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Julia

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:21:36 +0000

Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama
Release Year: 1977
Country: USA
Runtime: 118
Rating: 8.1 (0)
Languages: French, German, English
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

The story of two women whose friendship suddenly became a matter of life and death.

Based on a true story.

Writing by: Lillian Hellman – novel "Pentimento"
Alvin Sargent – writer

Produced by: Julien Derode – executive producer
Tom Pevsner – associate producer
Richard Roth – producer

Cast: Jane Fonda – Lillian Hellman
Vanessa Redgrave – Julia
Jason Robards – Dashiell Hammett
Maximilian Schell – Johann
Hal Holbrook – Alan Campbell
Rosemary Murphy – Dorothy Parker
Meryl Streep – Anne Marie
Dora Doll – Woman Passenger
Elisabeth Mortensen – Girl Passenger
John Glover – Sammy
Lisa Pelikan – Julia (younger)

Music: Georges Delerue
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Plot Outline: At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
Plot: From “Pentimento,” the memoirs of late playwright Lillian Hellman, JULIA covers those years in the 1930s when Lillian attained fame with the production of her first play “The Childrens Hour” on Broadway. Not surprisingly, it centers on Lillians relationship with her lifelong friend, Julia. It is a relationship that goes beyond mere acquaintance and one for which the word “love” seems appropriate. While Julia attends the University in Vienna, studying with such luminaries as Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein, Lillian suffers through revisions of her play with her mentor and sometimes lover Dashiel Hammett at a New England beachhouse. After becoming a celebrated playwright, Lillian is invited to a writers conference in Russia. Julia, having taken up the battle against fascism, enlists Lillian en route to smuggle money through Nazi Germany which will assist in the Anti-Fascist cause. It is a dangerous mission especially for a Jewish intellectual on her way to communist Russia. During a brief meeting with Julia on this trip, Lillian learns that Julia has had a child which is called Lilly. Shortly after returning to the States, Lillian is informed of Julias murder. The details of her death are shrouded in secrecy. Lillian sadly travels to England to search for her namesake the child she had promised Julia to care for.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The hardware, weaponry and surveillance systems depicted in this film are real and in use in the united states today.

Goofs: We know about 2 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Plot holes: The basis of the entire film is the restrictions in pre-WWII Nazi Germany on the import of foreign (such as American) currency. There was no such restriction. Stable foreign currency was welcomed in an era when extreme inflation was a recent memory.

Trivia: There are 9 entries in the trivia list – like these:

Faye Dunaway turned down the role of Julia.

Barbra Streisand turned down the role of Lillian Helman.

Jane Fonda was originally cast as Julia. However, when the producers had trouble casting the role of Lillian Helman, they decided to recast Fonda in the lead.

4 for Texas

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:56:14 +0000

Category: Western
All Genres: Western, Comedy
Release Year: 1963
Country: USA
Runtime: 124
Rating: 4.3 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Robert Aldrich
Sound: Mono, Stereo
Taglines:
Theyre Busting Up The West Like Its Never Been Busted Up Before!

Its a daisy!

Writing by: Teddi Sherman – (written by) &
Robert Aldrich – (written by)
W.R. Burnett – uncredited

Produced by: Robert Aldrich – producer
Walter Blake – associate producer
Howard W. Koch – executive producer

Cast: Frank Sinatra – Zack Thomas
Dean Martin – Joe Jarrett
Anita Ekberg – Elya Carlson
Ursula Andress – Maxine Richter
Charles Bronson – Matson
Victor Buono – Harvey Burden (President, Galveston Savings & Trust)
Edric Connor – Prince George (carriage driver)
Nick Dennis – Angel
Richard Jaeckel – Pete Mancini
Mike Mazurki – Chad (Zacks bodyguard)
Wesley Addy – Winthrop Trowbridge

Music: Nelson Riddle
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Plot Outline: A documentary on perception of the United Statess war with Iraq, with an emphasis on Al Jazeeras coverage.
Plot: Frank Sinatra plays a tough guy who hooks up with fellow rat packer Dean Martin to open a casino in this western.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Stills of different portions of the movie are shown during the credits. The final still is a part not previously seen and it shows the rock garden behind the gas station which is referenced earlier in the movie.

Goofs: We know about 13 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: The Joes muffler turns around his left shoulder, between shots, when Zack puts the money bag on the fallen stagecoach.

