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Brainstorm (1965 Film)
''Brainstorm'' is a 1965 neo-noir dark thriller film starring Jeffrey Hunter (credited as Jeff) and Anne Francis. It was produced and directed by William Conrad, who became better known as an actor in such television series as ''Cannon'' and ''Jake and the Fatman'', and was one of three suspense thrillers directed by Conrad for Warner Bros. in 1965, which also included '' Two on a Guillotine'' and ''My Blood Runs Cold''. Plot On a lonely highway, Jim Grayam spots a car stopped on the tracks of a railroad crossing. Inside he finds a sleeping or unconscious woman with the car doors locked. Unable to wake her, Grayam smashes a window and drives the car to safety just ahead of a speeding train. Identifying her from a driver's license as Lorrie Benson, the wife of Beverly Hills millionaire Cort Benson, he drives her to their mansion. Grayam is a systems analyst for Benson Industries, widely admired throughout the company for his intelligence. When she wakes up, Lorrie makes it clea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Conrad
William Conrad (born John William Cann Jr., September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994) was an American actor, producer, and director whose entertainment career spanned five decades in radio, film, and television, peaking in popularity when he starred in the detective series ''Cannon''. A radio writer and actor, he moved to Hollywood after serving in World War II as a fighter pilot, and played a series of character roles in films, beginning with the film noir ''The Killers'' (1946). He created the role of Marshal Matt Dillon for the radio series ''Gunsmoke'' (1952–1961) and narrated the television adventures of ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'' (1959–1964) and '' The Fugitive'' (1963–1967). Finding fewer onscreen roles in the 1950s, he changed from actor to producer-director with television work, narration, and a series of Warner Bros. films in the 1960s. Conrad found stardom as a detective in the TV series ''Cannon'' (1971–1976) and ''Nero Wolfe'' (1981), and as district attorn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two On A Guillotine
''Two on a Guillotine'' is a 1965 American horror film produced and directed by William Conrad and starring Connie Stevens. The screenplay by John Kneubuhl and Henry Slesar is based on a story by Slesar. The movie would be the first in a series of low-budget suspense dramas made by Warner Bros., Warner Bros in the vein of the successful William Castle films, and was followed by ''My Blood Runs Cold'' and ''Brainstorm (1965 film), Brainstorm'', both also released in 1965 with Conrad as director. A fourth movie, ''The Thing at the Door'', was proposed, but never made. Plot John Harley Duquesne, a Psychosis, psychotic illusionist, magician, accidentally beheads his wife Melinda with a guillotine during a performance. Twenty years later he dies, and his Will (law), will requires his daughter Cassie (the image of her mother) to spend seven nights in his apparently haunted mansion in order to inheritance, inherit his estate. Reporter Val Henderson offers to stay with her when he learn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Crist
Judith Crist (; May 22, 1922 – August 7, 2012) was an American film critic and academic. She appeared regularly on the ''Today'' show from 1964 to 1973 Martin, Douglas (August 8, 2012)"Judith Crist, Zinging and Influential Film Critic, Dies at 90" ''The New York Times''. and was among the first full-time female critics for a major American newspaper, in her case, ''The New York Herald Tribune''. She was the founding film critic at '' New York'' magazine and became known to most Americans as a critic at the weekly magazine ''TV Guide'' and at the morning TV show ''Today''. She appeared in one film, Woody Allen's dramatic-comedy film ''Stardust Memories'' (1980), and was the author of various books, including ''The Private Eye, The Cowboy and the Very Naked Girl; Judith Crist's TV Guide to the Movies''; and ''Take 22: Moviemakers on Moviemaking''. Early life and education Crist was born Judith Klein in The Bronx, the daughter of Helen (née Schoenberg), a librarian, and S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Kiel
Richard Dawson Kiel (September 13, 1939 – September 10, 2014) was an American actor. Standing tall, he was known for portraying Jaws in '' The Spy Who Loved Me'' (1977) and '' Moonraker'' (1979). Kiel's next-most-recognized role is the tough but eloquent Mr. Larson in ''Happy Gilmore'' (1996). Other notable films include '' The Longest Yard'' (1974), '' Silver Streak'' (1976), ''Force 10 from Navarone'' (1978), ''Cannonball Run II'' (1984), ''Pale Rider'' (1985), and ''Tangled'' (2010). Early life Kiel was born in Detroit. His extraordinary height was a result of gigantism, a condition caused by an excess of human growth hormone. When he was nine years old, his family moved to Los Angeles County, where Kiel graduated from Baldwin Park High School. Before becoming an actor, Kiel worked in several jobs, including as a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman, a nightclub bouncer, and as a cemetery plot salesman. From 1963 to 1965, Kiel worked as a night-school mathematics ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Mitchum
John Mitchum (September 6, 1919 – November 29, 2001) was an American actor from the 1940s to the 1970s in film and television. The younger brother of the actor Robert Mitchum, he was credited as Jack Mitchum early in his career. Early years Mitchum was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to Ann Harriet Mitchum (née Gunderson) and James Thomas Mitchum, who had been killed in a railyard accident seven months earlier. He was the younger brother of Julie Mitchum and Robert Mitchum. He served in the United States Army, 361st Harbor Craft Company, in Florida and Hawaii. Career Mitchum initially appeared unbilled in (e.g., ''Flying Leathernecks'', RKO 1951) and extra roles before gradually receiving bigger character parts. He supported his more famous brother on several occasions, and became known as the friendly, food-loving Inspector Frank DiGiorgio in the first three '' Dirty Harry films''. His character was killed in the third film, '' The Enforcer''. In 1957, he had a short ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strother Martin
