Harriet Frank Jr. — Playwright (14)
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Conrack (1974)
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Martin Ritt actor: Jon Voight / Paul Winfield …
other title: 콘랙 / コンラック先生 …
A young, white school teacher is assigned to Yamacraw Island, an isolated fishing community off the coast of South Carolina, populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the basically illiterate, neglected children there know so little of the world outside their island.
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The Spikes Gang (1974)
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理查德·弗莱舍 actor: 李·马文 / Gary Grimes …
other title: 스파이크 갱 / Vier Vögel am Galgen …
Three teenage farm boys stumble upon Harry Spikes, a local bandit wounded in a gun battle. While Harry is recuperating, he regales the young men with stories of his exciting past. The adventurous tales inspire them to start a gang of their own. Failing at their first attempt to rob a bank, the boys convince the gruff Spikes to teach them the ways of the desperado.
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The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)
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德尔伯特·曼 actor: 罗伯特·普雷斯顿 / 多萝西·麦克吉尔 …
other title: 楼顶的黑暗 / 琴瑟怨
In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Ruben Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman, when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. His teenage daughter Reenie is afraid of going out on dates, but eventually makes friends with a troubled Jewish boy Sammy, and his son is a mama's boy. He finally storms out of the house when Cora falsely accuses him of having an affair with Mavis Pruitt.
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Run for Cover (1955)
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尼古拉斯·雷 actor: 詹姆斯·卡格尼 / 韦薇卡·琳德佛斯 …
other title: 寻求庇护 / 荒城蕩寇戰(港) …
Odd little Western that gets off to a snappy start when a man (Matt Dow) is mistaken as a train robber. After the town's sheriff shoots the kid he's riding with, Dow clears his name and ends up as the new sheriff. He romances a Swedish woman and settles in to a peaceful life only to find that the boy has a few secrets of his own.
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Norma Rae (1979)
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马丁·里特 / Martin Ritt actor: 莎莉·菲尔德 / Sally Field …
other title: 诺玛·蕾 / 诺玛蕊 …
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
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Stanley & Iris (1990)
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马丁·里特 actor: 简·方达 / 罗伯特·德尼罗 …
other title: 史丹利与爱莉丝 / 说不出的情话 …
An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.
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House of Cards (1968)
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约翰·吉勒明 actor: George William Peppard Jr. / 英格儿·斯蒂文斯 …
other title: 禁宫龙虎斗 / 纸屋 …
Leschenhaut and Morillon are trying to organize a plot to overthrow the French government and set up a new fascist organization. Their plans are interrupted by Davis, an American boxer, tutor of young Paul de Villemont; in Villemont Manor he discovers the plot and, after the kidnapping of the boy, he travels to Rome, where the organization would exchange Paul with a list of members stolen by Davis to give to the press.