Trivia: There are 5 entries in the trivia list – like these:

During one scene in the film, we see a building with a painted sign for the “SAM Company”. “SAM” is the name of the production company that made the film and it stood for Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.

Bette Davis declined a role in this film to do Dead Ringer (1964).

Director Robert Aldrich intensely disliked Frank Sinatras non-professional attitude and tried unsuccessfully to have him dismissed from the film.

Clockstoppers

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:01:22 +0000

Category: Adventure
All Genres: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Release Year: 2002
Country: USA
Runtime: 94
Rating: 7.7 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Sound: DTS, Dolby Digital
Taglines:
The adventure of a lifetime, in a few mere seconds.

Freeze the future

What if you had the power to stop time?

Writing by: Rob Hedden – (story) &
Andy Hedden – (story) and
J. David Stem – (story) &
David N. Weiss – (story)
Rob Hedden – (screenplay) and
J. David Stem – (screenplay) &
David N. Weiss – (screenplay)

Produced by: Albie Hecht – executive producer
Rob Hedden – co-producer
David B. Householter – co-producer (as David Householter)
Gale Anne Hurd – producer
Julia Pistor – producer

Cast: Jesse Bradford – Zak Gibbs
French Stewart – Dr. Earl Dopler
Paula Garcés – Francesca
Michael Biehn – Henry Gates
Robin Thomas – Dr. Gibbs
Garikayi Mutambirwa – Meeker
Julia Sweeney – Jenny Gibbs
Lindze Letherman – Kelly Gibbs
Jason Winston George – Richard
Linda Kim – Jay
Ken Jenkins – NSA Agent Moore

Music: Jamshied Sharifi
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Plot Outline: A teenager accidentally activates a machine that enables him to speed up his body so that other people seem to be standing still.
Plot: Until now, Zak Gibbs greatest challenge has been finding a way to buy a car. But when he discovers an odd wristwatch amidst his fathers various inventions and slips it on, something very strange happens. The world around him seemingly comes to a stop; giving the effect that everyone has come to a stop. Zak quickly learns how to manipulate the device, and he and his quick-witted, beautiful new friend, Francesca, have some real fun. What they soon realize, though, is they are not alone in hypertime.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
During the end credits, Doug waves to viewers and gets tired, while Porkchop listens to a walkman.

Goofs: We know about 7 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Miscellaneous: The roof scene is flipped – the writing on signs on both the door and the wall have the text reversed.

Trivia: There are 3 entries in the trivia list – like these:

-The first feature film directed by Jonathan Frakes not related to Star Trek.

Director Cameo: [Jonathan Frakes] in the background, behind Jesse as he looks for parts at the science symposium.

Director Trademark: [Jonathan Frakes] [Star Trek references] Francesca says, “Make it so, number one.”

Lifeboat

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:09:08 +0000

Category: Thriller
All Genres: Thriller, War
Release Year: 1944
Country: USA
Runtime: 96
Rating: 7.7 (0)
Languages: English, German
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
Who goes Primitive first…A man…Or a woman…adrift in an open boat ?

What happens when six men and three women are alone in an open boat ?

Six men and three women – against the sea and each other.

Writing by: John Steinbeck – (story)
Jo Swerling – (screenplay)
Ben Hecht – uncredited

Produced by: Kenneth Macgowan – producer

Cast: Tallulah Bankhead – Constance Connie Porter
William Bendix – Gus Smith
Walter Slezak – Willy
Mary Anderson – Alice MacKenzie
John Hodiak – John Kovac
Henry Hull – Charles D. Ritt Rittenhouse
Heather Angel – Mrs.Higley
Hume Cronyn – Stanley Sparks Garrett
Canada Lee – George Joe Spencer
William Yetter Jr. – German Sailor (uncredited)

Music: Hugo Friedhofer
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Plot Outline: Several survivors of a torpedoed ship find themselves in the same boat with one of the men who sunk it.
Plot: In the Atlantic during WWII, a ship and a German U-boat are involved in a battle and both are sunk. The survivors from the ship gather in one of the boats. They are from a variety of backgrounds: an international journalist, a rich businessman, the radio operator, a nurse, a steward, a sailor and an engineer with communist tendencies. Trouble starts when they pull a man out of the water who turns out to be from the U-boat.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
As the end credits roll, Professor Solomon is being pushed in a wheelchair by a nurse who happens to be the killer from the first movie!

