Mystery and Suspense Cinema
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Director: Jay Roach
Screenplay: Mike Myers
Producer:
Music: Burt Bacharach
Photography:
Visual Effects:
Cast: Mike Myers (Austin Powers, Dr. Evil), Elizabeth Hurley (Vanessa Kensington),
Robert Wagner (Number Two), Tom Arnold, Mimi Rogers, Carrie Fisher,
Michael York, Seth Green (Evil, Jr.)
Released by: New Line
Date: 1997, 100 minutes. Color.
Based on: You Only Live Twice, by Ian Fleming.
Batman
Director: Tim Burton
Screenplay: Sam Hamm, Warren Skaaren
Producers: Jon Peters, Peter Guber
Music: Danny Elfman
Photography: Roger Pratt
Editor: Ray Lovejoy
Visual Effects: John Evans
Cast: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Pat Hingle,
Billy Dee Williams, Michael Gough, Jack Palance, Jerry Hall
Released by: Warner
Date: 1989, 126 minutes. Color.
Based on: Batman, character created by Bob Kane, first appearing in
Detective Comics, May, 1939.
Sequels:
---Batman Returns, 1992.
---, 1994.
Batman Returns
Director: Tim Burton
Screenplay: Daniel Waters
Story: Daniel Waters, Sam Hamm
Producer: Denise Di Novi, Tim Burton
Music: Danny Elfman
Photography: Stefan Czapsky
Editors: Chris Lebenzon, Bob Badami
Visual Effects:
Cast: Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken,
Michael Gough, Michael Murphy, Cristi Conaway, Pat Hingle
Released by: Warner
Date: 1992, 126 minutes. Color.
Based on: Batman
The Big Clock
Director: John Farrow
Screenplay: Jonathan Latimer
Producer: John Farrow
Music: Victor Young
Photography: John Seitz
Visual Effects:
Cast: Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Rita Johnson,
Maureen O¹Sullivan
Released by: Paramount
Date: 1947, 95 minutes. B & W.
Based on: The Big Clock, by Kenneth Fearing (1946).
Bonnie and Clyde
Director: Arthur Penn
Screenplay: David Newman, Robert Benton
Producer: Warren Beatty
Music: Charles Strouse
Photography: Burnett Guffey Oscar
Visual Effects:
Cast: Warren Beatty (Clyde), Faye Dunaway (Bonnie Parker), Michael J. Pollard (C. W. Moss),
Gene Hackman (Buck Barrow), Estelle Parsons (Blanche) Oscar, Gene Wilder,
Dub Taylor, Denver Pyle
Released by: Warner/Seven Arts/Tatira/Hiller
Date: 1967, 111 minutes. Color.
Based on:
Bugsy
Director: Barry Levinson
Screenplay: James Toback
Producers: Mark Johnson, Barry Levinson, Warren Beatty
Music: Emmio Morricone
Photography: Allen Daviau
Editor: Stu Linder
Visual Effects:
Production design: Dennis Gassner Oscar
Costume: Albert Wolsky Oscar
Cast: Warren Beatty (Bugsy Siegel), Ben Kingsley (Meyer Lansky), Annette Bening,
Harvey Keitel, Elliott Gould, Joe Mantegna, Bebe Neuwirth, Wendy Phillips,
Richard Sarafian, Bill Graham
Released by: Columbia Tri-Star/Mulholland/Baltimore
Date: 1991, 135 minutes. Color.
Based on:
Bulldog Drummond
Director: F. Richard Jones
Screenplay: Sidney Howard
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Music:
Photography: George barnes, Gregg Toland
Visual Effects:
Cast: Ronald Colman, Joan Bennett, Claud Allister (Algy), Lilyan Tashman,
Montagu Love, Lawrence Grant
Released by: Samuel Goldwyn
Date: 1929, 90 minutes. B & W.
Based on: Sapper, by H. C. McNeile
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Director: Roy del Ruth
Screenplay: Nunnally Johnson
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck
Music: Alfred Newman
Photography: Peverell Marley
Visual Effects:
Cast: Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Butterworth (Algy),
Warner Oland, Mischa Auer, Una Merkel
Released by: UA/Twentieth Century
Date: 1934, 83 minutes. B & W.
Based on: Bulldog Drummond
Bullitt
Director: Peter yates
Screenplay: Harry Kleiner, Alan R. Trustman
Producer: Phiip D¹Antoni
Music: Lalo Schifrin
Photography: William A. Fraker
Editor: Frank P. Keller Oscar
Visual Effects:
Cast: Steve McQueen (Detective Bullitt), jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughan,
Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, Simon Oakland
Released by: Warner/Solar
Date: 1968, 113 minutes. Color.
Based on: Mute Witness, by Robert L. Pike ().
Casablanca Oscar
Director: Michael Curtiz Oscar
Screenplay: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch Oscar
Producer: Hal B. Wallis
Music: Max Steiner
Photography: Arthur Edeson
Editor: Owen Marks
Visual Effects:
Cast: Humphrey Bogart (Rick Blaine), Ingrid Bergman (Ilse Lund), Paul Henreid (Vicotr Laszlo),
Cluade Rains (Captain Louis Renault), Sydney Greenstreet (Ferrari), Peter Lorre (Ugarte),
Conrad Veidt (Major Strasser), S. Z. Sakall (Carl), Dooley Wilson (Sam),
Marcel Dalio (Croupier), Madelaine LeBeau, Joy Page, John Qualen, Ludwig Stossel,
Leonid Kinskey, Helmut Dantime, Ilka Gruning
Released by: Warner Bros.
