Hammett
Director: Wim Wenders
Screenplay: Ross Thomas, Dennis O'Flaherty
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 ().
Hannibal
Director: Ridley Scott
Screenplay: Steven Zaillian, Thomas Harris, Ridley Scott, and David Mamet
Producer: Dino De Laurentiis, Martha Schumacher, Branko Lustig
Music: Hans Zimmer, Patrick Cassidy
Photography: John Mathiesen
Editor: Pietro Scalia
Cast: Anthony Hopkins (Hannibal Lecter/Dr. Fell), Julianne Moore (Clarice Starling),
Gary Oldman (Mason Verger), Ennio Coltorti (Ricci), Robert Rieti (Sogliato),
Ray Liotta (Paul Krendler), Frankie R. Faison (Barney), Giancarlo Giannini (Rinaldo Pazzi),
Francesca Neri (Laura Pazzi), Danielle De Niesse (Beatrice), Alex Corrado (Piero Falcione),
Spike Jonze (Donnie Barber)
Released by: MGM/Universal/Dino De Laurentiis
Date: 2001, 120 minutes. Color.
Based on: Hannibal, by Thomas Harris (1999).
Review by: The New Yorker, February 12, 2001.
Review by: Entertainment Weekly, #581, February 9, 2001.
Sequel to: The Silence of the Lambs, directed by Jonathan Demme (1990).
Also see: Manhunter, directed by Michael Mann (1986).
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
Producers: Jerry Gershwin and Elliott Kastner
Music: Johnny Mandel, André Previn
Photography: Conrad Hall
Editor: Stefan Arnsten
Cast: Paul Newman (Lew Harper), Lauren Bacall (Elaine Sampson),
Arthur Hill (Albert Graves), Julie Harris (Betty Fraley),
Robert Wagner (Allan Taggert), Janet Leigh (Susan Harper), Shelley Winters (Fay Estabrook),
Pamela Tiffin (Miranda Sampson), Robert Webber (Dwight Troy), Strother Martin (Claude)
Released by: Warner/Gershwin-Kastner
Date: 1966, 121 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Moving Target, by Ross Macdonald (1949).
Hart's War
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Screenplay: Billy Ray and John Katzenbach
Producers: David Foster, Gregory Hoblit, David Ladd, Arnlld Rifkin
Music: Rachel Portman
Photography: Alar Kivilo
Editor: David Rosenbloom
Visual Effects: OCS/Freeze Frame/Pixel Image
Cast: Bruce Willis (Colonel William McNamara), Colin Farrell (Lieutenant Tommy Hart),
Terrence Dashon Howard (Lieutenant Lincoln Scott), Cole Hauser (Bedford),
Marcel Iures (SS Major Wilhelm Visser), Rick Ravanello (Major Joe Clary),
Brad Hunt (Cookie), Vicellous Reon Shannon (Lamar Archer)
Released by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Date: 2002, 120 minutes. Color.
Based on: Hart's War, by John Katzenbach.
Web Site: Hart's War
The Heart of the Matter
Director: George More O'Ferrall
Screenplay: Ian Dalrymple and Lesley Storm
Producer: Ian Dalrymple
Music: Brian Easdale
Photography: Jack Hildyard
Cast: Trevor Howard, Maria Schell, Elizabeth Allan, Denholm Elliott,
Peter Finch, Gérard Oury, George Coulouris, Earl Cameron, Michael Hordern,
Colin Gordon, Cyril Raymond, Orlando Martins
Released by: British Lion/London Films
Date: 1953, 105 minutes. B & W.
Based on: The Heart of the Matter, by Graham Greene (1948).
High Anxiety
Director: Mel Brooks
Screenplay: Mel Brooks, Ron Clark, Rudy DeLuca, and Barry Levinson
Producer: Mel Brooks
Music: John Morris
Photography: Paul Lohmann
Cast: Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman,
Harvey Korman, Ron Carey, Howard Morris, Dick Van Patten
Released by: Twentieth Century Fox/Crossbow
Date: 1977, 94 minutes. Color.
Based on: Vertigo, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (1958).
