When her adoptive mother Joan Crawford died in 1977, erstwhile actress/author Christina Crawford and her brother Christopher were left out of Joan Crawford's will, "for reasons which are well known to them." Industryites have suggested that it may have been this posthumous act of rejection rather than an alleged lifetime of parental abuse that ...
This stark and spare look at the world of the mentally disturbed was one of the beacons of the new American independent film movement. Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin star as two adolescents who make contact with each other in a home for disturbed youngsters. Dullea is David Clemens, who is placed in the home by his mother because of his constant ...
Superstardom was predicted for Carrie Snodgress on the basis of her spectacular film debut in Diary of a Mad Housewife. Snodgress plays the long-suffering wife of pushy, insensitive attorney Richard Benjamin. Unable to withstand being treated as a trophy (and a tarnished one at that), Snodgress has a brief affair with sexy Frank Langella. Alas, ...
John Cheever's "misery in suburbia" short stories, brief and to the point, have always proven excellent TV fodder. Director Frank Perry's The Swimmer, adapted for the screen by Perry's wife Eleanor, is a rare, and for the most part successful, attempt at offering a Cheever story in feature-length form. Dressed only in swimming trunks throughout ...
Writer Susan Isaacs and director Frank Perry of Compromising Positions re-team for this unsuccessful resurrection fantasy comedy. Shelley Long plays Lucy Chadman, the accident-prone wife of plastic surgeon Jason Chadman (Corbin Bernsen). When she chokes to death after eating a South Korean chicken ball, a funeral is held and she is mourned, but ...
In Frank Perry's curious, off-center comedy Western, Jeff Bridges and Sam Waterston play Jack McKee and Cecil Carlson, a couple of cattle rustlers whose special target is taciturn rancher John Brown (Clifton James). Both men are outcasts by choice; McKee can't stand being around his stuck-up ex-wife (played by Doria Cook), while Carlson, an Indian ...
Most westerns wrap their stories, legends really, with a light clothing of history and period. Any history found in them is usually a mix of legend and fantasy. By way of contrast, in this film, an attempt is made to accurately portray the lives and persons of Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, and the now-legendary events that took place in the town of ...
Director Frank Perry brings Susan Issacs' comedic whodunit novel to the screen with Susan Sarandon as a Long Island housewife who tries to escape her deadening suburban life by trying to solve the murder of a philandering local dentist. The dentist, Bruce Fleckstein (Joe Mantegna), is the kind of swinging ladies' man who wears gold chains and ...
Last Summer is a frank coming-of-age tale that refuses to prettify its young characters or their activities. A group of aimless teens get together for sex, drugs and rock-and-roll on Fire Island. Timid, overweight Rhonda (Catherine Burns) is goaded into aberrant behavior by her peers, especially the promiscuous Sandy (Barbara Hershey). Enjoying ...
Producer-Frank Perry; Producer-G. Mac Brown; Producer-Martin Mickelson; Producer-Salah M. Hassanein; Producer-Susan Isaacs;...
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Cinematographer-Dean Cundey; Editor-Frank J. Urioste; Producer-Joel Silver; Producer-Steve Perry; Producer-Tim Moore; Writer...
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Description: NEW, Factory Sealed Shrinkwrap. BUSH PILOT ( Action Adventure set in Canadian Town--1941 Movie / Video Film on DVD ); >> Starring; Jack La Rue, Austin Willis, Rochelle Hudson, Frank Perry; >>> Directed by; Sterling Campbell; Movie / Video Film Originally Released in 1941; B&W; Stated Running Time = 59 Minutes; >> Authentic LEGAL Good Quality Copy (NOT a Bootleg; NOT a cheap Foreign Knockoff) manufactured in 2005 in Narberth, PA, USA by ALPHA VIDEO; >>> BRAND NEW, Never Played, STILL FACTORY ... read more
Description: Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, Bruce Davison, Cathy Burns, Ralph Waite. Very good in very good packaging. Language: English. Run time: 97 mins. Originally released: 1969. Former rental in good condition. Ships in video store case with delivery confirmation. read more
Producer-Frank Perry; Producer-G. Mac Brown; Producer-Martin Mickelson; Producer-Salah M. Hassanein; Producer-Susan Isaacs;...
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