Date: 1942, 102 minutes. B & W.
Based on: Everybody Comes to Rick¹s, play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison.
Casino
Director: Martin Scorcese
Screenplay:
Producer:
Music:
Visual Effects:
Cast: Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci
Released by:
Date: 1995, minutes. Color.
Based on: Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas, by Nicholas Pileggi ().
Casino Royale
Directors: John Huston, Ken Hughes, Val Guest, Robert Parrish, Joe McGrath,
Richard Talmadge
Screenplay: Wolf Mankowitz, John Law, Michael Sayers,
Producers: Charles K. Feldman, Jerry Bresler
Music: Burt Bacharach
Photography: Jack Hildyard
Visual Effects:
Cast: David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Orson Welles, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress,
William Holden, Charles Boyer John Huston, Joanna Pettet, Daliah Lavi,
Kurt Kasznar, Jacqueline Bisset, Derek Nimmo, George Raft, Ronnie Corbett,
Peter O¹Toole, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geoffrey Bayldon, Duncan Macrae, Woody Allen
Released by: Columbia/Famous Artists
Date: 1967, 130 minutes. Color.
Based (loosely) on: Casino Royale, by Ian Fleming (1953).
Cat Chaser
Director: Abel Ferrara
Screenplay:
Producer:
Music:
Visual Effects:
Cast: Peter Weller, Kelly McGillis
Released by: Vestron
Date: 1989, minutes. Color.
Based on: Cat Chaser, by Elmore Leonard (19).
Chinatown Edgar
Director: Roman Polanski
Screenplay: Robert Towne Oscar
Producer:
Music:
Visual Effects:
Cast: Jack Nicholson (Jake Gittes), Faye Dunaway (Evelyn Mulraye), John Huston (Noah Cross)
Released by:Paramount
Date: 1974, minutes. Color.
Based on: Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles (according to John Fawell).
Reviewed by: John Fawell, in The Armchair Detective, Spring, 1996.
Curse of the Pink Panther
Director: Blake Edwards
Screenplay: Blake Edwards, Geoffrey Edwards
Producers: Blake Edwards, Gerald T. Nutting
Music: Henry Mancini
Photography: Dick Bush
Visual Effects:
Cast: Ted Wass, Joanna Lumley, Herbert Lom, David Niven, Robert Wagner,
Capucine, Harvey Korman, Burt Kwouk
Released by: MGM-UA/Titan/Jewel
Date: 1983, 110 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Pink Panther, 1963
The Day of the Jackal
Director: Fred Zimmermann
Screenplay: Kenneth Ross
Producers: John Woolf, David Deutsch
Music: Georges Delerue
Photography: Jean Tournier
Editor: Ralph Kemplen
Visual Effects:
Cast: Edward Fox, Michael Lonsdale, Alan Badel, Eric Porter, Cyril Cusack,
Delphine Seyrig, Donald Sinden, Tony Britton, Timothy West, Olga Georges-Picot,
Barrie Ingham, Maurice Denham, Anton Rodgers
Released by: Universal/Warwick/Universal France
Date: 1973, 142 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Day of the Jackal, by Frederick Forsyth ().
Deathtrap
Director: Sidney Lumet
Screenplay: Jay Presson Allen
Producer: Burtt Harris
Music: Johnny Mandel
Photography: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Visual Effects:
Cast: Michael Caine (Sydney Bruhl), Christopher Reeve (Clifford Anderson),
Dyan Cannon (Myra Bruhl), Irene Worth (Psychic), Henry Jones
Released by: Warner/LAH
Date: 1982, 116 minutes. Color.
Based on: Deathtrap, Broadway play.by Ira Levin ().
Devil in a Blue Dress
Director:
Screenplay: Carl Franklin
Producer:
Music:
Visual Effects:
Cast: Denzel Washington
Released by: Clinica Estetico, Muddy Lane Entertainment/Tristar
Date: 1995, minutes. Color.
Based on: Easy Rawlins by Walter Mosley
Dial M for Murder
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay: Frederick Knott
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Music: Dimitri Tiomkin
Photography: Robert Burks
Visual Effects:
Cast: Ray Milland, John Williams, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, Anthony Dawson
Released by: Warner
Date: 1954, 105 minutes. Color.
Based on: Dial M for Murder, play by Frederick Knott ().
Doctor No
Director: Terence Young
Screenplay: Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, Berkely Mather
Producers: Harry Saltzman, Albert R. Broccoli
Music: Monty Norman
Photography: Ted Moore
Visual Effects:
Cast: Sean Connery (James Bond), Ursula Andress, Jack Lord, Joseph Wiseman,
John Kitzmiler, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Zena Marshall, Eunice Gayson, Anthony Dawson
Released by: UA/Eon
Date: 1962, 111 minutes. Color.
Based on: Doctor No, by Ian Fleming (1958).
Sequels:
---From Russia with Love, 1963.
---Goldfinger, 1964.
---Thunderball, 1965.
---You Only Live Twice, 1967.
