised by critics.

By studying high speed movies made of this type of failure, the sequence of relationships as schematically illustrated in Fig. 9 could be observed.

The discovery that movies are a form of fiction was made in the early years of this century and it was made chiefly by two men, a French magician, Georges Melies, and an American employee of Edison, Edwin S. Porter.

After Milne's death in 1956, his widow sold her rights to the Pooh characters to the Walt Disney Company, which has made many Pooh cartoon movies, a Disney Channel television show, as well as Pooh-related merchandise.

The Bronx's gritty urban life had worked its way into the movies even earlier, with depictions of the " Bronx cheer ", a loud flatulent-like sound of disapproval, allegedly first made by New York Yankees fans.

Toward the end of the 1920s, the introduction of sound into movies made possible dramatic new film styles and the use of verbal humour.

The war-time restrictions on travel made this a boom time for Hollywood, and nearly a quarter of the money spent on attending movies.

Cheerleading's increasing popularity in recent decades has made it a prominent feature in high-school themed movies and television shows.

Several feature and television movies have been made about the Philip Marlowe character.

" Apocalypse Nows reputation has grown in time and it is now regarded by many as a masterpiece of the New Hollywood era, and is frequently cited as one of the greatest movies ever made.

The Cinema of France comprises the art of film and creative movies made within the nation of France or by French filmmakers abroad.

This led to Wray being contracted to Paramount Pictures as a teenager, where she made more than a dozen movies.

The American Film Institute named it one of the best films ever made, putting it at the top of the list of AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Cheers, a list of what AFI considers to be the most inspirational American movies of all time.

( Rodriguez later made movies based on the ' false ' trailers.

Groucho Marx made 26 movies, 13 of them with his brothers Chico and Harpo.

A decade later, the team made some of their Broadway hits into movies, including The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers.

In commentary on the Blu-ray edition of Star Trek, director J. J. Abrams called Galaxy Quest " one of the best " Star Trek " movies ever made.

* Hera was a near-constant foe for Hercules in several made for TV movies and later the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.

The genre also included gory horror movies with sexual overtones, made as " A-movies " ( as opposed to " B movies ").

Wes Craven's Scream ( written by Kevin Williamson ) movies, starting in 1996, featured teenagers who were fully aware of, and often made reference to, the history of horror movies, and mixed ironic humour with the shocks ( despite Scream 2 and 3 utilising less use of the humour of the original, until Scream 4 in 2011, and rather more references to horror film conventions ).

There has been a major return to the zombie genre in horror movies made after 2000.

A series of nineteen Italian Hercules movies were made in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Many well-known films were made here including the first three Star Wars movies ( IV, V, & VI ).