Hal Pereira is a Actor and Production Design American born on 29 april 1905 at Chicago (USA)
Hal Pereira
Hal Pereira participated to
232 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
28 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Art
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Directed by Cecil B. DeMilleOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Fantastic,
Action,
Historical,
PeplumThemes Films set in Africa,
Films about slavery,
Films about religion,
La précarité,
Films based on the Bible,
Films about Jews and Judaism,
L'émigrationActors Charlton Heston,
Yul Brynner,
Anne Baxter,
Edward G. Robinson,
Yvonne De Carlo,
Debra PagetRoles Art Direction
Rating78%
Pharaoh Rameses I of Egypt has ordered the death of all firstborn Hebrew males after hearing the prophecy of the Deliverer, but a Hebrew woman named Yoshebel saves her infant son by setting him adrift in a basket on the Nile. Bithiah, the Pharaoh's daughter, who had recently lost her husband and the hope of ever having children of her own, finds the basket and decides to adopt the boy even though her servant, Memnet, recognizes the child is Hebrew and protests., 1h49
Directed by Alfred HitchcockOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Assassinat,
Medical-themed films,
Films about disabilitiesActors James Stewart,
Grace Kelly,
Wendell Corey,
Thelma Ritter,
Raymond Burr,
Judith EvelynRoles Art Direction
Rating84%
After breaking his leg photographing a racetrack accident, professional photographer L. B. "Jeff" Jefferies (James Stewart) is confined to his Greenwich Village apartment, using a wheelchair while he recuperates. His rear window looks out onto a small courtyard and several other apartments. During a summer heat wave, he passes the time by watching his neighbors, who keep their windows open to stay cool. The tenants he can see include a dancer he nicknames "Miss Torso", a lonely woman he nicknames "Miss Lonelyhearts", a composer-pianist, several married couples, a middle-aged sculptor, and Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr), a traveling jewelry salesman with a bedridden wife., 2h33
Directed by Cecil B. DeMilleOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Action,
RomanceThemes Circus films,
Films about euthanasia,
Transport films,
Rail transport filmsActors Betty Hutton,
Cornel Wilde,
Charlton Heston,
James Stewart,
Dorothy Lamour,
Gloria GrahameRoles Art Direction
Rating64%
Brad Braden is the no-nonsense general manager of what was at the time the world's largest railroad circus. He has a number of problems on his hands for the upcoming season., 1h58
Directed by George StevensOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Action,
Adventure,
WesternActors Alan Ladd,
Jean Arthur,
Van Heflin,
Brandon deWilde,
Jack Palance,
Edith EvansonRoles Art Direction
Rating75%
Shane (Alan Ladd), a skilled, laconic gunslinger with a mysterious past, rides out of the desert and into an isolated valley in the sparsely settled state of Wyoming some time after enactment of the Homestead Act of 1862. At dinner with a pioneer homesteader, Joe Starrett (Van Heflin) and his wife, Marian (Jean Arthur), he learns that a war of intimidation is being waged on the valley's homesteaders. The ruthless cattle baron Rufus Ryker (Emile Meyer) is trying to run them out and seize their land. Starrett offers Shane a job, and he accepts., 2h7
Directed by John Wayne,
Yvonne De Carlo,
Maureen O'Hara,
Andrew V. McLaglen,
Patrick Wayne,
James Edward GrantOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Action,
Adventure,
Romance,
WesternThemes Films based on plays,
Films based on works by William ShakespeareActors John Wayne,
Maureen O'Hara,
Yvonne De Carlo,
Patrick Wayne,
Stefanie Powers,
Edgar BuchananRoles Art Direction
Rating70%
Cattle baron George Washington "G.W." McLintock (John Wayne) is living the single life on his ranch. He is estranged from wife Katherine (Maureen O'Hara), who left him two years before, suspecting him of adultery., 2h31
Directed by Howard HawksOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
