Tag: John Frankenheimer

Birdman Of Alcatraz Script

Script by:Thomas E. Gaddis (Novel), Guy Trosper (Screenplay)
Directed by:John Frankenheimer
Year:1962
IMDb:tt0055798

Plot:After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.
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52 Pick-Up Script

Script by:Elmore Leonard (Novel), Elmore Leonard (Screenplay), John Steppling (Screenplay)
Directed by:John Frankenheimer
Year:1986
IMDb:tt0090567

Plot:Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a video tape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that the story will hurt his wife's political campaign if he goes to the police, Harry pretends that he will pay the men, but does not follow through.
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99 and 44/100% Dead! Script

Script by:Robert Dillon (Writer)
Directed by:John Frankenheimer
Year:1974
IMDb:tt0071089

Plot:Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harry's new girlfriend is kidnapped by Uncle Frank's enemy, Big Eddie.
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The Burning Season: The Chico Mendes Story Script

Script by:Michael Tolkin (Writer), Ron Hutchinson (Writer), William Mastrosimone (Writer), Andrew Revkin (Writer)
Directed by:John Frankenheimer
Year:1994
IMDb:tt0109351

Plot:Based on the true story of a Brazilian rubber tapper who leads his people in protest against government and developers, who want to cut down their part of the rainforest for a new road and ranch land. The rich and the powerful will stop at nothing, and frequently resort to murder
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The Fixer Script

Script by:Dalton Trumbo (Screenplay), Bernard Malamud (Novel)
Directed by:John Frankenheimer
Year:1968
IMDb:tt0062977

Plot:Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime - the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kiev. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant-handyman's life in prison and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.
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Black Sunday Script

Script by:Thomas Harris (Novel), Ernest Lehman (Screenplay), Kenneth Ross (Screenplay), Ivan Moffat (Screenplay)
Directed by:John Frankenheimer
Year:1977
IMDb:tt0075765

Plot:An Israeli anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a plot to commit a terrorist plot at the Super Bowl.
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The Island of Dr. Moreau Script

Script by:Richard Stanley (Screenplay), H. G. Wells (Novel)
Directed by:John Frankenheimer
Year:1996
IMDb:tt0116654

Plot:A shipwrecked sailor stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to combine human and animal DNA with horrific results.
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Reindeer Games (2000) Script

Script by:Ehren Kruger (Screenplay)
Directed by:John Frankenheimer
Year:2000
IMDb:tt0184858

Plot:After assuming his dead cellmate's identity to get with his girlfriend, an ex-con finds himself the reluctant participant in a casino heist.
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Year of the Gun Script

Script by:Michael Mewshaw (Novel), David Ambrose (Screenplay)
Directed by:John Frankenheimer
Year:1991
IMDb:tt0103303

Plot:In this thriller, American novelist David Raybourne (Andrew McCarthy) accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade's terrorist plan to kidnap Italian Premier Aldo Moro during a research trip to Rome. As the terrorists attempt to kill David, he and his photojournalist friend (Sharon Stone) must struggle to stay alive.
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