Goofs: We know about 4 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: After the operation on Guss leg, the group is playing cards. The sound is the same audio from the card game earlier in the film. Ritt stays. Kovac takes three cards. You can see when Kovac supposedly says, “Three cards,” his lips dont move at all.

Trivia: There are 15 entries in the trivia list – like these:

Alfred Hitchcock called Ben Hecht in to read the final script and to rewrite the ending.

Seasickness hit the entire cast at one point or another, and much of the cast caught pneumonia after constant exposure to cold water, Tallulah Bankhead having suffered twice from it. Hume Cronyn almost drowned in a storm scene when he got caught under a large metal water-activator, used for making waves. Joe Peterson, a lifeguard hired especially for the production, saved him in the nick of time. Hume Cronyn also suffered from cracked ribs during the course of filming.

During filming, several of the crew members noted that actress Tallulah Bankhead was not wearing underwear. When advised of this situation, director Alfred Hitchcock observed, “I dont know if this is a matter for the costume department, makeup, or hairdressing.”

Przypadek

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:27:23 +0000

Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama
Release Year: 1987
Country: Poland
Runtime: 122
Rating: 6.9 (0)
Languages: Polish
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Sound: Ultra Stereo
Taglines:
Theyre Looking for a Few Good Men.

Writing by: Krzysztof Kieslowski – writer

Produced by: Jacek Szeligowski – producer

Cast: Boguslaw Linda – Witek
Tadeusz Lomnicki – 1. Werner
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz – 1. Adam
Boguslawa Pawelec – 1. Czuszka
Marzena Trybala – 2. Werka
Jacek Borkowski – 2. Marek
Jacek Sas-Uhrynowski – 2. Daniel
Adam Ferency – 2. Ksiadz
Monika Gozdzik – 3. Olga
Zygmunt Hubner – 3. Dzirkan
Irena Byrska – 3. Ciotka

Music: Wojciech Kilar
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Plot Outline: Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witeks life…
Plot: Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witeks life. One: he catches the train, meets an honest Communist and himself becomes a Party activist. Two: while running for the train he bumps into a railway guard, is attested, brought to trial and sent to unpaid labour in a park where he meets someone from the opposition. He, in turn, becomes a militant member of the opposition. Three: he simply misses the train, meets a girl from his studies, rerns to his interrupted studies, marries the girl and leads a peaceful life as & doctor unwilling to get mixed up in politics. He is sent abroad with his work. In mid-air, the plane he is on explodes.

Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
This concert was recorded live at the Terrace Theatre in Long Beach, California

Goofs: We know about 5 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: No one who goes out in the rain is ever wet when he or she comes back inside.

Trivia: There are 1 entries in the trivia list – like these:

Although the movie was made in 1981, it had its premiere in 1987. The delay was because of state-imposed censorship due to the films political content.

Dog Eat Dog

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:42:56 +0000

Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Drama
Release Year: 2001
Country: UK, Germany
Runtime: 93
Rating: 7.4 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Moody Shoaibi
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
Youll scream yourself into a state of shock!

Writing by: Moody Shoaibi – writer
Mark Tonderai – writer

Produced by: Peter Bennet-Jones – executive producer
Amanda Davis – producer
Elinor Day – co-producer
Hanno Huth – executive producer
Marigo Kehoe – line producer
Paul Webster – executive producer

Cast: Mark Tonderai – Rooster
Nathan Constance – Jess
David Oyelowo – CJ
Crunski – Chang
Alan Davies – Phil
Melanie Blatt – Ex-Girlfriend
Gary Kemp – Jesus
Steve Toussaint – Darcy
Ricky Gervais – Bouncer
Geff Francis – Trunde
Lexi Strauss – Crackhead

Music: Mark Hinton Stewart
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Plot Outline: A kidnap caper of a dog to make some much needed cash to pay off some outstanding debts goes wrong…with not so hilarious consequences.
Plot: A group of twenty-somethings, one of whom is a single father with a precious daughter, have been unsuccessfully in getting into a certain club so they can have a chance to DJ in their and start a career out of it. A series of events has lumbered them with a dog napping scheme gone badly wrong, ending up with them currently owning a particular pooch belonging to a dog-loving local drug dealer.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Michal Koban … legal counsel animals

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: Although Robert Dix is billed in the credits as “Dr. Manning”, he is referred to in the film as “Col. Manning”.

