Tag: J. Lee Thompson

10 To Midnight Script

Script by:William Roberts (Writer), J. Lee Thompson (Story)
Directed by:J. Lee Thompson
Year:1983
IMDb:tt0085121

Plot:Based on the real-life Richard Speck murders. After his bizarre behavior results in rejection from countless women, Warren Stacy begins murdering women, always while he is naked, which minimizes any physical evidence left behind. Detective Leo Kessler is convinced of Stacy’s guilt and, over the objections of his partner, plants evidence to get him behind bars. When Stacy is released on a technicality, he threatens to go after Kessler and his family, leaving Kessler to defend himself with little help from the police.
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Happy Birthday To Me Script

Script by:John C.W. Saxton (Screenplay), Peter Jobin (Screenplay), Timothy Bond (Screenplay), John C.W. Saxton (Story)
Directed by:J. Lee Thompson
Year:1981
IMDb:tt0082498

Plot:Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a grueling set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth behind her accident and what is going on...
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Messenger of Death Script

Script by:Rex Burns (Novel), Paul Jarrico (Screenplay)
Directed by:J. Lee Thompson
Year:1988
IMDb:tt0095626

Plot:Wifes and children of the Mormon Orville Beecham become victims of a massacre in his own house. The police believes the crime had a religious motive. Orville doesn't give any comment on the case, is taken into protective custody. Journalist Smith persuades him to help him in the investigation - and finds out about economic motives for the murder.
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The White Buffalo Script

Script by:Richard Sale (Screenplay), Richard Sale (Novel)
Directed by:J. Lee Thompson
Year:1977
IMDb:tt0076915

Plot:In this strange western version of JAWS, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Hickok moves through a variety of uniquely authentic western locations - dim, filthy, makeshift taverns; freezing, slaughterhouse-like frontier towns and beautifully desolate high country - before improbably teaming up with a young Crazy Horse to pursue the creature.
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Mackenna’s Gold Script

Script by:Carl Foreman (Screenplay), Heck Allen (Novel)
Directed by:J. Lee Thompson
Year:1969
IMDb:tt0064615

Plot:The gangster Colorado kidnaps Marshal McKenna. He believes that McKenna has seen a map which leads to a rich vein of gold in the mountains and forces him to show him the way. But they're not the only ones who're after the gold; soon they meet a group of "honorable" citizens and the cavalry crosses their way too - and that is even before they enter Indian territory.
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Taras Bulba Script

Script by:Николай Гоголь (Novel), Waldon Salt (Screenplay), Karl Tunberg (Screenplay)
Directed by:J. Lee Thompson
Year:1962
IMDb:tt0056556

Plot:Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and his passion for a Polish woman.
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Battle for the Planet of the Apes Script

Script by:Paul Dehn (Screenplay), Pierre Boulle (Novel), John William Corrington (Screenplay), Joyce Hooper Corrington (Screenplay)
Directed by:J. Lee Thompson
Year:1973
IMDb:tt0069768

Plot:The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilization, a community of intelligent apes led by Caesar lives in harmony with a group of humans. Gorilla General Aldo tries to cause an ape civil war and a community of human mutants who live beneath a destroyed city try to conquer those whom they perceive as enemies. All leading to the finale.
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