The Last Gasps of Indian Summer by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Each time the bear appears before a higher ranking man in the corporation, the offices get progressively more elaborate. For example, there are progressively more phones, more waste baskets, more secretaries, all according to rank. The secretaries in particular melodically tell the bear and bosses to come in. There are also progressively more chins and less hair on each higher ranking person as the bear ascends all the way to the president's office.

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057 - Patton – Green Bay, Wisconsin

Patton

General George S. Patton addresses an unseen audience of American troops, emphasizing the importance Americans place upon victorious role models as well as his own demands that his men defeat the enemy by working and fighting as a team. “It is not the object for you poor bastards to die for your country. The object is to make the other poor bastard die for his.”

In its first encounter with the German Afrika Korps at Kasserine, the II Corps is humiliatingly defeated by General Erwin Rommel, whom Patton places in high regard as a well respected rival. As a consequence, Patton is placed in command of II Corps and immediately begins instilling discipline amongst his untested troops. Alongside the poor condition of American

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soldiers in the II Corps, Patton also identifies the stubbornness of his British counterpart; General Bernard Montgomery constantly undermines American forces in order to monopolize the war glory. Patton's chance to prove his worth comes at the subsequent Battle of El Guettar where Patton defeats the advancing German forces.

The eventual Allied victory in North Africa prompts both Patton and Montgomery to come up with competing plans for the Sicily invasion. Patton's plan, drawn from reference to the Peloponnesian War, highlights the strategic importance of Syracuse; if it fell to an occupying force, the Italians would surely withdraw. Patton proposes that Montgomery captures Syracuse, whereas he will land near Palermo then capture Messina to cut off the withdrawal. Though the plan initially impresses General Alexander, to whom Patton and Montgomery report, General Eisenhower turns it down in favor of Montgomery's more cautious plan that the two armies land side-by-side in the south-east, essentially relegating Patton to guarding the left flank of the British advance. The invasion proceeds, though upon the liberation of Syracuse, the Italians flee to mainland Italy but leave behind a rearguard which bogs down the British and American forces. Angered by the lack of progress being made, Patton thrusts west and captures Palermo, before beating

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Montgomery to Messina. Patton's blunt aggression sits poorly with his subordinates Omar Bradley and Lucian Truscott. During a visit to a field hospital, Patton notices a soldier, crying out of shell shock. Surmising that the soldier isn't actually physically injured, Patton slaps the soldier and threatens to shoot him for his cowardice and demands he return to the frontline. Eisenhower demands Patton apologize to his entire command for the altercation. Though Patton obliges, he is stunned to find out that Bradley, not he, has been given command of American forces preparing for the invasion of France.

With the Invasion of Normandy due to start, Patton is placed in charge of the fictional First United States Army Group as a decoy in London, the Allied consensus believing that his presence in England will tell the Germans that he will lead the invasion of Europe. At a war drive in Knutsford, Patton openly remarks that the post-war world will be dominated by British and American influence, seen as a slight to the Soviet Union. Though Patton objects to having done anything wrong, the situation has already spiraled from his control. The decision to send him home or keep him in England rests upon General George Marshall.

Though he is not present during the D-Day landings, Patton is given command of the Third Army by General Bradley, now his superior. Under Patton's leadership, the Third Army sweeps

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brilliantly across France but is unexpectedly brought to a halt when the supplies are diverted to Montgomery's ambitious Operation Market Garden.

During the Battle of the Bulge Patton devises a plan to relieve the trapped 101st Airborne Division in Bastogne, which he does before smashing through the Siegfried Line and into Germany.

Germany eventually capitulates, though Patton's outspokenness lands him in trouble once again when he compares American politics to Nazism. Though he loses his command once again, Patton is kept on to see the rebuilding of Germany in the post war period. In a final scene Patton is seen walking Willie, his bull terrier. Patton's voice is heard: “For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a triumph; a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeters and musicians and strange animals from the conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children, robed in white, stood with him in the chariot, or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror, holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning; that all glory ... is fleeting.”

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Masters of War

Bob Dylan

Come, you masters of war

You that build the big guns

You that build the death planes

You that build all the bombs

You that hide behind walls

You that hide behind desks

I just want you to know

I can see through your masks

You that never done nothin'

But build to destroy

You play with my world

Like it's your little toy

You put a gun in my hand

And you hide from my eyes

And you turn and run farther

When the fast bullets fly

Like Judas of old

You lie and deceive

A world war can be won

You want me to believe

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But I see through your eyes

And I see through your brain

Like I see through the water

That runs down my drain

You fasten all the triggers

For the others to fire

Then you sit back and watch

While the death count gets higher

You hide in your mansion

While the young peoples' blood

Flows out of their bodies

And is buried in the mud

You've thrown the worst fear

That can ever be hurled

Fear to bring children

Into the world

For threatenin' my baby

Unborn and unnamed

You ain't worth the blood

That runs in your veins

How much do I know

To talk out of turn?

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You might say that I'm young

You might say I'm unlearned

But there's one thing I know

Though I'm younger than you

That even Jesus would never

Forgive what you do

Let me ask you one question

Is your money that good?

Will it buy you forgiveness?

Do you think that it could?

I think you will find

When your death takes its toll

All the money you made

Will never buy back your soul

And I hope that you die

And your death will come soon

I'll follow your casket

On a pale afternoon

I'll watch while you're lowered

Down to your deathbed

And I'll stand over your grave

'Til I'm sure that you're dead

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Written by Bob Dylan.

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058 - Planet of the Apes – Federal Way, Washington Planet of the Apes

Astronauts Taylor, Landon, and Dodge awaken from deep hibernation after a near light speed space voyage. Stewart, the lone female crew member, is dead due to a sleep chamber malfunction caused by an air leak. The state of her remains foreshadows the survivors’ encounters with the apes. Their spacecraft crashes into a lake on an unknown planet. Taylor's expert estimate places them in Orion's Bellatrix System, 300

light years from their home Solar System. Before they abandon their sinking vessel, the three survivors read the ship's chronometer as November 25, 3978; two thousand and six years after their departure in 1972. However, due to time dilation, the astronauts themselves have aged slightly less than one year.

The men travel through desolate wasteland, coming across eerie scarecrow-like figures and a freshwater lake with lush vegetation. While swimming, the men's clothes are stolen and shredded by primitive mute humans. Soon after, armed gorillas raid a cornfield where the humans are gathering food. Taylor is shot in the throat as he and the others are captured. Dodge is killed and Landon is rendered unconscious in the chaos. Taylor is taken to Ape City. Two chimpanzees, animal psychologist Zira

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and surgeon Galen, save Taylor's life, though his throat injury renders him temporarily mute.

Taylor is placed with a captive female, whom he later names Nova. He observes an advanced society of talking apes with a strict caste system. Gorillas are the military force and laborers; orangutans oversee government and religion; and intellectual chimpanzees are mostly scientists and doctors. The ape society is a theocracy, while the apes consider the primitive humans as vermin to be hunted and either killed outright, enslaved, or used in scientific experiments. Taylor convinces Zira and her fiancé, Cornelius, that he is as intelligent as they are; one way by making a paper airplane. Dr.

Zaius, their orangutan superior, arranges for Taylor to be castrated against Zira's protests. Taylor escapes and finds Dodge's stuffed corpse on display in a museum. He is soon recaptured, in the process revealing that he can speak, which alarms the apes.

A hearing to determine Taylor's origins is convened. Taylor mentions his two comrades, learning that Landon was lobotomized and rendered catatonic. Believing Taylor either is from an unknown human tribe beyond their borders or was the subject of a mad scientist who gave him the power of speech, Zaius privately threatens to castrate and lobotomize Taylor for refusing to

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reveal his origins. With help from Zira's nephew Lucius, Zira and Cornelius free Taylor and Nova and take them to the Forbidden Zone, a taboo region outside Ape City where Taylor's ship crashed. Ape law has ruled the area out of bounds for centuries. Cornelius and Zira are intent to gather proof of an earlier non-simian civilization; which Cornelius discovered a year earlier. To be cleared of heresy, Taylor focuses on proving he comes from a different planet.

When the group arrives at the cave, Cornelius is intercepted by Zaius and his soldiers. Taylor holds them off by threatening to shoot Zaius, who agrees to enter the cave to disprove their theories. Inside, Cornelius displays remnants of a technologically advanced human society pre-dating simian history. Taylor identifies artifacts such as dentures, eyeglasses, a heart valve, and, to the apes' astonishment, a talking human doll. Zaius admits he has always known about the ancient human civilization. Taylor wants to search for answers.

Zaius warns Taylor against finding an answer which he does not like, adding that the now desolate Forbidden Zone was once a lush paradise. After Taylor and Nova are allowed to leave, Zaius has the cave sealed off to destroy the evidence, while charging Zira, Cornelius, and Lucius with heresy.

When the Music's Over

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The Doors

Yeah

When the music's over

When the music's over, yeah

When the music's over

Turn out the lights

Turn out the lights

Turn out the lights, yeah

When the music's over

When the music's over

When the music's over

Turn out the lights

Turn out the lights

Turn out the lights

For the music is your special friend

Dance on fire as it intends

Music is your only friend

Until the end

Until the end

Until the end

Cancel my subscription to the Resurrection

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Send my credentials to the House of Detention I got some friends inside

The face in the mirror won't stop

The girl in the window won't drop

A feast of friends

"Alive!" she cried

Waitin' for me

Outside!

Before I sink

Into the big sleep

I want to hear

I want to hear

The scream of the butterfly

Come back, baby

Back into my arms

We're gettin' tired of hangin' around

Waitin' around with our heads to the ground I hear a very gentle sound

Very near yet very far

Very soft, yeah, very clear

Come today, come today

What have they done to the earth?

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What have they done to our fair sister?

Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down

I hear a very gentle sound

With your ear down to the ground

We want the world and we want it...

We want the world and we want it...

Now

Now?

Now!

Persian night, babe

See the light, babe

Save us!

Jesus!

Save us!

So when the music's over

When the music's over, yeah

When the music's over

Turn out the lights

Turn out the lights

Turn out the lights

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Well the music is your special friend

Dance on fire as it intends

Music is your only friend

Until the end

Until the end

Until the end!

Written by Jim Morrison, John Paul Densmore, Robert A Krieger, and Raymond D Manzarek.

Taylor and Nova follow the shoreline on horseback. Eventually, they discover the remnants of the Statue of Liberty, revealing that this supposedly alien planet is actually Earth, long after an apocalyptic nuclear war. Understanding Zaius' earlier warning while Nova looks on in shock, Taylor falls to his knees in despair, condemning humanity for destroying the world.

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059 - Doctor Strangelove – Washington, DC

Doctor Strangelove

United States Air Force Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper is commander of Burpelson Air Force Base, which houses the 843rd Bomb Wing, flying B-52 bombers armed with hydrogen bombs. The planes are on airborne alert two hours from their targets inside the USSR.

General Ripper orders his executive officer, Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, an exchange officer from the Royal Air Force, to put the base on alert, confiscate all privately owned radios from base personnel and issue "Wing Attack Plan R" to the patrolling bombers. All the aircraft commence attack flights on the USSR and set their radios to allow communications only through their CRM 114 discriminators, which are designed to accept only communications preceded by a secret three letter code known only to General Ripper. Happening upon a radio that had been missed earlier and hearing regular civilian broadcasting, Mandrake realizes that no attack order has been issued by the Pentagon and tries to stop Ripper, who locks them both in his office. Ripper tells Mandrake that he believes the Soviets have been fluoridating American water supplies to

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pollute the "precious bodily fluids" of Americans. Mandrake realizes Ripper has become insane.

99 Red Balloons

Nena

You and I in a little toy shop

Buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got Set them free at the break of dawn

'Til one by one, they were gone

Back at base, sparks in the software

Flash the message "Something's out there"

Floating in the summer sky

99 red balloons go by

99 red balloons

Floating in the summer sky

Panic bells, it's red alert

There's something here from somewhere else The war machine springs to life

Opens up one eager eye

Focusing it on the sky

The 99 red balloons go by

99 Decision Street

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99 ministers meet

To worry, worry, super scurry

Call the troops out in a hurry

This is what we've waited for

This is it boys, this is war

The President is on the line

As 99 red balloons go by

99 knights of the air

Ride super high-tech jet fighters

Everyone's a superhero

Everyone's a Captain Kirk

With orders to identify

To clarify and classify

Scrambling the summer sky

99 red balloons go by

As 99 red balloons go by

99 dreams I have had

In every one, a red balloon

It's all over, and I'm standing pretty

In this dust that was a city

If I could find a souvenir

Just to prove the world was here

And here is a red balloon

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I think of you, and let it go

Written by Joern-uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen, Carlo Karges, and Kevin Mcalea.

In the War Room at the Pentagon, General Buck Turgidson briefs President Merkin Muffley and other officers about how "Plan R"

enables a senior officer to launch a retaliatory nuclear attack on the Soviets if all superiors have been killed in a first strike on the United States. Trying every CRM code combination to issue a recall order would require two days, so Muffley orders the US Army to storm the base and arrest General Ripper.

Turgidson, noting the slim odds of recalling the planes in time, then proposes that Muffley not only let the attack proceed but send reinforcements.

According to an unofficial study, this would result in "modest and acceptable civilian casualties" from the "badly damaged and uncoordinated" Soviet military remaining after the initial attack. Turgidson says; “I’m not saying that we won’t get our hair mussed a little,” then, while standing, spreads his arms to demonstrate how “we’ll fly in under the radar,” he not only gleeful, but seemingly ecstatic.

