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Murphy's War is an Eastmancolor 1971 Panavision war film starring Peter O'Toole and Siân Phillips. It was directed by Peter Yates , based on the 1969 novel by Max Catto . The film's cinematographer was Douglas Slocombe .
To Hell and Back is a Technicolor and CinemaScope war film released in 1955. [4] It was directed by Jesse Hibbs and stars Audie Murphy as himself. It is based on the 1949 autobiography of the same name and is an account of Murphy's World War II experiences as a soldier in the U.S. Army. [5] The book was ghostwritten by his friend, David "Spec" McClure, who served in the U.S. Army's Signal ...
The only film Murphy made in 1952 was Duel At Silver Creek with director Don Siegel.Murphy would team with Siegel one more time in 1958 for The Gun Runners.He only worked one time with director Frederick de Cordova, who later became producer of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
Charlie Wilson's War is a 2007 American biographical comedy-drama film based on the story of U.S. Congressman Charlie Wilson and CIA operative Gust Avrakotos, whose efforts led to Operation Cyclone, a program to organize and support the Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet–Afghan War (1979–89).
Battle at Bloody Beach is only the second Audie Murphy movie set in World War II, after his autobiographical To Hell and Back. [4] The film was shot on Santa Catalina Island [ 5 ] by Robert Lippert 's Associated Producers Incorporated and was released by 20th Century Fox . [ 6 ]
When Murphy hosted Saturday Night Live about five months after the film was released, he admitted in his opening monologue that he knew the film was awful and did it for the money: "After I did 48 Hours and Trading Places, all these scripts started coming from everywhere, and I picked up a script called Best Defense. There's a movie that sucked ...
The Warner Archive Collection is a home video division for releasing classic and cult films from Warner Bros.' library. [1] [2] It started as a manufactured-on-demand (MOD) DVD series by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on March 23, 2009, with the intention of putting previously unreleased catalog films on DVD for the first time. [3]
The film has come to be regarded as one of Murphy's best movies, with its fans including director Joe Dante. [5] Film writer Jeff Stafford stated that, "unlike most of Murphy's earlier Westerns, No Name on the Bullet has a philosophical edge, which makes it closer in tone to Ingmar Bergman 's The Seventh Seal (1957) than a six-gun oater like ...