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Clarence Felder
Clarence Felder (born September 2, 1938) is an American character actor who has starred in films and on television, and co-starred in ten Broadway productions. He is also a playwright and director. His play ''Captain Felder's Cannon'' was adapted as the feature film ''All for Liberty'' (2009), in which he starred. Overview of career Felder's first feature film performance was in ''Man on a Swing'' (1974); his other films include '' After Hours'' (1985), ''Ruthless People'' (1986), '' The Hidden'' (1987), ''The Last Boy Scout'' (1991), and '' The Ride'' (1997). He stars in the award-winning feature film ''All for Liberty'' (2009), portraying his ancestor, Capt. Henry Felder, an American Revolutionary War hero of the Backcountry of South Carolina. It was based on his play ''Captain Felder's Cannon.'' His starring role on a television series was as Insp. Bobo Pritzger in ABC's 1980s hit series ''Hooperman.'' Felder has starred in many TV movies, including ''Playing for Time'', ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man On A Swing
''Man on a Swing'' is a 1974 American thriller film directed by Frank Perry and written by David Zelag Goodman. The film stars Cliff Robertson, Joel Grey, Dorothy Tristan, Elizabeth Wilson and George Voskovec and was released on February 27, 1974, by Paramount Pictures. The film is loosely drawn from a true-life murder investigation and based on the non-fiction book ''The Girl on the Volkswagen Floor'' (1971) by journalist William Arthur Clark. Plot Police detective Lee Tucker is investigating the murder of a woman. He has little evidence until factory worker Franklin Wills approaches him, identifying himself as a clairvoyant. Wills goes into trances during which he says that he can see the murder taking place. Tucker wonders whether Wills is truly clairvoyant or has an ulterior motive. Cast See also * List of American films of 1974 A list of American films released in 1974. ''The Godfather Part II'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Highest-grossing films (U.S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macbeth
''Macbeth'' (, full title ''The Tragedie of Macbeth'') is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power. Of all the plays that Shakespeare wrote during the reign of James I, ''Macbeth'' most clearly reflects his relationship with King James, patron of Shakespeare's acting company. It was first published in the Folio of 1623, possibly from a prompt book, and is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy. A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia. Forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion, he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler. The bloodbath and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dream Child
''A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child'' (stylized on-screen as ''A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child'') is a 1989 American gothic slasher film directed by Stephen Hopkins and written by Leslie Bohem. It is the fifth installment in the ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' franchise, and stars Lisa Wilcox, and Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger. The film follows Krueger, using a now pregnant Alice Johnson's baby's dreams to claim new victims. The film's general tone is much darker than that of the previous films. A blue filter lighting technique is used in most of the scenes. It is one of the final slasher films released in the 1980s. ''The Dream Child'' was released on August 11, 1989, and grossed $22.1 million on a budget of $8 million, a steep decline in box office receipts from '' Dream Warriors'' and ''The Dream Master,'' while still a box office success and the highest grossing slasher film of 1989. It received mostly negative reviews from critics. The film was fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazing Grace And Chuck
''Amazing Grace and Chuck'' is a 1987 American drama film directed by Mike Newell and starring William Petersen, Jamie Lee Curtis and Gregory Peck. It was released on VHS in the UK as ''Silent Voice''. The film's release came in a critical historical context, amid the deterioration of United States-Soviet Union relations, escalation of hostile political rhetoric and deepening public concern about the nuclear threat in the 1980s. The film was released one month before Soviet General Secretary announced the reforms. Plot Chuck Murdock (Joshu ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie (1985 Film)
''Marie'' (also known as ''Marie: A True Story'') is a 1985 American biographical film starring Sissy Spacek as Marie Ragghianti, former head of the Tennessee Board of Pardons and Paroles, who was removed from office in 1977 after refusing to release prisoners on whose behalf bribes had been paid to aides to Governor Ray Blanton. Ragghianti, a single mother and political appointee, was hounded for refusal to cooperate with the culture of corruption with which she found herself confronted. Two of Blanton's aides faced prosecution for their roles in the scandal. The film was based on the book ''Marie: A True Story'' by Peter Maas. The film was directed by Roger Donaldson, with a screenplay by John Briley, best known as the screenwriter of ''Gandhi''. It also starred Jeff Daniels, Keith Szarabajka, Morgan Freeman, Fred Thompson, Lisa Banes, John Cullum, Graham Beckel, and Macon McCalman. Plot It's the mid 1970s. Marie Ragghianti left an abusive marriage and moved back home w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Killing Floor (1985 Film)
