Conrad L. Hall

The Los Angeles Times Critics' Pick Something’s Gonna Live is an intimate portrait of life, death, friendship and the movies, as recalled by some of Hollywood's greatest cinema artists. Academy Award®-nominated director Daniel Raim (The Man on Lincoln’s Nose), captures the late life coming together of renowned art directors Robert Boyle (North by Northwest, The Birds), Henry Bumstead (To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sting) and Albert Nozaki (The War of the Worlds, The Ten Commandments), storyboard illustrator Harold Michelson (The Graduate, Star Trek: The Motion Picture), and master cinematographers Haskell Wexler (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Medium Cool) and Conrad Hall (In Cold Blood, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). These prolific artists have worked on a total of 400 films, garnering 25 Academy Award® nominations and 8 wins.

1931年、大恐慌のさなかのシカゴ。アイルランド系マフィアのボス、ジョンから厚い信頼を得る腹心の幹部マイケル。ところが、それを妬ましく思うジョンの不肖の息子コナーは、マイケルの妻と次男を殺害する。長男にも危害が及ぶのを恐れるマイケルは、彼を連れて逃避行を続けながら復讐の機会をうかがう。一方、ジョンは思わぬ事態に驚くが、我が子かわいさのあまり、やむなくマイケル父子に殺し屋のマグワイアを差し向ける。

1931年、大恐慌のさなかのシカゴ。アイルランド系マフィアのボス、ジョンから厚い信頼を得る腹心の幹部マイケル。ところが、それを妬ましく思うジョンの不肖の息子コナーは、マイケルの妻と次男を殺害する。長男にも危害が及ぶのを恐れるマイケルは、彼を連れて逃避行を続けながら復讐の機会をうかがう。一方、ジョンは思わぬ事態に驚くが、我が子かわいさのあまり、やむなくマイケル父子に殺し屋のマグワイアを差し向ける。

40歳を過ぎた広告マンのレスター・バーナムと上昇志向たっぷりの妻キャロリン。彼らの家庭生活に潜む歪んだ真実が徐々に暴かれていく。妻は夫を憎み、娘のジェーンは父親を軽蔑している。そして会社の上司はレスターにリストラによる解雇を告げる。そんな毎日に嫌気が差したレスターは、人生の方向転換を図る。しかし、自由と幸せを求めるレスターを待ち受けていたのは、あまりにも高価な代償だった。

ジョン・トラヴォルタ演じるクールな弁護士が、金のための戦いから正義のための戦いへと変化するさまを描く辛口の法廷劇。公害から白血病になってしまった家族に依頼され、弁護士は巨大企業を相手に戦うことになるが……。

The film follows the life of famous 1970s runner Steve Prefontaine from his youth days in Oregon to the University of Oregon where he worked with the legendary coach Bill Bowerman, later to Olympics in Munich and his early death at 24 in a car crash.

A depressed housewife whose husband is having an affair contemplates suicide, but changes her mind when she faces death by a killer hired to do her in.

Ex-football star Mike Gambril meets Terry McKay on a flight to Sydney, which is forced to land on a small atoll. They become romantic on board a ship sent to take them to a larger island. They agree to meet in New York three months later to see if the attraction is real. One shows up but the other doesn't. However, a chance meeting brings them together again.

実在の天才少年チェスプレイヤーのジョシュ・ウェイツキンの父親フレッドが、ジョシュの生活を綴った本の映画化。ジョシュはまだ7歳という年齢ながら、チェスに関して天才的才能を持っていた。父フレッドは息子の秀でた才能を、かつてチェスで世界に名を馳せたアメリカ人天才プレーヤー、ボビー・フィッシャーに重ね合わせ本格的な英才教育を試みる。そして、彼は往年の名プレーヤー、ブルースに会い息子のコーチに雇う。ジョシュは特訓によって更に潜在していた能力を発揮、次々とタイトルを獲得した。だがある日、ジョシュの前に思わぬ強敵ジョナサンが現われる。

A big city cop from LA moves to a small town police force and immediately finds himself investigating a murder. Using theories rejected by his colleagues, the cop, John Berlin, meets a young blind woman named Helena, who he is attracted to. Meanwhile, a serial killer is on the loose and only John knows it.

Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the "DP" (the director of photography), illustrating their points with clips from 100 films, from Birth of a Nation to Do the Right Thing. Themes: the DP tells people where to look; changes in movies (the arrival of sound, color, and wide screens) required creative responses from DPs; and, these artisans constantly invent new equipment and try new things, with wonderful results. The narration takes us through the identifiable studio styles of the 30s, the emergence of noir, the New York look, and the impact of Europeans. Citizen Kane, The Conformist, and Gordon Willis get special attention.

A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto manufacturer against charges that their explosion-prone station wagons are unsafe. As her mother begs for peace, Maggie takes on her dad in a trial that turns increasingly personal and nasty.

麻薬捜査官のニックと大物麻薬ディーラーのマックは高校からの親友。立場の違いを越えて変わらぬ友情で結ばれた彼らが、同じ女性を愛してしまう。二人の男と一人の女の葛藤は、果たして……。

Federal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But since Catherine is seemingly a master of disguise and has multiple identities, Alexandra can't prove anything with conventional detective work. With no other option, she goes undercover, pursuing the same man as Catherine, and hoping that Catherine will slip up and reveal her true identity.

It's Christmas Eve 1944 in the small town of Bedford Falls, New York. A despondent and suicidal Mary Bailey Hatch is praying for guidance on what to do about an incident no fault of her own which threatens her name and the community standing of her longtime family business, the Bailey Building and Loan, which she took over after the passing of her father. What Mary does not know is that most in town, including her husband George Hatch and their children, are also praying for her. All the prayers are heard by Joseph, God's gatekeeper of prayers. As there are no other angels available on such a busy day, Joseph assigns Clara Oddbody, angel second class (i.e. she has yet to receive her wings), to Mary's case, which he reluctantly does as Clara has never been assigned a case on her own in the two hundred years she's been in heaven for good reason.

ニューヨーク。老人が雑踏の中、銀行の貸金庫から出してきた小箱を男に手渡した直後、交通事故死した。この事故をマラソン・トレーニング中のベーブは目撃した。ベーブの兄ドクはアメリカ政府機関の男で例の箱を売り込もうとしたが常に命を狙われていた。一方、南米ウルグアイにいるナチの残党ゼルは、老人の事故死を知るやニューヨークへ飛ぶ。ある日ベーブは図書館でエルザと知り合うが公園でデート中２人の男に襲われる。

It's time again for California's "Young American Miss" beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who give their all to put on a successful pageant. But Brenda is having marital difficulties and Bob's son is up to some mischief. Could this year's pageant be in jeopardy?

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.

Screenwriter John Good's rock & roll adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello who is a wandering evangelist who happens onto Iago's remote commune. There he marries the lovely Desdemona much to the chagrin of Iago, who also loves her. The conniving commune leader then manages to quietly pressure Othello until murder and tragedy ensue. Songs include: "Othello", "Working on a Building," "Eat the Bread, Drink the Wine," "Book of Prophecy," "That's What God Said," "Chug a Lug," "Open Your Eyes," "Lust of the Blood," "Put Out the Light" and more.

A short Arizona motorcycle cop gets his wish and is promoted to Homicide following the mysterious murder of a hermit. He is forced to confront his illusions about himself and those around him in order to solve the case, eventually returning to solitude in the desert.

Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take opposite momentum.

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the classic western about the lives of two of America's most famous outlaws. Director George Roy Hill narrates this film, talking about some of the experience, both good and bad, of bringing the film to life.

The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife Mary Wilson, a woman who believes that ultimate reality exists above and beyond the routine procedures of conscious, uninspired, everyday life. She feels cheated by an older generation that taught her to settle for nothing less than storybook finales, people who are disillusioned and restless and don't know why, people for whom life holds no easy answers.

1909年、アメリカ。先住民族の青年ウイリーが、年に一度の祭りのため故郷の居留地に戻ってきた。同族の恋人ローラの家族に結婚を承諾してもらおうとするが、夜間、彼女の父親を誤って銃殺してしまう。ローラを連れて逃避行を余儀なくされたウイリーを、保安官補のクーパーらが執拗に追跡する。やがて訪れる事件の結末。それはあまりにも衝撃的だった…。

Trilogy is an anthology film of three adaptations of Truman Capote short stories: Miriam, Among the Paths to Eden and A Christmas Memory. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France.

19世紀末の西部史に名高い、二人組の強盗ブッチとサンダンスの逃避行を、哀愁とユーモアをこめて描く。列車強盗としてならしたブッチとサンダンス。しかし、近代化に向かう時代に、彼らの生き方はあまりにも旧弊だった。新たな夢を求めて、二人は南米ボリビアへと旅立つが……。

During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves stranded on the same small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean.

