Tom Gries
Nacimiento : 1922-12-20, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Muerte : 1977-01-03
Historia
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Thomas S. "Tom" Gries (20 December 1922; Chicago, Illinois – 3 January 1977; Pacific Palisades, California) was an American TV and film director, writer and producer.
Educated at the Loyola Academy and Georgetown University, Gries began working in TV in the 1950s as a writer and director, on such programmes as Bronco,"Rat Patrol", Wanted: Dead or Alive, The Westerner, The Rifleman, East Side/West Side, Mission: Impossible, Route 66, Batman and I Spy. He won Emmy Awards for his direction on East Side/West Side in 1964 and The Glass House in 1972.
In the cinema, Gries directed some low-budget movies in the 1950s before concentrating his efforts more on TV. In the late 1960s, he wrote and directed what is generally acknowledged to be his greatest work in either medium, the western Will Penny, which starred Charlton Heston and was released in 1968. It was based on an episode of the TV series The Westerner that Gries wrote and directed in 1960, entitled "Line Camp". Gries subsequently made two other films with Heston, the much less successful Number One, and The Hawaiians, and directed several other films with other high profile actors such as Burt Reynolds and Charles Bronson into the 1970s, though they failed to reach the critical approval that Will Penny received. The most successful of his later works was Helter Skelter, made in 1976, which was a TV film based on the notorious Charles Manson Family.
During post-production on his final film, The Greatest (1977), a biography on boxer Muhammed Ali (in which Ali also played himself), Tom Gries collapsed and died of a heart attack while playing tennis. He was 54 years old.
He is the father of actor/director Jon Gries (who appeared under the name Jon Francis in Will Penny as a child actor).
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The Greatest es una película de 1977 sobre la vida del boxeador Muhammad Ali, en la que Ali se interpreta a sí mismo. Fue dirigida por Tom Gries y Monte Hellman. La canción "Greatest Love of All", más tarde rehecha por Whitney Houston, fue escrita para esta película y cantada por George Benson. La película sigue la vida de Ali desde los Juegos Olímpicos de 1960 hasta su recuperación de la corona de peso pesado de George Foreman en su famosa pelea "Rumble in the Jungle" en 1974.
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The investigation of two horrific mass murders leads to the capture and trial of the psychotic pseudo-hippie Charles Manson and his "family".
Director
Cuando en Fort Humboldt, un puesto militar situado en el lejano oeste, se propaga una severa epidemia de difteria, las autoridades envían un tren con ayuda sanitaria y soldados de reemplazo. En el tren se producen extrañas desapariciones de pasajeros, muertes misteriosas, sabotajes... Un detective que viaja de incógnito se encargará de investigar lo ocurrido.
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Debido a una estratagema de su abuelo, Jay Wagner (Robert Duvall) se ve incriminado en un caso de asesinato y es condenado a permanecer veintiocho años en una cárcel de gran seguridad. La mujer de Wagner (Jill Ireland) contratará a Nick Colton (Bronson) para que ayude a Jay a escapar de la prisión. Pero tras una tentativa fallida, debido a un soplo, Nick decidirá de ahí en adelante actuar en secreto. Para liberar a Wagner tendrá que llevar a cabo las más increíbles proezas. (FILMAFFINITY)
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The director of an urban medical center faces various major problems during the course of running the hospital.
Producer
A look at the lives of migratory farm workers, focusing on one family.
Director
A look at the lives of migratory farm workers, focusing on one family.
Director
El inspector Klute investiga la desaparición de una gran cantidad de joyas a nombre de la empresa que las aseguró. Con la ayuda de la hija del gángster que cometió el robo, y a pesar de que la policía puso un radio en la rueda, Klute recupera el botín.
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A federal agent recruits a computer whiz to try to free a Mafia witness who has been kidnapped and held in a heavily fortified compound.
Director
An out-of-work newspaperman in need of money becomes the go-between for a jewel thief and an insurance company that wants to settle.
Producer
The name Michael O'Hara has become synonymous with law enforcement. There have been three generations of Michael O'Haras and all have been exemplary policemen. When Michael O'Hara III's child was born he was told that they would not be able to have any more children, and there has always been a Michael O'Hara, so he named his child Michael O'Hara IV despite the fact that she is a girl. Now Mike has a tendency to get involved with police matters and not always with good results, which annoys her father. And despite being told repeatedly to stay out of it, she continues her amateurish detective activities.
Writer
The name Michael O'Hara has become synonymous with law enforcement. There have been three generations of Michael O'Haras and all have been exemplary policemen. When Michael O'Hara III's child was born he was told that they would not be able to have any more children, and there has always been a Michael O'Hara, so he named his child Michael O'Hara IV despite the fact that she is a girl. Now Mike has a tendency to get involved with police matters and not always with good results, which annoys her father. And despite being told repeatedly to stay out of it, she continues her amateurish detective activities.
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A young draft dodger helps militant Native Americans in their protest against the government at Wounded Knee.
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Adapted from a story by Truman Capote ("In Cold Blood"), the world of the prison convict is open to the viewer. As the story develops, one thing becomes clear. As in the outside world, there is a "system"; and just as on the outside, there is accommodation, honesty, cynicism, violence and all the other factors that make up our society. The film follows the three newcomers, it records the grim, terrifying, sometimes fascinating events that occur.
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In the near future, a space station dubbed Earth II is built for the purpose of scientific research and world peace. However, that peace is shattered when the Chinese send up a nuclear bomb that is orbiting just a few miles away from the station. Can the crew disarm the bomb before it detonates, not only destroying the station but setting off World War III?
