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In this newsletter, we give a description of the plots for two movies, picked at random, as well as the year they were made and, just for fun, take the challenge and see if you can guess what they are. You can send your answers in but, be warned - the ONLY prize is the joy of knowing you got either or both right!! The answers will follow in the next newsletter. Just send your guesses, whether you only know one, or both, or even if you're not sure, in the BODY of the message to mailto:namethatmovie@namethatmovie.net Closing time for entries is 9am, Eastern Australian Time, on the Monday or Thursday following each newsletter. Write to us if you're not sure what that time is where you are.

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Congratulations to all who entered for Thursday 7th February, 2008. Please check the Hall of Fame at our web site, http://www.namethatmovie.net - for current placings. If your name isn't listed, that's because we are out of room and, as in the last series, we have those details recorded here. You can write to us any time if you would like to know what your current placing is.

Here are the answers to the two movies from Thursday, 7th February, 2008:

Answer to movie number one:

The first movie for Thursday was from 1953 and tells of one night in the life of a police force in the central United States. A crazy, mixed up policeman is ready to throw in both his job and his marriage to run away with a cheap saloon dancer. However, he accepts an assignment from a suave but crooked attorney to take a magician, who turned to crime and became a hood, over the state line in order to get money for his flight from reality.

This movie was "City That Never Sleeps", produced and directed by John H. Auer and starring Gig Young, Mala Powers and Chill Wills. The script was written by Steve Fisher.

Answer to movie number two:

The second movie for Thursday was from 2002 and, based on a novel, tells of a man who arrives in Europe wearing a lot more clothing than he needs to. He moves into a run-down halfway house which is overshadowed by menacing gasworks. It’s located around the corner from the house where the man originally grew up and every brick in that house is tainted with his deep, disturbing childhood memories. His story unfolds in flashbacks where he is watching, as an adult, from the shadows, while his younger self is moving, unknowingly, towards his dreadful fate - and the death of his mother.

This movie was "Spider", directed and co-produced by David Cronenberg and starring Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson and Gabriel Byrne. The script was written by Patrick McGrath and was based on his novel.

The first movie for today is from 2001 and tells of a time in a busy store in the eastern United States in the late 1900s. Two complete strangers bump into each other at the counter and feel an instant attraction. This, despite the fact that they both have spouses to go home to. They flirt with fate, trying to work out if they really were destined to meet and to get together. It looks like they weren’t and so they go their separate ways, back to their regular lives but, several years later, on the eve of their respective marriages, they find their original feelings getting in the way and so they each go searching for the other.

The second movie for today is from 1958 and tells of a crusty, old-line newspaperman who believes that nothing good comes of colleges - and certainly not out of schools of journalism. When he is invited by a journalism professor to lecture at one such institution, he discovers that his ideas about female professors were entirely wrong. For various reasons he must pretend he is not a city editor but a pupil instead. In trying to sort this out, he becomes more and more involved with the professor, antagonising another man who also wants her. The answers will be in Thursday's edition. Good luck.

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