Bo Hopkins

Bo Hopkins

出生 : 1938-02-02, Greenville, South Carolina, USA

死亡 : 2022-05-28

略歴

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Bo Hopkins was an American actor.   Hopkins appeared in more than 100 film and television roles in a career of more than 40 years, including the major studio films The Wild Bunch (1969), The Bridge at Remagen (1969), The Getaway (1972), American Graffiti (1973), The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973), The Killer Elite (1975), Posse (1975), A Small Town in Texas (1976), Midnight Express (1978), and More American Graffiti (1979). After Bo Hopkins' first roles in major films in the early 1970s he appeared in White Lightning (1973). Bo Hopkins played Roy Boone. Jerry Reed and Bo Hopkins played brothers Joe Hawkins and Tom Hawkins in the 1985 film What Comes Around. Hopkins starred or co-starred in a number of made-for-television movies of the mid-1970s, including Judgment: The Court Martial of Lieutenant William Calley (1975), The Runaway Barge (1975), The Kansas City Massacre (1975), The Invasion of Johnson County (1976), Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1976), Woman on the Run (1977), Thaddeus Rose and Eddie (1978), Crisis in Sun Valley (1978) and The Busters (1978). When Gretchen Corbett left the television series The Rockford Files in 1978, Hopkins replaced her character as Rockford's attorney John Cooper, ultimately appearing in 3 episodes. In 1981, Hopkins appeared in the first season of the prime time drama Dynasty as Matthew Blaisdel. His many other appearances on television included in miniseries Aspen (1977) and Beggarman, Thief (1979), and in episodes of Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Virginian, Nichols, The Rat Patrol, The Mod Squad, Hawaii Five-O, Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers, Charlie's Angels, Fantasy Island, The A-Team, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, The Fall Guy, Crazy Like a Fox, Murder, She Wrote and Doc Elliot. Hopkins has a role in the video game Nuclear Strike. He plays Colonel LeMonde, a mercenary who steals a nuclear weapon. The 'Strike' team tracks him through Southeast Asia.Description above from the Wikipedia article Bo Hopkins, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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ヒルビリー・エレジー -郷愁の哀歌-
Papaw
An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.
A Little Christmas Business
Coach Morris
Don Collier has a wonderful life and family, but no time to enjoy either. His impossible boss even has him collecting signatures for a huge project the day before Christmas, but as he goes office to office it seems that every signer is a ghost from his past, and he soon begins to wonder if this is coincidence... or heavenly intervention.
Vice
Jamie Barnett
Details the trial of a young Texas "erotic dancer" on charges of lurid behavior and indecent exposure and the various witnesses who testify both for and against her.
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
Self
Portrayal of a talented, influencial and troubled artist: a filmmaker who fought his own demons and seemed to live his own legend like no other director. Against all odds Sam Peckinpah was able to create a very personal body of work in the studio system of Hollywood and with his powerful directing and editing style changed the way of filmmaking forever. Legendary for his use of slow-motion violence, various scandals and his ongoing problems with sudios and producers, the story of Peckinpah is filled with tragedy, humor, success and defeat.
Pitcher and the Pin-Up
Coach Stangel
Growing up in Las Vegas, Danny and Melissa meet at age eight and are destined to become life-long friends. During their teen years, they cling to each other for love and security, but as they grow older, their lives take different paths. Danny fills the void in his heart with his passion and love for America's favorite pastime. Melissa, filled with the insecurities of her youth, struggles to find the strength to pursue her childhood dreams. Although apart, their lives are forever connected. Like a glorious seven-game world series, "Pitcher and the Pin-Up" is a story of imperishable hope, courage, faith, love, and coming home.
Shade
Executive Producer
Tiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They figure a good way of doing this is taking down Dean "The Dean" Stevens, a well-known cardsharp, in a rigged game. However, they first need enough money to enter a game with Stevens, so they decide to strike a deal with fellow crook Larry Jennings to scam a local gangster -- which turns out to be a bad idea.
