George McCowan
Nacimiento : 1927-06-27, Paris, Ontario, Canada
Muerte : 1995-11-01
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George McCowan (June 27, 1927 – November 1, 1995) was a Canadian film (mostly TV movies) and TV director in the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
McCowan began his career working for the Canadian Broadcasting Company. He moved to the United States from Canada in 1967 and stayed there.
He is most notable for directing seven episodes of Charlie's Angels, directing episodes of S.W.A.T., and directing episodes of Starsky and Hutch. He worked more often with such shows as The Streets of San Francisco, Fantasy Island, and Hart to Hart. McCowan directed the 1971 Canadian hockey film Face-Off, the 1972 film, The Magnificent Seven Ride!, the 1972 horror film, Frogs, and the 1976 film Shadow of the Hawk.
McCowan also directed the film H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come and the 1970 television war movie,The Challenge, but for the latter he chose to be credited as Alan Smithee.
McCowan died in 1995 in Santa Monica, California.
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A Quaker family is held hostage by a band of bank robbers and their non-violent beliefs are sorely tested. The film also questions whether their attempt at a non-violent solution actually makes things worse for themselves and their captors. Based on Stanley Ellin's novel STRONGHOLD.
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Pete, Linc and Julie are called back to the force when a series of sniper attacks are made on their old boss. But the three soon discover that they themselves are the intended targets of a gunman who lives in their old "flower child" world of the 1960s.
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El planeta Tierra es un territorio devastado y la humanidad vive ahora en ciudades- refugio de la Luna. La supervivencia de la humanidad depende de un medicamento contra la radiación que sólo está disponible en el planeta Delta Three, que ha sido conquistado por Omus, un mecánico brillante pero loco que no da ningún valor a la vida humana. Omus quiere llegar a la Luna para gobernar y tiene la intención de atacarla con una embestida robot controlada por naves espaciales desde lo alto. El Dr. John Caball, su hijo Jason, un amigo de éste , Kim, y un robot llamado Sparks se embarcarán en crucero espacial llamado Caball en una misión no autorizada dehacia Delta Three para poner freno a Omus.
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A second feature-length pilot film for the wish-fulfillment series sees six lucky people having their dreams fulfilled on the luxury resort island. Career woman Margo Dean's assistant, Lowell Benson, hopes to romance her; Brian and Lucy Faber want to see the daughter they gave up for adoption; Janet Fleming, who lost her memory on her honeymoon, wants to relive it to cure her amnesia.
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Jan-Michael Vincent stars as Mike, the grandson of Native American shaman Old Man Hawk who is called back to his village to help defeat evil forces threatening the tribe. After years of living in the city and working in a business world altogether apart from his roots, Mike is contacted by a freelance reporter, Maureen, who was enlisted by Old Man Hawk to track his grandson. When Mike assents to returning with Maureen, they find that the village is beset by the evil spirit of an ancient sorceress, Dsonoqua, animating beasts and objects and causing strange, deadly accidents. Only the heir of the tribe’s shaman can stand in the way of the evil and protect his people, but will Mike be able to harness his power in time?
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En la sala VIP del aeropuerto, es encontrada una carta de advertencia que avisa de que se van a producir una serie de crímenes en el vuelo 502. Esta carta, aparece un día ante de tiempo. No obstante, al día siguiente, el vuelo despega del aeropuerto con todos sus pasajeros a bordo, sin saber que, entre ellos, se encuentra un maníaco homicida que ya ha cometido un crimen y que se dispone a volver a asesinar.
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Lance Henriksen is a successful restauranteur who is having a hot n' heavy affair with the wife (Susan Tyrell) of a Presidential Adviser. During one rendezvous they overhear the husband and an Admiral discussing "the killing of the patient", and as the adulterous couple have been under surveillance this information reaches a top Federal Agent (Patrick O'Neal) who provides security for the President. His investigation begins to cast light on a conspiracy within government to assassinate the President - and now he must expose the conspiracy and stop it cold.
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Film directed by George Cowan
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En la cárcel de Sheridan, en el territorio de Arizona, hay un muchacho de tan sólo 18 años llamado Shelley, que es puesto en libertad a requerimiento de la esposa de Chris, el sheriff. Pero, inmediatamente, el joven se une a la banda del mexicano Juan de Toro y asalta un banco. Durante el atraco, Chris es herido y su esposa secuestrada por la banda de forajidos...
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La adinerada familia Crockett tiene una hermosa plantación en un lago de Florida. El patriarca, Jason (Ray Milland) odia la vida salvaje y ordena a un exterminador rociar pesticidas alrededor de la casa. Es entonces cuando la fauna comienza a contraatacar, no solamente ranas, sino también serpientes, lagartos, pájaros, arañas, sanguijuelas y tortugas.
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An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town. When he is finally released from the camp, and is discharged from the military, he goes back to his town - but he can find no trace whatsoever of it.
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In California, a young Caucasian girl and a Japanese-American boy defy local prejudices and secretly marry on Dec. 7, 1941, minutes before Pearl Harbor is attacked.
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Love story involving a Canadian professional hockey player and a hippie folk singer. Their union is tumultuous, as both try to come to terms with their differences in careers and lifestyles.
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A young Iowa schoolteacher, thinking she is dying of leukemia, goes to San Francisco, where she hires a mob killer to take her life. However, she soon changes her mind, and with the help of the local police, tries to find the killer before he fulfills his part of the bargain.
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In this pilot film to the TV series, Cannon investigates the murder of a war buddy to clear the man's wife of suspicion in his death.
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Ryan O'Neal plays Russ Emery, a glib engineer who steals the heart of a fashion model named Sheila Blunden. She in turn leaves her jet setter fiance who turns out to be a psychotic who will not let go of Sheila that easily.
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A Papago Indian returns to his reservation after a prison term and searches for his brother's killer.
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La banda de la colina se reune otra vez para rehabilitar a uno de sus viejos amigos y luchar contra unos criminales que asolan la zona.
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Dos razas diferentes de extraterrestres están en guerra. Representantes de cada raza han aterrizado en la Tierra para continuar luchando aquí, han tomado forma humana y solo pueden ver a otros extraterrestres mediante el uso de unas gafas especiales.
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All-out war between the United States and an Asian country is averted when the two sides agree to settle their differences by each choosing a single soldier as champion and having the two men fight to the death on an isolated island.
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Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial una escuadrilla de soldados formada íntegramente por combatientes de color, a excepción del oficial al mando, el Capitán Beau Carter (Stephen Boyd), será la encargada de llevar a cabo una misión suicida en la que deberán, internarse en territorio enemigo y, por todos los medios, hacerse con un puente en poder de los nazis o volarlo por los aires.
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Returning Vietnam veteran Andy Crocker arrives in his small hometown to discover his best friend and business partner has mismanaged their business into bankruptcy and his high school sweetheart has married another man. It is evident his small town has little to offer him except the hard-working life of his father, while the broader world has limited opportunities for a man who left school after the third grade.
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Underworld attorney Leo Barnes hires Gus Monk to safeguard a valuable envelope containing information on a mobster. Monk refuses — until he meets Mrs. Barnes and jumps on a merry-go-round of viciousness and murder.