''The Killing Floor'' is a 1984 American made-for-television drama film directed by Bill Duke which highlights the plights of workers fighting to build an interracial labor union in the meatpacking industry in the years leading up to the Chicago race riot of 1919. The film debuted on PBS via the ''American Playhouse'' series on April 10, 1984 and was produced by Public Forum Productions, an independent company founded by the film's writer Elsa Rassbach. The teleplay was later adapted by Leslie Lee. In July 2021, the film was shown in the Cannes Classics section at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Based on real individuals and actual events, the film focuses on two poor black sharecroppers who leave Mississippi for the Chicago stockyards to seek out employment opportunities vacated by soldiers who had departed for World War I. Frank Custer (played by Damien Leake) and Thomas Joshua (Ernest Rayford) eventually secure jobs working in the infamous meatpacking industry, where th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slayground
''Slayground'' is a 1983 British crime thriller film directed by Terry Bedford. Starring Peter Coyote, Mel Smith and Billie Whitelaw, the film is adapted from ''Slayground'', the 14th Parker novel (although the main character has been renamed to "Stone" in this adaptation), written by Donald E. Westlake under the name Richard Stark. Cast * Peter Coyote as Stone * Mel Smith as Terry Abbatt * Billie Whitelaw as Madge * Philip Sayer as Costello * Bill Luhrs as Joe Sheer * Marie Masters as Joni * Clarence Felder as Orxel * Ned Eisenberg as Lonzini * David Hayward as Laufman * Michael M. Ryan as Danard * Barrett Mulligan as Lucy * Kelli Maroney as Jolene * Margareta Arvidssen as Grete * Rosemary Martin as Dr. King * Malcolm Terris as Venner * Jon Morrison as Webb * Cassie Stuart as Fran * Debby Bishop as Beth * Stephen Yardley as Turner * P. H. Moriarty as Seeley * Zig Byfield as Sams * Erick Ray Evans as Malpas * Bill Dean as Compére * Ozzie Yue as Waiter * Tony Devon as Joey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touched (1983 Film)
''Touched'' is a 1983 American romantic drama film directed by John Flynn starring Robert Hays and Kathleen Beller. Premise Two inmates of a mental institution, a man named Daniel and a woman named Jennifer, are not as ill as the psychiatrists at the institution perceive them to be. Daniel and Jennifer escape to make lives for themselves together in the world at large. Cast *Robert Hays as Daniel *Kathleen Beller as Jennifer *Ned Beatty as Herbie * Gilbert Lewis as Ernie *Lyle Kessler as Timothy *Farnham Scott as Thomas *Meg Myles as Jennifer's Mother *Mady Kaplan as Arlene *E. Brian Dean as Dr. Willoughby *Victoria Boothby as Adele *Clarence Felder as Ralph Production ''Touched'' was filmed under the working title ''Some Sunny Day''. It features extensive scenes shot on the boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jersey, including locations on and near Morey's Piers, during the end of the summer season and the beginning of the off-season in 1982. Other amusement piers, including Hunt's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seduction Of Joe Tynan
''The Seduction of Joe Tynan'' is a 1979 American political drama film directed by Jerry Schatzberg, and produced by Martin Bregman. The screenplay was written by Alan Alda, who also played the title role. The film stars Alda, Barbara Harris, and Meryl Streep, with Rip Torn, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Kimbrough, and Carrie Nye. Meryl Streep said that she was on "automatic pilot" during filming because she went to work not long after the death of her lover, John Cazale, adding that she got through the process with Alda's support. Plot summary Joe Tynan is a liberal U.S. senator from New York with possible presidential ambitions. For the time being, he is weighing the nomination of a potential Supreme Court justice, with the elderly Sen. Birney urging him strongly to support the nominee. Tynan is married, with two children, and his frequent work-related absence is an occupational hazard tolerated by wife Ellie, who is busy studying for a new career as a therapist. When he travels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Goodbye Girl
''The Goodbye Girl'' is a 1977 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross, written by Neil Simon and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings and Paul Benedict. The film, produced by Ray Stark, centers on an odd trio of characters: a struggling actor who has sublet a Manhattan apartment from a friend, the current occupant (his friend's ex-girlfriend, who has just been abandoned), and her precocious young daughter. Richard Dreyfuss won the 1977 Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Elliot Garfield. At the time, he became the youngest man to win an Oscar for Best Actor. Both Mason and Cummings were nominated for Oscars. The film became the first romantic comedy to earn $100 million in box-office grosses. Plot Dancer and divorcee Paula McFadden (Marsha Mason) and her ten-year-old daughter Lucy (Quinn Cummings) live in a Manhattan apartment with her married boyfriend, Tony DeForrest. Coming home from shopping, Paula finds Tony gone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debbie Harry
Deborah Ann Harry (born Angela Trimble; July 1, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter and actress, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Blondie. Four of her songs with the band reached on the US charts between 1979 and 1981. Born in Miami, Florida, Harry was adopted as an infant and raised in Hawthorne, New Jersey. After attending college, she worked various jobs—as a dancer, a Playboy Bunny and a secretary (including at the BBC in New York)—before her breakthrough in the music industry. Harry co-formed Blondie in 1974 in New York City. The band released its eponymous debut album in 1976, and released a further three albums between then and 1979, including ''Parallel Lines'', which spawned six singles, including " Heart of Glass". Their fifth album, ''Autoamerican'' (1980), afforded Harry and the band further attention, spawning such hits as a cover of "The Tide Is High", and " Rapture", the latter of which is considered the first rap song to chart at number one i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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