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29Sep2017

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Dillinger | 1973 | US One Sheet

Dillinger is a 1973 film directed John Milius. It was co-produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff, Lawrence A. Gordon and Buzz Feitshans. The screenplay was written by John Milius. Dillinger stars Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Michelle Phillips, Cloris Leachman, Harry Dean Stanton, Geoffrey Lewis, John P. Ryan, Richard Dreyfuss, Steve Kanaly, John Martino and Roy Jenson. The storyline is set in 1933 during the Great Depression. Following the Kansas City Massacre where several law-enforcement officers are killed, FBI field office chief Melvin Purvis decides to personally hunt down the men he deems responsible. John Dillinger and his gang's bank robbing exploits make them something of folk heroes. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he i...

The Day of the Jackal | 1973 | Final | UK One Sheet

30Jan2017

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The Day of the Jackal | 1973 | Final | UK One Sheet

The Day of the Jackal is a 1973 film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Edward Fox and Michel Lonsdale. It is based on the 1971 thriller novel The Day of the Jackal by English writer Frederick Forsyth, the film is about a professional assassin known only as the "Jackal”, who is contracted by the Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS), a French dissident paramilitary organisation, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France in the summer of 1963. The novel received admiring reviews and praise when first published in 1971, and it received a 1972 Best Novel Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. The novel remains popular, and in 2003 it was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read. The OAS did exist as described in the novel, and the book opens with an accurate depiction ...

19Sep2016

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Serpico | 1973 | UK Quad

Serpico is a 1973 neo-noir crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and produced by Martin Bregman. The screenplay was written by Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler and is based on an adaption of Peter Maas's biography of NYPD officer Frank Serpico, who went undercover to expose the corruption within the police force. The film stars Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire, Barbara Eda-Young, Cornelia Sharpe, Tony Roberts, John Medici and Allan Rich. The storyline follows Frank Serpico, a young and inexperienced cop who starts out on patrol. Later, he starts to work as an undercover cop, busting all sorts of criminals, but mostly drug dealers and pushers. Since Serpico is a young man living in the 1960s and early 1970s, he lives as one. His image, based on how others look on him, s...