Arthur Hiller — Director (31)

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The Tiger Makes Out (1967)
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other title: Der Tiger schlägt zurück / 姻緣天定 …
During a typically disaster-filled day, Ben Harris, an angry and frustrated bachelor mailman living in a cluttered Greenwich Village basement, learns he has been paying rent to a woman who hasn't owned his building in 6 years. No longer able to endure the injustices of society, he decides to activate the ferocious tiger within himself by abducting a helpless female and dragging her back to his lair.

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The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974)
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other title: Vrooder's Hootch / 疯狂痴汉俏护士
After returning home from the war, Vietnam veteran Julius Vrooder resides in a veteran's hospital, where he has been vaguely diagnosed as "psychiatrically impaired." Taking the news with an air of initially lighthearted defiance, Vrooder escapes and sets up camp under a highway, where he builds a paranoia-driven booby-trapped bunker for himself. Falling in love with not-so-bright nurse Zanni, Vrooder soon plans to elope with her to a remote Canadian outpost.

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Popi (1969)
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other title: 파피 / Popi - Leben um jeden Preis …
Abraham, a Puerto Rican single parent with two boys, is becoming very worried about them living in their rundown neighborhood when one day he notices that escaping Cubans are lionized and given exceptional benefits. He schemes to have his sons washed ashore as Cuban immigrants to be adopted by rich Anglos.

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Teachers (1984)
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other title: 끝없는 사랑 / Professores …
A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing the school for graduating their son who still cannot read or write. Amid the daily chaos of teaching in an inner city school, Alex Jurel tries to decide if he will lie at his deposition to protect the school or tell the truth and risk throwing away his career.

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Outrageous Fortune (1987)
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other title: 悍妞万里追 / 不义之财 …
Refined actress Lauren Ames finally has a chance to study with the great theatre professor Stanislav Korzenowski. Sandy Brozinsky, a brash, loud actress, decides through happenstance to also study with Korzenowski. The two women end up dating the same man (who turns out to be a double agent) and follow him across the country to force him to choose between them.

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The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
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other title: 草丛中的人 / 烙印 …
Director Arthur Hiller (Love Story, Silver Streak), working from screenwriter Edward Anhalt's (Becket) adaptation, transforms actor-playwright Robert Shaw's The Man in the Glass Booth into a film the Los Angeles Times dubbed, "daring, outrageous, utterly provocative, endlessly ambiguous and strikingly effective." Millionaire Jewish entrepreneur Arthur Goldman (Maximilian Schell) benvolently rules his financial empire from a penthouse apartment overlooking Manhattan. Seemingly at the edge of sanity, Goldman holds forth on everyting from Papal edicts to ex-wives, from baseball to his family's massacre in a Nazi concentration camp. When Goldman remarks on a blue Mercedes continuously parked outside his building, Goldman's captive audience of assistant (Lawrence Pressman) and chauffeur (Henry Brown) dismiss their boss' anxiety as encroaching paranoia. But each of Goldman's passionate, seemingly capricious ravings are transformed into a shocking, inadvertent deposition when Israeli agents capture Goldman and put him on trial as Adolph Dorf, the commandant of the concentration camp where Goldman's family was supposedly exterminated. In a trial scene of unrelenting intensity, Academy Award© winner Schell (Judgement at Nuremberg) crafts what the Detroit Free Press called "a white-hot lead performance," mutating from eccentric Goldman to sociopath Dorf and beyond. The riddle of Dorf's true identity becomes wrapped in an enigma of cunning self-treachery and single-minded obsession. Veteran cinematographer Sam Leavitt enables Hiller to coax a vividly personal and electrifying intelligent dual portrait out of Schell. The Man in the Glass Booth is a timeless drama of surprising intimacy and indefatigable courage, "possessing," declared the Los Angeles Times, "a remarkably resilient sense of lightness for all the profound questions it ponders."

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Carpool (1996)
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other title: 乌龙抢匪妙事多 / 카풀 …
A man with an important business meeting finds himself having to take care of the carpool for the neighborhood school children when his wife gets sick. Stopping to get donuts for the kids, things go even more awry when he finds himself a victim of a robbery. However, the situation only gets worse as a desperate man who had been contemplating a bank robbery robs the robbers and takes the man and the kids hostage in their van as his truck is blocked by an armored car. The thing then proceeds into a comedic chase movie. The father finds his kids don't really respect him and they react better to the robber. The end result is everyone gets a lifestyle change, including the original store owner.

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Plaza Suite (1971)
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other title: 幸福大饭店 / 桃色酒店 …
Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention to spruce up their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to get his former one-time flame Muriel to see him for what he stands for. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and try to get their uncertain-of-herself daughter out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding.

