"Shaft (TV series) Shaft is a series of TV movies that aired along with ""Hawkins"" and other TV movies during 1973-74 television season on ""The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies"". Broadcast every third week, the series is a continuation of the three films beginning with ""Shaft"" (1971), and starring Richard Roundtree as private detective John Shaft. Because it was aired on over-the-air television, CBS felt that the narrative needed to be toned down. Now instead of working alongside the police, Shaft worked with them, creating cross-overs with ""Hawkins"", another police series with a starkly conflicting demographic. The show was cancelled"
"Breakspear/Bernard Crabtree in ""Crown Court"" (1982–1984), and Brian in ""One by One"" (1984). Donaghy played the lead role in ""The Invisible Man"" (1984), Richard Lister in ""Screen Two"" (1985), Job Trotter in ""The Pickwick Papers"" (1985), Monks in ""Oliver Twist"" (1985), the Mad Hatter in ""Alice in Wonderland"" (1986), Jack Whitly in ""The Campbells"" (1988), Sir Walter Pistol in ""T-Bag and the Rings of Olympus"" (1991), Marcellin in ""Maigret"" (1992), Tom Peterlee in ""The Ruth Rendell Mysteries"" (1992), Neville in ""Boon"" (1992), Don Nicols in ""Between the Lines"" (1992), Geoff Welland in ""Peak Practice"" (1995), Len Sheldon in ""Prime Suspect:"
"released in theatres on June 8, 1972. The film was released on DVD initially on June 6, 2000, then August 30, 2005, and finally January 31, 2006 by Warner Home Video. Shaft's Big Score! Shaft's Big Score! is a 1972 American neo-noir action crime–drama film starring Richard Roundtree as the private detective John Shaft. Directed by Gordon Parks, this is the second film in the trilogy. Ernest Tidyman once more supplied the screenplay. The first film's composer Isaac Hayes was unavailable, so Parks, the returning director, did the score himself. The film was produced on a budget of $1,978,000. ""Shaft's"
"""A 077, sfida ai killers"" (1966), directed by Antonio Margheriti, and ""Fury in Marrakesh"", a.k.a. ""Furia a Marrakech"" (1966). Margheriti made one other spy film, ""Lightning Bolt"", a.k.a. ""Operazione Goldman"" (1966). Other notable examples include ""Berlin, Appointment for the Spies"", a.k.a. ""Spy in Your Eye"" (Italy, 1965), the French ""OSS 117"" André Hunebelle series based on the Jean Bruce character and Claude Chabrol's ""Tiger"" trilogy (""Le Tigre aime la chair fraiche"", ""Le Tigre se parfume à la dynamite"", and ""Blue Panther"", a.k.a. ""Marie Chantal contre Dr.""), and the German ""Kommissar X"" and ""Jerry Cotton"" series. France's Eddie Constantine Nick Carter"
"Nakatomi Corporation. Fox was contractually obligated to offer Sinatra the lead role, but he promptly turned it down as he would have been more than 70 years old when filming. Coincidentally, Lloyd Bochner's son Hart was also featured in ""Die Hard"". The film launched a film franchise that continues into the 2010s. The Detective (1968 film) The Detective is a 1968 color neo-noir crime film in Panavision directed by Gordon Douglas, produced by Aaron Rosenberg and starring Frank Sinatra, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Roderick Thorp. Co-stars include Lee Remick, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Klugman, William"
"Shaft's Big Score! Shaft's Big Score! is a 1972 American neo-noir action crime–drama film starring Richard Roundtree as the private detective John Shaft. Directed by Gordon Parks, this is the second film in the trilogy. Ernest Tidyman once more supplied the screenplay. The first film's composer Isaac Hayes was unavailable, so Parks, the returning director, did the score himself. The film was produced on a budget of $1,978,000. ""Shaft's Big Score!"" also stars Moses Gunn, Drew Bundini Brown, Joseph Mascolo, Julius Harris, and Joe Santos. While New York is never at a loss for criminal activity, things take a turn"
"series such as ""Hawaii Five-O"", ""Rockford Files"", ""Mannix"", ""The Feather and Father Gang"", ""The Eddie Capra Mysteries"", ""Matlock"", ""Jake and the Fatman"", ""Diagnosis Murder,"" ""Dragnet"", ""It Takes a Thief"", and ""Adam-12"", and in television movies including ""Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol"" (1972), ""The Alpha Caper"" (1973) and ""The Dead Don't Die"" (1975). He appeared in such feature films as ""Uptight"" (1968), ""If He Hollers, Let Him Go!"" (1968), ""The Undefeated"" (1969), ""The Lawyer"" (1970), ""Buck and the Preacher"" (1972), ""The Groundstar Conspiracy"" (1972) and ""Fuzz"" (1972). McEachin played Mr. Turner, a tax collector for the I.R.S., and later a character called"