---On Her Majesty¹s Secret Service, 1969.
---Diamonds Are Forever, 1971.
---Live and Let Die, 1973.
---The Man with the Golden Gun, 1974.
---The Spy Who Loved Me, 1977.
---Moonraker, 1979.
---Octopussy, 1983.
---Never Say Never Again, 1984.
---The Living Daylights, 1987.
Dolores Claiborne
Director:
Screenplay: Tony Gilroy
Producer:
Music:
Visual Effects:
Cast:
Released by: Columbia/Castle Rock
Date: 1995, minutes. Color.
Based on: Dolores Claiborne, by Stephen King (19).
Eye of the Needle
Director: Richard Marquand
Screenplay: Stanley Mann
Producer: Stephen Friedman
Music: Miklos Rozsa
Photography: Alan Hume
Visual Effects:
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Christopher Cazenove, Ian Bannen,
Alex McCrindle
Released by: UA/Kings Road
Date: 1981, 113 minutes. Color.
Based on: Eye of the Needle, by Ken Follett ().
Farewell, My Lovely (aka Murder My Sweet)
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Screenplay: John Paxton
Producer: Adrian Scott
Music: Roy Webb
Photography: Harry J. wild
Visual Effects:
Cast: DickPowell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Mike Mazurki, Otto Kruger,
Miles Mander, Douglas Walton, Ralf Harolde, Don Douglas, Esther Howard
Released by: RKO
Date: 1944, 95 minutes, B & W.
Based on: Farewell, My Lovely, by Raymond Chandler.
Farewell, My Lovely
Director: Dick Richards
Screenplay: David Zelag Goodman
Producer: George Pappas, Jerry Bruckheimer
Music: David Shire
Photography: John A. Alonzo
Visual Effects:
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles, Anthony Zerbe,
jack O'Halloran, Kate Murtagh, Jim Thompson (Judge Grayles)
Released by: Avco Embassy/Elliott Kastner
Date: 1975, 95 minutes, Color.
Based on: Farewell, My Lovely, by Raymond Chandler.
52 Pick-Up
Director: John Frankenheimer
Screenplay:
Producer:
Music:
Visual Effects:
Cast: Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, John Glover, Clarence Williams III
Released by: Media
Date:1986, minutes. Color.
Based on: 52 Pick-Up, by Elmore Leonard (19).
Fletch
Director: Michael Ritchie
Screenplay: Andrew Bergman
Producer:
Music: Harold Faltermeyer
Photography: Fre Schuler
Visual Effects:
Cast: Chevy Chase (Fletch), Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Tim Matheson,
Joe Don Baker, Richard Libertini, Kenneth Mars, M. Emmet Walsh
Released by: Universal/Douglas/Greisman
Date: 1985, 96 minutes. Color.
Based on: Fletch, by Gregory McDonald ().
Fletch Lives
Director: Michael Ritchie
Screenplay: Leon Capetanos
Producer:
Music: Harold Faltermeyer, Buckwheat Zydeco
Photography: John McPherson
Editor: Richard A. Harris
Visual Effects:
Cast: Chevy Chase (Fletch), Hal Holbrook, Julianne Phillips, R. Lee Ermey,
Richard Libertini, Randall (Tex) Cobb, Cleavon Little
Released by:UIP/Universal/Greisman/Douglas
Date: 1989, 95 minutes. Color.
Based on: Character Fletch by Gregory McDonald
Fog over Frisco
Director: William Dieterle
Screenplay: Robert N. Lee
Producer: Henry Blake
Music: Leo F. Forbstein
Photography: Tony Gaudio
Editor: Harold McLernon
Cast: Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot, Hugh Herbert,
Arthur Byron, Robert Barrat, Douglas Dumbrille, Henry O'Neill, Irving Pichel,
Alan Hale
Released by: Warner
Date: 1934, 68 minutes. BW.
Based on: Fog over Frisco, by George Dyer.
The French Connection Oscar
Director: William Friedkin Oscar
Screenplay:
Producer: D'Antoni
Music:
Visual Effects:
Cast: Gene Hackman Oscar
Released by: Twentieth Century Fox
Date: 1971, minutes. Color.
Based on:
From Russia with Love
Director: Terrence Young
Screenplay: Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood
Producers: Harry Saltzman, Albert Broccoli
Music: John Barry
Photography: Ted Moore
Visual Effects:
Cast: Sean Connery (James Bond), Robert Shaw, Pedro Armendariz, Daniela Bianchi,
Lotte Lenya, Bernard Lee, Eunice Gayson, Lois Maxwell
Released by: UA/Eon
Date: 1963, 118 minutes. Color.
Based on: From Russia with Love, by Ian Fleming (1957).
The Fugitive
Director:
Screenplay:
Producer:
Music:
Visual Effects:
Cast: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones Oscar
Released by:
Date: 1993, minutes. Color.
Based on: The Fugitive, TV series.
The Getaway
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Screenplay: Walter Hill
Producers: David Foster, Mitchell Brower
Music: Quincy Jones
Photography: Lucien Ballard
Cast: Steve McQueen, Ali McGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers,
Al Lettieri, Slim Pickens
Released by:Solar/First Artists
Date: 1972, 122 minutes, Color.
Based on: The Getaway, by Jim Thompson.
