In Cold Blood (1967)
Biography | Crime | Drama | History
After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.
Starring: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Paul Stewart, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Jeff Corey
Director: Richard Brooks
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Drama | Romance
Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Judith Anderson, Jack Carson, Madeleine Sherwood
Director: Richard Brooks
The Happy Ending (1969)
Drama
The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife Mary Wilson (Jean Simmons), a woman who believes that ultimate reality exists above and beyond the routine procedures of conscious, uninspired, everyday life. She feels cheated by an older generation that taught her to settle for nothing less than storybook finales, people who are disillusioned and restless and don't know why, people for whom life holds no easy answers. Great supporting cast includes John Forsythe, Teresa Wright, Lloyd Bridges, Shirley Jones, Bobby Darin, Tina Louise, Dick Shawn, and Nanette Fabray.
Starring: John Forsythe, Jean Simmons, Shirley Jones, Teresa Wright, Lloyd Bridges, Tina Louise
Director: Richard Brooks
Lord Jim (1965)
Adventure | Drama
James Burke, after distinguishing himself as a midshipman in the British merchant marine, rapidly rises to the rank of executive officer, second in command of a ship. A broken foot necessitates that he be put ashore to heal. After his recovery, the very proud Jim – his pride rooted in his competence, which had made him a highly respected and admired naval officer – signs on as the executive officer of the Patna, a rusty tub manned by a third-rate crew overseen by a barbarous captain, that is transporting a group of Moslem pilgrims to Mecca. During a severe storm that causes the unseaworthy ship to founder, Jim abandons ship with the rest of the white crew without even lowering the other lifeboat for the passengers.
Starring: Peter O'Toole, James Mason, Curd Jürgens, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins, Daliah Lavi
Director: Richard Brooks
Bite the Bullet (1975)
Action | Adventure | Western
A group of ex-rough riders, an ex-prostitute and a gunfighter enter a horse race in the desert.
Starring: Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, James Coburn, Jan-Michael Vincent, Ben Johnson, Ian Bannen
Director: Richard Brooks
Elmer Gantry (1960)
Drama
Elmer Gantry, salesman, teams up with Sister Sharon Falconer, evangelist, to sell religion to America in the 1920s.
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, Shirley Jones, Patti Page
Director: Richard Brooks
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
Drama
Drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies. Arriving with him is a faded film star he picked up along the way, Alexandra Del Lago. While trying to get her help to make a screen test, he also finds the time to meet his former girlfriend Heavenly, the daughter of the local politician Tom 'Boss' Finley, who more or less forced him to leave the town many years ago.
Starring: Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight, Ed Begley, Rip Torn, Mildred Dunnock
Director: Richard Brooks
The Professionals (1966)
Action | Adventure | Western
A wealthy rancher, Frank Carter (Ralph Bellamy), hires four tough gunslingers to rescue his wife (Claudia Cardinale) who is being held captive by Captain Rasa (Jack Palance), one of Pancho Villa's most desperate revolutionaries, in this dynamic and hard-hitting Western set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution of 1917. The wild West commando team consists of a dynamite expert (Burt Lancaster), an ex-revolutionary and munitions expert (Lee Marvin), a horse specialist (Robert Ryan), and a tracker (Woody Strode). On their mission to return Carter's highly prized wife, they track the Mexican revolutionaries through rough and rugged desert terrain, determined to outsmart, outshoot, and outride anyone they come across–until they meet the the charismatic Rasa and discover that Carter's seductive wife is in love with the Mexican outlaw and has no intention of returning with the band of "professionals."
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale, Woody Strode, Ralph Bellamy
Director: Richard Brooks
Wrong Is Right (1982)
Comedy | Drama | Thriller
A satire of American news reporting, Covert Agencies, and political system. The theft of two suitcase sized nuclear weapons, and their sale to a terrorist group, leads TV Newsman Patrick Hale on an international chase to track them down, and uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of US Government agencies.
Starring: Sean Connery, George Grizzard, Robert Conrad, Katharine Ross, G.D. Spradlin, John Saxon
Director: Richard Brooks
Resting Place (1986)
Drama
Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman plays the father of a black soldier killed in Vietnam in 'Resting Place'. When the soldier's parents seek to have him buried in an all-white cemetery, an army major (John Lithgow) investigates the man's death. In his search, the major discovers that his fellow American soldiers might be at fault.
Starring: Richard Bradford, John Lithgow, Richard Brooks, Morgan Freeman, John Philbin
Director: John Korty
The Crow: City of Angels / The Crow II (1996)
Action | Fantasy | Thriller
Ashe Corven and his son Danny are killed when they stumble across a pack of Los Angeles drug kingpin Judah Earl's drug dealers murdering a fellow dealer. Local tattoo artist Sarah, who knows the Crow legend because of what happened to her late friend Eric Draven, has been having dreams about Ashe and Danny. One night a crow leads her to the scene of their murders, and Ashe appears before her. The crow has resurrected Ashe, so he can go after Judah and his right hand man Curve. With the guidance of the crow, Ashe starts killing off Judah's men one by one, on his way to Judah.
Starring: Vincent Perez, Mia Kirshner, Richard Brooks, Iggy Pop, Shelly Desai
Director: Tim Pope
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