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Guilty As Charged (film)
''Guilty as Charged'' is a 1991 American comedy film directed by Sam Irvin and starring Rod Steiger and Lauren Hutton. Cast *Rod Steiger as Kallin *Lauren Hutton as Liz *Heather Graham as Kimberly * Lyman Ward as Stanford *Isaac Hayes as Aloysius *Zelda Rubinstein as Edna *Michael Beach as Hamilton *Irwin Keyes as Deek *Earl Boen as Chemical Manufacturer * Ricky Dean Logan as Ricky Landon *Gale Mayron as Fran *Michael Talbott as Sparrow Production The film marked the directorial debut of Sam Irvin who had gained experience as Brian De Palma's production assistant. With his eye set on directing, Irvin developed ''Stiff'', a comedy involving a dead body, with writer Brian Clemens whom Irvin had met during his tenure writing for fanzine ''Bizarre''. Irvin found some of the financial backing from RCA/Columbia Home Video and was directed by them to seek the rest of the funding from I.R.S. Media. While I.R.S. ultimately passed due to having several other scripts further along in deve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Irvin
Sam Irvin (born June 14, 1956) is an American film director, film and television director, producer, screenwriter, actor, author and film teacher. Irvin's directing credits include ''Guilty as Charged (film), Guilty as Charged'', ''Oblivion (1994 film), Oblivion'', ''Elvira's Haunted Hills'', and all the episodes of two television series: ''Dante's Cove'' and ''From Here on OUT''. His other credits include co-executive producer of Bill Condon's Academy Award-winner ''Gods and Monsters (film), Gods and Monsters''; associate producer of Brian De Palma's ''Home Movies (film), Home Movies''; and historical consultant on the Tony Award-winner ''Liza's at the Palace''. Irvin authored the acclaimed biography ''Kay Thompson: From Funny Face to Eloise'' (Simon & Schuster), the children's book parody ''Sam's Toilet Paper Caper!'' (Knuckle Samwitch Books), and the novel ''ORBGASM: An Erotic Pulp Sci-Fi Satyricon'' (Knuckle Samwitch Books). Irvin has won two Rondo Awards for Best Article of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricky Dean Logan
Ricky Dean Logan is an American actor and producer who has been in movies and on television. His film credits include ''Back to the Future Part II'', '' Back to the Future Part III'' as a different character, '' Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare'', ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' and the ''Ice Nine Kills'' mini series "Welcome To Horrorwood". Logan has made guest appearances on television shows, including "Seinfeld". Selected filmography * 1989 ''Back to the Future Part II'' as Rafe "Data" Unger * 1990 '' Back to the Future Part III'' as Member of Needles' Gang * 1990 ''Monday Morning'' as Reilly * 1990 ''The Flash'' as Scott * 1991 '' Guilty as Charged'' as Landon * 1991 '' Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare'' as Carlos Rodriguez * 1992 "Seinfeld" as The Freak * 1992 ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' as Bloody Student * 1994 ''The Fantastic Four'' as Busboy * 1995 ''Joe's Rotten World'' as Bobby * 1997 ''Dilbert's Desktop Games'' (Video Game) as Wally (voice) * 1997 ''Psycho Sushi'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Scored By Steve Bartek
A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, since the 1930s, synchronized with sound and (less commonly) other sensory stimulations. Etymology and alternative terms The name "film" originally referred to the thin layer of photochemical emulsion on the celluloid strip that used to be the actual medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion-picture, including "picture", "picture show", "moving picture", "photoplay", and "flick". The most common term in the United States is "movie", while in Europe, "film" is preferred. Archaic terms include "animated pictures" and "animated photography". "Flick" is, in general a slang term, first recorded in 1926. It originates in the verb flicker, owing to the flickering appearance of early films. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Comedy Films
American comedy films are comedy films produced in the United States. The genre is one of the oldest in American cinema; some of the first silent movies were comedies, as slapstick comedy often relies on visual depictions, without requiring sound. With the advent of sound in the late 1920s and 1930s, comedic dialogue rose in prominence in the work of film comedians such as W. C. Fields and the Marx Brothers. By the 1950s, the television industry had become serious competition for the movie industry. The 1960s saw an increasing number of broad, star-packed comedies. In the 1970s, black comedies were popular. Leading figures in the 1970s were Woody Allen and Mel Brooks. One of the major developments of the 1990s was the re-emergence of the romantic comedy film. Another development was the increasing use of " gross-out humour". History 1895–1930 Comic films began to appear in significant numbers during the era of silent films, roughly 1895 to 1930. The visual humou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Maltin
Leonard Michael Maltin (born December 18, 1950) is an American film critic, film historian, and author. He is known for his book of film capsule reviews, '' Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide'', published from 1969 to 2014. Maltin was the film critic on ''Entertainment Tonight'' from 1982 to 2012. He currently teaches at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and hosts the weekly podcast ''Maltin on Movies''. He served two terms as President of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and votes for films to be selected for the National Film Registry. He has written books on animation and the history of film. He has also hosted numerous specials and provided commentary for several films. In 2021, he released his memoir, ''Starstruck: My Unlikely Road to Hollywood''. He received the Robert Osborne Award from Turner Classic Movies in 2022. Early life and education Maltin was born in New York City, the son of singer Jacqueline (née Gould; 1923–2012) and Aaron Isaac Maltin (1915–2002 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator, review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor Theatre, stage performance, the direct inspiration for the name from Duong, Lee, and Wang came from an equivalent scene in the 1992 Canadian film ''Léolo''. Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros. in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango Media, Fandango ticketing company. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. The site is influential among moviegoers, a third of whom say they consult it before going to the cinema in the U.S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Gale