The Getaway
Director: Roger Donaldson
Screenplay: Walter Hill and Amy Jones
Producers: David Foster, Lawrence Turman, John Alan Simon
Music: Mark Isham
Photography: Peter Menzies, Jr.
Editor: Conrad Buff
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, James Woods, David Morse,
Jennifer Tilley, James Stephens, Richard Farnsworth
Released by:Warner/Largo/JVC
Date: 1994, 115 minutes, Color.
Based on: The Getaway, by Jim Thompson.
Get Shorty
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Screenplay: Scott Frank
Producers: Danny DeVito,
Music:
Visual Effects:
Cast: John Travolta (Chili Palmer), Gene Hackman, René Russo, Danny DeVito
Released by: Jersey Films/MGM/UA
Date: 1995, minutes. Color.
Based on: Get Shorty, by Elmore Leonard (19).
The Godfather Oscar
Director: Frances Ford Coppola
Screenplay: Frances Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo Oscar
Producer: Albert S. Ruddy
Music: Nino Rota
Photography: Gordon Willis
Visual Effects:
Cast: Marlon Brando Oscar, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Al Martino (Johnny Fontane),
James Caan, Richard Castellano, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Richard Conte, John Marley
Released by: Paramount/Alfran
Date: 1972, 175 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Godfather, by Mario Puzo ().
The Godfather, Part II Oscar
Director: Francis Ford Coppola Oscar
Screenplay: Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo Oscar
Producer: Frances Ford Coppola
Music: Nino Rota, Carmine Coppola Oscar
Photography: Gordon Willis
Visual Effects:
Cast: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro Oscar, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall,
John Cazale, Lee Strasboerb, Michael V. Gazzo, Talia Shire, Troy Donahue
Released by: Paramount/Coppola Company
Date: 1974, 200 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Godfather, by Mario Puzo ().
Goldfinger
Director: Guy Hamilton
Screenplay: Richard Maibaum, Paul Dehn
Producers: Harry Saltzman, Albert R. Broccoli
Music: John Barry
Photography: Ted Moore
Visual Effects:
Cast: Sean Connery (James Bond), Honor Blackman, Gert Frobe, Harold Sakata,
Shirley Eaton, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewellyn
Released by: UA/Eon
Date: 1964, 112 minutes. Color.
Based on: Goldfinger, by Ian Fleming (1959).
GoodFellas
Director: Martin Scorsese
Screenplay: Martin Scorsese, Nicholas Pileggi
Producer: Irwin Winkler
Music:
Photography: Michael Balhaus
Editor: Thelma Schoonmaker
Visual Effects:
Cast: Robert de Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci Oscar, Lorraine Bracco,
Paul Sorvino, Frank Sivero, Tonay Darrow, Mike Starr, Frank Vincent, Chuck Low
Released by: Warner
Date: 1990, 146 minutes. Color.
Based on: Wiseguy, by Nicholas Pileggi ().
The Grifters
Director: Stephen Frears
Screenplay: Donald Westlake
Producers: Martin Scorsese, Robert Harris
Music: Elmer Bernstein
Photography: Oliver Stapleton
Editor: Mick Audsley
Cast: Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening, Pat Hingle, Henry Jones,
Michael Laskin, Eddie Jones, J. T. Walsh, Charles Napier
Released by: Palace/Cineplex
Date: 1990, 110 minutes, Color.
Based on: The Grifters, by Jim Thompson.
Hammett
Director: Wim Wenders
Screenplay: Ross Thomas, Dennis O¹Flaherty
Producer: Francis Coppola
Music: John Barry
Photography: Philip Lathrop, Joseph Biroc
Editors: Barry Malkin, Marc Laub, Robert Q. Lovett, Randy Roberts
Visual Effects:
Cast: Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner, Roy Kinnear, Elisha Cook, Jr.,
R. G. Armstrong, Richard Bradford, Sylvia Sidney, Royal Dano, Samuel Fuller
Released by: Orion/Zoetrope
Date: 1982, 97 minutes. Color.
Based on: Hammett, by Joe Gores ().
Hard-Boiled
Director: John Woo
Screenplay: Barry Wong
Story: John Woo
Producers: Linda Kuk, Terence Chang
Music: Michael Gibbs, James Wong
Photography: Wang Wing-Heng
Editor: John Woo, David Wu, Kai Kit-Wai, Jack
Visual Effects:
Cast: Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung, Teresa Mo, Philip Chan, Philip Kwok,
Anthony Wong, Kwan Hoi-Shan, Tung Wai, Y. Yonemura
Released by: Golden Princess/Milestone
Date: 1992, 126 minutes. Color.
Based on:
Harper
Director: Jack Smight
Screenplay: William Goldman
Producer:
Music: Johnny Mandel
Photography: Conrad Hall
Visual Effects:
Cast: Paul Newman (Lew Harper), Lauren Bacall, Arthur Hill, Julie Harris,
Robert Wagner, Janet Leigh, Shelley Winters, Pamela Tiffin, Robert Wagner,
Robert Webber, Strother Martin
Released by: Warner/Gershwin-Kastner
Date: 1966, 121 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Moving Target, by Ross Macdonald (19).
