On this day in movie and book history - The Big Town (1987), The Arm (1967)

The Big Town

directed by Ben Bolt and Harold Becker,

written by Robert Roy Pool,

based on the novel The Arm by Clark Howard,

was released in the United States on September 25, 1987.

Music by Michael Melvoin and Frank Fitzpatrick.

Cast:

Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Dern, Lee Grant, Tom Skerritt, Suzy Amis, David Marshall Grant, Don Francks, Del Close, Meg Hogarth, Cherry Jones, Alvaro D'Antonio, David James Elliott, Steve Yorke, Chris Owens, Sean McCann, Kevin Fox, Marc Strange, Don Lake, Angelo Rizacos, Chris Benson, Gary Farmer, Diego Matamoros, Sarah Polley, Kirsten Bishop, Kenneth McGregor, Viki Matthews, Cherie McGroarty, Sandy Czapiewski, Marie Siebert, Julie Conte, A.C. Peterson, Sam Malkin, Robert Morelli, Layne Coleman, Lolita Davidovich, William Colgate, William Forrest MacDonald, Len Doncheff, Michael Caruana, Richard Comar, Lubomir Mykytiuk, Robert Ramsay Collins, Errol Slue, Gerry Pearson, Hugo Dann, John Evans, J. Winston Carroll, Diane Gordon, David Berni, Robert Mavor, Robert Minkoff.

Recommended reading:

The Arm

by Clark Howard.

Filmed as The Big Town (1987), directed by Ben Bolt and Harold Becker.

First published 1967.

Published by Fawcett / Gold Medal.

ASIN: B0012513FS

Paperback.

Description:

A high-tension novel of the seething underworld of the professional crapshooter – where the women come easy and the points come hard.

Before young J.C. Cullen hit Chicago, nobody had ever heard of him. But Cully knew he had it- the cool, the guts, the skill, the magic... whatever it took to be a winner. The big-time players in Chicago had never seen anything like him. Within a week he was known in every gambling haunt in the city... every bar, brothel, striptease joint, and backroom. He was Cully the Arm, King of the crapshooters. He was hated, envied, respected... and lonely. Then he met Lorry. Beautiful, tempting, and evil as Hell. As skilled in sex as he was with dice. And far deadlier. The game she played had no rules – and no limit. Cully knew this, but he couldn't stop. Even though the stake was his own life.

Dolly Parton Day - September 25 - movie 9 to 5 (1980):

Named for her song and theme to the movie of the same title: 9 to 5 (1980).

Jackie Kennedy, on books and reading:

 

Love of books is the best of all.

– Jackie Kennedy.

Just one more chapter ... and another ... and another ...

 

Everybody should believe in something. I believe I'll read another chapter.

On this day in movie and play history - Rope (1948)

Rope

directed by Alfred Hitchcock,

written by Arthur Laurents and Hume Cronyn, and based on the novel by Patrick Hamilton,

was released in the United States on September 25, 1948.

Music by David Buttolph, Francis Poulenc and Leo F. Forbstein.

Cast:

James Stewart, Dick Hogan, John Dall, Farley Granger, Edith Evanson, Douglas Dick, Joan Chandler, Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, Alfred Hitchcock.

Recommended reading:

Rope: A play

by Patrick Hamilton.

First published 1929.
a.k.a. Rope’s End.

Filmed as Rope (1948), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Published by Constable.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0094508607
ISBN-13: 978-0094508606

Description:

Genre: Drama.

Characters: 6 males, 2 females.

Scenery: Interior.

For the mere sake of adventure, danger, and the "fun of the thing," Wyndham Brandon persuades his weak-minded friend, Charles Granillo, to assist him in the murder of a fellow undergraduate, a perfectly harmless man named Ronald Raglan. They place the body in a wooden chest, and to add spice to their handiwork, invite a few acquaintances, including the dead youth's father, to a party, the chest with its gruesome contents serving as a supper table. The horror and tension are worked up gradually; thunder grows outside, the guests leave, and we see the reactions of the two murderers, watched closely by the suspecting lame poet, Rupert Cadell. Finally, they break down under the strain and confess their guilt.