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Muffley rejects Turgidson's recommendation and instead brings Soviet ambassador Alexei de Sadeski into the War Room to telephone Soviet Premier Dimitri Kissov on the "hotline."

Muffley warns the Premier of the impending attack and after saying that “one of our men went a little ....... crazy” offers to reveal the targets, flight plans, and defensive systems of the bombers so that the Soviets can protect themselves.

After a heated discussion with the Premier, the ambassador informs President Muffley that the Soviet Union created a doomsday machine as a nuclear deterrent. It consists of many buried bombs jacketed with "cobalt–thorium G," which are set to detonate automatically should any nuclear attack strike the country. The resulting nuclear fallout would then engulf the planet for 93 years, rendering the Earth's surface uninhabitable. The device cannot be deactivated, as it is programmed to explode if any such attempt is made. The President's German wheelchair using scientific advisor, former Nazi Dr. Strangelove, points out that such a doomsday machine would only be an effective deterrent if everyone knew about it.

De Sadeski replies that the Soviet Premier had planned to reveal its existence to the world the following week at the Party Congress.

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US Army troops arrive at Burpelson and battle with the garrison.

After General Ripper commits suicide, Mandrake identifies Ripper's CRM code from doodles on his desk blotter and relays it to the Pentagon. Using the code, Strategic Air Command successfully recalls all of the bombers except for one, commanded by Major T. J. "King" Kong, due to the radio equipment being damaged by a Soviet SAM. The Soviets hunt the bomber, but Kong flies below radar and switches targets due to dwindling fuel. As the plane approaches the new target, a Soviet ICBM

site, the crew is unable to open the damaged bomb bay doors.

Kong enters the bay and repairs the electrical wiring while straddling an H-bomb. After that the doors open, and the bomb is dropped. Kong joyously hoots and waves his cowboy hat as he rides the falling bomb to his death.

In the War Room, Dr. Strangelove recommends that the President gather several hundred thousand people to live in deep underground mines where the radiation will not penetrate. He suggests a 10:1 female to male ratio for a breeding program to repopulate the Earth once the radiation has subsided. Worried that the Soviets will do the same, Turgidson warns about a

"mineshaft gap" while de Sadeski secretly photographs the War Room. Dr. Strangelove declares he has a plan, then suddenly rises from his wheelchair and exclaims; "Mein Führer, I can

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walk!" The film ends with a montage of nuclear explosions, accompanied by Vera Lynn's rendition of the song "We'll Meet Again."

We'll Meet Again

Vera Lynn

We'll meet again

Don't know where, don't know when

But I know we'll meet again

Some sunny day

Keep smiling through

Just like you always do

'Til the blue skies drive the dark clouds Far away

So will you, please, say hello

To the folks that I know?

Tell them I won't be long

They'll be happy to know

That as you saw me go

I was singing this song

We'll meet again

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Don't know where, don't know when

But I know we'll meet again

Some sunny day

We'll meet again

Don't know where, don't know when

But I know we'll meet again

Some sunny day

Keep smiling through

Just like you always do

'Til the blue skies drive the dark clouds Far away

So will you, please, say hello

To the folks that I know?

Tell them I won't be long

They'll be happy to know

That as you saw me go

I was singing this song

We'll meet again

Don't know where, don't know when

But I know we'll meet again

Some sunny day

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Written by Hugh Charles and Parker Ross.

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060 - El Topo – San Paolo, Brazil

El Topo

El Topo is traveling through a desert on horseback with his naked young son, Hijo. After they come across a town whose people, horses and livestock have been slaughtered, El Topo hunts down and kills the perpetrators and their leader, a fat balding Colonel. El Topo leaves his son to the monks of the settlement's mission and rides off with a woman whom the Colonel had kept as a slave. After turning bitter water sweet by

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stirring it with a branch, El Topo names the woman Marah. In need of food and water, El Topo spaces Marah's feet apart and digs up eggs from the sand beneath them, then utters a prayer before shooting a rock, which then releases water. When Marah tries these same techniques, she turns up nothing, seeming to lack El Topo's faith. After El Topo tears her clothes and apparently rapes her, Marah promptly becomes able to find eggs and water. She tells El Topo she will not return his love unless he proves himself the best gun fighter by defeating the desert's four great gun masters. Each gun master represents a particular religion or philosophy, and El Topo learns from each of them before instigating a duel. El Topo is victorious each time, not through superior skill but through trickery or luck.

After the first duel, a black clad woman who speaks with a man's voice finds the couple and guides them to the remaining gun masters. As he kills each master, El Topo has increasing doubts about his mission, but Marah persuades him to continue. After the final gun master outsmarts El Topo by killing himself before El Topo is able to kill him, El Topo becomes ridden with guilt, destroys his own gun and revisits the places where he killed the masters, finding their corpses either on fire, covered with geometrical objects, or swarming with bees. The unnamed woman confronts El Topo and shoots him several times in the manner of

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stigmata. Marah then rides off with the woman, while El Topo collapses and is carried away by a group of deformed people.

El Topo awakens many years later in a cave to find that the tribe of deformed outcasts have taken care of him and come to regard him as a god-like figure while he has been asleep and meditating on the gun masters' "four lessons." The outcasts dwell in a system of caves which have been blocked in. The only exit is out of their reach due to their deformities. When El Topo awakens, he is "born again" and decides to help the outcasts escape. He is able to reach the exit and, together with a dwarf girl who becomes his lover, performs for the depraved cultists of the neighboring town to raise money for dynamite to assist in digging a tunnel on one side of the mountain where the outcasts have effectively been kept imprisoned.

Hijo, now a young monk, arrives in the town to be the new priest, but is disgusted by the religion the cultists practice; notably symbolized by the frequent display of a basic line drawing of the Eye of Providence, and their violent preoccupation with guns, from their church "ritual" through to the film's bloody climax. Despite El Topo's great change in appearance, Hijo recognizes him and intends to kill him on the spot, but agrees to wait until he has succeeded in freeing the outcasts. Now wearing his father's black gunfighter clothes,

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Hijo grows impatient at the time the project is taking, and begins to work alongside El Topo to hasten the moment when he will kill him. At the point when Hijo is ready to give up on finishing the tunnel, El Topo breaks through into the cave. The tunnel has been completed, but Hijo finds that he cannot bring himself to kill his father.

The outcasts come streaming out, but as they enter the town they are shot down by the cultists. El Topo helplessly witnesses the community being slaughtered and is shot himself. Powering through his wounds, he massacres the town, then takes an oil lamp and immolates himself. His lover gives birth at the same time, and she and his son make a grave for his remains. This becomes a beehive like one of the gun masters' graves.

El Topo's son rides off with his father's lover and child on horseback.

Lu

Laura Nyro

Silver was the color

Winter was a snowbell

Mother of the wind boys

Livin' off the lovewell

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With Lu

And everybody's callin' Luie

Luie, Luie

You got a thing about you

Keep the light goin' for Luie

And Luie keeps on pushin' through

Through

Keeps on pushin'

Amber was the color

Summer was a flame ride

Cookin' up the noon roads

Walkin' on god's good side

I was walkin' on god's good side

God's good side

Through

He keeps on pushin'

I will always be fair

Be there for Lu

Forever and ever more

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Everybody

Everybody everybody

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

And everybody's callin' Luie

Callin' Luie

Everybody's callin' Luie callin'

My man

My man Luie

Callin' Luie

My man Luie

Callin' Luie

Callin' Luie

Luie

People and the captain

Callin' my man Luie

Written by Laura Nyro.

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061 - Frosty the Snowman – Artondale, Washington Frosty the Snowman

In a schoolhouse on Christmas Eve in 1960, inept magician Professor Hinkle unsuccessfully performs his tricks during a Christmas party. Upon being dismissed, the children go outside to play in the snow and build a snowman they name "Frosty."

Professor Hinkle chases his rabbit Hocus Pocus, who has absconded with his hat. The hat is blown off by the wind and caught by Karen, a student who puts it on Frosty's head which brings him to life. Seeing this as a chance to become wealthy, Hinkle reclaims the hat when it gets blown off and dismisses the children's belief that Frosty came to life. Later, Hocus switches the hat with a Christmas wreath and brings it back to the children. They use the hat to revive Frosty again, and the snowman is immediately amazed by his newfound life.

Looking Into You

Jackson Browne

Well, I looked into a house

I once lived in

Around the time I first went on my own

When the roads were as many as the places

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I had dreamed of

And my friends and I were one

Now the distance is done

and the search has begun

I've come to see

where my beginnings have gone

Oh, the walls and the windows

were still standing

And the music

could be heard at the door

Where the people

who kindly endured my odd questions

Asked if I came very far

And when my silence replied

they took me inside

Where their children

sat playing on the floor

Well, we spoke of the changes

that would find us farther on

And it left me so warm and so high

But as I stepped back outside,

to the grey morning sun

I heard that highway whisper and sigh,

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"Are you ready to fly?"

And I looked into the faces all passing by It's an ocean that will never be filled And the house that grows older

and finally crumbles

That even love cannot rebuild

It's a hotel at best,

you're here as a guest

You oughta make yourself at home

while you're waiting for the rest

Well, I looked into dream of the millions That one day the search will be through Now here I stand at the edge

of my embattled illusions

Looking into you

Ah, the great song traveler

passed through here

And he opened my eyes to the view

And I was among those

who called him a prophet

And I asked him what was true

Until the distance had shown

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how the road remains alone

Now I'm looking in my life

for a truth that is my own

Well, I looked into the sky for my anthem And the words and the music came through But words and music will never touch

the beauty that I've seen

Looking into you,

and that's true

Written by Jackson Browne.

However, the temperature begins to rise, and Frosty fears he will melt unless he can get to the North Pole. The children suggest putting him on a train to get there and they parade through town on the way to the train station, shocking several townspeople, including the traffic cop. Because they have no money for tickets, Hocus, Frosty, and Karen secretly board a northbound freight train's refrigerator car filled with ice cream and Christmas cakes while Professor Hinkle follows them to reclaim the hat.

As the train continues northward, Karen starts to freeze, and Frosty realizes she cannot withstand the extremely cold

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temperatures. When the train stops to let a passenger train pass, the group disembarks in search of somewhere to warm Karen, with Hinkle following in pursuit. By nightfall, Frosty and Hocus struggle to bring an unconscious Karen through the forest. Hocus asks the forest animals to build a campfire for Karen, which they succeed in doing. Fearing that the fire will not be good enough, Frosty decides to look for Santa Claus, whom they assume can save Karen and bring him to the North Pole. While Hocus searches for Santa, Professor Hinkle arrives and puts out Karen's fire. Karen and Frosty flee and arrive at a greenhouse, which Frosty bring Karen inside to warm up, only for Hinkle to arrive and keep them inside.

When Hocus and Santa arrive the greenhouse, Frosty has already melted. Santa comforts a heartbroken Karen, explaining that Frosty is made of Christmas snow and will return every winter.

He then opens the door and the winter wind revives Frosty. As they are about to put the hat on his head, Hinkle demands his hat back. Santa intervenes and threatens to never bring him another Christmas present if he reclaims the hat. After Hinkle leaves to write his apologies, Santa brings Frosty back to life, drops Karen off at her house, and takes Frosty to the North Pole, promising that he will return every year with the magical Christmas snow.

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As the credits roll, Frosty leads a parade with the children, Hocus, the narrator (Jimmy Durante), the traffic cop, and the rest of the town, including Professor Hinkle, sporting his new hat. As the parade ends, Frosty boards Santa's sleigh, and they fly off to the North Pole, with Frosty altering the song's last line, saying, “I’ll be back on Christmas Day!”

Frosty the Snowman

Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul With a corncob pipe and a button nose

And two eyes made out of coal

Frosty the snowman is a fairy tale, they say He was made of snow but the children know How he came to life one day

There must have been some magic in

That old silk hat they found

For when they placed it on his head

He began to dance around

Oh, Frosty the snowman

Was alive as he could be

And the children say

he could laugh and play

Just the same as you and me

Thumpety thump thump

Thumpety thump thump

Look at Frosty go

Thumpety thump thump

Thumpety thump thump

Over the hills of snow

Ooh Frosty the snowman

Knew the sun was hot that day

So he said, "Let's run and we'll have some fun Now before I melt away."

Down to the village

With a broomstick in his hand

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Running here and there all around the square Saying "catch me if you can!

He led them down the streets of town

Right to the traffic cop

And he only paused a moment when

He heard him holler "Stop!"

Oh, Frosty the snowman

Had to hurry on his way

But he waved goodbye, saying

"Don't you cry, I'll be back again someday."

Thumpety thump thump

Thumpety thump thump

Look at Frosty go

Thumpety thump thump

Thumpety thump thump

Over the hills of snow!

Written by Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins.

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062 - Date Bait – Brooklyn, NY

Date Bait

Delinquent teenage drama! Two confused teenagers are in love and want to get hitched, but their uptight parents say, "no way!"

The couple finds themselves on the sleazy side of town, where they are victimized by the new bride's hoodlum ex-boyfriend and his psychotic drug addicted brother! Big trouble! The teens must also contend with other assorted criminals, including drug dealers and mobsters!

Eventually things don’t quite work out, perhaps suggestive of the duo lackadaisically allowing their immediate environment to be a determinant of their fate.

