The Saint
Director: Phillip Noyce
Screenplay: Jonathan Hensleigh
Producers: David Brown, Robert Evans, William J. MacDonald, Mace Neufeld
Music: Graeme Revell
Photography: Phil Meheux
Editor: Terry Rawlings
Cast: Val Kilmer (Simon Templar), Elizabeth Shue (Dr. Emma Russell),
Rade Serbedzija (Ivan Tretiak), Valeri Nikolayev (Ilya Tretiak), Henry Goodman (Dr. Lev Botman),
Alun Armstrong (Inspector Teal), Charlotte Cornwell (Inspector Rabineau), Yevgeni Lazarev (President Karpov)
Released by: Paramount
Date: 1997, 116 minutes. Color.
Based on: character created 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 Score
Director: Frank Oz, Robert De Niro
Screenplay: Kario Salem, Lem Dobbs, and Scott Marshall Smith
Story: Daniel E. Taylor and Kario Salem
Producers: Gary Foster, Lee Rich
Music: Howard Shore
Photography: Rob Hahn
Editor: Richard Pearson
Cast: Robert De Niro (Nick), Edward Norton (Jack/Brian), Marlon Brando (Max),
Angela Bassett (Diane), Gary Farmer (Burt), Jamie Harrold (Steven), Paul Soles (Danny),
Serge Houde (Laurent), Jean-René Ouellet (Andre), Martin Drainville (Jean-Claude),
Richard Waugh (Sapperstein), Cassandra Wilson (Cassandra Wilson), Mose Allison (Mose Allison)
Released by: Eagle Point Production/Horseshoe Bay Productions/Mandalay Pictures/Paramount Pictures
Date: 2001, 120 minutes. Color.
Sea of Love *
Director: Harold Becker
Screenplay: Richard Price
Producers: Martin Bergman and Louis A. Stroller
Music: Trevor Jones
Photography: Ronnie Taylor
Editor: David Bretherton
Cast: Al Pacino (Frank Keller), Ellen Barken (Helen), John Goodman (Sherman), William Hickey (Frank Keller, Sr.),
Richard Jenkins (Gruber), Michael Rooker (Terry), Paul Calderon (Serafino), Christine Estabrook (Gina Gallagher),
Genen Canfield (Struk), Samuel L. Jackson, Jacqueline Brookes
Released by: Universal
Date: 1989, 112 minutes. Color.
The Seven Per Cent Solution
Director: Herbert Ross
Screenplay: Nicholas Meyer
Producer: Herbert Ross
Music: John Addison
Photography: Oswald Morris
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).
The Shadow
Director: James W. Horne
Cast: Victor Jory, Veda Ann Borg, Robert Moore, Robert Fiske,
J. Paul Jones
Released by: Columbia
Date: 1940, serial with 15 episodes. B & W.
Based on: The Shadow, by Maxwell Grant.
The Shadow
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Screenplay: David Koepp
Producers: Martin Bregman, Willi Baer, and Michael S. Bregman
Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Photography: Stephen H. Burum
Editor: Peter Honess
Visual Effects: Alison Savitch
Special Visual Effects: Illusion Arts, Matte World Digital, Fantasy II Film Effects
Cast: Alec Baldwin (The Shadow/Lamont Cranston), John Lane (Shiwan Khan),
Penelope Ann Miller (Margo Lane), Peter Boyle (Moe Shrevnitz), Jonathan Winters (Uncle Barth Wainwright),
Ian McKellen (Reinhardt Lane), Tim Curry (Farley Claymore), Sab Shimono, Max Wright,
Joseph Maher, James Hong
Released by: Universal
Date: 1994, 108 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Shadow, by Walter B. Gibson and others.
Shaft
Director: Gordon Parks
Screenplay: Ernest Tidyman and John D. F. Black
Producer: Joel Freeman
Music: Isaac Hayes
Photography: Urs Furrer
Cast: Richard Roundtree (Shaft), Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John
Released by: MGM/Shaft Productions
Date: 1971, 100 minutes. Color.
Based on: Shaft, by Ernest Tidyman.
Shaft
Director: John Singleton
Screenplay: Richard Price
Story: Shane Salerno, Richard Price, John Singleton
Producers: Scott Rudin and John Singleton
Music: David Arnold and Isaac Hayes
Photography: Donald E. Thorin
Editors: John Bloom, Antonia Van Drimmelen
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson (John Shaft), Christian Bale (Wallace Wade, Jr.),
Vanessa Williams (Carmen), Jeffrey Wright (Peoples Hernandez), Toni Collette (Diane, bartender),
Richard Roundtree (Uncle Shaft), Mekhi Phifer, Dan Hedaya (Jack Roselli), Ruben Santiago-Hudson,
Busta Rhymes (Rasaan), Josef Sommer (Flemming), Dorian Missick, Jennifer Esposito, Will Chase,
Philip Bosco
Released by: Paramount
Date: 2000, 138 minutes. Color.
Based on: Shaft, by Ernest Tidyman.