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Tobruk (1967)
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other title: 浴血狂沙 / 托卜鲁克 …
二战冒险题材经典彩色片。加拿大导演阿瑟·希勒(Arthur Hiller)代表作。1942年阿拉曼战役前的利比亚,由加拿大籍长程沙漠部队(LRDG)少校和SIG(犹太组织)德裔犹太人上尉及其部下参与的沙漠突击队在英军上校率领下,伪装成德军和英军战俘,开着一辆装甲车和五辆卡车穿越撒哈拉沙漠,前往托布鲁克袭击德军大型燃油库、摧毁意军炮台火力的冒险故事。影片以SIG成员前往阿尔及尔绑架少校开局,以冒险行动取得成功和沙漠突击队遭德军围剿结局。加拿大人与德裔犹太人的沙漠战争功勋。一路险象环生、枝节横生,堪称惊悚不断,精彩纷呈。片尾袭击德军大型燃油库的场面也相当壮观。洛克·哈德森(Rock Hudson)、乔治·佩帕德(George Peppard)、尼基尔·格林(Nigel Green)领衔主演。

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The Out of Towners (1970)
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阿瑟·希勒 actor: 杰克·莱蒙 / 桑迪·丹尼斯 …
other title: 老公出差 / 디 아웃 오브 타우너스 …
George Kellerman and his wife make a trip to New York, where he is about to take a new job. This journey turns out to be a trip to hell -- what can go wrong will go wrong.

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See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
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other title: 뉴욕 살인 사건 / Cegos, Surdos e Loucos …
A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arrested, but escape to form an unlikely partnership. Being chased by both the law AND the original killers, can the pair work together to outwit them all?

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The In-Laws (1979)
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other title: 妙亲家与俏冤家 / 横冲直撞两亲家 …
The In-Laws is a hilarious action comedy starring 5-time Emmy Award winner Peter Falk (Columbo, The Brink’s Job, The Princess Bride) as CIA agent Vincent Ricardo and Golden Globe winner Alan Arkin (Catch-22, Grosse Pointe Blank) as dentist Sheldon Kornpett. Sheldon is a dentist from New Jersey, Vincent travels a lot on business. Sheldon’s got a successful practice and Vincent’s got a dubious past. In 48 hours Vincent’s son is marrying Sheldon’s daughter and what happens in between will bring them together for better or worse. Arthur Hiller (Love Story) directs the car chases, gunfights and witty one-liners, extracting perfect chemistry between the two leads as they adventure across South America together.

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The Wheeler Dealers (1963)
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other title: 大富翁趣事
一部对纽约华尔街的股票掮客大开玩笑的智慧型喜剧。詹姆斯.加纳饰演一名能说会道的骗子,在德州的荒地上煞有介事地要搞公司开采石油。李.雷米克服务的股票公司老板信以为真决定投资,并派李.雷米克负责这个案子。不料那些原来以为装模作样的油井突然挖出石油,加纳也真的成了百万富翁,并且还赢得美人芳心。导演阿瑟.希勒把美国金融界喜欢投机冒险,买空卖空的习性成功地转化成喜剧素材,在西部喜剧之中混入了纽约风味,娱乐效果别竖一帜。

TV

Route 66 (66号公路 第一季) (1960)
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Arthur Hiller / Alvin Ganzer … actor: 马丁·米尔纳 / George Maharis
The story-telling event that made me want to become a writer was the premier of the classic TV show, Route 66. I was 17, doing so-so in high school, lacking plans and ambition, going nowhere. But all that changed at 8:30 p.m. on the first Friday of October in 1960 when a drama about motion gave me a destination. The series was about two young men (brilliantly portrayed by Martin Milner and George Maharis, the latter eventually replaced by Glenn Corbett) who drove a Corvette convertible across the United States in search of America and themselves. Providing a time capsule of 1960-64, every episode was filmed entirely on location–from Poland Springs, Maine, to Huntington Beach, California; from Seattle to St Louis to Tampa and a hundred communities between. Two-thirds of the episodes were written by Stirling Silliphant, who eventually received an Oscar for In the Heat of the Night and whose scripts for ROUTE 66 were an intriguing blend of intense action and philosophic/poetic speeches that sometimes lasted five minutes, with a flavor of Tennessee Williams combined with William Inge and Arthur Miller. As a bonus, the great arranger-composer Nelson Riddle contributed a new musical score every week, often with a jazz flavor. The series so knocked me over that I wrote to Silliphant, explaining my sudden ambition to follow his path. The long letter he sent in return gave me all the advice any writer needs. "Write, write, keep writing, and then write more." That letter is framed next to my desk. Eventually, Silliphant and I became friends and colleagues. In 1989, I was thrilled to see him listed as the executive producer of my NBC miniseries, Brotherhood of the Rose. Twenty-nine years after Route 66 debuted, a circle was completed, even as the road continued. -- David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author of FIRST BLOOD and CREEPERS