Frank R. Pierson
3) Cat Ballou
Formats
Description
Marvin is a whiskey-soaked over-the-hill gunslinger who is hired to eliminate a vicious killer (whom he also plays). Fonda is the young outlaw who hires him. A western spoof.
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
Luke is sent to a prison camp, where he gets a reputation as a hard man. The head of the gang hates him, and tries to break him by beating him up. It doesn't work, and he gains respect. His mother dies, and he escapes, but is caught, escapes again, and is caught again. Will the camp bosses ever break him ?
Pub. Date
1997
Description
Rusty Sabich's been swept up in an obsessive affair with a coworker in the prosecutor's office. When she is murdered, he's asked to lead the investigation. Then, astonishingly, he's accused of the crime. He's the perfect suspect and his fight to clear his name pulls him into a whirpool of lies and secrets.
Pub. Date
2010
Description
After engaging in an affair, a lawyer finds himself suspected of his ex-lover's murder.
A suspense thriller, an American prosecutor finds himself the prime suspect in a sensational murder case, and discovers that the system of justice to which he once vigorously committed himself is now aggressively pursuing him and threatening to destroy his career, family and even his life.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Lucas Jackson is a man who refuses to be nailed down, conform to rules and regulations, or fit into society, and now, he's on a chain gang. He's a likable enough guy, always smiling, always ready for a little fun. He eats 50 hard-boiled eggs on a bet and collects all the money in the camp. He's more or less like the people he hangs around with, except he won't be pushed. He knows his own mind. This makes him the only prisoner with guts enough to talk...
8) Truman
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
President Truman led the nation through the end of World War II, the beginning of the Cold War, the struggle for civil rights and the creation of the United Nations.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Teenager Samantha Hughes of Hopewell, KY is pretty, headstrong and curious about the father she never knew and about the war that took him away. The war nobody wants to remember. This story is about a reclusive war vet and his 17 year old niece struggling to heal the wounds of Vietnam. The film captures the horror of battle and the disillusionment of a soldier who thought war meant glory and discovers it also means both pain and fear.
11) Frantic
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Frantic: After his wife disappears in Paris, American Richard Walker must confront a bewildering web of language, locale and bureaucracy as he scrambles to find her.
Presumed innocent: A twist-filled whodunit where Ford is pledged to uphold the law yet determined to escape it. He plays Rusty Sabich, an attorney who's both the prosecutor of a murder case ... and suspect #1!
12) A Star is Born
Pub. Date
1976
Description
Rock star John Norman Howard has noticed that his career has begun to decline. Too many years of concerts, bad managers and life on the road have made him cynical. Then he meets the innocent, pure and very talented singer Esther Hoffman. John shows Esther the way to stardom while forsaking his own career. As they fall in love, her success only makes his decline even more apparent.
Pub. Date
[c2013]
Description
Somebody up there likes me, is the inspiring tale about Rocky Graziano's rise from poverty and rage to the middleweight title.
Cool hand Luke has prison loner Luke Jackson wining the respect of his fellow inmates when he refuses to cower before the chain gang boss.
In Harper, hard-boiled private investigator Lew Harper is hired to locate a missing millionaire.
In The Mackintosh man, Joseph Rearden is British Intelligence's man on the inside. It's...
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