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The Prodigal (1983 Film)
''The Prodigal'' is a 1983 film directed by James F. Collier. It is a retelling of the story of the prodigal son and stars John Hammond, Hope Lange, John Cullum, Morgan Brittany, Ian Bannen, Joey Travolta, and Arliss Howard.Christianity Today - Volume 27, Issues 11-19 -1983 - Page 16 John Hammond is Greg Stuart, the disillusioned "prodigal" searching for a fatted calf in the myriad dust-laden corners ... ghetto where he attempts to rediscover his childhood faith; his wife (Hope Lange) nearly into the arms of another man." Plot Cast * John Hammond as Greg Stuart * Hope Lange as Anne Stuart * John Cullum as Elton Stuart * Morgan Brittany as Sheila Holt-Browning * Ian Bannen as Riley Wyndham * Joey Travolta as Tony * Arliss Howard as Scott Stuart * Sarah Rush Sarah Kathleen Rush is an American actress, best known in television for her work in the original ''Battlestar Galactica''. She narrated and starred in the 2005 documentary '' The Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Stanley (cinematographer)
Frank Walter Stanley (May 5, 1922 – December 21, 1999) was an American cinematographer.Maslin, Janet"Screen: Saga of a Car In 'Corvette Summer': A Double Debut," ''New York Times'' (August 4, 1978).Accessed May 18, 2009. He is best known for four Clint Eastwood films in a row: '' Breezy'' (1973), '' Magnum Force'' (1973), '' Thunderbolt and Lightfoot'' (1974) and '' The Eiger Sanction'' (1975). Career During the filming of ''The Eiger Sanction'', shot in Switzerland, which required a great deal of precarious mountain-climbing cinematography, Stanley fell during the shoot but survived. He used a wheelchair for some time and was taken out of action.McGilligan (1999), p.249 Stanley, who later managed to complete filming after a delay under pressure from an unsympathetic Clint Eastwood, would later blame Eastwood for the accident due to a lack of preparation, describing him both as a director and an actor as "a very impatient man who doesn't really plan his pictures or do any homew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerry Gibson
Gerry is both a surname and a masculine or feminine given name. As a given name, it is often a short form (hypocorism) of Gerard, Gerald or Geraldine. Notable people with the name include: Surname *Elbridge Gerry (1744–1814), fifth US vice president (1813–1814) after whom the term ''gerrymander'' was named ** Ann Gerry (1763–1849), wife of Elbridge *** Thomas Russell Gerry (1794–1848), son of Elbridge and Ann **** Elbridge Thomas Gerry (1837–1927), American lawyer and reformer, son of Thomas ***** Peter G. Gerry (1879–1957), U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, great grandson of Elbridge ****** Edith Stuyvesant Gerry (1873–1958), American philanthropist and wife of Peter ****** Elbridge T. Gerry Sr. (1908–1999), American banker and polo player, great-great grandson of the vice president ****** Robert L. Gerry Jr. (1911–1979), American polo player, brother of Elbridge Sr ******* Robert L. Gerry III (born 1937), American businessman, son of Robert L. Jr * Alan Gerry (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Rush
Sarah Kathleen Rush is an American actress, best known in television for her work in the original ''Battlestar Galactica''. She narrated and starred in the 2005 documentary '' The Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania'', produced by Patricia Heaton and directed by David Hunt, who is Heaton's husband, which won the 2006 Heartland Film Festival Award. Rush was herself crowned Coal Queen in 1972. Rush was born on September 20, 1955, in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania and graduated from Waynesburg Central High School in Waynesburg in 1973. She is a member of the Actors Studio in Midtown Manhattan, New York, an acting student of Uta Hagen and Milton Katselas, and graduated with a BFA degree in theater summa cum laude from Pennsylvania State University. She was married to Fred Bova and they have a daughter, Amanda Grace Bova. Theater *''Our Town'' directed by Gower Champion and also starring Eddie Albert *''As You Like It'' directed by Sir Tony Richardson and also starring Stockard Channi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Prodigal Son
The Parable of the Prodigal Son is a parable of Jesus in the Bible. The Prodigal Son or Prodigal Son may also refer to: Film * ''L'Enfant prodigue'' (1907 film) (The Prodigal Son), by Michel Carré, based on his play * , a short silent film by Georges Berr * ''The Prodigal Son'' (1923 film), a British silent film based on Hall Caine's novel * ''The Prodigal Son'' (1934 film), a German film * ''The Prodigal Son'', a 1952 Hong Kong film directed by Ng Wui * ''The Prodigal Son'' (1962 film), an Australian TV production of an opera by Debussy * ''The Prodigal Son'' (1981 film), a Hong Kong comedy film directed by Sammo Hung * ''The Prodigal Son'' (1993 film), a short animation * ''The Prodigal'' (1931 film), an American pre-Code film *''The Prodigal'', a 1955 biblical epic film *''The Prodigal (1983 film)'', 1983 directed by James F. Collier * ''Prodigal Sons'' (film), a 2008 American documentary Literature * * ''The Prodigal Son'' (Hall Caine novel), 1904 * ''Prodigal So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parable Of The Prodigal Son
The Parable of the Prodigal Son (also known as the parable of the Two Brothers, Lost Son, Loving Father, or of the Forgiving Father; ) is one of the parables of Jesus in the Bible, appearing in Luke 15:11–32. In Luke 15, Jesus tells this story, along with those of a man with 100 sheep and a woman with ten coins, to a group of Pharisees and religious leaders who criticized him for welcoming and eating with tax collectors and others seen as sinners. The Prodigal Son is the third and final parable of a cycle on redemption, following the parables of the Lost Sheep and the Lost Coin. In the Revised Common Lectionary and Roman Rite Catholic Lectionary, this parable is read on the fourth Sunday of Lent (in Year C); in the latter it is also included in the long form of the Gospel on the 24th Sunday of Ordinary Time in Year C, along with the preceding two parables of the cycle. In the Eastern Orthodox Church it is read on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son. Narrative The parable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Wide Pictures
