"album, McCartney says he was on vacation in Montego Bay, Jamaica where he ""snuck"" onto the set of the film ""Papillon"" where he met Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen. After a dinner with Hoffman, with McCartney playing around on guitar, Hoffman did not believe that McCartney could write a song ""about anything"", so Hoffman pulled out a magazine where they saw the story of the death of Pablo Picasso and his famous last words, ""Drink to me, drink to my health. You know I can't drink anymore."" McCartney created a demo of the song and lyrics on the spot, prompting"
"the box office. This delayed plans announced in 1972 for MacLean's then-wife Marcelle to produce three films based on his books. One of these proposed films was ""The Way to Dusty Death"", which was to star Jackie Stewart. It ended up being a 1973 novel and a 1995 film. Geoffrey Reeve directed a film of ""Caravan to Vaccarès"" (1974). By 1973 MacLean had sold over 24 million novels. ""I am not a writer,"" he said in 1972. ""I am a businessman. My business is writing."" MacLean had spent a number of years focusing on screenplays but disliked it and decided"
"vengeance. Constance aux enfers Constance aux enfers (US title: Web of Fear) is a 1963 French language motion picture crime thriller directed by François Villiers. It was based on novel ""Constance aux enfers"" by Jean-Pierre Ferrière, who co-wrote screenplay with Jacques Sigurd. The film stars Michèle Morgan, Dany Saval. A young woman is killed by one of her companions. He escaped in a neighbor widow's apartment room, and becomes her lover. Another man gets much money from her by his blackmail revealing their love affair, but she finds the victim is actually alive and part of the blackmail plan, and"
"French Connection II French Connection II is a 1975 crime drama film starring Gene Hackman and directed by John Frankenheimer. It is a fictional sequel to the initially true story of the 1971 Academy Award winning picture ""The French Connection"". The film expands on the central character of Det. Jimmy ""Popeye"" Doyle who travels to Marseille, France where he is attempting to track down French drug-dealer Alain Charnier, who escaped at the end of the first film. Hackman won an Academy Award for Best Actor for the original ""The French Connection"" and he and Fernando Rey are the only returning"
"Constance aux enfers Constance aux enfers (US title: Web of Fear) is a 1963 French language motion picture crime thriller directed by François Villiers. It was based on novel ""Constance aux enfers"" by Jean-Pierre Ferrière, who co-wrote screenplay with Jacques Sigurd. The film stars Michèle Morgan, Dany Saval. A young woman is killed by one of her companions. He escaped in a neighbor widow's apartment room, and becomes her lover. Another man gets much money from her by his blackmail revealing their love affair, but she finds the victim is actually alive and part of the blackmail plan, and does"
"1975 with Gene Hackman and Fernando Rey reprising their roles. The American Film Institute included the film in its list of the best American films in 1998 and again in 2007. In 2005 the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". In Marseille, an undercover police detective is following Alain Charnier, a wealthy French criminal who runs the largest heroin-smuggling syndicate in the world. The policeman is assassinated by Charnier's hitman, Pierre Nicoli. Charnier plans to smuggle $32 million worth of heroin into"
"Reeve starring Simon MacCorkindale as Harlow and Linda Hamilton as romantic interest Marie MacAlpine. The Way to Dusty Death The Way to Dusty Death is a thriller novel written by Scottish author Alistair MacLean. It was originally published in 1973. The title is a quotation from the famous soliloquy in Act 5, Scene 5 in Shakespeare’s play ""Macbeth"". The book was published in 1973 and became a best seller. The ""Chicago Tribune"" thought Maclean was writing ""as a parody of himself"". The protagonist, Johnny Harlow, a world champion Formula 1 racing driver, was in a devastating accident during the French"
"gadgets, and elaborate action sequences. Producer-Director John Sturges' 1963 film ""The Great Escape"", featuring Allied prisoners of war attempting to escape a German POW camp during World War II, and featuring future icons of the action genre including Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson, is an example of an action film prototype. During the 1970s, gritty detective stories and urban crime dramas began to evolve and fuse themselves with the new ""action"" style, leading to a string of maverick police officer films, such as ""Bullitt"" (1968), ""The French Connection"" (1971) and ""The Seven-Ups"" (1973). ""Dirty Harry"" (1971) essentially lifted its star,"
"the film and Mr. Hackman exploit most effectively"". The film earned North American rentals of $5.6 million, surpassing its $4.3 million budget. ""Empire"" considered ""French Connection II"" to be the 19th greatest film sequel in 2009. French Connection II French Connection II is a 1975 crime drama film starring Gene Hackman and directed by John Frankenheimer. It is a fictional sequel to the initially true story of the 1971 Academy Award winning picture ""The French Connection"". The film expands on the central character of Det. Jimmy ""Popeye"" Doyle who travels to Marseille, France where he is attempting to track down"
