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Jack A. Marta
Jack A. Marta (March 5, 1903 – June 26, 1991) was an American cinematographer who was active in hundreds of movies throughout his life. Steven Spielberg said: "Jack was a sweetheart. He was just a kind, gentle soul who you know had never worked that fast in his entire career; none of us had, and yet there was nothing he didn’t do or couldn’t do, and he really enjoyed himself." In 1972, Marta was nominated for the Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography for Entertainment Programming - For a Special or Feature Length Program Made for Television. Filmography * '' Hawaii Five-O'' * '' Billy Jack Goes to Washington'' * '' The Master Gunfighter'' * ''Chase'' * ''Partners in Crime'' * ''Framed'' * '' The Trial of Billy Jack'' * '' Walking Tall'' * ''You’ll Like My Mother'' * '' Emergency!'' * ''How to Steal an Airplane'' * ''Duel'' * '' A Howling in the Woods'' * ''Company of Killers'' * ''The Deadly Dream'' * '' The Birdmen'' * ''The City'' * ''Plaza Suite'' * ''The Name of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montana
Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan to the north. It is the fourth-largest state by area, the eighth-least populous state, and the third-least densely populated state. Its state capital is Helena. The western half of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges, while the eastern half is characterized by western prairie terrain and badlands, with smaller mountain ranges found throughout the state. Montana has no official nickname but several unofficial ones, most notably "Big Sky Country", "The Treasure State", "Land of the Shining Mountains", and " The Last Best Place". The economy is primarily based on agriculture, including ranching and cereal grain farming. Other significant economic resources include oil, gas, coal, mining, and lumber. The health ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dundee And The Culhane
''Dundee and the Culhane'' is an American Western drama series starring John Mills and Sean Garrison that aired on CBS from September 6 to December 13, 1967. Synopsis ''Dundee and the Culhane'' follows the exploits of two frontier lawyers who provided legal defense to their accused clients. Dundee, played by Mills, was an older English lawyer who travelled to the American Old West and partners with a young Irish-American lawyer, nicknamed the Culhane. The title of each episode ended with the word "brief", as in a legal brief. The show attempted to combine the Western and legal show genres, but with little success. CBS had bought it on the strength of its pilot, but after seeing a few additional episodes and scripts, network officials were convinced that the show was going to fail before it even got started. CBS decided in September to replace ''Dundee and the Culhane'' in December with a Jonathan Winters variety hour. Cast *John Mills as Dundee *Sean Garrison as The Culhane Epi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Maverick Queen
''The Maverick Queen'' is a 1956 American Western (genre), Western film in Trucolor starring Barbara Stanwyck as the title character and Barry Sullivan (actor), Barry Sullivan as an undercover Pinkerton (detective agency), Pinkerton detective out to stop outlaws Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and the Wild Bunch. It was the first film made in Republic's widescreen process Naturama. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Zane Grey. Plot A stranger, calling himself Jeff Young, imposes on rancher Lucy Lee for a meal and a night's rest, then saves her from being robbed. Jeff helps deliver her cattle to town, where he encounters Kit Banion running her saloon, ''The Maverick Queen''. Kit is secretly in cahoots with the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang, led by Butch Cassidy and Sundance, and a jealous Sundance is angered when Jeff beats him at poker and attracts romantic interest from Kit, who offers Jeff a job as a faro dealer. He reveals he is actually Jeff Younger, a re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beginning Of The End (film)
