James Crabe
出生 : 1931-08-19, Los Angeles, California, USA
死亡 : 1989-05-02
略歴
James Crabe (August 19, 1931 – May 2, 1989) was an American cinematographer known for his work in the 1970s and '80s on numerous films, including Rocky, The China Syndrome, Night Shift, The Karate Kid, and Thank God It's Friday. He was a part of the 1960s underground film collective known as Gay Girls Riding Club, a group of gay men in the industry, who spoofed Hollywood movies in a series of elaborate amateur films.
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John G. Avildsen pays tribute to cinematographer James Crabe.
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ダニエルとミヤギに完敗したコブラ会は復讐に燃え、カラテの反逆児マイクを刺客に差し向けた。だが、ミヤギは試合のための極意を教えてくれない。困惑したダニエルの前に一人の男が現われて……。人気シリーズ第3作。
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Young high school couple Darcy Elliot and Stan Bobrucz are one year from graduation, with promising futures ahead of them. But their paths take a drastic turn when Darcy becomes pregnant. Unwilling to go through an abortion or an adoption — despite their parents' pleas — Darcy and Stan decide to sacrifice their college experiences and degrees in order to keep and raise the baby. After a quick marriage, the two realize it won't be as easy as they thought.
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Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Using a variety of disguises and posing as rich old men and women they begin the set-up, but then Nick falls for the owner of a neighboring antique store and things get a little complicated.
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Kate Capshaw plays a schoolteacher and suburban housewife who happens to be an ex-spy. Nobody knows of Capshaw's previous espionage activities, least of all her somewhat obtuse husband Cliff De Young. When Capshaw's ex-lover Jeroen Krabbe, an intimate of Castro, lands in a Cuban prison, she is swept back into the spy business, leaving her nonplussed hubby in the dust.
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True story about a nurse's descent into the nightmarish world of substance abuse which endangers her life and the lives of her patients.
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A Los Angeles psychiatrist testifies for the prosecution in the trial of an accused child molester. Later the defendant, who is out on bail, is found dead in the psychiatrist's office, in what appears to be a suicide. Shaken, the psychiatrist moves to the mountains outside of L.A. Not long afterwards a detective he knows comes to him for help. A seven-year-old girl saw someone kill both of her parents, but is so traumatized by the event that she can't remember anything, and the detective wants the doctor to help jar her memory. Soon, however, the doctor and the detective discover that the parents' murder and the pedophiles "suicide" may be linked to a shadowy group of wealthy and influential pedophiles, and that the child isn't the only one whose life is in danger.
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The first U.S. president (Barry Bostwick) and his wife (Patty Duke) endure two terms of turmoil from 1789 to 1797.
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ダニエル少年とミヤギ老人が空手を通して友情を育む姿を描く「ベスト・キッド」シリーズの第2弾。今回は舞台をミヤギの故郷、沖縄に移してミヤギに復讐を目論むグループとの対立を描く。ミヤギのもとに父親の危篤を知らせる手紙が届いた。彼は弟子のダニエル(マッチオ)を連れて、故郷の沖縄に戻る。だがそこには、かつて同じ女性を愛したがために宿敵となった男が、復讐のために待ちかまえていた……。
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A powerful family that controls the world's banks has made a deal with Satan to help the forces of evil take over the world. An underground group named The Judges bands together to try to stop them.
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ダメな新入生を立派な警官に育てることに一所懸命なラサール校長のもとに、弟のラサール署長から電話がかかった。弟のラサールは、全米で最悪の犯罪地区の署長をしている。彼のため、そして、その地区の凶悪な暴走族を一網打尽にするために、校長は、ポリスアカデミーの卒業生の中から特に優秀な警官を選抜する。そこで選ばれたのが、マホニー、怪力超人ハイタワー、拳銃狂タックルベリー、物まね狂、通称人間効果音ラーヴェル、内気なフックス、脱ダメ亭主のダグラスの6人だった。
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ひよわな転校生ダニエルが恋した少女は、カラテの高校チャンピオンが狙っている娘でもあった。ある日不良グループにからまれた彼は、ミヤギと名乗る老人に助けられる。ミヤギは、自分を守るために使うのならカラテを教えよう、と言うが……。「ロッキー」のJ・G・アヴィルドセン監督がおくる、カラテ少年を主人公にしたスポーツ青春映画。
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Three generations of women spend an emotional weekend that will change them forever.
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A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the "one great idea" for success. His life takes a bizarre turn when a prostitute neighbor complains about the loss of her pimp. His partner, upon hearing the situation, suggests that they fill that opening themselves using the morgue at night.
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The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to appear not entirely truthful.
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While investigating the death of a friend and fellow cop, Los Angeles police officer Barney Caine stumbles across evidence that Nazis created a synthetic alternative to gasoline during World War II. This revelation has the potential to end the established global oil industry, making the formula a very valuable and dangerous piece of information. Eventually, Caine must contend with oil tycoon Adam Steiffel, who clearly has his own agenda regarding the formula.
