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Mannix was an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors. Mannix was the last series produced by Desilu Productions.
During the first season of the series Joe Mannix worked for a large Los Angeles detective agency called Intertect, which was the planned original title of the show. His superior was Lew Wickersham, played by Joseph Campanella with the agency featuring the use of computers to help solve crimes. As opposed to the other employees who must wear dark suits and sit in rows of desks with only one piece of paper allowed to be on their desk at one time, Mannix belongs to the classic American detective archetype and thus usually ignores the computers' solutions, disobeys his boss's orders and sets out to do things his own way. He wears plaid sport coats and has his own office that he keeps sloppy between his assignments. Lew has cameras in all the rooms of Intertect monitoring the performance of his employees and providing instant feedback through intercoms in the room. Unlike the other Intertect operatives, Mannix attempts to block the camera with a coat rack and insults Lew, comparing him to Big Brother.
Jerry Fielding (June 17, 1922 – February 17, 1980) was an American radio, record, film and television composer, conductor, and musical director.
Jerry Fielding was born as Joshua Itzhak Feldman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Hiram Harris Feldman and Esther Feldman. After trying the trombone, he took up the clarinet and joined the school band. He was offered a scholarship to the Carnegie Institute for Instrumentalists. After a short attendance, because of ill health he was bedridden for two years with an undiagnosed ailment. While housebound, he listened to the radio, and became a fan of the big band sound and Bernard Herrmann’s music for Orson Welles’s radio dramas.
Somewhat recuperated, he worked at Pittsburgh’s Stanley Theater. He worked with Max Atkins (the pit orchestra conductor at the Stanley) who taught him composition and arranging. At the age of seventeen, he left Pittsburgh to work for Alvino Rey’s swing band. His arrangement of Picnic in Purgatory in 1940 became highly popular.
Actors: Will Smith (actor), Tommy Lee Jones (actor), David Rasche (actor), Bill Hader (actor), Tim Burton (actor), Raymond Mamrak (actor), Raymond Mamrak (actor), Justin Bieber (actor), David Cohen (actor), Rick Baker (actor), Will Arnett (actor), Josh Brolin (actor), Ken Arnold (actor), Rip Torn (actor), Barry Sonnenfeld (actor),
Plot: After breaking out of a moon-based maximum security prison, Boris the Animal decides to go back in time and eliminate the person who arrested him - Agent K. When he does so, Agent J realizes that the time line has been changed and he too travels back to July 15, 1969, the day before Agent K is killed. After overcoming some disbelief, J manages to convince K and others of just who he is and why he's there. With the help of a being who can see all time lines, they track Boris down. J also learns a secret, something K had never told him.
Keywords: 1960s, 1960s-spirit, 2010s, 20th-century, 21st-century, 3-dimensional, 3d, 3d-sequel-to-2d-film, actor-talks-to-audience, alienActors: Stacey T. Gillespie (actor), Claude Miles (actor), Russ Croley (actor), Billy W. Blackwell (actor), Gregory W. Brock (actor), Logan Fry (actor), James Tackett (actor), Steve Guynn (actor), George Bonilla (director), George Bonilla (editor), George Bonilla (writer), Dave Haney (actor), Todd Burrows (producer), Jeff Mitchell (actor), Frank Santoroski (producer),
Genres: Horror,Actors: Peter Mullan (actor), David O'Hara (actor), Kirsten Sheridan (director), Kirsten Sheridan (producer), Kirsten Sheridan (writer), Sibel Kekilli (actress), Sonya Gildea (writer), Sonya Gildea (producer), Anthony Kavanagh (writer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Andrew Jack (miscellaneous crew), Ryan Robertson (miscellaneous crew), Mark Mancina (composer), Marian Seldes (actress), Robert Greenhut (producer), Jessica Lichtner (miscellaneous crew), Mykelti Williamson (actor), Greg Nutcher (actor), Ronald Guttman (actor), William Sadler (actor), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (actor), Robin Williams (actor), Terrence Howard (actor), Jennifer Scott (miscellaneous