Violence

Mott the Hoople

I'm a missing link, poolroom stink,

I can't talk

(Well that's too bad)

What's goin' on, somethings wrong,

I can't work

Can't go to school, the teacher's a fool, the preacher's a jerk

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(Well that's such a drag)

Got nothin' to do, street corner blues, and nowhere to walk

Violence, violence

It's the only thing

that'll make you see sense

Violence, violence

It's the only thing

that'll make you see sense

Gotta fight, nothings right,

niggers nowhere

(That's so sad)

Watch out for the gun,

snake on the run, hide in my hair

You keep your mouth shut, or you'll get cut, I like to scare

(Bet you're so mad)

I'm a battery louse, a superstar mouse, I don't care

Get off my back or I'll attack

And I don't owe you nothin'

(Okay)

Head for your hole, you're sick and you're old

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And I'm here to tell you somethin'

Violence, violence

It's the only thing

that'll make you see sense

Violence, violence

It's the only thing

that'll make you see sense

Violence, violence

It's the only thing

that'll make you see sense

Violence, violence

It's the only thing

that'll make you see sense

Violence, violence

It's the only thing

that'll make you see sense

Violence, violence

It's the only thing

that'll make you see sense

Violence, violence

It's the only thing

that'll make you see sense

Violence, violence

It's the only thing

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that'll make you see sense

Violence, violence

Written by Ian Hunter and Michael Geoffrey Ralphs.

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063 - One Hundred and One Dalmatians – Hutchinson, Minnesota

One Hundred and One Dalmatians

Aspiring songwriter Roger Radcliffe lives in a bachelor flat in London with his pet Dalmatian, Pongo. Deciding both of them need a "mate," Pongo watches women and their dogs in the street.

Noticing Anita and her Dalmatian Perdita, he drags Roger to the park to arrange a meeting. Roger and Anita fall in love, and soon marry, with Pongo and Perdita attending.

The pair hires a nanny and moves to a small townhouse near Regent's Park. After Perdita becomes pregnant with a litter of 15 puppies, Anita's fur obsessed former schoolmate, Cruella de Ville, arrives and demands to know when the puppies will arrive.

Roger responds by writing a jazzy song mocking her. When the puppies are born, Cruella returns, demanding to buy them. Roger firmly denies her offer; Cruella, refusing to take no for an answer, swears revenge and storms out.

Several weeks later, Cruella hires brothers Horace and Jasper Baddun, two burglars, to steal the puppies. When Scotland Yard is unable to find the puppies, Pongo and Perdita use the

"Twilight Bark," a canine gossip line, to solicit help from the other dogs in London.

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Colonel, an Old English Sheepdog, along with his compatriot Sergeant Tibbs, a tabby cat, investigate the nearby "Old De Ville Place," where puppies had been heard barking two nights earlier. Tibbs learns they are going to be made into dog skin fur coats, after which Colonel sends word back to London. Pongo and Perdita leave through a back window and begin a long cross country journey, crossing an icy river and running through the snow toward Suffolk.

Meanwhile, Tibbs overhears Cruella ordering the Baddun brothers to kill the puppies that night out of fear the police will soon find them. In response, Tibbs helps the puppies escape through a hole in the wall, but the Baddun brothers notice and give chase.

Pongo and Perdita break into the house and confront the Badduns just as they are about to kill the puppies. While the adult dogs attack the two men, Colonel and Tibbs guide the puppies from the house. Following a happy reunion with their own puppies, Pongo and Perdita discover there are 84 more puppies with them.

Shocked at Cruella's plans, they decide to adopt all of them, certain that Roger and Anita would never reject them.

The Dalmatians start their homeward trek, pursued by the Baddun brothers. They take shelter from a blizzard in a dairy farm with a friendly collie and three cows, then make their way to Dinsford, where they meet a Black Labrador waiting for them in a

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blacksmith's shop. Cruella and the Baddun brothers arrive, prompting Pongo to have his entire family roll in a sooty fireplace to disguise themselves as other Labradors. The Labrador helps them board a moving van bound for London, but melting snow falls on Lucky and clears the soot off of him.

Enraged, Cruella pursues the van in her car and rams it to try and force it off the road, but the Badduns, who try to cut it off from above, end up colliding with her. Both vehicles crash into a ditch. Cruella yells in frustration at the pair as the van drives off.

In London, a depressed Nanny and the Radcliffes try to enjoy Christmas, and the wealth they have acquired from the song about Cruella, which has become a big radio hit. The soot covered Dalmatians suddenly flood the house. Upon removing the soot and counting the massive family of dogs, Roger chooses to use his songwriting royalties to buy a big house in the country so they can keep all 101 Dalmatians.

Bear Melt

Jefferson Airplane

There are always just a few pebbles

In the middle of a stream

When it's trying to be a flowing mother

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Oh she blows she blows

Nobody knows

Oh there she goes

Nobody knows

Then along comes a little tiny

Animal nipping a

Few drops out of her side

Just a few drops from her side

She can run

She could stay

But the days not right

and so she's gonna move

Let me tell you gonna move

Let me tell you how

I'm gonna move along

Out away

But ahhhh

There's a man come along with a jacket on Long gun in his hand

I said there was a man coming on

With a red jacket on

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And a big long gun in his hand

Got a sledge hammer

All he needs is one head

Just one sledge hammer baby and all

All them animals is dead

Yeah dead

But why not keep the little animals alive?

Why not?

I say why not?

And don't you worry 'bout being sentimental honey They're just an animal you want to keep alive Keep alive

And give it to you what I have

Give it to me

Give to you yeah

And give it to me

Oh

You know how good it feels

when somebody gives it to you

Yeah, it feels good

when somebody gives it to you.

Gives it to you right here.

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Tell me how it feels.

When somebody gives it to you good.

Oh you could listen

To a thousand different reasons

Why you can't go.

Written by Paul L. Kantner, Grace Wing Slick, Spencer Dryden, John William Casady, and Jorma L. Kaukonen.

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064 - Atlantic City – Atlantic City, New Jersey Atlantic City

Sally Matthews is a young waitress from Saskatchewan, Canada, working at an oyster bar in an Atlantic City casino. She has dreams of becoming a blackjack dealer, going through dealer training under the tutelage of Joseph. Joseph, from France, encourages her to learn French and become a dealer in Monte Carlo.

On the Boardwalk (In Atlantic City)

Dick Haymes

On the boardwalk in Atlantic City

We will walk in a dream

On the boardwalk in Atlantic City

Life will be peaches and cream

There, where the salt water air

Brings out a lady’s charms

There on a rolling chair

He’ll roll right into your arms

Cinderella, you will find your fella

Someone that you’ve waited for

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In romantic enchantic Atlantic City

Down on the old New Jersey shore

There, where the salt water air

Brings out a lady’s charms

There on a rolling chair

He’ll roll right into your arms

In romantic enchantic Atlantic City

Down on the old New Jersey shore

Goodbye little chicks

We are leaving the sticks

We are catching a train

At a quarter to six

And if anyone should drop around

One, two, three

Tell them where we can be found

On the boardwalk in Atlantic City

We will walk in a dream

On the boardwalk in Atlantic City

Life will be peaches and cream

There, where the salt water air

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Brings out a lady’s charms

There on a rolling chair

He’ll roll right into your arms

Cinderella, you will find your fella

Someone that you’ve waited for

In romantic enchantic Atlantic City

Down on the old New Jersey shore

Atlantic City shore

Written by Joseph Myrow and Mack Gordon.

Sally's estranged husband Dave and her pregnant sister Chrissie show up one day with the intention of selling a $10,000 bag of cocaine he had stolen from a mob dead drop in Philadelphia.

Initially he didn’t know it to be mob involved, accidentally finding it in a public phone booth, but knowing that he stepped into the middle of a drug deal. When he tries to sell it he first finds no takers being told that this is a “family town.”

Sally is outraged to see him, as he had impregnated Chrissie and run off with her. Dave meets Lou, an aging former gangster who lives in Sally's apartment building and runs a small time numbers game in poor areas of the city. Lou also acts as a caretaker for Grace, a seemingly bedridden, aging beauty queen

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whose gangster husband he used to work under, and who constantly berates and demeans him. Dave convinces Lou to sell the cocaine for him, but as Lou sells the first batch to Alfie, who runs an illegal poker game in a hotel room, Dave is attacked and killed by the mobsters from whom he had stolen the drugs.

China Bird

Patti Smith

One fine day these words I pray

Will breathe a truth

Within yourself upon a shelf

A life anew

So many roads

It's hard to know what to do

All your dreams

All it seems

Is as you choose

For destiny my China bird

Is calling for you

The world turns

The flame burns

Bright and true

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Near and far

Where you are

Guiding you

China bird

The open sky

Is yearning for you

If they say it's not that way

Hold your view

Fly above and with my love

A light anew

Spread your wings

The open sky is calling for you

China bird my heart is yearning for you For you

If you fly away

I'll be waiting come what may

Hold my love a fragile ray

For you

For you

For you

For you

Written by Patti Smith and Oliver Ray.

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Lou is left with the remaining cocaine and continues to sell it to impress Sally, whom he has long pined for, with money. Sally and Lou make love one day, but she returns to her apartment to find it trashed. She has been tracked down by Dave's killers, who beat her to find out if she has the drugs. They leave, but Lou laments not being able to protect her. Grace also reveals that Lou was a small time crook and nowhere near as competent as he pretends.

Sally is fired from the casino when her late husband's criminal record is discovered. Lou sells most of the remainder of the cocaine, while both Sally and the mobsters discover Lou's affiliation with Dave. The mobsters corner them one night, but are killed when Lou produces a gun and shoots them. He and Sally then steal their car and leave Atlantic City. That night, from a motel, they watch the TV news reporting on the killing. A police sketch of the suspect is shown. It looks nothing like Lou. Lou is overjoyed with relief and pride. He confesses to Sally that this was the first time he has ever killed anyone.

At the motel the next morning, Lou takes the phone to the bathroom to call Grace and brag about the killings. Sally wakes and takes half of the money with the intention of sneaking off.

Lou witnesses this, allowing her to leave and giving her the car

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keys so she can escape to France, rather than go to Miami with him. Lou returns to Atlantic City to be with Grace. Working together, they sell the remaining portion of the cocaine and walk off arm in arm with renewed respect for each other.

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065 - The Electric Horseman – Sunrise Manor, Nevada The Electric Horseman

Norman "Sonny" Steele is a former championship rodeo rider who has sold out to a business conglomerate and is now reduced to making public appearances to sell a brand of breakfast cereal.

Prior to making a Las Vegas promotional appearance to ride the $12 million champion thoroughbred race horse who responds to the name of Rising Star, Sonny discovers to his horror that the horse has been drugged and is injured.

Identifying with the plight of the horse and disillusioned with the present state of his life, Sonny decides to abscond with Rising Star and travel cross country in order to release him in a remote canyon where herds of wild horses roam. Hallie Martin, a television reporter eager to be the first to break the Rising Star story, locates Sonny and follows him on his unusual quest through the countryside. While en route, the unlikely pair have a romance as they avoid the pursuing authorities.

Sonny releases Rising Star in the country where there are a herd of wild horses. The herd’s leader stares at Rising Star, causing him to be reluctant to go. Sonny tells him; “He’s big and strong, but he’s never won no championships.”

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Rising Star seems to understand and trots off toward the herd.

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066 - American Graffiti – Buck Creek, Indiana American Graffiti

On their last evening of summer vacation in 1962, high school graduates Curt Henderson and Steve Bolander meet two other friends, confident drag racing king John Milner and unpopular but well-meaning Terry "The Toad" Fields in the parking lot of Mel's Drive-In in Modesto, California. Steve and Curt are to travel "Back East" in the morning and start college but the latter has second thoughts about leaving. Laurie, Steve's girlfriend and Curt's sister, arrives moments later, Steve suggesting to her that they see other people while he is away at college to "strengthen" their relationship. Though not openly upset, it affects her interactions with him through the night.

Peg

Steely Dan

I've seen your picture

Your name in lights above it

This is your big debut

It's like a dream come true

So won't you smile for the camera?

I know they're gonna love it

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Peg

I like your pin shot

I keep it with your letter

Done up in blueprint blue

It sure looks good on you

And when you smile for the camera

I know I'll love you better

Peg, will come back to you

Peg, will come back to you

Then the shutter falls (shutter falls)

You see it all in 3D (foreign movie)

It's your favorite foreign movie

I like your pin shot

I keep it with your letter

Done up in blueprint blue

It sure looks good on you

And when you smile for the camera

I know I'll love you better

Peg, will come back to you

Peg, will come back to you

Then the shutter falls (shutter falls)

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You see it all in 3D (foreign movie)

It's your favorite foreign movie

Peg, it will come back to you

Peg, will come back to you

Then the shutter falls (shutter falls)

You see it all in 3D (foreign movie)

It's your favorite foreign movie

Peg, it will come back to you

Peg, will come back to you

Then the shutter falls (shutter falls)

You see it all in 3D (foreign movie)

It's your favorite foreign movie

Peg, it will come back to you

Peg, will come back to you

Then the shutter falls (shutter falls)

You see it all in 3D (foreign movie)

It's your favorite foreign movie

Written by Walter Carl Becker and Donald Jay Fagen.

Curt, Steve and Laurie attend the high school sock hop. En route, Curt sees a beautiful blonde woman driving a white Ford Thunderbird next to them, who mouths "I love you" before turning

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a right. The interaction causes Curt to desperately search for her throughout the night. After leaving the hop, he is coerced into joining a group of greasers called "The Pharaohs," who force him into several tasks including stealing coins from arcade machines and hooking a chain to a police car, ripping out its back axle. During a tense ride, the Pharaoh leader tells Curt that "The Blonde" is a prostitute, which he does not believe.

