Tag: Stirling Silliphant

The Killer Elite Script

Script by:Marc Norman (Screenplay), Stirling Silliphant (Screenplay)
Directed by:Sam Peckinpah
Year:1975
IMDb:tt0073240

Plot:Mike Locken is one of the principle members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the C.I.A. and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to protect someone, goes down in flames. He is nearly crippled, but with braces is able to again become mobile. For revenge as much as anything else, Mike goes after his ex-friend.
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The Towering Inferno Script

Script by:Stirling Silliphant (Screenplay), Richard Martin Stern (Novel), Thomas N. Scortia (Novel), Frank M. Robinson (Novel)
Directed by:John Guillermin
Year:1974
IMDb:tt0072308

Plot:At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—office building, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
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Shaft In Africa Script

Script by:Ernest Tidyman (Author), Stirling Silliphant (Author)
Directed by:John Guillermin
Year:1973
IMDb:tt0070679

Plot:Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
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Marlowe Script

Script by:Raymond Chandler (Novel), Stirling Silliphant (Screenplay), Raymond Chandler (Screenplay)
Directed by:Paul Bogart
Year:1969
IMDb:tt0064638

Plot:Los Angeles private-eye Philip Marlowe is trying to locate the brother of his new client, a woman named Orfamay Quest. The trail leads to two men who deny any knowledge of the brother's existence. Both are soon killed by an ice pick, so Marlowe deduces that there's much more to this than a simple missing-person case. Marlowe's path crosses that of a blackmailed movie star, Mavis Wald, and her friend, exotic dancer Delores. A mobster sends karate expert Winslow Wong to bust up Marlowe's office and warn him off the case, while Lieutenant French also cautions the detective to stay out of the police's way.
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Charly Script

Script by:Daniel Keyes (Writer), Stirling Silliphant (Screenplay)
Directed by:Ralph Nelson
Year:1968
IMDb:tt0062794

Plot:An experiment on a simpleton turns him into a genius. When he discovers what has been done to him he struggles with whether or not what was done to his was right.
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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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When Time Ran Out Script

Script by:Carl Foreman (Screenplay), Stirling Silliphant (Screenplay)
Directed by:James Goldstone
Year:1980
IMDb:tt0081747

Plot:An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.
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Circle Of Iron Script

Script by:Stirling Silliphant (Screenplay), Stanley Mann (Screenplay), Bruce Lee (Story), James Coburn (Story), Stirling Silliphant (Story)
Directed by:Richard Moore
Year:1978
IMDb:tt0078975

Plot:A young martial artist, Cord the Seeker, competes for and loses the right to go on a quest for the Book of All Knowlege held by a wizard named Zetan
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The Poseidon Adventure (1972) Script

Script by:Paul Gallico (Novel), Wendell Mayes (Screenplay), Stirling Silliphant (Screenplay)
Directed by:Ronald Neame
Year:1972
IMDb:tt0069113

Plot:The Poseidon Adventure was one of the first Catastrophe films and began the Disaster Film genre. Director Neame tells the story of a group of people that must fight for their lives aboard a sinking ship. Based on the novel by Paul Gallico.
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In the Heat of the Night (1967) Script

Script by:John Ball (Novel), Stirling Silliphant (Screenplay)
Directed by:Norman Jewison
Year:1967
IMDb:tt0061811

Plot:An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town.
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