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Category Archives: Novel
THE SATAN BUG (1965)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: John Sturges SCREENWRITER: James Clavell and Edward Anhalt FILM STARS: George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews, John Larkin, Richard Bull, Frank Sutton, Ed Asner, Simon Oakland, John Anderson, John Clarke, Hari Rhodes, Martin Blaine, … Continue reading
THE NEW CENTURIONS (1972)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Richard Fleischer SCREENWRITER: Stirling Silliphant, Robert Towne (uncredited) FILM STARS: George C. Scott, Stacy Keach, Jane Alexander, Scott Wilson, Erik Estrada, Clifton James, James Sikking, Rosalind Cash, Ed Lauter, Kitten Natividad COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: … Continue reading
THE WHITE BUFFALO (1977)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: J. Lee Thompson SCREENWRITER: Richard Sale FILM STARS: Charles Bronson, Will Sampson, Jack Warden, Slim Pickens, Kim Novak, Clint Walker, Stuart Whitman, John Carradine, Cara Williams, Douglas Fowley, Clifford A. Pellow, Ed Lauter, Martin Kove, Dan … Continue reading
RISING SUN (1993)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Philip Kaufman SCREENWRITER: Michael Crichton, Philip Kaufman, Michael Backes FILM STARS: Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Kevin Anderson, Mako, Tia Carrere, Steve Buscemi, Tatjana Patitz, Tylyn John COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: Michael … Continue reading
ROYAL FLASH (1975)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Richard Lester SCREENWRITER: George MacDonald Fraser FILM STARS: Malcolm McDowell, Alan Bates, Florinda Bolkan, Oliver Reed, Tom Bell, Joss Ackland, Christopher Cazenove, Henry Cooper, Lionel Jeffries, Alastair Sim, Michael Hordern, Britt Ekland, Bob Hoskins COUNTRY: England … Continue reading
BEHOLD A PALE HORSE (1964)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Fred Zinnemann SCREENWRITER: JP Miller FILM STARS: Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif, Raymond Pellegrin, Paolo Stoppa, Mildred Dunnock, Christian Marquand, Carlo Angeletti, Daniela Rocca, Rosalie Crutchley, Michael Lonsdale COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: Emeric Pressburger … Continue reading
SPARTACUS (1960)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Stanley Kubrick SCREENWRITER: Dalton Trumbo FILM STARS: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin, John Dall, Nina Foch, John Ireland, Herbert Lom, Charles McGraw, Joanna Barnes, Harold J. Stone, … Continue reading
BREAKHEART PASS (1975)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Tom Gries SCREENWRITER: Alistair MacLean FILM STARS: Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna, Jill Ireland, Charles Durning, Ed Lauter, Bill McKinney, David Huddleston, Sally Kirkland, John Mitchum COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: Alistair Maclean TYPE: Novel … Continue reading
SLIVER (1993)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: Phillip Noyce SCREENWRITER: Joe Eszterhas FILM STARS: Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger, Polly Walker, Colleen Camp, Amanda Foreman, Martin Landau, Nina Foch, Nicholas Pryor COUNTRY: USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: Ira Levin TYPE: Novel PUBLISHER: Bantam … Continue reading
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957)
THE FILM FILM DIRECTOR: David Lean SCREENWRITER: Carl Foreman. Michael Wilson FILM STARS: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Geoffrey Horne, André Morell, Percy Herbert COUNTRY: Great Britain / USA THIS BOOK AUTHOR: Pierre Boulle TYPE: … Continue reading
If you do any other posts featuring Colin Firth could you not do the Bridget Jones movies? The movie version…