Wooly Bully

Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs

Uno dos, one two tres quarto

Ay, wooly bully

Watch it now, watch it

Here he comes, here he comes

Watch it now, he get 'cha

Matty told Hatty

About a thing she saw

Had two big horns

And a wooly jaw

Wooly bully

Wooly bully

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Yeah drive

Wooly bully

Wooly bully

Wooly bully

Hatty told Matty

Let's don't take no chance

Let's not be L-seven

Come and learn to dance

Wooly bully

Wooly bully

Wooly bully

Wooly bully

Wooly bully

Watch it now, watch it watch it watch it Ay

Ay, drive, drive, drive

Matty told Hatty

That's the thing to do

Get you someone really

Pull the wool with you

Wooly bully

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Wooly bully

Wooly bully

Wooly bully

Wooly bully

Watch it now, watch it, here he comes

You got it, you got it

Written by Domingo Samudio.

With Steve allowing Terry to take care of his car while he's studying at college, Terry cruises around the strip and picks up rebellious Debbie. Now calling himself "Terry the Tiger," he attempts all night to impress her by lying about the car being his and purchasing alcohol with no ID. While he and Debbie leave Steve's car in a rural spot in order to share a romantic interlude, thieves steal the car. Later, after the alcohol has made Terry violently sick, he sees Steve's car and attempts to steal it back. The car thieves appear and beat him up until John intervenes. Terry eventually admits to Debbie that he's been lying about the car all along and he actually drives a scooter.

She suggests it is "almost a motorcycle," and says she had fun with him, agreeing to meet up with him again.

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In an attempt to get cruising company for the evening, John inadvertently picks up Carol, a precocious 12 year old who manipulates him into driving her around all night. Lying to suspicious friends that she's a cousin and he's stuck with babysitting duty, they have a series of petty arguments until another car's occupants verbally harass her as she attempts to walk home alone, John then deciding to protect her. Meanwhile, skilled racer Bob Falfa is searching out John to challenge him to the defining race for John's drag racing crown. During his night of goading anyone he comes across for a challenge, he picks up an emotional Laurie after the argument with Steve that was brewing all night.

After leaving the Pharaohs, Curt drives to the radio station to ask omnipotent disc jockey "Wolfman Jack" to read a message out on air for the blonde in the White Thunderbird. He encounters an employee who tells him the Wolfman does not work there and that the shows are pre-taped for replay, claiming the Wolfman "is everywhere" but promises to have the Wolfman air the request. As Curt leaves, he notices the employee talking into the microphone and realizes he is in fact the Wolfman, who reads the message for the blonde asking her to call Curt on the pay phone at Mel's Drive-In.

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After taking Carol home, John is found by Bob Falfa, successfully goading him into the definitive race along Paradise Road outside the city, with some spectators appearing to watch.

As Terry starts the drag race, John takes the lead but Bob's tire blows out, swerving into a ditch and rolling over before bursting into flames. Steve, aware that Laurie was Bob's passenger, rushes to the wreck as she and Bob crawl out and stagger away before the car explodes. While John helps his rival to safety, Laurie begs Steve not to leave her. He assures her that he will stay with her in Modesto.

Exhausted, Curt is awakened by the pay phone. He finally speaks to the blonde, who does not reveal her identity but hints at the possibility of meeting that night. Curt replies that he is leaving town. Later at the airfield, he says goodbye to his parents and friends before boarding the plane. After takeoff, he looks down at the ground from the window and sees the white Thunderbird driving along the road below. Curt thoughtfully gazes into the sky.

In 1964, John was killed by a drunk driver; in 1965, Terry was reported missing in action near An Lộc. Steve is an insurance agent in Modesto and Curt is a writer living in Canada.

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067 - When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder? - Galisteo, New Mexico

When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder?

The story starts out in a neat but rundown little diner just off the highway in the middle of nowhere, New Mexico. The protagonist, Stephen "Red" Ryder, is sitting at the counter after finishing his shift. He is smoking a cigarette and drinking coffee from a paper cup. Angel enters to start her shift. Red and Angel discuss various subjects including Angel's bumpy relationship with her mother, Red's aspirations of getting out of town, and how they'd both like to tell off their boss, Clark. Red claims he can't leave town as of yet since his stepfather has just left his mother. Lyle, the gas station attendant across the street, enters and offers to lend Red some money so he can buy a car to leave town. Red rejects the offer, haughtily. Richard and Clarisse, a white collar couple who are clearly not from these parts, enter and take a seat at the counter. Lyle leaves to help fill their car. Richard emphasizes that Clarisse is a classical violinist and talks about subjects well out of the realm of understanding for the local folk, much to Clarisse's discomfort. Teddy, a foreboding man dressed in fatigues, and his much younger girlfriend, Cheryl, enter and tell everyone their car needs a new part. Lyle offers to take a

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look but Teddy insists he not look in the trunk. Teddy states they're on their way to Mexico while taking on an obvious and badly mimicked southern accent which comes and goes. He comes off as incredibly abrasive as he orders his food and makes small talk, prodding Angel, Red and Richard with increasingly uncomfortable questions, and his threats are often veiled by a joking manner. Richard, put off by Teddy, hurries Clarisse out only to return moments later because their keys are missing.

Lyle approaches Teddy and admits he saw what was in his trunk, suggesting smuggled drugs. Teddy tells him he shouldn't have done that and Lyle agrees, but suggests that if Teddy were to have taken Richard's keys it would be a bad move since no one here wants any trouble. He pushes him to just take Cheryl and leave. Instead, Richard begins accusing Teddy of stealing his keys outright which Teddy answers by pulling out a gun. Teddy demands they empty the register and tells Richard to give him Clarisse's violin as well. Richard refuses and tells Teddy he'll just have to shoot him. The stage goes black as Teddy fires.

Space Cowboy

Steve Miller Band

I told you 'bout living in the US of A

Don't you know that I'm a gangster of love?

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Let me tell you people that I found a new way And I'm tired of all this talk about love And the same old story with a new set of words About the good and the bad and the poor And the time's keep on changin'

So I'm keepin' on top

Of every fat cat who walks through my door

I'm a space cowboy

Bet you weren't ready for that

I'm a space cowboy

I'm sure you know where it's at

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

I was born on this rock

And I've been travelin' through space

Since the moment I first realized

What all you fast talkin' cats would do if you could You know, I'm ready for the final surprise There ain't no way around it

Ain't nothing to say

That's gonna satisfy my soul deep inside All the prayers and surveyors

Keep the whole place uptight

While it keeps on gettin' darker outside

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I'm a space cowboy

Bet you weren't ready for that

I'm a space cowboy

I'm sure you know where it's at

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I see the showdowns, slowdowns,

lost and found, turn arounds

The boys in the military shirts

I keep my eyes on the prize,

on the long fallen skies

And I don't let my friends get hurt

All you back room schemers,

small trip dreamers

Better find something new to say

'Cause you're the same old story

It's the same old crime

And you got some heavy dues to pay

I'm a space cowboy

Bet you weren't ready for that

I'm a space cowboy

I'm sure you know where it's at

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Written by Jason Kay.

Act two begins with the diner attendees tending to Richard's flesh wound. He's only been grazed in the arm. Teddy admonishes Red and Lyle for staring at Cheryl's breasts. He gives her his keys and tells her to follow Lyle to the car with the gun and make sure he repairs the car. In the meantime, Teddy begins to question the moral fiber of everyone there. He can see Clarisse and Richard's marriage is on the rocks and asks if she's happy with her husband parading her around and demanding she perform.

Richard protests but makes no move to silence Teddy. Teddy then moves on to Angel, suggesting that her weight and lack of smarts will land her in the same spot for the rest of her life; unmarried and spending her evenings watching TV with Lyle. When Red protests, Teddy attacks his spinelessness. He pokes fun at Red for sporting 1950s greaser garb and "Born Dead" tattoo and suggests if he were a real man he would've gotten a tattoo with a girl's name on it and been out of this town a while ago. Teddy even becomes enraged at Red's self-appointed nickname, insisting that the real Red Rider would've knocked him flat. He then begins a series of demands for the others to reenact a scene from a cowboy TV show, which gets more and more uncomfortable.

He threatens Red with violence if he doesn't pretend to ride

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around on a horse, "slap leather," and kiss his "best gal,"

played by Angel, on the lips. Teddy even goes so far to demonstrate what a real kiss is on Clarisse, in front of a helpless Richard. Lyle comes back with Cheryl to let Teddy know the car is fixed. When Teddy suggests Red have sex with Angel, the others protest. Instead, Teddy insists they all dance along to the jukebox, forcing them to occasionally change partners.

Teddy himself starts to dance which turns into a frenzy as he rips open Clarisse's shirt and roughly shoves her in front of the men, suggesting they ogle her like they previously did to Cheryl. Red attacks him only to be taken down immediately. Teddy tells Red to tape everyone's hand and wrists. He steals the money from Richard’s wallet before he leaves, but Cheryl is now seriously hesitating to follow him out. Teddy leaves without her. A little while later, Clark, the diner owner enters, frees the others, and tells Richard to call the police while he keeps Cheryl from running. He demands to know why Red let his diner get robbed. Red finally tells him off before accepting Lyle's loan and hitching a ride with Richard and Clarisse to leave the diner, and the town, for good. Lyle asks Angel if she'll be over to watch TV tonight and she says she should stay home and make amends with her mom. The play closes with her resuming her duties behind the counter.

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068 - Cool Hand Luke – Thibodaux, Louisiana Cool Hand Luke

In early 1950s Florida, decorated World War II veteran Lucas

"Luke" Jackson drunkenly beheads several parking meters. He is sentenced to two years on a chain gang in a prison camp run by the Captain, a stern warden, and Walking Boss Godfrey, a quiet rifleman nicknamed "the man with no eyes" because he always wears mirrored sunglasses. There, even minor violations are punished by "a night in the box," a small wooden booth in the prison yard with limited air and space.

Eight Miles High

The Byrds

Eight miles high, and when you touch down You'll find that it's stranger than known Signs in the street, that say where you're going Are somewhere just being their own

Nowhere is there warmth to be found

Among those afraid of losing their ground Rain gray town, known for its sound

In places, small faces unbound

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Round the squares, huddled in storms

Some laughing, some just shapeless forms Sidewalk scenes, and black limousines

Some living, some standing alone

Written by Gene Clark, James McGuinn, and David Van Cortland Crosby.

Luke refuses to observe the established order among the prisoners and quickly runs afoul of their leader, Dragline. When the two have a boxing match, Luke is severely outmatched but refuses to acquiesce. Eventually, Dragline stops the fight, but Luke's tenacity earns the prisoners' respect and draws the guards' attention. He later wins a poker game by bluffing with a hand worth nothing, and Dragline christens him "Cool Hand Luke."

After a visit from his sick mother, Arletta, Luke becomes more optimistic about his situation. He repeatedly shows defiance to the Captain and the guards, and his sense of humor and independence prove inspiring to the other prisoners. Luke's struggle for supremacy peaks when he leads a work crew in a seemingly impossible but successful effort to complete a road paving job in less than a day. The prisoners start to idolize him after he wins a bet that he can eat 50 hard-boiled eggs in an hour.

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One evening, Luke receives notice that his mother has died.

Anticipating that Luke might attempt to escape to attend the funeral, the Captain has him locked in the box. After being released, Luke becomes determined to escape. Under cover of a Fourth of July celebration, he makes his initial escape attempt.

He is recaptured by local police and returned to the chain gang.

The Captain has Luke fitted with leg irons and delivers a warning speech to the inmates. Shortly afterward, Luke escapes a second time. While free, Luke mails the prison a magazine that includes a photograph of himself with two beautiful women. He is soon recaptured, beaten, returned to the prison camp, and fitted with two sets of leg irons. The Captain warns Luke that he will be killed if he ever attempts to escape again. Luke becomes annoyed by the other prisoners fawning over the magazine photo and says he faked it. At first, the other prisoners are angry, but when Luke returns after a long stay in the box and is punished by being forced to eat a massive serving of rice, the others help him finish it.

For his escape, the guards brutalize Luke to the point of exhaustion, particularly when he is forced to repeatedly dig and refill a grave sized hole in the prison yard. He eventually breaks down and begs for mercy, losing the respect of his fellow inmates. Luke seems to succumb to cowardice and become an errand

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boy for the guards, but when an opportunity presents itself, he flees again by stealing a truck, with Dragline joining him.

After abandoning the truck, the pair agree to separate. Luke enters a church and talks to God, whom he blames for sabotaging him so he cannot win in life. Police cars appear moments later, and Dragline arrives to tell him that he will not be hurt if he surrenders peacefully. Instead, Luke mockingly repeats the Captain's warning speech at the police. Godfrey shoots him in the neck. Dragline carries Luke outside and surrenders, but charges at Godfrey and strangles him until he is subdued by the guards. While Luke is loaded into the Captain's car, Dragline tearfully implores him to live. Against the local police's protests, the Captain decides to take Luke to the distant prison infirmary instead of the local hospital, ensuring Luke will not survive the trip. As the car drives away, a semi-conscious Luke weakly smiles while the tires crush Godfrey's sunglasses. After Luke's implied death, Dragline and the other prisoners fondly reminisce about him.

Some time later, the prison crew works near a rural intersection close to where Luke was shot, with Dragline now wearing leg irons and a new Walking Boss supervising.

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069 - Hallucination Generation – Barcelona, Spain Hallucination Generation

“Hallucination Generation” is a 1967 film by Edward Mann.