High Crimes
Director: Carl Franklin
Screenplay: Yuri Zeltser, Grace Cary Bickley
Producer: Arnon Milchan, Janet Yang, Jesse Beaton
Music: Graeme Revell
Photography: Theo van de Sande
Editing: Carole Kravetz-Aykanian
Cast: Ashley Judd (Claire Kubik/Grimaldi), Morgan Freeman (Grimes),
James Caviezel (Ronald Kubik/Chapman), Amanda Peet (Jackie Grimaldi),
Adam Scott (Lt. Terrence Embry), Juan Carlos Hernandez (Major Hernandez),
Michael Gaston (Major Waldron), Bruce Davison (Brig. Gen. William Marks).
Emilio Rivera (Salvadoran Man)
Released by: Manifest Film/Monarch/New Regency/Twentieth Century Fox
Date: 2002, 120 minutes. Color.
Based on: High Crimes, by Joseph Finder.
Home Sweet Homicide
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Screenplay: F. Hugh Herbert
Producer: Twentieth Century Fox
Music: David Buttolph
Photography: John Seitz
Cast: Lynn Bari, Randolph Scott, Peggy Ann Garner, Connie Marshall,
Dean Stockwell, Barbara Whiting
Released by: Twentieth Century Fox
Date: 1946, 90 minutes. B & W.
Based on: Home Sweet Homicide, by Craig Rice (1944).
The Hound of the Baskervilles *
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Screenplay: Ernest Pascal
Producer: Gene Markey
Music: Cyril Mockridge
Photography: Pevrell Marley
Cast: Basil Rathbone (Sherlock Holmes), Nigel Bruce (Dr. John H. Watson),
Richard Greene (Sir Henry Baskerville), Wendy Barrie (Beryl Stapleton),
Lionel Atwill (Dr. Mortimer), John Carradine (Barryman), Morton Lowry,
Barlowe Borland, Beryl Mercer, Ralph Forbes, E. E. Clive, Eily Malyon, Mary Gordon
Released by: Twentieth Century Fox
Date: 1939, 80 minutes. B & W.
Based on: The Hound of the Baskervilles, by ArthurConan Doyle (1901).
Sequels:
...The Adventures of Sherlock Homes, 1939.
...Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror, 1942.
...Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon, 1942.
...Sherlock Holmes in Washington, 1943.
...Sherlock Holmes Faces Death, 1943.
...The Spider Woman, 1944.
...The Scarlet Claw, 1944.
...The Pearl of Death, 1944.
...The House of Fear, 1945.
...The Woman in Green, 1945.
...Pursuit to Algiers, 1945.
...Terror by Night, 1946.
...Dressed to Kill, 1946.
House of Cards
Director: John Guillermin
Screenplay: James P. Bonner
Producer: Dick Berg
Music: Francis Lai
Photography: Pietro Portalupi
Cast: George Peppard, Inger Stevens, Orson Welles, Keith Mitchell, William Job,
Maxine Audley, Peter Bayliss
Released by: Universal/Westward
Date: 1968, 100 minutes. Color.
Based on: House of Cards, by Stanley Ellin.
House of Numbers
Director: Russel Rouse
Screenplay: Russel Rouse, Don M. Mankiewicz
Producer: Charles Schnee
Music: André Previn
Photography: George J. Folsey
Cast: Jack Palance, Barbara Lang, Harold J. Stone, Edward Platt
Released by: MGM
Date: 1957, 92 minutes. B & W.
Based on: House of Numbers, by Jack Finney.
In Like Flint
Director: Gordon Douglas
Screenplay: Hal Fimberg
Producer: Saul David
Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Photography: William Daniels
Cast: James Coburn (Flint), Lee J. Cobb, Jean Hale, Andrew Duggan, Anna Lee
Released by: Twentieth Century Fox
Date: 1967, 107 minutes. Color.
Based on: Our Man Flint, directed by Daniel Mann (1965).
Insomnia
Director: Christopher Nolan
Screenplay: Nikolaj Frobenius, Erik Skjoldbjærg, Hillary Seitz
Producers: Broderick Johnson, Paul Junger Witt, Andrew A. Kosove, and Edward McConnell
Music: David Julyan
Photography: Wally Pfister
Editor: Dody Dorn
Cast: Al Pacino (Detective Will Dorner), Robin Williams (Walter Finch),
Hilary Swank (Detective Ellie Burr), Martin Donovan (Hap Eckhart),
Katharine Isabelle (Tanya Francke), Jonathan Jackson (Randy Stetz),
Crystal Lowe (Kay Connell)
Released by: Alcon Entertainment/Section Eight Ltd./Witt-Thomas Productions/Warner Brothers
Date: 2002, 118 minutes. Color.