Action,
Adventure,
RomanceThemes Films set in Africa,
Films about animals,
Mise en scène d'un éléphant,
Mise en scène d'un mammifèreActors John Wayne,
Elsa Martinelli,
Hardy Krüger,
Red Buttons,
Gérard Blain,
Bruce CabotRoles Art Direction
Rating70%
Hatari! is the story of a group of adventurers in East Africa, engaged in the exciting and lucrative but dangerous business of catching wild animals for delivery to zoos around the world. As "Momella Game Ltd.", they operate from a compound near the town of Arusha. The head of the group is Sean Mercer (John Wayne); the others are safari veteran Little Wolf a/k/a "Indian" (Bruce Cabot), drivers "Pockets" (Red Buttons), and Kurt (Hardy Krüger), roper Luis (a Mexican former bullfighter; Valentin de Vargas), and Brandy (Michele Girardon), a young woman whose late father was a member of the group; she grew up there., 1h58
Directed by William WylerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Films about writers,
Films about journalists,
Political films,
Films about royaltyActors Gregory Peck,
Audrey Hepburn,
Eddie Albert,
Hartley Power,
Harcourt Williams,
Tullio CarminatiRoles Art Direction
Rating79%
Ann, the crown princess of an unspecified country, has started a widely publicized tour of several European capitals. In Rome she becomes frustrated with her tightly scheduled life, to the point of throwing a fit. Her doctor gives her a sedative to calm her down and help her sleep, but she secretly leaves her country's embassy., 2h2
Directed by John Sturges,
Gary NelsonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Action,
WesternActors Burt Lancaster,
Kirk Douglas,
Rhonda Fleming,
Jo Van Fleet,
John Ireland,
Lyle BettgerRoles Art Direction
Rating70%
In Fort Griffin, Texas, Ed Bailey (Lee Van Cleef) comes looking to avenge the death of his brother at the hands of gunslinger John H. "Doc" Holliday (Kirk Douglas). Seeing him in a bar, Holliday's girl, Kate Fisher (Jo Van Fleet), returns to Holliday's room, where the two argue—while Holliday throws knives at the wall—once she brings up Holliday's once-prominent family. At the same time, well-known marshal Wyatt Earp (Burt Lancaster) arrives in Fort Griffin thinking he will take outlaws Ike Clanton (Lyle Bettger) and Johnny Ringo (John Ireland) into custody, but instead finds out that the local sheriff, Cotton Wilson (Frank Faylen), released them despite the outstanding warrants for their arrest. Holliday refuses to help the lawman, holding a grudge against Wyatt's brother, Morgan. Holliday kills Bailey with a knife-throw when Bailey attempts to shoot him in the back. Holliday is arrested for murder, though Wyatt and Kate allow him to escape from a lynch mob., 2h
Directed by Alfred HitchcockOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Adventure,
CrimeThemes Films set in Africa,
Spy films,
Films about families,
Political filmsActors James Stewart,
Doris Day,
Brenda De Banzie,
Bernard Miles,
Alan Mowbray,
Ralph TrumanRoles Art Direction
Rating74%
An American family—Dr. Benjamin "Ben" McKenna (James Stewart), his wife, popular singer Josephine Conway "Jo" McKenna (Doris Day), and their son Henry "Hank" McKenna (Christopher Olsen)--are vacationing in Morocco. Traveling from Casablanca to Marrakesh, they meet Frenchman Louis Bernard (Daniel Gelin), who seems friendly, but Jo is suspicious of his many questions and evasive answers and thinks that he is hiding something. Louis offers to take the McKennas out to dinner but cancels when a sinister-looking man knocks at the McKennas' hotel-room door claiming to be looking for another guest's room. Later, at a local restaurant, the McKennas meet English couple Lucy (Brenda De Banzie) and Edward Drayton (Bernard Miles), who strike up a conversation with the McKennas, who are surprised to see Bernard arrive and sit at another table apparently ignoring them., 1h53
Directed by Billy WilderOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Films based on playsActors Humphrey Bogart,
Audrey Hepburn,
William Holden,
Walter Hampden,
Martha Hyer,
John WilliamsRoles Art Direction