Purportedly intended as a warning against the dangers of pill-popping Sixties hedonism along the lines of 1936's “Reefer Madness,” the film's primary purpose appears to have been titillation, thus landing it in the genre of exploitation cinema.

The film is a drama set in Spain where a small group of American young adults is living. The leader of the group is a drug dealer. The others are there living carefree lives as hippies.

The leader has more nefarious aims in mind, and uses drugs to lure the others into lives of crime. Most of the film is in black and white, but there is a psychedelic sequence depicting the purported effects of the group using LSD which was filmed in color.

It is often cited as an example of counterculture cinema.

In a sub-plot line, George Montgomery is the psychedelic advisor to a circle of young expatriates living on the Isle of Ibiza.

Visitor Danny Stone, who avoids taking part in the fun until his mother cuts off his allowance, seeks help in a monastery after

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an LSD induced crime spree results in the murder of a Barcelona antiques dealer.

Upstairs By a Chinese Lamp

Laura Nyro

Market in the cool white mornin'

Merchants sell while women buy

Milk, tobacco, soap and matches

Sweep the floor while the dishes dry

Spring whispered in her ear

Like soft Mediterranean wailin'

Sleepy woman by the window

Dreamin' in the morning air

Of the one who takes her sweetness

By a Chinese lamp upstairs

The steam of China tea

You could hear the woman sing

In the soft flames of spring

Spring has swept the scarlet side streets Winds caress, undress, invite

Upstairs by a China lamp

They softly talk in the cool spring night

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Written by Laura Nyro.

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070 - One Million Years B.C. – Stevens Point, Wisconsin One Million Years B.C.

Men of the dark haired Rock tribe, led by chief Akhoba, who is accompanied by his rivaling sons, Tumak and Sakana, capture and kill a warthog and return to share it with the rest of the tribe. Tumak and Akhoba fight over the meat, and Akhoba banishes Tumak to the harsh desert. After surviving several encounters with various prehistoric creatures, Tumak collapses on a remote beach and is spotted by Loana and other women of the fair haired Shell tribe. Joined by some of the men from the tribe, Loana rescues Tumak from an Archelon which is driven into the sea.

Tumak is taken to the Shell tribe's village where he discovers they are more civilized and advanced than the Rock Tribe.

I'm a Believer

The Monkees

I thought love was only true in fairy tales Meant for someone else but not for me

Ah, love was out to get me

That's the way it seemed

Disappointment haunted all my dreams

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Then I saw her face, now I'm a believer Not a trace of doubt in my mind

I'm in love, I'm a believer

I couldn't leave her if I tried

I thought love was more or less, a givin' thing Seems the more I gave the less I got

What's the use in tryin'?

All you get is pain

When I needed sunshine, I got rain

Ah, then I saw her face, now I'm a believer Not a trace of doubt in my mind

I'm in love, I'm a believer

I couldn't leave her if I tried, ah

Ah, love was out to get me

Now, that's the way it seemed

Disappointment haunted all my dreams

Ah, then I saw her face, now I'm a believer Not a trace of doubt in my mind

I'm in love, ah, I'm a believer

I couldn't leave her if I tried

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Yes, I saw her face, now I'm a believer No, not a trace of doubt in my mind

Said I'm a believer, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

I'm a believer

Said I'm a believer, yeah

I'm a believer

Said I'm a believer, yeah

I'm a believer

Written by Neil Diamond.

Back at the Rock tribe, Sakana tries to seize power by killing Akhoba. Akhoba survives, but is a broken man as Sakana becomes the new leader.

With the Shell tribe, Tumak rescues a small girl from an attack by an Allosaurus, endearing him to Loana. However, Tumak is banished from the village after he fights Shell tribe member Ahot for possession of the spear Tumak used to fight the creature. Loana decides to accompany Tumak, and Ahot surrenders the spear to Tumak in a gesture of good will. Tumak, with Loana in tow, wanders back to the Rock Tribe camp, but again, there are altercations. They eventually witness an epic fight between a Triceratops and a Ceratosaurus after they encountered and are

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chased by one of them. The most dramatic fight is a fight between Tumak's current love interest Loana and his former lover Nupondi. Loana wins the fight but refuses to strike the killing blow, despite the encouragement from the other members of the tribe. Sakana resents Tumak's and Loana's attempts at incorporating Shell tribe ways into their culture. While the Rock tribe is swimming, a female Pteranodon attacks and snatches Loana to feed her to her offspring. However, a Rhamphorhynchus intervenes and a fight ensues. Loana is dropped into the sea and makes it to shore. At first, Tumak mistakenly believes Loana is dead, but they are soon reunited.

Sakana leads a group of like-minded fellow hunters in an armed revolt against Akhoba. Tumak, Ahot and Loana, and other members of the Shell tribe arrive and join the fight against Sakana. In the midst of the battle, a volcano suddenly erupts. Members of both tribes are killed by either the effects of the volcano, or by their attackers. Sakana is speared to death and Akhoba is crushed by falling rock. Tumak, Loana, and the surviving members of both tribes emerge from the desolation and jointly set off to find a new home, with Tumak as the new leader.

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071 - One Eyed Jacks – Sonora, Mexico

One Eyed Jacks

Rio, his mentor Dad Longworth, and a third man called Doc rob a bank of two saddlebags of gold in Sonora, Mexico in 1880.

Mexican Rurales, mounted police, catch them celebrating in a cantina and kill Doc. Dad and Rio escape, but Dad leaves Rio to be taken by the Rurales. Rio is arrested and spends five hard years in a Sonora prison. He escapes and travels to Monterey, California, where Dad has become sheriff. Rio plans to kill Dad and rob the bank in Monterey with his new partners Chico Modesto, Harvey Johnson and Bob Emory.

(Don't Fear) The Reaper

Blue Öyster Cult

All our times have come

Here, but now they're gone

Seasons don't fear the reaper

Nor do the wind, the sun, or the rain

(We can be like they are)

Come on, baby

(Don't fear the reaper)

Baby, take my hand

(Don't fear the reaper)

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We'll be able to fly

(Don't fear the reaper)

Baby, I'm your man

La, la la, la la

La, la la, la la

Valentine is done

Here, but now they're gone

Romeo and Juliet

Are together in eternity

(Romeo and Juliet)

40,000 men and women every day

(Like Romeo and Juliet)

40,000 men and women every day

(Redefine happiness)

Another 40,000 coming every day

(We can be like they are)

Come on, baby

(Don't fear the reaper)

Baby, take my hand

(Don't fear the reaper)

We'll be able to fly

(Don't fear the reaper)

Baby, I'm your man

La, la la, la la

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La, la la, la la

Love of two is one

Here, but now they're gone

Came the last night of sadness

And it was clear she couldn't go on

Then the door was open,

and the wind appeared

The candles blew, and then disappeared

The curtains flew, and then he appeared (Saying, "Don't be afraid")

Come on, baby

(And she had no fear)

And she ran to him

(Then they started to fly)

They looked backward, and said goodbye

(She had become like they are)

She had taken his hand

(She had become like they are)

Come on, baby

(Don't fear the reaper)

Written by Donald Roeser.

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Plans are sidetracked when Rio falls in love with Dad's beautiful stepdaughter, Louisa. Rio takes advantage of a fiesta to spend the night with her on the beach. Dad tries to punish Louisa for what happened, but backs down after intervention by his wife, Maria. Instead, he traps Rio, whips him in public, and smashes his gun hand to make sure Rio will never be able to beat him in a gunfight. While recovering from his wounds, Rio struggles with his conflicting desires to love the girl and to get revenge on her stepfather. He decides to forgo vengeance, fetch Louisa, and leave town.

Emory and Johnson kill Chico and pull off the bank job without Rio's knowledge. The heist goes wrong and a young girl is killed. Dad accuses Rio of the crime. Dad has one last private talk with Rio, again attempting to absolve himself for all he has done. Rio replies; "You're a one eyed jack around here, Dad, but I've seen the other side of your face." Rio tells him he had been imprisoned for the last five years, but Dad calls it a lie.

Louisa visits Rio in jail to tell him she is going to have his baby. He is then beaten by sadistic deputy Lon Dedrick, who desired and has been denied Louisa's affection. Maria confronts Dad and insists on being told the truth about the relationship between him and Rio, stating she knew something was wrong since the moment Rio arrived. She says she knows Dad wants to hang him

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purely out of guilt. Dad tells her she has no appreciation for everything he has done for her.

Louisa attempts to smuggle a Derringer to Rio, but she is discovered by Dedrick, who carries her out of the jail, leaving the gun on a table. While they are out, Rio is able to get hold of the pistol. Pointing the unloaded gun at Dedrick when he returns, Rio bluffs his way out of jail in a tense confrontation. Rio takes Dedrick's revolver, beats him unconscious, and locks him in a cell. As Rio is making his escape, he is spotted by Dad, riding into town. Under fire, in the final showdown Rio shoots Dad dead.

Rio and Louisa ride out to the dunes and say a sentimental farewell. Now a hunted man, Rio tells Louisa that he might go to Oregon, but will return for her in the spring.

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072 - Magical Mystery Tour – Windsor, England, UK

Magical Mystery Tour

Magical Mystery Tour

The Beatles

Roll up, roll up for the magical mystery tour!

Step right this way!

Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour

Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour

Roll up (And that's an invitation)

Roll up for the mystery tour

Roll up (To make a reservation)

Roll up for the mystery tour

The magical mystery tour is waiting to take you away Waiting to take you away

Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour

Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour

Roll up (We've got everything you need) Roll up for the mystery tour

Roll up (Satisfaction guaranteed)

Roll up for the mystery tour

The magical mystery tour is hoping to take you away Hoping to take you away

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A mystery trip

Ah, the magical mystery tour

Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour

Roll up (And that's an invitation)

Roll up for the mystery tour

Roll up (To make a reservation)

Roll up for the mystery tour

The magical mystery tour is coming to take you away Coming to take you away

The magical mystery tour is dying to take you away Dying to take you away, take you today

Written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon.

The situation is that of a group of people on a British mystery tour in a 1967 coach, focusing mostly on Richard B. Starkey (Ringo Starr) and his recently widowed Auntie Jessie. Other group members on the bus include the tour director, Jolly Jimmy Johnson; the tour hostess, Miss Wendy Winters; the conductor, Buster Bloodvessel; and the other Beatles; John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison.

During the course of the tour, "strange things begin to happen"

at the whim of "four or five magicians," four of whom are played

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by the Beatles themselves and the fifth by the band's long time road manager Mal Evans.

During the journey, Starkey and his Aunt Jessie argue continually. Aunt Jessie begins to have daydreams of falling in love with Buster Bloodvessel, who displays increasingly eccentric and disturbing behavior. The tour involves several strange activities, such as an impromptu race in which each of the passengers employs a different mode of transportation. Some run, a few jump into cars, and a group of people pedal a long bike, while Starkey ends up beating them all with the bus. In one scene, the tour group walk through what appears to be a British Army recruitment office and are greeted by the army drill sergeant. Paul McCartney appears briefly as "Major McCartney," on whose desk rests a sign reading "I you WAS." The sergeant, shouting incomprehensibly, appears to instruct the assembled onlookers on how to attack a stuffed cow.

The tour group also crawl into a tiny tent in a field, inside which is a projection theatre. A scene in a restaurant shows a waiter, named Pirandello, played by John Lennon, continuously shoveling spaghetti onto the table in front of Aunt Jessie, while arriving guests step out from a lift and walk across the dining tables. The film continues with the tour's male passengers watching a strip show. The film ends with the Beatles

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dressed in white tailcoats, highlighting a glamorous old style dance crowd scene, accompanied by the song "Your Mother Should Know."

The film is interspersed with musical interludes, which include the Beatles performing "I Am the Walrus" wearing animal masks, Harrison singing "Blue Jay Way" while waiting on Blue Jay Way Road, and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band performing Vivian Stanshall and Neil Innes' "Death Cab for Cutie" sung by Stanshall.

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073 - Eight Miles High – Berlin, Germany Eight Miles High

Obermaier enjoyed sexual freedom at the legendary Kommune 1 in Berlin after being with the krautrock band Bröselpilze. In the Kommune, she becomes friendly with Rainer Langhans. The young woman from Munich gains employment as a model, and becomes a sex symbol and youth icon. Now a cover girl in Playboy magazine, she meets rock stars such as Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, while Italian film producer, Carlo Ponti, offers her a ten year contract, but she declines: her freedom is more important than a contract.

Different Drum

Stone Poneys with Linda Ronstadt

You and I travel to the beat of a different drum Oh, can't you tell by the way I run?

Everytime you make eyes at me

Woah

You cry and moan and say it will work out But honey child, I've got my doubts

You can't see the forest for the trees

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So, don't get me wrong

It's not that I knock it

It's just that I, I'm not in the market For a boy who wants to love only me

Yes, and I ain't sayin' you ain't pretty All I'm sayin's I'm not ready

For any person, place or thing

To try and pull the reins in on me

So goodbye, I'll be leavin'

I see no sense in this cryin' and grievin'

We'll both live a lot longer

If you live without me

So, don't get me wrong

It's not that I knock it

It's just that I, I'm not in the market For a boy who wants to love only me

Yes, and I ain't sayin' you ain't pretty All I'm sayin's I'm not ready

For any person, place or thing

To try and pull the reins in on me

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So goodbye, I'll be leavin'

I see no sense in this cryin' and grievin'

We'll both live a lot longer

If you live without me

Written by Michael Nesmith.

