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151. Silent Tongue

152. The Spider Inside Me,

153.The Last Detail

154. TR Baskin

155. Sand Pebbles

156. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

157. Billy Budd

158. Never Cry Wolf

159. Midnight Cowboy

160. Project X

161. Mrs Winterbourne

162. Lawn Dogs

163. Mrs Soffel

164. Across the Moon

165. The Perfect Storm

166. The White Squall

167. Bedazzled

168. The New Guy

169. Little Darlings

170. Clueless

171. Loser

172. The Miracle Worker

173. Barry Lyndon

174. The Incredible Shrinking Woman

175. Elaan of Troyius

Humanities Film Forum

The Radio Literacy Project's visual media committee, the Humanities Film Forum, seeks to post commentary, encourage the diversity of, and publicly show films, videos, and photo essays.

From amateur to obscure to large company, the films and their sources are treated with equality, on their merits. On a lesser note, the Humanities Film Forum web pages may announce member films, amateur or not.

The Humanities Film Forum solicits no fees. Please contact

Prof. Alex Klystron.

Committee address: Humanities Film Forum RLP

P.O.Box 23 Hamden, NY 13782 USA

Film 185 Car 54, Where Are You?

An ancient TV series inspired movie with no parallels in the film industry. The opening scene is Brooklyn Officer Toody smiling asleep in a squad car, and on to his dream. In a fantastically peacefully yellow and purple dressed neighborhood, Gunther Toody struts his beat, and the worst crime contemplation is a cat after a yellow bird. Toody discourages the crime with a wave of his finger and sings his official purpose. He awakens to the real Brooklyn (riot scene), and returns to Precinct 53 with his elderly partner Leo Schnauser. At the station house, the first of the two movie's overlaid main stories begins. Toody is losing Officer Schnauser for a highly trained rookie Muldoon, who brings with him, the newest high-tech anti-crime tools and by the book standards. After several days of grief with trigger-happy ticket happy blind justice un-partnerly Francis Muldoon, Toody returns to Captain Anderson's requesting (sternly) make Muldoon into a useful officer. Gunther Toody then unleashes his social graces, and street smarts, and with the help of jealous Lucille Toody and "can I touch your badge" Velma Velour, puts Muldoon's mind onto better things. The second main story, is a silly protect the mob witness theme, that moves the movie along, and demonstrates how easily city cops are distracted, but unmoved, by their blunders. Poorly protected Herbert Hortz is an unlikely unworrying party animal of a mafia accountant, who raps with jailed rappers, and cares move about his diet, than the bumbling mob's attempts on his life. Gunther proves to be an urban model of a good husband, for uneasy Lucille, and Francis Muldoon adds street smarts and Velma to his cart. Car 54 is demoted to a 9 for a few zany scenes, but is a major charmer of a flick, and should be required viewing for all officers of the law. Great cast. Prof Alex Klystron