Born on this day – Josephine Rector:

Josephine Rector

Writer

Actress

September 25, 1885 – October 1, 1958

Credits:

A Gambler's Way (1914); A Romance of the Hills (1913); Across the Plains (1911); Alkali Ike and the Hypnotist (1913); Broncho Billy and the Sheriff's Kid (1913); Broncho Billy's Bible (1912); Broncho Billy's Christmas Deed (1913); Broncho Billy's Christmas Dinner (1911); Broncho Billy's Reason (1913); Broncho Billy's Sermon (1914); Broncho Billy's Squareness (1913); Hard Luck Bill (1913); Love on Tough Luck Ranch (1912); Snakeville's Fire Brigade (1914); Snakeville's Home Guard (1914); Sophie's Birthday Party (1914); That Pair from Thespia (1913); The Atonement (1914); The Cast of the Die (1914); The Cowboy Samaritan (1913); The Dance at Eagle Pass (1913); The Dance at Silver Gulch (1912); The Last Shot (1913); The Two Ranchmen (1913); The Weaker's Strength (1914); Western Girls (1912).

Born on this day – William Faulkner:

William Faulkner

Writer

September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962

Credits:

Books:

40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology (2000); 50 Great American Short Stories (1963); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); 65 Great Tales Of Horror (1981); A Fable (1954); A Rose for Emily (1930); Absalom, Absalom! (1936); As I Lay Dying (1930); Barn Burning (1996); Barn Burning and other stories (1939); Big Woods (1955); Collected Stories (1948); Doctor Martino and Other Stories (1934); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); Flags in the Dust (1973); Go Down, Moses (1942); Growing Up in the South (1991); Intruder in the Dust (1948); Jealousy and Episode (1977); Knight's Gambit (1949); Light in August (1932); Louisiana Stories (1990); Magical Realist Fiction (1984); Marble Faun and a Green Bough (1960); Mayday (1978); Mosquitoes (1927); New Orleans Sketches (1957); Ole Miss Juvenilia (2018); Pylon (1935); Requiem for a Nun (1950); Road to Glory (1981); Sanctuary (1931); Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun (1954); Sartoris (1929); Selected Short Stories (1956); Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century (1954); Soldiers' Pay (1926); Stories of the Modern South (1977); The Bear (1942); The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000); The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000); The Best Horror Stories (1977); The Essential Faulkner (2013); The Hamlet (1940); The Mansion (1959); The Marionettes (1978); The Reivers (1962); The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces (1992); The Sound and the Fury (1929); The Town (1957); The Unvanquished (1938); The Wild Palms / If I Forget Thee Jerusalem (1939); These 13 (1931); Three Famous Short Novels (1958); Uncle Willy and Other Stories (1967); Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner (1979); Wishing Tree (1927); World's Great Mystery Stories (1943); Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1957); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Writing Los Angeles (2002).

Movies and television:

A Rose for Emily (1983); Adventures of Don Juan (1948); Air Force (1943); As I Lay Dying (2013); Background to Danger (1943); Barn Burning (1980); Camera Three (1956–1958); Cheyenne (1956); Climax! (1954–1955); Deep Valley (1947); Dim (1958); Drums Along the Mohawk (1939); Estudio 1 (1977); Fireside Theatre (1952); Flesh (1932); Four Men and a Prayer (1938); Fumée / Smoke (1961); General Electric Theater (1960); God Is My Co-Pilot (1945); Gunga Din (1939); Intruder in the Dust (1949); Invitation au voyage (2021); Kaki Bakar (1995); Land of the Pharaohs (1955); Lazy River (1934); Lux Video Theatre (1953–1957); Mildred Pierce (1945); Mississippi Requiem (2018); Moi, général de Gaulle (1990); Noga (1991); Northern Pursuit (1943); Old Man (1997); Omnibus / Segment: William Faulkner (1952); Playhouse 90 (1958–1960); Playwrights '56 (1955); Relatos Clásicos de Misterio y Terror (2020); Requiem for a Nun (1975); Requiem für eine Nonne (1965); Sanctuary (1961); Slave Ship (1937); Sling Blade (1996); Submarine Patrol (1938); Suspense (1954); Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Golden Land (1988); The Bear (1980); The Big Sleep (1946); The Loneliness Trilogy (2008); The Long Hot Summer (1985); The Long, Hot Summer (1958–1966); The Past Is Never Dead: The Story of William Faulkner (2024); The Reivers (1969); The Road to Glory (1936); The Sound and the Fury (1959 / 2009 / 2014); The Southerner (1945); The Story of Temple Drake (1933); The Tarnished Angels (1957); To Have and Have Not (1944); Today We Live (1933); Tomorrow (1972); Two Soldiers (1986 / 2003); Vacation Playhouse (1964).

Born on this day – Robert Bresson:

Robert Bresson

Writer

Director

September 25, 1901 – December 18, 1999

Books:

Bresson on Bresson: Interviews, 1943–1983 (2016); Notes sur le Cinématographe / aka Notes on Cinematography (1975).