"a miniseries (""Harper's Island"", 2009), and episodic television such as ""The Avengers"" (""The Superlative Seven""), ""The Wild Wild West"" (""The Night of The Tottering Tontine"") both from 1967, and ""Remington Steele"" (""Steele Trap"") in 1982. The 1960s and 1970s saw a neo-noir resurgence of the hardboiled detective film (and gritty police drama), based on the classic films of the past. These fall into three basic categories: modern updates of old films and novels, atmospheric period piece films set in the 1930s and 1940s, and new, contemporary detective stories that pay homage to the past. Veteran private eye Philip Marlowe returned"
"Floater"" (1975), ""The Way of the World"" (1975), ""Brassneck"" (1975), ""The Glittering Prizes"" (1976), ""Trilby"" (1976), ""The Onedin Line"" (1976), ""Campion's Interview"" (1977), ""Rumpole of the Bailey"" (1977–1992), ""The Life of Shakespeare"" (1978), ""Prince Regent"" (1979), ""The Vanishing Army"" (1980), ""Psy Warriors"" (1981), ""A Fine Romance"" (1982), ""King Lear"" (1982), ""Three Up, Two Down"" (1985), ""Lytton's Diary"" (1985–86), ""Death of a Son"" (1989), ""Around the World in 80 Days"" (1989), ""Sherlock Holmes"" (1991), """" (1991), ""Inspector Morse"" (1993), ""Bugs - Assassins Inc"" (1995), ""It Might Be You"" (1995), ""Kavanagh QC"" (1997), ""The Wyvern Mystery"" (2000), """" (2001), ""The Hunt"" (2001),"
"Both films are examples of a late-1960s neo-noir trend which revived and updated the hard-boiled detective and police dramas of the 1940s. Other films in this genre include ""The Detective"" (1968), which also starred Sinatra, as well as ""Point Blank"" (1967), ""Bullitt"" (1968), ""Madigan"" (1968), and ""Marlowe"" (1969). Sinatra had originally been considered for the lead role as the tough private eye in ""Harper"" (1966), but lost out to Paul Newman. ""Tony Rome"", ""The Detective"", and ""Lady in Cement"" were all directed by Gordon Douglas. The three films were packaged together in a DVD box-set by 20th Century Fox in"
"""The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes"" (1970), but for a time funds became hard to come by. More relaxed censorship also brought several controversial films, including Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell's ""Performance"", Ken Russell's ""The Devils"" (1971), Sam Peckinpah's ""Straw Dogs"" (1971), and Stanley Kubrick's ""A Clockwork Orange"" (1971) starring Malcolm McDowell as the leader of a gang of thugs in a dystopian future Britain. Other films during the early 1970s included the Edwardian drama ""The Go-Between"" (1971), which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Nicolas Roeg's Venice-set supernatural thriller ""Don't Look Now"" (1973) and Mike Hodges'"
"in ""Nashville"" (1975), investigator Martin Dardis in ""All the President's Men"" (1976), undercover federal agent Bob Sweet in ""Silver Streak"" (1976), the priest, Father Edwards in """" (1977), Lex Luthor's bumbling henchman Otis in ""Superman"" (1978) and ""Superman II"" (1980), as a millionaire's right-hand man in ""The Toy"" (1982), Pavel Borisov in ""The Fourth Protocol"" (1987), TV presenter Ernest Weller in ""Repossessed"" (1990), Rudy Ruettiger's father in ""Rudy"" (1993), attorney McNair in ""Just Cause"" (1995), Dexter Wilkins in ""Life"" (1999), the simple sheriff in ""Where the Red Fern Grows"" (2003), the corrupt Senator Charles F. Meachum in ""Shooter"" (2007), United"
"Chandler, it features one of Bogart's most famous characters, but in iconoclastic fashion: Philip Marlowe, the prototypical hardboiled detective, is replayed as a hapless misfit, almost laughably out of touch with contemporary mores and morality. Where Altman's subversion of the film noir mythos was so irreverent as to outrage some contemporary critics, around the same time Woody Allen was paying affectionate, at points idolatrous homage to the classic mode with ""Play It Again, Sam"" (1972). The ""blaxploitation"" film ""Shaft"" (1971), wherein Richard Roundtree plays the titular African-American private eye, John Shaft, takes conventions from classic noir. The most acclaimed of"
