Franklin Schaffner
1) Patton
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Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Description
Story of General Patton in World War II whose military brilliance was balanced by his inability to deal with the social and political aspects of war, causing him difficulties in his dealings with the War Department.
2) Papillon
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005, ©1973.
Description
Thrilling adventure of imprisonment and escape(s) from a French Guiana prison.
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Barry Kohler, a young Nazi hunter, tracks down a group of former SS officers meeting in Paraguay in the late 1970s. The Nazis, led by Dr. Mengele (Gregory Peck), are planning something. Old Nazi hunter, Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier in an Academy Award-nominated performance), is at first uninterested in Kohler's findings. But when he is told something of their plan, he is eager to find out more. Lieberman visits several homes in Europe and the...
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Academy Award winner Yul Brenner stars in this taut espionage thriller as a CIA agent lured to the Austrian Alps by the death of his teenage son... only discover that the death was not an accident, but part of a diabolical plot to replace him inside the CIA with a surgically altered Soviet agent-The Double Man.
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War. Freedom. Loyalty. Love. Manhood. Ernest Hemingway's most powerful themes are gloriously captured in Islands In The Stream. George C. Scott and director Franklin J. Shaffner, who teamed so memorably in Patton, reunite in this compelling version of "Papa" Hemingway's posthumous novel. Scott plays Thomas Hudson, a sculptor whose self-imposed isolation in the Bahamas is ended by two forces: the visit of his sons...and the outbreak of World War II....