Tag: Robert Towne

Villa Rides Script

Script by:William Douglas Lansford (Novel), William Douglas Lansford (Adaptation), Robert Towne (Screenplay), Sam Peckinpah (Screenplay)
Directed by:Buzz Kulik
Year:1968
IMDb:tt0063775

Plot:Pulled into the Mexican Revolution by his own greed, Texas gunrunner & pilot Lee Arnold joins bandit-turned-patriot Pancho Villa & his band of dedicated men in a march across Mexico battling the Colorados & stealing women's hearts as they go. But each has a nemesis among his friends: Arnold is tormented by Fierro, Villa's right-hand-man; and Villa must face possible betrayal by his own president's naiveté
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Ask The Dust Script

Script by:Robert Towne (Screenplay), John Fante (Novel)
Directed by:Robert Towne
Year:2006
IMDb:tt0384814

Plot:Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes Script

Script by:Edgar Rice Burroughs (Novel), Michael Austin (Writer), Robert Towne (Writer)
Directed by:Hugh Hudson
Year:1984
IMDb:tt0087365

Plot:A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.
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Orca: The Killer Whale Script

Script by:Luciano Vincenzoni (Screenplay), Sergio Donati (Screenplay), Robert Towne (Screenplay)
Directed by:Michael Anderson
Year:1977
IMDb:tt0076504

Plot:After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at Captain Nolan's hands, a vengeful killer whale goes on a rampage in the fisherman's Newfoundland harbor. Under pressure from the villagers, Nolan, Rachel and Umilak sail after the great beast, who will meet them on its own turf.
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Personal Best Script

Script by:Robert Towne (Screenplay)
Directed by:Robert Towne
Year:1982
IMDb:tt0084489

Plot:Chris Cahill is a young athlete who competes unsuccessfully in the 1976 U.S. Olympic trials. She meets a more experienced lesbian track and field competitor, Tory Skinner, and their friendship evolves into a romantic relationship.
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The Yakuza Script

Script by:Paul Schrader (Screenplay), Leonard Schrader (Story), Robert Towne (Screenplay)
Directed by:Sydney Pollack
Year:1974
IMDb:tt0073918

Plot:Harry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter - and ends up on the wrong side of the Yakuza, the notorious Japanese mafia...
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Without Limits Script

Script by:Kenny Moore (Writer), Robert Towne (Writer)
Directed by:Robert Towne
Year:1998
IMDb:tt0119934

Plot:The film follows the life of famous 1970s runner Steve Prefontaine from his youth days in Oregon to the University of Oregon where he worked with the legendary coach Bill Bowerman, later to Olympics in Munich and his early death at 24 in a car crash.
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Shampoo (1975) Script

Script by:Robert Towne (Writer), Warren Beatty (Writer)
Directed by:Hal Ashby
Year:1975
IMDb:tt0073692

Plot:George Roundy is a Beverly Hills hairstylist whose uncontrolled libido stands between him and his ambitions. He wants the security of a relationship. He wants to be a hairdressing "star" and open his own salon. But the fact that he beds down with the wife, daughter and mistress of a potential backer doesn't help. It also does little for his relationship with his current girlfriend.
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Shampoo Script

Script by:Robert Towne (Writer), Warren Beatty (Writer)
Directed by:Hal Ashby
Year:1975
IMDb:tt0073692

Plot:George Roundy is a Beverly Hills hairstylist whose uncontrolled libido stands between him and his ambitions. He wants the security of a relationship. He wants to be a hairdressing “star” and open his own salon. But the fact that he beds down with the wife, daughter and mistress of a potential backer doesn’t help. It also does little for his relationship with his current girlfriend.
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Mission Impossible Script

Script by:Bruce Geller (Original Story), David Koepp (Screenplay), Steven Zaillian (Screenplay), Robert Towne (Screenplay)
Directed by:Brian De Palma
Year:1996
IMDb:tt0117060

Plot:When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the No. 1 suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.
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