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Robert Dillon is a Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 23 october 1932
Robert Dillon is a screenwriter and film producer. In 1976 he was nominated by the Writers Guild of America for Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen for French Connection II. In 2001 he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay for Waking the Dead. Beginning his career in 1959, he has nearly fifty years of experience.
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Robert Dillon is a screenwriter and film producer. In 1976 he was nominated by the Writers Guild of America for Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen for French Connection II. In 2001 he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay for Waking the Dead. Beginning his career in 1959, he has nearly fifty years of experience.
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Waking the Dead (2000)
, 1h45Directed by Keith Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Politique, Films about Latin American military dictatorships
Actors Billy Crudup, Jennifer Connelly, Hal Holbrook, Ed Harris, Ivonne Coll, Paul Hipp
Rating63%
The film flashes back and forth between the 1970s and 1980s and centers on the relationship between Fielding Pierce, a young Coast Guard officer with political ambitions, and idealistic Roman Catholic Sarah Williams, who is drawn to programs designed to better the lives of the underprivileged and has mixed feelings about his career goals.
Ruby Cairo (1992)
Directed by Graeme Clifford
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Andie MacDowell, Liam Neeson, Viggo Mortensen, Chad Power, Jack Thompson, Günter Meisner
Roles Story
Rating50%
When Bessie Faro's (Andie MacDowell) husband Johnny (Viggo Mortensen) dies in a plane crash in Veracruz, Mexico, she finds that his air cargo business is deeply in the red. When she visits the airline's terminal in Veracruz, she finds a packet of baseball cards that have been marked up by Johnny. Recognizing his system for marking betting slips at race tracks, she decodes the cards and realizes that they indicate a bank account. When she tries to withdraw money from the account, she is denied. She realizes that the account is in the name of the player on the card, Onix Concepción.
Flight of the Intruder (1991)
, 1h55Directed by John Milius
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, Brad Johnson, Rosanna Arquette, Tom Sizemore, Ving Rhames
Rating57%
Lieutenant Jake "Cool Hand" Grafton (Brad Johnson) and his bombardier/navigator and best friend Lieutenant Morgan "Morg" McPhearson (Christopher Rich) are flying a Grumman A-6 Intruder over the Gulf of Tonkin towards North Vietnam. They hit their target, a suspected truck park which actually turns out to be trees. Morg is fatally shot in the neck by a Vietnamese peasant. Landing on the USS Independence with Morg dead, a disturbed Jake, covered in blood, walks into a debriefing with Commander Frank Camparelli (Danny Glover) and Executive Officer, Commander "Cowboy" Parker (J. Kenneth Campbell). Camparelli tells Jake to put Morgan's death behind him and to write a letter to Sharon, Morg's wife. New pilot Jack Barlow (Jared Chandler), nicknamed "Razor" because of his youthful appearance, is then introduced.
Revolution (1986)
, 2h4Directed by Hugh Hudson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Adventure, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, Nastassja Kinski, Joan Plowright, Frank Windsor, Steven Berkoff
Rating53%
Fur trapper Tom Dobb unwillingly participates in the American Revolutionary War after his son Ned is drafted into the Army. Later, his son is captured by the British, and taken by the strict Sergeant Major Peasy. Dobb attempts to find him, and along the way, becomes convinced that he must help fight for the freedom of the Colonies, alongside the disgraced & idealistic aristocrat Daisy McConnahay.
The River (1984)
, 1h59Directed by Mark Rydell
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Sissy Spacek, Mel Gibson, Scott Glenn, Billy "Green" Bush, James Tolkan, Frank Hoyt Taylor
Roles Histoire
Rating62%
Mae et Tom Garvey - jeune couple d'agriculteurs - sont confrontés, comme nombre de leurs collègues, aux difficultés de survie des fermes familiales indépendantes. C'est l'affrontement avec les autorités locales qui voudraient racheter les terres, par l'intermédiaire de Joe Wade (ancien ami de Mae) ; de plus, les fermiers subissent des inondations catastrophiques. Pour gagner un peu d'argent, Tom accepte un travail au loin, en usine...
French Connection II (1975)
, 1h59Directed by John Frankenheimer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Medical-themed films, La provence, Films about drugs, Children's films, Gangster films
Actors Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson, Philippe Léotard, Ed Lauter, Jean-Pierre Castaldi
Roles Story
Rating67%
Picking up two or three years after where the original left off, narcotics officer Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) is still searching for elusive drug kingpin Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey). Orders from his superiors send Doyle to Marseilles, France, to track down the criminal mastermind and bust his drug ring. Once in France, Doyle is met by Inspector Henri Barthélémy (Bernard Fresson), who resents his rude and crude crimefighting demeanor. Doyle then begins to find himself as a fish out of water in France, where he is matched with a language he cannot understand. Doyle is shown round the police station where he finds his desk is situated directly outside the toilets. He tells Barthélémy that he is not satisfied with this positioning and hopes it is not a joke at his expense. Barthélémy informs Doyle that he has read his personnel file and is aware of his reputation and especially hopes he has not brought a gun with him as it is strictly forbidden in France for visiting police officers from other countries to carry firearms.