In the Heat of the Night Oscar, Edgar
Director: Norman Jewison
Screenplay: Sterling Silliphant Oscar
Producer: Walter Mirisch
Music: Quincy Jones
Photography: Haskell Wexler
Editor: Hal Ashby Oscar
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger Oscar, Warren Oates, Quentin Dean,
Willam Schallert
Released by: UA/Mirisch
Date: 1967, 109 minutes. Color.
The Killers
Director: Robert Siodmak
Screenplay: Anthony Veiller
Producer: Mark Heilinger
Music: Miklos Rozsa
Photography: Elwood Bredel
Visual Effects:
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Edmond O¹Brien, Ava Gardner, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene,
John Miljan, Virginia Christine, Vince Barnett, Charles D. Brown, Donald MacBride,
Phil Brown, Charles McGraw, William Conrad
Released by: U-I
Date: 1946, 105 minutes. B & W.
Based on: The Killers, by Ernest Hemingway ().
Klute
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Screenplay: Andy K. Lewis, Dave Lewis
Producer: Alan J. Pakula
Music: Michael Small
Photography: Gordon Willis
Visual Effects:
Cast: Jane Fonda Oscar, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider,
Rita Gam
Released by: Warner
Date: 1971, 114 minutes. Color.
Based on:
The Lady in the Lake
Director: Robert Montgomery
Screenplay: Steve Fisher
Producer: George Haight
Music: David Snell
Photography: Paul C. Vogel
Visual Effects:
Cast: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Tom Tully, Leon Ames
Released by: MGM
Date: 1946, 103 minutes. B & W.
Based on: The Lady in the Lake, by Raymond Chandler.
Laura
Director: Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian
Screenplay: Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, Betty Reinhardt
Producer: Otto Preminger
Music: David Raksin
Photography: Joseph LaShelle Oscar
Visual Effects:
Cast: Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb (Waldo Lydecker), Gene Tierney (Laura),
Judith Anderson, Vincent Price, Dorothy Adams, James Flavin
Released by: TCF
Date: 1944, 85 minutes. B & W.
Based on: Laura, by Vera Caspary ().
The Maltese Falcon
Director: Roy del Ruth
Screenplay: Maude Fulton, Lucien Hubbard, Brown Holmes
Producer:
Music:
Photography: William Rees
Visual Effects:
Cast: Ricardo Cortez (Sam Spade), Bebe Daniels, Dudley Digges, Dwight Frye,
Robert Elliott, Thelma Todd, Oscar Apfel
Released by: Warner
Date: 1931, 80 minutes. B & W.
Based on: The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett.
The Maltese Falcon
Director: John Huston
Screenplay: John Huston
Producer: Henry Blanke
Music: Adolph Deutsch
Photography: Arthur Edeson
Visual Effects:
Cast: Humphrey Bogart (Sam Spade), Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Gladys George,
Sydney Greenstreet, Elisha Cook, Jr., Barton MacLane, Lee Patrick, Ward Bond,
Jerome Cowan
Released by: Warner
Date: 1941, 101 minutes. B & W.
Based on: The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett (1931).
Marlowe
Director: Paul Bogart
Screenplay: Stirling Silliphant
Producer: Sergei Petchnikoff
Music: Peter Matz
Photography: William H. Daniels
Visual Effects:
Cast: James Garner (Philip Marlowe), Rita Moreno, Sharon Farrell, Bruce Lee,
Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O¹Connor, William Daniels, Jackie Coogan
Released by: MGM/Katzka-Berne-Cherokee/Beckerman
Date: 1969, 95 minutes. Color.
Based on: The LIttle Sister, by Raymond Chandler ().
Marnie
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay: Jay Presson Allen
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Music: Bernard Herrmann
Photography: Robert Burks
Visual Effects:
Cast: Tippi Hedron, Sean Connery, Martin Gabel, Diane Baker, Louise Latham
Released by: Universal/Geoffrey Stanley Inc.
Date: 1964, 130 minutes. Color.
Based on: Marnie, by Winston Graham ().
Married to the Mob
Director: Jonathan Demme
Screenplay: Barry Strugatz, Mark R. Burns
Producers: Kenneth Utt, Edward Saxon
Music: David Byrne
Photography: Tak Fujimoto
Editor: Craig McKay
Visual Effects:
Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell, Mercedes Ruehl,
Alec Baldwin, Trey Wilson, Joan Cusack
Released by: Rank/Orion/Mysterious Arts
Date: 1988, 103 minutes. Color.
Based on:
Meet Nero Wolfe
Director: Herbert Biberman
Screenplay: Howard J. Green, Bruce Manning, Joseph Anthony
Producer:
Music:
Photography: Henry Freulich
Visual Effects:
Cast: Edward Arnold, Lionel Stander, Joan Perry, Rita Hayworth, Victor Jory,
Nana Bryant, Walter Kingsford, John Qualen
Released by: Columbia
Date: 1936, 73 minutes. BW.
Based on: Fer de Lance, by Rex Stout.
Mission Impossible
Director: Brian De Palma
Screenplay: David Koepp and Robert Towne
Producer:
Music: Lalo Schifrin, Danny Elfman, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen
Visual Effects:
Cast: Tom Cruise (Ethan Hunt), Jon Voight (Jim Phelps), Vanessa Redgrave (Max),
Emmanuelle Béart (Claire), Ving Rhames (Luther), Jean Reno (Krieger),
Henry Czerny,
Released by: Paramount
Date: 1996, minutes. Color.