Shattered *
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Screenplay: Wolfgang Petersen
Producers: Wolfgang Petersen, John Davis, David Korda
Music: Angelo Badalamenti
Photography: Lazlo Kovacs
Editors: Hannes Nikel and Glenn Farr
Cast: Tom Berenger, Greta Scacchi, Bob Hoskins, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer,
Corbin Bernsen, Debi A. Monahan, Bert Robario, Scott Getlin, Kelly Nakahara
Released by: Palace/Capella/Davis Entertainment
Date: 1991, 98 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Plastic Nightmare, by Richard Neely.
The Shawshank Redemption *
Director: Frank Darabont
Screenplay: Frank Darabont
Producer: Niki Marvin
Music: Thomas Newman
Photography: Roger Deakins
Editor: Richard Francis-Bruce
Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler,
Clancy Brown, James Whitmore, Gil Bellows, Mark Rolston, Jeffrey DeMunn
Released by: Rank/Castle Rock
Date: 1994, 142 minutes. Color.
Based on: Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, in Different Seasons, by Stephen King.
Sherlock Holmes
Information on Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce series begins with:
The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1939.
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, Johann Sebastian bach
Photography: Tak Fujimoto
Editor: Craig McKay
Cast: Jodie Foster (Clarice Starling) Oscar, Anthony Hopkins (Hannibal Lecter) Oscar,
Scott Glenn (Jack Crawford), Ted Levine (Jame Gumb), Anthony Heald (Dr. Frederick Chilton),
Lawrence A. Bonney (FBI Instructor), Kasi Lemmons (Ardelia Mapp),
Lawrence J. Wrentz (Agent Burroughs), Frankie Faison (Barney), Roger Corman (FBI Director Hayden Burke)
Released by: Rank/Orion/Strong Heart/Demme/Criterion
Date: 1991, 118 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris (1988).
A Simple Plan *
Director: Sam Raimi
Screenplay: Scott B. Smith
Producers: James Jacks and Adam Schroeder
Music: Danny Elfman
Photography: Alar Kivilo
Editors: Arthur Coburn and Eric L. Breason
Cast: Bill Paxton (Hank Mitchell), Billy Bob Thornton (Jacob Mitchell),
Brent Briscoe (Lou), Bridget Fonda (Sarah Mitchell), Jack Walsh (Tom Butler),
Chelcie Ross (Officer Carl), Becky Ann Baker (Nancy), Gary Cole (Baxter)
Released by: Paramount/Mutual Film Company/Savoy Pictures
Date: 1998, 121 minutes. Color.
Based on: A Simple Plan, by Scott B. Smith.
Web Site: A Simple Plan
Single White Female
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Screenplay: Don Roos
Producer: Barbet Schroeder
Music: Howard Shore
Photography: Luciano Tovoli
Editor: Lee Percy
Cast: Bridget Fonda (Allison Jones), Jennifer Jason Leigh (Hedra Carlson), Steven Weber (Sam Rawson)
Released by: Columbia Pictures/Columbia TriStar
Date: 1992, 107 minutes. Color.
Based on: Single White Female Seeks Same, by John Lutz.
Sisters
Director: Brian de Palma
Screenplay: Brian de Palma and Louisa Rose
Producer: Edward R. Pressman
Music: Bernard Herrmann
Photography: Gregory Sandor
Editor: Paul Hirsch
Cast: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning, Bill Finley,
Lisle Wilson, Barnard Hughes
Released by: British Lion/Pressman-Williams Enterprises
Date: 1973, 92 minutes. Color.
Based on: Psycho, and Vertigo, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (1960,1958).
Sleepers West
Cast: Lloyd Nolan (Mike Shayne)
Based on: Sleepers East, by Frederick Nebel.
A Slight Case of Murder
Director: Steven Schachter
Screenplay: Steven Schachter and William H. Macy
Producers: Mitch Engel, Salli Newman
Music: Mader
Photography: André Pienaar
Editor: Paul Dixon
Cast: William H. Macy (Terry Thorpe), Adam Arkin (Detective Fred Stapelli),
Felicity Huffman (Kit Wannamaker), James Cromwell (John Edgarson),
Julia Campbell (Patricia Stapelli)
Released by: TNT/Time Warner
Date: 1999, 120 minutes. Color.
Based on: A Travesty, by Donald E. Westlake.
Web Site: A Slight Case of Murder
Small Vices *
Director: Robert Markowitz
Screenplay: Robert B. Parker
Producers: David Coatsworth/Michael Brandman/Delia Fine
Music: David Shire
Photography: Ron Garcia
Editor: David Beatty
Cast: Joe Mantegna (Spenser), Marcia Gay Harden (Susan Silverman),
Shiek Mahmud-Bey (Hawk), Vincent Guastaferro (Gino Fish), Laila Robins (Rita Fiore),
Eugene Lipinski (Gray Man/Ruger), Jason Olive (Clint Stapleton), Joanna Miles (Evans),
Dean McDermott (Miles), Marcia Bennett (Mrs. Henderson), R. D. Reid (Quirk),
Oliver Becker (Belson), Lara Rhodes (Glenda), Jeff Clarke (Hunt),
Dave Nichols (Douglas Stapleton), Eve Crawford (Dina Stapleton),
Wood Harris (Ellis Alves), Daniel T. Parker (Farrell), Robert B. Parker (Ives),
Vinny Vella (Vinnie), Vito Rezza (Corsetti)
Released by: A & E
Date: 1999, 110 minutes. Color. AAE-17412
Based on: Small Vices, by Robert B. Parker (1997).