During her intensive relationship with Keith Richards, she begins to recognize the dark side of the shiny glamour world she lives in; the isolation of the stars and the groupie populated milieux of anonymous hotel rooms. This is not her idea of life.

She finds new freedom in a relationship with the adventurer Dieter Bockhorn. They fall in love and go on a six year road trip around the world. Later, Bockhorn dies in a motorcycle accident in Mexico.

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074 - Barbarella – Tulsa, Oklahoma

Barbarella

In an unspecified future time, space adventurer Barbarella is sent by the Earth's president to retrieve Durand Durand from the Tau Ceti planetary system. Durand is the inventor of a laser powered weapon, the positronic ray, which Earth's leaders fear will cause mass destruction. Barbarella crash lands on Tau Ceti's 16th planet and is knocked unconscious by two children.

They bring her to the wreckage of a spaceship, where they bind and attack her using mechanical dolls with razor sharp teeth.

Barbarella is rescued by Mark Hand, the Catchman who patrols the ice looking for errant children. Hand tells her that Durand is in the city of Sogo and offers her a ride to her ship in his ice boat. When Barbarella offers to repay him, Hand asks her to make love to him. Barbarella is confused since Earthlings no longer have intimate physical contact. Instead, they take pills "until full rapport is achieved." Hand suggests having sex in his bed instead. Barbarella relents and enjoys it but admits that she understands why sex is considered primitive and distracting on Earth.

I Get Around

The Beach Boys

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I get around

Yeah

Get around round round

I get around

I get around

Get around round round

I get around

From town to town

Get around round round

I get around

I'm a real cool head

Get around round round

I get around

I'm makin' real good bread

Get around round round

I get around

I'm gettin' bugged driving up and down the Round and up and down

Same old strip

I gotta find a new place where the kids are hip Driving up and down the same old strip

My buddies and me are getting real well known Yeah, the bad guys know us and they leave us alone

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I get around

Get around round round

I get around

From town to town

Get around round round

I get around

I'm a real cool head

Get around round round

I get around

I'm makin' real good bread

Get around round round

I get around

I get around, round

Get around round round oooo

Wa wa oo

Wa wa oo

Wa wa oo

We always take my car

'Cause it's never been beat

And we've never missed yet

With the girls we meet

None of the guys go steady

'Cause it wouldn't be right

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To leave their best girl home

Now on a Saturday night

I get around

Get around round round

I get around

From town to town

Get around round round

I get around

I'm a real cool head

Get around round round

I get around

I'm makin' real good bread

Get around round round

I get around

I get around, round

Get around round round I get around

I get around

Round

Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

Round round get around

I get around

Yeah

Get around round round I get around

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Get around round round I get around

Wah wa ooo

Get around round round I get around

Oooo ooo ooo

Get around round round I get around

Ahh ooo ooo

Get around round round I get around

Ahh ooo ooo

Get around round round I get around

Ahh ooo ooo

Written by Brian Wilson and Michael Love.

Barbarella leaves the planet and crashes into a labyrinth inhabited by outcasts exiled from Sogo. She is found by Pygar, a blind angel who has lost the will to fly. Pygar introduces her to Professor Ping, who offers to repair her ship. Pygar flies Barbarella to Sogo, a den of violence and debauchery after she restores his will to fly by having sex with him. Pygar and Barbarella are captured by Sogo's Black Queen and her concierge.

The concierge describes the Mathmos; living energy in liquid form, powered by evil thoughts and used as an energy source in Sogo, which sits atop it. Pygar endures a mock crucifixion and Barbarella is placed in a cage, where hundreds of birds prepare

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to attack her. She is rescued by Dildano, leader of the local underground, who joins in her pursuit of Durand. Dildano gives her an invisible key to the Black Queen's chamber of dreams, where she sleeps.

After returning to Sogo, Barbarella is promptly recaptured by the concierge. He places her in the "Exsexsive Machine" which induces fatal sexual pleasure. She outlasts the machine and makes it go haywire. The concierge, shocked at its destruction, reveals himself as Durand Durand. Barbarella is surprised since he is only 25 years old but has aged tremendously; a side effect of the Mathmos. Durand wants to overthrow the Black Queen and become Sogo's new leader, which requires using his positronic ray and gaining access to the Queen's chamber of dreams. Durand takes Barbarella to the chamber and locks her inside with the invisible key. She sees the Queen, who warns that if two people are in the chamber, the Mathmos will devour them. Durand seizes control of Sogo as Dildano and his rebels begin their attack on the city. The Black Queen retaliates by releasing the Mathmos to destroy Sogo. Because of Barbarella's innocence, the Mathmos form a protective bubble around her and the Black Queen and safely expels them. They find Pygar, who clutches them in his arms and flies off. When Barbarella asks Pygar why he saved a tyrant, he tells her that an angel has no memory of the past.

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075 - The Umbrellas of Cherbourg – Cherbourg, France The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Part One: The Departure - November 1957

Madame Émery and her beautiful 17 year old daughter Geneviève have a tiny, struggling umbrella boutique in the coastal town of Cherbourg in Normandy. Guy is a handsome young auto mechanic who lives with and cares for his sickly aunt and godmother Élise.

Though Geneviève's mother disapproves, Guy and Geneviève are deeply in love. They plan to marry and name their first child Françoise. At the same time, Madeleine, a quiet young woman who looks after Guy's aunt, is secretly in love with Guy.

Guy is drafted to serve in the Algerian War. The night before he leaves, he and Geneviève pledge their undying love and make love, presumably for the first time.

Part Two: The Absence - January–April 1958

Geneviève learns she is pregnant and writes to Guy, but his replies are sporadic. Her mother tells her to give up on Guy; he has forgotten her. Geneviève is courted by Roland Cassard, a kind, young, very wealthy Parisian jeweler; he wants to marry her despite her pregnancy. In one of the connections among Demy's trilogy of films, Roland had previously unsuccessfully

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wooed the title character in the earlier Lola. Now he relates a version of this story to Madame Émery. Madame Émery urges Geneviève to be sensible and choose a secure future with Roland.

Roland announces that he will be going to Amsterdam for three months, and will wait for Geneviève's answer until his return.

Geneviève marries Roland in a great cathedral, but she appears ambivalent about her decision.

Part Three: The Return - March 1959–December 1963

Returning injured from the war, Guy learns that Geneviève has married and left Cherbourg. He has a difficult time readjusting to civilian life. After an argument with his boss he quits his job, goes drinking in a seedy bar, and spends the night with a prostitute. When he returns to his apartment, Madeleine tells him that his aunt Élise has died.

Guy sees that Madeleine loves him, and he rebuilds his life with her help. Using the inheritance from his aunt he opens a new

"American-style" gas station. Madeleine agrees to marry him, though she wonders whether he is merely on the rebound after losing Geneviève.

Four years later, on a snowy Christmas Eve, Guy and Madeleine are in the office of their gas station with their small son François. As Madeleine and François leave to visit Santa Claus,

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a car pulls in. The mink clad driver is Geneviève, now wealthy and sophisticated. She has a young girl with her, their daughter Françoise.

Guy invites Geneviève into the warmth of the station's office, where they chat as a boy attends to Geneviève's car. Geneviève reveals this is her first time in Cherbourg since her marriage, and tells Guy that her mother died recently. When asked if he wants to meet his daughter, Guy declines.

Once the car is ready Geneviève and Guy finish their conversation. On her way out, Geneviève opens the door and pulls her collar tight against the cold before looking back at Guy one last time. She walks to her car and drives off. Madeleine returns with François, and Guy greets her with a kiss. As the camera pulls back, he frolics with his son in the snow, then picks him up and follows Madeleine inside as the red light of Genevieve's car flash in the foreground.

Walk Away

Joe Walsh

Takin' my time, choosin' my lines

Tryin' to decide what to do

Looks like my stop, don't wanna get off

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Got myself hung up on you

Seems to me

you don't wanna talk about it

Seems to me

you just turn your pretty head and walk away

Places I've known,

things that I'm growin'

Don't taste the same without you

I got myself in the worst mess I've been And I find myself starving without you

Comes a day, talkin' all night

here comes the morning

Come with me, you just forget

what we said and greet the day

I've got to cool myself down, stompin' around Thinkin' some words I can't name ya

Guess it's okay, got nothin' to say

Still I don't s'pose I can blame ya

Seems to me you don't wanna talk about it Seems to me

you just turn your pretty head and walk away

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Yeah, walk away

Walk away

Walk away

Walk away, thank you

Written by Joseph Fidler Walsh.

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076 - Red Beard – Nagasaki, Japan

Red Beard

The young and arrogant doctor Noboru Yasumoto, trained in a Dutch medical school in Nagasaki, aspires to the status of personal physician of the Shogunate, a position currently held by a close relative, and expects to progress through the privileged and insulated army structure of medical education.

However, for Yasumoto's post-graduate medical training, he is assigned to a rural clinic under the guidance of Dr. Kyojō

Niide, known as Akahige ("Red Beard"). Beneath a gruff exterior, Dr. Niide is a compassionate and wise clinic director.

And It Stoned Me

Van Morrison

Half a mile from the county fair

And the rain came pouring down

Me and Billy standing there

With a silver half a crown

Hands are full of the fishing rod

And the tackle on our backs

We just stood there getting wet

With our backs against the fence

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Oh, the water

Oh, the water

Oh, the water

Hope it don't rain all day

And it stoned me to my soul

Stoned me just like Jelly Roll

And it stoned me

And it stoned me to my soul

Stoned me just like going home

And it stoned me

And the rain let up, and the sun came up While we were getting dry

Almost let a pickup truck nearly pass us by So we jumped right in and the driver grinned And he dropped us up the road

And we looked at the swim and we jumped right in Not to mention fishing poles

Oh, the water

Oh, the water

Oh, the water

Let it run all over me

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And it stoned me to my soul

Stoned me just like Jelly Roll

And it stoned me

And it stoned me to my soul

Stoned me just like going home

And it stoned me

On the way back home we sang a song

But our throats were getting dry

Then we saw the man from across the road With the sunshine in his eye

Well, he lived all alone in his own little home With a great big gallon jar

There were bottles too, one for me and you And he said, "Hey, there you are"

Oh, the water

Oh, the water

Oh, the water

Get it myself from the mountain stream

And it stoned me to my soul

Stoned me just like Jelly Roll

And it stoned me

And it stoned me to my soul

Stoned me just like going home

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And it stoned me

And it stoned me to my soul

Stoned me just like Jelly Roll

And it stoned me

And it stoned me to my soul

Stoned me just like going home

And it stoned me

Written by Van Morrison.

Yasumoto is initially livid at his posting, believing that he has little to gain from working under Dr. Niide. He assumes that Niide is only interested in seeing Yasumoto's medical notes from Nagasaki, and he rebels against the clinic director. He refuses to see patients or to wear his uniform, disdains the food and spartan environment, and enters a forbidden garden where he meets "The Mantis," a mysterious patient that only Dr. Niide can treat. Meanwhile, we learn that Yasumoto's former fiancée, Chigusa, was unfaithful to him, ending their engagement, and generating a disdain in him for romantic relationships.

As Yasumoto struggles to come to terms with his situation, the film tells the story of a few of the clinic's patients. One of them is Rokusuke, a dying man whom Dr. Niide discerns is troubled by a secret misery that is only revealed when his

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desperately unhappy daughter shows up. Another is Sahachi, a well-loved man of the town known for his generosity to his neighbours, who has a tragic connection to his wife's corpse which is discovered after a landslide. After committing bigamy, she had him unknowingly kill her by asking that he "Hold me closer" when they were hugging while she surreptitiously held a knife to herself. Dr. Niide brings Yasumoto along to rescue a sick twelve-year-old girl, Otoyo, from a brothel (brutally fighting off a local gang of thugs to do so) and then assigns the girl to Yasumoto as his first patient. Through these experiences, Yasumoto begins to humble himself and open his eyes to the world around him.

When Yasumoto himself falls ill, Dr. Niide asks Otoyo to nurse him back to health, knowing that caring for Yasumoto will also be part of her own continued healing. Chigusa's younger sister, Masae, visits the clinic to check in on Yasumoto, telling him that his mother wants him to visit. Through his mother, Yasumoto learns that Chigusa now has a child with her new lover. Masae later makes a kimono for Otoyo, showing compassion that suggests she might be a good match for Yasumoto. Yasumoto's mother likes Masae and suggests marriage.

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Yasumoto begins to understand the magnitude of cruelty and suffering around him, as well as his power to ease that suffering, and learns to regret his vanity and selfishness.

Later, when a local boy, Chôbu, is caught stealing food from the clinic, Otoyo shows him compassion and befriends him, passing on the compassion she received from Niide and Yasumoto. When the brothel's madam comes to the clinic to claim Otoyo and take her back to the brothel, the doctors and clinic staff refuse to let Otoyo go, and chase the madam away. When Chôbu and his destitute family try to escape their misery by taking poison together, the clinic doctors work to save them.

Yasumoto is offered the position of personal physician to the Shogunate he had so coveted. He agrees to marry Masae, but at the wedding announces that he will not accept the new position, but will stay at the clinic, turning down a comfortable and prestigious place in society to continue serving the poor alongside Dr. Niide.

Green Tambourine

The Lemon Pipers

Drop your silver in my tambourine

Help a poor man fill a pretty dream

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Give me pennies, I'll take anything

Now, listen while I play (play, play, play-) My green tambourine

Watch the jingle jangle start to shine

Reflections of the music that is mine

When you toss a coin, you'll hear it sing Now, listen while I play (play, play, play-) My green tambourine

Drop a dime before I walk away

Any song you want, I'll gladly play

Money feeds my music machine

Now, listen while I play (play, play, play-) My green tambourine

Listen and I'll play (play, play, play-)

Written by Paul Leka and Shelly Pinz.