Based on: Mission: Impossible, 1966-73 TV series on CBS.
Reviewed by: Entertainment Weekly, May 31, 1996.
Moonraker
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Screenplay: Christopher Wood
Producer: Albert R. Broccoli
Music: John Barry
Photography: Jean Tournier
Visual Effects:
Cast: Roger Moore (James Bond), Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Kiel,
Geog=ffrey Keen, Lois Maxwell, Bernard Lee
Released by: UA.Eon
Date: 1979, 126 minutes. Color.
Based on: Moonraker by Ian Fleming ().
Murder My Sweet
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Screenplay: John Paxton
Producer:
Music:
Visual Effects:
Cast: Dick Powell (Philip Marlowe), Claire Trevor, Mike Mazurki, Anne Shirley,
Otto Kruger
Released by:
Date: 1944
Based on: Farewell, My Lovely, by Raymond Chandler (1940).
Murder on the Orient Express
Director: Sidney Lumet
Screenplay: Peter Schaffer
Producer: Paul Dehn
Music:
Visual Effects:
Cast: Albert Finney (Hercule Poirot), Ingrid Bergman Oscar, Lauren Bacall,
Sean Connery, Wendy Hiller, John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark,
Jacqueline Bisset, Michael York, Rachel Roberts, Anthony Perkins
Released by: Paramount
Date: 1974, minutes. Color.
Based on: Murder in the Calais Coach, by Agatha Christie (19).
Never Say Never Again
Director: Irwin Kershner
Screenplay: Lorenzo Semple, Jr.
Producer: Jack Schwartzman
Music: Michel Legrand
Photography: Douglas Slocombe
Visual Effects:
Cast: Sean Connery (James Bond), Klaus Maria Brandauer (Largo), Max von Sydow (Blofeld),
Barbara Carrera (Fatima Blush), Kim Bassinger (Domino), Bernie Casey (Felix Leiter),
Alec McCowan (Q), Edward Fox, Rowan Atkinson
Released by: Warner/Woodcote/Taliafilm
Date: 1983, 134 minutes. Color.
Based on:Characters created by Ian Fleming
North by Northwest
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay: Ernest Lehman
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Music: Bernard Herrmann
Photography: Robert Burks
Editor: George Tomaini
Visual Effects:
Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Leo G. Carroll, Martin Landau,
Jessie Royce Landis, Adam Williams
Released by: MGM
Date: 1959, 136 minutes. Color.
Based on:
Notorious
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay:
Producer:
Music:
Visual Effects:
Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
Released by:
Date:
Based on:
No Way Out
Director: Roger Donaldson
Screenplay:
Producer:
Music:
Visual Effects:
Cast: Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young
Released by:
Date: 1987, minutes. Color.
Based on: The Big Clock, by Kenneth Fearing (1946).
On Her Majesty¹s Secret Service
Director: Peter Hunt
Screenplay: Richard Maibaum
Producers: Harry Saltzman, Albert R. Broccoli
Music: John Barry
Photography: Michael Reed, Egil Woxholt, Roy Ford, John Jordan
Visual Effects:
Cast: George Lazenby (James Bond), Diana Rigg, Tely Savalas, Ilse Steppat,
Gabriele Ferzetti, Yuri Borienko, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell
Released by: UA/Eon/Danilaq
Date: 1969, 140 minutes. Color.
Based on: On Her Majesty¹s Secret Service by Ian Fleming ().
The Pink Panther
Director: Blake Edwards
Screenplay: Maurice Richlin, Blake Edwards
Producer: Martin Jurow
Music:Henry Mancini
Visual Effects/Animation: De Patie-Freleng
Cast: David Niven, Peter Sellers (Inspector Clouseau), Capucine, Claudia Cardinale,
Robert Wagner, Brenda de Banzie, Colin Gordon
Released by: UA/Mirisch
Date: 1963, 113 minutes. Color.
Based on:
Sequels:
---A Shot in the Dark, 1964.
---Inspector Clouseau, 1968.
---The Return of the Pink Panther, 1974.
---The Pink Panther Strikes Again, 1976.
---The Revenge of the Pink Panther, 1978.
---Curse of the Pink Panther, 1983.
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Director: Bob Rafelson
Screenplay: David Mamet
Producers: Charles Mulvehill and Bob Rafelson
Music: Michael Small
Editor: Graeme Clifford
Visual Effects:
Cast: Jack Nicholson (Frank Chambers), Jessica Lange (Cora Papadakis), John Colicos (Nick Papadakis),
Michael Lerner (Katz), John P. Ryan (Kennedy), Anjelica Huston (Madege)
Released by: Lorimar/Northstar International
Date: 1981, 121 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain ().
Prizzi¹s Honor
Director: John Huston
Screenplay: Richard Condon, Janet Roach
Producer: John Foreman
Music: Alex North
Photography: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Editors: Rudi Fehr and Kaja Fehr
Visual Effects:
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Anjelica Huston Oscar,
Robert Loggia, William Hickey, John Randoph
Released by: ABD/John Foreman
Date: 1985, 129 minutes. Color.
Based on: Prizzi¹s Honor, Richard Condon ().