Shade
Lieutenant Scarne
Tiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They figure a good way of doing this is taking down Dean "The Dean" Stevens, a well-known cardsharp, in a rigged game. However, they first need enough money to enter a game with Stevens, so they decide to strike a deal with fellow crook Larry Jennings to scam a local gangster -- which turns out to be a bad idea.
City of Ghosts
(Uncredited)
A con man who is on the run from law enforcement in the U.S. travels to Cambodia to collect his share in an insurance scam but discovers more than he bargained for.
Cowboy Up
Ray Drupp
"Cowboy Up" is a celebration of the risk-taking, daredevil personalities of modern rodeo. In the world of professional bull riding, newcomer Ely Braxton (Marcus Thomas) is the craziest guy around; his brother Hank (Kiefer Sutherland) is a rodeo clown, and the two use each other to play up their acts. But love may be one thing that tears the brothers apart. When Ely falls for the rodeo's sweetheart (Daryl Hannah), Hank is filled with jealousy and hatred. The brothers try to come to grips with their differences, but the competition gets as fierce as the bulls in the ring.
A Crack in the Floor
Sheriff Talmidge
After witnessing his mother's brutal rape and murder at a young age, Jeremiah Hill turns to a life of seclusion in a small mountain town. Six friends enter the town for a weekend camping trip and stumble upon Jeremiah's lonely cabin in the woods, which shatters his 33 years of solitude and turns their trip into a nightmare of survival.
Choosing Matthias
Doc
After losing their young son, a young couple struggle to keep their lives and relationships intact. Their lives soon change when they met Matthias, a young boy who had lost his family.
Big Brother Trouble
Oddo
Younger brother Mitch is having all kinds of problems competing with his older brother Sean over a girl that just moved in next door
Time Served
Mr. D
When a boy kills his abusive stepfather in self-defense, his mother takes the blame and gets sentenced to a long prison term. The warden is corrupt and forces hot inmates to work as strippers in a local nightclub. Is it a way out?
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
Sheriff Otis Lawson
A gang of bank-robbing misfits heads to Mexico with the blueprints for the perfect million-dollar heist, but when one of the crooks wanders into the wrong bar... and crosses the wrong vampire... the thieving cohorts develop a thirst for blood!
Getting to Know You
Officer Caminetto
A chance encounter alters a teenage girl's perception of herself and her outlook on life.
Lunker Lake
A puppet-starring fish story.
ニュートン・ボーイズ
K.P. Aldrich
誰ひとり殺さず、アメリカ史上最も高い成功率を誇った実在の強盗犯、ニュートン四兄弟を描いた作品。強盗稼業から足を洗った次兄ウィリスは無一文になってしまい、兄弟最後となる一世一代の大列車強盗を計画する。
ファントム
Agent Hawthorne
In the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado something evil has wiped out the community. And now, its up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.
Fever Lake
Sheriff Harris
A group of teenagers drives to "Fever Lake" to spend the weekend in a cursed house near the lake despite warnings from the locals.
Uターン
Ed
マフィアに追われる男が砂漠の町で奇妙な人間関係に巻き込まれていくサスペンス。監督は「ニクソン」のオリバー・ストーン。製作総指揮・脚本・原案はジョン・リドリー。製作は「ブラックアウト」のクレイトン・タウンゼントと「復讐のハイウェイ」で製作総指揮を務めたダン・ハルステッド。撮影は「カジノ」のロバート・リチャードソン。音楽は「記憶の扉」のエンニオ・モリコーネ。出演は「シーズ・ソー・ラブリー」のショーン・ペン、「アナコンダ」のジェニファー・ロペスほか。
Painted Hero
Brownie
Virgil Kidder hasn't been in Waco for quite a spell, but now that he's back in town clowning in the rodeo, his troubles are catching up with him quicker than a Brahma bull. Country star Dwight Yoakam makes his leading role debut as Kidder, a "painted hero" who's at his best - and safest - when he's taunting the meanest bulls in the business. It's only when the paint comes off that the real danger strikes on a wild Waco weekend filled with thrills, spills and more twists than an eight second bull ride.