Web Site: A & E
Also: Thin Air, 2000.
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Director: Bille August
Screenplay: Ann Biderman
Story: Peter Hoeg
Producers: Bernd Etchinger and Martin Moszkowicz
Music: Harry Gregson-Williams and Hans Zimmer
Photography: Jorgen Persson
editor: Janus Billeskov-Jansen
Visual Effects: Cinesite/Brad Kuehn
Cast: Julia Ormond (Smilla Jaspersen), Gabriel Byrne (Mechanic),
Richard Harris (Tork), Robert Loggia (Moritz Jaspersen), Clipper Miano (Elias),
Vanessa Redgrave (Elsa Lubing), Tom Wilenson (Loyen), Jim Broadbent (Lagermann),
Emma Croft (Benja), Bob Peck, Jurgen Vogel, Mario Adorf, Ono Fleischer (Inuit Hunter)
Released by: Fox Searchlight/Constantin Film
Date: 1997, 122 minutes. Color.
Based on: Smilla's Sense of Snow, by Peter Hoeg.
Snow Falling on Cedars **
Director: Scott Hicks
Screenplay: Ronald Bass, Scott Hicks
Producers: Ronald Bass, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Harry J. Ufland
Music: James Newton Howard
Photography: Robert Richardson
Editor: Hank Corwin
Visual Effects: Industrial Light and Magic, Sony Pictures Imageworks
Cast: Ethan Hawke (Ishmael Chambers), Youki Kudoh (Hatsue Miyamoto), Rick Yune (Kabuo),
Sam Shepard (Arthur Chambers), Caroline Kava (Helen Chambers),
James Cromwell (Judge Fielding), Max von Sydow (Nels Gudmundsson),
Richard Jenkins (Sheriff Art Moran), James Rebhorn (Alvin Hooks), Eric Thal (Carl Heine, Jr.),
Celia Weston (Etta Heine), Max Wright (Horace Whaley), Arija Bareikis (Susan Marie Heine),
Zeljko Ivanek (Dr. Whitman), Jan Rubes (Ole Jurgensen), Ann Suzuki (Young Hatsue Imada),
Reeve Carney (Young Ishmael Chambers), Daniel von Bargen (Carl Heine, Sr.)
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Zenhichi Miyamoto)
Released by: Universal
Date: 1999, 126 minutes. Color.
Based on: Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson (1994).
The Spanish Prisoner *
Director: David Mamet
Screenplay: David Mamet
Producer: Jean Doumanian
Music: Carter Burwell
Photography: Gabriel Beristain
Editor: Barbara Tulliver
Cast: Campbell Scott (Joe Ross), Ben Gazarra (Mr. Klein), Steve Martin (Jimmy Dell),
Ricky Jay (George), Rebecca Pidgeon (Susan)
Released by: Sony
Date: 1998, 100 minutes. Color.
Speed
Director: Jan De Bont
Screenplay: Graham Yost
Producer: Mark Gordon
Music: Mike Mancina
Photography: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Editor: John Wright
Sound: Gregg Landaker, Steve Maslow, Bob Beemer, David R. R. MacMillan Oscar
Sound Effects Editing: Stephen Hunter Flick Oscar
Cast: Keanu Reeves (Jack Traven), Sandra Bullock (Annie), Dennis Hopper (Howard Payne),
Jeff Daniels (Harry), Joe Morton, Alan Ruck, Glenn Plummer, Richard Lineback,
Beth Grant, Hawthorne James, Carlos Carrasco
Released by: Twentieth Century Fox
Date: 1994, 115 minutes. Color.
Based on:
Speed 2: Cruise Control
Director: Jan De Bont
Screenplay:
Producer:
Music:
Photography:
Visual Effects:
Cast: Sandra Bullock (Annie), Jason Patric (Alex), Willem Dafoe (Geiger), Temeua Morrison, Tim Conway
Released by: Twentieth Century Fox
Date: 1997, 100 minutes. Color.
Based on:
Spider Woman * (aka Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman)
Director: Roy William Neill
Screenplay: Bertram Millhauser
Producer: Roy William Neill
Music: Hans Salter
Photography: Charles Van Enger
Cast: Basil Rathbone (Sherlock Holmes), Nigel Bruce (Dr. Watson),
Gale Sondergaard (Adrea Spedding), Dennis Hoey (Inspector Lestrade),
Mary Gordon (Mrs. Hudson), Vernon Downing, Alec Craig
Released by: Universal Pictures
Date: 1944, 62 minutes. B & W.
