Tag: Peter Hyams

The Star Chamber Script

Script by:Roderick Taylor (Screenplay), Peter Hyams (Screenplay)
Directed by:Peter Hyams
Year:1983
IMDb:tt0086356

Plot:Steve Hardin, a young judge, must grapple with his conscience as vicious criminals in his court are going free as a result of slick lawyers finding obscure loopholes in the law. Hardin feels utterly powerless until he discovers The Star Chamber, a small group of powerful men bent on their own kind of vigilante justice. Meeting behind closed doors in the utmost secrecy, they decree their own punishment for the guilty who have slipped through the system without paying for their crimes.
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Capricorn One Script

Script by:Peter Hyams (Screenplay)
Directed by:Peter Hyams
Year:1978
IMDb:tt0077294

Plot:In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of scientists stages a phony Mars landing. Willingly participating in the deception are a trio of well-meaning astronauts, who become liabilities when their space capsule is reported lost on re-entry. Now, with the help of a crusading reporter, they must battle a sinister conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep the truth.
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Telefon Script

Script by:Peter Hyams (Screenplay), Stirling Silliphant (Screenplay)
Directed by:Don Siegel
Year:1977
IMDb:tt0076804

Plot:Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Script

Script by:Peter Hyams (Author), Douglas Morrow (Author)
Directed by:Peter Hyams
Year:2009
IMDb:tt1183251

Plot:Remake of a 1956 Fritz Lang film in which a novelist's investigation of a dirty district attorney leads to a setup within the courtroom.
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Busting Script

Script by:Peter Hyams (Writer)
Directed by:Peter Hyams
Year:1974
IMDb:tt0071259

Plot:Two Los Angeles vice squad officers find themselves up against their corrupt superiors when they try bringing a crime boss to justice. During the courseof their investigation, the two cops disguise them-selves as gays and raid a gay bar.
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The Hunter Script

Script by:Ted Leighton (Screenplay), Peter Hyams (Screenplay)
Directed by:Buzz Kulik
Year:1980
IMDb:tt0080907

Plot:During his long career, bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson has caught over 5,000 criminals. Now, while he is working on apprehending fugitives in Illinois, Texas and Nebraska, he himself is being hunted by a psychotic killer.
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End Of Days Script

Script by:Andrew W. Marlowe (Screenplay)
Directed by:Peter Hyams
Year:1999
IMDb:tt0146675

Plot:On 28 December 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium. However, the Devil decides to crash the party by coming to the city, inhabiting a man's body, and searching for his chosen bride—a 20-year-old woman named Christine York. The world will end, and the only hope lies within an atheist named Jericho Cane.
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The Musketeer Script

Script by:Gene Quintano (Screenplay)
Directed by:Peter Hyams
Year:2001
IMDb:tt0246544

Plot:In Peter Hyams's adaptation of the famous Alexander Dumas story The Three Musketeers, the young D'Artagnan seeks to join the legendary musketeer brigade and avenge his father's death - but he finds that the musketeers have been disbanded.
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The Relic Script

Script by:Douglas Preston (Novel), Lincoln Child (Novel), Amy Holden Jones (Screenplay), John Raffo (Screenplay), Rick Jaffa (Screenplay), Amanda Silver (Screenplay)
Directed by:Peter Hyams
Year:1997
IMDb:tt0120004

Plot:A homicide detective and an anthropologist try to destroy a South American lizard-like god, who's on a people eating rampage in a Chicago museum.
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