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Report To The Commissioner
''Report to the Commissioner'' is a 1975 American crime drama film based on James Mills' 1972 novel. It involves a rookie cop ( Michael Moriarty) in the New York City Police Department who is assigned a special missing person case, which in fact is meant to be a wild-goose chase to back up an undercover female police officer's role as the girlfriend of a drug dealer. The film was directed by Milton Katselas and features a musical score by Elmer Bernstein. The script is by two Oscar-winning screenwriters, Abby Mann ('' Judgment at Nuremberg'') and Ernest Tidyman ('' The French Connection''). It marked Richard Gere's film debut. Plot Beauregard "Bo" Lockley ( Michael Moriarty), long-haired and thoughtful, is a new type of undercover detective in the New York City Police Department. He is assigned to find a missing young woman ( Susan Blakely), but he is not told she is actually an undercover officer whose latest assignment is to get close to a heroin dealer, Thomas 'Stick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Jung
Thomas Jung is an American Art director#In advertising, art director, graphic designer, illustrator, and storyboard artist.The Star Wars Poster Book, Stephen J. Sansweet, Chronicle Books (October 13, 2005)The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film, J. W. Rinzler, LucasBooks (April 24, 2007) He is known for his movie poster art. Biography Early life and career Jung, a Chinese American, was raised and educated in Boston, Massachusetts. After finishing high school, he attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. During his second year he was drafted into the Army. While stationed at Fort Jackson (South Carolina), Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina, Jung contributed to the newspaper ''Fort Jackson Leader'' as an editorial cartoonist, designing and illustrating primarily public service communications.Fort Jackson Leader newspaper December 31, 1953, U.S. Army Basic Combat Training Museum archives, Columbia, South Carolina Following his discharge, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild-goose Chase
Wild Goose Chase may refer to: * Wild-goose chase, a pursuit of something unattainable or non-existent, such as in a fool's errand or snipe hunt * '' The Wild Goose Chase'', a comedy stage play by John Fletcher, first published 1621 * ''The Wild Goose Chase'' (1915 film), an American comedy-drama by Cecil B. DeMille *''A Wild Goose Chase ''A Wild Goose Chase'' is a 1919 American silent film, silent adventure film directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Matt Moore (actor), Matt Moore, Hazel Daly and Sidney Ainsworth.Nash p.551 Cast * Hazel Daly as Margaret Sherwood * Sidney Ains ...'' a 1918 American film * ''The Wild Goose Chase'' (1932 film), a Van Beuren cartoon * '' Wycliffe's Wild Goose Chase'', a 1982 crime novel by W. J. Burley {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Grover
Edward D. Grover (October 23, 1932 – November 22, 2016) was an American film, stage and television actor. He was perhaps best known for playing Tony Baretta's supervisor Lieutenant Hal Brubaker in the American detective television series ''Baretta''. Life and career Grover was born in Huntington Park, California, the son of Edna and A. Dee Grover. After living in Colorado and Illinois, Grover attended DeVilbiss High School in Toledo where he graduated in 1950. After serving in the Korean War from 1954 to 1956 Grover was awarded a bachelor's degree by the University of Toledo in 1957, and received a scholarship for postgraduate study at the University of Texas at Austin in 1958. He graduated from the American Shakespeare Festival Academy before studying theatre at Juilliard School. He began his acting career in 1959. He performed with the repertory theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and also with the McCarter Company and at Antioch College Shakespeare Festival. Grover g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael McGuire (actor)
Michael McGuire (born 1934) is an American former film, television, and theatre actor. Life and career McGuire was born in 1934. A Wisconsin native, he attended Beloit College. He began his acting career in 1964, appearing in the Broadway play ''The Passion of Josef D.'' He appeared in such other Broadway plays as ''Child's Play'', ''Hay Fever'', and ''That Championship Season'', for which he won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance, shared with Charles Durning, Walter McGinn, Richard Dysart and Paul Sorvino, in 1972. He also received an Outer Critics Circle Award for the same performance. McGuire began his screen career in 1968, playing Dr. Bryan Angell in the television soap opera ''One Life to Live''. From the 1970s to the 2000s McGuire guest-starred in television programs including '' Hawaii Five-O'', ''The Six Million Dollar Man'', ''Columbo'', ''Mannix'', ''Kojak'', ''Wonder Woman'', '' The Streets of San Francisco'', ''The Rockford Files'', ''Taxi'', '' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saks Fifth Avenue
Saks Fifth Avenue (Colloquialism, colloquially Saks) is an American Luxury goods, luxury department store chain founded in 1867 by Andrew Saks. The first store opened in the F Street and 7th Street shopping districts, F Street shopping district of Washington, D.C., and expanded into Manhattan with its Herald Square store in 1902. Saks was bought by the Gimbels department store chain in 1923 and expanded nationwide during this ownership, and opened its Saks Fifth Avenue flagship store, flagship store on Fifth Avenue in 1924. Gimbels and Saks were acquired by Brown & Williamson in 1973, and transferred to sister company Batus Inc. in 1980. While Gimbels was liquidated in 1987, Saks was sold to Investcorp in 1990. Saks Off 5th was established as a Saks clearance store the same year, and has since evolved into an Off-price retailer, off-price store chain. Saks was acquired by Proffitt's, Inc. (renamed Saks, Inc.) in 1998. Saks, Inc. was acquired by the Hudson's Bay Company in 2013. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment hub, and Neighborhoods in New York City, neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City. It is formed by the junction of Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway, Seventh Avenue (Manhattan), Seventh Avenue, and 42nd Street (Manhattan), 42nd Street. Together with adjacent Duffy Square, Times Square is a bowtie-shaped plaza five blocks long between 42nd and 47th Street (Manhattan), 47th Streets. Times Square is brightly lit by numerous digital billboards and advertisements as well as businesses offering 24/7 service. One of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections, it is also the hub of the Broadway theatre, Broadway Theater District, Manhattan, Theater District and a major center of the world's entertainment industry. Times Square is one of the world's most visited tourist attractions, drawing an estimated 50 million visitors annually. Approximately 330,000 people pass through Times Squ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drug Dealer