Based on: Character: Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Series began with: The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1939.
The Spy Who Loved Me
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Screenplay: Christopher Wood, Richard Malbaum
Producer: Albert R. Broccoli
Music: Marvin Hamlisch (Song: Nobody Does It Better, Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager)
Photography: Claude Renoir
Cast: Roger Moore (James Bond), Barbara Bach, Curt Jurgens, Richard Kiel,
Caroline Munro, Walter Gotell, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Edward de Souza
Released by: United Artists/Eon
Date: 1977, 125 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Spy Who Loved Me, by Ian Fleming (1962).
Web Site: James Bond
Series: Other movies in the series
The Sting Oscar
Director: George Roy Hill Oscar
Screenplay: David S. Ward Oscar
Producer: Tony Bill and Michael S. Phillips
Music: Scott Joplin, arranged by Marvin Hamliisch Oscar
Photography: Robert Surtees
Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning,
Ray Walston, Eileen Brennan
Released by: Universal/Richard Zanuck, David Brown
Date: 1973, 129 minutes. Color.
The Sting 2
Director: Jeremy Paul Kagan
Screenplay: David S. Ward
Producer: Jennings Lang
Music: Lalo Schifrin
Photography: Bill Butler
Cast: Jackie Gleason, Mac Davis, Karl Malden, Oliver Reed, Bert Remsen,
Teri Garr
Released by: Universal
Date: 1983, 102 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Sting, 1973.
Strangers on a Train
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay: Raymond Chandler and Czenzi Ormonde
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Music: Dimitri Tiomkin
Photography: Robert Burks
Cast: Farley Granger, Robert Walker (Bruno), Ruth Roman,
Leo G. Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock, Marion Lorne, Howard St. John,
Jonathan Hale, Laura Elliott
Released by: Warner
Date: 1951, 101 minutes. B & W.
Based on: Strangers on a Train, by Patricia Highsmith.
Sunburn
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
Screenplay: John Daly, Stephen Oliver, and James Booth
Producer: David Korda
Music: John Cameron
Photography: Alex Phillips, Jr.
Cast: Farah Fawcett, Charles Grodin, Art Carney, Joan Collins, William Daniels,
John Hillerman, Eleanor Parker, Keenan Wynn
Released by: Herndale/Bind Films
Date: 1979, 98 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Bind, by Stanley Ellin.
Suspicion **
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay: Samson Raphaelson, Alma Reville, Joan Harrison,
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Music: Franz Waxman
Photography: Harry Stradling
Cast: Joan Fontaine Oscar, Cary Grant, Nigel Bruce, Cedric Hardwicke,
May Whitty, Isabel Jeans, Heather Angel, Leo G. Carroll
Released by: RKO
Date:1941, 99 minutes. B & W.
Based on: Before the Fact, Francis Iles (Anthony Berkeley Cox), 1932.
Related short story: Suspicion, by Dorothy L. Sayers (1933).
Swordfish
Director: Dominic Sena
Screenplay: Skip Woods
Producers: Jonathan D. Krane, Joel Silver, Paul Winze
Music: Paul Oakenfold and Christopher Young
Photography: Paul Cameron
Editor: Stephen E. Rivkin
Cast: John Travolta (Gabriel Shear), Halle Berry (Ginger Knowles), Hugh Jackman (Stanley Jobson),
Sam Shepard (Senator Reisman)
Released by: Warner Brothers/Silver Pictures/Village Roadshow Productions
Date: 2001, 99 minutes. Color.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Director: Anthony Minghella
Screenplay: Anthony Minghella
Producer: William Horberg, Tom Sternberg, Paul Zaentz, Harvey Weinstein
Music: Gabriel Yared (Chet Baker, Bach, etc.)
Photography: John Seale
Editor: Walter Murch
Cast: Matt Damon (Tom Ripley), Gwyneth Paltrow (Marge Sherwood), Jude Law (Dickie Greenleaf),
Cate Blanchett (Meredith Logue), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Freddie Miles),
Jack Davenport (Peter Smith-Kingsley), James Rebhorn (Herbert Greenleaf),
Sergio Rubini (Inspector Roverini), Philip Baker Hall (Alvin MacCarron),
Celia Weston (Aunt Joan), Ivano Marescotti (Superintendent Verrecchia),
Rosario Fiorello (Fausto), Stefania Rocca (Silvana)
Released by: Paramount/Miramax
Date: 1999, 100 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith.
Review: Entertainment Weekly, December 17, 1999.
Review: The New Yorker, December 27, 1999 & January 3, 2000.
Web Site: The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Tailor of Panama
Director: John Boorman
Screenplay: Andrew Davies, John le Carré, and John Boorman
Producers: John Boorman, Kevan Barker
Music: Shaun Davey
Photography: Philippe Rousselot
Editor: Ron Davis
Cast: Pierce Brosnan (Andy Osnard), Geoffrey Rush (Harry Pendel),
Jamiie Lee Curtis (Louisa Pendel), Leonor Varela (Marta), Harold Pinter (Uncle Benny),
Brendan Gleeson (Mickie Abraxas), Catherine McCormack (Francesca)
Released by: Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures
Date: 2001, 109 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Tailor of Panama, by John le Carré.