Based on: Insomnia, directed by Erik Skjoldbjærg (1997).
In the Bedroom
Director: Todd Field
Screenplay: Robert Festinger, Todd Field, Andre Dubus
Producers: Todd Field, Ross Katz, Graham Leader
Music: Thomas Newman
Photography: Antonio Calvache
Editor: Frank Reynolds
Cast: Tom Wilkinson (Dr. Matt Fowler), Sissy Spacek (Ruth Fowler),
Nick Stahl (Frank Fowler), Marisa Tomei (Natlie Strout), William Mapother (Richard Strout),
Camden Munson (Jason Strout)
Released by: Good Machine/Greene Street Films/Standard Film Company/Miramax
Date: 2001, 130 minutes. Color.
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.
Intruder in the Dust *
Director: Clarence Brown
Screenplay: Ben Maddow
Producer: Clarence Brown
Music: Adolph Deutsch
Photography: Robert Surtees
Cast: Juano Hernandez, Elizabeth Patterson, David Brian, Claude Jarman, Jr., Porter Hall, Will Geer
Released by: MGM
Date: 1949, 87 minutes. B & W.
Based on: Intruder in the Dust, by William Faulkner (1948).
The Italian Job
Director: F. Gary Gray
Screenplay: Troy Kennedy-Martin, Donna Powers, Wayne Powers
Producer: Donald De Line
Music: John Powell
Photography: Wally Pfister
Editing: Richard Francis-Bruce, Christopher Rouse
Special Effects: Frantic Films, Flash Film Works, Gray Matter FX
Cast: Mark Wahlberg (Charlie Croker), Charlize Theron (Stella Bridger), Edward Norton (Steve Frezelli),
Donald Sutherland (John Bridger), Seth Green (Napster), Jason Statham (Handsome Rob),
Mos Def (Left Ear), Frankie G (Wrench)
Released by: Paramount/De Line Pictures/Working Title/
Date: 2002, 104 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Italian Job, by Troy Kennedy-Martin (1969).
Key Largo
Director: John Huston
Screenplay: Richard Brooks and John Huston
Producer: Jerry Wald
Music: Max Steiner
Photography: Karl Freund
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Claire Trevor (Oscar),
Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Gomez, Marc Lawrence
Released by: Warner
Date: 1948, 101 minutes. B & W.
Based on: Key Largo, play by Maxwell Anderson (1939)..
Also see: To Have and Have Not
The Killers (aka A Man Alone)
Director: Robert Siodmak
Screenplay: Anthony Veiller and John Huston
Producer: Mark Heilinger
Music: Miklos Rozsa
Photography: Elwood Bredell
Editor: Arthur Hilton
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Edmond O'Brien, 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: Universal-International
Date: 1946, 105 minutes. B & W.
Based on: The Killers, by Ernest Hemingway ().
The Killers
Director: Don Siegel
Screenplay: Gene L. Coon
Producer: Don Siegel
Music: Johnny Williams
Photography: Richard L. Rawlings
Editor: Richard Belding
Cast: John Cassavetes, Lee Marvin, Clu Gulager, Angie Dickinson,
Ronald Reagan, Claude Akins
Released by: Universal-International
Date: 1964, 95 minutes. Color.
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:
Lady for a Day **
Director: Frank Capra
Screenplay: Robert Riskin
Producer: Frank Capra
Photography: Joseph Walker
Cast: May Robson, Warren William, Guy Kibbee, Glenda Farrell, Ned Sparks,
Jean Parker, Walter Connolly, Nat Pendleton
Released by: Columbia
Date: 1933, 95 minutes. B & W.
Based on: Madame La Gimp, by Damon Runyon.
Remade as: Pocketful of Miracles, 1961.
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 (1944).