Rating75%
Sabrina Fairchild (Audrey Hepburn) is the young daughter of the Larrabee family's chauffeur, Thomas, and she has been in love with David Larrabee (William Holden) all her life. David is an oft-married, idle playboy, crazy for women, who has never noticed Sabrina, much to her and the household staff's dismay. , 2h
Directed by Billy WilderOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Thriller,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Military humor in film,
Prison films,
Théâtre,
Political films,
Évasion,
Films based on playsActors William Holden,
Don Taylor,
Otto Preminger,
Sig Ruman,
Robert Strauss,
Peter GravesRoles Art Direction
Rating78%
Stalag 17 begins on "the longest night of the year" in 1944 in a Luftwaffe prisoner-of-war camp somewhere along the Danube River. The story is narrated by Clarence Harvey "Cookie" Cook (Gil Stratton). The camp holds Poles, Czechs, Russian females and, in the American compound, 640 sergeants from bomber crews, gunners, radiomen, and flight engineers., 1h52
Directed by Martin RittOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Action,
WesternActors Paul Newman,
Melvyn Douglas,
Patricia Neal,
Brandon deWilde,
Whit Bissell,
John AshleyRoles Art Direction
Rating77%
Hud Bannon (Paul Newman) is ambitious and self-centered, the opposite of his deeply principled rancher father Homer (Melvyn Douglas). Also living on the Bannon ranch is Hud's teenage nephew, Lonnie (Brandon deWilde), who looks up to both men but is most impressed by Hud. Lonnie and Hud are attracted to the Bannons' middle-aged housekeeper, Alma (Patricia Neal). Although she is attracted to Hud, Alma keeps her distance because she has been mistreated in the past by men like him., 1h55
Directed by Blake EdwardsOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Films about animals,
Films about writers,
Films about cats,
Mise en scène d'un mammifèreActors Audrey Hepburn,
George Peppard,
Patricia Neal,
Martin Balsam,
Buddy Ebsen,
Mickey RooneyRoles Art Direction
Rating76%
One early morning, a yellow taxi pulls up at Tiffany & Co. on Fifth Avenue in New York City, from which elegantly dressed Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) emerges. Standing outside the shop looking into the windows, she nibbles on pastry and drinks coffee she brought with her, then strolls home to go to bed. Outside her apartment, she fends off her date Sid Arbuck (Claude Stroud) from the disastrous night before. Later in the day she is awakened by new neighbor-tenant, Paul Varjak (George Peppard), ringing her doorbell to get into the building. The pair chat as she dresses to leave for her weekly visit to Sally Tomato (Alan Reed), a mobster incarcerated at Sing Sing prison. Tomato's lawyer O'Shaughnessy pays her $100 a week to receive "the weather report., 1h46
Directed by Alfred HitchcockOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Comedy,
Crime,
RomanceActors Cary Grant,
Grace Kelly,
Jessie Royce Landis,
John Williams,
Charles Vanel,
Brigitte AuberRoles Art Direction
Rating73%
John Robie (Cary Grant) is a retired infamous jewel thief or "cat burglar", nicknamed "The Cat", who now tends to his vineyards in the French Riviera. The modus operandi of a recent series of robberies leads the police to believe that the Cat is involved; they attempt to arrest him, and he adeptly gives them the slip., 2h3
Directed by John FordOrigin USAGenres Thriller,
Action,
WesternActors John Wayne,
James Stewart,
Vera Miles,
Lee Marvin,
Edmond O'Brien,
Woody StrodeRoles Art Direction
Rating80%
Senator Ransom "Ranse" Stoddard (James Stewart) and his wife Hallie (Vera Miles) arrive by train in the frontier town of Shinbone, in an unnamed western state, to attend the funeral of Tom Doniphon (John Wayne). As they make their way toward the undertaker's establishment to pay their respects to the deceased, a reporter (Joseph Hoover) and his editor, Maxwell Scott (Carleton Young) approach and ask Stoddard to explain why a United States Senator would make the long journey from Washington just to attend the funeral of a local rancher.