Theatre of Blood
Director: Douglas Hickox
Screenplay: Anthony Greville-Bell
Producers: John Kohn, Stanley Mann
Music: Michael J. Lewis
Photography: Wolfgang Suschitzky
Cast: Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, Carol Browne, Robert Coote,
Jack Hawkins, Michael Hordern, Arthur Lowe, Robert Morley, Dennis PRice, Diana Dors,
Joan Hickson, Renee Asherson, Mil O'Shea, Eric Sykes
Released by: United Artists/Cineman
Date: 1973, 102 minutes. Color.
The Third Man
Director: Carol Reed
Screenplay: Graham Greene
Producers: David O. Selznick, Alexander Korda, and Carol Reed
Music: Anton Karas
Photography: Robert Krasker Oscar
Editor: Oswald Hafenrichter
Cast: Joseph Cotton (Holly Martin), Orson Welles (Harry Lime), Trevor Howard,
Alida Valli, Bernard 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, 104 minutes. B & W.
Based on: The Third Man, by Graham Greene (1949).
Video Tape: California Video Distributors, 21540 Blythe St., Canoga Park, CA 91304/Phone: 1-800-321-8922
Thin Air
Director: Robert Mandel
Screenplay: Robert B. Parker
Producer: Michael Brandman, Delia Fine, Christine Sacani
Music: David Shire
Photography: Bruce Surtees
Editor: Alex Mackie
Cast: Joe Mantegna (Spencer), Marcia Gay Harden (Susan Silverman), Jon Seda (Luis DeLeon),
Luis Guzman (Chollo), Yancy Butler (Angela Richard/Lisa St. Clair),
Miguel Sandoval (Freddy Santiago), Alex Restrepo (Delrio), David Ferry (Belson)
Released by: A & E
Date: 2000, 100 minutes. Color. AAE-17968
Based on: Thin Air, by Robert B. Parker (1995).
Web Site: A & E
Also: Small Vices, 1999.
The 39 Steps
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay: Charles Bennett and Alma Reville
Producer: Michael Balcon and Ivor Montagu
Music: Hubert Bath and Jack Beaver
Photography: Bernard Knowles
Cast: Robert Donat (Richard Hannay), Madeleine Carroll (Pamela),
Wylie Watson (Mr. Memory), Godfrey Tearle (Professor Jordon), Lucie Mannheim,
Peggy Ashcroft, John Laurie, Helen Haye, Frank Cellier
Released by: Gaumont British
Date: 1935, 81 minutes. B & W.
Based on: The 39 Steps, by John Buchan.
Video Tape: California Video Distributors, 21540 Blythe St., Canoga Park, CA 91304/Phone: 1-800-321-8922
The 39 Steps
Director: Don Sharp
Screenplay: Michael Robson
Producer: James Kenelm Clarke
Music: Ed Welch
Photography: John Coquillon
Cast: Robert Powell, Karen Dotrice, John Mills, Eric Porter, David Warner,
George Baker, Ronald Pickup, Timothy West, Donald Pickering, Andrew Keir,
Robert Flemyng, Miles Anderson
Released by: Rank/Norfolk International
Date: 1978, 102 minutes. Color.
Based on: The 39 Steps, by John Buchan.
The Thomas Crown Affair
Director: Norman Jewison
Screenplay: Alan R. Trustman
Producer: Norman Jewison
Music: Michel Legrand (Oscar for The Windmills of Your Mind)
Photography: Haskell Wexler
Cast: Steve McQueen (Thomas Crown), Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston, Yapher Korro
Released by: United Artists/Mirisch/Simkoe/Solar
Date: 1968, 102 minutes. Color.
The Thomas Crown Affair
Director: John McTiernan
Screenplay: Leslie Dixon and Kurt Wimmer
Story: Alan R. Trustman
Producer: Pierce Brosnan and Beau St. Clair
Music: Bill Conti
Photography: Tom Priestley
Editor: John Wright
Cast: Pierce Brosnan (Thomas Crown), Rene Russo (Catherine Banning), Denis Leary (Michael McCann),
Faye Dunaway (psychiatrist), Ben Gazarra (Andrew Wallace), Frankie Faison, Esther Canadas,
Fritz Weaver, Charles Keating, Mischa Hausserman
Released by: MGM/Irish DreamTime, Inc.
Date: 1999, 120 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Thomas Crown Affair, directed by Norman Jewison (1968).
Website: The Thomas Crown Affair
Throw Momma from the Train
Director: Danny DeVito
Screenplay: Stu Silver
Producer: Larry Brezner
Music: David Newman
Photography: Barry Sonnenfeld
Cast: Billy Crystal, Danny DeVito, Anne Ramsey, Kim Greist,
Kate Mulgrew
Released by: Orion
Date: 1987, 88 minutes. Color.
Based on: Strangers on a Train, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (1951).
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).
