The Americanization of Emily 1964  N/R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas, James Coburn, Joyce Grenfell, Ed Binns, Keenan Wynn, William Windom, Liz Fraser, Judy Carne
Nominated for Academy Awards for Best Art and Set Decoration and Best Cinematography, this film is a comedy/drama about war widow Emily Barham (Julie Andrews) who falls in love with Lieutenant Charles E. Madison (James Garner). Madison doesn't realize that he will become a participant in the Normandy invasion.
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Author! Author! 1982  PG, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Al Pacino, Dyan Cannon, Tuesday Weld, Alan King, Bob Dishy, Bob Elliott, Ray Goulding, Eric Gurry, Andre Gregory
After his wife (Tuesday Weld) leaves him, a playwright (Al Pacino) tries to prepare for his next play while tending to the five children his estranged wife left in his care.
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The Babe 1992  PG, 113 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: John Goodman, Kelly McGillis, Trini Alvarado, Bruce Boxleitner, Peter Donat, James Cromwell, J.C. Quinn, Joe Ragno, Richard Tyson, Michael McGrady, Ralph Marrero, Robert Swan, Bernard Kates, Stephen Caffrey, Gene Ross
John Goodman plays the role of home-run hitter George Herman "Babe" Ruth in this biographical drama. The story begins in Baltimore where George's brother Mathias (James Cromwell) teaches him the game of baseball. George is later signed with the Boston Red Sox, and he begins his career of hitting homers. Ruth is sold to the Yankees and brings his wife Helen (Trini Alvarado) to the city, but their marriage breaks up soon after. Ruth's second wife is Ziegfeld showgirl Claire Hodgeson (Kelly McGillis), and life becomes fun–for awhile. This script also objectively relates the ups and downs of Ruth's career. The on-field play is enhanced by use of good old Danville (Illinois) Stadium.
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Carpool 1996 PG, 89 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Tom Arnold, Rhea Perlman, David Paymer, Rod Steiger, Rachael Leigh Cook, Kim Coates, Jordan Warkol, Colleen Rennison, John Tench, Obba Babatunde
Bank robber Franklin Laszlo (Tom Arnold) takes over a minivan filled with kids on their way to school. Of course, the kids bond with Franklin, and the chase is on with police in pursuit.
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The Hospital 1971 PG, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: George C. Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes, Richard Dysart, Stephen Elliott, Andrew Duncan, Nancy Marchand, Roberts Blossom, Robert Walden, Frances Sternhagen
Incompetence in a major teaching hospital results in deaths of patients in this film, which won the Academy Award for "Best Script." Scott received an Oscar nomination for his acting.
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The In-Laws 1979 PG, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy / Adventure / Drama / Thriller
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Richard Libertini, Nancy Dussault, Penny Peyser, Arlene Golonka, Michael Lembeck, Ed Begley Jr., Eduardo Noriega, James Hong, Paul L. Smith, Carmine Caridi
International adventures greet two future fathers-in-law–CIA agent Vince Ricardo (Peter Falk) and dentist Sheldon Kornpett (Alan Arkin)–who are brought together when their children announce their engagement in this very funny story.
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The Lonely Guy 1984 R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Steve Martin, Charles Grodin, Judith Ivey, Steve Lawrence, Robyn Douglass, Merv Griffin, Joyce Brothers, Julie Payne, Rance Howard, Erik Holland
Larry Hubbard is a writer who comes home one day to find his lover in bed with another man. He becomes the "Lonely Guy" and begins to write a book to help others as lonely as he is.
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 Love Story 1970 PG, 99 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, John Marley, Ray Milland, Tommy Lee Jones, Katharine Balfour, Andrew Duncan, Sudie Bond, Sydney Walker, Julie Garfield
Jenny (Ali MacGraw) and Oliver (Ryan O'Neal) are college students who marry and then discover that Jenny is dying. It is Jenny who says, "Love means never having to say you are sorry." Have plenty of handkerchiefs ready when you watch this one. The film won an Academy Award for Original Musical Score and received six other nominations, including Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor (John Marley) and Director.
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Making Love 1982 R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson, Harry Hamlin, Wendy Hiller, Arthur Hill, Nancy Olson, Terry Kiser, John Dukakis, Dennis Howard, Asher Brauner
Zack (Michael Ontkean) has been married to TV-producer Claire (Kate Jackson) for eight years. But now he must confront his latent homosexuality when he is drawn to novelist Bart McGuire (Harry Hamlin).
