[Nigel Mace]

This has started to liven up. Many excellent lines but Brian's are laugh aloud stuff. The only reason for driving back the other way, Brian, is to add to them.

How about
The Discreet Char of the Bourgoisie - the lady who could tell all does
The Triumph of the Ill - a terrible warning about resisting euthanasia
King Solomon's Mine - a tale of Biblical lust
8 Charing Cross Road - it's a long way to Piccadily, a Great War tale of frustrated love
Trike - three rims to Rio
Tristan - at last the prequel
Sane - the fight to stop a lad's mental health going west
I - Lindsay Anderson directs a study in modest obsession
Wigs - Oscar's first costume mystery
The American Fiend - Condy Rice stars in a documentary warning to the world
Ice Cold In Ale - a modern take on the Princes in the Tower
Reach for the Tars - does for the Merchant marine what Brokeback Mountain did for the West
The Seventh Sea - Paul Robeson with one more ocean to cross
Rai Man - Lino Ventura leads the fight against Mediaset
Each for the Sky - a Murdoch promotional
The Draughtman's Contact - Le Carre pencils in the suspects
Anal - X rated for filth
Ian the Terrible - Richardson and Carmichael fight it out
Hite Mischief - that report comes to the screen
The Tory of O - George Osborne, the secret life
The Bride on the River Kwai - Butterfly reunited with Pinkerton, Yoko Ono meets Alec Guiness
Omen in Love - horror turns to amour as Oliver Read succumbs to Eleanor Bron
My Fair Lay - a busman's honeymoon for Rex Harrison - again
Adlands - the great liver pill battles of the Depression, Henry Fonda and Bette Davis star
Il Ostino - the Banned - the clips the censor didn't want you to see

[John Whitworth]

Bum in the Night: The Tender Love Story of Rimbaud and Verlaine starring Macaulay Culkin and Tom Hanks
Sous Les Tits de Paris: A remake of Jose Ferrer's film about Toulouse-Lautrec, with Danny de Vito.

[Roger Slater]

The Good Solder: A World War I bombmaker must make sure that no wires come loose.

The Third An: A copy editor goes on a crusade against indefinite articles.

One With The Wind: A Buddhist monk teaches his young disciple how to achieve spiritual fulfillment through flatulence.

Das Bot: A German search engine takes on Google.

Three Cons In The Fountain: Three Roman prisoners escape from jail and hide out in a small catacomb beneath the Trevi fountain.

[Adrian Fry]

Lice in Wonderland made me laugh aloud.

How about Rue Grit -a man looks back on a life in the gravel business with considerable regret.

[Brian Allgar]

Damn, I shouldn't have read all these before continuing - now there are dozens of titles I'll have to avoid. Many of them are hilarious! (Thanks for setting this one, Will.)

[Brian Allgar]

It's becoming as compulsive as Tailgaters ... here's today's brew, and I'm not even driving.

“He wore a yellow Ribbon” - John Wayne as you’ve never seen him before - a gay cowboy!

“My daring Clementine” - Linda Darnell strips for Henry Fonda and Victor Mature

“Brighton Roc” - a giant bird terrorizes a seaside town

“Travels with my Ant” - an entomologist who never goes anywhere without his inseparable companion

“Those Magnificent Men in their Lying Machines” - android computerization comes to the House of Commons

“Prates of the Caribbean” - the local bore never stops talking about his holidays in Martinique

“The Third Ma” - a young girl’s troubled relationship with her second stepmother

“Ur Hospitality” - Buster Keaton receives a warm welcome in Mesopotamia

“Even Samurai” - they’ve been reduced to six, as the Japanese don’t like odd numbers

“Ate Chrysanthemums” - an impoverished geisha lives on flowers

[Jerome Betts]

Raveheart : Compelling inter-generational conflict centred round the Scottish rave culture. (Sub-titles)

Hot Sots : Corruption and chicanery bubble up in a lush desert resort.

Roger and Brian, there's only a limited number of film titles where the omission of a letter creates anything interesting, so no doubt there will be a lot of overlapping, as with Roger's One With The Wind, which has a more competition-worthy 'summary' than mine. So the 'plot summaries' may clinch it. it. Roger may be right that many of those so far may be on the short side to comply with the rubric.

[Brian Allgar]

Jerome, you may be right. But I think the supply of potential titles is pretty inexhaustible, and the plot summaries will be judged not on length but on funniness - after all, the example given is only 14 words long.

By the way, this is for the New Statesman, so it's not Lucy at the Spectator!

[Esther Murer]

The mach factory girl - Romance on a Concorde assembly line
Sock corridor - Sylvester Stallone runs the gauntlet - and wins
Get carte - The Marx Brothers dine out in a posh restaurant
The wags of fear - Abbott and Costello meet the horror pantheon
The best ears of our lives - Romance at an Iowa cornhusking bee
The genera - Linnaeus biopic with Max von Sidow
Riders of the lost ark - Animated tale of a prehistoric Noah
Pandora's ox - Pixar animators confuse Pandora with Europa
Life of bran - Documentary about a health food coop
Twelve moneys - Tom Cruise and Matt Damon track laundering schemes of a drug cartel
Godfinger - Michelangelo (Anthony Quinn) paints the Sistine Chapel
Carface - Roadrunner meets The Man Who Laughs

[Roger Slater]

Originally Posted by Jerome Betts

Raveheart : Compelling inter-generational conflict centred round the Scottish rave culture. (Sub-titles)

Hot Sots : Corruption and chicanery bubble up in a lush desert resort.

Roger and Brian, there's only a limited number of film titles where the omission of a letter creates anything interesting, so no doubt there will be a lot of overlapping, as with Roger's One With The Wind, which has a more competition-worthy 'summary' than mine. So the 'plot summaries' may clinch it. it. Roger may be right that many of those so far may be on the short side to comply with the rubric.

I wrote the few I posted almost immediately after this thread announced the contest, and I promptly sent them in. I hadn't even noticed your "One With The Wind" entry because I purposely avoided reading this thread carefully. It's probably not a good idea for us to have posted our entries before the deadline in this particular contest, where influence or territory-staking can come into play.