John Gay
Nascimento : 1924-04-01, Whittier, California, USA
Morte : 2017-02-04
História
John Gay (April 1, 1924 – February 4, 2017) was an American screenwriter.
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Down-on-his-luck lawyer Warren Blackburn defends wealthy Texan Johnnie Faye Boudreau, who is accused of murdering her husband.
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Charlie is a young woman who is thrilled that her favorite Uncle Charlie is coming home for good. But she soon discovers that her namesake, a "Wall Street financier," has a deep, dark secret. And knowledge of that secret by anyone can prove to be deadly.
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Detective Harry Stoner has only a few clues. A year ago someone mutilated the nude photos found in the city library's art books. And shortly after, a young murder victim was found carved up in the same grisly way. Now, more mangled art books have suddenly turned up. And it's Harry's job to make sure another corpse doesn't.
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Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
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The life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people he interacts with.
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In May of 1946, Alcatraz inmate Bernie Coy initiates a carefully thought out plan to escape the island prison. His plan, carried out with five accomplices, falls apart when they can't obtain a key to unlock a door leading to the yard.
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This is the story is based on an actual incident. Claude Dallas is a man who loves to be free, so he lives in the mountains where he hunts for his food. However, Bill Pogue is a driven game warden, who abhors anyone who hunts out of season. When he catches Claude Dallas doing that; he's about to arrest him when Claude kills him and the other warden with him. When the man who was with Dallas tells the police what happened, a nationwide manhunt ensues. And there are people who didn't like Pogue and they hope Dallas is never caught.
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Samson and Delilah tv movie
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Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two months following his heart attack. Returning to the practise of his lawyer skills, he takes the case of Leonard Vole, an unemployed man who is accused of murdering an elderly lady friend of his, Mrs. Emily French. While Leonard Vole claims he's innocent, although all evidence points to him as the killer, his alibi witness, his cold German wife Christine, instead of entering the court as a witness for the defense, she becomes the witness for the prosecution and strongly claims her husband is guilty of the murder.
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Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars, and finds England under the reign of Prince John and his henchmen and finds himself being involved in the power-struggle for the throne of England.
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An elderly widow must find meaning and activity in her life when her son suggests she is no longer capable of handling her own affairs.
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O filme é uma adaptação do clássico de Victor Hugo e conta a história do deformado Quasimodo, que se apaixona pela cigana Esmeralda. Infelizmente, o pai rigoroso de Quasimodo, Dom Claude Frollo, também se encanta com Esmeralda, resultando em um conflito. Porém a presença do belo soldado Phoebus, complica a situação.
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A middle-age man, in small-town Middle America, lives a momentous year in the mid-20th century.
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The rags-to-riches tale of country western queen, Tammy Wynette, from her impoverished childhood to country's First Lady and her two rocky marriages to fellow superstar George Jones, who had been her childhood idol.
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O filme, feito para a TV, dramatiza os três últimos meses de Adolph Hitler, passados no seu bunker em Berlim. Anthony Hopkins está repulsivo como Hitler, enquanto Piper Laurie é ainda mais assustadora como a fanática esposa de Goebbels. Joseph Goebbels (Cliff Gorman) alimenta o ego do Führer, enquanto Albert Speer (Richard Jordan) pretende desafiá-lo. Um dia antes de seu suicídio, Hitler legaliza sua relação com a amante Eva Braun (Susan Blakely). O enredo do filme se estende além do suicídio, com as forças aliadas discutindo sobre quem tem direito à propriedade de Hitler.
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A London businessman concocts an intricate plan to murder his unfaithful wife for her money.
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In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.
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Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles Darnay, and remains oblivious to Carton's undimmed devotion to her. When Darnay is ensnared in the deadly web of the French Revolution and condemned to die by the guillotine, Sydney Carton concocts a dangerous plot to free the husband of the woman he loves.
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A dramatization of the story of noted writer/journalist Cornelius Ryan, author of "The Longest Day," and the valiant battle against terminal cancer that led him to write about his ordeal, with the help of his loving wife, while at the same time determined to complete "A Bridge Too Far," which he had spent years researching.
