Top cast:Marion Leonard,Dell Henderson,Gladys Egan
Director:Dean DeBlois
Genre:Horror
Region:United Kingdom
Year:2009
Storyline:Oliver narrates the opening line of he film, looking back:What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant? That she loved Mozart and Bach, the Beatles, and me?Their love triumphs over different economic-class backgrounds (he is a "preppie millionaire," she a smart-mouthed "social zero" from a blue-collar Italian/American family).Moving into the Alderaan system with the Death Star, he ruthless Grand Moff Tarkin planned to test the power of the Death Star by destroying Leia's home of Alderaan, a small bluish-green planet in space."Guffy" McGovern (Paul Douglas), the brash and loud-mouthed manager of the hapless Pittsburgh Pirates, was confronted in Forbes Field one night by the voice of the Archangel Gabriel (James Whitmore), a representative of a celestial ballclub known as the Heavenly Choir Nine; in exchange for winning ballgames with helpful but invisible angelic player-ghosts, the belligerent Guffy was required o become a changed man and cut back on his swearing and fighting; it was revealed that orphaned girl Bridget White (Donna Corcoran) had prayed for the winning miracles, and the story broke nationwide by news-columnist Jennifer Page (Janet Leigh); the film was remade and modernized by Disney in 1994Rhubarb (1951), a family screwball comedy with the subtitle "The Millionaire Tom-Cat" - starring Ray Milland and Jan Sterling; it was about a feral but loveable cat named Rhubarb who inherited a pro-baseball team - the Brooklyn LoonsThe Winning Team (1952),Warner Bros' fanciful story of the big-league "Alex the Great" - a farmer-turned-pitcher named Grover Cleveland Alexander (Ronald Reagan), who pitched for the Philadelphia Nationals (Phillies), the Chicago Cubs, and the St.You can't win these people over no matter what you do.They're just not gonna accept you." Out on the street, Black Bart is greeted by an old townswoman: "Up yours, nigger." The Waco Kid comforts and reassures the racially-slurred sheriff after his efforts to be accepted have failed:What did you expect? 'Welcome, sonny?' 'Make yourself at home.