Tag: Robert Wise

Audrey Rose Script

Script by:Frank De Felitta (Writer), Frank De Felitta (Novel)
Directed by:Robert Wise
Year:1977
IMDb:tt0075704

Plot:A man is convinced that a young girl is the reincarnation of his own daughter Audrey Rose, who died in a fiery car accident, along with his wife, two minutes before the girl was born.
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The Andromeda Strain Script

Script by:Michael Crichton (Novel), Nelson Gidding (Screenplay)
Directed by:Robert Wise
Year:1971
IMDb:tt0066769

Plot:When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scramble to a secure laboratory and try to first isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents..
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The Sand Pebbles Script

Script by:Robert Anderson (Screenplay), Richard McKenna (Novel)
Directed by:Robert Wise
Year:1966
IMDb:tt0060934

Plot:Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the "rice-bowl" system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.
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The Sound Of Music Script

Script by:Howard Lindsay (Screenplay), Russel Crouse (Screenplay), Ernest Lehman (Screenplay)
Directed by:Robert Wise
Year:1965
IMDb:tt0059742

Plot:A tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey becomes a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
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West Side Story (1961) Script

Script by:Jerome Robbins (Author), Arthur Laurents (Theatre Play), Jerome Robbins (Screenplay), Arthur Laurents (Screenplay), Ernest Lehman (Screenplay)
Directed by:Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
Year:1961
IMDb:tt0055614

Plot:In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, New York, a gang of Polish-American teenagers called the Jets compete with a rival gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, the Sharks, to "own" the neighborhood streets. Tensions are high between the gangs but two kids, one from each rival gang, fall in love leading to tragedy.
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Somebody Up There Likes Me Script

Script by:Ernest Lehman (Screenplay), Rocky Graziano (Novel)
Directed by:Robert Wise
Year:1956
IMDb:tt0049778

Plot:The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
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Executive Suite Script

Script by:Ernest Lehman (Screenplay), Cameron Hawley (Novel)
Directed by:Robert Wise
Year:1954
IMDb:tt0046963

Plot:When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him.
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Blood on the Moon Script

Script by:Lillie Hayward (Screenplay), Harold Shumate (Adaptation), Luke Short (Novel), Luke Short (Adaptation)
Directed by:Robert Wise
Year:1948
IMDb:tt0040175

Plot:Mitchum plays drifter cowboy Jim Garry. After receiving a job-offer letter from smooth-talking Tate Riling (Preston), Garry rides into an Indian reservation and finds himself in the middle of a feud between cattle ranchers and homesteaders. What Garry doesn't realize is that Riling, the man he now works for, is crooked.
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The Hindenburg Script

Script by:Nelson Gidding (Screenplay), Richard Levinson (Screenstory), William Link (Screenstory), Michael M. Mooney (Novel)
Directed by:Robert Wise
Year:1975
IMDb:tt0073113

Plot:In this highly speculative historical thriller, Colonel Franz Ritter (George C. Scott), a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passengers and crew could be the culprit.
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Rooftops Script

Script by:Allan A. Goldstein (Story), Tony Mark (Story), Terence Brennan (Screenplay)
Directed by:Robert Wise
Year:1989
IMDb:tt0098222

Plot:T, as most of his friends, lives in a self-constructed 'house', built on top of an old building in the city. Their one passion is 'combat'. Combat is a dance/streetfight during which the contestants try to push each other out of the arena, while not allowed to actually touch each other. When drugdealers move into the neighbourhood and kill T's best friend he embarks on a mission to eradicate the drug-presence in the neigbourhood. His friends are reluctant to help though, knowing what happened to T's friend when he crossed them.
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