Psycho
Director: Alfred Hitchcock, Saul Bass
Screenplay: Joseph Stefano
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Music: Bernard Herrmann
Photography: John L. Russell
Visual Effects:
Cast: Anthony Hopkins (Norman Bates), Janet Leigh, Martin Balsam, Vera Miles,
John Gavin, John McIntire, Simon Oakland
Released by: Shamley/Alfred Hitchcock
Date: 1960, minutes. Color.
Based on: Psycho, by Robert Bloch ().
Sequels:
---Psycho 2, 1983.
---Psycho 3, 1986.
Pulp Fiction
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino
Stories: Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary Oscar
Producer: Lawrence Bender
Music: Karyn Rachtman
Visual Effects:
Photography: Andrzej Sekula
Editor: Sally Menke
Cast: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis,
Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Maria de Medeiros, Ving Rhames,
Eric Stoltz, Rosanna Arquette, Christopher Walken
Released by: Miramax
Date: 1994, 154 minutes. Color. ISBN: 0-7888-0394-8
Based on:
Raffles
Director: Sam Wood
Screenplay: John Van Druten, Sydney Howard
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Music: Victor Young
Photography: Gregg Toland
Visual Effects:
Cast: David Niven, Olivia de havilland, Dudley Digges, May Whitty,
Douglas Walton, Lionel Page, E. E. Clive, Peter Godfrey
Released by: Samuel Goldwyn
Date: 1939, 72 minutes. B &: W.
Based on: Raffles the Amateur Cracksman, by E. W. Hornung ().
Rapid Fire
Director: Dwight H. Little
Screenplay: Alan McElroy
Story: Cindy Cirile, Alan McElroy
Producer: Robert Lawrence
Music: Christopher Young
Photography: Ric Waite
Editor: Gib Jaffe
Visual Effects:
Cast: Brandon Lee, Powers Boothe, Nick Mancuso, Raymond J. Barry,
Kate Hodge, Tzi Ma, Tony Longo, Michael Paul Chan, Dustin Nguyen
Released by: Twentieth Century Fox
Date: 1992, 95 minutes. Color.
Based on:
Rear Window
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay: John Michael Hayes
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Music: Franz Waxman
Photography: Robert Burks
Visual Effects:
Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr, Judith Evelyn, Wendell Corey,
Thelma Ritter
Released by: Alfred Hitchcock
Date: 1954, 112 minuters. Color.
Based on: Rear Window, by Cornell Woolrich ().
Rebecca Oscar
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay: Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison
Producer: David O. Selznick
Music: Franz Waxman
Photography: George Barnes Oscar
Visual Effects:
Cast: Lauence Olivier (Maxim de Winter), Joan Fontaine, George Sanders (Favell), Judith Anderson (Mrs. Danvers),
Nigel Bruce, Gladys Cooper, Florence Bates, Reginald Denny, C. Aubrey Smith,
Melville Cooper, Leo G. Carroll, Leonard Carey
Released by: UA/David O. Selznick
Date: 1940, 130 minutes. B & W.
Based on: Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier ().
The Rock
Director: Michael Bay
Screenplay:
Producesr: Jerry Bruckheimer, Don Simpson
Music:
Visual Effects:
Cast: Sean Connery (Mason), Nicholas Cage (Goodspeed), Ed Harris (General Hummel)
Released by: Hollywood Pictures
Date: 1996, 129 minutes. Color.
Based on:
Rope
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay: Arthur Laurents
Producers: Sidney Bernstein, Alfred Hitchcock
Music: Francis Poulenc
Photography: Joseph Valentine, William V. Skall
Visual Effects:
Cast: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Joan Chandler, Cedric Hardwicke,
Constance Collier, Edith Evanson, Douglas Dick
Released by: Transatlantic
Date: 1948, 80 minutes. Color.
Based on: Rope, a play by Patrick Hamilton ().
The Saint
Director: Phillip Noyce
Screenplay:
Producer:
Music:
Photography:
Visual Effects:
Cast: Val Kilmer (Simon Templar), Elizabeth Shue (Dr. Emma Russell), Rade Serbedzija
Released by: Paramount
Date: 1997, 125 minutes, color.
Based on: character by Leslie Charteris
The Saint in London
Cast: George Sanders (Simon Templar)
Date: 1939
The Saint in New YorK
Cast: Louis Hayward (Simon Templar)
Date: 1938
The Saint in Palm Springs
Cast: George Sanders (Simon Templar)
Date: 1941
The Saint Meets the Tiger
Cast: Hugh Sinclair (Simon Templar)
Date: 1938
The Saint's Vacation
Cast: Hugh Sinclair (Simon Templar)
Date: 1941
The Saint's Double Trouble
Cast: George Sanders (Simon Templar)
Date: 1940
The Saint's Girl Friday
Cast: Louis Hayward (Simon Templar)
Date: 1953
The Saint Strikes Back
Cast: George Sanders (Simon Templar)
Date: 1939
The Saint Takes Over
Cast: George Sanders (Simon Templar)
Date: 1940
The Seven Per Cent Solution
Director: Herbert Ross
Screenplay: Nicholas Meyer
Producer: Herbert Ross
Music: John Addison
Photography: Oswald Morris
Visual Effects:
Cast: Nicol Williamson, Robert Duvall, Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave,
Laurence Olivier, Jeremy Kemp, Smantha Eggar, Joel Grey, Charles Gray,
Georgia Brown, Regine
Released by: Universal
Date: 1976, 114 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Seven Per Cent Solution, by Nicholas Meyer (1974).