Uncle Sam
Sergeant Twining
The corpse of a patriotic veteran comes back to life on July 4th and goes on a killing spree in his hometown, targeting anyone who offends his ultra-patriotic views.
Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal
Rip Bartlett
Irish immigrant Tommy Shaughnessy leaves 19th-century New York City for Kansas and becomes a small-town sheriff.
R.I.O.T.: The Movie
Harry McQue
Fear believes that the absolute worst will happen; faith believes the absolute best will happen.
Riders in the Storm
Billy Van Owen
Billy Van is a dangerous and perfidious outlaw who kidnapped a wealthy woman and the wife of Hamilton Monroe for ransom. However, Hamilton, makes an offer to free Billy's partner Jesson from prison. But it was Billy Van who double-crossed Jesson and put him in the prison. Now it's up to Jesson to find Billy and bring the kidnapped Maria back to get his freedom. Jesson teams up with a professional guide Sandy, Dirty Bob and a sharpshooter Little Swede, to find Billy, and goes on to achieve double purpose goal.
OP Center
Dan McCaskey
Paul Hood is the newly appointed director of the OP Center, a special agency gathering a wide variety of experts monitoring international crisis. On his first day on the job, nuclear missiles are stolen from the former Soviet Union by terrorists. The team must find out who did it, why, and most importantly, where they are heading so they can retrieve them
The Feminine Touch
Capt. Hogan
Jenny Baron (Paige Turco) is a beautiful investigative reporter swept into a deadly conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of the government. When she is assigned to get the story of charismatic Presidential candidate Senator Ashton (George Segal), her job is complicated by a string of political assassinations and attempts. After her lover (Dirk Benedict) is killed, things get personal. Jenny finds herself in possession of a computer disk that holds a list of powerful politicians marked for elimination, and the key to the massive web of death and deceit —— and now she's next on the list of targets! Pursued by hitmen and hunted by police, if she survives, she may discover a truth she's not prepared to accept.
Texas Payback
Sheriff Bishop
A ruthless killer (Gary Hudson), hell bent for revenge, escapes prison and vows to kill the Texas Ranger (Sam Jones) who sent him there. With the aid of his two brothers, he set off on an explosive journey to make his tormentor pay the ultimate price, a slow tortuous death.
Radioland Murders
Billy's Father
In 1939, WBN, a fourth radio network, is about to take to America's airwaves. As if the confusion of the premiere night wasn't enough, Penny Henderson, the owner's secretary, must deal with an unhappy sponsor, an overbearing boss and a soon-to-be ex-husband who desperately wants her back. As the broadcast begins, a mysterious voice breaks the broadcast and suddenly members of the cast turn up dead. It's up to her husband Roger, to find out whodunit as the police chase him through the halls of WBN.
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
Rattlesnake Reynolds
Combining colorized footage from the television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955) with new scenes shot in Tombstone, Arizona, this film shows the return of the legendary former Marshal Wyatt Earp to his old stomping grounds. He visits old friends, teaches bad guys some manners and reveals secrets about his early life.
Cheyenne Warrior
Jack Andrews
An interracial love story, set in the turbulent wild west, stirs up tensions between the Indians and the settlers.
The Ballad of Little Jo
Frank Badger
Based on a true story, this is the tale of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman of the mid-19th century who is thrown out of her parents' home after being seduced by the family's portrait photographer and giving birth to an illegitimate child. Josephine quickly learns that young, female, pretty, and alone are a bad combination for life in the wild west. In her desperation to survive, Josephine disguises herself as "Jo", a young man, and struggles to make a life for herself in a dingy frontier mining town. Can "Little Jo" live and love without revealing his/her secret?