The Lady Vanishes ** New York Critics Award
Director: Alfred Hitchcock New York Critics Award
Screenplay: Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder
Producer: Edward Black
Music: Lois Levy
Photography: Jack Cox
Editor: R. E. Dearing
Cast: Margaret Lockwood (Iris Henderson), Michael Redgrave (Gilbert),
Paul Lukas (Dr. Hartz), Dame May Whitty (Miss Froy), Cecil Parker (Mr. Todhunter),
Linden Travers ("Mrs." Todhunter), Naunton Wayne (Caldicott),
Basil Radford (Charters), Catherine Lacy (The Nun), Googie Withers (Blanche),
Sally Stweart (Julie), Emile Boreo (Hotel Manager), Mary Clare (Baroness),
Philip Leaver (Signor Doppo), Zelma Vas Dias (Signora Doppo),
Josephine Wilson (Madame Kummer), Charles Oliver (The Officer),
Kathleen Tremaine (Anna)
Released by: Gaumont British/Gainsborough
Date: 1938, 99 minutes. B & W.
Based on: The Wheel Spins, by Ethel Lina White.
The Last Seduction *
Director: John Dahl
Screenplay: Steve Barancik
Producer: Jonathan Shestack
Music: Joseph Vitarelli
Photography: Jeff Jur
Editor: Eric L. Beason
Cast: Linda Fiorentino (Bridget Gregory/Wendy Kroy), Peter Berg (Mike Swale),
Bill Pullman (Clay Gregory), Bill Nunn (Harlan), J. T. Walsh (Frank Griffith),
Zack Phifer (Gas Station Attendant), Michael Raysses (Phone Sales Rep)
Released by: October Films/Incorporated Television Company
Date: 1994, 110 minutes. Color.
Based on: Body Heat, 1981; Wild Things, 1998.
Laura **
Director: Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian
Screenplay: Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, Betty Reinhardt
Producer: Otto Preminger
Music: David Raksin **
Photography: Joseph LaShelle Oscar
Cast: Dana Andrews (Mark McPherson), Clifton Webb (Waldo Lydecker), Gene Tierney (Laura Hunt),
Judith Anderson (Ann Treadwell), Vincent Price (Shelby Carpenter), Dorothy Adams (Bessie), James Flavin
Released by: Twentieth Century Fox
Date: 1944, 85 minutes. B & W.
Based on: Laura, by Vera Caspary (1943).
Legally Blonde
Director: Robert Luketic
Screenplay: Amanda Brown, Karen McCullah Lutz, Kirsten Smith
Producers: Ric Kidney, Marc E. Platt
Music: Rolfe Kent
Photography: Anthony B. Richmond
Editors: Anita Brandt-Burgoyne, Garth Craven
Cast: Reese Witherspoon (Elle Woods), Luke Wilson (Emmett Richmond), Selma Blair (Vivian Kensington),
Matthew Davis (Warner Huntington III), Victor Garber (Professor Callahan), Jennifer Coolidge (Paulette Bonafonte),
Holland Taylor (Professor Stromwell), Ali Larter (Brooke Taylor-Windham), Jessica Cauffiel (Margot),
Alanna Ubach (Serena)
Released by: Metro-Goldwin-Meyer
Date: 2001, 96 minutes. Color.
Based on: Legally Blonde, by Amanda Brown.
The Lemon Drop Kid
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Screenplay: Edmund Hartmann, Frank Tashlin, and Robert O'Brien
Producer: Robert A. Welch
Music: Victor Young
Photography: Daniel L. Fapp
Cast: Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Lloyd Nolan, Jane Darwell,
Andrea King, Fred Clark, Jay C. Flippen, William Frawley, Harry Bellaver
Released by: Paramount
Date: 1951, 91 minutes. B & W.
Based on: The Lemon Drop Kid, by Damon Runyon.
Lethal Weapon
Director: Richard Donner
Screenplay: Shane Black
Producer: Richard Donner, Joel Silver
Music: Michael Kamen, Eric Clapton
Photography: Stephen Goldblatt
Cast: Mel Gibson (Martin Riggs), Danny Glover (Roger Murtaugh), Gary Busey,
Mitchell Ryan, Tom Atkins, Darlene Love
Released by: Warner
Date: 1987, 110 minutes. Color.
Web site: Lethal Weapon 4
Lethal Weapon 2
Director: Richard Donner
Screenplay: Jeffrey Boam
Story: Shane Black, Warren Murphy
Producer: Richard Donner, Joel Silver
Music: Michael Kamen, Eric Clapton, David Sanborn
Photography: Stephen Goldblatt
Editor: Stuart Baird
Cast: Mel Gibson (Martin Riggs), Danny Glover (Roger Murtaugh), Joe Pesci (Leo Getz),
Joss Ackland, Patsy Kensit, Derrick O&39;Connor
Released by: Warner/Silver Pictures
Date: 1989, 111 minutes. Color.