After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.

After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.

Narrated by Truman Capote. Emmy Award winning adaptation of Capote's recollection of his youth in the rural South during the Depression. Later released in the anthology film Trilogy (1969) along with two other Capote adaptations by Frank and Eleanor Perry.

1917年、メキシコ革命の最中。テキサス油田の持ち主グラントは、妻マリアを革命派のリーダーに誘拐され、多額の身代金を要求される。グラントは妻を奪い返すため、戦いのエキスパートを雇うことを決断する。

On a strange island inhabited by demons and spirits, a man battles the forces of evil.

主人公ハーパー役をポール・ニューマンが演じた、ロス・マクドナルドのハードボイルド小説「動く標的」に基づく大ヒット作。それまでに23本の映画に出演していたニューマンが初めて探偵役に挑み、ハードボイルドジャンルを再燃させた画期的作品である。うだつの上がらない探偵が、ある入り組んだ誘拐殺人事件をきっかけに活躍のチャンスをつかむ。脚本家ウィリアム・ゴールドマンによって粋な会話と新天地ロサンゼルスが“ハーパー流”に見事に脚色されている。資産家の女（ローレン・バコール）、銃を忍ばせる弁護士（アーサー・ヒル）、プールサイドに陣取るジゴロ（ロバート・ワグナー）、酒びたりの元女優（シェリー・ウィンタース）、熱狂的なジャズファン（ジュリー・ハリス）、ハーパーの別居中の妻（ジャネット・リー）、そして（ストローザー・マーティン率いる）“雲の寺”という謎の宗教団体。それぞれが謎を解く鍵を握っているのか？　あるいは、ハーパーに向かって引き金を引くのは誰なのか？

A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for Germany carrying a large supply of rubber for tyres. His mission is to disable the scuttling charges so the captain cannot sink the ship if they are stopped by English warships.

A 17-year-old girl runs away from her east coast home, going west to Los Angeles to meet her biological father. She has learned from letters her mother kept that he was tragically separated from her before the girl's birth. On the road, she is protected and befriended by an independent-minded young drifter who helps her on her journey.

An American secret agent, on the trail of a vanished scientist, must recover the scientist's revolutionary secret formula before the enemy catches up with his quarry first.

After two women poison to death the blackmailer who has been tormenting them, they wind up at the house of a blind man whose eccentric guest believes he has built a working time machine. Soon, the blackmailer is back to torment them all.

Terrified of being buried alive, a woman installs a phone in her crypt. A few days after her death, the phone suddenly rings and paranormal investigator Nelson Orion is brought in to probe the case.

This short covers some of the wildlife (predominently birds) on four islands-the Galapagos, Guadelupe, Falklands and an island in the Midway chain. While touching very briefly on the turtles of Galapagos and a bit more in-depth on two varieties of iguana and a species of crab, the documentary focuses primarily on birds, including several species of penguin on at least two of the islands, cormorants, frigate birds and the albatross.

A hoodlum (Corey Allen) plots to seduce a lonely housewife (Kate Manx) and turn her over to his virginal friend (Warren Oates).

A psychopathic young beachcomber pretends to befriend a mother and two daughters living at their summer home.

In the Colorado Rockies, Sheriff Scott, heads a posse that is after four escaped convicts, and thought it is his sworn duty to return the men dead or alive, he is, as always, reluctant to kill his fellow man. He is accompanied by Jaynes, a tavern owner, who takes much delight in his telescopic rifle, and by "Smitty," a gas station held up the escapees and more than ready to show she can be as tough as any man, although she seems to have some other motive for getting to the leader of the convicts, Kaygo.

1917年、カリフォルニア州の小都市サリナス。ここで農場を営むアダムには2人の息子がいた。兄アーロンが真面目で心優しい性格から父に可愛がられる一方、気むずかしく反抗的な弟キャルは父に疎まれていた。アーロンの美しい婚約者エイブラはそんなキャルが気がかりだった。ある日、キャルは父から死んだと聞かされていた母がまだ生きていることを知る。そしてそれが、どうやら近くで酒場を経営するケートらしいと知り、ふしだらな母の血を自分だけが引き継いだのだと一人悩むのだった。

Walt Disney presents a preview for both his upcoming park called Disneyland and several episodes of the show to come. Then the show focuses primarily on the career of Mickey Mouse.