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The Jungle Book: Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman. With Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Bruce Reitherman, George Sanders. Bagheera the Panther and Baloo the Bear have a difficult time trying to convince a boy to leave the jungle for human civilization.
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Grand Slam, starring Janet Leigh and Edward G. Robinson – ( Italy / Spain / West Germany) Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn and Sidney Poitier. A Guide for the Married Man, directed by Gene Kelly, starring Walter Matthau, Inger Stevens and Robert Morse.
The Jungle Book is a 1967 American animated musical comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution. Based very loosely on the "Mowgli" stories from Rudyard Kipling 's 1894 book of the same title, it is the final animated feature film to be produced by Walt Disney, who died during its production.
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A criminal gang uses a gas canister to knock out the occupant of a car and then bundle him into a stolen ambulance. There they cut free a briefcase full of jewellery. Shortly afterward, when the criminals are changing vehicles, they are spotted by the police and a high-speed chase develops with the criminals getting away. Using the money from this ...
Michael Deeley bought the rights to Peta Fordham's book based on the 'Great Train Robbery' of 1963. He and director Peter Yates offered the project to Woodfall Film Productions, where Deeley worked, but the company did not want to make it. Deeley and Yates then approached Stanley Baker to star in the film. Baker had a good relationship with Joseph ...
Box office
According to Michael Deeley the film did "good business" on release.It was not a big hit in the US; Peter Yates called it "very poorly exploited".
Critical
The critical response to Robbery over the years was summarized by Peter Elliott in 2014: "Robbery was praised by a number of critics upon its release. ... However, time and culture have not been kind to Yates' film, and it has, to a very large extent, been relegated to a footnote in British crime cinema." Beyond critical opinion, the location-shot car chase at the beginning of the film has been very influential. It was seen by Steve McQueen, and led him and producer Philip D'Antoni to approve...
Awards
The film won the best original British screenplay award (for Edward Boyd, Peter Yates, and George Markstein) from the Writers Guild of Great Britain.
Robberywas released on DVD for the first time in 2008. Before this, the only copies in circulation had been from a VHS release in the 1980s. In August 2015, a remastered version was released on Kino Lorber Blu-ray and DVD, scanned at 2K and fully restored to its original aspect ratio, along with some special features.
Notes Bibliography 1. Deeley, Michael (2009). Blade Runners, Deer Hunters and Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: My Life in Cult Movies. Pegasus Books. ISBN 9781605980386. OCLC 286439266.
Robbery at IMDbRobbery at AllMovieRobbery at ReelStreetsCast. Mireille Darc as Corinne; Jean Yanne as Roland; Paul Gégauff as pianist; Jean-Pierre Léaud as Saint-Just and man in phone booth; Blandine Jeanson as Emily Brontë and page-turner for pianist; Yves Afonso as Tom Thumb; Jean-Pierre Kalfon as the leader of Front de Libération de la Seine et Oise; Juliet Berto as a member of FLSO and a ...
In the Heat of the Night (1967) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Cast. Rod Taylor as Peter McDermott, manager; Catherine Spaak as Jeanne Rochefort, O'Keefe's mistress; Karl Malden as Keycase Milne, thief; Melvyn Douglas as Warren Trent, owner; Richard Conte as crooked house detective Dupere; Merle Oberon as the Duchess Caroline; Michael Rennie as the Duke of Lanbourne; Kevin McCarthy as Curtis O'Keefe, bidder