Movies and television:

A Gentle Woman (1969); A Man Escaped (1956); Angels of Sin (1943); Au cinéma ce soir (1972); Au hasard Balthazar (1966); Au hasard Bresson (1967); Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit. Andrej Tarkowskijs Exil und Tod (1988); Cannes Film Festival (1971); C'était un musicien (1933); Cinéastes de notre temps (1965); Cinéma (1966–1967); Cinépanorama (1960); Courrier Sud (1937); Diary of a Country Priest (1951); Épreuves d'artistes (2004); Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971); Heart of the Festival (2002); Humbert Balsan, producteur rebelle (2006); If It Moves Shoot It (1970); Journeys Through French Cinema (2017); Lancelot of the Lake (1974); L'Argent (1983); Les dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945); Les échos du cinéma (1962); Les jumeaux de Brighton (1936); Los 10 magníficos (2008); Lyon, autopsie d'une grande ville (Inventaire des rues du 7ème arrondissement) (2014); Lyon, autopsie d'une grande ville (Inventaire des rues du 9ème arrondissement) (2014); Mag Bodard, un destin (2005); Morceaux de Cannes (2021); Mouchette (1967); Notes on the Cinematographer (parlato in italiano) (2020); Pickpocket (1959); Pour le cinéma (1969); Pour le plaisir (1966–1967); Public Affairs (1934); The 72nd Annual Academy Awards (2000); The Devil, Probably (1977); The Dreamers (2003); The Foolish Virgin (1938); The Road to Bresson (1984); The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962); The Well (2016); Wear (2015); What Is Cinema? (2013).

Born on this day – Ray Nazarro:

Ray Nazarro photographed with Adele Roberts during the filming of The Desert Horseman (1946)

Ray Nazarro

Director

Producer

Writer

September 25, 1902 – September 8, 1986

Credits:

Al Jennings of Oklahoma (1951); Annie Oakley (1954–1956); Apache Territory (1958); Bandits of El Dorado (1949); Blazing Across the Pecos (1948); Buckaroo from Powder River (1947); Buffalo Bill, Jr. (1955); Bullfighter and the Lady (1951); Carolina Blues (1944); Challenge of the Range (1949); China Corsair (1951); Cowboy Blues (1946); Cowboy Canteen (1944); Cowboy from Lonesome River (1944); Cripple Creek (1952); Cyclone Fury (1951); Cyclone Prairie Rangers (1944); Darktown Follies (1930); Daughter of the Tong (1939); David Harding, Counterspy (1950); Domino Kid (1957); Eadie Was a Lady (1945); Einer frisst den anderen (1964); El Dorado Pass (1948); Eve Knew Her Apples (1945); Exile Express (1939); Flame of Stamboul (1951); Fort Savage Raiders (1951); Fremont: The Trailblazer (1956); Frontier Outpost (1950); Fury (1955–1960); Galloping Thunder (1946); Gun Belt (1953); Gunning for Vengeance (1946); Heading West (1946); Hoedown (1950); Home in San Antone (1949); I Love a Mystery (1945); In and Out (1929); In Old Montana (1939); Indian Uprising (1952); Is Everybody Happy? (1943); Jimmy the Gent (1934); Junction City (1952); Kansas Pacific (1953); Laramie (1949); Laramie Mountains (1952); Last Days of Boot Hill (1947); Laugh Jubilee (1946); Law of the Canyon (1947); Lone Star Moonlight (1946); Mike Hammer (1959); Montana Territory (1952); Mystery Is My Business (1955); Outcast of Black Mesa (1950); Outlaws of the Rockies (1945); Over 21 (1945); Over the Santa Fe Trail (1947); Phantom Valley (1948); Quick on the Trigger (1948); Ra Hould Conquers the Dragon (1937); Railroadin' (1941); Reefer Madness (1938); Renegades of the Sage (1949); Return to Warbow (1958); Roaring Rangers (1946); Roaring Roads (1935); Rose of Santa Rosa (1947); Runt Page (1932); Saddle Leather Law (1944); Sing Sing Nights (1934); Singin' Spurs (1948); Singing on the Trail (1946); Six-Gun Law (1948); Smoky Mountain Melody (1948); Snickerty Nick and Buzzy the Pirate Bee (1937); Song of Idaho (1948); Song of the Prairie (1945); South of Death Valley (1949); Southwest Passage (1954); Stars on Parade (1944); State Trooper (1959); Streets of Ghost Town (1950); Suicide Squad (1935); Terror Trail (1946); Texas Dynamo (1950); Texas Panhandle (1945); Thanks for Listening (1937); That Texas Jamboree (1946); The Arkansas Swing (1948); The Bandits of Corsica (1953); The Black Dakotas (1954); The Blazing Trail (1949); The Desert Horseman (1946); The Gene Autry Show (1955); The Hired Gun (1957); The Kid from Amarillo (1951); The Lone Gun (1954); The Lone Hand Texan (1947); The Mystic Circle Murder (1938); The Palomino (1950); The Phantom Stagecoach (1957); The Range Rider (1951–1953); The Rough, Tough West (1952); The Tougher They Come (1950); The White Squaw (1956); Throw a Saddle on a Star (1946); To the Ends of the Earth (1948); Top Gun (1955); Trail of the Rustlers (1950); Trail to Laredo (1948); Two-Fisted Stranger (1946); Two-Man Submarine (1944); West of Dodge City (1947); West of Sonora (1948).