Web Site: James Bond
Series: Other movies in the series
Titanic ** Golden Globe, Oscar
Director: James Cameron Golden Globe, Oscar
Screenplay: James Cameron
Producers: Jon Landau, Rae Sanchini, James Cameron
Music: James Horner Golden Globe
Song: My Heart Will Go On, by James Horner/Will Jennings Golden Globe (Celine Dion)
Photography: Russell Carpenter
Visual Effects: Rob Legato
Special Effects: Thomas L. Fisher
Editors: Conrad Buff and Richard A. Harris
Cast: Kate Winslet (Rose DeWitt Bukater), Leonardo DiCaprio (Jack Dawson),
Gloria Stuart (Rose Dawson Calvert), Suzy Amis (Lizzy Cavert),
Billy Zane (Cal Hockley), David Warner (Spicer Lovejoy), Kathy Bates (Molly Brown),
Bill Paxton (Brock Lovett), Frances Fisher (Ruth DeWitte Bukater),
Bernard Hill (Captain E. J. Smith), Victor Garber (Thomas Andrews),
Jonathan Hyde (Bruce Ismay), Danny Nucci (Fabrizio De Rossi),
Released by: Twentieth Century Fox/Paramount/Lightstorm Entertainment
Date: 1997, 200 minutes. Color.
Based on: fictionalized dramatization of historical events
Web site: Titanic
To Catch a Thief **
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay: John Michael Hayes
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Music: Lyn Murray
Photography: Robert Burks Oscar
Cast: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams,
Charles Vanel, Brigitte Auber
Released by: Paramount
Date: 1955, 97 minutes. Color.
Based on: To Catch a Thief, by David Dodge.
To Die For
Director: Gus Van Sant
Screenplay: Buck Henry
Producer:
Music:
Visual Effects:
Cast: Nicole Kidman
Released by: Columbia
Date: 1995, 100 minutes. Color.
Based on:
To Have and Have Not
Director: Howard Hawks
Screenplay: Jules Furthman and William Faulkner
Producer: Howard Hawks
Music: Franz Waxman
Photography: Sid Hickox
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, Hoagy Carmichael,
Dolores Moran, Sheldon Leonard, Dan Seymour, Marcel Dalio
Released by: Warner
Date: 1945, 100 minutes. B & W.
Based on: To Have and Have Not, by Ernest Hemingway (1937).
Remakes: The Breaking Point, The Gun Runners
Also see: Key Largo
Tomorrow Never Dies
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Screenplay: Bruce Feirstein
Producers: Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli
Music: David Arnold
Photography: Robert Elswit
Cast: Pierce Brosnan (James Bond), Michelle Yeoh (Wai Lin), Desmond Llewelyn (Q),
Jonathan Pryce, Teri Hatcher, Joe Don Baker, Judi Dench
Released by: MGM/Eon
Date: 1997, 117 minutes. Color. ISBN: 0-7928-3876-9
Based on: James Bond, character created by Ian Fleming.
Novelization: Tomorrow Never Dies, by Raymond Benson.
Web Site: James Bond
Series: Other movies in the series
Traffic
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Screenplay: Simon Moore, Stephen Gaghan
Producers: Laura Bickford, Marshall Herskovitz, Edward Zwick
Music: Cliff Martinez
Photography: Steven Soderbergh (as by Peter Andrews)
Editor: Stephen Mirrione
Cast: Michael Douglas (Robert Wakefield), Catherine Zeta-Jones (Helena Ayala),
Steven Bauer (Carlos Ayala), Don Cheadle (Montel Gordon), Benicio Del Toro (Javier Rodriguez Rodriguez),
Luiz Gusmán (Ray Castro), Dennis Quaid (Arnie Metzger), Jacob Vargas (Manolo Sanchez)
Released by: Bedford Falls/Inital Entertainment/USA Films
Date: 2000, 147 minutes. Color.
Based on: Traffik, miniseries by Simon Moore.
Travis McGhee: The Empty Copper Sea
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Screenplay: Stirling Silliphant
Producer:
Music:
Photography:
Cast: Sam Elliott (Travis McGhee), Gene Evans (Meyer), Richard Farnsworth (Van Harder),
Geoffrey Lewis (Tuckerman), Amy Madigan (Billy Jean), Vera Miles (Julie Lawless), Katharine Ross (Gretel),
Marshall R. Teague
Released by: NBC
Date: 1983, 120 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Empty Copper Sea, by John D. MacDonald (1978).
Twilight
Director: Robert Benton
Screenplay: Robert Benton and Richard Russo
Producer:
Music:
Photography: Piotr Sobocinski
Cast: Paul Newman (Harry Ross), Susan Sarandon (Catherine Ames),
Gene Hackman (Jack Ames), James Garner (Raymond Hope), Stockard Channing,
Margo Martindale (Gloria Lamar), Reese Witherspoon (Mel Ames), Giancarlo Esposito (Reuben)
Released by: Paramount
Date: 1998, 96 minutes. Color.
Based on: Raymond Chandler ?
