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Hit!
''Hit!'' is a 1973 action film directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Billy Dee Williams and Richard Pryor. It is about a federal agent trying to destroy a drug zone after his daughter dies from a heroin overdose. An alternate title for the film was ''Goodbye Marseilles''. Plot summary The film opens on two separate storylines intercut with each other. In Marseille, a man and his girlfriend board a yacht. He retrieves a bundle of opium attached to a sea buoy and delivers it to a man in a chateau who processes the opium into heroin. The chateau man transfers the processed heroin to the ringleader who takes it to the docks and hides the drugs inside bicycle frames designated for transport to the U.S. In Washington, D.C., Jeannie Allen gets picked up for school by her boyfriend. After school, Jeannie’s boyfriend buys some heroin and injects Jeannie with it. She has a fatal overdose. Nick Allen is horrified to visit his daughter's grave. He tracks down the drug dealer who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Trustman
Alan Trustman (born December 16, 1930) is an American lawyer, screenwriter, pari-mutuel operator and currency trader. He is best known for writing the 1968 film, '' The Thomas Crown Affair'', ''Bullitt'', and ''They Call Me Mister Tibbs!'', in his movie career. Early years Trustman was born December 16, 1930, in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended the Boston Latin School, then The Phillips Exeter Academy where he was first in his 1948 class, and then graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1952 and Harvard Law School in 1955. After college, he was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar Association and went to work at the Boston law firm Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP where his father, Benjamin A Trustman, was also a partner. He developed shopping centers and bought and sold businesses in competition with the major New York law firms. Gus Alexander, a partner at the firm, best remembers him for achieving partnership in only six years and then retiring on full pension only six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Hampton
Paul Hampton (born August 20, 1937) is an American actor, singer, lyricist and writer. He is listed as one of one hundred major architects of American rock and roll in the British rock journal "Footsoldiers and Kings." While he was a sophomore at Dartmouth College, he was signed to Columbia Records and Columbia Pictures at the same time to write music with Hal David and Burt Bacharach. In 1960, with Bacharach he co-composed and performed the strange death disc "Two Hour Honeymoon" (Dot Records). After this initial outing he co-wrote hits for Don Gibson ("Sea of Heartbreak"), Gene Pitney ("Donna Means Heartbreak"), Johnny Tillotson ("I Rise, I Fall") and hits for overseas artists ("Angry at the Old Oak Tree.") Also he wrote the theme for "My Mother the Car" and sang it under the group name Albuquerque. He made two albums, "Beautiful Beginnings" and "Rest Home For Children." Some of his songs have been recorded by Sammy Davis Jr., Bette Midler, Eddy Arnold, Tom Jones, Merle H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Pryor
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor Sr. (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian and actor. He reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential stand-up comedians of all time. Pryor won a Primetime Emmy Award and five Grammy Awards. He received the first Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 1998. He won the Writers Guild of America Award in 1974. He was listed at number one on Comedy Central's list of all-time greatest stand-up comedians. In 2017, ''Rolling Stone'' ranked him first on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time.The 50 Best Stand-up Comics of All Time . Rollingstone.com, retrieved February 15, 2017. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sid Melton
Sidney Meltzer (May 22, 1917 – November 2, 2011), known professionally as Sid Melton, was an American actor. He played the roles of incompetent carpenter Alf Monroe in the CBS sitcom '' Green Acres'' and Uncle Charlie Halper, proprietor of the Copa Club, in ''The Danny Thomas Show'' and its spin-offs. He appeared in about 140 film and television projects in a career that spanned nearly 60 years. Among his most famous films were ''Lost Continent'' with Cesar Romero, ''The Steel Helmet'' with Gene Evans and Robert Hutton, ''The Lemon Drop Kid'' with Bob Hope, and '' Lady Sings The Blues'' with Diana Ross and Billy Dee Williams. He was a regular on ''The Danny Thomas Show'' and '' Green Acres'', and appeared in flashback on several episodes of ''The Golden Girls'' as Salvadore Petrillo, the long-dead husband of Sophia (played by Estelle Getty) and father of Dorothy (played by Beatrice Arthur). accessed February 20, 2014. Early life and family Sidney Meltzer was born in Bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Collet
Pierre Collet (10 March 1914 – 30 October 1977) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films and television shows between 1943 and 1977. Selected filmography * ''Goodbye Leonard'' (1943) - Le marchand d'habits (uncredited) * '' Night Shift'' (1944) - Un réparateur de ligne (uncredited) * ''Coup de tête'' (1944) - (uncredited) * ''Florence est folle'' (1944) * '' Night Warning'' (1946) * ''La Maison sous la mer'' (1947) - Un mineur (uncredited) * ''Histoires extraordinaires'' (1949) - Cotin / François * ''The Winner's Circle'' (1950) - (uncredited) * '' Royal Affairs in Versailles'' (1954) - Petit rôle (uncredited) * ''If Paris Were Told to Us'' (1956) - Petit rôle (uncredited) * ''Méfiez-vous fillettes'' (1957) - (uncredited) * ''Thérèse Étienne'' (1958) - L'avocat * ''Échec au porteur'' (1958) - Morigny * '' Le désordre et la nuit'' (1958) - Un inspecteur (uncredited) * ''Le vent se lève'' (1959) - Crewman * ''Le fauve est lâché'' (1959) - M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Cogan