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077 - Satyricon – Ciampino, Italy

Satyricon

The film opens on a graffiti covered wall with Encolpius lamenting the loss of his lover Gitón to Ascyltus. Vowing to win him back, he learns at the Thermae that Ascyltus sold Gitón to the actor Vernacchio. At the theatre, he discovers Vernacchio and Gitón performing in a lewd play called the "Emperor's Miracle." A slave's hand is axed off and replaced with a gold one. Encolpius storms the stage and reclaims Gitón. On their return to Encolpius's home in the Insula Felicles, a Roman tenement building, they walk through the vast Roman brothel known as the Lupanare, observing numerous sensual scenes. They fall asleep after making love at Encolpius's place. Ascyltus sneaks into the room, waking Encolpius with a whiplash. Since both share the tenement room, Encolpius proposes they divide up their property and separate. Ascyltus mockingly suggests they split Gitón in half. Encolpius is driven to suicidal despair, however, when Gitón decides to leave with Ascyltus. At that moment, an earthquake destroys the tenement.

Encolpius meets the poet Eumolpus at the art museum. The elderly poet blames current corruption on the mania for money and invites his young friend to a banquet held at the villa of

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Trimalchio, a wealthy freeman, and his wife Fortunata.

Eumolpus's declamation of poetry is met with catcalls and thrown food. While Fortunata performs a frantic dance, the bored Trimalchio turns his attention to two very young boys.

Scandalized, Fortunata berates her husband, who attacks her then has her covered in gizzards and gravy. Fancying himself a poet, Trimalchio recites one of his finer poems whereupon Eumolpus accuses him of stealing verses from Lucretius. Enraged, Trimalchio orders the poet to be tortured by his slaves in the villa's huge kitchen furnace. The guests are then invited to visit Trimalchio's tomb where he enacts his own death in an ostentatious ceremony. The story of the Matron of Ephesus is recounted, the first story within a story in the film. Encolpius finally leaves the villa, helping the limping, beaten Eumolpus to drink water from a pool in a tilled field. In return for his kindness, Eumolpus bequeaths the spirit of poetry to his young friend.

The next morning Encolpius, Gitón, and Ascyltus are imprisoned on the pirate ship of Lichas, a middle-aged merchant. They are part of a consignment of attractive young men being delivered for the titillation of the reclusive Roman emperor. Lichas selects Encolpius for a Greco-Roman wrestling match and quickly subdues him. Smitten by his beauty, Lichas takes Encolpius as

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his spouse in a wedding ceremony blessed by his wife, Tryphaena.

After a long voyage the ship arrives at the emperor's private island, only to find it overrun by soldiers in the service of a usurper. The teenage emperor kills himself, and the soldiers board the ship and behead Lichas under Tryphaena's satisfied gaze. While "new Caesar" holds a fearsome victory parade back in Rome, Encolpius and Ascyltus escape the soldiers and make their way inland. They discover an abandoned villa, whose owners have freed their slaves and committed suicide to escape the new emperor. Encolpius and Ascyltus spend the night on the property and make love with an African slave girl who has stayed behind.

Fleeing the villa when soldiers on horseback arrive in the courtyard to burn the owners' corpses, the two friends reach a desert. Ascyltus placates a nymphomaniac's demands in a covered wagon while Encolpius waits outside, listening to the woman's servant discuss a hermaphrodite demi-god reputed to possess healing powers at the Temple of Ceres. With the aid of a mercenary, they kill two men and kidnap the hermaphrodite in the hope of obtaining a ransom. Once exposed to the desert sun, however, the hermaphrodite sickens and dies of thirst. Enraged, the mercenary tries to murder his two companions but is overpowered and killed.

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Captured by soldiers, Encolpius is released in a labyrinth and forced to play Theseus to a gladiator's Minotaur for the amusement of spectators at the festival of Momus, the God of Laughter. When the gladiator spares Encolpius's life because of his well-spoken words of mercy, the festival rewards the young man with Ariadne, a sensual woman with whom he must copulate as the crowd looks on. Impotent, Encolpius is publicly humiliated by Ariadne. Eumolpus offers to take him to the Garden of Delights where prostitutes are said to effect a cure for his impotence, but the treatment, gentle whipping of the buttocks, fails miserably. In the second of the stories within a story in the film, the owner of the Garden of Delights narrates the tale of Oenothea to Encolpius. For having rejected his advances and humiliating him, a sorcerer curses a beautiful young woman. She must spend her days kindling fires for the village's hearths from her genitalia. Inspired, Encolpius and Ascyltus hire a boatman to take them to Oenothea's home. Greeted by an old woman who has him drink a potion, Encolpius falls under a spell where his sexual prowess is restored to him by Oenothea in the form of an Earth Mother figure and sorceress. When Ascyltus is murdered in a field by the boatman, Encolpius decides to join Eumolpus's ship bound for North Africa. But Eumolpus has died in the meantime, leaving as his heirs all those willing to eat his corpse. Encolpius hasn't the stomach for this last and bitter

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mockery but is nonetheless invited by the captain to board the ship. In a voice over, Encolpius explains that he set sail with the captain and his crew. His words end in mid-sentence, as does Petronius's book, when a distant island appears on the horizon and the film cuts abruptly to frescoes of the film's characters on a crumbling wall.

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

In-a-gadda-da-vida, honey,

Don't you know that I’m loving you?

In-a-gadda-da-vida, baby,

Don't you know that I'll always be true?

Oh, won't you come with me

And take my hand?

Oh, won't you come with me

And walk this land?

Please take my hand!

Let me tell you now

In-a-gadda-da-vida, honey

Don't you know that I'm loving you?

In-a-gadda-da-vida, baby

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Don't you know that I'll always be true?

Oh, won't you come with me

And a-take my hand?

Oh, won't you come with me

And a-walk this land?

Please take my hand

Guitar, huh!

Come on, run, man, come on, ha!

Instrumental Break

Two, three, four, huh!

In-a-gadda-da-vida, honey

Don't you know that I'm loving you?

In-a-gadda-da-vida, baby

Don't you know that I'll always be true?

Oh, won't you come with me

And a-take my hand?

Oh, won't you come with me

And a-walk this land?

Please take my hand

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Huh, huh

All right, uh, hey, ha!

Written by Douglas Ingle.

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078 - Fruit of Paradise – Jindrichuv Hradec, Czechoslovakia

Fruit of Paradise

Fruit of Paradise is a 1970 Czechoslovak avant-garde drama film directed by Věra Chytilová. It was entered into the 1970 Cannes Film Festival. The film is an adaptation of the Adam and Eve story. This was Chytilová's last film before she was placed on an eight year ban by the Czechoslovak Government. Fellow Czech screenwriter and costume designer Ester Krumbachová collaborated with Chytilová on the screenplay, costumes, and decor.

Close to the Edge: I} The Solid Time of

Change, II} Total Mass Retain, III} I Get

Up I Get Down, IV} Seasons of Man

Yes

A seasoned witch could call you

From the depths of your disgrace

And rearrange your liver

To the solid mental grace

And achieve it all with music

That came quickly from afar

Then taste the fruit of man

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Recorded losing all against the hour

And assessing points to nowhere

Leading every single one

A dewdrop can exalt us

Like the music of the sun

And take away the plain

In which we move and choose

the course you're running

Down at the edge, round by the corner

Not right away, not right away

Close to the edge, down by a river

Not right away, not right away

Crossed the line around the changes of the summer Reaching out to call the color of the sky Passed around a moment clothed in mornings Faster than we see

Getting over all the time I had to worry Leaving all the changes far from far behind We relieve the tension only to find out The master's name

Down at the end, round by the corner

Close to the edge, just by a river

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Seasons will pass you by

I get up, I get down

Now that it's all over and done

Now that you find, now that you're whole

My eyes convinced, eclipsed

With the younger moon attained with love It changed as almost strained

Amidst clear mana from above

I crucified my hate and held

The word within my hand

There's you, the time, the logic

Or the reasons we don't understand

Sad courage claimed the victims

Standing still for all to see

As armored movers took

Approached to overlook the sea

There since the cord, the license

Or the reasons we understood will be

Down at the edge, close by a river

Close to the edge, round by the corner

Close to the end, down by the corner

Down at the edge, round by the river

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Sudden call shouldn't take away

the startled memory

All in all, the journey takes

you all the way

As apart from any reality

that you've ever seen and known

Guessing problems

only to deceive the mention

Passing paths that climb

halfway into the void

As we cross from side to side,

we hear the total mass retain

Down at the edge, round by the corner

Close to the end, down by a river

Seasons will pass you by

I get up, I get down

In her white lace

You could clearly see the lady sadly looking Saying that she'd take the blame

For the crucifixion of her own domain

I get up, I get down

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I get up, I get down

Two million people barely satisfy

Two hundred women watch one woman cry, too late The eyes of honesty can achieve

She would gladly say it amazement of her story How many millions do we deceive each day?

Asking only interest could be laid

Upon the children of her domain

I get up, I get down

I get up, I get down

In charge of who is there in charge of me She could clearly see the lady sadly looking Do I look on blindly and say I see the way?

Saying that she'd take the blame

For the crucifixion of her own domain

The truth is written all along the page She would gladly say it amazement of her story How old will I be before I come of age for you?

Asking only interest could be laid

Upon the children of her domain

I get up, I get down

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I get up, I get down

I get up, I get down

I get up, I get down

I get up, I get down

The time between the notes

Relates the color to the scenes

A constant vogue of triumphs

Dislocate man, so it seems

And space between the focus

Shape ascend knowledge of love

As song and chance develop time

Lost social temperance rules above

Ah, ah

Then according to the man

Who showed his outstretched arm to space He turned around and pointed

Revealing all the human race

I shook my head and smiled a whisper

Knowing all about the place

On the hill we viewed the silence of the valley Called to witness cycles only of the past And we reach all this with movements

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In between the said remark

Close to the edge, down by the river

Down at the end, round by the corner

Seasons will pass you by

Now that it's all over and done

Called to the seed, right to the sun

Now that you find, now that you're whole Seasons will pass you by

I get up, I get down

I get up, I get down

I get up, I get down

I get up

Written by Jon Anderson and Steve James Howe.

Eva spends the holidays with her husband, Josef, in a luxurious mansion. Picking berries, playing with balloons and running through the woods. Robert crosses her path and drops a key.

She follows him to return the object, finding a bag in his quarters. This one contains a stamp with the number 6, which she

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uses on her own skin. It turns out that Robert is a serial killer and Eva is in love with him.

After chasing him, demanding that he kill her, Eva is covered in red cloths and when Robert removes these, her clothes are also red. Upon returning to "Paradise," where she lived with Josef, Eva is unable to climb over the walls, even though they are low, and tells her husband that she "she doesn't want to know the truth."

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079 - Old Yeller – Wichita, Kansas

Old Yeller

In the late 1860s, Jim Coates leaves his family; wife Katie, teenage son Travis, and small son Arliss, to collect cattle in Kansas. While Jim is away, Travis sets off to work in the cornfield, where he encounters a Black Mouth Cur he names "Old Yeller," as "yeller" is a dialect pronunciation of "yellow" and the dog's bark resembles a human yell. Travis unsuccessfully tries to shoo the dog away, while Arliss defends him. Yeller's habit of stealing meat from smokehouses and robbing hens' nests does not endear him to Travis, but his mother agrees with the idea of Arliss having a dog.

Later, Arliss tries to capture a black bear cub by feeding it cornbread and grabbing it. Its angry mother hears her cub wailing and attacks, but Old Yeller frightens her away, winning over the family. Travis grows to love and respect Old Yeller, who comes to profoundly affect the boy's life.

Bud Searcy and his granddaughter Lisbeth come for supper one day, and Lisbeth takes Travis aside to tell him Old Yeller has been stealing food all over the county. After she and Bud leave, Travis scolds Old Yeller. The next day, Old Yeller proves

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himself as a cow dog by protecting Travis from Rose, their cow, and restraining her while Travis milks her.

One day, Old Yeller's original master, Burn Sanderson, arrives looking for his dog. Realizing that the Coates family really needs Old Yeller, he agrees to trade him to Arliss for a horny toad and a home cooked meal. Sanderson later takes Travis aside and warns him of the growing plague of hydrophobia; rabies.

One day, Travis sets out to trap a family of feral hogs. Advised by Bud Searcy, he sits in a tree, trying to rope them from above as Old Yeller corners them. However, Travis then falls into the group of hogs and is attacked by one. Old Yeller defends Travis as he crawls away with an injured leg. However, Old Yeller is severely injured by the hog and Travis hides him in a large hole. Travis' mother then retrieves Old Yeller and uses mule hair to suture his wounds. As Old Yeller recovers, Searcy again warns the Coates family of hydrophobia in the area but Katie chastises him for trying to scare Travis. Searcy leaves, and Lisbeth stays with the Coates’ to help them harvest corn. Travis assures Katie that the hogs were not rabid, and both he and Old Yeller recover.

Later, the family sees their cow, Rose, stumbling and foaming at the mouth. Travis confirms that she is rabid and shoots her.