Inside Monkey Zetterland
Mike Zetterland
An off beat comedy about an out of work screen writing/artist that complains about being too cool, too talented and way too gay.
The Legend of Wolf Mountain
Steven Haynes
Three children are kidnapped and taken to the forest by escaped convicts. There they escape but are pursued by the convicts. Forest rangers and police set out to rescue them.
Center of the Web
Frank Allesendro
An actor is wrongly taken as a professional killer by a band planning to murder the Governor. Then he is hired by the Security Dept. to try to unmask and to catch the leaders.
Blood Ties
Chief Hunter
Carpathian Americans are just like any other expatriate organization, they enjoy family get together, and share business opportunities. There is just one minor difference, the Carpathian Americans seem to have a predilection for drinking human blood.
Fertilize the Blaspheming Bombshell!
Sheriff Jon Farlock
Sheila Caan is menaced by Satan worshipers on her journey from Brooklyn to Las Vegas. In an effort to find out what happened to her twin sister, she undergoes many treacherous journeys, a number of Satanist slayings, and a number of showers.
The Final Alliance
Sheriff Whistler
A drifter and his pet puma stand up against a motorcycle gang in a small American town.
Big Bad John
Lester
Jimmy Dean's popular 1950 song is translated into a feature length movie about a young couple who elopes to escape the girl's evil stepfather.
The Bounty Hunter
Sheriff Bennett
An ex-cop turned bounty hunter shows up in a small town looking for a man who's jumped bail. However, the real reason he's there is to avenge his old friend, an Indian who lived in the area and was murdered by the local sheriff, who is trying to get the Indians to sell their land cheaply so an oil company can move in and take over the land, which they believe sits on top of large reserves of oil.
President's Target
Marty Rogers
The lone survivor of a deadly ambush against him and his team, a narcotics agent swears to avenge the deaths of his friends and fellow officers.
Trapper County War
Sheriff Sam Frost
A Vietnam veteran and a young man set out to rescue a woman kidnapped by a backwoods family.
Nightmare at Noon
Reilly
Scientists poison the water supply of a small town, turning the residents into homicidal maniacs who kill each other and anybody who passes through.
A Smoky Mountain Christmas
Sheriff John Jensen
A country-western singer on a trip through the Tennessee mountains runs into a reclusive backwoodsman — and a witch.
Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills
Jud
Two young survivors of a wagon-train massacre battle horse thieves as they take a prize stallion through Utah.
What Comes Around
Tom Hawkins
Country singer Joe Hawkins must fight both drug addiction and his unscrupulous manager to get back on his feet.
Dark Horse
Nick Fox and his friend Mac, a photographer, are contacted by a mother who's son is recruited by a training camp in South America.
Night Shadows
Sheriff Will Stewart
When two brothers, Josh and Mike, go to a small southern town for a vacation, they find most of the residents either dead or missing. When Mike himself goes missing, Josh teams up with the local sheriff and an attractive school teacher to find him until Josh discovers that the whole town and most of it's people have been infected by a form of toxic waste, and they have all turned into toxic vampires whom prowl the streets at night for human blood!
E. Nick: A Legend in His Own Mind
A comic spoof of adult magazines and video shows.
Ghost Dancing
Dave Groves
Farm widow Sarah Bowman has been impoverished by the siphoning of her water supply. A nearby big-city aqueduct has priority over water rights, leaving the rural outskirts virtually dry. Attempting to bring her cause to the forefront, Sarah dynamites the reservoir, half-hoping that she'll be "martyred" in the process. When she fails to arouse public support, she targets the local power plant for her next blast. Assistant DA Anne Greyfeather, who as an orphaned Indian girl was virtually raised by Sarah, decides to challenge the water-department bureaucracy on McGuire's behalf.
