| Biography: Richard Brooks was an Academy Award-winning film writer who also earned six Oscar nominations and achieved success as a film director and producer. He was born Ruben Sax on May 18, 1912, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents were Russian Jewish immigrants. He graduated from West Philadephia HS, then from Philadelphia's Temple University, and worked as a sports reporter and radio journalist i ... show all |
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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 15:06
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) |
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| Theresa is a successful teacher of deaf children during the day but after a short unhappy affair starts to spend her nights cruising bars. Her craving first for sex but later also for drugs leads into increasingly demeaning and dangerous situations completely at odds with her daytime commitment to her children. Search keywords
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 20:03
The Professionals (1966) |
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| Wealthy J.W. Grant hires Henry Fardan, Jake Sharp, Hans Ehrengard, and Bill Dolworth, each a specialist in his own field, to go into Mexico to bring back his wife, who has been kidnapped by the revolutionary Raza. Fardan and Dolworth, old comrades of Raza's, know both the territory and their foe, but a surprise awaits when they locate the captive Mrs. Grant. Search keywords
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010 01:02
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) |
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| The fifth Tennessee Williams play to reach the screen, wealthy Mississippi plantation owner Big Daddy Pollitt, unaware that he's dying of cancer and disturbed by the strained and childless marriage of his favored alcoholic son Brick and his other son, Gooper, whose wife is about to bring forth another in the endless line of little "no-neck monsters," celebrates his sixty-fifth birthday with his family. Brick's wife, Maggie, beautiful and desirable, tries unsuccessfully to coax her husband away from the bottle, while alternately enticing him and taunting him about his obsession with his deceased best friend and the guilt about their relationship. The seamy tensions reach a climax when the truth of Big Daddy's health is revealed, and he and Brick manage to resolve their differences. Search keywords
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 16:02
In Cold Blood (1967) |
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| Truman Capote wrote the 'material literature novel' by which the film is pulled, the craft of the novelist using to make reality. This was the reality in two a. M. on the 15th of November, 1959 in the rural town of Holcomb, Kansas, became four members of the mess family from her sleep wachgerüttelt, bound and, strangled and then brutally murdered from two unknown attackers. After the arrest latter, condemning and the custody before the implementation, investigated Capote to dig out the case thoroughly, spent weeks, with the prisoners, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, the juror, the police, to the friends and the neighbours speaking, trying, why such an unfeeling action was committed, and how the answer of the society could have been.
Truman Capote schrieb den 'Sachliteratur-Roman', von dem der Film gezogen wird, das Handwerk des Romanschriftstellers verwendend, um Wirklichkeit zu machen. Die Wirklichkeit war das an zwei a. M. am 15. November 1959 in der ländlichen Stadt von Holcomb, Kansas, wurden die vier Mitglieder der Durcheinander-Familie aus ihrem Schlaf wachgerüttelt, banden und, würgten und dann brutal ermordet von zwei unbekannten Angreifern. Nach der Festnahme der latter, dem Verurteilen und der Haft vor der Ausführung, erforschte Capote den Fall gründlich, ausgegeben Wochen, mit den Gefangenen, Perry Smith und Richard Hickock, den Geschworenen, der Polizei, den Freunden und den Nachbarn sprechend, versuchend, auszugraben, warum solch eine gefühllose Tat begangen wurde, und wie die Antwort der Gesellschaft gewesen sein könnte. Search keywords
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