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Stephen Geller is a Scriptwriter American born on 1 january 1940
Stephen Geller, né à Los Angeles en Californie, est un scénariste et un écrivain américain, auteur de roman policier.
En 1969, il s’installe à Rome où il écrit le scénario de Cosa Nostra réalisé par Terence Young. En 1972, il écrit l'adaptation cinématographique du roman de Kurt Vonnegut Abattoir 5 ou la Croisade des enfants, film réalisé par George Roy Hill sous le titre Abattoir 5. Il reste seize ans en Italie avant de revenir à Hollywood en 1986.
En 1966, il publie son premier roman Où grincent les chimères (She Let Him Continue) racontant l'histoire d'un jeune mythomane se faisant passer pour un agent de la CIA auprès d'une adolescente meurtrière, perverse et manipulatrice. En 1967, il écrit Crocs rouges (Pit Bull) qui est, selon Claude Mesplède, un « roman sur le milieu de chiens de combat est, comme le précédent, inoubliable ».
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Stephen Geller
Stephen Geller, né à Los Angeles en Californie, est un scénariste et un écrivain américain, auteur de roman policier.
Biography
Fils de Harry Geller, musicien et compositeur de musiques de films, inscrit sur la liste noire de Hollywood, Stephen Geller passe une partie de sa jeunesse en Europe. De retour aux États-Unis, il suit des études au Dartmouth College puis à l'université Yale.En 1969, il s’installe à Rome où il écrit le scénario de Cosa Nostra réalisé par Terence Young. En 1972, il écrit l'adaptation cinématographique du roman de Kurt Vonnegut Abattoir 5 ou la Croisade des enfants, film réalisé par George Roy Hill sous le titre Abattoir 5. Il reste seize ans en Italie avant de revenir à Hollywood en 1986.
En 1966, il publie son premier roman Où grincent les chimères (She Let Him Continue) racontant l'histoire d'un jeune mythomane se faisant passer pour un agent de la CIA auprès d'une adolescente meurtrière, perverse et manipulatrice. En 1967, il écrit Crocs rouges (Pit Bull) qui est, selon Claude Mesplède, un « roman sur le milieu de chiens de combat est, comme le précédent, inoubliable ».
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Ashanti (1979)
, 1h58Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about slavery, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Erotic thriller films, Chase films
Actors Michael Caine, Peter Ustinov, Akosua Busia, Kabir Bedi, Eric Pohlmann, Beverly Johnson
Rating54%
Ashanti is an action adventure film, set against the background of modern day slave trading, with a man who determinedly takes on a perilous journey in order to find his beautiful wife, who has been kidnapped by brutal slave traders. David and Anansa Linderby (Caine and Johnson respectively) are doctors with the World Health Organization. On a medical mission carrying out an inoculation programme, they visit a West African village. While David takes photographs of tribal dancers, Anansa goes swimming alone. She is attacked and abducted by slave traders led by Suleiman (Peter Ustinov), who mistake her for an Ashanti tribeswoman. The police can do nothing to find her and David has almost given up hope when he hears rumours that Anansa has been kidnapped by Sulieman to be sold to Arab Prince Hassan (Omar Sharif). The African authorities deny that the slave trade even exists. So David must find help in a shadowy world where the rescuers of slaves are just as ruthless as the traders themselves. As David tracks her across Africa and the Sahara desert, he is helped by a member of the Anti-Slavery League (Rex Harrison), a mercenary helicopter pilot (William Holden), and Malik (Kabir Bedi) a tribesman who is seeking revenge on Suleiman.
The Valachi Papers (1972)
, 2h5Directed by Terence Young
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Mob film, Crime
Themes Films about immigration, Mafia films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Gangster films
Actors Charles Bronson, Lino Ventura, Jill Ireland, Walter Chiari, Joseph Wiseman, Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Rating63%
The movie begins in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, where an aging prisoner named Joseph Valachi (Charles Bronson) is imprisoned for smuggling heroin. The boss of his crime family, Vito Genovese (Lino Ventura), is imprisoned there as well. Genovese is certain that Valachi is an informant, and gives him the "kiss of death." Valachi kisses him back.
Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
, 1h44Directed by George Roy Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Historical, Comic science fiction
Themes Medical-themed films, Prison films, Time travel films, Films based on science fiction novels, Comedy science fiction films, Films about psychiatry, Political films
Actors Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Valerie Perrine, Eugene Roche, Perry King, Sharon Gans
Rating67%
The film follows the novel in presenting a first-person narrative from the point of view of Billy Pilgrim (Sacks), who becomes "unstuck in time" and experiences the events of his life in a seemingly random order, including a period spent on the alien planet of Tralfamadore. Particular emphasis is placed on his experiences during World War II, including the bombing of Dresden in World War II, as well as time spent with fellow prisoners of war Edgar Derby (Roche) and the psychopathic Paul Lazzaro (Leibman). His life as a husband to Valencia (Gans), and father to Barbara (Near) and Robert (King) are also depicted, as they live and sometimes even enjoy their life of affluence in Ilium, New York. A "sink-or-swim" scene with Pilgrim's father is also featured. The scenes of extraterrestrial life on Tralfamadore feature Hollywood starlet Montana Wildhack (Perrine).
Pretty Poison (1968)
, 1h26Directed by Noel Black
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Children's films
Actors Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld, Beverly Garland, John Randolph, Michelle Phillips, Dick O'Neill
Roles Novel
Rating69%
Dennis Pitt is a disturbed young man on parole from a mental institution who becomes attracted to teenager Sue Ann Stepenek. He tells her that he is a secret agent, and takes her along on a series of "missions" that eventually end in murder. While Dennis is racked with guilt over both what he has done and what he has allowed to happen, Sue Ann is excited by the "adventure" and entreats Dennis to run away with her to Mexico. First, however, they have to get rid of her disapproving mother.