January 15th

Let the Right One In*

Director: Tomas Alfredson

Writers: John Ajvide Lindqvist (screenplay & novel)

Starring: Kåre Hedebrant & Lina Leandersson

Rating: 4/5

Female*

Directors: Michael Curtiz , William Dieterle (uncredited), & William A. Wellman (uncredited) (17 scenes)
Writers: Donald Henderson Clarke (story), Gene Markey (screenplay), & Kathryn Scola (screenplay)

Starring: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Johnny Mack Brown, & Ferdinand Gottschalk

Rating: 3/5

January 13th

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Director: Tobe Hooper

Writers: Kim Henkel (story) & Tobe Hooper (story)

Starring: Marilyn Burns, Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, William Vail, & Teri McMinn

Rating: 4.5/5

January 10th

Three on a Match*

Director: Mervyn LeRoy

Writers: John Bright (story), Kubec Glasmon (story), Lucien Hubbard (writer)

Starring: Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis, & Warren William

Rating: 4/5

January 9th

Forbidden Zone*

Director: Richard Elfman

Writers: Matthew Bright (writer), Richard Elfman (story & screenplay), Nicholas James (writer), & Nick L. Martinson (writer)

Starring: Hervé Villechaize, Susan Tyrrell, Gisele Lindley, Marie-Pascale Elfman, Phil Gordon, & Hyman Diamond

Rating: 3.5/5

January 3rd

Night Nurse*

Director: Wlilliam A. Wellman

Writers: Grace Perkins (novel), Oliver H.P. Garrett (screenplay), &
Charles Kenyon (additional dialogue)
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Blondell, Ben Lyon, & Clark Gable

Rating: 4/5

January 2nd

The Gunfighter*

Director: Henry King

Writers: William Bowers (story & screenplay), André De Toth (story),
William Sellers (screenplay), & Nunnally Johnson (uncredited)

Starring: Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell, Jean Parker, & Karl Malden

Rating: 4/5

January 1st

Run Silent, Run Deep*

Director: Robert Wise

Writers: John Gay (screenplay) & Edward L. Beach (novel)

Starring: Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden, & Don Rickles

Rating: 4/5

Rawhide*

Director: Henry Hathaway

Writer: Dudley Nichols
Starring: Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Hugh Marlowe, Dean Jagger, Edgar Buchanan, & Jack Elam

Rating: 4/5

Total Films Watched in 2008 - 189!

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December 31st

All The King's Men*

Director: Robert Rossen

Writers: Robert Rossen (writer) & Robert Penn Warren (novel)

Starring: Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, & Mercedes McCambridge

Oscars: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Broderick Crawford), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Mercedes McCambridge), & Best Picture

Rating: 4/5

December 30th

Bad Lieutenant*

Director: Abel Ferrara

Writers: Victor Argo, Paul Calderon, Abel Ferrara, & Zoë Lund

Starring: Harvey Keitel & Frankie Thorn

Rating: 4/5

Madigan*

Director: Don Siegal

Writers: Richard Dougherty (novel "The Commissioner"), Abraham Polonsky (screenplay), & Howard Rodman (screenplay)

Starring: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, James Whitmore, & Inger stevens

Rating: 2.5/5

December 29th

Blade Runner: The Final Cut*

Director: Ridley Scott

Writers: Philip K. Dick (novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"), Hampton Fancher (screenplay), & David Webb Peoples (screenplay)

Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Daryl Hannah, & William Sanderson

Rating: 3.5/5