Reviewed by: The New Yorker, March 16, 1998.
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).
U. S. Marshals
Director: Stuart Baird
Screenplay: John Pogue, Roy Huggins
Producer: Arnold Kopelson
Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Photography: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Editor: Terry Rawlings
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones (Samuel Gerard), Wesley Snipes (Mark Sheridan),
Robert Downey, Jr. (John Royce), Joe Pantoliano (Cosmo Renfro), Kate Nelligan (Catherine Walsh),
Irene Jacob (Marie), Daniel Roebuck (Bobby Biggs), Tom Wood (Noah Woodrow Newman)
Released by: Warner Brothers
Date: 1998, 123 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Fugitive, 1993.
Reviewed by: Entertainment Weekly, March 13, 1998.
The Usual Suspects ** Edgar
Director: Bryan Singer
Screenplay: Christopher Mcquarrie Oscar
Producer: Michael McDonnell, Bryan Singer, Kenneth Kokin
Music: John Ottman
Photography: Newton Thomas Sigel
Editor: John Ottman
Visual Effects: Roy L. Donney, Greg Hendrickson, David B. Long
Cast: Stephen Baldwin (Michael McManus), Gabriel Byrne (Dean Keaton),
Kevin Spacey Oscar (Verbal Kint), Benicio Del Toro (Fred Fenster), Kevin Pollack (Todd Hockney),
Chazz Palminteri (Dave Kujan), Pete Postlethwaite (Kobayashi), Suzy Amis (Edie Finneran),
Giancarlo Esposito (Jack Baer), Dan Hedaya (Jeff Rabin), Carl Bressler (Saul Berg),
Christine Estabrook (Dr. Plummer), Paul Bartel (Smuggler)
Released by: Gramercy Pictures/Polygram/Bad Hat Harry/Blue Parrot/Rosco/Spelling
Date: 1995, 106 minutes. Color.
Vanilla Sky
Director: Cameron Crowe
Screenplay: Cameron Crowe, Alejandro Amenábar, and Mateo Gil Rodríguez
Producers: Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner
Music: Nancy Wilson
Photography: John Toll
Editor: Joe Hutshing
Special Effects: Digital Domain
Cast: Tom Cruise (David Aames), Cameron Diaz (Julie Gianni), Pen&eactue;lope Cruz (Sofia Serrano),
Jason Lee (Brian Shelby), Kurt Russell (Dr. Curtis McCabe), Johnny Galecki (Peter Brown),
Conan O'Brien, Alice Crowe (Lucid Dreamer), Alicia Witt (Libby), Mel Thompson (Life Extension Man)
Released by: Cruise-Wagner Productions/Paramount/Dream Works
Date: 2001, 135 minutes. Color.
Based on: Abre Los Ojos, written by Alejandro Amenábar and Mateo Gil Rodríguez (1997).
Web Site: Vanilla Sky
Vertical Limit
Director: Martin Campbell
Screenplay: Robert King and Terry Hayes
Story: Robert King
Producers: Martin Campbell, Robert King, Marcia Masatir
Music: James Newton Howard
Photography: David Tattersall
Editor: Thom Noble
Visual Effects: Neil Corbould, Tricia Henry Ashford, Kent Houston, Janet Quen, Alex Tropiec, Jr.
Cast: Chris O'Donnell (Peter Garrett), Bill Paxton (Elliot Vaughn),
Robin Tunney (Annie Garrett), Scott Glenn (Montgomery Wick), Izabella Scorpuco (Monique Aubertine),
Temuera Morrison (Major Rasul), Stuart Wilson (Royce Garrett), Nicholas Lea (Tom McLaren),
Alexander Siddig (Kareem Nazir), Robert Taylor (Skip Taylor), Ben Mendelsohn (Malcolm Bench),
Steve Le Marquand (Cyril Bench), Roshan Seth (Colonel Amir Salem), David Hayman (Frank "Chainsaw" Williams)
Released by: Columbia/Mountain High/Sony
Date: 2000, 126 minutes. Color.
Vertigo
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay: Alec Coppel, Samuel Taylor
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Music: Bernard Herrmann
Photography: Robert Burks
Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones
Released by: Paramount
Date: 1958, 128 minutes. Color.
Based on: D'entre les Morts, by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac ().
A View to a Kill
Director: John Glen
Screenplay: Richard Malbaum and Michael G. Wilson
Producers: Albert R. Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson
Music: John Barry
Photography: Alan Hume
Editor: Peter Davies
Cast: Roger Moore (James Bond), Fiona Fullerton (Pola Ivanova), Tanya Roberts (Stacey Sutton),
Hans Glaub (Dr. Karl Mortner), Christopher Walken (Max Zorin), Grace Jones (May Day),
David Yip (Scarpine), Patrick MacNee (Sir Godfrey Tibbett), Lois Maxwell (Miss Moneypenny)
Released by: Danjaq Productions/United Artists/MGM
Date: 1985, 126 minutes. Color.
Based on: James Bond, character created by Ian Fleming.