Born on this day – Delia Scala:

Delia Scala

Ballerina

Actress

Singer

September 25, 1929 – January 15, 2004

Credits:

A Dog's Life (1950); Agenzia matrimoniale (1953); Al paradise (1983); Anni difficili (1948); Appointment for Murder (1951); Auguri e figli maschi! (1951); Before the Deluge (1954); Bellezze in bicicletta (1951); Cañas y barro (1954); Canzone di primavera (1951); Canzoni di ieri, canzoni di oggi, canzoni di domani (1962); Canzonissima (1959); Carramba che sorpresa (1998); Casa Cecilia (1982); Casa Cecilia 2 (un anno dopo) (1983); Cavalcade of Song (1953); Che Combinazione (1978–1980); Dai nostri inviati: La Rai e l'Istituto Luce raccontano la Mostra del cinema di Venezia 1932-1953 (2012); Delia Scala Story (1968); Di qua, di là del Piave (1954); Fuoco nero (1951); Giove in doppiopetto (1954); Gioventù alla sbarra (1953); Giovinezza (1952); Goubbiah... mon amour (1956); Gran premio internazionale della TV (1987); Gran varietà (1954); How I Discovered America (1949); I Teddy boys della canzone (1960); Il giorno della tartaruga (1966); Il padrone del vapore (1951); Io e la mamma (1996–1998); La fiammata (1952); L'adorabile Giulio (1961); Le olimpiadi dei mariti (1960); Le village magique (1955); L'eroe della strada (1948); L'eroe sono io! (1952); Lieutenant Craig: Missing (1949); Lui e lei (1956); Madri pericolose (1960); My Seven Little Sins (1954); Opinione pubblica (1954); Position Wanted (1951); Principessina (1943); Ragazze da marito (1952); Rinaldo in campo (1963); Rome 11:00 (1952); Side Street Story (1950); Signore e signora (1970); Signori si nasce (1960); Tanto piacere (1975); Terror of Oklahoma (1959); The Affairs of Messalina (1951); The Cliff of Sin (1951); The Dream of Zorro (1952); The Wild Weird Wonderful Italians (1963); Touchez pas au grisbi (1954); Un Français nommé Gabin (2017); Viva il cinema! (1952).

Born on this day – Irène Tunc:

Irène Tunc

Actress

Model

September 25, 1935 – January 16, 1972

Credits:

À armes égales (1970); Adorable Sinner (1959); Aphrodite, Goddess of Love (1958); Bravissimo (1955); Camilla (1954); Cavalcata selvaggia (1960); Cavalier in Devil's Castle (1959); Cinéma (1967); Compression (2025); Diamond Machine (1955); Dim Dam Dom (1967–1970); Frédéric le gardian (1965); Frou-Frou (1955); Genitori in blue-jeans (1960); Girl on the Third Floor (1955); Graffiti 60 (2004); Heartbeat (1968); I Love You, I Love You (1968); Irène (2009); La contessa azzurra (1960); La sposa (1958); L'abandon (1967); Lazzarella (1957); Le colonel est de la revue (1957); Le signore (1960); Léon Morin, Priest (1961); Live for Life (1967); Maid in Paris (1956); Mise à sac (1967); Mon royaume pour un lapin (1965); Noi siamo due evasi (1959); Operazione notte (1957); Paris Holiday (1958); Provinces (1968); Reflets de Cannes (1962); Rembob'Ina (2023); Si Paris nous était conté (1956); Sweet and Sour (1963); The Conqueror of the Orient (1960); The Gangsters (1957); The Gardener of Argenteuil (1966); The Last Adventure (1967); The Parisian (1957); Two English Girls (1971); Vacances explosives! (1957); Vive la vie (1968).