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Oregon, 1980: Jane, Elaine and Louise are all feeling the effects of inflation and cannot afford the high cost of living. Jane cannot afford a babysitter or get married and if she wants privacy with her boyfriend, she has to sleep in the car. Even worse, her war veteran father comes to live with her to turn her life upside down. Louise lives a happy life with her veterinarian husband, Albert. She runs an antique shop on the side, but since it doesn't take in any profit, the IRS considers it a hobby. She needs to come up with the money to keep it going, or she will be trouble with the IRS. Elaine's husband has left her for another woman and without any money. She is in a constant struggle with banks, power companies, and gas stations. She needs money to get by and also catches the eye of police officer Jack. The local mall is having a contest that features a giant money ball that states it will help fight the inflation.
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A tale of two hustlers trying to set up a big game.
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A rising tennis star falls for an older woman engaged with a wealthy man she doesn't love.
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A woman, who had left home 20 years previously under acrimonious circumstances, finds out that she is terminally ill. She returns home and tries to rebuild her relationship with her embittered mother before she dies.
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キンバリー・ウェルズはアメリカの地方テレビ局の女性リポーター。硬派ニュースの記者を志していたが普段は日常のたわいもないニュースを担当していた彼女だった。原子力発電所のドキュメンタリー特番の担当となり、カメラマンのリチャード・アダムスとともに取材に赴く。コントロールルームを見学中、原子力発電所は何らかのトラブルを起こしたようだった。そこは撮影禁止の場所だったにもかかわらず、アダムスは密かにそのときのコントロールルームの様子を撮影していた。
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It's Friday and everyone is going to the hot new disco. The Commodores are scheduled to play if Floyd shows up with the instruments and Nicole dreams of becoming a disco star. Other characters are there to win the dance contest, or to put a little excitement into a fifth anniversary.
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On the day of her wedding to her sixth husband, a glamorous silver screen sex symbol is asked to intervene in a political dispute between nations, which leads to chaos.
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When a teenager is accused of his mother's murder, the community of Canaan rallies to his defense.
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The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.
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フィラデルフィアの下町。無名ボクサーのロッキーは本業だけでは食えず、借金の取りたてを請け負って日銭を稼いでいた。そんなある日、世界チャンピオンのアポロが気まぐれで無名選手にチャンスを与えようと言い出し、無作為に選んだロッキーを挑戦者に指名する。降って湧いたチャンスを得て、ロッキーは想いを寄せる女性エイドリアンに、15ラウンド最後まで戦いぬくことで自分の愛を証明すると約束する。
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In 1926, celebrated evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson mysteriously disappeared. She turned up several weeks later and recounted the details of her kidnapping and escape to authorities. Not everyone believed her, however, and she was accused of having gone away to have an affair with a married man. A court hearing took place to reveal the truth.
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The story of author F. Scott Fitzgerald's two stays in Hollywood to write for films, once in 1927 at the height of his acclaim, and again in 1937 when he arrived with little money, enormous expenses and an ill wife.
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W.W. Bright is a robber with a heart of gold who travels the South knocking off banks and gas stations owned by a corrupt businessman. When he hijacks a car, he meets an aspiring country band, the Dixie Dancekings, led by Dixie. The two sides eventually take a liking to one another, especially after the Dancekings realize the size of Bright's thefts. Trailed by religious zealot cop Deacon Gore, Bright helps the band make it big while on the run.
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In the 1930s, a sailor trying to prove that his brother was wrongly executed for murder finds himself becoming drawn into the occult world.
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In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story dating back to her earliest memories before slavery ended. In between the chapters of her life, the present-day struggles of Blacks in Bayonne, urged on by Jimmy, are dramatized.
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A boozing young man in love with his co-worker finds that everyone around him, even his pompous and condescending best friend, is changing into a rhinoceros.
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A businessman's professional struggles begin to conflict with his personal life over the course of two days.
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The pursuit by America's loveliest girls for a coveted beauty crown is threatened by a scandal which implicates a judge, a former winner, and one of the five finalists.
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An over-the-hill rodeo champion is so self-centered that he ignores his wife, son, and best friend.
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An ESP expert uses his powers to try to track down a psychic who uses telepathy to commit murder.
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Three financially down-and-out buddies plot to pull a bank robbery to cure their financial woes.
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The captain of a downed airliner must help his crew and passengers survive on a deserted jungle island in the midst of a power struggle - an adult version of "Lord of the Flies."
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A dying man frames himself for murder so his widow can collect the reward.
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In 1960, the ruins of an American bomber were found in the Libyan desert, but the remains of the crew were never located. In Guerdon Trueblood's teleplay, the ghosts of a bomber crew hang around their derelict plane, awaiting the day that their bones will be recovered and given a decent burial. The sole survivor, navigator Russell Hamner, has in the intervening 25 years become a General. He joins an investigation team that has come across the wreckage, while the ghosts, headed by Major Devlin, plot to expose Hamner as a coward who deserted his post and left his crew mates to die.
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The head of the Human Aetiological Relations Machine pits an agent against a flesh-to-fungus spore gun.
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A janitor finds a four-leaf clover and dreams of his good luck turning him into a television star. Somehow, this translates to "naked women all over the place."
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A college boy with a speech impediment learns the hard way about love and heartbreak.