99 and 44/100% Dead (1974)
, 1h38Directed by John Frankenheimer
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Richard Harris, Edmond O'Brien, Bradford Dillman, Chuck Connors, Ann Turkel, Constance Ford
Roles Writer
Rating55%
Harry Crown (Richard Harris), a stylish professional hit man with a pair of Browning Hi-Power 9mm pistols with ivory grips, carried in a shoulder holster, is brought in by mob boss "Uncle Frank" Kelly (Edmond O'Brien) when his operation is challenged by Big Eddie (Bradford Dillman), a grinning, lisping rival.
Prime Cut (1972)
, 1h28Directed by Michael Ritchie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films, Gangster films
Actors Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek, Angel Tompkins, Gregory Walcott, Les Lannom
Roles Ecrivain
Rating66%
A slaughterhouse process follows the unloading of cattle to the making of sausages. A wristwatch and a shoe appear on a conveyor line, making it clear that a human cadaver is processed among the cattle. A woman operating the sausage machine is interrupted by "Weenie" (Gregory Walcott), who has timed the machine using his watch. He wraps up a string of sausages, then marks the package with an address in Chicago.
Muscle Beach Party (1964)
, 1h34Directed by William Asher
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors John Ashley, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Luciana Paluzzi, Don Rickles, Jody McCrea
Rating51%
Frankie, Dee Dee, and the beach party gang hit Malibu Beach for another summer of surfing and no jobs only to find their secret surfing spot threatened by a gang of bodybuilders, led by the dim-witted coach Jack Fanny (Don Rickles).
Bikini Beach (1964)
, 1h40Directed by William Asher
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Actors Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Martha Hyer, Keenan Wynn, Harvey Lembeck, Don Rickles
Rating54%
School is out and the teenagers head for the beach. All is well until millionaire Harvey Huntington Honeywagon III (Wynn) comes around, convinced that the beachgoers are so senselessly obsessed with sex that their mentality is below that of a primate – especially Honeywagon's wunderkind pet chimp Clyde, who can surf, drive, and watusi better than anyone on the beach. With the teenagers demoralized and discredited, Honeywagon plans to turn Bikini Beach into a senior citizens retirement home.
Beach Party (1963)
, 1h41Directed by William Asher
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Sports films, Surfing films
Actors Robert Cummings, Dorothy Malone, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Morey Amsterdam, Dick Miller
Rating51%
An anthropologist, Professor Robert Orville Sutwell is secretly studying the "wild mating habits" of Southern California teenagers who hang out at the beach and use strange surfing jargon. After he temporarily paralyzes Eric Von Zipper, the leader of the local outlaw motorcycle club, who was making unwanted advances on Dolores, she develops a crush on the Professor. Her surfing boyfriend Frankie becomes jealous and begins flirting with Ava, a Hungarian waitress. Meanwhile, Sutwell's assistant Marianne further develops her crush on the Professor. Von Zipper and his gang plot to bring down Sutwell, only to be thwarted in the end by the surfing teenagers.
The Old Dark House (1963)
, 1h26Directed by William Castle
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Ghost films, Comedy horror films
Actors Tom Poston, Robert Morley, Janette Scott, Joyce Grenfell, Mervyn Johns, Fenella Fielding
Rating54%
Tom Penderel, un américain, installé en Angleterre où il est vendeur de voitures, livre une voiture à un vieux milliardaire excentrique, Jasper Femm, qui vit dans une étrange résidence avec de nombreux membres de sa famille. Or, quand il arrive, on lui annonce que Jasper Femm vient de mourir. Face à la tempête qui se lève, il se voit proposer de passer la nuit dans la résidence des Femm…
, 1h19Directed by Roger Corman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Actors Ray Milland, Diana Van der Vlis, Harold J. Stone, John Hoyt, Dick Miller, Don Rickles
Rating65%
Le Dr Xavier a mis au point un liquide révolutionnaire qui permet d'étendre la vision au-delà du spectre visible. Il décide de le tester sur lui-même et obtient des résultats prometteurs, devenant capable de lire à travers une feuille de papier ou de voir les organes d'une patiente. En poursuivant les essais, il se rend compte que sa vision devient de plus en plus perçante mais aussi de moins en moins supportable…
13 Frightened Girls (1963)
, 1h29Directed by William Castle
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Feminist films, Political films, Buddy films
Actors Murray Hamilton, Hugh Marlowe, Khigh Dhiegh, Norma Varden, Alexandra Bastedo, Lynne Sue Moon
Rating52%
After a 16-year-old girl develops a crush on an intelligence agent, she helps him to uncover a plot against the United States.
Safe at Home! (1962)
, 1h24Directed by Walter Doniger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors William Frawley, Patricia Barry, Don Collier, Flip Mark
Roles Story
Rating54%