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La Mirisch Company (connue aussi sous les noms de Mirisch Pictures, Inc., Mirisch Corporation et Mirisch Production Company), fondée par Walter Mirisch et ses frères Marvin Mirisch et Harold Mirisch en 1957, est une société de production de cinéma américaine.
Walter Mirisch commence sa carrière de producteur chez Monogram Pictures avec Fall Guy (1947) et les serials des Bomba.
Les frères Mirisch contrôlent la production de Allied Artists, filiale de Monogram, créée en 1946, où ils engagent sous contrat John Huston, William Wyler et Billy Wilder. Ces deux derniers livrent, respectivement, La Loi du Seigneur et Ariane, qui sont des succès critiques mais pas publics.
La Mirisch Company est créée en août 1957. Un mois plus tard, elle signe un contrat de 12 films avec United Artists (UA), lequel est étendu à 20 films en 1959. En 1963, un nouveau contrat de 20 films est signé et UA acquiert la Mirisch Company. Les frères Mirisch conservent leurs postes à la compagnie et continuent de louer leurs bureaux au Samuel Goldwyn Studio.
En 1964 est créée Mirisch Films Ltd au Royaume-Uni, laquelle produit une poignée de films, dont Quand l'inspecteur s'emmêle.
Fonctionnant comme une société de portage salarial, la Mirisch Company produit 58 films pour United Artists, commençant avec Fort Massacre (1958) et se poursuivant avec Certains l'aiment chaud (1959) , Les Cavaliers, La Garçonnière, Les Sept Mercenaires (1960), West Side Story (1961), La Panthère rose, La Grande Évasion (1963), Dans la chaleur de la nuit (1967) et se terminant avec Mr. Majestyk en 1974. À partir de cette date, la Mirisch Company ne produit plus qu'une poignée de films, essentiellement pour Universal Pictures.
Sous la bannière Mirisch-Geoffrey-DePatie-Freleng, la Mirisch produit de 1964 à 1980 la série de dessins animés La Panthère rose, toujours distribuée en salles par UA.
À la télévision, la Mirisch n'arrive pas à placer le pilote d'une série dérivée de Certains l'aiment chaud en 1961, mais a plus de succès avec Les Rats du désert, produit avec Lee Rich en 1966 pour ABC et Les Sept Mercenaires en 1998 pour CBS.
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(1963)Filmography of Mirisch Company (54 films)
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The Party (1968)
, 1h39Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Mise en scène d'un éléphant, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Marge Champion, Jean Carson, Gavin MacLeod, Denny Miller
A film crew is making a Gunga Din-style costume epic. Unknown Indian actor Hrundi V. Bakshi (Sellers) plays a bugler, but continues to play even after being shot and after the director (Herbert Ellis) yells "cut." Bakshi later accidentally blows up an enormous fort set rigged with explosives. The director fires Bakshi immediately and calls the studio head, General Fred R. Clutterbuck (J. Edward McKinley), about the mishap. Clutterbuck writes down Bakshi's name to blacklist him, but he inadvertently writes Bakshi's name on the guest list of his wife's upcoming dinner party.
Attack on the Iron Coast (1968)
, 1h29Directed by Paul Wendkos
Origin USA
Genres War, Action
Themes Political films
Actors Lloyd Bridges, Andrew Keir, Sue Lloyd, Maurice Denham, Mark Eden, Walter Gotell
Canadian Commando Major Jamie Wilson plans an audacious Combined Operations raid on the Axis held French port of Le Clare; if destroyed the Germans would be stripped of their only dry dock capable of servicing their large battleships. Wilson's plan code named Operation Mad Dog, is to ram a destroyer packed with tons of explosives into the outer gate of the dock, while his commandos cause havoc to the docks facilities and garrison and then detonate the explosive laden destroyer. Opposed to Wilson is Royal Navy Captain Owen Franklin, whose own son was killed on Wilson's disastrous last Dieppe Raid type raid on the French coast at Le Plagé.
Inspector Clouseau (1968)
, 1h36Directed by Bud Yorkin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Alan Arkin, Frank Finlay, Delia Boccardo, Patrick Cargill, Beryl Reid, Barry Foster
An organized crime wave strikes across Europe. Suspecting a mole within Scotland Yard, the Prime Minister brings Clouseau in to solve the case. Clouseau foils two assassination attempts but is subsequently kidnapped. The gang uses him to make masks of his face which they later use to commit a series of daring bank robberies across Switzerland. Eventually, Clouseau foils the plot and unmasks the traitor within the Yard.
