Martin Ransohoff
出生 : 1927-07-07, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
略歴
Martin Ransohoff (born November 30, 1926) is a cinema and television producer, and member of the Ransohoff family.
He graduated from Colgate University in 1949 and is on a list of Distinguished Alumni. He founded the film production company Filmways, Inc. in 1960 and remained with the company until 1972. Filmways started making TV commercials, moved into documentaries then sitcoms; by 1963 Filmways were making $13 million a year. In 1972 he became an independent producer. He attempted to "create" female movie stars during the 1960s; the actresses who achieved the greatest success under his tutelage were Ann-Margret, Tuesday Weld and Sharon Tate, who featured in several of his films from 1964 until her death in 1969. He is a cousin of neurosurgeonJoseph Ransohoff. The Beverly Hillbillies brought Ransohoff his first success in 1962 and thereafter he turned his attention to films. Ransohoff went on to produce such films as American Pop.
Producer
クリスマス・イヴ、わずかな乗客しかいないジャンボ機で、四人の保安官は二人の囚人を護送していた。ところが囚人が保安官の銃を奪い取り、保安官全員、それに機長と副機長が死亡するという事態に陥った。生き延びた囚人ライアンはスチュワーデスのテリーに自分の無実を主張するが、次第に殺人鬼の正体を現す。乗客数人は客室に閉じ込められ、他のスチュワーデスもライアンに殺されていた。そんな過酷な状況の中で、テリーは無線を頼りにジャンボ機を操縦することになる。
Producer
Before a criminal lawyer knows what has happened, she is forced to defend a wife killer she knows is guilty.
Producer
An Air Force officer returns to his father, son and remarried wife in Vermont after 17 years in Vietnam.
Producer
A police officer suspended and now accused of murder is forced to join forces with his court-appointed attorney to assemble the pieces of a deadly puzzle to find the missing link before time runs out.
Producer
A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.
Producer
It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler. While there, he breaks the bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by George Cole, and falls in love with two women, one of them Cole's wife.
Producer
やり手の女弁護士にグレン・クローズ、彼女が弁護する被告人にジェフ・ブリッジスが扮した法廷サスペンス。ラヴ・ロマンスの要素も巧みに盛り込まれ、二転三転するストーリーは必見だ。リチャード・マーカンド監督作。
Producer
Naive Midwestern prep student Jonathan bonds with his more worldly roommate, Skip, who takes the small-town boy under his wing. At Skip's urging, the inexperienced Jonathan is emboldened to seek out older women in the cocktail lounges of nearby Chicago, where he meets and beds the alluring Ellen, who unfortunately turns out to be Skip's mother. The division between the friends is further deepened when a cheating scandal engulfs the school.
Producer
The complete innocent, Michael Jordon, is drawn into a web of secrecy and government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she is later murdered, Michael is the chief suspect and on the run.
Producer
Marriage takes a sour turn when a middle-aged husband falls for a young and sexy woman. Things get even more complicated when his wife starts a hot affair with a younger lover of her own.
Story
Marriage takes a sour turn when a middle-aged husband falls for a young and sexy woman. Things get even more complicated when his wife starts a hot affair with a younger lover of her own.
Producer
1963年のブロンクスを舞台に、徒党を組む若者たちの姿を描いた青春映画。イタリア系非行グループ“ワンダラーズ”を主役に、中国人や黒人など多様なグループが登場し、抗争や連帯といった群像劇が綴られるが、ストーリーの起伏には大きく欠ける。後半登場する暴力グループ“ダッキー・ボーイズ”の不気味さに、P・カウフマンの前作「SF／ボディ・スナッチャー」（78）のタッチが見られる。
Producer
Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in Arizona.
Executive Producer
A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.
Adaptation
In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three start misbehaving.
Producer
In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three start misbehaving.
Producer
A businessman's professional struggles begin to conflict with his personal life over the course of two days.
Producer
Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.
Producer
In the English countryside, Sarah Rexton, recently blinded in a horse riding accident, moves in with her uncle's family and gallantly adjusts to her new condition, unaware that a killer stalks them.
Producer
The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.
Producer
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.
Producer
第二次世界大戦下、地中海の小島にある米軍基地では、相次ぐ戦争に嫌気がさした兵士たちが戦地から逃げ出す画策を計画していた……。アラン・アーキン主演、戦争の不条理さを風刺したブラック・コメディ。
Producer
Tony Richardson's Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse in London (a disused train shed), it is shot almost entirely in close up, focusing the attention on faces and language rather than action.
Producer
During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his isolated castle hoping they will defend it against the advancing Germans.
Producer
A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out distress signals before falling silent. The atomic submarine Tigerfish, commanded by Cmdr. James Ferraday (Rock Hudson), is dispatched to save them.
Executive Producer
Seven British children bury their mother and hide her death, until their long-lost father returns.
Producer
New Yorker Carlo Cofield goes on a vacation to Southern California, where he quickly becomes immersed in the easy-going local culture while getting entangled in two beachside romances.
Producer
A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret.
Self
Promotional short film on an aspiring young actress Sharon Tate and her first film Eye of the Devil (1966).
Producer
An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
Executive Producer
Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at The Happy Hunting Ground pets' memorial home.
Story
A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.
Producer
A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.
Self
This MGM short film narrated by Richard Burton promotes its upcoming major release "The Sandpiper" (1965), starring Burton and his then wife Elizabeth Taylor. Panoramic shots of the ocean, the seashore, and the desert segue into the artistic community with various of its well-known artists at work and play. It all leads to clips from the film being made.
Producer
American sailor Charlie Madison falls for a pretty Englishwoman while trying to avoid a senseless and dangerous D-Day mission concocted by a deranged admiral.
Producer
Henry J. Tyroone leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but ...
Producer
Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and TV-dinners. In secret, they get themselves an apartment with a beautiful young woman, Kathy, for romantic rendezvous. But Kathy does not tell them that she is a sociology student researching the sexual life of the white middle-class male.
