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Andre Brandon deWilde (April 9, 1942 – July 6, 1972) was an American theater, film, and television actor. [1] Born into a theatrical family in Brooklyn, he debuted on Broadway at the age of seven and became a national phenomenon by the time he completed his 492 performances for The Member of the Wedding.
He felt the film "goes beyond sending a message to illuminate a remarkable friendship". He concluded that "Woods is better than the picture, but he's so much the picture it scarcely matters." [3] Time Out Film Guide praised Woods's performance, noting "he's terrifyingly alive in the part". Describing the film as "tough" and "gritty", the ...
The Sugarland Express (1974) – crime drama film about a husband and wife trying to outrun the law, based on a real-life incident [190] The Super Cops (1974) – action adventure film telling the true story of two New York City cops, Greenberg & Hantz, who fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as "Batman & Robin ...
A Most Wanted Man (2014) – British-American-German spy thriller film inspired by the real-life story of Murat Kurnaz, a Turkish citizen and legal resident of Germany who, after being arrested in Pakistan in 2001, was detained and tortured in American military detention camps, first at Kandahar in Afghanistan and then at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba ...
The Longshots is a 2008 American sports comedy-drama film directed by Fred Durst, based on the real life events of Jasmine Plummer, the first girl to participate in the Pop Warner football tournament with the Harvey Colts led by head coach Richard Brown Jr.
Raymond Elmer DeWalt (October 9, 1885 – May 8, 1961) was an American inventor and entrepreneur, who invented the radial arm saw in 1922. In 1924, he founded DeWALT Products Company in Leola, Pennsylvania, to manufacture and sell the “Wonder-Worker” (his name for the radial arm saw). As the company was reaching an early pinnacle of success ...
Dodsworth is a 1936 American drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Mary Astor and David Niven. Sidney Howard based the screenplay on his 1934 stage adaptation of the 1929 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis.
Harlem Nights is a 1989 American crime comedy-drama film starring, written, and directed by Eddie Murphy.The film co-stars Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx (in his last film appearance before his death in 1991), Danny Aiello, Michael Lerner, Della Reese, and Murphy's older brother Charlie.