"Scorpio (film) Scorpio is a 1973 American spy film directed by Michael Winner and starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Paul Scofield. Cross (Burt Lancaster) is an experienced but retiring Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent and assassin who is training free-lance hit-man Jean Laurier (Alain Delon) (alias ""Scorpio"") to replace him. Cross is teaching him as much about protecting himself from his patrons and never trusting anyone as how to get away clean. The CIA tells Scorpio to kill Cross for suspected treason and collaboration with the Russians. Scorpio is threatened with jail on a false narcotics charge if he"
"in supporting roles in several Chabrol films before, ""The Third Lover"" was the first Chabrol film in which Stéphane Audran appeared as the female lead. They later married in 1964 and worked together until the late 1970s. In 1962 Chabrol made ""Ophelia"", a loose adaptation of ""Hamlet"" that was another box office disappointment. Later that year he had a minor hit film with ""Landru"", written by Françoise Sagan and starring Charles Denner, Michèle Morgan, Danielle Darrieux and Hildegard Knef. The film depicts the famous French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru, a story that had previously inspired Charlie Chaplin's film ""Monsieur"
"Landru (film) Landru (US title: Bluebeard) is a 1963 French motion picture drama directed by Claude Chabrol. The screenplay was written by Françoise Sagan. The film stars Charles Denner, Michèle Morgan, Danielle Darrieux and Hildegard Knef. It was based on the story of French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru, who murdered and dismembered more than 10 women during World War I. During World War I, a seemingly respectable middle-aged man Henri Landru has devised an ingenious means of obtaining money to supplement his dwindling income. Adopting various assumed names, he lures middle-class women to his villa at Gambais just outside"
"holds a 55% rating and an average of 5.2/10 at Rotten Tomatoes. The Hunter (1980 film) The Hunter is a 1980 American thriller film directed by Buzz Kulik. The film was Steve McQueen's final role before his death in November of that year. The cast also features Eli Wallach, Kathryn Harrold, LeVar Burton, Ben Johnson, and Richard Venture. This was the last theatrical film made by director Buzz Kulik. Ralph ""Papa"" Thorson (Steve McQueen) is a modern-day bounty hunter who hunts down and captures criminals who have skipped on their bail to bring them back for a 20% of the"
"agent, Pierre Frontin, to Turkey in a desperate effort to discredit vital information that fell into German hands. ""Le 13e suicidé"" (The Thirteenth Who Committed Suicide) 1971, features a high-ranking Russian defector who reveals that many leading figures in the West German intelligence service are in fact Soviet agents. When several of them take their own lives, Colonel Dubois begins to question the Russian's revelations. This novel was adapted into a film ""Le Serpent"" (""Night Flight from Moscow"") 1973 starring Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda and Dirk Bogarde. ""Le canal de las Americas"" (The Canal of the Americas, 1973) is a"
"Roger Vadim updated the setting to modern-day Paris in the 1966 film ""La Curée"", released in English-speaking markets as ""The Game Is Over"". The film starred Jane Fonda, Michel Piccoli and Peter McEnery. La Curée La Curée (1871–72; English: ""The Kill"") is the 2nd novel in Émile Zola's 20-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. It deals with property speculation and the lives of the extremely wealthy Nouveau riche of the Second French Empire, against the backdrop of Baron Haussmann's reconstruction of Paris in the 1850s and 1860s. Vastly different from its predecessor and prequel ""La Fortune des Rougon"", ""La Curée"" - the"
"La Horse La Horse (, ) is a 1970 French-language thriller directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre and based on Michel Lambesc's novel. In Normandy, the widower Auguste Maroilleur rules his family and his farm with an iron hand. Bien Phu, a disabled veteran of the war in Indochina, is a valued employee. Out shooting duck, Auguste and Bien Phu discover a huge cache of heroin. Auguste deduces that his grandson Henri, whose vacation job is on a ship, must be a courier. He destroys the drug, worth millions, and confines Henri to a cellar. When the gangsters cannot find their man"
"""The French Connection"", and ""Dirty Harry"", the film sparked heated controversy over a perceived increase of violence in films generally. The film premiered in the U.K. in November 1971. Although controversial at the time, ""Straw Dogs"" is considered by some to be one of Peckinpah's greatest films. A remake directed by Rod Lurie was released on September 16, 2011. After securing a grant to study stellar structures, American applied mathematician David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) moves with his glamorous young British wife Amy (Susan George) to her natal village of Wakely in the Cornish countryside. Amy's ex-boyfriend, Charlie Venner (Del Henney),"
"film received generally negative reviews, with particular criticism for its plot and characters being laden with clichés and uninspired retreading of the original. In 2008, Baldwin referred to it as a ""bomb"". The Getaway (1972 film) The Getaway is a 1972 American neo-noir crime film directed by Sam Peckinpah and written by Walter Hill, based on Jim Thompson's 1958 novel. It stars Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Al Lettieri, and Sally Struthers. The plot follows imprisoned mastermind robber Carter ""Doc"" McCoy (McQueen), whose wife Carol (MacGraw) conspires for his release on the condition they rob a bank in Texas."