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The Man in the Glass Booth 1975 PG, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Luther Adler, Lawrence Pressman, Henry Brown, Richard Rasof, David Nash, Martin Berman, Sy Kramer, Lloyd Bochner, Robert H. Harris, Norbert Schiller, Berry Kroeger, Leonardo Cimino, Connie Sawyer
In 1965, Arthur Goldman (Maximilian Schell) is a wealthy Jewish industrialist enjoying life in a luxury apartment in Manhattan when Israeli agents break into his home and arrest him for being the Nazi war criminal "Dorff" who ran a Nazi death camp. Goldman is drugged and sent to Israel where he is tried while in a protective glass booth. Now the question is, "Is he, or is he not, really Dorff?" This screen adaptation of Robert Shaw's play is so far removed from Shaw's interpretation that Shaw removed his name from the credits.
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 Man of La Mancha 1972   PG, 130 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco, Harry Andrews, John Castle, Brian Blessed, Ian Richardson, Gino Conforti, Marne Maitland, Rosalie Crutchley
This musical version of Don Quixote is one Broadway success that fails miserably in its transition to the screen. 1 User Review
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| | Anonymous 01/09/2007 | | Simple and lovely point of view about one of the most complex novels of all times. |
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Married to It 1993  R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Beau Bridges, Stockard Channing, Robert Sean Leonard, Mary Stuart Masterson, Cybill Shepherd, Ron Silver, Nathaniel Moreau, Gerry Bamman, Don Francks, Donna Vivino
Planning a school pageant for their children becomes the vehicle for new relationships with three couples that appear to have little in common at first.
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Miracle of the White Stallions 1963 N/R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Robert Taylor, Lilli Palmer, Curt Jurgens, Eddie Albert, James Franciscus, John Larch, Philip Abbott, Charles Regnier, Erik Schumann, Douglas Fowley
Austria's prized Lipizzan horses are rescued and smuggled out of the country in a daring mission led by Colonel Alois Podhasky (Robert Taylor).
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The Out of Towners 1970  G, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: The Out-of-Towners
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis, Sandy Baron, Anne Meara, Ann Prentiss, Graham Jarvis, Ron Carey, Philip Bruns, Billy Dee Williams, Paul Dooley, Robert Nichols, Carlos Montalban, Robert King, Dolph Sweet, Thalmus Rasulala
Heading for a job interview in N.Y.C., a couple, George and Gwen Kellerman (Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis), leave their quiet neighborhood in Ohio and meet with disasters. Dennis' oft-heard description of each and every new misfortune that they encounter is "Oh, My God!" This is a very funny film.
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Outrageous Fortune 1987 R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Bette Midler, Shelley Long, Peter Coyote, Robert Prosky, John Schuck, George Carlin, Anthony Heald, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Christopher McDonald
Two aspiring actresses (Bette Midler and Shelley Long) chase after the same boyfriend. This, in turn, leads them into involvement with the CIA.
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Promise Her Anything 1966 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Warren Beatty, Leslie Caron, Robert Cummings, Hermione Gingold, Lionel Stander, Keenan Wynn, Cathleen Nesbitt, Bessie Love, Donald Sutherland, Mavis Villiers
Porn filmmaker Harley Rummell (Warren Beatty) gets saddled with his downstairs neighbor's infant son while she plots marriage to a psychologist.
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Romantic Comedy 1983 PG, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Dudley Moore, Mary Steenburgen, Frances Sternhagen, Janet Eilber, Robyn Douglass, Ron Leibman, Rozlika Halmos, Alexander Lockwood, Erica Hiller, Sean Patrick Guerin
Will they, or won't they? Playwrights Jason (Dudley Moore) and Phoebe (Mary Steenburgen) work well together professionally, but their personal feelings for each other cannot seem to grow beyond the platonic stage. Speaking of not getting it together, this film...
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See No Evil, Hear No Evil 1989 R, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Joan Severance, Kevin Spacey, Alan North, Anthony Zerbe, Louis Giambalvo, Kristen Childs, Hardy Rawls, Audrie J. Neenan, John Capodice
A blind man (Richard Pryor) and a deaf man (Gene Wilder) work at a newspaper stand in New York. One day, a murder takes place near their newsstand, and guess who is arrested for the dirty deed? The stars are there, the idea is there, but the execution of the film isn't all it could be.