World Wide Pictures (WWP) was a film distributor and production company established as a subsidiary of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) in 1951. It is involved in the production and distribution of evangelistic films, the production of Graham crusade films, and publicity for Graham crusades. History WWP was established in 1951 after Graham met Dick Ross, who had produced a documentary film of Graham's 1950 crusade in Portland, Oregon. That film's success led the BGEA to buy Ross's production company and hire him as the president of a new BGEA subsidiary incorporated as the ''Billy Graham Evangelistic Film Ministry'' (which was to be WWP's official name until 1980). WWP's first feature film was '' Mr. Texas'', produced during Graham's 1951 Fort Worth, Texas Crusade. It was also during the 1950s that WWP established production facilities in Burbank, California. Perhaps WWP's best-known production was the 1965 film ''The Restless Ones'', featuring Kim Darby. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Technicolor
Technicolor is a family of Color motion picture film, color motion picture processes. The first version, Process 1, was introduced in 1916, and improved versions followed over several decades. Definitive Technicolor movies using three black-and-white films running through a special camera (3-strip Technicolor or Process 4) started in the early 1930s and continued through to the mid-1950s, when the 3-strip camera was replaced by a standard camera loaded with single-strip "monopack" color negative film. Technicolor Laboratories were still able to produce Technicolor prints by creating three black-and-white matrices from the Eastmancolor negative (Process 5). Process 4 was the second major color process, after Britain's Kinemacolor (used between 1909 and 1915), and the most widely used color process in Cinema of the United States, Hollywood during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Technicolor's #Process 4: Development and introduction, three-color process became known and cele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Broughton
Bruce Harold Broughton (born March 8, 1945) is an American orchestral composer of television, film, and video game scores and concert works. He has composed several highly acclaimed soundtracks over his extensive career and has contributed many pieces to music archives, including the 1994 version of the 20th Century Fox fanfare with short versions for 20th Century Fox Television and Foxstar Productions and conducting the Cinergi Pictures logo composed by Jerry Goldsmith. He has won ten Emmy Awards and has been nominated once for the Academy Award for Best Original Score. Broughton is currently a lecturer in composition at UCLA. Career Broughton has composed the score for many notable films including Disney films such as '' The Rescuers Down Under'' (1990), '' All I Want for Christmas'' (1991), '' Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey'' (1993) and its sequel, '' Lost in San Francisco'' (1996), as well as popular westerns such as '' Silverado'' (1985) and ''Tombstone'' (1993). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hammond (actor)
John Hammond (born October 6, 1955) is an American actor. As a virtual unknown he landed the lead role in the 1982 miniseries, ''The Blue and the Gray'' as fictional Virginia war-artist John Geyser, then followed it up with lead role in the 1983 family film ''The Prodigal''.Peoplebr>John Hammond Isn't Just Whistling Dixie: His Role in the Blue and the Gray May Turn His Career into Gold"His current project, a film called The Prodigal, may be a form of repentance for what he calls “the ungodly sum of money” he earned for The Blue and The Gray. The movie was produced by World Wide Pictures, a subsidiary of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, and stars Hammond as a wayward son who gets involved with a loose woman and drug dealing before deciding that Christ is the answer. “It’s a kind of Ordinary People story with a happy ending,” he says. “The Billy Graham aspect bothers me a little, but I liked the role so I took it.”" He also appeared in five episodes of the TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arliss Howard
Leslie Richard "Arliss" Howard (born October 18, 1954) is an American actor, screenwriter, and film director. He is known for his roles in the films ''Full Metal Jacket'' (1987), '' Tequila Sunrise'' (1988), '' The Lost World: Jurassic Park'' (1997), ''The Time Traveler's Wife'' (2009), ''Moneyball'' (2011), and ''Mank'' (2020). Early life and education Howard is a native of Independence, Missouri. He received an English literature degree from Columbia College. Before committing to acting, Howard worked in the Wyoming oil industry, on a New Mexico ranch, and lived in Hawaii. Career Howard established his career with roles in the films ''Full Metal Jacket'', ''Men Don't Leave'', ''Ruby'', and ''Natural Born Killers''. He was nominated for two CableACE Awards for his roles in the television films '' Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture'' and '' The Man Who Captured Eichmann'', winning for the former. In 1997, Howard portrayed billionaire John Hammond's evil nephew Peter Ludlow in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joey Travolta
Joseph Allen Travolta (born October 14, 1950) is an American actor. He is the older brother of actor John Travolta. Early life Travolta was born and raised in Englewood, New Jersey, a nearby suburb of New York City, where he attended Dwight Morrow High School. His father, Salvatore Travolta, was a semi-professional football player turned tire salesman and partner in a tire company. His mother, Helen Cecilia (née Burke; 1912–1978), was an actress and singer who had appeared in ''The Sunshine Sisters'', a radio vocal group, and acted and directed before becoming a high school drama and English teacher. His father was a second-generation Italian American and his mother was Irish American. He is one of six children including actors John Travolta, Ellen Travolta and Margaret Travolta. He graduated from Paterson State College with a degree in special education in 1974. Career Travolta began a singing career in 1978 as a recording artist on Casablanca Records, releasing his e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
