The game is the core and subject of a novel by French novelist Joseph Kessel titled Les Cavaliers ( aka Horsemen ) as well as of the film The Horseman ( 1971 ), which was directed by John Frankenheimer with Omar Sharif in the lead role.

Dead Bang is a 1989 action film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Don Johnson.

In the 1997 TNT film George Wallace, directed by John Frankenheimer, Jim Folsom is played by Joe Don Baker, who was nominated for a CableACE award for his performance.

In " Eligible Bachelors ", it is revealed that during World War II, Granny / Emma was a member of the WAC and along with Tweety she stopped Nazi Colonel Frankenheimer from stealing the Eiffel Tower and various paintings from the The Louvre.

52 Pick-Up is a 1986 crime thriller film directed by John Frankenheimer.

The Train is a 1964 black-and-white war film directed by John Frankenheimer from a story and screenplay by Franklin Coen and Frank Davis, based on the non-fiction book Le front de l ' art by Rose Valland.

* When told that Michel Simon would be unable to complete scenes scripted for his character as a result of prior contractual obligations, Frankenheimer devised the sequence wherein Papa Boule is executed by the Germans.

Frankenheimer remarked on the DVD commentary, " Incidentally, I think this is the last big action picture ever made in black and white, and personally I am so grateful that it is in black and white.

French Connection II is a 1975 crime drama film starring Gene Hackman and directed by John Frankenheimer.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two and a half out of four stars and said that " if Frankenheimer and his screenplay don't do justice to the character ( of Jimmy " Popeye " Doyle ), they at least do justice to the genre, and this is better than most of the many cop movies that followed The French Connection into release.

On the silver screen, his most acclaimed work is probably 52 Pickup, directed by John Frankenheimer.

As Frankenheimer describes in Charles Champlin's interview book, he advised Lancaster that the script was too long but was told he had to shoot all that was written.

" In an interview, Frankenheimer refused to discuss the film, saying only that he had a miserable time making it.

When it failed to become the hit that was expected, Frankenheimer admitted he developed a serious problem with alcohol.

This almost caused Frankenheimer to back out, since he and Lancaster had butted heads on The Birdman of Alcatraz several years before.

Frankenheimer had to fight to cast Lansbury, who had worked with him on All Fall Down, and was just two years older than Harvey.

Frankenheimer was a friend of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and drove him to the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles the night Kennedy was assassinated in June 1968.

The celebration of Americana starred Frankenheimer regular Lancaster, reuniting him with From Here to Eternity co-star Deborah Kerr, and it also featured Gene Hackman.

Frankenheimer was unable to meet with McQueen to offer him the role and instead sent Edward Lewis, his business partner and the producer of Grand Prix.

Frankenheimer said that Pierre Salinger conveyed to him President Kennedy's wish that the film be made, " these were the days of General Walker " and, though the Pentagon did not want the film made, the president would conveniently arrange to visit Hyannis Port for a weekend when the film needed to shoot outside the White House.

In 1960, John Frankenheimer, a friend of Pollack's, asked him to come to Los Angeles in order to work as a dialogue coach for the child actors on Frankenheimer's first big picture, The Young Savages.

Randolph was the last blacklisted actor to regain employment in Hollywood films when director John Frankenheimer cast him in the lead role in Seconds in 1966.

A number of directors also studied with him, among them Sidney Lumet and John Frankenheimer, and writers such as Arthur Miller and David Mamet.

* Colonel von Waldheim was originally to engage Labiche in a shootout at the film's climax, but after Paul Scofield was cast in the role, at Lancaster's suggestion Frankenheimer re-wrote the scene to provide Scofield a more suitable end — taunting Labiche into killing him.

Frankenheimer ended the year with The Thundering Wave ( December 12, 1957 ), starring James and Pamela Mason in an Aurthur drama about acting couple who agree to do a play together despite their separation.

Jarier introduced himself to a new generation by contributing major stunt work to the film Ronin, directed by John Frankenheimer who also directed the 1966 classic, Grand Prix.

Boenish's cinematography work included the 1969 John Frankenheimer parachuting film classic The Gypsy Moths, starring Burt Lancaster and Gene Hackman, and a National Geographic Explorer segment on jumps from El Capitan.

John Michael Frankenheimer ( February 19, 1930 – July 6, 2002 ) was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action / suspense films.

Frankenheimer was born in Queens, New York, the son of Helen Mary ( née Sheedy ) and Walter Martin Frankenheimer, a stockbroker.