"Scarecrow (1973 film) Scarecrow is a 1973 U.S. road movie directed by Jerry Schatzberg, and starring Gene Hackman and Al Pacino. The story revolves around the relationship between two men who travel from California, aiming to start a business in Pittsburgh. At the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, it tied for the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, the highest honor. While a box office bomb in its own country, it later gained cult status. Two vagabonds, Max Millan, a short-tempered ex-convict, and Francis Lionel Delbuchi, a childlike ex-sailor, meet on the road in California and agree to become partners"
"courtship. Smith is, needless to say, acquitted on all charges. The book was first adapted in French, as a Belgian film titled ""Le revolver aux cheveux rouges"" (1973). Dale Ahlquist, president of the American Chesterton Society, with screenwriter, producer and director Joey Odendahl, produced the American motion picture ""Manalive"" (2012), starring Mark P. Shea as Innocent Smith and Kevin O'Brian as Professor Eames. A private screening of the movie was shown at the American Chesterton Society's 31st Annual Chesterton Conference in Reno, NV, on 3 August 2012. Manalive Manalive (1912) is a book by G. K. Chesterton detailing a popular"
"an uninteresting and uninvolving movie"" because ""it has no reality except as a movie"". The ""New York Times"" called it ""yet another international caper film... that does nothing very well and almost everything in excess"" in which the director would ""fill up a great deal of film time with a device rather than with an action"". The Burglars Le Casse (US title: The Burglars) is a 1971 movie directed by French director Henri Verneuil, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Omar Sharif, Dyan Cannon and Robert Hossein. It is based on the 1953 novel by David Goodis and revolves around a team of"
"Neame directed the festive favourite ""Scrooge"" (1970). ""A Clockwork Orange"" (1971), based on Anthony Burgess' novella of the same name, starred Malcolm McDowell as Alex, the leader of a gang of thugs in a dystopian Britain. ""Get Carter"" (1971) features the eponymous London gangster Jack Carter (played by Michael Caine). The horror film ""The Wicker Man"" (1973), starring Christopher Lee, is considered a cult classic. In 1973 ""The Day of the Jackal"" starred Edward Fox as the ""Jackal"" (which was based on a novel by Frederick Forsyth). Nicolas Roeg's acclaimed psychological horror/thriller ""Don't Look Now"" was released in 1973. Two"
"in 2002. Bob le flambeur Bob le flambeur (""Bob the Gambler"" or ""Bob the High Roller"") is a 1956 French gangster film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. The film stars Roger Duchesne as Bob. It is often considered a film noir and precursor to the French New Wave because of its use of handheld camera and a single jump cut. Bob, a former bank robber and convict who has gone straight for 20 years, lives on his own as a gambler in the Montmartre district of Paris. He is well liked by the demi-monde community there, but has hit a run"
"Marie-Octobre Marie-Octobre is a 1959 French film directed by Julien Duvivier, based on the eponymous novel by Jacques Robert. It is also known as ""Secret Meeting"" A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin (Danielle Darrieux). The former members of the network have carried on with their lives after the war, but this evening they are going to have to live again a fateful night – the night their leader was killed. He had been betrayed, his name given to the Germans. The search for the traitor puts each personality in the"
"Matti Pellonpää and André Wilms were awarded the Best European Actor and Best Supporting Actor respectively while Évelyne Didi was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress and the film was nominated for the Best Film Award. Kaurismäki won the Best Director award at the 1993 Jussi Awards. ""Le Havre"" (2011) is a follow-up movie to ""La vie de Bohème"" having many of the same actors 19 years older. Marcel (André Wilms) is an impoverished Parisian poet and playwright who is evicted from his extremely modest room after he is unable to pay rent for it. While roaming the streets of"