Based on: Lethal Weapon
Web site: Lethal Weapon 4
Lethal Weapon 3
Director: Richard Donner
Screenplay: Jeffrey Boam, Robert Mark Kamen
Producer: Richard Donner, Joel Silver
Music: Michael Kamen, Eric Clapton, David Sanborn
Photography: Jan de Bont
Editor: Robert Brown, Battle Davis
Cast: Mel Gibson (Martin Riggs), Danny Glover (Roger Murtaugh), Joe Pesci (Leo Getz),
Rene Russo (Lorna COle), Stuart Wilson, Steve Kahan, Darlene Love, Traci Wolfe
Released by: Warner/Silver Pictures
Date: 1992, 118 minutes. Color.
Based on: Lethal Weapon
Web site: Lethal Weapon 4
Lethal Weapon 4
Director:
Screenplay:
Producer:
Music:
Photography:
Visual Effects:
Cast: Mel Gibson (Martin Riggs), Danny Glover (Roger Murtaugh), Joe Pesci (Leo Getz),
Rene Russo (Lorna Cole), Jet Li (Wah Sing Ku), Chris Rock (Lee Butters)
Released by:
Date: 1998, 100 minutes. Color.
Based on: Lethal Weapon
Web site: Lethal Weapon 4
Licence to Kill
Director: John Glen
Screenplay: Michael G. Wilson and Richard Malbaum
Producers: Albert R. Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson
Music: Michael Kamen
Photography: Alec Mills
Editor: John Grover
Cast: Timothy Dalton (James Bond), Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Talisa Soto,
Anthony Zerbe, Frank McRae, Everett McGill, Wayne Newton, Benicio del Toro
Released by: UIP/United Artists/Danjaq
Date: 1989, 133 minutes. Color.
Based on: James Bond, character created by Ian Fleming.
Web Site: James Bond
Series: Other movies in the series
Little Miss Marker
Director: Alexander Hall
Screenplay: William R. Lipman, Sam Hellman, Gladys Lehman
Story: Damon Runyon
Producer: B. P. Schulberg
Music: Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger
Photography: Alfred Gilks
Cast: Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou, Dorothy Dell, Charles Bickford,
Lynne Overman, Frank McGlynn, Sr., Willie Best
Released by: Paramount
Date: 1934, 80 minutes. B & W.
Little Miss Marker
Director: Walter Bernstein
Screenplay: Walter Bernstein
Producer: Jennings Lang
Music: Henry Mancini
Photography: Philip Lathrop
Cast: Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis, Bob Newhart,
Sara Stimson, Lee Grant, Brian Dennehy
Released by: Universal
Date: 1980, 103 minutes. Color.
Based on: Little Miss Marker, directed by Alexander Hall (1934).
Live and Let Die
Director: Guy Hamilton
Screenplay: Tom Mankiewicz
Producer: Harry Saltzman
Music: George Martin (Song: Live and Let Die, by Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney)
Photography: Ted Moore
Titles: Maurice Binder
Cast: Roger Moore (James Bond), Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, Clifton James,
David Hedison, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell
Released by: United Artists/Eon
Date: 1973, 121 minutes. Color.
Based on: Live and Let Die, by Ian Fleming (1955).
Web Site: James Bond
Series: Other movies in the series
The Living Daylights
Director: John Glen
Screenplay: Richard Malbaum and Michael G. Wilson
Producers: Albert R. Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson
Music: John Barry
Photography: Alec Mills
Cast: Timothy Dalton (James Bond), Maryam d'Abo, Jeroen Krabbe,
Joe Don Baker, John Rhys-Davies, Art Malik, Robert Brown
Released by: MGM-United Artists/Eon
Date: 1987, 130 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Living Daylights, by Ian Fleming (1966).
Web Site: James Bond
Series: Other movies in the series
The Long Goodbye
Director: Robert Altman
Screenplay: Leigh Brackett
Producer: Jerry Bick
Music: John T. Williams
Photography: Vilmos Zsigmond
Cast: Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden,
Mark Rydell, Henry Gibson
Released by: United Artists/Lions Gate
Date: 1973, 111 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler (1953).