Trivia: There are 6 entries in the trivia list – like these:

The cavemen footage is from a Filipino movie shot in 1965. The new US color footage was shot in 1966. The film itself wasnt released until 1970.

This film is a mixture of a mid 60s Filippino horror movie called “Tagani”, “One Million BC” (1940) and “Unknown Island” (1948).

The Filippino film “Tagani” which forms the basis of Adamsons film was made in black and white. As drive-ins at the time were clamoring for color features, the black and white footage was tinted using a process which was hyped as Spectrum X.

Arranged

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:43:52 +0000

Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release Year: 2007
Country: USA
Runtime: 90
Rating: 7.3 (0)
Languages: English, Hebrew, Arabic
Director: Diane Crespo Stefan C. Schaefer
Sound: Dolby Digital, SDDS
Taglines:
Friendship Has No Religion

Writing by: Stefan C. Schaefer – story
Stefan C. Schaefer – written by
Yuta Silverman – story

Produced by: Diane Crespo – producer
Olaf de Fleur Johannesson – consulting producer
Andrew Lund – executive producer
Stefan C. Schaefer – producer
Yuta Silverman – executive producer
Isaac Wilkins – line producer

Cast: Zoe Lister Jones – Rochel
Francis Benhamou – Nasira
John Rothman – Matan
Mimi Lieber – Sheli
Laith Nakli – Abdul-Halim
Doris Belack – Elona
Marcia Jean Kurtz – Principal Jacoby
Trevor Braun – Avi
Daniel London – Elliot
Arian Moayed – Ahmed
Peggy Gormley – Miriam

Music: Sohrab Habibion Michael Hampton
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Plot Outline: ARRANGED centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn…
Plot: ARRANGED centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share much in common – not least of which is that they are both going through the process of arranged marriages.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
At the end of the credits, the usual disclaimer is replaced with: “This story was based on fact. Any similiarity with fictional events or characters is entirely coincidental.”

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: In the scene with both women in the car (on the way to the cemetery), the items on the back window (behind Rochel) change position from cut to cut — most notable is a newspaper.

Trivia: There are 2 entries in the trivia list – like these:

The film was shot in 17 days, during a heat wave where temps in New York hit 115 degrees.

The film is loosely based on the experiences of Executive Producer Yuta Silverman, an Orthodox Jew who befriended a Pakistani Muslim woman through the public schools in Brooklyn.

Leben der Anderen, Das

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:00:20 +0000

Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama
Release Year: 2006
Country: Germany
Runtime: 137
Rating: 6.5 (0)
Languages: German
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Sound: Dolby Digital
Taglines:
Before the Fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germanys Secret Police Listened to Your Secrets

Writing by: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck – (written by)

Produced by: Quirin Berg – producer
Claudia Gladziejewski – delegate producer: Bayerischer Rundfunk
Dirk Hamm – co-producer
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck – co-producer
Max Wiedemann – producer

Cast: Martina Gedeck – Christa-Maria Sieland
Ulrich Mühe – Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler
Sebastian Koch – Georg Dreyman
Ulrich Tukur – Oberstleutnant Anton Grubitz
Thomas Thieme – Minister Bruno Hempf
Hans-Uwe Bauer – Paul Hauser
Volkmar Kleinert – Albert Jerska
Matthias Brenner – Karl Wallner
Charly Hübner – Udo
Herbert Knaup – Gregor Hessenstein
Bastian Trost – Häftling 227

Music: Stéphane Moucha Gabriel Yared
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Plot Outline: In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
Plot: The horrifying, sometimes unintentionally funny system of observation in the former East Germany. In the early 1980s, the successful dramatist Georg Dreyman and his longtime companion Christa-Maria Sieland, a popular actress, are big intellectual stars in the socialist state, although they secretly dont always think loyal to the party line. One day, the Minister of Culture becomes interested in Christa, so the secret service agent Wiesler is instructed to observe and sound out the couple, but their life fascinates him more and more…

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Daniel Paredes …… Crazy Student and Son of a Driver

Goofs: We know about 14 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Anachronisms: When Dreyman finds Wiesler in the end, the cars in the background are current, not from 1991.