Born on this day – Christopher Reeve:

Christopher Reeve

Actor

Director

September 25, 1952 – October 10, 2004

Born on this day – Michael Madsen:

 

Michael Madsen

Actor

Producer

Writer

September 25, 1957 – July 3, 2025

Credits:

13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2007); 2 Graves in the Desert (2020); 2 Hopeful Spinsters (2013); 2047: Sights of Death (2014); 24 (2010); 25 - Das Magazin (2004); 42K (2001); 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out (2003); 45 R.P.M. (2008); 63lbs (2013); A Christmas Gamble (2024); A Cold Day in Hell (2011); A Corpse in Kensington (2025); A Hitman in London (2015); A House in the Hills (1993); A Look Behind My Boss's Daughter (2004); A Matter of Justice (2011); A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry (2008); A Night in Jail (2017); A Sierra Nevada Gunfight (2013); A Turn in the Sun (2015); A Way with Murder (2009); Ace of Spades: Bad Destiny (2012); Afghan Knights (2007); Against All Hope (1982); All In (2006); Almost Blue (1993); Almost Grown (1989); Along for the Ride (2016); Along the Roadside (2013); Amazing Racer (2009); American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective (2023); American Dream (2015); American Night (2021); Amsterdam Heavy (2011); Angels Fallen (2020); Animal Precinct (2001); Arctic Dogs (2019); Arena Wars (2024); Ashley (2013); Assassins Revenge (2018); Assault on Hill 400 (2023); Ava (2025); Axe Cop (2013); Baby Snatcher (1992); Back in the Day (2016); Bad Guys (2000); Ballad of the Nightingale (1999); Balls of Steel (2005); Behind the Story: Green Lantern - First Fight (2009); Being Michael Madsen (2007); Beyond the Game (2016); Beyond the Law (1993); Beyond the Trophy (2012); Big Apple (2001); Big Brother's Bit on the Side (2012); Big Bug Man (2006); Big Time in Hollywood, FL (2015); Bikini Inception (2015); Biography (2004); Blood Behind Us (2025); Blood Red (1989); BloodRayne (2005); Blue Bloods (2012); Blue Tiger (1994); Boarding Gate (2007); Bob's Burgers (2012); Born2Race (2019); Break (2008); Brit Awards 2002 (2002); Bullets Over Hollywood (2005); Burial Ground Massacre (2021); Cagney & Lacey (1984); Canes (2006); Cash Collectors (2025); Catherine's Grove (1997); Celebrity Animal Encounters (2018); Celebrity Big Brother (2012); Celebrity Ghost Stories (2013); Charlie Buster (2025); Chasing Ghosts (2005); Choke (2001); Christian Audigier the Vif (2017); Christmas Crash (2009); Christmas Thieves (2021); Cinema mil (2005); Clear Lake, WI (2009); Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy (2021); CobraGator (2015); Cole Younger & The Black Train (2012); Coma (2008); Comme au cinéma (2004); Concessions (2025); Conjuring: The Book of the Dead (2020); Cookbook for Southern Housewives (2025); Corruption (2010); Cosmic Radio (2007); Crash and Burn (2008); Creepshow Raw: Insomnia (2009); Cribs (2005); Crime Boss: Rockay City (2023); Crime Story (1986); Croc (2007); CSI: Miami (2010); Damon's Revenge (2022); Dark Feathers: Dance of the Geisha (2024); Day of Redemption (2013); Dead Connection (1994); Dead Man Running (2009); Dead on Time (2018); Death Count (2022); Death in the Desert (2015); Deep Winter (2008); Demon Pit (2022); Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider (2016); Desperate Endeavors (2012); Detour (1998); Devil's Domain (2016); Diamond Cartel (2015); Diamond Heist (2012); Die Another Day (2002); Diner (1983); Dinner for Five (2004); DinoGator (2024); Dirty Dealing 3D (2018); Dirty Fears (2020); Dirty Little Trick (2011); Dishonored (2012); Dishonored 2 (2016); Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (2017); Dishonored: The Brigmore Witches (2013); Dishonored: The Knife of Dunwall (2013); Donnie Brasco (1997); Driv3r (2004); Dying Is Easy (2021); Dystopia (2019); Egill: The Last Pagan (2025); Eldorado (2012); Emigratis (2016); Empire Movie Awards 2005 (2005); Empire of the Censors (1995); Entertainment Tonight (2015); Entity (2025); Evening Urgant (2013); Every Last One of Them (2021); Everything Came from Miami Vice (2025); Executive Target (1997); Explosion Jones (2017); Extreme Honor (2001); Eyes Front (2008); Fact Hunt (2016); Fait Accompli (1998); Fall: The Price of Silence (2001); Fatal Instinct (1992); Federal (2010); Film Genre (2002); Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light (2006); Flat Out (1999); Flipped (2015); For Nothing (2025); Frankenstein (2004); Free Willy (1993); Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (1995); Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (2003); Gabrielle (2013); Gabriel's Fire (1990); Gangsters: The Immigrant's Hero (2006); Garbage (2012); Garlic & Gunpowder (2017); Gloves of Stone (2009); Golden Boy (2013); Grace (2022); Grand Theft Auto III (2001); Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition (2021); Green Lantern: First Flight (2009); Grindhouse Nightmares (2017); Hangover in Death Valley (2018); Hawaii Five-0 (2014); Hell Ride (2008); Henry's Film Corner (2005); High Noon (2000); Hired Gun (2009); Hoboken Hollow (2006); Hollywood Insider (2020–2022); Hope Lost (2015); House (2008); I Love the 1990s (2001); I Love the '70s (2003); ICE Agent (2013); Iggy Azalea Feat. Rita Ora: Black Widow (2014); IGN Daily Fix (2013); Iguana (1988); I'm in Love with a Church Girl (2013); Incarnation (2022); Infected (2013); Inside Edge (1992); It Happened That Way (2004); Jacked$ (2004); Jake and the Fatman (1989); Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2004–2015); Joshua Tree (2011); Justin Bieber: As Long as You Love Me (2012); Kidnapped in Romania (2016); Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2006); Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003); Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004); Kill Me Again (1989); Killian (2018); Kith for New Balance: Master Your Craft (2021); Klyuch salamandry (2011); L.A. Dicks (2005); L.A.P.D.: To Protect and to Serve (2001); Lady Psycho Killer (2015); Last Hour (2008); Last Man Club (2016); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1994–2000); Late Show with David Letterman (1994); Le grand journal de Canal+ (2007); Les nouveaux refus (2004); Let the Game Begin (2010); Lionhead (2013); Living & Dying (2007); Loosies (2011); Lost in the Woods (2009); Love Addict (2018); Love.com (2002); Luck of the Draw (2000); Lumberjack Man (2015); Machine (2007); Mad TV (2002); Made in Hollywood (2016); Magi (2016); Making of the 15th Raindance Film Festival (2007); Man with a Gun (1995); Master of Photography (2016); Max Dagan (2024); Megalodon (2018); Miami Vice (1984); Michael Madsen's Video Diary (Hell Ride) (2008); Midnight Movie Review (2011); Mob of the Dead (2013); Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films (2006); Money for Nothing (1993); Money to Burn (2010); Monster Mash (2024); Montana (1990); Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood (2006); Moviewatch (1994); Mr. Wonderful (2025); Mulholland Falls (1996); Music Innovation: Ennio to A.I. (2025); My Boss's Daughter (2003); Narc / Video Game (2005); Nick Le Juge Ft. Michael Madsen: Dancing on Your Grave (2019); Nishabdham (2020); No Bad Days (2008); No Clean Break (2010–2011); No Deposit (2015); No Names (2007); Nomad: The Beginning (2013); Not Another Not Another Movie (2011); Now Here (2010); Offline (2025); Oldfellas (2025); On-Air with Ryan Seacrest (2004); Once Upon a Time in Hollyweird (2024); Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019); One Bad Movie (2024); Our Family Honor (1985–1986); Our good hands (2020); Outlaw (2001); Outlaw Johnny Black (2023); Outrage: Born in Terror (2009); Papa (2018); Paulie (2013); Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003); Pet Star (2002–2005); Piranhaconda (2012); Powers (2016); Prepare to Die (2024); Pressure Point (2001); Primitiva (2019); Prince of the City (2012); Prohibition Opens the Floodgates (2006); Puppy Love (2020); Put (2009); QT8: The First Eight (2019); Quantum Leap (1989); Racing with the Moon (1984); Real Detective (2016); Real Rob (2017); Red Carpet Report (2010); Red Handed (2019); Red Line (1995); Red Prophecies (2021); Refuge from the Storm (2012); Renegade (2004); Reservoir Dogs (1992); Reservoir Dogs / Video Game (2006); Reservoir Dogs: Deleted Scenes (1992); Reservoir Dogs: Original Interviews (2002); Resurrection Road (2025); Reza Rifts (2021); Road of No Return (2009); Rock, Paper, Scissors (2017); Rotten Tomatoes (2015); Rough Draft (1998); Run Raven Run (2022); Sacred Blood (2015); Sacrifice (2000); Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004); Saturday at the Starlight (2025); Scary Movie 4 (2006); Season of Change (1994); Seitenblicke (2004); Serbian Scars (2009); Serpent in the Bottle (2020); Shadows in the Storm (1988); Shark Season (2020); Shownieuws (2011); Sin City (2005); Sin City: The Premiere (2005); Sinatra! Eternity (2025); Sins (2012); Six Days in Paradise (2010); So You Want Michael Madsen? (2008); South of Hope Street (2024); Spatss! 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On this day in movie history - Death Car on the Freeway (1979)

