"George Kennedy George Harris Kennedy Jr. (February 18, 1925 – February 28, 2016) was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 film and television productions. He played ""Dragline"" opposite Paul Newman in ""Cool Hand Luke"" (1967), winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the role and being nominated for the corresponding Golden Globe. He received a second Golden Globe nomination for portraying Joe Patroni in ""Airport"" (1970). Among the notable films he had a significant role in are ""Charade"", ""Strait-Jacket"", ""McHale's Navy"", ""Shenandoah"", ""The Sons of Katie Elder"", ""The Flight of the Phoenix"", ""The Dirty Dozen"","
"enemy. Lacking either the grace of art of the vitality of guerrilla theater, it can offer only the coarsest nourishment—and only to the elaborately self-deceived."" WUSA (film) WUSA is a 1970 American drama film, directed by Stuart Rosenberg. It was written by Robert Stone, based on his 1967 novel ""A Hall of Mirrors"". The story involves a radio station in New Orleans with the eponymous call sign which is apparently involved in a right-wing conspiracy. It culminates with a riot and stampede at a patriotic pep-rally when an assassin on a catwalk opens fire. The cast included Paul Newman, Joanne"
"WUSA (film) WUSA is a 1970 American drama film, directed by Stuart Rosenberg. It was written by Robert Stone, based on his 1967 novel ""A Hall of Mirrors"". The story involves a radio station in New Orleans with the eponymous call sign which is apparently involved in a right-wing conspiracy. It culminates with a riot and stampede at a patriotic pep-rally when an assassin on a catwalk opens fire. The cast included Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Perkins, Laurence Harvey, Cloris Leachman and Wayne Rogers. Rheinhardt, a cynical drifter, gets a job as an announcer for a right-wing radio station,"
"with the effervescent chemistry between its stars."" Barefoot in the Park (film) Barefoot in the Park is a 1967 American comedy film starring Jane Fonda as Corie, and Robert Redford as Paul. Based on Neil Simon's 1963 play of the same name, it focuses on newlyweds Corie and Paul Bratter and their adventures living in a minuscule sixth floor walk-up apartment in a Greenwich Village brownstone. Stuffed-shirt Paul is a hard-working young attorney just starting his practice, while spontaneous bride Corie is determined to create a romantic environment in one room with no heat, a hole in the skylight, and"
"the unit production manager. Newman's biographer Marie Edelman Borden states that the ""tough, honest"" script drew together threads from earlier movies, especially ""Hombre"", Newman's earlier film of 1967. Director Stuart Rosenberg altered the original ending in the script, adding ""an upbeat ending that would reprise the protagonist's (and Paul Newman's) trademark smile."" Paul Newman's character, Luke, is a decorated war veteran who is sentenced to serve two years in a Florida rural prison. He constantly defies the authorities of the facility, becoming a leader among the prisoners, as well as escaping multiple times. While the script was being developed, the"
"Barefoot in the Park (film) Barefoot in the Park is a 1967 American comedy film starring Jane Fonda as Corie, and Robert Redford as Paul. Based on Neil Simon's 1963 play of the same name, it focuses on newlyweds Corie and Paul Bratter and their adventures living in a minuscule sixth floor walk-up apartment in a Greenwich Village brownstone. Stuffed-shirt Paul is a hard-working young attorney just starting his practice, while spontaneous bride Corie is determined to create a romantic environment in one room with no heat, a hole in the skylight, and oddball neighbors. The title refers to Corie's"
"Punishment Park Punishment Park is a 1971 American mockumentary drama film written and directed by Peter Watkins. It is a pseudo documentary of a British and West German film crew following National Guard soldiers and police as they pursue members of a counterculture group across a desert. The film takes place in 1970. The Vietnam War is escalating and United States President Richard Nixon has just decided on a ""secret"" bombing campaign in Cambodia. Faced with a growing anti-war movement, President Nixon decrees a state of emergency based on the McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950, which authorizes federal authorities,"
"which begins with ""What we've got here is failure to communicate,"" was listed at No. 11 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 most memorable movie lines. Decorated war veteran Lucas ""Luke"" Jackson (Paul Newman), is arrested for cutting parking meters off their poles one drunken night. He is sentenced to two years in prison and sent to a Florida chain gang prison run by a stern warden, the Captain (Strother Martin), and a stoic rifleman, Walking Boss Godfrey (Morgan Woodward), whose eyes are always covered by a pair of mirrored sunglasses. Carr (Clifton James) the floorwalker, tells"
