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James Lee Barrett is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 19 november 1929 at Charlotte (USA)
James Lee Barrett (November 19, 1929 – October 15, 1989) was an American producer, screenwriter, and writer.
Barrett, along with Peter Udell and Phillip Rose won the 1975 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Shenandoah, which was based on his 1965 film by the same name, which starred James Stewart.
Other notable works written by Barrett include the 1965 epic film The Greatest Story Ever Told, Smokey and the Bandit, The Green Berets, and co-writing On the Beach.
In 1989, at age 59, Barrett died in Templeton, California of cancer.
(1968)
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James Lee Barrett
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Nationality USA
Birth 19 november 1929 at Charlotte (USA)
Death 15 october 1989 (at 59 years) at California (USA)
Birth 19 november 1929 at Charlotte (USA)
Death 15 october 1989 (at 59 years) at California (USA)
James Lee Barrett (November 19, 1929 – October 15, 1989) was an American producer, screenwriter, and writer.
Barrett, along with Peter Udell and Phillip Rose won the 1975 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Shenandoah, which was based on his 1965 film by the same name, which starred James Stewart.
Other notable works written by Barrett include the 1965 epic film The Greatest Story Ever Told, Smokey and the Bandit, The Green Berets, and co-writing On the Beach.
Biography
Barrett was born in 1929 in Charlotte, North Carolina and graduated in 1950 from Anderson University (South Carolina). Prior to his career as a screenwriter, he served in the United States Marines. His first screenplay was based on his teleplay The Murder of a Sand Flea the 1957 film, The D.I., which starred Jack Webb as a Marine Corps drill instructor at MCRD Parris Island. Barrett had been on Parris Island as a recruit in 1950.In 1989, at age 59, Barrett died in Templeton, California of cancer.
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Fools' Parade (1971)
, 1h38Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors James Stewart, George Kennedy, Kurt Russell, Strother Martin, Anne Baxter, William Windom
Roles Sonny Boy
Rating64%
In 1935, murderer Mattie Appleyard, bank robber Lee Cottrill, and young Johnny Jesus 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 in the Great Depression.
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Ruby Jean and Joe (1996)
Directed by Geoffrey Sax
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Tom Selleck, Rebekah Johnson, JoBeth Williams
Roles Writer
Rating66%
Un homme sur la route prend en stop une jeune fille Ruby Jean. Pendant le voyage une amitié se créé entre eux. Elle finit par lui expliquer qu'elle devrait rentrer dans une fac prestigieuse, mais elle se donne un temps de réflexion. Lui fuit ses démons intérieurs dont une brouille avec son père.
The Quick and the Dead (1987)
, 1h30Directed by Robert Day
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors Sam Elliott, Hardy Rawls, Tom Conti, Kate Capshaw, Del Shores, Kenny Morrison
Roles Teleplay
Rating68%
Duncan McKaskel (Tom Conti) and his wife, Susanna (Kate Capshaw), a married couple who, along with their 12 year old son, Tom (Kenny Morrison), are travelling West hoping to start a new life. They have left a cholera-stricken wagon train and, alone, arrive in a small delapidated town. Here, they meet no-good Doc Shabbitt and ask for directions. He suggests they stay in a deserted local building, but McKaskel senses danger and they leave. Shabbit decides to steal two of their horses.
Poker Alice (1987)
Directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman
Genres Romance, Western
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Tom Skerritt, George Hamilton, Richard Mulligan, David Wayne, Susan Tyrrell
Roles Writer
Rating59%
Alice Moffit , alias " Poker Alice", a été déshéritée par sa famille de Boston à cause de son inconditionnelle passion pour les jeux. Partie en voyage vers l'est des États-Unis avec son cousin, elle gagne alors une maison lors d'un tournoi de poker dans un train. La "maison" se révèle alors être un bordel qu'elle décide de tenir jusqu'à ce qu'elle puisse le revendre. Elle tombe ensuite amoureuse de Jeremy Collins qui est sur le point de partir s'installer en Californie. Mais se marier voudrait dire mettre un terme à sa relation fusionnelle avec son cousin ...
Stagecoach (1986)
, 1h40Directed by Ted Post
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Merritt Butrick, Kris Kristofferson, Elizabeth Ashley, Mary Crosby
Roles Teleplay
Rating57%
Un remake de la chevauchée fantastique, sans guère d'intérêt... Un nouveau venu dans l'histoire : Doc Holliday, dont on se demande bien ce qu'il fait là ; il va même aider Ringo, à la fin. Cela permet au réalisateur de faire une jolie image déjà vue 163 fois où 4 hommes marchent de front, dans la rue et dans le plus pur style OK Corral. Le premier coup de feu intervient à la 70ème minute, à peu près, dans un film très ennuyeux. Seul intérêt, l'excellente interprétation des acteurs et la musique, qui bien que n'étant pas mon genre, m'a quand même procuré un certain plaisir... La VHS (VF) est assez mauvaise, mais, à mon avis, le film ne vaut guère mieux.
