Next he teamed up with American Beauty director Sam Mendes for the adaptation of Max Allan Collins's and Richard Piers Rayner's graphic novel Road to Perdition, in which he played an anti-hero role as a hitman on the run with his son.

The film's striking cinematography was by Conrad Hall, who went on to win three Academy Awards for his work on the films Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, American Beauty and Road to Perdition.

His last screen appearance was as a conflicted mob boss in the 2002 film Road to Perdition opposite Tom Hanks, although he continued to provide voice work for films.

To establish the lighting of scenes in the 2002 film Road to Perdition, director Sam Mendes drew from the paintings of Hopper as a source of inspiration, particularly New York Movie.

The film opened at # 3 in the U. S. box office in the weekend of July 12, 2002, taking in $ 15, 632, 281 USD in its first opening weekend, behind Road To Perdition and Men in Black II, which was on its second week at the top.

Named after writers Joseph Conrad and Lafcadio Hearn, he was best known for photographing films such as In Cold Blood, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, American Beauty, and Road to Perdition.

Hall received three Academy Awards for Best Cinematography for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( 1969 ), American Beauty ( 1999 ), and Road to Perdition ( 2002 ) ( the last two directed by friend Sam Mendes, who dedicated Road to Perdition to Hall ).

His Oscar for Road to Perdition ( 2002 ), which is dedicated to Hall, was posthumous and was accepted by his son Conrad W. Hall, also a cinematographer.

* Road to Perdition ( 2002 )

** Road to Perdition – Scott Hecker

He is best known for directing American Beauty ( 1999 ), which earned him the Academy and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, crime film Road to Perdition ( 2002 ), and his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret ( 1994 ), Oliver!

Mendes's second film, in 2002, was Road to Perdition, which grossed US $ 181 million.

She had a brief role as a doomed gangster's wife in Sam Mendes's Road to Perdition ( 2002 ), and co-starred as Meg Ryan's brutally murdered sister in Jane Campion's erotic thriller In the Cut ( 2003 ).

In 2002, he played a mob hitman in Sam Mendes's 1930s period drama Road to Perdition.

Road to Perdition is a 2002 American crime film directed by Sam Mendes.

Hanks was sent a copy of the graphic novel Road to Perdition by Steven Spielberg while he was filming Cast Away ( 2000 ).

When the graphic novel Road to Perdition was written by Max Allan Collins, his agent saw potential in the story as a film adaptation and showed it to a film agent.

DreamWorks sent Mendes Road to Perdition as a prospect.

When Spielberg set up Road to Perdition at DreamWorks, he contacted screenwriter David Self to adapt the graphic novel Road to Perdition by Max Allan Collins into a feature film.

When Marsh called to his aide and the pair rode off down the River Road where the gentians burned blue, Juanita was shaken and trying not to cry.

There was no sign of Mrs. Lauren Payne at her house on Nod Road, Ridgefield, Connecticut.

John Pezza, 69, of 734 Hartford Avenue, Providence, complained of shoulder pains after an accident in which a car he was driving collided with a car driven by Antonio Giorgio, 25, of 12 DeSoto St., Providence, on Greenville Avenue and Cherry Hill Road in Johnston yesterday.

Mr. Giorgio had started to turn left off Greenville Avenue onto Cherry Hill Road when his car was struck by the Pezza car, police said.

The Amber Road was an ancient trade route for the transfer of amber.

Its campus at this time was located along the Salisbury Road, west of Moncton's central business district.

The Bimini Road, a submerged rock formation of large rectangular stones just off North Bimini Island in the Bahamas, was claimed by Robert Ferro and Michael Grumley to be evidence of the lost civilization.

It was built mainly to satisfy public demand for creation of a grade-separated right of way for the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad ( later Long Island Rail Road ) on its way to the South Ferry at the foot of Atlantic Street ( later Atlantic Avenue ), where passengers could catch ferries to Manhattan.

King was a major shareholder in the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad ( later the Long Island Rail Road ) and therefore had a conflict of interest and stood to benefit by the compensation payments to the railroad from the tax assessment.

After the war, the company was refounded at Abingdon Road, Kensington and a new car designed to carry the Aston-Martin name.

Since 1885, when the Duke of Montrose constructed a road over the eastern shoulder of Craigmore to join the older road at the entrance of the Trossachs pass, Aberfoyle has become the alternative route to the Trossachs and Loch Katrine ; this road, known as the Duke's Road or Duke's Pass, was opened to the public in 1931 when the Forestry Commission acquired the land.

Traditionally, Bursa was famous for being the largest center of silk trade in the Byzantine and later the Ottoman empires, during the period of the lucrative Silk Road.

Balsall Heath was agricultural land between Moseley village and the city of Birmingham until the 1850s when expansion along Moseley Road joined the two.

In 1895 the library was opened on Moseley Road and in 1907 Balsall Heath Baths were opened in an adjoining building.

In 1900 the city's College of Art was also opened on Moseley Road.

In July 2005 Balsall Heath was hit by a tornado, which devastated many buildings around Church Road and Ladypool Road.

Cheddar Road was the centre of a red-light district worked by 450 women.

This was a slow process which happened naturally through normal spreading of trade, with the silk and spice trade via the Silk Road being the prime vector.

Fulcher was born in Tranmere Road, Whitton, Middlesex ( now Greater London ), in July 1942.

In The Road To Bloody Sunday, local GP Dr. Raymond McClean estimated the crowd as 15, 000, which is the figure that was used by Bernadette Devlin McAliskey in Parliament.

Most of the inhabitants were descendants of the original Puritan colonists, but there was also a small elite of Anglican " worthies " who were not involved in village life, who made their livings from estates, investments, and trade, and lived in mansions along " the Road to Watertown " ( today's Brattle Street, still known as Tory Row ).

Babbage's birthplace is disputed, but he was most likely born at 44 Crosby Row, Walworth Road, London, England.

Charles was the resident poet on Channel 4's Black on Black ( 1985 ), and its entertainment-based successor, Club Mix ( 1986 ), and appeared, weekly, as a John Cooper Clarke-style ' punk poet ' on the BBC2 pop music programme Oxford Road Show under the name of " Susan Williams ".

DeMille was, however, adept at directing " thousands of extras ", and many of his pictures included spectacular set pieces, such as the parting of the Red Sea in both versions of The Ten Commandments, the toppling of the pagan temple in Samson and Delilah, train wrecks in The Road to Yesterday, Union Pacific and The Greatest Show on Earth, and the destruction of a zeppelin in Madame Satan.