A Shot in the Dark
Director: Blake Edwards
Screenplay: Blake Edwards, William Peter Blatty
Producer: Blake Edwards
Music: Henry Mancini
Photography:Christopher Challis
Visual Effects:
Cast: Peter Sellers (Inspector Clouseau), Elke Sommers, George Sanders, Herbert Lom,
Tracy Reed, Graham Stark
Released by: UA.Mirisch/Geoffrey
Date: 1964, 101 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Pink Panther, 1963.
The Silence of the Lambs Oscar
Director: Jonathan Demme Oscar
Screenplay: Ted Tally Oscar
Producers: Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman
Music: Howard Shore
Photography: Tak Fujimoto
Editor: Craig McKay
Visual Effects:
Cast: Jodie Foster (Clarice Starling) Oscar, Anthony Hopkins (Hannibal Lecter) Oscar,
Scott Glenn, Ted levine, Anthony Heald, Lawrence A. Bonney, Kasi Lemmons,
Lawrence J. Wrentz, Frankie Faison, Rogert Corman
Released by: Rank/Orion/Strong Heart/Demme
Date: 1990, 118 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris (1988).
Sleepers West
Cast: Lloyd Nolan (Mike Shayne)
Based on: Sleepers East, by Frederick Nebel.
The Third Man
Director: Carol Reed
Screenplay: Graham Greene
Producer: Carol Reed
Music: Anton Karas
Photography: Robert Krasker Oscar
Editor: Oswald Hafenrichter
Visual Effects:
Cast: Joseph Cotton (Holly Martin), Orson Welles (Harry Lime), Trevor Howard,
Alida Valli, Beranrd Lee, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Ernst Deutsch, Siegfried Breuer, Erich Ponto, Paul Hoerbiger
Released by: British Lion/London Films/David O. Selznick/Alexander Korda
Date:1949, 100 minutes. B & W.
Based on:
Thunderball
Director: Terence Young
Screenplay: Richard Maibaum, John Hopkins
Producer: Kevin McClory
Music: John Barry
Photography: Ted Moore
Visual Effects: John Stears Oscar
Cast: Sean Connery (James Bond), Adolfo Celi, Claudine Auger, Luciana Paluzzi,
Rik Van Nutter, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Martine Beswick
Released by: UA/Eon
Date: 1965, 132 minutes. Color.
Based on: Thunderball, by Ian Fleming (1961).
To Die For
Director: Gus Van Sant
Screenplay: Buck Henry
Producer:
Music:
Visual Effects:
Cast: Nicole Kidman
Released by: Columbia
Date: 1995, minutes. Color.
Based on:
The Untouchables
Director: Brian de Palma
Screenplay: David Mamet
Producer: Art Linson
Music: Ennio Morricone
Photography: Stephen H. Burum
Editors: Jerry Greenberg, Bill Pankow
Visual Effects:
Cast: Kevin Costner (Elliot Ness), Sean Connery Oscar, Robert de Niro,
Charles martin Smith, Andy Garcia, Richard Bradford
Released by: Paramount/Art Linson
Date: 1987, 119 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Untouchables, by Elliot Ness (19).
The Usual Suspects
Director:
Screenplay: Chirstopher Mcquarrie
Producer:
Music:
Visual Effects:
Cast: Kevin Spacey
Released by: Gramercy Pictures/Polygram Bad Hat Harry/Blue Parrot
Date: 1995, minutes. Color.
Based on:
Vertigo
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay: Alec Coppel, Samuel Taylor
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Music: Bernard Herrmann
Photography: Robert Burks
Visual Effects:
Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones
Released by: Paramount
Date: 1958, 128 minutes. Color.
Based on: D¹entre les Morts, by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac ().
V. I. Warshawski
Director: Jeff Kanew
Screenplay: Edward Taylor, David Aaron Cohen, Nick Thiel
Producer: Jeffrey Lurie
Music: Randy Edelman
Photography: Jan Kiesser
Editor: C. Timothy O¹Meara, Debra Neil
Visual Effects:
Cast: Kathleen Turner (V. I. Warshawsky), Jay O. Sanders, Charles Durning,
Angela Beothals, Nacy Paul, Frederick Coffin, Charles McCaughan, Stephen Meadows,
Wayne Knight
Released by: Warner/Hollywood Pictures/Silver Screen Partners IV/Chestnut Hill
Date: 1991, 89 minutes. Color.
Based on: Indemnity Only, by Sara Paretsky (1982).
You Only Live twice
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Screenplay: Roald Dahl
Producer: Harry Saltzman, Albert R. Broccoli
Music: John Barry
Photography: Freddie Young, Bob Huke
Visual Effects:
Cast: Sean Connery (James Bond), Tetsuro Tamba, Akiko Wakabayashi,
Mie Hama, Karin Dor, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewellyn, Charles Grey,
Donald Pleasance
Released by: UA/Eon
Date: 1867, 117 minutes. Color.
Based on: You Only Live Twice, by Ian Fleming ().