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
, 1h49Directed by Norman Jewison
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about racism
Actors Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, James Patterson, William Schallert
Mr. Colbert, a wealthy man from Chicago who was planning to build a factory in Sparta, Mississippi, is found murdered. White police Chief Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger) comes under pressure to quickly find his killer. African-American northerner Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier), passing through town, is picked up at the train station between trains with a substantial amount of cash in his wallet. Gillespie, prejudiced against blacks, jumps to the conclusion that he has his culprit but is embarrassed to learn that Tibbs is an experienced Philadelphia homicide detective who is simply passing through town after visiting his mother. After the racist treatment that he receives, Tibbs wants nothing more than to leave as quickly as possible, but his own chief, after questioning whether Tibbs himself is prejudiced, has him stay and help. Leslie Colbert (Lee Grant), the victim's widow, already frustrated by the ineptitude of the local police, is impressed by Tibbs's expertise when he clears another wrongly accused suspect whom Gillespie has arrested on circumstantial evidence. She threatens to stop construction on the much needed factory unless Tibbs leads the investigation. Unwilling to accept help, but under orders from the town's mayor, Gillespie talks a reluctant Tibbs into working on the case.
Fitzwilly (1967)
, 1h42Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Christmas films, Heist films
Actors Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Feldon, Edith Evans, John McGiver, Harry Townes, John Fiedler
, 2h1Directed by David Swift
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Robert Morse, Michele Lee, Rudy Vallée, Anthony 'Scooter' Teague, Maureen Arthur, Ruth Kobart
J. Pierpont Finch buys a book, How to Succeed in Business, describing in step-by-step fashion how to rise in the business world. The ambitious young window cleaner follows its advice carefully. He joins the "World-Wide Wicket Company" and begins work in the mailroom. Soon, thanks to the ethically-questionable advice in the book, he rises to Vice-President in Charge of Advertising, making sure that each person above him gets either fired or moved or transferred within the company.
Hour of the Gun (1967)
, 1h41Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors James Garner, Jason Robards, Robert Ryan, Albert Salmi, Charles Aidman, Steve Ihnat
Outnumbered but determined, Wyatt Earp (James Garner), his brothers Virgil (Frank Converse) and Morgan (Sam Melville) and ally Doc Holliday (Jason Robards) confront and clearly get the best of the Ike Clanton gang in a violent shootout at the O.K. Corral in the Arizona town of Tombstone.
Hawaii (1966)
, 3h9Directed by George Roy Hill, James Blue, Richard Talmadge
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Gene Hackman, Jocelyne LaGarde, Richard Harris, Carroll O'Connor
The story follows Prince Keoki Kanakoa, the Reverend Abner Hale and his wife Jerusha, who join the prince on mission to the Islands of Hawaii for the Calvinist church with the promise to make Kanakoa a minister. Upon their arrival to the islands, the ship stops in Lahaina, Maui before going on to Honolulu, Oahu where the main church has been established. There they are greeted by the aliʻi nui, Malama Kanakoa, Keoki's mother, who stops the Hales from traveling further when she demands Jerusha remain in Lahaina to teach her to write. Reverend Hale attempts to teach her of the Christian God first but she refuses until she, herself can write. Only after that will she listen to Abner's Christian teachings. As Hale learns, there is a serious difference between a destiny calling to him and the call to recognize the needs of others.
The Fortune Cookie (1966)
, 2h5Directed by Billy Wilder
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Politique
Actors Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Cliff Osmond, Lurene Tuttle, Les Tremayne, Harry Holcombe
CBS cameraman Harry Hinkle (Jack Lemmon) gets injured when football player Luther "Boom Boom" Jackson (Ron Rich) runs into him while he is covering a Browns game at Cleveland Stadium. Harry's injuries are minor, but his conniving lawyer brother-in-law William H. "Whiplash Willie" Gingrich (Walter Matthau) convinces him to pretend that his leg and hand have been partially paralyzed. This way, they can receive a huge indemnity from the insurance company. Harry reluctantly goes along with the scheme because he is still in love with his ex-wife, Sandy (Judi West), and it might win her back. The insurance company suspects that the paralysis is a fake one, so a cat-and-mouse game starts between its investigator, Chester Purkey (Cliff Osmond), and the shyster Willie. Boom Boom takes very good care of Harry, who starts having second thoughts as he witnesses guilt taking its toll on Boom Boom. As he also sees that Sandy is back by his side strictly out of greed, Harry decides to reveal the truth, thereby ruining Willie's get-rich plans.