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Fact-based story about a hard-driving young executive who rebels against his failing heart and undergoes a risky transplant.
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Jean Valjean, convicted of stealing bread, is hounded for decades by the relentless and cruel policeman Javert.
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A spoiled little rich boy learns what life is really like after he falls overboard in the middle of the ocean and is picked up by a crusty old sea captain.
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General Custer is on trial for the deaths of his men at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
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The story of Caryl Chessman, a convicted California rapist who spent 12 years on death row before finally being executed.
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The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on the book by Hughes' business partner Noah Dietrich. The film starred Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, and Tovah Feldshuh.
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During a press conference, international star Nina remembers simpler times, flashing back to her days as a maid in a run-down Italian hotel. As a young woman, Nina befriends Contessa Sanziani, an elderly woman who entertains Nina with memories of her vibrant, wealthy life with Count Sanziani. Inspired by her tales of success, young Nina fantasizes about her own adventures and seeks to find the same excitement in her life.
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Former Irish Republican Army member Niall Hennessy lives in Belfast, Ireland, with his wife and daughter amid the ongoing Irish-British conflict. Though he still knows people in the IRA, including fugitive leader Tobin, Niall has given up his violent ways. One day his family is caught in a chaotic street shootout and killed by British forces. Overwhelmed with rage and hunted by a Scotland Yard inspector, Niall heads to London to exact his deadly revenge.
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A madman hijacks the luxury cruise liner, S.S. Queen, and threatens to blow it up unless a millionaire pays him the the contents of a safe deposit box. The crew regains control of the ship, but the hijacker dies, taking the codes to disarm the bomb with him.
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During the Civil War, a young man enthusiastically joins the Union army thirsting to find glory and honor, but his first battle opens his eyes to reality.....
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The son in a close-knit family of Wisconsin dairy farmers decides to get married and move out of the house, just as his mother discovers she has incurable leukemia and only a short time to live.
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A father finds himself taking care of a family that, in addition to his son and three daughters, also consists of two sons-in-law and his youngest daughter's Chinese boyfriend.
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In this sequel, the daughters' anniversary present is the news that their widowed father is about to get remarried.
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A judge has to deal with his four daughters, his four future sons-in-law and four weddings all on the same day.
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Vaqueiro endividado e amigo estão levando novilhos do México para o Texas. O trabalho que eles pensavam ser fácil vai se complicando aos poucos, deixando o vaqueiro, de sangue quente, enfurecido.
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Uma família de madeireiros do Oregon, ferozmente independentes, luta para manter os negócios da família em meio a tantas mudanças. Hank Stamper e seu pai, Henry Stamper, possuem e operam os negócios da família cortando e enviando toras no Oregon. A cidade fica furiosa quando eles continuam trabalhando apesar da cidade ter falido e os outros madeireiros entrarem em greve ordenando que os Stampers parem, no entanto Hank continua a empurrar sua família para cortar mais árvores. A esposa de Hank deseja que ele pare e espera que eles possam passar mais tempo juntos. Quando Leland, o problemático meio irmão de Hank, vem trabalhar para eles, mais problemas surgem. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
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Só há dois sobreviventes depois que um grupo de cavalaria é massacrado pelos Cheyenne. Honus, um Ingênuo soldado dedicado ao seu dever, e Cresta, uma jovem que viveu com os Cheyenne por dois anos e cujas simpatias estão mais com eles do que com o governo Americano. Juntos, eles tentam chegar a principal base da cavalaria.
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Após impedir o suicídio de uma jovem numa praia portuguesa, Bond recebe uma proposta do pai dela: ele tem informações sobre como chegar até Blofeld, líder da SPECTRE, mas só lhas dá se o agente se casar com ela. E se inicialmente era um acordo por interesse, Bond rapidamente aprende a amá-la à medida que esta o ajuda a lutar contra o vilão, que planeia ameaçar a Humanidade com um vírus.
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Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish doctor like his big brother.