"The Cracksman The Cracksman is a 1963 British comedy film directed by Peter Graham Scott. Charlie Drake plays honest locksmith Ernest Wright whose problem is that he cannot resist the challenge of a lock. First he is duped by a debonair con man into opening a car. He is caught by the police but is released on probation. Next the same man fools him into breaking into a house, and he lands in jail for a year. When he is released, he gets tricked into opening a safe, for which he receives a three-year jail sentence and an undeserved reputation"
"Torn Curtain Torn Curtain is a 1966 American political thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews. Written by Brian Moore, the film is set in the Cold War. It is about an American scientist who pretends to defect behind the Iron Curtain to East Germany as part of a clandestine mission to obtain the solution of a formula and escape back to the United States. In 1965, Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman), a US physicist and rocket scientist, is traveling to a conference in Copenhagen with his assistant and fiancée, Sarah Sherman (Julie Andrews). Armstrong"
"the much successful Newman/Haas Racing with his longtime racing competitor and friend Carl Haas, winning more than 100 races and 8 Driver's Championships in IndyCar Series, although notably the team never won the 500. The film includes footage taken at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the legendary 2.5 mile track. Most of the footage is from the 1968 race. The accident during the first green flag is from the 1966 race. The film earned an estimated $6.2 million in rentals in North America. It was the 16th most popular movie at the US box office that year. Quentin Tarantino, when asked"
"Underworld (1927 film) Underworld (also released as Paying the Penalty) is a 1927 American silent crime film directed by Josef von Sternberg. The film launched Sternberg's eight-year collaboration with Paramount Pictures, with whom he would produce his seven films with actress Marlene Dietrich. Journalist and screenwriter Ben Hecht won an Academy Award for Best Original Story. Boisterous gangster kingpin 'Bull' Weed rehabilitates the down-and-out 'Rolls Royce' Wensel, a former lawyer who has fallen into alcoholism. The two become confidants, with Rolls Royce's intelligence aiding Weed's schemes, but complications arise when Rolls Royce falls for Weed's girlfriend 'Feathers' McCoy. Adding to"
"Pete and Polly's relationship ends in turmoil when Pete, after stealing a car in an attempt to woo Polly, is caught and sentenced to a prison term. Up the Junction (film) Up the Junction is a 1968 British film directed by Peter Collinson and starring Dennis Waterman, Suzy Kendall, Adrienne Posta, Maureen Lipman and Liz Fraser. It is based on the 1963 book of the same name by Nell Dunn and was adapted by Roger Smith. The film's soundtrack was made by Manfred Mann. The film followed Ken Loach's BBC TV adaptation of 1965, but returned to the original book."
"inside a precious religious statue. Churchman turns over the statue to Angela, who is elated until she discovers the statue to be empty. Both have been outsmarted by Grace, who replaced the statue with a replica and turned over the jewels safely to Gonzalez, the town's chief of police. The Caper of the Golden Bulls The Caper of the Golden Bulls, also known as Carnival of Thieves, is a 1967 film directed by Russell Rouse. It stars Stephen Boyd, Yvette Mimieux, and Giovanna Ralli. During a bombing mission to Germany, wartime pilot Peter Churchman (Boyd) inadvertently destroys a French cathedral."
"expresses a Communist philosophy. However, many more people were outraged that a British director would make a film about American political problems in a time of crisis. The film was heavily attacked when it was released at the 1971 New York Film Festival and Hollywood studios refused to distribute it. Punishment Park Punishment Park is a 1971 American mockumentary drama film written and directed by Peter Watkins. It is a pseudo documentary of a British and West German film crew following National Guard soldiers and police as they pursue members of a counterculture group across a desert. The film takes"
"Steelyard Blues Steelyard Blues is a 1973 American comedy crime film directed by Alan Myerson and starring Donald Sutherland, Jane Fonda and Peter Boyle. It concerns the lives of a group of misfits trying to find a happier life against the norms of society. Sutherland plays an ex-con with a passion for demolition derbies. He has wrecked almost every possible car, but violates his parole when confronted by a 1950 Studebaker. This embarrasses his brother, a politically ambitious district attorney (Howard Hesseman, in an unlikely respectable role). Fonda plays a prostitute with an off-on relationship with Sutherland's character. The gang"
"the gangster movie: a hoodlum hero; ominous, night-shrouded city streets; floozies; and a blazing finale in which the cops cut down the protagonist."" Underworld (1927 film) Underworld (also released as Paying the Penalty) is a 1927 American silent crime film directed by Josef von Sternberg. The film launched Sternberg's eight-year collaboration with Paramount Pictures, with whom he would produce his seven films with actress Marlene Dietrich. Journalist and screenwriter Ben Hecht won an Academy Award for Best Original Story. Boisterous gangster kingpin 'Bull' Weed rehabilitates the down-and-out 'Rolls Royce' Wensel, a former lawyer who has fallen into alcoholism. The two"