"They Call Me Mister Tibbs! They Call Me Mister Tibbs! is a 1970 American DeLuxe Color crime drama film directed by Gordon Douglas. The second installment in a trilogy, the release was preceded by ""In the Heat of the Night"" (1967) and followed by ""The Organization"" (1971). The film's title was taken from a line in the first film. Sidney Poitier reprised his role of police detective Virgil Tibbs, though in this sequel, Tibbs is working for the San Francisco Police rather than the Philadelphia Police (as in the original film) or the Pasadena Police (as in the novels). Detective"
"been diagnosed two years prior. Richard Libertini Richard Joseph Libertini (May 21, 1933 – January 7, 2016) was an American stage, film and television actor. He was known for playing character roles and his ability to speak in numerous accents. His films include ""Catch-22"" (1970), ""The In-Laws"" (1979), ""Popeye"" (1980), ""All of Me"" (1984), ""Fletch"" (1985), ""Fletch Lives"" (1989), ""Awakenings"" (1990), ""Lethal Weapon 4"" (1998), and ""Dolphin Tale"" (2011). Libertini was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and graduated from Emerson College in Boston. During his early years, Libertini worked in New York City and in Chicago. He moved to Los Angeles"
"heighten the dramatic tension in his work in the serials ""Pennies from Heaven"" (1978), ""The Singing Detective"" (1986), ""Lipstick on Your Collar"" (1993) and the play ""Cream in My Coffee"" (1980). The theme of sexual abuse is returned to in ""Only Make Believe"" (1973), ""Brimstone and Treacle"" (1976), ""Where Adam Stood"" (1976), ""Blue Remembered Hills"" (1979), ""Blackeyes"" (1989), ""Cold Lazarus"" (1996) and the novel ""Hide and Seek"" (1974). Characters also undergo psychiatric assessment in ""Follow the Yellow Brick Road"" (1972), ""Hide and Seek"" and ""The Singing Detective"". The play was broadcast on ITV on 12 April 1969 and has not"
"and three ""Carry On"" films – ""Carry On Jack"" (1963), ""Carry On Spying"" (1964) and ""Carry On Columbus"" (1992). Other appearances include the second ""Doctor Who"" film ""Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D."" (1966) as Special Police Constable Tom Campbell; ""She"" in 1965; ""Casino Royale"" (1967) as a taxi driver; ""The Railway Children"" (1970) as Mr Albert Perks, the station porter and the Alfred Hitchcock thriller ""Frenzy"" (1972) as Felix Forsythe. Later films include ""Dangerous Davies – The Last Detective"" (1981), ""Blackball"" (2003) and ""Run for Your Wife"" (2012). Cribbins was the narrator of the British animated children's TV series ""The"
"about his movies. If a shot doesn't work, he doesn't like to try it again; he might be late getting back to Vegas. What's more, the ideal Sinatra role requires him to be in no more than a fourth of the scenes, getting him lots of loot and top billing while his supporting cast does the work."" Dirty Dingus Magee Dirty Dingus Magee is a 1970 American Comedy & anti-western film starring Frank Sinatra as the title outlaw and George Kennedy as a sheriff out to capture him. The movie was based on the novel ""The Ballad of Dingus Magee"""
"The Detective (novel) The Detective is a thriller/detective novel by author Roderick Thorp, first published hardcover in 1966. It was made into the 1968 movie of the same name, starring Frank Sinatra, as Detective Joe Leland. Billed as, ""An adult look at police life,"" ""The Detective"" went on to become one of the highest-grossing films of 1968 and one of the strongest box-office hits of Sinatra's acting career. A 1979 sequel, ""Nothing Lasts Forever"", was later made into the 1988 film ""Die Hard"", which spawned a series totalling five films. Joe Leland, a private detective, begins investigating a case for"
"him a hot box-office commodity in Spain, Italy, Germany, and France. Between 1966 and 1977 he starred or co-starred in at least 25 movies, the majority of which were Italian Poliziotteschi films, where he normally played the villain or hitman, or the dark hero, or a combination of the two. His best remembered of these are ""Manhunt"" (1972), ""Il Boss"" (1973), and ""Almost Human"" (1974). He also appeared against type as the Japanese detective Mr. Moto in the 1965 murder mystery ""The Return of Mr. Moto"", and as an Apache who helps rape victim Michele Carey in the 1970 revenge"