Sweet Sixteen
Sheriff Dan Burke
A beautiful lonely girl named Melissa tries to make new friends from a town she's currently living in. The only problem is, each of the boys that she spends time with end up brutally murdered. Her sixteenth birthday is on the way, but Melissa turns out to be a suspect when it seems she's the last person who has seen her boyfriends alive.
Rodeo Girl
Will Garrett
Sammy Garrett, the wife of a champion rodeo performer, is tired of her subsidiary role at home as a housewife. So she becomes an aspiring rodeo rider herself, encouraged by her one-time performer mother, and eventually confronts her new lifestyle, despite her husband's disapproval. Based on the true story of rodeo champion Sue Pirtle.
Casino
Stoney
Mike Connors is a suave gambler who owns a floating hotel/casino which takes a turn when the passengers are stalked by a saboteur during the casino ship's maiden voyage.
The Plutonium Incident
Art Reeves
A worker at a nuclear power plant finds life in danger after she points out unsafe conditions.
Beggarman, Thief
Bunny Dwyer
In this sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man," moviemaker Gretchen Jordache, the until-now unseen sister, strives to pull the family together after the murder of brother Tom and the disappearance of brother Rudy by first reestablishing contact with her soldier son, and then patching things up with her sister-in-law, Kate, Tom's widow.
The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
Billy Doolin
A light-hearted view of the Dalton Gang's legendary raid on Coffeyville, Kansas and the years leading up to it as the brothers form themselves into a gang of horse thieves and train and bank robbers with their arch enemy, Detective Will Smith, constantly on their heels.
More American Graffiti
Little Joe
College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late '60s.
The Fifth Floor
Carl
A young woman collapses on the disco dance floor of what's revealed to be strychnine poisoning. Assuming that this is an attempt at suicide, her boyfriend and doctor have her committed to the Fifth Floor, an asylum with obviously crazy inmates and a predatory orderly. The problem is, she's still sane!
ミッドナイト・エクスプレス
Tex
アメリカと中東諸国との間で緊迫した国際情勢が続いている70年代、アメリカ人旅行者ビリー・ヘイズはイスタンブール空港からアメリカへ麻薬を運び出そうとしていた。だがこの時、彼は麻薬不法所持、密輸の罪でトルコ当局に逮捕され、現地の刑務所に投獄されてしまう。恐怖と寂寥感に苛まれるも、所内で出会った2人のアメリカ人ジミーとエリックに励まされていくビリー。ところが、駆けつけてきた父や弁護士、アメリカ領事館の助けを借りて挑んだ裁判で、4年の刑を宣告されてしまう。
Crisis in Sun Valley
Buchanan
Semi-follow up to "The Deadly Triangle" dealing with a sheriff and his deputy in a sleepy ski town involved with a group of urbanites planning a dangerous mountain climb as well as investigating sabotage in a condominium development.
Thaddeus Rose and Eddie
Eddie Lee Haskell
The adventures of two good old boys from Texas, no-account buddies who are finally forced to face reality for themselves and for their girlfriends.
テンタクルズ
Will Gleason
凄まじい津波の音と共に浮上したのは生血の味を覚えてしまった深海の巨大ダコだった……。『ジョーズ』を生んだ70年代ハリウッドが作り上げた動物パニック作品。出演陣も多彩で、実力派揃い。
Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway
Swan
15-year-old Dawn runs away from what she feels is an intolerable home life. In the big city, she ends up turning to prostitution when she is unable to get a job due to her age. She meets Alexander, a young male hustler who takes her in, but when she starts working for a pimp, Alexander becomes a target.
The Invasion of Johnson County
George Dunning
A free-spirited Bostonian recently arrived in the West teams up with a crusty Wyoming cowboy to stop a land baron's attempts to drive out a group of small ranchers and take over their property.
A Small Town in Texas
Sheriff Duke
A crooked sheriff in a small Southern town frames an ex-convict in a drug bust and takes his girlfriend.