''Beginning of the End'' is a 1957 American science fiction film produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon. It stars Peter Graves, Peggie Castle, and Morris Ankrum. An agricultural scientist, played by Graves, successfully grows gigantic vegetables using radiation. Unfortunately, the vegetables are eaten by locusts (the swarming phase of short-horned grasshoppers), which quickly grow to a gigantic size and attack the nearby city of Chicago. ''Beginning of the End'' is generally known for its "atrocious" special effects, "and yet," writes reviewer Bill Warren, "there is something almost compellingly watchable about this goofy little movie".Warren, ''Keep Watching the Skies! American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties,'' 1997, p. 325-326. Plot The film opens with newspaper photojournalist Audrey Aimes accidentally stumbling upon a small town ( Ludlow, Illinois) which has been inexplicably destroyed. All 150 residents are missing, and the evidence indicates they are dead. Incredibly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taming Sutton's Gal
''Taming Sutton's Gal'' is a 1957 American film drama directed by Lesley Selander and written by Frederick Louis Fox and Thames Williamson. The film stars John Lupton, Gloria Talbott, Jack Kelly, May Wynn and Verna Felton. It was released on September 15, 1957, by Republic Pictures Republic Pictures Corporation (currently held under Melange Pictures, LLC) was an American motion picture production-distribution corporation in operation from 1935 to 1967, that was based in Los Angeles. It had studio facilities in Studio City an .... Plot Hunting for pheasant, bank teller Frank McClary takes room and board in the Sutton home of 17-year-old girl Lou and her aunt. Living next door are quarreling neighbors Evelyn and Jugger Phelps, an unhappy wife and a jealous husband threatening her harm should she ever leave him. Evelyn, a former burlesque dancer, gets Frank alone and attempts to seduce him. When she is rejected, she angrily tells her husband that Frank was the aggressor. Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young And Wild (1958 Film)
''Young and Wild'' is a 1958 American crime film directed by William Witney and written by Arthur T. Horman. The film stars Gene Evans, Scott Marlowe, Carolyn Kearney, Robert Arthur, Weston Gavin and Tom Gilson. The film was released on April 24, 1958, by Republic Pictures. Plot Cast *Gene Evans as Det. Sgt. Fred Janusz *Scott Marlowe as Richard Edward 'Rick' Braden *Carolyn Kearney as Valerie Whitman * Robert Arthur as Jerry Coltrin *Weston Gavin as 'Allie' Allison *Tom Gilson as Bruce 'Beejay' Phillips *Ken Lynch as David Whitman *Emlen Davies as Mrs. Whitman *Morris Ankrum as Police Capt. Egan *Wendell Holmes as Lewis J. Christopher *John Zaremba John Zaremba (October 22, 1908 – December 15, 1986) was an American actor most noted for supporting roles on science fiction films and television series. The Chicago-born Zaremba was a journalist for the ''Grand Rapids Press'' and ''Chicago T ... as Sgt. Larsen References External links * 1958 films 1950 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juvenile Jungle
, also known as ''Juvenile Jungle'', is a 1956 Japanese Sun Tribe film directed by Kō Nakahira. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Shintaro Ishihara, the older brother of cast member Yujiro Ishihara,Marc Moha"Crazed Fruit: The Criterion Collection"/ref> and is about two brothers who fall in love with the same woman and the resulting conflict. The film was controversial upon release because of its depiction of Japanese youth. It later was known as a foundational work of the Sun Tribe genre. Cast * Masahiko Tsugawa – Haruji * Yujiro Ishihara – Natsuhisa * Mie Kitahara – Eri * Harold Conway – Eri's husband * Masumi Okada – Frank * Shintaro Ishihara – Ishihara References External links * * * ''Heat Stroke: Crazed Fruit and Japanese Cinema’s Season in the Sun''an essay by Chuck Stephens at the Criterion Collection''Crazed Fruit: Imagining a New Japan—The Taiyozoku Films''an essay by Michael Raine at the Criterion Collection The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bonnie Parker Story
''The Bonnie Parker Story'' is a 1958 crime film directed by William Witney. The movie is loosely based on the life of Bonnie Parker, a well-known outlaw of the 1930. The film stars Dorothy Provine as Parker; Parker's actual historical partner, Clyde Barrow, is renamed Guy Darrow for the film's story, and played by Jack Hogan. The film was released by American International Pictures as a double feature with ''Machine Gun Kelly'' starring Charles Bronson in his first leading role. Plot Diner waitress Bonnie Parker is just as tired of her job in 1932 Texas as she is of customers like Guy Darrow, who try too hard to make her acquaintance. When she goes too far, fending off Guy with hot oil, Bonnie is fired. With her husband Duke Jefferson still in prison and no means of support, Bonnie teams up with Guy on a series of small holdups. She also kills a cop who is chasing them, which leads to Tom Steel of the Texas Rangers, a fictionalized version of Frank Hamer, being assigned to the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War Of The Colossal Beast