Michael Robert Gale (born May 25, 1951) is an American screenwriter, comic book writer, film producer and director. He is best known for co-writing the science fiction comedy film ''Back to the Future'' with his writing partner Robert Zemeckis. Gale co-produced all three films of the franchise and later served as associate producer of the animated TV series. Actor Michael J. Fox has referred to Gale as the "gatekeeper of the 'Back to the Future''franchise". Early life Gale was born to a Jewish family in University City, Missouri; he is the son of Maxine (née Kippel and died in 2010), an art dealer and violinist, and Mark R. Gale (1922–2018), an attorney. Mark Gale was a World War II veteran and later a University City councilman. Bob Gale has two younger brothers: Charlie, who wrote the screenplay for ''Ernest Scared Stupid'', and Randy. Bob Gale received a B.A. in Cinema in 1973 from the University of Southern California, where he wrote fanzine reviews for classmate Mik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Inc. (abbreviated as SPHE) is the home entertainment distribution division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony. Background SPHE is responsible for the distribution of the Sony Pictures library for home entertainment, mainly releases from the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group (Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics, and Screen Gems) as well as releases from Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions ( Triumph Films, Destination Films, Stage 6 Films and Affirm Films) and Crunchyroll, LLC after the latter company's deal with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment as Funimation expired. SPHE also releases and distributes products from Lionsgate Home Entertainment (since 2021), The Walt Disney Company (since 2024), The Criterion Collection (since 2013) and Content Partners LLC (which includes titles from FilmDistrict (now absorbed into Focus Features), Morgan Creek Entertainment, Franchise Pictures and R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Clemens
Brian Horace Clemens (30 July 1931 – 10 January 2015) was an English screenwriter and television producer. He worked on the British TV series '' The Avengers'' and created '' The New Avengers'' and '' The Professionals''. Early life Clemens was born in Croydon, Surrey, to Suzanna (née O'Grady) and Albert, an engineer, who worked in music halls. Clemens said he was related to Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), and reflected this in the naming of his two sons, Samuel Joshua Twain Clemens and George Langhorne Clemens. He left school aged 14. Following national service in the British Army at Aldershot, where he was a weapons training instructor in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Clemens wanted to be a journalist but decided he did not have any qualifications. He was offered a job with a private detective agency, but this involved taking a training course in the city of Leeds and, as he had been away from home in London for two years, he decided he did not want to go away ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian De Palma
Brian Russell De Palma (; born September 11, 1940) is an Americans, American film director and screenwriter. With a career spanning over 50 years, he is best known for work in the suspense, Crime film, crime, and psychological thriller genres. De Palma was a leading member of the New Hollywood generation.Murray, Noel & Tobias, Scott (March 10, 2011)"Brian De Palma , Film , Primer" ''The A.V. Club''. Retrieved February 3, 2012. Carrie (1976 film), ''Carrie'' (1976), his adaptation of Stephen King's Carrie (novel), novel of the same name, gained him prominence as a young filmmaker. He enjoyed commercial success with Dressed to Kill (1980 film), ''Dressed to Kill'' (1980), The Untouchables (film), ''The Untouchables'' (1987) and Mission: Impossible (film), ''Mission: Impossible'' (1996) and made cult classics such as ''Greetings (1968 film), Greetings'' (1968), ''Hi, Mom!'' (1970), Sisters (1972 film), ''Sisters'' (1972), ''Phantom of the Paradise'' (1974), and The Fury (film), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Talbott
Michael Talbott (born February 2, 1955) is an American actor. He portrayed Detective Stanley Switek in the crime drama television series ''Miami Vice'' (1984–1989). Early life Michael was born on February 2, 1955, in Waverly, Iowa, to parents Kay and John Talbott. Career Talbott is best known for his co-starring role as Detective Stanley Switek in the 1980s television series ''Miami Vice''. His other television credits include '' M*A*S*H'', '' Sanford and Son'', ''The Jeffersons'', ''Eight is Enough'' and other series. He appeared in a number of films, playing a bully in '' Carrie'', a party-crasher in '' Big Wednesday'', a highway patrolman in '' Any Which Way You Can'', a reckless stunt driver in '' Used Cars'', a real estate agent in '' Manhunter'', and a reluctant deputy in ''First Blood''. Talbott had a small part in ''National Lampoon's Vacation'' but his scene was edited out of the final cut, although his character "Cowboy" is shown in a photograph during the end credi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