L. A. Confidential
Director: Curtis Hanson
Screenplay: Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland Oscar
Producer: Arnon Milchan, Curtis Hanson, Michael Nathanson
Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Photography: Dante Spinotti
Editor: Peter Honess
Cast: Russell Crowe (Bud White), Kim Basinger (Lynn Bracken) Oscar, Guy Pearce (Ed Exley),
Kevin Spacey (Jack Vincennes), Danny DeVito (Sid Hudgens), James Cromwell
Released by: Warner Brothers
Date: 1997, 100 minutes. Color.
Based on: L. A. Confidential, by James Ellroy (1990).
Reviewed by: Newsweek, September 22, 1997.
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
Cast: Humphrey Bogart (Sam Spade), Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Gladys George,
Sydney Greenstreet, Elisha Cook, Jr., Barton MacLane, Lee Patrick, Ward Bond,
Jerome Cowan, Walter Huston (Captain Jacobi)
Released by: Warner
Date: 1941, 101 minutes. B & W. ISBN: 0-7928-3455-0
Based on: The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett (1931).
The Man Who Wasn't There
Director: Joel Coen
Screenplay: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Producer: Ethan Coen
Music: Carter Burwell
Photography: Roger Deakins
Editors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Tricia Cooke
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton (Ed Crane), Frances McDormand (Doris Crane),
James Gandolfini (David Allen Brewster), Tony Shalhoub (Freddy Riedenschneider),
Katherine Borowitz (Ann Nirdlinger), Michael Badalucco (Frank Raffo),
Scartlett Johansson (Rachael "Birdy" Abundas), Richard Jenkins (Walter Abundas)
Released by: Good Machine/The KL Line/USA Films
Date: 2001, 116 minutes. B & W.
The Man with the Golden Gun
Director: Guy Hamilton
Screenplay: Richard Malbaum and Tom Mankiewicz
Producer: Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli
Music: John Barry
Photography: Ted Moore and Oswald Morris
Cast: Roger Moore (James Bond), Britt Ekland, Maud Adams, Christopher Lee,
Hervé Villechaize, Clifton James, Richard Loo, Marc Lawrence
Released by: United Artists/Eon
Date: 1974, 125 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Man with the Golden Gun, by Ian Fleming (1965).
Web Site: James Bond
Series: Other movies in the series
Manhunter
Director: Michael Mann
Screenplay: Michael Mann
Producer: Richard A Roth
Music: Michel Rubini
Photography: Dante Spinotti
Editor: Dov Hoenig
Cast: William L. Petersen (Will Graham), Kim Greist (Molly Graham), Joan Allen (Reba),
Brian Cox (Hannibal Lektor), Dennis Farina (Jack Crawford), David Seaman (Kevin Graham),
Stephen Lang (Freddie Lounds), Benjamin Hendrickson (Dr. Chilton), Michael Talbot (Geehan),
Tom Noonan (Francis Dollarhyde), Dan Butler (Jimmy Price)
Released by: Red Dragon Productions/DEG/Karl-Lorimar/Warner Bros.
Date: 1986, 119 minutes. Color.
Based on: Red Dragon, by Thomas Harris (1981).
Also see: Red Dragon, 2002.
Marlowe
Director: Paul Bogart
Screenplay: Stirling Silliphant
Producer: Sergei Petchnikoff
Music: Peter Matz
Photography: William H. Daniels
Cast: James Garner (Philip Marlowe), Rita Moreno, Sharon Farrell, Bruce Lee,
Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O'Connor, William Daniels, Jackie Coogan
Released by: MGM/Katzka-Berne-Cherokee/Beckerman
Date: 1969, 95 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Little Sister, by Raymond Chandler (1949).
Marnie
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay: Jay Presson Allen
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Music: Bernard Herrmann
Photography: Robert Burks
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
Story and Screenplay: Barry Strugatz, Mark R. Burns
Producers: Kenneth Utt, Edward Saxon
Music: David Byrne
Photography: Tak Fujimoto
Editor: Craig McKay
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.
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. B & W.
Based on: Fer de Lance, by Rex Stout (1934).
