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Could you please tell me the name of the movie where Micheal Redgrave played a troubled ventriloquist[is there any other kind]who had that horrible nightmareand if the dummy was grabbing his shoulder or his neck? And what was the name of the Dick Van Dyke movie where a guy offered the entire town a million dollars if they would all quit smoking i think it was called "Cold Turkey" but i'm not sure. And was Lara's mother in "Doctor Zhivago" having a drug overdose and what were they doing in "To Sir With Love" that made Mr.Poitier so angry and how did the rabbits[sic] get so big in "Night of the Lepus"

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Could you please tell me the name of the movie where Micheal Redgrave played a troubled ventriloquist[is there any other kind]who had that horrible nightmareand if the dummy was grabbing his shoulder or his neck?

     I don't know.
     Dead of Night (1945)
     http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037635/

And what was the name of the Dick Van Dyke movie where a guy offered the entire town a million dollars if they would all quit smoking i think it was called "Cold Turkey" but i'm not sure.

      Cold Turkey (1971)
      http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066927/combined    

And was Lara's mother in "Doctor Zhivago" having a drug overdose
     
     I think so but won't guarantee it.
     http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059113/combined

and what were they doing in "To Sir With Love" that made Mr.Poitier so angry

    Sorry but I don't know
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062376/combined           

and how did the rabbits[sic] get so big in "Night of the Lepus"

    Bennett immediately begins injecting rabbits with hormones and genetically mutated blood in an effort to develop a method of disrupting rabbit reproduction. One of the test subjects escapes, resulting in a race of bloodthirsty, wolf-sized, man-, horse-, and cow-eating bunnies.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069005/plotsummary  

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Expertise: Classic movies. My movie and book reviews have appeared in the Houston Chronicle, Boston Herald, St. Petersburg Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Drummer, and Films in Review. My particular area of expertise (and love) is films of the late Thirties, Forties and early Fifties.

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My essays and movie and book reviews have appeared in the Houston Chronicle, Boston Herald, St. Petersburg Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Drummer, Films in Review, and Bestsellers. I write a regular column for Audience, a film journal (http://www.audiencemag.com/playback.html) as well as review current movies (http://www.audiencemag.com/reviews.html).

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My essays and movie and book reviews have appeared in the Houston Chronicle, Boston Herald, St. Petersburg Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Drummer, Films in Review, and Bestsellers. I write a regular column for Audience, a film journal (http://www.audiencemag.com/playback.html) as well as review current movies (http://www.audiencemag.com/reviews.html).

Awards and Honors
Fellowship grant in literature from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

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