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An LAPD SWAT commander is assigned to train the Detroit police SWAT team to get the team certified in the latest FBI HRT tactics. The first 10 minutes are set in L.A., but the rest of the movie is set in Detroit. Tiger Town (TV), Alan Shapiro. 1983. Roy Scheider, Justin Henry. Transformers 2007. Scenes of the monumental Michigan Central Station.
In the 1950s Jewish settlement patterns changed from the northwest suburb of Detroit into Jewish spaces. In 1958, one-fifth of all Detroit Jews lived in Oak Park and Huntington Woods. But, some left for the suburbs with a sense of defeat.
Entertaining America: Jews Movies, and Broadcasting. Princeton: Princeton University Press, and New York: The Jewish Museum, 2003. ISBN 978-0-691-11302-9; Neal Gabler. An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood , Anchor, 1988
The Wooden Horse (1950) – British war drama film depicting the true events of an escape attempt made by POWs in the German prison camp Stalag Luft III [27] Young Daniel Boone (1950) – Western drama film based on the life of Daniel Boone [28] Young Man with a Horn (1950) – musical drama film inspired by the life of jazz cornetist Bix ...
1910s–1950s Member of the Chicago Outfit and ran syndicate casinos in Las Vegas during the 1940s and 1950s. [1] [2] [5] Max "Big Maxie" Greenberg: No image available: 1883–1933 Detroit mobster and a member of Egan's Rats. [1] [4] [9] [14] Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik: No image available: 1886–1956 1910s–1950s Financial and legal advisor to ...
A list of American films released in 1950. Fred Astaire hosted the 23rd Academy Awards ceremony on March 29, 1951, held at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood . The winner of the Best Motion Picture category was Twentieth Century-Fox 's All About Eve .
Films of the 1950s were of a wide variety. As a result of the introduction of television, the studios and companies sought to put audiences back in theaters. They used more techniques in presenting their films through widescreen and big-approach methods, such as Cinemascope, VistaVision, and Cinerama, as well as gimmicks like 3-D film.
List of 1950s films based on actual events; List of Armenian films of the 1950s; List of Assamese films of the 1950s; List of Australian films of the 1950s; List of Austrian films of the 1950s; List of Azerbaijani films of the 1950s