, 1h30Directed by Marc Daniels
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Brad Davis, Roxanne Hart, Brad Dourif, Michael Beach, Frances McDormand, William Conrad
Roles Writer
Rating47%
Bill et Myrtle Moon, un couple âgé, patrons d'une épicerie-station-service d'un village de Caroline du Sud, sont braqués et froidement abattus par Rudolph Tyner, un petit voyou un peu retardé. Celui-ci, qui a déjà un casier judiciaire, est immédiatement appréhendé par la police qui le trouve en possession d'une petite somme d'argent correspondant à la recette de l'épicerie et d'une cartouche de fusil. Son avocat plaide la culpabilité, Tyner est condamné à la chaise électrique, mais d'appel en appel, sa peine est constamment reportée (il n'y a pas eu d'exécution capitale depuis vingt ans en Caroline du Sud). Excédé par cette procédure qui s'éternise alors qu'il attendait une exécution exemplaire, Tony Cimo, le fils adoptif de Bill Moon, d'abord hostile aux suggestions d'auto-justice qui lui sont faites par un adepte, en vient à les accepter. Par la bande, il entre en contact téléphonique avec Lamar Sands, un prisonnier chargé de la maintenance du pénitencier où est incarcéré Tyner. Sands, moyennant finances, accepte de liquider Tyner et, après de vaines tentatives d'empoisonnement, lui fait exploser la tête avec un poste de radio bidouillé avec une charge de plastic. La police découvre dans l'atelier de la prison l'enregistrement de l'un des entretiens téléphoniques de Sands avec Tony. Ce dernier est rapidement arrêté et condamné à une réclusion de 5 ans pour complicité de meurtre, plus 8 pour préméditation et usage d'explosif, et encore 8 pour non-dénonciation d'acte criminel, mais n'en purgera finalement que 3. À la suite de cette affaire, la Caroline du Sud rétablit la peine capitale.
The Day Christ Died (1980)
Directed by James Cellan Jones
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films based on the Bible, Portrayals of Jesus in film, Films about virginity
Actors Chris Sarandon, Hope Lange, Colin Blakely, Keith Michell, Jonathan Pryce, Jay O. Sanders
Roles Teleplay
Rating62%
Wild Horse Hank (1979)
Directed by Eric Till
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Linda Blair, Michael Wincott, Richard Crenna, Michael J. Reynolds, Al Waxman
Roles Writer
Rating59%
Wild Horse Hank is the adventure of a brave young girl named Hank (Linda Blair) who is a dedicated cowgirl to saving a herd of wild mustangs from poachers. Hank is an independent girl in the film who has been around horses all her life. One day while out riding she happens upon some horse hunters who are rounding up a herd of mustangs to sell for pet food.
, 1h40Directed by George Schaefer
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Historical
Actors Anthony Hopkins, Richard Crenna, Jenny Agutter, David Dukes, Trish Van Devere, Michael Beck
Roles Writer
Rating59%
The Awakening Land (1978)
, 7hDirected by Boris Sagal
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Elizabeth Montgomery, Hal Holbrook, Jane Seymour, William H. Macy, Steven Keats, Bert Remsen
Roles Writer
Rating82%
The storyline follows the struggle of Sayward Luckett (Montgomery) after she travels to the unsettled Ohio Valley frontier from post-revolutionary Pennsylvania. She and her family carve out a homestead in the forest, and a community with other settlers. The series follows Sayward from a young single woman, left with three sisters to raise after their mother dies and their father abandons the family, to a married woman who has her own family of seven. Her faithful devotion to her family is recounted against the day-to-day struggle for survival.
Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
, 1h32Directed by Hal Needham
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Trucker films, Musical films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed (Hubbard), Mike Henry, Mike Henry
Rating69%
Wealthy Texan Big Enos Burdette (Pat McCormick) and his son Little Enos (Paul Williams) seek a truck driver willing to bootleg Coors beer to Georgia for their refreshment. At the time, Coors was regarded as one of the finest beers in the United States, but it could not be sold legally east of the Mississippi River. Truck drivers who had taken the bet previously had been caught and arrested by "Smokey" (CB slang for highway patrol officers, referring to the Smokey Bear–type hats worn in some states).
Fools' Parade (1971)
, 1h38Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors James Stewart, George Kennedy, Kurt Russell, Strother Martin, Anne Baxter, William Windom
Rating64%
In 1935, murderer Mattie Appleyard, bank robber Lee Cottrill, and young Johnny Jesus 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 in the Great Depression.
Something Big (1971)
, 1h48Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Dean Martin, Brian Keith, Carol White (actrice anglaise), Honor Blackman, Neve McIntosh, Ben Johnson
Roles Writer
Rating56%
Colonel Morgan learns from his Indian scout Bookbinder (Ben Johnson) that the notorious bandit Joe Baker (Dean Martin) is planning "something big" but is thwarted at learning details.
The Cheyenne Social Club (1970)
, 1h43Directed by Gene Kelly
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Shirley Jones, Sue Ane Langdon, Robert Middleton, Elaine Devry
Rating67%
In 1867, John O'Hanlan (Stewart) and Harley Sullivan (Fonda) are aging cowboys working on open cattle ranges in Texas. O'Hanlan gets a letter from an attorney in Cheyenne, Wyoming, that his disreputable and now deceased brother, DJ, left him something called The Cheyenne Social Club in his will.
Tick... Tick... Tick... (1970)
, 1h37Directed by Ralph Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Actors George Kennedy, Fredric March, Lynn Carlin, Don Stroud, Clifton James, Janet MacLachlan
Roles Ecrivain
Rating66%
In a small Mississippi town, deputy Jim Price is elected sheriff over John Little, the incumbent. Racial tensions exist in the community and Price gets little assistance from Little, leaving office, or from Mayor Parks, who insists he be consulted on any decision the new sheriff makes.