Angel on My Shoulder 1980   TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Berry
Cast: Peter Strauss, Richard Kiley, Barbara Hershey, Janis Paige, Seymour Cassel, Scott Colomby, Murray Matheson, Peter MacLean, Billy Jayne, Douglas Dirkson
This remake of the 1946 film stars Peter Strauss as the murdered mobster who makes a deal with the devil for another chance at life. 3 User Reviews
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| | crozz 10/30/2007 | | I watched this movie purely by accident...was surfing throught the channels on a sunday afternoon and saw that Peter Strauss was in the middle of a scene, so i decided to stop and watch....well, within minutes I was caught in the story line of this movie and the performance that Pete was giving , which is in every flik is incredible....this movie is a must see for everyone, definately the most underated actor of our time. |
| | SUCH A GOOD CHICK FLICK | LOVE CHILD 02/20/2007 | | |
| | STUNNING | Maydayxx 02/07/2007 | | ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT FILM |
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The Bad News Bears Go to Japan 1978  PG, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: John Berry
Cast: Tony Curtis, Jackie Earle Haley, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Hatsune Ishihara, George Wyner, Lonny Chapman, Antonio Inoki, Matthew Anton, Erin Blunt, George Gonzales, Brett Marx, David Pollock, David Stambaugh, Jeffrey Louis Starr, Scoody Thornton
Small-time Hollywood agent Marvin Lazar (Tony Curtis) sets up a match between the Bad News Bears Little League team and an all-star team in Japan. And, off they go to Japan for the Little League World Series in Tokyo where adventures await.
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Boesman & Lena 2000 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Berry
Cast: Danny Glover, Angela Bassett, Willie Jonah
Athol Fugard's 1970 off-Broadway play about South Africa's apartheid was directed by John Berry; 30 years later Berry wrote and directed this film version. Although segregation has long since been outlawed, people like Boesman (Danny Glover) and Lena (Angela Bassett) have paid the price and suffered its consequences.
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Claudine 1974 PG, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Berry
Cast: Diahann Carroll, James Earl Jones, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Tamu, David Kruger, Yvette Curtis, Stefan Gierasch, Art Evans
Diahann Carroll was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as a single mother with six kids who tries to survive in the inner-city and must decide whether her boyfriend, Roop (James Earl Jones), is the one she really wants to spend her life with.
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Cross My Heart 1946 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: John Berry
Cast: Betty Hutton, Sonny Tufts, Rhys Williams, Ruth Donnelly, Iris Adrian, Al Bridge, Howard Freeman, Michael Chekhov, Milton Kibbee, Lewis L. Russell
Confessing to a murder she did not commit, a woman (Betty Hutton) depends on her lawyer husband (Sonny Tufts) to defend her and, in turn, give her the attention she craves. This is a remake of "True Confession."
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He Ran All the Way 1951 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Berry
Cast: John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford, Selena Royle, Gladys George, Norman Lloyd, Bobby Hyatt, Clancy Cooper, Renny McEvoy, Dale Van Sickel
In this final film of John Garfield, he plays a criminal escaping after a bank robbery in which he killed a cop. He takes refuge with Peg's (Shelley Winters) family and takes them hostage.
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Miss Susie Slagle's 1945 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Berry
Cast: Veronica Lake, Sonny Tufts, Joan Caulfield, Ray Collins, Lillian Gish, Billy De Wolfe, Lloyd Bridges, Bill Edwards, Roman Bohnen, Morris Carnovsky
A group of medical students live together in Miss Susie Slagle's boarding house. Set in the early 1900s, this is the story of the drama and humor surrounding the lives of these future doctors and nurses.
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Round Midnight 1986  R, 133 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Cast: Dexter Gordon, Francois Cluzet, Gabrielle Haker, Martin Scorsese, Lonette McKee, Herbie Hancock, John Berry, Philippe Noiret, Alain Sarde
This is a tribute to the great black musicians in Paris during the 1950s. The story is actually about a jazz saxophonist (Dexter Gordon) and his friendship with an avid fan (Francois Cluzet). An Oscar went to Herbie Hancock for his Musical Score, and Dexter Gordon received a Best Actor nomination.
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Tension 1949  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Berry
Cast: Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse, Barry Sullivan, Lloyd Gough, Tom D'Andrea, William Conrad, Tito Renaldo, Philip Van Zandt, Dewey Robinson, Tommy Ryan, Jack Daley, Virginia Brissac, Steve Roberts, Hayward Soo Hoo
A pharmacist, Warren Quimby (Richard Basehart), suffers after learning that his wife Claire (Audrey Totter) is having an affair and hatches a plot to kill her lover Barney (Lloyd Gough). Warren takes on a new identity to perform the perfect crime, but someone else kills Barney before Warren gets to him, and now Warren is the prime suspect.
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| 1. Angel on My Shoulder (1980)
2. The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978)
3. Boesman & Lena (2000)
4. Claudine (1974)
5. Cross My Heart (1946)
6. He Ran All the Way (1951)
7. Miss Susie Slagle's (1945)
8. Round Midnight (1986)
9. Tension (1949)
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