Strother Douglas Martin Jr. (March 26, 1919 – August 1, 1980) was an American character actor who often appeared in support of John Wayne and Paul Newman and in Western films directed by John Ford and Sam Peckinpah. Among Martin's memorable performances is his portrayal of the warden or "captain" of a state prison camp in the 1967 film '' Cool Hand Luke'', in which he utters the line, "What we've got here is failure to communicate." The line is number 11 on the American Film Institute list of '' 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes''. Early life Martin was born in Kokomo, Indiana to Ethel (née Dunlap) and Strother Douglas Martin. For a short time, the Martins lived in San Antonio, Texas, but soon returned to Indiana. As a child, he excelled at swimming and diving. He was nicknamed "T-Bone Martin" because of his diving expertise. At 17 he won the National Junior Springboard Diving Championship. He served as a swimming instructor in the United States Navy during World War II and was a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noah's Ark (1956 TV Series)
Noah's Ark ( he, תיבת נח; Biblical Hebrew: ''Tevat Noaḥ'')The word "ark" in modern English comes from Old English ''aerca'', meaning a chest or box. (See Cresswell 2010, p.22) The Hebrew word for the vessel, ''teva'', occurs twice in the Torah, in the flood narrative (Book of Genesis 6-9) and in the Book of Exodus, where it refers to the basket in which Jochebed places the infant Moses. (The word for the Ark of the Covenant is quite different.) The Ark is built to save Noah, his family, and representatives of all animals from a divinely-sent flood intended to wipe out all life, and in both cases, the ''teva'' has a connection with salvation from waters. (See Levenson 2014, p.21) is the vessel in the Genesis flood narrative through which God spares Noah, his family, and examples of all the world's animals from a global deluge. The story in Genesis is repeated, with variations, in the Quran, where the Ark appears as ''Safinat Nūḥ'' ( ar, سَفِينَةُ نُوحٍ " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Rodman
Victor Rodman (born Victor Rottman, August 6, 1892–June 29, 1965) was an American actor best known for his work on two Jack Webb NBC television programs, '' Dragnet'' and ''Noah's Ark''. Biography Rodman was born in Augusta, Arkansas. Named after his farmer father who was a Hungarian immigrant, he began acting in silent film shorts as early as 1914 and continued in that genre until 1925. During the 1930s and 1940s, he acted in radio dramas such as "Speed Gibson" and "This Is Your FBI". He performed as Dr. Kingsley in "Speed Gibson" and assumed various parts in the FBI series. After a 30-year absence from the screen, Rodman appeared from 1953 to 1957 on eight episodes of ''Dragnet''. In 1955, he guest starred in the syndicated series, '' I Led Three Lives'', based on the exploits of communist infiltrator Herbert Philbrick. He played Comrade Arthur in the episode "Commie Dies." Thereafter, he joined the cast of ''Noah's Ark'', which ran for twenty-four episodes. During thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honey West (TV Series)
''Honey West'' is a ground-breaking American crime drama television series that aired on ABC from September 17, 1965, to April 8, 1966, as an entry in the 1965–1966 television season. Based upon a series of novels that had launched in 1957, the series starred Anne Francis as female private detective Honey West and John Ericson as her partner Sam Bolt. The popular series was historic in that it marked the first time a woman played the lead character in a network TV series with her character's name as the title (the syndicated ''Annie Oakley'' had a similar distinction in its category a decade earlier). Thirty half-hour episodes were produced. The entire series is available on DVD. Creation The Honey West character was created by Gloria and Forrest E. "Skip" Fickling under the pseudonym "G.G. Fickling" in the late 1950s. Skip had been a United States Army Air Forces air gunner during World War II, then enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve after the war, when he was cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Of Kings (1961 Film)
''King of Kings'' is a 1961 American epic film directed by Nicholas Ray and produced by Samuel Bronston for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Adapted from the New Testament, the film tells the story of Jesus of Nazareth from his birth and ministry to his crucifixion and resurrection. It stars Jeffrey Hunter as Jesus, with Siobhán McKenna, Robert Ryan, Viveca Lindfors, Ron Randell, Hurd Hatfield, and Rip Torn. Throughout the 1950s, John Farrow began developing a proposed film project based on the life of Jesus, tentatively titled ''Son of Man''. In November 1958, actual development started when Farrow partnered with Samuel Bronston following their collaboration on ''John Paul Jones'' (1959). By the next year, Farrow left the project due to creative differences, and Nicholas Ray was hired as director. Ray then hired screenwriter Philip Yordan to write a new script. Filming commenced in April 1960, and wrapped in October 1960. Financing of the film was initially provided by Pierre S. du Pont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple Houston (TV Series)
''Temple Houston'' is an American television series starring Jeffrey Hunter as real-life 19th century Texas lawyer Temple Lea Houston. It ran for one season on NBC from 1963-64 United States network television schedule, 1963 to 1964. It is considered "the first attempt ... to produce an hour-long Western (genre), western series with the main character being an Lawyer, attorney in the formal sense."Nevins, Frances M. "Westerns". ''Prime Time Law: Fictional Television as Legal Narrative''. Robert M. Jarvis and Paul R. Joseph, Editors. Carolina Academic Press. 1998. p. 212-213 ''Temple Houston'' was the only program which Jack Webb sold to a television network, network during his ten months as the head of production at Warner Bros. Television. It was also the lone series in which Hunter played a regular part. The series' supporting cast features Jack Elam and Chubby Johnson. Plot ''Temple Houston'' is based loosely on the career of the real-life circuit court, circuit-riding lawyer Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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