"The Detective (1968 film) The Detective is a 1968 color neo-noir crime film in Panavision directed by Gordon Douglas, produced by Aaron Rosenberg and starring Frank Sinatra, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Roderick Thorp. Co-stars include Lee Remick, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Klugman, William Windom and Robert Duvall, with a script by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Abby Mann. ""The Detective"" marked a move towards — and was billed as — a more ""adult"" approach to depicting the life and work of a police detective while confronting, for one of the first times in mainstream cinema, previously taboo"
"Solution""; and as Little John in the 1976 Richard Lester film ""Robin and Marian"". Additionally, he portrayed an MI6 bureaucrat in ""The Human Factor"" (1979) (adapted from a novel by Graham Greene), an alcoholic attorney in ""I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can"" (1982); a colonel in the Cincinnati Gestapo in the Neil Simon comedy ""The Cheap Detective""; as Lord Louis Mountbatten in ""Lord Mountbatten - The Last Viceroy"" (1985); the dual roles of Dr. Worley/The Nome King in ""Return To Oz"" (1985); as Father Morning in ""The Exorcist III"" (1990); as Badger in the 1996 movie adaptation of Kenneth"
"always thought that an actor is destined to act, but I now realize that if you do one role well, you get stuck with it!"" The quality of his films did not increase, however: ""Captain Apache"" (1971), ""Revenge!"" (1971), ""Run, Cougar, Run"" (1972), ""The Woman Hunter"" (1972), ""Night of the Lepus"" (1972) (about killer rabbits), ""The Man Who Died Twice"" (1973), ""Welcome to Arrow Beach"" (1974), ""Crazy Mama"" (1975), ""Shatter"" (1974), ""Strange Shadows in an Empty Room"" (1976), ""Ruby"" (1977), ""The White Buffalo"" (1977), ""Eaten Alive"" (1977), ""Run for the Roses"" (1977), and ""Treasure Seekers"" (1979). He played a character"
"characters whose adventures unfolded over multiple books. Exceptions include Max Stafford (a security consultant featured in ""Flyaway"" and ""Windfall)"", Slade (a spy who appeared in ""Running Blind"" and ""The Freedom Trap""), Metcalfe (the smuggler/mercenary in ""The Golden Keel"" and ""The Spoilers""). His work yielded five relatively unremarkable adaptations: ""The Freedom Trap"" (1971), released in 1973 as ""The Mackintosh Man"" by Warner Brothers, directed by John Huston and starring Paul Newman and Dominique Sanda; ""Running Blind"", adapted for television by the BBC in 1979; ""Landslide"", made for television in 1992; ""The Vivero Letter"", filmed in 1998; and ""The Enemy"", starring Roger"
"Spectre (1977 film) Spectre is a 1977 television film produced by Gene Roddenberry. It was co-written by Roddenberry and Samuel A. Peeples, and directed by Clive Donner. It was one of several unsuccessful pilots created by Roddenberry, and one of several pilots in the 1970s in the occult detective subgenre. The pilot follows the adventures of William Sebastian (Robert Culp), a former criminologist and occult expert, and his colleague, Dr. ""Ham"" Hamilton (Gig Young), a physician and forensic pathologist, as they visit the United Kingdom to investigate a case involving the aristocratic Cyon family. The cast includes John Hurt, James"
"""The Beiderbecke Trilogy"" (1984 to 1988); Boniface in ""Boon"" (1989); Professor Whitman in """" (1990); Dr. Louis Werner in ""Selling Hitler"" (1991); Flossie in ""The Blackheath Poisonings"" (1992); Freddie in ""Down to Earth"" (2005); Mr Weston in ""Torchwood"" (2006); Adrian Hammill in ""Blue Murder"" (2006); Martin Greenwood in ""Casualty"" (2007) and Walter Hickling in ""Doctors"" (2008). Film work includes Heavenly Bliss in """" (1973); Apprentice in ""Confessions of a Window Cleaner"" (1974); Second Roadblock Policeman in ""The Stick Up"" (1977); Pettelson in ""Agatha"" (1979); Badger Beadon in ""Why Didn't They Ask Evans?"" 1980; Tape Operator in ""Give My Regards to"
