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Category Archives: Book Type
BLACK HAWK DOWN (2001)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Ridley Scott SCREENWRITER: Ken Nolan FILM STARS: Josh Hartnett, Eric Bana, William Fichtner, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore, Ioan Gruffudd, Tom Hardy, Orlando Bloom, Sam Shepard, Kim Coates, Željko Ivanek, Jeremy Piven, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. COUNTRY: USA THIS … Continue reading
RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Richard Marquand SCREENWRITER: Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas FILM STARS: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, Sebastian Shaw, Ian McDiarmid, Frank Oz (voice), James Earl Jones (voice), David Prowse, Alec … Continue reading
TRON (1982)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Steven Liesberger SCREENWRITER: Steven Liesberger and Bonnie MacBird FILM STARS: Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan, Barnard Hughes, Dan Shor, Peter Jurasik, Peter Jurasik, Stuart Thomas COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: Brian Daley TYPE: … Continue reading
BLEAK HOUSE (1985)
THE FILM (Miniseries) FILM DIRECTOR: Ross Devenish SCREENWRITER: Arthur Hopcraft FILM STARS: Denholm Elliott, Suzanne Burden, Jonathan Moore, Diana Rigg, Lucy Hornak, Philip Franks, Chris Pitt, Sylvia Coleridge, Charlie Drake. THIS BOOK AUTHOR: Charles Dickens TYPE: Novel PUBLISHER: Pan THIS … Continue reading
WHERE EAGLES DARE (1968)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Brian G. Hutton SCREENWRITER: Alistair Maclean FILM STARS: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure, Patrick Wymark, Michael Hordern, Donald Houston, Peter Barkworth, William Squire, Robert Beatty, Ingrid Pitt, Brook Williams, Neil McCarthy, Vincent Ball, Anton Diffring, … Continue reading
FLYNN (1993)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Brian Kavanagh, Frank Howson SCREENWRITER: Frank Howson, Alister Webb FILM STARS: Guy Pearce, Steven Berkoff, Claudia Karvan, John Savage, Wendy Matthews, William Gluth, Nicki Paull, Bruce Venables, Sandi Schultz COUNTRY: Australia THIS BOOK AUTHOR: Roger McDonald … Continue reading
BIG (1988)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Penny Marshall SCREENWRITER: Gary Ross, Anne Spielberg FILM STARS: Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, John Heard, David Moscow, David Moscow, Jared Rushton, Jon Lovitz, Mercedes Ruehl, Harvey Miller COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: B.B. Hiller … Continue reading
THE COLDITZ STORY (1955)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Guy Hamilton SCREENWRITER: Guy Hamilton, Ivan Foxwell FILM STARS: John Mills, Eric Portman , Frederick Valk, Denis Shaw, Lionel Jeffries, Christopher Rhodes, Richard Wattis, Ian Carmichael , Bryan Forbes, Theodore Bikel, Eugene Deckers, Anton Diffring, Guido … Continue reading
IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER (1993)
renTHE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Jim Sheridan SCREENWRITER: Terry George, Jim Sheridan FILM STARS: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson, John Lynch, Corin Redgrave, Beatie Edney, John Benfield, Paterson Joseph, Marie Jones, Gerard McSorley, Frank Harper, Mark Sheppard, Don Baker, Tom … Continue reading
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Stanley Kubrick SCREENWRITER: Arthur C. Clarke, Stanley Kubrick FILM STARS: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzack, Robert Beatty, Sean Sullivan, Douglas Rain, Frank Miller, Edwina Carroll, Penny Brahms, Heather Downham … Continue reading
I'm a fan of Kubrick and no, you're not being harsh. I think those enthralled by it back then are…