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Here are the answers to the two movies from Thursday, 6th March, 2008:

Answer to movie number one:

The first movie for Thursday was from 1965 and tells of an amnesiac who is trying to learn why he is the target of assassins. Living in the eastern United States, he discovers one day that he cannot remember any part of his past life. Returning to his apartment from a big office building that was suddenly without lights and where a prominent man plunged to his death, he is confronted by a stranger carrying a weapon. The stranger informs him he is being taken to a man he has never heard of. Knocking the stranger out, he goes to the police for protection - only to find he is a thoroughly confused man.

This movie was "Mirage", directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Gregory Peck, Walter Matthau and Kevin McCarthy. The script was written by Peter Stone.

Answer to movie number two:

The second movie for Thursday was from 2004 and tells of a doomed doctor who once again animates the sad creature he created years before. Meanwhile, angry villagers storm his residence but now his secret financial backer lurks in the shadows. Elsewhere, in Europe, a mysterious figure confronts another doctor in a cathedral. His nemesis is a 19th Century person who answers to a cabal located deep within a Holy place in another part of the continent. Armed with a licence to kill fiends, madmen and certain others, the nemesis has no memory of his past and faces an uncertain future as belief in what he does wanes with time. As the next century approaches, his crusade now looks like a murder spree.

This movie was "Van Helsing", written, directed and co-produced by Stephen Sommers and starring Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh and David Wenham.

The first movie for today is from 1998 and, set in the mid-1980s, tells of oppressive architecture and totalitarian gloom. A reporter is assigned to an anniversary investigation into the disappearance of a European singing artist who engineered the fake murder of his stage persona, only to see his career take a real nosedive. The reporter hunts down the man’s ex-wife, now a second-rate cabaret performer, and his wheelchair-bound former manager, trying unsuccessfully to contact an American artist whose career was briefly, but spectacularly, intertwined with the European artist’s.

The second movie for today is from 1944 and tells of a secret investigator for an insurance company trying to locate a payroll stolen a few years earlier. He obtains a job singing on a showboat vessel from a woman whose father was convicted and imprisoned for the robbery. When the father breaks jail to clear himself of the framed charge, the investigator helps to get the evidence that traps the real culprit. The answers will be in Thursday's edition. Good luck.

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