Memento *
Director: Christopher Nolan
Screenplay: Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan
Producer: Jennifer Todd, Susanne Todd
Music: David Julyan
Photography: Wally Pfister, Jordan Alan
Editor: Dody Dorn
Cast: Guy Pearce (Leonard Shelby), Carrie-Ann Moss (Natalie), Joe Pantoliano (Teddy),
Mark Boone Junior (Burt), Stephen Tobolowsky (Sammy Jankis), Harriet Sansom Harris (Mrs. Jankis),
Callum Keith Rennie (Dodd), Jorja Fox (Leonard's Wife), Larry Holden (Jimmy Grants)
Released by: I Remember Productions/Newmarket Capital Group
Date: 2001, 113 minutes. Color.
Based on: Memento Mori, by Jonathan Nolan (Esquire, March, 2001.)
Web Site: Memento Images
Miss Congeniality
Director: Donald Petrie
Screenplay: Marc Lawrence, Katie Ford, Caryn Lucas
Story: Marc Lawrence
Producer: Sandra Bullock
Music: Ed Shearmur
Photography: László Kovács
Editor: Billy Weber
Cast: Sandra Bullock (Gracie Hart), Benjamin Bratt (Eric Matthews), Michael Caine (Victor Melling),
Jennifer Gareis (Miss New Jersey), William Shatner (Stan Fields), Candice Bergen (Kathy Morningside),
Heather Burns (Cheryl/Miss Rhode Island), Diedre Quinn (Mary Jo/Miss Texas),
Melissa De Sousa (Karen/Miss New York), Asia De Marcos, John DiResta (Clonsky),
Ernie Hudson (McDonald), Steve Monroe (Frank)
Released by: Castle Rock/Fortis Films/Warner Brothers
Date: 2000, 111 minutes. Color.
Mission Impossible
Director: Brian De Palma
Screenplay: David Koepp and Robert Towne
Producer: Tom Cruise
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 Strickell), Jean Reno (Krieger),
Henry Czerny
Released by: Paramount
Date: 1996, 120 minutes. Color.
Based on: Mission: Impossible, 1966-73 TV series on CBS.
Reviewed by: Entertainment Weekly, May 31, 1996.
Mission Impossible 2
Director: John Woo
Screenplay: Robert Towne
Story: Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga; Michael Tolkin and William Goldman
Producer: Paula Wagner and Tom Cruise
Music: Lalo Schifrin, Limp Bizkit
Photography: Jeffrey L. Kimball
Cast: Tom Cruise (Ethan Hunt), Thandie Newton (Nyah Hall), Dougray Scott (Sean Ambrose),
Ving Rhames (Luther Strickell), Anthony Hopkins
Released by: Paramount
Date: 2000, 126 minutes. Color.
Based on: Mission: Impossible, 1966-73 TV series on CBS.
Compare: Notorious, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (1946).
Compare: To Catch a Thief, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (1955).
Reviewed by: Entertainment Weekly, June 2, 2000.
Reviewed by: The New Yorker, June 5, 2000.
Moonraker
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Screenplay: Christopher Wood
Producer: Albert R. Broccoli
Music: John Barry
Photography: Jean Tournier
Cast: Roger Moore (James Bond), Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Kiel,
Geog=ffrey Keen, Lois Maxwell, Bernard Lee
Released by: United Artists/Eon
Date: 1979, 126 minutes. Color.
Based on: Thunderball by Ian Fleming (1961).
Web Site: James Bond
Series: Other movies in the series.
Murder My Sweet
Date: 1944, 95 minutes. B & W.
See Farewell, My Lovely
Based on: Farewell, My Lovely, by
Murder on the Orient Express
Director: Sidney Lumet
Screenplay: Peter Schaffer
Producer: Paul Dehn, Agatha Christie
Music: Richard Rodney Bennett
Photography: Geoffrey Unsworth
Cast: Albert Finney (Hercule Poirot), Ingrid Bergman Oscar (Greta), Lauren Bacall (Mrs. Hubbard),
Sean Connery (Colonel Arbuthnot), Wendy Hiller (Princess Dragomiroff), John Gielgud (Beddoes),
Vanessa Redgrave (Mary Debenham), Richard Widmark (Ratchett),
Jacqueline Bisset (Countess Andrenyi), Michael York (Count Andrenyi),
Rachel Roberts (Hildegarde), Anthony Perkins (McQueen)
Released by: Paramount/G. W. Films/EMI
Date: 1974, 128 minutes. Color.
Based on: Murder in the Calais Coach, by Agatha Christie (1934).
