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Against All Odds is a 1984 American neo-noir romantic thriller film directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Rachel Ward, Jeff Bridges and James Woods alongside Jane Greer, Alex Karras, Richard Widmark and Dorian Harewood. The film is an adaptation of the 1946 novel Build My Gallows High by Daniel Mainwaring.
"Against All Odds" was created explicitly for the film, [11] although it was based on an earlier unreleased song Collins had written in 1981. Hackford, who previously used a song for the 1982 American drama film An Officer and a Gentleman, planned the same for the neo-noir 1984 film Against All Odds, [11] which is a remake of Out of the Past.
In 1984, she was cast in Against All Odds, a remake of Out of the Past, as the mother of the character she had played in 1947. In 1952, Greer obtained a release from her contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. She said, "When there is a good role at MGM, the producers want Lana or Ava. There is no chance for another actress to develop into ...
In 1984, she played Jess in the film noir remake Against All Odds, with Jeff Bridges. After filming Fortress in 1985, Ward then disappeared from film for a few years to study acting. She reappeared in 1987 playing opposite her husband, Bryan Brown (whom she met on the set of The Thorn Birds ), in The Umbrella Woman .
After adjusting for inflation, the court costs of pursuing death penalty convictions, along with the accompanying appeals that are required by law and can take as long as 40 years to play out ...
Out of the Past was remade as Against All Odds (1984) with Rachel Ward in the Greer role, Jeff Bridges filling in for Mitchum, and James Woods as a variation of Kirk Douglas' villain, with Jane Greer as the mother of her original character in Out of the Past and Richard Widmark in a supporting role. [21]
Between 1988 — when the modern federal death penalty was instituted — and the 2021 moratorium, nearly half of all federal death sentences and 10 of the 16 people executed for federal crimes ...
The Alameda County District Attorney's office was ordered by a federal judge to review more than 30 death penalty cases after Black and Jewish jurors were purposefully excluded in the conviction ...