His father was of German Jewish descent and his mother was Irish Catholic, and Frankenheimer was raised Catholic.

In May 2001, amid rumors that he was the biological father of film director Michael Bay, Frankenheimer stated he had a brief relationship with Bay's birth mother.

After the rumors surfaced that Bay's natural father was a filmmaker, there was much speculation about Frankenheimer, who continued to deny the story and told the Los Angeles Times that there had once been " tests " to determine paternity ( long before DNA testing ).

Burt Lancaster, who was producing as well as starring, asked Frankenheimer to take over the film.

The first cut of the film was four-and-a-half hours long, the length Frankenheimer had predicted.

Lancaster was committed to star in Judgment at Nuremberg, so he made that film while Frankenheimer prepared the reshoots.

Frankenheimer was next hired by producer John Houseman to direct All Fall Down, a family drama starring Eva Marie Saint and Warren Beatty.

Urban legend has it that the film was pulled from circulation due to the similarity of its plot to the death of President Kennedy the following year, but Frankenheimer states in the Champlin book that it was pulled because of a legal battle between producer Sinatra and the studio over Sinatra's share of the profits.

Frankenheimer was ahead in schedule anyway, and the McQueen / Sturges project was called off, while the German race track was only mentioned briefly in Grand Prix.

Frankenheimer calls it in the Champlin book " the only movie I've made which I would say was a total disaster.

Movie critic Leonard Maltin writes that " in his time ... Frankenheimer worked with the top writers, producers and actors in a series of films that dealt with issues that were just on top of the moment — things that were facing us all.

In 1990, he returned to the Cold War political thriller genre with The Fourth War with Roy Scheider ( with whom Frankenheimer had worked previously on 52 Pick-Up ) as a loose cannon Army colonel drawn into a dangerous personal war with a Russian officer.

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* A television adaptation, directed by John Frankenheimer, was broadcast in two parts on CBS's Playhouse 90 in 1956, starring Jason Robards and Maria Schell as Robert Jordan and Maria, with Nehemiah Persoff as Pablo, Maureen Stapleton as Pilar, and Eli Wallach as the gypsy Rafael.

Starting from the late 1940s until the 1950s and 1960s, he also appeared on American television, making guest appearances in drama programs, most notably in The Fifth Column for Buick Electra Playhouse / CBS in 1960, playing an almost-deaf Nazi officer in a group of fifth columnists operating behind the lines in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s ( the program was adapted from a story by Ernest Hemingway and directed by John Frankenheimer ).

As well as appearing in ten episodes of her father's half-hour television programme, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Hitchcock worked on a few others, including Playhouse 90, which was live, directed by John Frankenheimer.

Frankenheimer gave Senator Kennedy theatrical makeup to hide the bruise while appearing on television hours later.

He appeared extensively in television, including the 1957 live 90-minute broadcast on Playhouse 90 of The Comedian, a drama written by Rod Serling and directed by John Frankenheimer in which Mickey Rooney portrays a television comedian while O ' Brien plays a writer driven to the brink of insanity.

Frankenheimer kicked off 1958 with The Last Man ( January 9, 1958 ), an Aaron Spelling revenge drama, followed by The Violent Heart ( February 6, 1958 ) from Daphne du Maurier story of romance on the French Riviera, Rumors of Evening ( May 1, 1958 ) about a World War II pilot obsessed with USO entertainer and Serling's Bomber's Moon ( May 22, 1958 ) about a World War II pilot accused of cowardice.

Other noteworthy actors to play the role of Hickey include Lee Marvin, in a 1973 film adaptation directed by John Frankenheimer ; James Earl Jones, in a 1973 revival at the Circle in the Square Theatre that was edited for length and criticized for the weakness of its supporting cast ; and Kevin Spacey, who was lauded for his 1998 – 1999 stage rendition of the part in London's West End and then on Broadway.

Frankenheimer noted on his DVD commentary that Lancaster performed the entire roll down the mountain himself, filmed by cameras at points along the hillside.

" This line became a metaphor for complicating disasters on Frankenheimer films thereafter.

Next, depending on his / her standing, the director may be granted an extra, prominent credit ( as in " A Ridley Scott Film "); this practice began with directors such as Otto Preminger and John Frankenheimer in the late 1960s.

Another production of the Odets play was directed by John Frankenheimer for Playhouse 90 on June 13, 1957 with Kim Stanley in the lead role.

The project languished until John Frankenheimer signed on to make the film with MGM agreeing to purchase the rights.