A drug is any chemical substance other than a nutrient or an essential dietary ingredient, which, when administered to a living organism, produces a biological effect. Consumption of drugs can be via inhalation, injection, smoking, ingestion, absorption via a patch on the skin, suppository, or dissolution under the tongue. In pharmacology, a drug is a chemical substance, typically of known structure, which, when administered to a living organism, produces a biological effect. A pharmaceutical drug, also called a medication or medicine, is a chemical substance used to treat, cure, prevent, or diagnose a disease or to promote well-being. Traditionally drugs were obtained through extraction from medicinal plants, but more recently also by organic synthesis. Pharmaceutical drugs may be used for a limited duration, or on a regular basis for chronic disorders. Classification Pharmaceutical drugs are often classified into drug classes—groups of related drugs that hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heroin
Heroin, also known as diacetylmorphine and diamorphine among other names, is a morphinan opioid substance synthesized from the Opium, dried latex of the Papaver somniferum, opium poppy; it is mainly used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects. Heroin is used medically in several countries to Pain reliever, relieve pain, such as during childbirth or a heart attack, as well as in opioid replacement therapy. Medical-grade diamorphine is used as a pure Hydrochloride, hydrochloride salt. Various white and brown powders sold illegally around the world as ''heroin'' are routinely diluted with cutting agents. Black tar heroin is a variable admixture of morphine derivatives—predominantly 6-MAM (6-monoacetylmorphine), which is the result of crude acetylation during clandestine production of street heroin. Heroin is typically Drug injection, injected, usually into a vein, but it can also be snorted, smoked, or inhaled. In a clinical context, the route of administration is mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Undercover Detective
A covert operation or undercover operation is a military or police operation involving a covert agent or troops acting under an assumed cover to conceal the identity of the party responsible. US law Under US law, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) must lead covert operations unless the president finds that another agency should do so and informs Congress. The CIA's authority to conduct covert action comes from the National Security Act of 1947. President Ronald Reagan issued Executive Order 12333 titled ''United States Intelligence Activities'' in 1984. This order defined covert action as "special activities", both political and military, that the US Government could legally deny. The CIA was also designated as the sole authority under the 1991 Intelligence Authorization Act and in Title 50 of the United States Code Section 413(e). The CIA must have a "Presidential Finding" issued by the President in order to conduct these activities under the Hughes-Ryan amendment to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Gere
Richard Tiffany Gere ( ; born August 31, 1949) is an American actor. He began appearing in films in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in ''Looking for Mr. Goodbar (film), Looking for Mr. Goodbar'' (1977) and a starring role in ''Days of Heaven'' (1978). Gere came to prominence with his role in the film ''American Gigolo'' (1980), which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol. Gere's other films include ''An Officer and a Gentleman'' (1982), ''The Cotton Club (film), The Cotton Club'' (1984), ''No Mercy (1986 film), No Mercy'' (1986), ''Pretty Woman'' (1990), ''Sommersby'' (1993), ''Intersection (1994 film), Intersection'' (1994), ''First Knight'' (1995), ''Primal Fear (film), Primal Fear'' (1996), ''Runaway Bride (film), Runaway Bride'' (1999), '' Dr. T & the Women'' (2000), ''Shall We Dance? (2004 film), Shall We Dance?'' (2004), ''I'm Not There'' (2007), ''Arbitrage (film), Arbitrage'' (2012) and ''Norman (2016 film), Norman'' (2016). For portraying Billy Flynn (C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The French Connection (film)
''The French Connection'' is a 1971 American neo-noirSilver & Ward 1992 action thriller film directed by William Friedkin and starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, and Fernando Rey. The screenplay, by Ernest Tidyman, is based on Robin Moore's 1969 book of the same name about narcotics detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso. It tells the story of their fictional counterparts, New York Police Department detectives Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle and Buddy "Cloudy" Russo, in pursuit of wealthy French heroin smuggler Alain Charnier (played by Rey). At the 44th Academy Awards, the film earned eight nominations and won five, for Best Picture, Best Actor (Hackman), Best Director, Best Film Editing, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor (Scheider), Best Cinematography and Best Sound Mixing. Tidyman also received a Golden Globe Award nomination, a Writers Guild of America Award, and an Edgar Award for his screenplay. A sequel, '' French Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judgment At Nuremberg
''Judgment at Nuremberg'' is a 1961 American epic legal drama film directed and produced by Stanley Kramer, and written by Abby Mann. It features Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell, Werner Klemperer, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, William Shatner, and Montgomery Clift. Set in Nuremberg, West Germany, the film depicts a fictionalized versionwith fictional charactersof the Judges' Trial of 1947, one of the twelve Nuremberg Military Tribunals conducted under the auspices of the U.S. military in the aftermath of World War II. The film centers on a military tribunal led by Chief Trial Judge Dan Haywood (Tracy), before which four judges and prosecutors (as compared to sixteen defendants in the actual Judges' Trial) stand accused of crimes against humanity due to their senior roles in the judicial system of the Nazi German government. The trial centers on questions regarding Germans' individual and collective responsibility for the Holocaust, with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
