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Man on Fire is a 2004 American vigilante action thriller film directed and produced by Tony Scott, with a screenplay by Brian Helgeland and co-produced by Arnon Milchan. [4] It is based on the 1980 novel of the same name by A. J. Quinnell.
John Creasey MBE (17 September 1908 – 9 June 1973) [1] was an English author known mostly for detective and crime novels but who also wrote science fiction, romance and westerns. He wrote more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms.
Two real-life incidents shaped A. J. Quinnell's development of the book. In the first, after the eldest son of a rich Singaporean was kidnapped by Triads for ransom money, the man refused to pay the ransom, leading to the death of his son; the refusal meant that the man's other children would not become targets.
Creasy, in the hospital, gets all of the newspaper clippings and has much of the research done beforehand. The Rosas Sanchez family has no known equivalent - instead a mafia hierarchy, with Cantarella at the head, is the ultimate antagonist WhisperToMe ( talk ) 09:36, 27 March 2012 (UTC) [ reply ]
Man on Fire (Italian: Un uomo sotto tiro, French: L'homme de feu) is a 1987 action thriller film directed by Élie Chouraqui and starring Scott Glenn and Jade Malle. [1] It is based on the 1980 novel of the same name by A. J. Quinnell, with a screenplay by Chouraqui, Sergio Donati, and Fabrice Ziolkowski.
John Q. John Quincy Archibald [38] Antwone Fisher: Dr. Jerome Davenport: Also director and producer [39] 2003 Out of Time: Matt Lee Whitlock [40] 2004 Man on Fire: John W. Creasy [41] The Manchurian Candidate: Maj. Ben Marco [42] 2006 Inside Man: Keith Frazier [43] Déjà Vu: Doug Carlin [44] 2007 American Gangster: Frank Lucas [23] The Great ...
Kenneth B. Creasy grew up in Turkey Creek, Kentucky, the oldest son of a coal miner. In 1940 his family moved to Delaware, Ohio so his father, John Samuel Creasy, could take advantage of factory work in Central Ohio. His mother, Pauline Hammond Creasy, worked briefly as a court recorder in Union County, Kentucky, where her father was a judge ...
In the series of adventure novels by John Creasey, the Toff is the nickname of the Honourable Richard Rollison, an upper-class crime sleuth. [1] Creasey published almost 60 Toff adventures, beginning with Introducing the Toff in 1938 and continuing through The Toff and the Crooked Copper, published in 1977, four years after the author's death.