, 2h6Directed by Norman Jewison
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Action
Themes Military humor in film, Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Musical films, Political films
Actors Alan Arkin, Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Brian Keith, Jonathan Winters, Theodore Bikel
A Russian submarine called Спрут ("Octopus") draws too close to the New England coast one morning when its captain (Theodore Bikel) wants to take a good look at America and runs aground on a sandbar near the fictional Gloucester Island, which, from other references in the movie, is located off the coast of Cape Ann or Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Rather than radio for help and risk an embarrassing international incident, the captain sends a nine-man landing party, headed by his zampolit (Political Officer) Lieutenant Yuri Rozanov (Alan Arkin), to find a motor launch to help free the submarine from the bar. The men arrive at the house of Walt Whittaker (Carl Reiner), a vacationing playwright from New York City. Whittaker is eager to get his wife Elspeth (Eva Marie Saint) and two children, obnoxious but precocious nine and half-year-old Pete (Sheldon Collins) and three-year-old Annie (Cindy Putnam), off the island now that summer is over.
, 1h56Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Political films
Actors James Coburn, Aldo Ray, Dick Shawn, Sergio Fantoni, Giovanna Ralli, Carroll O'Connor
A wartime outfit of U.S. soldiers is assigned to capture a village in Sicily, but upon arrival, they discover that the town has been expecting them and will willingly turn itself over to the Americans' rule, provided they are permitted to complete a soccer match and a wine festival.
The Hallelujah Trail (1965)
, 2h45Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton, Pamela Tiffin, Donald Pleasence, Brian Keith
1867, la disette d'alcool menace la cité de Denver, Colorado. Chaque habitant de la ville pense que l’hiver sera rude et risque d'empêcher l'arrivée d'un convoi de quarante fourgons avec six cents barils de whisky et de champagne. Les Sioux guettent, le long de la piste Hallelujah, le convoi en provenance de Julesburg, tandis que les dames de la Ligue de Tempérance, avec à leur tête Cora Templeton Massingale, entendent s'opposer à l'arrivée de l'alcool. À la tête du convoi, se trouve Frank Wallingham sous la protection du détachement de cavalerie du capitaine Paul Slater.
The Satan Bug (1965)
, 1h54Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Spy, Horror, Crime
Themes Spy films, Medical-themed films, Films based on science fiction novels
Actors George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews, Edward Asnere, Richard Bull
Lee Barrett, a private investigator and former intelligence agent discharged for his outspoken views, is approached by a man with a tempting offer to join a political organization opposing bioweapons. His refusal proves the correct response, as the man is an impersonator sent by his former boss Eric Cavanaugh to test his loyalty. Barrett is asked by Cavanaugh to investigate the murder of the security chief of Station Three — a top-secret bioweapons laboratory station in the desert of Southern California — and the disappearance of its director and head scientist, Dr. Baxter. After they arrive at the station and wait for a time lock on the sealed lab to open, they are advised by another scientist, Dr. Gregor Hoffman, to seal the lab using concrete. Hoffman informs them that there are two lethal bioweapons in the lab, a strain of botulinus that oxidizes eight hours after its release, and a recently developed virus that he calls the "Satan Bug", which could kill all life on Earth in a matter of months. Determined to discover what happened in the room and taking extreme cautions, Barrett enters to find Dr. Baxter dead, with the vials containing the "Satan Bug" and 1200 grams of botulinus missing.
A Shot in the Dark (1964)
, 1h42Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Théâtre, Serial killer films, Films based on plays
Actors Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders, Herbert Lom, Tracy Reed, Moira Redmond
Inspector Clouseau is called to the country home of Paris plutocrat Benjamin Ballon to investigate the murder of his Spanish chauffeur Miguel. The chauffeur was having an affair with the maid, Maria Gambrelli, who claims that he often beat her. Although all the evidence points to Gambrelli as the killer, Clouseau refuses to admit her guilt after he develops an instant attraction to her.
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
, 2h6Directed by Billy Wilder
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films about classical music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films, Films based on plays, Erotic thriller films
Actors Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston, Felicia Farr, Cliff Osmond, Barbara Pepper
While driving his Dual-Ghia from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, lecherous, heavy-drinking pop singer Dino (Dean Martin) is forced to detour through Climax, Nevada. There he meets the amateur songwriting team of Barney Millsap (Cliff Osmond), a gas station attendant, and piano teacher Orville J. Spooner (Ray Walston), a man easily given to jealousy. Hoping to interest Dino in their songs, Barney disables the "Italian" sports car and tells Dino he will need to remain in town until new parts arrive from Milan. (Dual-Ghia was actually an American marque, mating a Dodge frame, drivetrain, and engine with Italian coachwork.