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Burt Pearl & Steven L. Sears October 24, 1986 ( 1986-10-24 ) General Stockwell sends his team to the tiny island of San Marcos, where they try to free two American intelligence agents who have been taken prisoner by a ruthless dictator.
Burt Pearl. Producer: Touched by an Angel. Burt Pearl was born on 3 June 1957 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Touched by an Angel (1994), Riptide (1984) and Hardcastle and McCormick (1983). He died on 6 April 2006 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Burt Pearl
- April 6, 2006
- June 3, 1957
Apr 27, 2006 · LOS ANGELES, April 27 (UPI) -- CBS TV's "Touched by an Angel" writer/executive producer Burt Pearl has died of lymphoma age 49, Daily Variety reported in Los Angeles Thursday.
executive producer. Burt Pearl, American Executive producer. Member Writers Guild American M C. Background. Pearl, Burt was born on June 3, 1957 in St. Louis. Son of Burt Senior and Barbara (Fisher) Pearl. Education. Graduated from the high school, Troutdale, Oregon, 1975. Career.
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From Here to Eternity, American dramatic film, released in 1953, about U.S. soldiers in Hawaii in the months before the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. It was one of the most popular films of its time, and it won eight Academy Awards, including that for best picture.
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The film begins with the arrival of Robert E. Lee Prewitt (played by Montgomery Clift) at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, where he meets an old friend, Private Angelo Maggio (Frank Sinatra). The company commander, Captain Dana Holmes (Philip Ober), knowing that Prewitt is a talented boxer, urges him to join the company boxing team. Prewitt refuses, having given up the sport after having accidentally blinded a sparring partner. Sergeant Milton Warden (Burt Lancaster) urges Prewitt to reconsider, but Prewitt is adamant. Under orders from Holmes, the men in Prewitt’s company begin a campaign of harassment against Prewitt, though Maggio remains a loyal friend.
In the meantime, Warden finds himself attracted to Holmes’s wife, Karen (Deborah Kerr), and they begin an affair. In one of the most famous scenes in movie history, Warden and Karen make love on the beach, and Karen later tells him about Holmes’s philandering and drunken neglect of her. Elsewhere, the soldiers have gone to a club, where Prewitt meets the hostess Lorene (Donna Reed) and is smitten. Later, Sergeant “Fatso” Judson (Ernest Borgnine) insults Maggio, and a fight breaks out but is quickly broken up by Warden. On a subsequent weekend pass, Prewitt goes to see Lorene, who tells him that her real name is Alma. Maggio arrives, in uniform and drunk, having walked off guard duty. He is court-martialed and sentenced to six months in the stockade, which is overseen by Judson. Karen urges Warden to become a commissioned officer so that she can divorce Holmes and marry him, but Warden is reluctant. Later, at Alma’s cottage, Prewitt proposes, but Alma wants a husband with a more prestigious job than career soldier. He returns to the base, where Sergeant Ike Galovitch (John Dennis) begins throwing punches at Prewitt. Eventually Prewitt fights back, and he nearly knocks Galovitch out before Holmes intervenes.
•Studio: Columbia Pictures Corporation
•Director: Fred Zinneman
•Writer: Daniel Taradash (screenplay)
•Music: George Duning
•Montgomery Clift (Robert E. Lee Prewitt)
•Burt Lancaster (Sergeant Milton Warden)
•Deborah Kerr (Karen Holmes)
•Donna Reed (Lorene/Alma)
•Frank Sinatra (Angelo Maggio)
•Philip Ober (Captain Dana Holmes)
•Picture*
•Lead actor (Montgomery Clift)
•Lead actor (Burt Lancaster)
•Supporting actor* (Frank Sinatra)
•Lead actress (Deborah Kerr)
•Supporting actress* (Donna Reed)
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Burt Pearl & Steven L. Sears November 12, 1985 ( 1985-11-12 ) A reporter with only six months to live ( Darleen Carr ) hires the trio to find out who infected her with the disease that will kill her.
Hardball is a variation of the buddy cop genre that focused on two plainclothes L.A. cops, Charlie "C.B." Battles ( John Ashton) and Joe "Kaz" Kaczierowski ( Richard Tyson ). Battles is a 45-year-old hard-nosed veteran officer who is forced to take a desk job or retire. Battles is soon assigned a new partner, the 25-year-old hotshot ...
