John Flynn
Nacimiento : 1932-03-14, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Muerte : 2007-04-04
Historia
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John Flynn (March 14, 1932 – April 4, 2007) was an American film director and screenwriter known for making efficient, no-nonsense crime-thrillers The Outfit and Rolling Thunder.
Flynn was raised in Hermosa Beach, California and served in the Coast Guard, It was during this stint that he studied journalism with Roots author Alex Haley. Flynn received a degree in journalism from UCLA.
He began his cinematic career as an apprentice to director Robert Wise on Odds Against Tomorrow and worked as the script supervisor on West Side Story. From there, Flynn worked as a second unit director on Kid Galahad and The Great Escape. He made his debut as a director with The Sergeant starring Rod Steiger. Flynn's substantial commercial success was with The Outfit starring Robert Duvall. The filmmaker achieved a dedicated cult following with the gritty revenge thriller, Rolling Thunder starring William Devane and Tommy Lee Jones.
In 1994, he directed the cult classic Brainscan, a thriller about the dangers of virtual reality starring Edward Furlong and Frank Langella.
Flynn continued to work on genre films like Best Seller, the Sylvester Stallone prison drama Lock Up, and the Steven Seagal action film, Out for Justice. In the early 1990s, Flynn directed two made-for-cable-TV films, the Dennis Hopper cop film, Nails, and the crime drama Scam. His last film was the direct-to-video film Protection.
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Un mafioso se muda a una nueva ciudad como testigo protegido e intenta comenzar de nuevo, solo para descubrir que no puede escapar de sus viejas costumbres...
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A female con-artist who sweet-talks wealthy men targeted by her violent boyfriend, then drugs them and makes off with their money, is being herself being watched by another man. He wants to use her talents in a much-bigger scam: ripping off a crime lord by getting at his programmer's computer files. But she starts to have doubts about what he's really after when she finds a huge stash of loot with the disks. He claims no knowledge of the money, she distrusts him, he's using her, things start getting dangerous and even murderous - and then her boyfriend shows up ! Who's scamming whom ?
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The wife of a wild Los Angeles police detective becomes a hostage of the heroin ring he and his partner have exposed.
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Gino Felino es un detective de policía de Brooklyn que un día recibe una llamada comunicándole que su mejor amigo Bobby Lupo ha sido asesinado, a plena luz del día, en la calle y delante de su esposa y sus hijos, por el capo mafioso Richie Madano, enemigo de ambos desde su juventud. Gino emprenderá una furiosa caza de Madano, que campa descontrolado por la ciudad.
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Frank Leone está a punto de cumplir su condena de reclusión por un delito menor. Sin embargo a punto de ser liberado, Warden Drumgoole se hace cargo de la prisión. Drumgoole fue reasignado a tan infernal presidio después de que su administración fuera públicamente puesta en entredicho por Leone, y ahora él se encargará de que nunca vuelva a ver la luz del día.
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Cleve es un asesino a sueldo que se aproxima al detective y escritor Dennis Meechum, que está sufriendo un profundo bloqueo creativo. Recientemente despedido por su jefe -el sospechoso ejecutivo David Madlock-, Cleve está ansioso por contar su historia y vida a Meechum, aguardando convertirse así en millonario con un libro convertido en un best seller.
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Two mental patients in an institution fall in love and plan to escape in the search of a normal life.
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The story of the life and times of the legendary Hollywood blonde bombshell, Marilyn Monroe, from her meteoric rise to stardom to her marriages and untimely death.
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Tommy takes up temporary housing in a New York neighborhood plagued by a violent gang called the Souls. Tommy is waiting for his next assignment as a seaman and though he tries to avoid the gang and his neighbors, it does not work. Soon he is battling the Souls and not only changing their attitudes, but the attitudes of his previously intimidated neighbors as well.
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Finalizada la guerra de Corea, un combatiente norteamericano vuelve a su hogar para encontrarse con que su familia ha sido asesinada por un grupo de delincuentes mexicanos. Película considerada una de las mejores dentro del cine sobre la venganza, es además uno de los filmes preferidos del realizador Quentin Tarantino.
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Un ex convicto se ve en la necesidad de enfrentarse a la Mafia para vengar la muerte de su hermano, junto a quien atracó un banco, ajeno al hecho de que la entidad estaba bajo el control de una siniestra sociedad.
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Un ex convicto se ve en la necesidad de enfrentarse a la Mafia para vengar la muerte de su hermano, junto a quien atracó un banco, ajeno al hecho de que la entidad estaba bajo el control de una siniestra sociedad.
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An American student starts working with his Arab colleague while putting all politics aside. However, is his colleague just a regular Joe? Set around the time of Arab-Israeli Six Day War.
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Es la historia de la lucha interior del oscuro sargento Albert Callan para superar la abrumadora atracción que siente por uno de sus subordinados. En el entorno formal y asfixiante de un mundo posterior a la Segunda Guerra Mundial del ejército en Francia, Callan tiene una atracción profundamente reprimida por el apuesto Swanson. Más tarde, solo en su soledad, recuerda las experiencias aterradoras de la guerra y los acontecimientos que condujeron a esta encrucijada. Lleno de odio hacia sí mismo e incapaz de actuar por su atracción natural, realiza ataques verbales y castigos inmerecidos a Swanson.
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During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz, soon discovers that Goldfarb used to be a college football star. So he issues him an ultimatum: coach his country's football team, or Fawz will surrender him to the Russians. Goldfarb teams up with undercover reporter Jenny Ericson, and together they plot to escape their dangerous situation.
