Tag: Arthur Hiller

Silver Streak Script

Script by:Colin Higgins (Screenplay)
Directed by:Arthur Hiller
Year:1976
IMDb:tt0075223

Plot:A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.
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The Americanization Of Emily Script

Script by:Paddy Chayefsky (Screenplay), William Bradford Huie (Novel)
Directed by:Arthur Hiller
Year:1964
IMDb:tt0057840

Plot:During the build-up to D-Day in 1944, the British found their island hosting many thousands of American soldiers who were "oversexed, overpaid, and over here". That's Charlie Madison exactly; he knows all the angles to make life as smooth and risk-free as possible for himself. But things become complicated when he falls for an English woman, and his commanding officer's nervous breakdown leads to Charlie being sent on a senseless and dangerous mission.
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The Babe Script

Script by:John Fusco (Screenplay)
Directed by:Arthur Hiller
Year:1992
IMDb:tt0103747

Plot:A chronicle of Babe Ruth's phenomenal story--from his hard knock beginnings at a Baltimore orphanage, to his meteoric rise to baseball superstardom and his poignant retirement from the game. His amazing career included seven American League pennants, four World Series championships, two tempestuous marriages and a wild lifestyle that earned him numerous suspensions.
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Plaza Suite Script

Script by:Neil Simon (Theatre Play), Neil Simon (Screenplay)
Directed by:Arthur Hiller
Year:1971
IMDb:tt0067589

Plot:Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention to spruce up their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to get his former one-time flame Muriel to see him for what he stands for. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and try to get their uncertain-of-herself daughter out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding.
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