"Excited after reading a text by Bertrand, Dominique encourages him to write the novel ""Le Pion"" (The Pawn). Bertrand continues writing his novel he soon sends to a Parisian publisher. The book is acclaimed. With his pseudonym, Bertrand remains anonymous, but journalists are quick to reveal the identity of the ""Prix Goncourt"". However, success does not turn the head of Bertrand. And with the help of his students he even ridicules those who wronged him, before rejoining the discrete and tender Dominique who awaits. Le Pion Le Pion is a 1978 French comedy film directed by Christian Gion starring Henri"
"he would again play a masked swashbuckler in his Zorro film. The Black Tulip (1964 film) The Black Tulip (French: La Tulipe noire) is a French-Italian-Spanish film which reused some names in the novel of the same title by Alexandre Dumas but its story does not follow the novel. It is, essentially, a star vehicle for the popular French actor Alain Delon. Like the popular European Karl May movies of the same time, the script actually used only the main characters of a popular novel, but didn't stick to the original story. In June 1789 in the town of Roussillon,"
"Montez. He wrote Jean Aurel's Oscar-nominated 1963 World War I documentary, ""14-18"". He also directed the film ""Quarante-huit heures d'amour""/""48 Hours of Love"" (1969). Another noteworthy novel by Saint-Laurent was ""Caroline Cherie"" (written in 1947), a powerful book set in the early days of the French Revolution. This also became a film. This was released in France in 1953, directed by Jean-Devaivre and starring Martine Carol in the title role. Saint-Laurent was one of the scriptwriters of the film. Laurent received the Prix Goncourt in 1971 for his novel ""Les Bêtises"". Jacques Laurent Jacques Laurent or Jacques Laurent-Cély (6 January"
"as a Region 1 widescreen DVD. Scorpio (film) Scorpio is a 1973 American spy film directed by Michael Winner and starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Paul Scofield. Cross (Burt Lancaster) is an experienced but retiring Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent and assassin who is training free-lance hit-man Jean Laurier (Alain Delon) (alias ""Scorpio"") to replace him. Cross is teaching him as much about protecting himself from his patrons and never trusting anyone as how to get away clean. The CIA tells Scorpio to kill Cross for suspected treason and collaboration with the Russians. Scorpio is threatened with jail on"
"Dominici affair of 1952 and the 1943 film Goupi Mains Rouges. La Horse La Horse (, ) is a 1970 French-language thriller directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre and based on Michel Lambesc's novel. In Normandy, the widower Auguste Maroilleur rules his family and his farm with an iron hand. Bien Phu, a disabled veteran of the war in Indochina, is a valued employee. Out shooting duck, Auguste and Bien Phu discover a huge cache of heroin. Auguste deduces that his grandson Henri, whose vacation job is on a ship, must be a courier. He destroys the drug, worth millions, and confines"
"Lone Wolf McQuade Lone Wolf McQuade is a 1983 American action film, starring Chuck Norris, David Carradine, Barbara Carrera, L.Q. Jones, R.G. Armstrong, Leon Isaac Kennedy and Robert Beltran, and directed by Steve Carver. The film score was written by Francesco De Masi and borrows heavily from Ennio Morricone's score for ""Once Upon a Time in the West"". The screenplay features a quiver of characters: the ""lone wolf"" Ranger Jim McQuade (Norris), the bad guy (Carradine) with the widow of his partner (Carrera) who falls for the hero at first sight, the retired buddy (Jones), the captain trying to rein"
"of the Independents"" was inspired by ""Charley Varrick"". Charley Varrick Charley Varrick (aka The Last of the Independents and Kill Charley Varrick) is a 1973 crime film directed by Don Siegel and starring Walter Matthau, Andrew Robinson, Joe Don Baker and John Vernon. The film was based on the novel ""The Looters"" by John H. Reese. Charley Varrick is a crop-duster and former stunt pilot. Charley, his wife Nadine, longtime accomplice Al Dutcher, and youngster Harman Sullivan rob a bank in the rural community of Tres Cruces, New Mexico. While Nadine waits in the getaway car, the heavily disguised Charley"
"spotlight – and also that of the killed leader, Castille. Marie-Octobre Marie-Octobre is a 1959 French film directed by Julien Duvivier, based on the eponymous novel by Jacques Robert. It is also known as ""Secret Meeting"" A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin (Danielle Darrieux). The former members of the network have carried on with their lives after the war, but this evening they are going to have to live again a fateful night – the night their leader was killed. He had been betrayed, his name given to the Germans."