Trivia: There are 9 entries in the trivia list – like these:

Nicolette Krebitz auditioned for the role of Christa, which eventually went to Martina Gedeck.

The film set a record in 2006 for getting the most nominations (11) for the German Film Awards ever.

The German DVD of this film was recalled due to some statements director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck made in his audio commentary about the alleged activities of politician Gregor Gysi and actress Jenny Gröllmann as in-official agents (IM) for the “Staatssicherheit” (secret police of former East Germany). New and old revisions of the DVD can be distinguished by a marking on the back spine (old retail/rental: Z4/Z4R, new retail/rental: Z4A/Z4S).

Skirts Ahoy!

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:47:15 +0000

Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Musical
Release Year: 1952
Country: USA
Runtime: 109
Rating: 6 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
The Mobs biggest hits . . .

Writing by: Isobel Lennart – (writer)

Produced by: Joe Pasternak – producer

Cast: Esther Williams – Whitney Young
Joan Evans – Mary Kate Yarbrough
Vivian Blaine – Una Yancy
Barry Sullivan – Lt. Cmdr. Paul Elcott
Keefe Brasselle – Dick Hallson
Billy Eckstine – Himself
Dean Miller – Archie OConovan
Margalo Gillmore – Lt. Cmdr. Stauton
The DeMarco Sisters – The Williams Sisters
Jeff Donnell – CPO Giff
Thurston Hall – Thatcher Kinston

Music: Scott Wilk
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Plot Outline: Three young ladies sign up for some kind of education at a naval base. However, their greatest trouble…
Plot: Three young ladies sign up for some kind of education at a naval base. However, their greatest trouble isnt awful marches or several weeks in a small boat, but their love life.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Before the title, a message, We gratefully acknowledge the cooperation of those in authority who made the release of the “Flying Saucer” film possible at this time.

Goofs: We know about 2 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Factual errors: A black bear is shown when the plot indicates the more dangerous brown or grizzly bear.

Trivia: There are 2 entries in the trivia list – like these:

In her autobiography (“Million Dollar Mermaid”) Esther Williams asserts that she designed the swimsuits in the film (with the help of Cole of California), after seeing the Navys swimsuits for women. Esther describes the old ones as “cotton sleeveless T-shirts” that were not at all good for swimming. She spoke to the director of the Navy, who then made the swimsuit the new official swimsuit of the US Navy. She also worked with the writer to add more swimming sequences.

Esther Williams, in her autobiography (“Million Dollar Mermaid”), describes director Sidney Lanfield a tyrant, who was particularly cruel to Vivian Blaine.

Eleni

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:02:44 +0000

Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, War
Release Year: 1985
Country: USA
Runtime: 114
Rating: 5 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Peter Yates
Sound: Dolby
Taglines:
A film that will touch your heart… after its finished with your teeth, ribs, spleen and kneecaps.

From the people who brought you "Tongan Ninja"….TONGAN NINJA

Writing by: Nicholas Gage – book
Steve Tesich – writer

Produced by: Nicholas Gage – producer
Mark Pick – producer
Nick Vanoff – producer
Nigel Wooll – associate producer

Cast: Kate Nelligan – Eleni
John Malkovich – Nicholas Nick Gage
Linda Hunt – Katina
Oliver Cotton – Katis
Ronald Pickup – Spiro
Rosalie Crutchley – Grandmother
Glenne Headly – Joan
Dimitra Arliss – Ana
Steve Plytas – Christos
Peter Woodthorpe – Grandfather
Jon Rumney – Lukas

Music: Bruce Smeaton
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Plot Outline: Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this…
Plot: Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in the civil war years earlier. In a parallel plot line we see Nick as a young boy and his family as they struggle to survive in the occupied Greek hillside. The plot lines converge as Nicks investigations bring him closer to the answers.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The names of the cast are not shown in the closing credits.

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: When the boxers are fighting with the spiked gloves, the loser gets punched in the face. He is shown with scars on his face and spits blood onto his chest. In the next shot (from a slightly different angle) the scars are there but the blood on his chest is gone.

Trivia: There are 1 entries in the trivia list – like these:

Based on a true story, over 28,000 Greek children were forcibly taken from their parents and sent to various Communist countries, before the end of the Greek Civil War in 1949. The Greek Civil War was the first battle of the war against Communism and it was an important victory for the Allied Forces.