Tag: Mark Robson

Valley Of The Dolls Script

Script by:Helen Deutsch (Screenplay), Dorothy Kingsley (Screenplay)
Directed by:Robert Viharo, Mark Robson
Year:1967
IMDb:tt0062430

Plot:In New York City, bright but naive New Englander Anne Welles becomes a secretary at a theatrical law firm, where she falls in love with attorney Lyon Burke. Anne befriends up-and-coming singer Neely O'Hara, whose dynamic talent threatens aging star Helen Lawson and beautiful but talentless actress Jennifer North. The women experience success and failure in love and work, leading to heartbreak, addiction and tragedy.
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From The Terrace Script

Script by:John O'Hara (Novel), Ernest Lehman (Screenplay)
Directed by:Mark Robson
Year:1960
IMDb:tt0053841

Plot:Alfred Eaton, an ambitious young executive, climbs to the top of New York's financial world as his marriage crumbles. At the brink of attaining his career goals, he is forced to choose between business success, married to the beautiful, but unfaithful Mary and starting over with his true love, the much younger Natalie.
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The Harder They Fall (1956) Script

Script by:Budd Schulberg (Novel), Philip Yordan (Screenplay)
Directed by:Mark Robson
Year:1956
IMDb:tt0049291

Plot:Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the publicity Toro has been receiving and vows to viciously punish him in the ring. Eddie must now decide whether or not to tell the naive Toro the truth.
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Avalanche Express Script

Script by:Colin Forbes (Novel), Abraham Polonsky (Screenplay)
Directed by:Mark Robson, Monte Hellman
Year:1979
IMDb:tt0078812

Plot:CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting to the west. Wargrave decides they should travel to safety on a train across Europe, the "Atlantic Express". During the journey they must survive attacks by terrorists and an avalanche, all planned by Russian spy-catcher Nikolai Bunin.
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Earthquake Script

Script by:George Fox (Screenplay), Mario Puzo (Screenplay)
Directed by:Mark Robson
Year:1974
IMDb:tt0071455

Plot:Earthquake is a 1974 American disaster film that achieved huge box-office success, continuing the disaster film genre of the 1970s where recognizable all-star casts attempt to survive life or death situations. The plot concerns the struggle for survival after a catastrophic earthquake destroys most of the city of Los Angeles, California.
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Peyton Place Script

Script by:John Michael Hayes (Screenplay), Grace Metalious (Novel)
Directed by:Mark Robson
Year:1957
IMDb:tt0050839

Plot:In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which resulted in her illegitimate daughter Allison -- by adopting a chaste, prudish attitude towards all things sexual. In spite of herself, Constance can't help but be attracted to handsome new teacher Michael Rossi. Meanwhile, the restless Allison, who'd like to be as footloose and fancy-free as the town's "fast girl" Betty Anderson, falls sincerely in love with mixed-up mama's boy Norman Page.
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Nine Hours to Rama Script

Script by:Stanley Wolpert (Novel), Nelson Gidding (Screenplay)
Directed by:Mark Robson
Year:1963
IMDb:tt0057362

Plot:José Ferrer and Horst Buchholz star in this fictionalised account of events leading up to the assassination of Indian spiritual leader and independence campaigner Mahatma Gandhi.
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The Prize Script

Script by:Ernest Lehman (Author), Irving Wallace (Novel)
Directed by:Mark Robson
Year:1963
IMDb:tt0057426

Plot:For some reason, this year's Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the young author Andrew Craig, who seems to be more interested in women and drinking than writing. Another laureate is Dr. Max Stratman, the famous German-American physicist who comes to Stockholm with his young and beautiful niece Emily. The Foreign Department also gives him an assistant during his stay, Miss Andersson. Craig soon notices that Dr. Stratman is acting strangely. The second time they meet, Dr. Stratman does not even recognize him.
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