"The Lawbreakers The Lawbreakers is a 1961 film directed by Joseph M. Newman. Made in a film noir style, the crime drama is based on the pilot episode of the 1961 television series ""The Asphalt Jungle"" and stars an ensemble cast including Jack Warden, Vera Miles, Robert Douglas, and Arch Johnson. The film tells the story of a scheme to double-cross the syndicate and steal its money, and of a police commissioners efforts to investigate homicides that take place as the scheme unfolds while also fighting corruption in the city government and police department. Allen Bardeman (Robert Douglas) is a"
"Rollercoaster (1977 film) Rollercoaster is a 1977 American disaster-suspense film starring George Segal, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda and Timothy Bottoms, and directed by James Goldstone. It was one of the few films to be shown in Sensurround, which caused those watching the movie to vibrate during certain periods during the ""thrill scenes"" on the rides. An unnamed man (Timothy Bottoms) (simply called ""young man"" in the credits) sneaks into Ocean View Amusement Park and places a small radio-controlled bomb on the tracks of the park's wooden roller coaster, The Rocket. The bomb detonates, a coaster train derails, killing and injuring"
"The Yards The Yards is a 2000 American crime film directed by James Gray. It was written by Gray and Matt Reeves, and stars Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Charlize Theron and James Caan. The setting is the commuter rail yards in New York City, in the boroughs of the Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn. In the film's plot, bribery, corporate crime and political corruption are commonplace in ""the yards,"" where contractors repair railway cars for the city Transit Authority (TA). Rival companies sabotage each other's work to win bids. The undercutting leads to murder. Leo Handler (Mark Wahlberg) rides the subway"
"in Ingmar Bergman's ""The Seventh Seal"" (1957), the first of his eleven films with Bergman and the film that includes the iconic scenes in which he plays chess with Death; Martin in ""Through a Glass Darkly"" (1961); Jesus in ""The Greatest Story Ever Told"" (1965); Oktober in ""The Quiller Memorandum"" (1966); Karl Oskar Nilsson in ""The Emigrants"" (1971); Roy Lindberg in ""The Apple War"" (1971); Father Lankester Merrin in ""The Exorcist"" (1973); Joubert the assassin in ""Three Days of the Condor"" (1975); Ming the Merciless in ""Flash Gordon"" (1980); the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film ""Never"
"Harper (film) Harper (released in the UK as The Moving Target) is a 1966 American Technicolor mystery film based on Ross Macdonald's novel ""The Moving Target"" in Panavision and adapted for the screen by novelist William Goldman, who admired MacDonald's writings. The film stars Paul Newman as the eponymous Lew Harper (Lew Archer in the novel). It is directed by Jack Smight, with an ensemble cast that includes Robert Wagner, Julie Harris, Janet Leigh, Shelley Winters and Arthur Hill. Goldman received a 1967 Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay. The film pays homage to Humphrey Bogart's portrayals of Sam"
"Rillington Place, none of which could be ascribed to Evans. Indeed, two of the skeletons found at the house dated back to the war – long before Evans and his family had moved in. After a long campaign, Evans was pardoned in 1966. The scandal helped in the abolition of the death penalty in the UK. Kennedy's book was filmed in 1970 as ""10 Rillington Place"", starring John Hurt as Evans and Richard Attenborough as Christie. In 1985, Kennedy published ""The Airman and the Carpenter"" (), in which he argued that Richard Hauptmann did not kidnap and murder Charles Lindbergh's"
"(1969), ""The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean"" (1972), ""The Sting"" (1973), and ""The Verdict"" (1982). He voiced Doc Hudson in the first installment of Disney-Pixar's ""Cars"" as his final acting performance, with voice recordings being used in ""Cars 3"" (2017). Newman won several national championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing, and his race teams won several championships in open-wheel IndyCar racing. He was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a food company from which he donated all post-tax profits and royalties to charity. As of January 2017, these donations have totaled over US$485"
"Fools' Parade Fools' Parade is a 1971 Eastmancolor comedy-drama film directed by Andrew McLaglen, and starring James Stewart, George Kennedy, Kurt Russell and Strother Martin. It was based on the novel of the same name by Davis Grubb. The film is also known as Dynamite Man from Glory Jail. In 1935, murderer Mattie Appleyard (James Stewart), bank robber Lee Cottrill (Strother Martin), and young Johnny Jesus (Kurt Russell) are released from the West Virginia State Penitentiary, located in the fictional town of Glory. Appleyard is issued a check for $25,452.32 for his 40 years of prison work, an enormous amount"