Death Car on the Freeway

directed by Hal Needham,

written by William Wood,

was released in the United States on September 25, 1979.

Music by Richard Markowitz.

Cast:

Shelley Hack, Frank Gorshin, Peter Graves, Harriet Nelson, Barbara Rush, Dinah Shore, Abe Vigoda, Alfie Wise, George Hamilton, Robert F. Lyons, Tara Buckman, Morgan Brittany, Nancy Stephens, Gloria Stroock, Hal Needham, Jim Negele, Sid Haig, Buddy Farmer, Hank Brandt, Marguerite DeLain, Roger Aaron Brown, Jack Collins, Dennis Falt, Jerry Jensen

On this day in movie history - Southern Comfort (1981)

Southern Comfort

directed by Walter Hill,

written by Walter Hill, Michael Kane and David Giler,

was released in the United States on September 25, 1981.

Music by Ry Cooder.

Cast:

Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, Franklyn Seales, T.K. Carter, Lewis Smith, Les Lannom, Peter Coyote, Carlos Brown, Brion James, Sonny Landham, Jeanne-Louise Bulliard, Jeannie Spector, Orel Borel.

On this day in movie history - George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984)

 

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

documentary directed and written by George Stevens Jr.

was released at the Deauville Film Festival in France on September 25, 1984.

Narrated by George Stevens Jr.

Music by Carl Davis.

Cast:

Fred Astaire, Warren Beatty, Pandro S. Berman, Frank Capra, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Katharine Hepburn, John Huston, Rouben Mamoulian, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Joel McCrea, Ivan Moffat, Alan J. Pakula, Hermes Pan, Millie Perkins, Hal Roach, Ginger Rogers, Irwin Shaw, Jack Sher, Yvonne Howell, Antonio Vellani, Max von Sydow, Fred Zinnemann, George Stevens Jr., Jean Arthur, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Cary Grant, Rock Hudson, Sam Jaffe, Alan Ladd, Fred MacMurray, Jack Palance, George Stevens, Elizabeth Taylor, Spencer Tracy, Shelley Winters, Charles Coburn, Brandon De Wilde, Joan Fontaine, Oliver Hardy, Van Heflin, Stan Laurel, Hattie McDaniel, Victor McLaglen.

On this day in movie history - Best Seller (1987)

Best Seller

directed by John Flynn,

written by Larry Cohen,

was released in the United States on September 25, 1987.

Music by Jay Ferguson.

Cast:

James Woods, Brian Dennehy, Victoria Tennant, Allison Balson, Paul Shenar, George Coe, Anne Pitoniak, Mary Carver, Sully Boyar, Kathleen Lloyd, Charles Tyner, E. Brian Dean, Jeffrey Josephson, Edward Blackoff, Branscombe Richmond, J.P. Bumstead, William Bronder, Jenny Gago, Michael Crabtree, Clare Fields, Claudia Stenke, David Byrd, Loyda Ramos, Obaka Adedunyo, Ted Markland, Phil Hoover, David Blackwood, David Ursin, Jay Ingram, Daniel Trent, Gary Kirk, Dean Abston, David S. Cass Sr., Bill R. Mitchell, John Howard Swain, Dennis Acree, Mark Venturini, Larry Holt, Jeff Ramsey, James Winburn, Peter Stader, Hank Stone, Brian Gaffikin, Michael White, Martin West, Wally Burr, Arlin Miller, Sands Hall, Sam Baldoni, Seymour Cassel, Sydney Urshan.

On this day in movie and book history - Bug (2006)

Bug

directed by William Friedkin,

written by Tracy Letts, and based on the play by Tracy Letts,

was released in the United States on September 25, 2006.

Music by Brian Tyler.

Cast:

Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, Lynn Collins, Brían F. O'Byrne, Harry Connick, Jr.

Recommended reading:

Bug

Play by Tracy Letts.

Published by Northwestern University Press.