チャーリーズ・エンジェル
Beau Creel
When a wealthy winegrower disappears, the three private investigators go undercover at the vineyard to track down the whereabouts of the body. If the body doesn't turn up in a certain amount of time, the inheritance will be presented to the man's second wife, Rachel, instead of his long-lost daughter, Janet.
キラー・エリート
Jerome Miller
裏切りが横行する殺し屋たちの非情な世界を、サム・ペキンパー監督がスローモーションを駆使した得意のバイオレンス・アクションを交えて描写。敵対する暗殺集団としてニンジャ軍団が登場し、怪しくも味わい深い。
The Kansas City Massacre
Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd
Gangsters free one of their colleagues being escorted to prison and kill several FBI agents and local police officers in the attempt. FBI agent Melvin Purvis puts together a special squad to track down and capture the men responsible.
Posse
Wesley
A tough marshal with political ambitions leads an elite posse to capture a notorious train robber and his gang.
The Day of the Locust
Earle Shoop
Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.
The Runaway Barge
Earl Owens
Two bargemen on the Mississippi River find themselves mixed up in a kidnapping and hijacking plot.
The Nickel Ride
Turner
A world-weary crime boss is losing his grip on his organization.
Judgment: The Court Martial of Lieutenant William Calley
Prosecuting attorney
This docudrama follows the court-martial of the title character, the man held responsible for the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.
白熱
Ray Boone
An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.
アメリカン・グラフィティ
Joe Young
1962年、カリフォルニア北部の小さな田舎町を舞台に、ハイスクールを卒業し東部の大学へ出発しようとする若者たちの、最後の一夜を描いた愛すべき名編。スティーヴ(今や一線級監督のロン・ハワード)とカート(「JAWS/ジョーズ」以前のリチャード・ドレイファス)は故郷での最後の夜を楽しく過ごそうと、テリー(「アンタッチャブル」のチャールズ・M・スミス)とビッグ・ジョン(ポール・ル・マット)を誘い町に繰り出す。暴走族の仲間に入らされたり、酒を買おうと四苦八苦したり、マセた女の子にせまられたりという数々のエピソードが、当時のヒット・ナンバーに乗せて軽やかに描かれるが、やがてそれぞれの決意を秘めた朝がやって来る……。今や定番と化した感のある、懐メロ青春群像モノの原点であり最高峰、後の青春映画に与えた影響は大きい。
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
Billy
On the run from her violent husband, Catherine Crocker witnesses a train robbery and is taken prisoner by a frontier outlaw gang, led by a bandit who’s hiding a secret of his own.
ゲッタウェイ
Frank Jackson
銀行強盗をしたマッコイは、ギャングに渡すはずの金を持って逃走した。彼を追うギャングをかわしながら、マッコイは妻と共にメキシコをめざす。スリリングなチェイスが全編に渡って展開するサム・ペキンパー監督によるアクション・サスペンス。
The Only Way Home
Orval
Two bikers stop on the road to help a family with car troubles. An argument ensues leaving the father dead, and the others are held hostage in a barn. As police investigate, the fate of the hostages is uncertain.
男の出発(たびだち)
Dixie Brick
「おもいでの夏」のG・グライムズを主役に、ファッション・フォト出身のD・リチャーズが、西部劇の世界にチャレンジした初監督作。ざらついた映像やセピア・トーンの映像が光る。 カウボーイを夢見る16歳の少年が、大人たちに交じって、生きるか死ぬかの厳しい現実を体験し、成長していくまでを描く異色の西部劇。テキサスからコロラド州へと牛を運ぶカウボーイのボスに頼み込み、コックの助手として仲間に加えてもらった少年ベン。ところが、大事な拳銃と馬を盗まれたり、見張り中に馬泥棒に襲われたりとまったく役に立たず、ボスに故郷へと帰されそうになるが…。
Cat Ballou
Clay
A pretty ranch owner hires a drunken gunslinger and his two companions to protect her ranch from outlaws and build a school for local children.