"Up There Likes Me"" (1956), ""The Garment Jungle"" (1957), ""The Invisible Boy"" (1957), ""Spartacus"" (1960), ""The Chapman Report"" (1962), """" (1963), ""The Greatest Story Ever Told"" (1965), ""Girl Happy"" (1965), ""The St. Valentine's Day Massacre"" (1967, as Frank Nitti), ""The Big Mouth"" (1967), ""The Seven Minutes"" (1971), ""Mitchell"" (1975), and ""Hardly Working"" (1980). Although Stone went on to perform secondary roles in a number of films, he became a recognizable face to television viewers. He played Handyman in the comedy ""The Hartmans"", Jake Goldberg in the drama ""The Goldbergs"", and Lieutenant Hauser in the drama ""The Walter Winchell File"". In"
"as ""My Beautiful Laundrette"" (1985). The 2007 film by Ken Loach ""It's a Free World..."" considered the ethical dilemmas behind London's vast trade in illegal workers. The acclaimed 1996 film ""Beautiful Thing"" depicted the lives of two gay teenagers living on the South London housing estate of Thamesmead. Similar themes, as well as race, were part of the 1970s set ""Young Soul Rebels"", the debut of Derek Jarman protege Isaac Julien (1991). ""Breaking and Entering"", a 2006 romantic drama, by Academy Award-winning director Anthony Minghella, shot and set in King's Cross, a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, examines an affair"
"upgraded in 1959, was rediscovered and found to contain a series of original posters dating from the late 1950s. Images have been posted online. A scheme was developed by the architects Weston Williamson to provide canopies over the entrances from the street, but this has not been implemented. In the 1968 film ""Otley"", one of the Central line platforms at Notting Hill Gate (or a station pretending to be it) is where the assassin and coach driver Johnston, played by Leonard Rossiter, blows himself up opening a booby-trapped suitcase full of money. The station and its staff featured prominently in"
"Stanford, Paul Schneider, Michael Rapaport, Judah Friedlander, Kevin Dunn, and Zooey Deschanel. Set in fictional Rutland, New Hampshire, it is a picaresque comedy-drama about a small-town would-be crime legend. The name of the movie derives from the motto of the Granite State. In 2017, Claremont gained notoriety in the media when white teenagers injured a biracial eight year old while pretending to lynch him and taunting him with racial slurs. The Topstone Mill, formerly a shoe factory and now housing a restaurant, was featured in season 8, episode 20 of ""Ghost Hunters"", airing October 24, 2012, titled ""Fear Factory"". Claremont,"
"the freeway ramp across the street is constructed, New Deal will become the largest dealership in town. The idea for ""Used Cars"" originated from producer John Milius, who pitched it to Gale and Zemeckis while they were writing the script for ""1941"", the 1979 film directed by Steven Spielberg. Milius said that he and Spielberg had hoped to one day write a story about used car salesman outside of Las Vegas. They had wanted to cast actor George Hamilton as Kurt. Universal Pictures passed on the film, leading the duo to take it to Columbia Pictures. Frank Price, the studio"
"Vanishing Point (1971 film) Vanishing Point is a 1971 American action road film directed by Richard C. Sarafian and starring Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, and Dean Jagger. Car delivery driver Kowalski (Barry Newman) arrives in Denver, Colorado on a late Friday night with a black Imperial. The delivery service clerk Sandy (Karl Swenson) urges him to get some rest, but Kowalski insists on getting started with his next assignment to deliver a white 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T 440 Magnum (supposedly supercharged) to San Francisco by Monday. Before leaving Denver, Kowalski pulls into a biker bar parking lot around midnight to"
"drunk. Newman's father paid the resulting $1000 fine. Newman later played an acrophobic firefighter in ""The Towering Inferno"" (1974), in which his father co-starred. Although they had no dialog together because Scott's scenes were with Steve McQueen, both Newmans can be seen in the film's finale. Paul's character is on the steps with Faye Dunaway, while Scott is one of the two firemen carrying a man on a stretcher down the plaza steps to California Street at the Bank of America building in San Francisco. Newman also played small parts in TV series during 1975, such as ""Marcus Welby, M.D."","
"Banning (film) Banning is a 1967 American Technicolor drama film directed by Ron Winston and starring Robert Wagner, Jill St. John, Gene Hackman, Guy Stockwell and James Farentino. Mike McDermot is a rising golf star on the PGA Tour until he is accused of cheating. He supposedly has offered to split a winner's purse with a competitor, Jonathan Linus, if his opponent deliberately misses a final putt. In fact, the competitor is the one who approached him. McDermot refuses, so Jonathan Linus goes to another pro, Tommy Del Gaddo, whose glory days were behind him. Then they turn in McDermot,"