Director
A horror actor falls in love with the unhappily married young wife of an attorney.
Director
Cuando el marino Whipple Hoxworth regresa a su hogar en Hawai, se encuentra con que la fortuna de su abuelo ha caido en manos de su odioso primo Micah Hale. Whip decide entonces montar su propia plantación de piñas para hacerle la competencia a Micah. Mientras tanto, su hijo Noel se enamora de la hija de Mun Ki, un granjero chino. La trama se desarrolla en la época anterior a la anexión de Hawai por los Estados Unidos (1898).
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Tras una serie de fracasos deportivos, Cat Catlan, un jugador de fútbol americano, se refugia en la bebida y en las mujeres. Sin embargo, sus problemas no han hecho más que empezar.
Screenplay
El indio Jaqui Joe (Burt Reynolds) planea el atraco de un banco con el fin de conseguir el dinero necesario para armar a su pueblo y librarlo de la opresión. En México conoce a un sheriff (Jim Brown), pero ambos son arrestados por un policía corrupto. Desde ese momento se aliarán y lucharán juntos por la dignidad y la libertad de los indios.
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El indio Jaqui Joe (Burt Reynolds) planea el atraco de un banco con el fin de conseguir el dinero necesario para armar a su pueblo y librarlo de la opresión. En México conoce a un sheriff (Jim Brown), pero ambos son arrestados por un policía corrupto. Desde ese momento se aliarán y lucharán juntos por la dignidad y la libertad de los indios.
Writer
Will Penny es un vaquero veterano que se encarga de vigilar las lindes de un gran rancho. Un día, al regresar a su cabaña en las montañas, descubre que ha sido ocupada por una mujer que se dirigía a Oregón con su hijo para reunirse con su marido, pero que ha sido abandonada por su guía. Incapaz de echarlos en medio del crudo invierno, accede a compartir la cabaña con ellos.
Director
Will Penny es un vaquero veterano que se encarga de vigilar las lindes de un gran rancho. Un día, al regresar a su cabaña en las montañas, descubre que ha sido ocupada por una mujer que se dirigía a Oregón con su hijo para reunirse con su marido, pero que ha sido abandonada por su guía. Incapaz de echarlos en medio del crudo invierno, accede a compartir la cabaña con ellos.
Screenplay
With a simple plot and not much else, this undistinguished western is about Gabe (Jack Beutel), a rodeo name whose penchant for gambling causes him to lose all the money he made and quickly look for a steady job. Gabe ends up on a ranch plugging away as a cowhand but cannot escape his affinity for horses. Lou (Steve Keyes) and his sister Nancy (Madalyn Trahey) own the ranch and Lou comes into conflict with Gabe when he decides to kill a wild Palomino. Gabe will not allow it because he knows the stallion can be tamed. Environmentalists and others should enjoy the bloopers which put moose in Oklahoma, a raccoon in the 'possum family, and several animals in the wrong proximity.
Director
Lumbering tale of lumbermen challenging the ownership of valuable woodlands.
Writer
The pilot, co-pilot, and crew of a bomber try to hit a Korean bridge in bad weather.
Director
The pilot, co-pilot, and crew of a bomber try to hit a Korean bridge in bad weather.
Screenplay
En 1960, cuatro científicos estadounidenses viajan a un planeta que acaba de ingresar al sistema solar de la Tierra para ver si es capaz de sustentar una colonia terrestre. Encuentran una atmósfera de oxígeno, un exuberante bosque similar a la tierra y animales similares a la tierra que viven alrededor de un lago de agua dulce potable.
Writer
On the trail of a million-dollar gold treasure, an Eastern gal (Mary Munday) hires a California dockside bum (Sonny Tufts) to accompany her to the Caribbean where one of her ancestors reportedly buried the booty. Soon the jungles are echoing with the sound of voodoo drums, the locals are licking their native chops and there are snakes on a plain!Packed with flubs, sockt footage—and Sonny Tufts. If laughter were food, this would be a full-course meal for Worst Films connoisseurs. (Filmed in 16mm Kodachrome on an $18,000 budget!)
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On the trail of a million-dollar gold treasure, an Eastern gal (Mary Munday) hires a California dockside bum (Sonny Tufts) to accompany her to the Caribbean where one of her ancestors reportedly buried the booty. Soon the jungles are echoing with the sound of voodoo drums, the locals are licking their native chops and there are snakes on a plain!Packed with flubs, sockt footage—and Sonny Tufts. If laughter were food, this would be a full-course meal for Worst Films connoisseurs. (Filmed in 16mm Kodachrome on an $18,000 budget!)
Producer
Un millonario muere en un accidente de aviación cerca de la casa del profesor Patrick Cory, un científico que realiza experimentos sobre el cerebro. Cory decide extraer el cerebro del cadáver y mantenerlo vivo de manera artificial. Sin embargo, el cerebro se va adueñando progresivamente de la voluntad del científico cuando intenta comunicarse con él telepáticamente.
Associate Producer
Jeff McCloud, una popular estrella del rodeo, incapacitado por una serie de accidentes, vuelve tras varios años de ausencia a Springs (Tejas), su ciudad natal, para iniciar una nueva vida. Se dedica a entrenar para los campeonatos de rodeo a Wes, un joven que necesita ganar dinero para comprarse una pequeña granja.
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Confederate veteran Jeff Waring arrives in Independence, Missouri shortly after the Civil War, intending never again to use a gun. He finds that rancher Artemus Taylor and his henchmen are forcing out the settlers in order to claim their land for the incoming railroad.