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While Katie and Lisbeth burn her body that night, a wolf suddenly attacks them. Katie's scream alerts Travis, who runs outside with a rifle, just in time to see Old Yeller fighting off the wolf. Travis successfully shoots the wolf, but not before it bites Old Yeller on the neck. Katie tells Travis that because no healthy wolf would attack near a burning area, the wolf was rabid. Katie then suggests shooting Old Yeller, but Travis insists that they instead pen him in the corn crib to see if he shows symptoms of the disease. After remaining quarantined, the Coates’ believe that Old Yeller escaped infection. However, one night, when Travis goes to feed Old Yeller, he growls at him aggressively. Travis suspects that Old Yeller may have been infected but says nothing. Later that night, Arliss obliviously tries to open the corn crib to release Old Yeller. Katie slams the door shut as Old Yeller snarls and tries to attack. Katie then tells Travis that Old Yeller is suffering and returns Arliss to the house. Katie returns with the rifle, but Travis takes it, reluctantly shoots Old Yeller and departs.

Upset over his dog's death, Travis declines a new puppy sired by Old Yeller. Jim then returns with money and gifts for the family. Katie tells him about the dog, and Jim discusses it with Travis. Upon returning to the farmhouse, Travis observes the

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puppy stealing a piece of meat, a habit inherited from Old Yeller. Travis then accepts the puppy, "Young Yeller", as his new dog.

Martha My Dear

The Beatles

Martha, my dear

Though I spend my days in conversation

Please, remember me

Martha, my love

Don't forget me

Martha, my dear

Hold your head up, you silly girl

Look what you've done

When you find yourself in the thick of it Help yourself to a bit of what is all around you Silly girl

Take a good look around you

Take a good look, you're bound to see

That you and me

We're meant to be for each other

Silly girl

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Hold your hand out, you silly girl

See what you've done

When you find yourself in the thick of it Help yourself to a bit of what is all around you Silly girl

Martha, my dear

You have always been my inspiration

Please, be good to me

Martha, my love

Don't forget me

Martha, my dear

Written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon.

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080 - Candy – Onancock, Virginia

Candy

“Candy” is a 1968 sex farce film directed by Christian Marquand from a screenplay by Buck Henry, based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, itself based on Voltaire's 1759 novel “Candide.” The film satirizes pornographic stories through the adventures of its naive heroine, Candy, played by Ewa Aulin. It stars Charles Aznavour, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, James Coburn, John Huston, Walter Matthau, and Ringo Starr. Popular figures such as Anita Pallenberg, Florinda Bolkan, Marilù Tolo, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Umberto Orsini, and Enrico Maria Salerno also appear in cameo roles.

High school student Candy Christian wakes up from a daydream where she seemingly descends to Earth from space, in her father's social sciences class, causing much embarrassment.

Following a poetry recital at Candy's school, eccentric Welsh poet MacPhisto offers her a ride home in his limousine. En route, MacPhisto forces himself on her but is unable to proceed after becoming too inebriated. With the help of her Mexican gardener, Emmanuel, Candy takes MacPhisto inside in order to help him out of his liquor soaked clothes. In the basement,

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MacPhisto drunkenly recites poetry while humping a mannequin, inciting Emmanuel to sexually assault Candy. Scandalized upon walking in on the scene, Candy's uptight father decides to send her away to live with his twin brother Jack and his wife Livia in New York City.

At the airport, the family is accosted by Emmanuel's three vengeful sisters, who accuse Candy of corrupting their brother.

During the scuffle, Candy's father is rendered unconscious due to a head injury. The Christians escape by boarding a military plane commanded by General Smight. In exchange for a blood transfusion for her father, General Smight orders Candy to undress, intending to impregnate her. Meanwhile, he accidentally pushes the button that signals his paratroopers to leap from the plane. Realizing this, General Smight jumps as well, only to slip out of his parachute harness.

Upon landing in New York, Dr. Krankheit meticulously performs surgery on Candy's father in front of an audience. When Uncle Jack attempts to seduce Candy during a post-operative cocktail party, the hospital's executive director, Dr. Dunlap, berates him for his perceived lewd behavior, causing him to faint. Dr.

Krankheit takes Candy to another room and tricks her into sex by pretending to examine her. While searching for her father, Candy wanders back into the operating room to find that Dr. Krankeit

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has branded all the nurses with his initials, as he prepares to do so to Livia. When he attempts to have Candy captured so that she is next, she flees the hospital.

Roaming the streets of Manhattan, Candy ends up in a Sicilian bar in Greenwich Village, where she is beset by a group of mobsters. An offbeat underground filmmaker, Jonathan J. John, then takes her into the men's room and shoots her for a film. As the room floods due to broken pipes, two policemen arrive and assault Jonathan, whereupon a drenched Candy escapes. In Central Park, she meets a hunchback who takes her into a deserted mansion later that night. A gang of thieves walk in and proceed to ransack the place, while the hunchback rapes Candy on top of a grand piano. After arresting Candy, the two policemen maliciously plan to frisk her. However, they lose control of their squad car and crash into a club full of drag queens. As mayhem ensues, Candy escapes again.

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

Sitting on a park bench

Eyeing little girls with bad intent

Snot's running down his nose

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Greasy fingers, smearing shabby clothes Hey, Aqualung

Drying in the cold sun

Watching as the frilly panties run

Hey, Aqualung

Feeling like a dead duck

Spitting out pieces of his broken luck

Oh, Aqualung

Sun streaking cold

An old man wandering lonely

Taking time the only way he knows

Leg hurting bad

As he bends to pick a dog end

He goes down to the bog and warms his feet Feeling alone

The army's up the road

Salvation a la mode and a cup of tea

Aqualung, my friend

Don't you start away uneasy

You poor old sod

You see, it's only me

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Do you still remember

December's foggy freeze

When the ice that clings on to your beard Was screaming agony?

And you snatch your rattling last breaths With deep sea diver sounds

And the flowers bloom like madness in the spring Sun streaking cold

An old man wandering lonely

Taking time the only way he knows

Leg hurting bad

As he bends to pick a dog end

He goes down to the bog and warms his feet Feeling alone

The army's up the road

Salvation a la mode and a cup of tea

Aqualung, my friend

Don't you start away uneasy

You poor old sod

You see, it's only me

Me, oh-oh-oh

Aqualung, my friend

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Don't you start away uneasy

You poor old sod

You see, it's only me, yeah

Sitting on a park bench

Eying little girls with bad intent

Snot's running down his nose

Greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes

Hey, Aqualung

Drying in the cold sun

Watching as the frilly panties run

Hey, Aqualung

Feeling like a dead duck

Spitting out pieces of his broken luck

Hey, Aqualung

Woah, Aqualung

Written by Ian Anderson and Jenny Anderson.

The next morning, Candy asks for a ride in the back of a semi-trailer truck, which turns out to be the sanctum of Grindl, a sham guru. He teaches her the "seven stages of enlightenment" as

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a pretext to have sex with her. After several days on the road, Grindl informs Candy that a different guru will guide her through the rest of her journey. Upon arrival in California, Candy is chased through the desert by the New York police officers, but she manages to outwit them. Shortly thereafter, Candy finds her new guru to be a robed figure with a toucan on his shoulder, his face covered with white clay. She follows him into an underground Hindu temple, which then partially collapses due to a cataclysm. As the two proceed to have sex, the guru's face is washed clean and Candy is shocked to discover he is actually her brain damaged father.

As Candy wanders across a field, surrounded by flapping banners and hippies playing music, she revisits many of the characters she met throughout the film, before finally returning to outer space.

Gypsy

The Moody Blues

The gypsy of a strange and distant time Travelling in panic, all directions blind Aching for the warmth of a burning sun

Freezing in the emptiness of where he'd come from Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

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Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

Left without a hope of coming home

Speeding through a shadow of a million years Darkness is the only sound to reach his ears Frightening him with visions of eternity Screaming for a future that can never be Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

Left without a hope of coming home

The gypsy of a strange and distant time Travelling in panic, all directions blind Aching for the warmth of a burning sun

Freezing in the emptiness of where he'd come from Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

Left without a hope of coming home

Left without a hope of coming home

Left without a hope of coming home

Written by Justin Hayward .

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081 - Solaris – Volgograd, USSR

Solaris

Psychologist Kris Kelvin is being sent on an interstellar journey to evaluate whether a decades old space station, positioned over the oceanic planet Solaris, should continue to be studied. He spends his last day on Earth with his elderly father and retired pilot Burton. Years earlier, Burton had been part of an exploratory team at Solaris but was recalled when he described strange happenings, including seeing a four meter tall child on the surface of the water on the planet. These were dismissed as deranged hallucinations by a panel of scientists and military, but now that the remaining crew members are making similarly strange reports, Kris' skills are needed.

Wing

Patti Smith

I was a wing in heaven blue

On the ocean

Soared in the rain

And I was free,

I needed nobody

It was beautiful

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It was beautiful

I was a pawn

Couldn't make a move

Couldn't go nowhere

Nowhere to go

Yet, I was free

I needed nobody

It was beautiful

It was beautiful

And if there's one thing

Could do for you

You'd be a wing

In heaven blue

I was a vision in another eye

And I saw nothing

No future at all

Yet, I was free

I needed nobody

It was beautiful

It was beautiful

And if there's one thing

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Could do for you

You'd be a wing

In heaven blue

And if there's one thing

Could do for you

You'd be a wing

In heaven blue

And if there's one thing

Could do for you

You'd be a wing

In heaven blue

Written by Patti Smith.

Upon his arrival at Solaris Station, a scientific research station, none of the three remaining scientists greet Kelvin, and he finds the space station in strange disarray. He soon learns that his friend among the scientists, Dr. Gibarian, has killed himself. The two surviving crewmen; Snaut and Sartorius, are erratic. Kelvin also catches fleeting glimpses of others aboard the station who were not part of the original crew. He also finds that Gibarian left him a rambling, cryptic farewell video message, warning him about the strange things happening at

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the station. The video also shows two appearances of a little girl who should not be aboard the station, with Gibarian asking Kelvin if he has seen her and insisting he is not insane, and should strange things happen to Kelvin, it will not be Kelvin having gone insane.

After a fitful sleep, Kelvin is shocked to find Hari, his wife who died ten years earlier, sitting in his sleeping quarters.

She is unaware of how she got there. Terrified by her presence, Kelvin launches the replica of his wife into outer space. Snaut explains that the "visitors" or "guests" began appearing after the scientists conducted radiation experiments, directing X-rays at the swirling surface of the planet in a desperate attempt to understand its nature.

That evening, Hari reappears in Kelvin's quarters. This time, he calmly accepts her and they fall asleep together in an embrace.

Hari panics when Kelvin briefly leaves her alone in the room, and injures herself attempting to escape. But before Kelvin can give first aid, her injuries spontaneously heal before his eyes.

Sartorius and Snaut explain to Kelvin that Solaris created Hari from his memories of her. The Hari present among them, though not human, thinks and feels as though she were. Sartorius theorizes that the visitors, also called "guests," are composed of "neutrino systems" rather than atoms, but that it might still

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be possible to destroy them through use of a device known as

"the annihilator." Later, Snaut proposes beaming Kelvin's brainwave patterns at Solaris in hopes that it will understand them and stop the disturbing apparitions.

In time, Hari becomes more human and independent and is able to exist away from Kelvin's presence without panic. She learns from Sartorius that the original Hari had committed suicide ten years earlier. Sartorius, Snaut, Kelvin and Hari gather together for a birthday party, which evolves into a philosophical argument, during which Sartorius reminds Hari that she is not real.

Distressed, Hari kills herself again by drinking liquid oxygen, only to painfully resurrect after a few minutes. On the surface of Solaris, the ocean begins to swirl faster into a funnel.

Kelvin falls ill and goes to sleep. He dreams of his mother as a young woman, washing away dirt or scabs from his arm. When he awakens, Hari is gone. Snaut reads her farewell note, in which she explains how she petitioned the two scientists to destroy her. Snaut then tells Kelvin that since they have broadcast Kelvin's brainwaves into Solaris, the visitors have stopped appearing and islands have started forming on the planet's surface. Kelvin debates whether to return to Earth or remain on the station.

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Kelvin appears to be at the family home seen at the beginning of the film. He sinks to his knees and embraces his father. The camera slowly cranes away to reveal that they are on an island in the Solaris ocean.

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082 - Hud – Claude, Texas

Hud

Hud is the ambitious, self-centered son of deeply principled Texas rancher Homer Bannon. Lonnie, teenaged orphan son of Hud's elder brother Norman, looks up to both men, but is most impressed by Hud. Both young men are attracted to the Bannons'

earthy housekeeper, Alma. Although she finds Hud physically attractive, Alma keeps her distance because she has been mistreated in the past by self-centered men.

Eli's Comin'

Laura Nyro

Eli's coming, Eli's coming

Well, you better hide your heart, your loving heart Eli's coming and the cards say a broken heart Eli's coming, hide your heart, girl

Eli's coming, hide your heart, girl

Girl, Eli's coming, you better hide

Girl, Eli's coming, you better hide

Girl, Eli's coming, you better hide

Girl, Eli's coming, hide your heart, girl, hide it You better, better hide your heart

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Eli's coming, better walk, walk

But you'll never get away

No, you'll never get away from the burning heartache I walked to Apollo by the bay

Everywhere I go though, Eli's coming

She walked but she never got away

Eli's coming

She walked but she never got away

Eli's coming and he's coming to get ya

She walked but, she walked but

Get down on your knees

She walked but she never got away

Eli's coming, hide it, hide it, hide it Girl, Eli's coming, you better hide

Girl, Eli's coming, you better hide

Girl, Eli's coming, you better hide

Girl, Eli's coming, hide your heart, girl, hide it

You better, better hide your heart