"conspiracy involving murder, espionage, or both. Films in this category include ""Mirage"" with Gregory Peck, ""The Third Day"" starring George Peppard, the British film ""Hysteria"" from Hammer Films (all from 1965), ""Mister Buddwing"" (1966) with James Garner, and ""Jigsaw"" (1968), a remake of ""Mirage"". Concurrently, the hero-gets-amnesia story became a frequently used television cliche (see TV Tropes). There were two series, the western ""A Man Called Shenandoah"" (1965–1966), and the contemporary drama ""Coronet Blue"" (filmed 1965, broadcast 1967), both about a man with no memories. Numerous crime-dramas, adventure shows, and comedies featured episodes in which the lead character has temporary"
"television series ""Roots"" and Dr. Daniel Reubens on ""Generations"" from 1989 to 1991. Before becoming an actor, he was a football player and a model. He played another private detective in 1984's ""City Heat"" opposite Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds. Although Roundtree worked throughout the 1990s, many of his films were not well-received, but he found success elsewhere in stage plays. During that period, however, he reemerged on the small screen as a cultural icon. On September 19, 1991, Roundtree appeared in an episode of ""Beverly Hills, 90210"" with Vivica A. Fox. The episode was ""Ashes to Ashes"", Roundtree playing"
"bank clerk, William Sheridan. Sheridan was shot to death by George McLaughlin while in the middle of an armed robbery. In December 1973, O'Toole (who had survived many assassination attempts) was run over and killed by gangland assassin John Martorano while leaving Edward G. Connors' saloon in Savin hill. Dorchester O'Toole and 46-year-old Joseph M. (Rockball) O'Rourke from Medford, Massachusetts were arraigned on charges in 1970 and imprisoned at the same jail while awaiting trial. O'Rourke, a powerful and loyal associate of the Charlestown Mob, was being held for his involvement in the shooting of Boston patrolman Robert Noonan. Detective"
"in ""The Protectors"" (1972), Pilkington in ""Follyfoot"" (1973), Lionel in ""The Growing Pains of PC Penrose"" (1975), Chauffeur in ""The Sweeney"" (1976), Mr Oliver in ""Survivors"" (1977) Judge Lambsfoot in ""Dick Turpin"" (1980), Scruffy Man in ""The Professionals"" (1980), Dr Losborne in ""Oliver Twist"" (1982), Jonathon Hopper in ""Whoops Apocalypse"" (1982), Mr Barraclough/Executive in ""Metal Mickey"" (1980-1982), Lapsley/Josie's Dad in ""Last of the Summer Wine"" (1976-1983), Mr Adam in ""The Witches and the Grinnygog"" (1983), the Retired Morris Dancer in The Black Seal episode of ""The Black Adder"" (1983), Guido in ""Ellis Island"" (1984), Old Mr Brooks in ""We'll Think"
"the stage production of Irving Berlin's ""White Christmas"" at The Lowry theatre in Salford from November 2009 to January 2010. In the 1970s, Dotrice played the title role in the television mini-series ""Dickens of London"". He also appeared as Albert Haddock in the BBC television adaptation of A. P. Herbert's ""Misleading Cases"" in 1971. In 1972 he played the Curé Ponosse in the BBC2 TV adaptation of ""Clochemerle"" (1972). He was known to North American audiences as Father in the 1980s American TV series ""Beauty and the Beast"" and Father Gary Barrett, a Catholic priest, in the 1990s series ""Picket"
"of the 20th century, particularly a brief renaissance in the 1980s. In the 1980s, Rimways were often featured in movies to indicate that a character was an intellectual; Wilford Brimley wore a pair as scientist Blair in ""The Thing"", as did Corey Feldman while playing a child inventor in """". Paul Verhoeven chose a pair for Kurtwood Smith to wear as villain Clarence Boddicker in ""RoboCop"" specifically because the glasses' intellectual associations would clash with the character's violent personality, a contradiction that he believed recalled the similarly bespectacled Heinrich Himmler. Three-piece glasses rose in popularity in the early 21st century"
"film. However, he has appeared in around 15 European films, most of them French, from 1952 to 1991. In all but the first of these films, he was always played by the same actor, Eddie Constantine, who was indelibly associated with the role for life. The first seven of the Eddie Constantine films, from 1953 to 1963, were straight detective films in the film noir style; later films tended to be experimental or comedic. Today the best-known of these films is the 1965 Jean-Luc Godard film ""Alphaville"", which placed Caution in a dystopian science fiction setting. After the Second World"