Henri Cogan (13 September 1914 in Paris – 23 September 2003 in Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French actor and stuntman. Biography Before Henri Cogan became a fight choreographer for European action films he proved his expertise in hand-to-hand combat publicly by fighting as a professional wrestler. As a wrestler he once fought Lino Ventura and later he introduced him to Georges Lautner. Henri Cogan appeared in French, German and English films. Selected filmography *1947: ''Un flic'' (by Maurice de Canonge) - Un homme de Zattore *1953: ''La môme vert-de-gris'' (by Bernard Borderie) - Un copain de l'électricien (uncredited) *1954: ''Yours Truly, Blake'' (by Bernard Borderie) - Sam *1955: ''Les Chiffonniers d'Emmaüs'' (by Robert Darène) - Le bagarreur (uncredited) *1955: ' (by John Berry) - (uncredited) *1955: ' (by John Berry) *1956: ''Goubbiah, mon amour'' (by Robert Darène) - The Scarface *1956: ''The Whole Town Accuses'' (by Claude Boissol) - Un gangster *1956: ' (by Raoul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yves Barsacq
Yves Barsacq (17 June 1931 – 4 October 2015) was a French film actor, who appeared in more than 150 films. He is the son of the French-Russian production designer Léon Barsacq and the nephew of the French theatre director André Barsacq. Selected filmography * ''Amour de poche'' (1957) * ''Charming Boys'' (1957) * ''Line of Sight'' (1960) * '' Sergeant X'' (1960) * ''All the Gold in the World '' (1961) * '' The Law of Men'' (1962) * ''Pouic-Pouic'' (1963) * ''Angélique, Marquise des Anges'' (1964) * ''Play Time'' (1967) * ''Le Gendarme se marie'' (1968) * ''Le Gendarme en balade'' (1970) * ''Elise, or Real Life'' (1970) * ''Le Chat'' (1971) * ''Hit!'' (1973) * ''Love and Death'' (1975) * ''F comme Fairbanks'' (1976) * '' The Passengers'' (1977) * ''Julien Fontanes, magistrat'' (1981) * ''Princes et princesses ''Princes et Princesses'' (Princes and Princesses) is a 2000 compilation film by French animator Michel Ocelot. The film consists of six episodes of the 1989 F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Burton
Norman Burton (December 5, 1923 – November 29, 2003) was an American actor. He was occasionally credited as Normann Burton. Early life Born in New York City, Burton was a student of the Actors Studio. After early work on stage, he broke into films with a minor role in ''Fright'' (1956). Career His career in film and television was long and relatively successful, but he never achieved major recognition. He played the Hunt Leader, a gorilla, in the science fiction film ''Planet of the Apes'', notable as being the first ape to be seen by both Taylor and the audience, and also appeared as a (human) army officer in the second sequel ''Escape from the Planet of the Apes'' (1971). In film, he is perhaps best known for his performance as Felix Leiter in the James Bond film '' Diamonds Are Forever'' (1971). He played Will Giddings, an ill-fated engineer, in the action film ''The Towering Inferno'' (1974), and his later films included ''The Gumball Rally'' (1976), ''Crimes of Passion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwen Welles
Gwen Welles (born Gwen Goldberg, March 4, 1951 – October 13, 1993) was an American actress. Early years Gwen Welles was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, as Gwen Goldberg. She was the daughter of clothing designer Rebecca Welles and Barton Goldberg; her sisters were Elizabeth (Betsy) Goldberg Welles and Lori Yarom. Gwen graduated from University High School in Los Angeles, California and attended Vassar College. When she was 17, she worked as a dress salesperson. Career Welles's film debut was in ''A Safe Place'' (1971). In the early 1970s, she acted in two films for Roger Vadim during three years that she spent in France. She may be best remembered for her portrayal of untalented singer Sueleen Gay in Robert Altman's 1975 film ''Nashville'', for which she was nominated for a BAFTA Award, for Best Supporting Actress. Welles also appeared in Altman's ''California Split'' (1974), as well as several films directed by Henry Jaglom, including ''New Year's Day'' (1989) and ''Eati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overdose
A drug overdose (overdose or OD) is the ingestion or application of a drug or other substance in quantities much greater than are recommended.Definitions Retrieved on 20 September 2014."Stairway to Recovery: Glossary of Terms" . Retrieved on 19 March 2021 Typically it is used for cases when a risk to health will potentially result. An overdose may result in a toxic state or . Classification [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John A
Sir John Alexander Macdonald (January 10 or 11, 1815 – June 6, 1891) was the first prime minister of Canada, serving from 1867 to 1873 and from 1878 to 1891. The dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, he had a political career that spanned almost half a century. Macdonald was born in Scotland; when he was a boy his family immigrated to Kingston in the Province of Upper Canada (today in eastern Ontario). As a lawyer, he was involved in several high-profile cases and quickly became prominent in Kingston, which elected him in 1844 to the legislature of the Province of Canada. By 1857, he had become premier under the colony's unstable political system. In 1864, when no party proved capable of governing for long, Macdonald agreed to a proposal from his political rival, George Brown, that the parties unite in a Great Coalition to seek federation and political reform. Macdonald was the leading figure in the subsequent discussions and conferences, which resulted in the Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Siskel
Eugene Kal Siskel (January 26, 1946 – February 20, 1999) was an American film critic and journalist for the ''Chicago Tribune''. Along with colleague Roger Ebert, he hosted a series of movie review programs on television from 1975 until his death in 1999. Siskel started writing for the ''Chicago Tribune'' in 1969, becoming its film critic soon after. In 1975, he was paired with Roger Ebert to co-host a monthly show called ''Opening Soon at a Theater Near You'' airing locally on PBS member station WTTW. In 1978, the show, renamed ''Sneak Previews'', was expanded to weekly episodes and aired on PBS affiliates all around the United States. In 1982, Siskel and Ebert both left ''Sneak Previews'' to create the syndicated show '' At the Movies''. Following a contract dispute with Tribune Entertainment in 1986, Siskel and Ebert signed with Buena Vista Television, creating ''Siskel & Ebert & the Movies'' (renamed ''Siskel & Ebert'' in 1987, and renamed again several times after Siske ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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