''War of the Colossal Beast'' (a.k.a. ''Revenge of the Colossal Man'' and ''The Colossal Beast'') is a 1958 black-and-white science fiction film, written, produced, and directed by Bert I. Gordon for his Carmel Productions, and starring Dean Parkin, Sally Fraser, and Roger Pace. It is the sequel to Gordon's earlier ''The Amazing Colossal Man'' (1957) and was distributed theatrically by American International Pictures as the bottom half of a double feature with ''Attack of the Puppet People''. The film's storyline picks up where ''The Amazing Colossal Man'' left off, although it was not marketed as a sequel and features a different cast. The film's brief death-scene finale was filmed in color. Plot Upon hearing of several recent robberies of food delivery trucks in Mexico, Joyce Manning (Sally Fraser), Army officer Lt. Colonel Glenn Manning's sister, becomes convinced that her brother (Dean Parkin) survived after being exposed to radiation from an atomic bomb (as seen in ''The Amaz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girl In The Woods
''Girl in the Woods'' is a 1958 American drama film directed by Tom Gries. It stars Forrest Tucker and Margaret Hayes. Plot Steve and Bell Cory arrive in timber country, where Bell is eager to begin a new life, tired of moving from place to place and weary of Steve's gambling habit. A lumber baron, Whitlock, has recently laid claim to land belonging to another man, who begins poaching logs from him. Whitlock's foreman, Big Jim, offers a job to Steve, who must fend off romantic advances from Jim's young and restless daughter, Sonda. In a snit over Steve's rejection, Sonda helps point out the whereabout of the man Whitlock's after, who is then shot, with Steve being blamed. Bell is furious with Steve's behavior until finally realizing that none of it has been his fault. Cast * Forrest Tucker as Steve Cory * Margaret Hayes as Bell Cory * Barton MacLane as Big Jim *Diana Francis as Sonda * Murvyn Vye as Whitlock References External links * * 1958 films Films directed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earth Vs The Spider
''Earth vs. the Spider'' (a.k.a. ''The Spider'') is an independently made 1958 American black-and-white science fiction horror film produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon, who also provided the plot upon which the screenplay by George Worthing Yates and Laszlo Gorog was based. Though the title suggests a global crisis, the film focuses entirely on a small town being terrorized by a giant spider whose origin is never explained. The film stars Ed Kemmer, June Kenney and Eugene Persson. The special effects were by Bert I. Gordon and Paul Blaisdell. ''Earth vs. the Spider'' was released by American International Pictures as a double feature in different film markets with either ''The Brain Eaters'' or ''The Screaming Skull''. Plot Jack Flynn is driving down a highway at night looking at a bracelet he bought his teenage daughter Carol for her birthday, when his truck hits a massive spider thread. The next morning, Carol is concerned that her ne'er-do-well father did not come home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cat Ballou
''Cat Ballou'' is a 1965 American western comedy film starring Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin, who won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his dual role. The story involves a woman who hires a notorious gunman to protect her father's ranch, and later to avenge his murder, only to find that the gunman is not what she expected. The supporting cast features Tom Nardini, Michael Callan, Dwayne Hickman, and Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye, who together perform the film's theme song, and who appear throughout the film in the form of travelling minstrels or troubadours as a kind of musical Greek chorus and framing device. The film was directed by Elliot Silverstein from a screenplay by Walter Newman and Frank Pierson adapted from the 1956 novel ''The Ballad of Cat Ballou'' by Roy Chanslor, who also wrote the novel filmed as ''Johnny Guitar''. Chanslor's novel was a serious Western, and though it was turned into a comedy for the film, the filmmakers retained some darker elements. The film ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