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One by one members of a special project team are being killed by telekinesis - the ability to move things with the power of the mind alone. The race is on to determine which of the remaining team members is the murderer and to stop them.
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A hunter stalks a killer elephant.
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O aclamado diretor John Sturges (Sete Homens e um Destino, Sem Lei Sem Alma) vira todas as lendas do Oeste de cabeça para baixo nesta estupenda comédia sobre o ano em que Denver quase foi devastada por um dilúvio - de whisky - e teve que ter quarenta carregamentos importados trazidos por um território cruel - e sedento!
Os premiados Burt Lancaster e Martin Landau juntam-se à ótima Lee Remick neste lindamente filmado épico de aventura que tem "tanto gargalhadas quanto arrepios" (The Hollywood Reporter)! Também estrelando Jim Hutton, Brian Keith e Donald Pleasence, esse irreverente e literalmente seco olhar sobre a fronteira americana é "possivelmente o western mais engraçado já feito!"
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Although he's only seven, Eddie's got it all figured out. He wants his father, a widower, to get remarried — to the girl next door. Unfortunately, she's not one of the women that his dad's been dating.
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Um western panorâmico, técnica e tematicamente, que acompanha a viagem de uma família de pioneiros do Oeste, a família Prescott. É, na verdade, um belo, heroico e grandioso épico que descreve a gênese da América em sua expansão até às últimas fronteiras.
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O alemão Karl Von Hartrott (Paul Lukas) e o francês Marcelo Desnoyers (Charles Boyer) imigraram para a Argentina após a 1ª Guerra, onde se tornam cunhados ao se casarem com as únicas filhas de Julio Madariaga (Lee J. Cobb), um rico fazendeiro argentino. Karl tem três filhos homens e Marcelo, um casal de filhos, Julio (Glenn Ford) e Chi Chi (Ivette Mimieux). O tempo passa, jovens se tornam adultos, e os filhos de Karl viajam a Alemanha para concluírem seus estudos. Às vésperas da 2ª Grande Guerra, a família de Karl retorna à Argentina e todos se reúnem num grande jantar. Para decepção de Madariaga, seus netos alemães se tornaram oficiais nazistas, inclusive seu genro Karl. Começa um grande conflito familiar, que leva toda a família à Paris tomada e invadida pelos nazistas, colocando de um lado os Von Hartrott, aliados ao nazismo, e de outro os Desnoyers, que ingressam na Resistência Francesa
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A suave art thief romances a wealthy duchess, only to enable him to steal a priceless painting from her collection. Complications ensue.
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Nomeado em 1958 para 7 prêmios da academia, incluindo Melhor Filme, e ganhador de 2: Melhor Ator para David Niven e Melhor Atriz Coadjuvante para Wendy Hiller. Vidas Separadas é "um filme inteligente e provocante" (Variety) e uma obra-prima cinematográfica repleta de compaixão e uma tocante sensibilidade. Viaje para o Hotel Beauregard, onde todos os excêntricos hóspedes compartilham um mesmo sentimento, a solidão. Veremos o Major Pollack (David Niven), que esconde um tenebroso segredo por trás da superfície polida de um semblante militar; Sibyl Railton-Bell (Deborah Kerr), uma tímida e neurótica ex copeira que não tem coragem para livrar-se de sua dominadora mãe: John Malcom (Burt Lancaster), um desencantado escritor que afoga a amargura no álcool; e Ann Shankland (Rita Hayworth), cujo narcisismo mascara um profundo medo de envelhecer sozinha e sem amor. Em uma emocionante noite, esses quatro infelizes vão enfrentar seus mais escondidos segredos, e mudar as suas vidas para sempre.
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Ao capitão de um submarino afundado pelos japoneses durante a WW2 finalmente é dada a chance de ser capitão de outro submarino após um ano de trabalho burocrático. Sua determinação, obcecado por vingança contra o destruidor que afundou seu navio anterior, coloca sua nova tripulação em um perigo desnecessário. E causa atrito com seu primeiro oficial e equipe.