Web Site: James Bond
Series: Other movies in the series
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 O'Meara, Debra Neil
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).
What Lies Beneath *
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Screenplay: Clark Gregg
Story: Sarah Kernochan and Clark Gregg
Producers: Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis, Dream Works SKG, Image Movers
Music: Alan Silvestri
Photography: Don Burgess
Editor: Arthur Schmidt
Visual Effects: Sony Pictures Imageworks, Station X Studios, The Computer Film Company
Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer (Claire Spencer), Harrison Ford (Norman Spencer),
Diana Scarwid (Jody), Amber Valletta (Madison Elizabeth Frank), Victoria Birdwell (Beatrice),
James Remar (Warren Feur), Joe Morton (Dr. Drayton), Miranda Otto (Mary Feur),
Katharine Towne (Caitlin Spencer), Tom Dahlgren (Dean Templeton)
Released by: DreamWorks
Date: 2000, 129 minutes. Color.
Based on: Rear Window, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (1954).
The Whole Nine Yards
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Screenplay: Mitchell Kapner
Producers: David Willis and Allan Kaufman
Music: Randy Edelman
Photography: David Franco
Editor: Tom Lewis
Cast: Matthew Perry (Oz Oseransky), Bruce Willis (Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski),
Rosanna Arquette (Sophie Oseransky), Kevin Pollack (Janni Gogolak), Amanda Peet (Jill),
Michael Clarke Duncan (Frankie Figs), Natasha Henstridge (Cynthia)
Released by: Warner Brothers
Date: 2000, 98 minutes. Color.
Reviewed by: The New Yorker, March 6, 2000.
Wild Things *
Director: John McNaughton
Screenplay: Stephen Peters
Producers: Rodney Liber and Steven A. Jones
Music: George S. Clinton
Photography: Jeffrey L. Kimball
Editor: Elena Maganini
Cast: Matt Dillon (Sam Lombardo), Kevin Bacon (Ray Duquette), Neve Campbell (Suzy Toller),
Denise Richards (Kelly Lanier van Ryan), Theresa Russell (Sandra van Ryan), Robert Wagner (Tom Baxter),
Bill Murray (Ken Bowden), Daphne Rubin-Vega (Gloria Perez)
Released by: Columbia/Mandalay
Date: 1998, 108 minutes. Color.
Also see: Body Heat, 1981; The Last Seduction, 1994.
The Witness Files
Director: Douglas Jackson
Screenplay: Cameron Kent
Producers: Renaud Mathieu and Stefan Wodoslawsky
Music: Christopher Dedrick
Photography: Bert Tougas
Editor: Arthur Tarnowski
Cast: Yancey Butler (Sandy Dickinson), David Nerman (Dennis McCoy),
Barry Flatman (Frank Sutton), Matthew Harbour (Justin Dickinson), Alan Fawcett (Richard Sanderson),
Lynne Adams (Callahan), Karina Huber (Tanya), Tony Calabretta (Paulie Ranguso),
Lisa Bronwyn Moore (Lisa), Martin Neufeld (Ernesto Rao)
Released by: Allegro Films, Diana Kerew Productions, Avalanche Home ENtertainment
Date: 1999, 120 minutes. Color.
The Woman in Green
Director: Roy William Neill
Screenplay:
Producer:
Music:
Photography:
Cast: Basil Rathbone (Sherlock Holmes), Nigel Bruce (Dr. Watson),
Hillary Brooke (Lydia Barlowe), Henry Daniell (Professor Moriarty),
Matthew Boulton (Inspector Gregson), Mary Gordon (Mrs. Hudson)
Released by: Universal Pictures
Date: 1945, 100 minutes. B & W.
Based on: Character: Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Series began with: The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1939.
The World Is Not Enough
Director: Michael Apted
Screenplay: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and Bruce Feirstein
Story: Neal Purvis and Robert Wade
Producers: Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli
Music: David Arnold/Garbage
Photography: Adrian Biddle, Jonathan Taylor
Special effects: Chris Corbould
Miniature Effects: John Richardson
Cast: Pierce Brosnan (James Bond), Sophie Marceau (Elektra King),
Denise Richards (Christmas Jones), Robert Carlyle (Renard), Judi Denich (M),
Robbie Coltrane (Valentin Zukovsky), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), Samantha Bond (Moneypenny),
John Cleese (R, Q's Assistant), Serena Scott Thomas (Doctor Holly Warmflash)
Released by: Eon Productins/MGM
Date: 1999, 130 minutes. Color.
Review: The New Yorker, November 29, 1999.
Based on: James Bond, character created by Ian Fleming.
Novelization: The World Is Not Enough, by Raymond Benson.
Web Site: James Bond
Series: Other movies in the series
You Only Live Twice
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Screenplay: Roald Dahl
Producer: Harry Saltzman, Albert R. Broccoli
Music: John Barry
Photography: Freddie Young, Bob Huke
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: 1967, 117 minutes. Color.
Based on: You Only Live Twice, by Ian Fleming (1964).
Web Site: James Bond
Series: Other movies in the series