Monte Walsh
Jumpin' Joe Joslin
Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the ending days of the Wild West era. As barbed wire and railways steadily eliminate the need for the cowboy, Monte and his friends are left with fewer and fewer options. New work opportunities are available to them, but the freedom of the open prarie is what they long for. Eventually, they all must say goodbye to the lives they knew, and try to make a new start.
西部番外地
Yancy
A man tricked into enlisting in the Confederate army is later thrown into a hellish stockade on desertion charges. He eventually breaks out of the prison camp, reunites with his old partner and sets out to kill the man who was responsible for his being in the camp in the first place. However, after accidentally killing a Confederate officer, he finds himself pursued by a gang of vicious bounty hunters intent on collecting the reward put up by the dead officer's widow.
The Moonshine War
Bud Blackwell
A federal agent attempts to make some real money before the alcohol ban is lifted so he sets his sights on the whiskey cache of an old army buddy.
The Thousand Plane Raid
Capt. Douglass
In 1943, Colonel Greg Brandon, stationed at an United States Army Air Forces 8th Air Force, 103rd Bomb Group base in England, repeatedly attempts to persuade superiors that massive daylight bombing will hasten the end of World War II. In spite of the mission's extreme difficulty, his plan is finally put into effect against a German aircraft factory. During preparation for the raid, Brandon alienates his men by insisting that normal bombing operations continue. His disdain for cautious Lieutenant Archer and brash RAF Wing Commander Trafton Howard further antagonizes his associates, including his girl friend, WAC Lieutenant Gabrielle Ames. When his bomber crashes the morning of the mission, Brandon boards a bomber manned by Archer and Howard. During the effective air raid, he is impressed by Archer's courage and Howard's judgment.
レマゲン鉄橋
Cpl. Grebs
第2次世界大戦末期の1945年2月、連合軍は敗走するドイツ軍を追ってライン川に迫った。ドイツ軍は、天然の要害であるライン川を盾にして防御するしかなく、連合軍もライン川を渡河すべく、無傷の橋を目指していた。 ブロック将軍は上司から、担当地区に残る橋を全て爆破するように命じられたが、川の向こうには7万5000人の兵が残されており、この友軍が撤退できるようレマゲン鉄橋をぎりぎりまで残し、連合軍が間近に迫ってから破壊しようとする。将軍は腹心の部下、クリューガー少佐を橋防衛部隊の指揮官に任命し、連合軍が橋の目前まで迫るまで爆破しないように指示する。 クリューガー少佐が橋に赴くと、書類上では1600名の兵員が実際はほとんどおらず、爆破のための爆薬すら無い逼迫した状況であった。少佐は、爆破の準備や橋の防衛陣地の構築とともに増援部隊の派遣を要請するが、いくら要請しても生返事ばかりで一向に援軍が来る気配は無い。そうしているうちに、アメリカ軍のバーンズ少佐指揮の機甲歩兵大隊に所属する先遣隊が橋の間近まで迫り、橋をめぐる攻防戦が始まる。
ワイルドバンチ
Clarence 'Crazy' Lee
バイオレンス映画の巨匠サム・ペキンパー監督が、20世紀初頭のメキシコを舞台に滅びゆくアウトローたちの姿を描いた傑作西部劇。1913年、アメリカ・テキサスでの銀行強盗に失敗したパイクら強盗団はメキシコに逃走する。旧友ソーントンら賞金稼ぎに追われる中、メキシコ政府のマパッチ将軍の依頼で米軍用列車から武器を強奪するパイクたちだったが、マパッチの裏切りに遭い、仲間を人質に取られてしまう……。スローモーションに細かいカットを挿入するペキンパーのアクション演出は後続に大きな影響を与えた。出演はウィリアム・ホールデン、アーネスト・ボーグナイン。