ISBN-10: 0810123487

ISBN-13: 978-0810123489

Description:

Set in a seedy Oklahoma City motel room, the play centers on the meeting between Agnes, a divorced waitress with a fondness for cocaine and isolation, and Peter, a soft-spoken Gulf War drifter introduced to her by her lesbian friend, R.C. Agnes stays at a hotel in hopes of avoiding her physically abusive ex-husband, Jerry, who was just released from prison. At first, she lets Peter sleep platonically on her floor, but not long after she promotes him to the bed. Matters become more complicated as Jerry eagerly returns to the woman he loves to beat her up, expecting to resume their relationship. On top of that, there’s a hidden bug infestation problem that has both Agnes and Peter dealing with scathing welts and festering sores which has Peter believing this is the result of experiments conducted on him during his stay at an army hospital. Their fears soon escalate to paranoia, conspiracy theories and twisted psychological motives.

On this day in movie history - The Brothers Warner (2007)

The Brothers Warner

documentary directed and written by Cass Warner,

was released in the United States on September 25, 2008.

Narrated by Cass Warner.

Music by David Campbell.

Cast:

Dennis Hopper, Cass Warner, Bette-Ann Warner, Harry M. Warner, Tab Hunter, Norman Lear, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Leo Braudy, Nancy Snow, Steven J. Ross, Samuel Goldwyn Jr., Benjamin Warner, Betty Warner Sheinbaum, Michael Birdwell, John Steel, Albert Warner, Angie Dickinson, George Segal, Haskell Wexler, Debbie Reynolds, Jack Warner Jr., Lina Basquette, Stephen Farber, Johanna Blakey, Sam Warner, Lita Heller, Jack L. Warner, Roy Edward Disney, Lewis Warner, Sherry Lansing, Frank Pierson, Eddie Bockser, Lois McGrew, Robert Greenwald, Jim Meskimen, Heinrich Himmler, Frank Sinatra.

On this day in movie history - Surrogates (2009)

Surrogates

directed by Jonathan Mostow,

written by John Brancato and Michael Ferris,

based on the comic book The Surrogates by Robert Venditti,

was released in the United States on September 25, 2009.

Music by Richard Marvin.

End credits song: I Will Not Bow by Breaking Benjamin.

Cast:

Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, Boris Kodjoe, James Francis Ginty, James Cromwell, Ving Rhames, Jack Noseworthy, Devin Ratray, Michael Cudlitz, Jeffrey De Serrano, Helena Mattsson, Michael Philip, Danny F Smith, Brian Parrish, Jennifer Alden, Shane Dzicek, Andrew Haserlat, Justin Goodrich, Lisa Hernandez, Kirk Hawkins, Rachel Sterling, Meta Golding, Taylor Cole, Jordan Belfi, J.L. Highsmith, Nicholas Purcell, Max Murphy, Victor Webster, David Klefeker, Dorothy Brodesser, Valerie Azlynn, Michael O'Toole, Chad Williams, Mike Randy, Tyson Eberly, Michael DeMello, Ron Murphy, Genevieve Johnson, David Conley, Bruce-Robert Serafin, Cody Christian, Ian Novick, Todd Cahoon, Ella Thomas, Gabriel Olds, Eamon Brooks, Rodney Weber, De'Lon Grant, Matthew Souris, Trevor Donovan, Brock Gloor, Rick Malambri, Paul Richard Yarborough, Christine Mascott, Ari Mostow, Nathan Mostow, Taylar Eliza, Edward McCabe, Anya Monzikova, Brett Ainslie, John Amato, Stanis Krista Ames, Melissa Barker, Greg Berney, Joshua Brown, Nicole Burch, Shannon Carter, Chemi Che-Mponda, Desiree April Connolly, Kelly Dempsey, Amanda Dixon, Shannon Mary Dixon, Frank Durant, Shawn Fogarty, Sari Gagnon, Una Green, Barbara Guertin, Brett Gustafson, London Hall, Lauren Hayes, Quincy Heath, Haley Higgins, Jordan Johnson, Kate Jurdi, Haytham Kandil, Petar Kirilov, David A. Kirsch, Jennifer Lazea, Anne Lockhart, Christopher J. Long, Evalena Marie, Dan Marshall, Robert Masiello, Rana Morrison, Jason Mulcahy, Robert Nuzzie, Valerie Parker, Dominic Prietto, Ali Raymer, Derrick Redford, Baylee Ricci, Floyd Richardson, Joe Sobalo Jr., Vyvian B. Stevens, Amanda Wall, Mike Wendt, Jamie Christopher White.