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Silver Streak 1976 PG, 113 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Patrick McGoohan, Ned Beatty, Ray Walston, Scatman Crothers, Clifton James, Stefan Gierasch, Valerie Curtin
Gene Wilder plays a book executive, and Jill Clayburgh is a student of art who is in the next compartment on the Silver Streak, a train going from New York to Los Angeles. An art thief (Patrick McGoohan) is also aboard. That combination should cause some excitement; however, it is not until Richard Pryor comes onto the scene that the thrills and laughter are fast and furious. Fun.
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Taking Care of Business 1990 R, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Filofax
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: James Belushi, Charles Grodin, Anne DeSalvo, Loryn Locklin, Stephen Elliott, Hector Elizondo, Veronica Hamel, Mako, Gates McFadden, John de Lancie
Die-hard Cubs' fan/car thief Jimmy (James Belushi) is serving his last two days in prison and wins a pair of World Series tickets to the final game–which includes the Cubs. When the warden refuses to let Jimmy out early, the prison-mates spring Jimmy. Meanwhile, rich businessman Spencer (Charles Grodin) leaves his filofax (holding his personal information, money, and mansion keys) at an airport. Yes, Jimmy finds the filofax and starts the search for Spencer to claim the reward that is offered for the return of the filofax. In the process, he ends up assuming Spencer's identity. Low-level fun, but the Cubs in the World Series? Get real.
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The Tiger Makes Out 1967 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Bob Dishy, John Harkins, David Burns, Ruth White, Charles Nelson Reilly, Dustin Hoffman, Sudie Bond, Frances Sternhagen
A mailman (Eli Wallach) makes his stand against society by kidnapping a housewife (Anne Jackson) in this film marking the film debut of Dustin Hoffman.
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Tobruk 1967 N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Rock Hudson, George Peppard, Nigel Green, Guy Stockwell, Jack Watson, Norman Rossington, Percy Herbert, Liam Redmond, Leo Gordon, Peter Coe
During World War II, an American demolitions expert, Major Donald Craig (Rock Hudson), joined British commandos and expatriated German Jews in a heroic effort to blow up the German tank commander Gen. Rommel's supplies before they could reach the coast of North Africa.
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W.C. Fields and Me 1976 PG, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Rod Steiger, Valerie Perrine, John Marley, Jack Cassidy, Bernadette Peters, Dana Elcar, Paul Stewart, Billy Barty, Kenneth Tobey, Linda Purl
Rod Steiger takes on the role of famed comedian W.C. Fields, and Valerie Perrine plays his mistress Carlotta Monti in this biography centering on Fields' later years.
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The Wheeler Dealers 1963 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: James Garner, Lee Remick, Phil Harris, Chill Wills, Jim Backus, Louis Nye, John Astin, Pat Harrington Jr., Robert Strauss, Pat Crowley
Texas oil baron Henry Tyroon (James Garner) heads for New York City to invest in the Stock Market and becomes involved with stock analyst Molly Thatcher (Lee Remick).
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Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick 1995 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Todd Robinson
Cast: Alec Baldwin, James Cagney, Mike Connors, Clint Eastwood, James Garner, Darryl Hickman, Tab Hunter, Nancy Davis, Howard Koch, John A. Gallagher, Gary Gray, Arthur Hiller, Tom Laughlin, Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck
Narrated by Alec Baldwin, this documentary covers the life of Hollywood director William A. Wellman–including his stormy personal life that included five marriages. The documentary also features interviews with stars and clips from his films including "Wings," "A Star is Born," and "The High and the Mighty." Among the many stars interviewed are Clint Eastwood, Robert Mitchum, James Garner, Richard Widmark, and Gregory Peck who attest to Wellman's brilliance.
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| 1. The Americanization of Emily (1964)
2. Author! Author! (1982)
3. The Babe (1992)
4. Carpool (1996)
5. The Hospital (1971)
6. The In-Laws (1979)
7. The Lonely Guy (1984)
8. Love Story (1970)
9. Making Love (1982)
10. The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
11. Man of La Mancha (1972)
12. Married to It (1993)
13. Miracle of the White Stallions (1963)
14. Nightwing (1979)
15. The Out of Towners (1970)
aka: The Out-of-Towners
16. Outrageous Fortune (1987)
17. Popi (1969)
18. Promise Her Anything (1966)
19. Romantic Comedy (1983)
20. See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
21. Silver Streak (1976)
22. Taking Care of Business (1990)
aka: Filofax
23. The Tiger Makes Out (1967)
24. Tobruk (1967)
25. W.C. Fields and Me (1976)
26. The Wheeler Dealers (1963)
27. Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1995)
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