crew), Howard Samuelsohn (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: This is a story of a music prodigy. Lyla is a renowned and beautiful cellist and Louis is a guitar player and vocalist at a club. Lyla and Louis fall in love once they meet each other following the music. Since they have different lives, they have to separate without seeing each other again. However, Lyla has had their baby - Evan, a prodigy born to music. Lyla has an accident and bears the baby but Lyla's father gives the baby to an orphanage without telling her, for fear of affecting her career. After that, both Louis and Lyla give up their music careers. Eleven years later, poor little Evan believes that his parents are waiting for him and goes to New York to find them. In New York, his musical gift leads him to success but also gives him some trouble. A monger uses Evan to make money and prevents him from achieving success. He escapes and runs into a church and people there are surprised by his gift and send him to the best music school, Juilliard. There he receives an education where his genius is recognized, and he creates his composition - August Rhapsody in C major. At the same time, Lyla and Louis both begin to play music again and Louis returns to New York. Because of his perfect performance, Evan is granted an opportunity to play his music in Central Park in front of thousands of people. There are three composers featured, of which he is the last; his mother is the cellist in the preceding performance. As Evan is conducting the orchestra in his rhapsody, Lyla and Louis come to the concert following the music again. The family finally get together!
Keywords: 1980s, abandoned-theatre, absent-father, absent-mother, african-american, baby, band, basketball, beer, biological-motherActors: Johnny Knoxville (actor), Martin Klebba (actor), Johnny Knoxville (actor), Jack Kehler (actor), Peter Graves (actor), Michael Jackson (actor), Doug Jones (actor), Jay Johnston (actor), Tommy Lee Jones (actor), David Cross (actor), Rick Baker (actor), Kevin Grevioux (actor), Nick Cannon (actor), Derek Mears (actor), Gene LeBell (actor),
Plot: Kay and Jay reunite to provide our best, last and only line of defense against a sinister seductress who levels the toughest challenge yet to the MIBs untarnished mission statement: protecting the earth from the scum of the universe. It's been four years since the alien-seeking agents averted an intergalactic disaster of epic proportions. And now it's a race against the clock as Jay must convince Kay-who not only has absolutely no memory of his time spent with the Men In Black, but is also the only living person left with the expertise to save the galaxy-to reunite with the MIB before the earth submits to ultimate destruction.
Keywords: 1970s, 2000s, 20th-century, 21st-century, alien, alien-civilization, alien-contact, alien-creature, alien-intelligence, alien-invasionActors: Billy Drago (actor), Frank Zagarino (actor), Luca Bercovici (director), Ed Baran (miscellaneous crew), Mike Tristano (miscellaneous crew), James Bradford Sivils (miscellaneous crew), Shae D'lyn (actress), Barnet Bain (producer), Charlie Spradling (actress), Merle Kennedy (actress), Shannon Sturges (actress), Michole Briana White (actress), Paul Eyres (producer), Julie Anne Adams (miscellaneous crew), Tawny Fere (actress),
Plot: A spaceship with an all female crew runs into a meteor field because of a navigational mistake. They lose a lot of their fuel and realise they cant get home on what they've got. They are forced to land on a planet which has been reformed into one of the most dangerous penal colonies in the universe in order to refuel. Once there they realise only two men are left on the planet and they are engaged in hand to hand combat. The women cant figure out which one of the men is the officer and which one has systematically slaughtered the rest of the inmates. One by one each of the women is killed. Just who is Convict 762?
Keywords: independent-film, spaceActors: Charles 'Bud' Tingwell (actor), Grant Taylor (actor), John Fegan (actor), Sydney John Kay (composer), Cecil Holmes (director), John Unicomb (actor), Margaret Cardin (editor), Harp McGuire (actor), Rosemary Miller (actress), Jean Blue (actress), John Wiltshire (producer), Creswick Jenkinson (writer),
Genres: Adventure,