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Medicine Man is a 1992 American film directed by John McTiernan. The film stars Sean Connery and Lorraine Bracco. It also features a noteworthy score by composer Jerry Goldsmith.
A pharmaceutical company sends biochemist Dr. Rae Crane into the Amazonian Rainforest to check on Dr. Robert Campbell after he cuts off outside contact, his wife and research partner having left him.
Crane is bringing supplies (everything from golf balls to a gas chromatograph), but Campbell is upset that he was not given the research partner he had requested. He tries to send her home but Crane dismisses Campbell's attempts to spurn her, as her job is to evaluate whether the company should continue funding his research.
Campbell reveals to her shock that he has found a cure for cancer, but that subsequent attempts to recreate the formula have failed.They wondered why peak 37 is not seen in the chromatograph. With the initial successful serum running dangerously low, Campbell has isolated a mysterious chemical compound connected to a species of flower and with Crane's help is determined to find its source.
Keywords: african-american, asian-american, children, coming-of-age, disability, hispanic, latino, native-american, nature, spiritual
Actors: Chaz Smith (actor), Aidan Quinn (actor), John Malkovich (actor), Michael Papajohn (actor), Elton LeBlanc (actor), Michael Shannon (actor), Josh Brolin (actor), David Jensen (actor), Will Arnett (actor), John McConnell (actor), J.D. Evermore (actor), Rance Howard (actor), Michael Fassbender (actor), Samantha Inoue Harte (actress), Samantha Inoue Harte (actress),
Plot: During Grant's presidency, Jonah Hex is a remorseless bounty hunter. In the Civil War, he was a rebel whose honor put him afoul of a Confederate general, Quentin Turnbull, who murdered Jonah's family while Jonah watched. As a result of the ordeal, Jonah's face is disfigured and he can talk with the dead. After staging his own death, Turnbull, with a group of rebel stalwarts, hatches a plan to bring the Union to its knees. Grant wants Hex to stop it. While the nation readies to celebrate Independence Day, Hex and an unlikely ally have little time to stop Turnbull and his weapon of mass destruction.
Keywords: 1800s, 1870s, 19th-century, action-hero, american-civil-war, american-flag, animal-attack, animated-sequence, anti-hero, arsenalActors: Page Ostrow (producer), Chris Eyre (producer), Marc Linn (editor), Marc Linn (producer), Michael Linn (producer), Michael Linn (composer), Michael Linn (editor), Michael Linn (director), Michael Linn (writer), Michael Spears (actor), Tonantzin Carmelo (actress), Tokala Clifford (actor), Alec Morgan (actor), Eric Linn (producer), Larry T. Pourier (producer),
Plot: Shayla Stonefeather, a Native American attorney prosecuting a Lakota teen in a controversial murder trial, returns to the reservation to say goodbye to her dying father. After the teen is killed, she hears ghostly voices and sees strange visions that cause her to re-examine beliefs she thought she left behind.
Keywords: airport, american-indian, barn, charcoal-drawing, dream, dying-father, funeral, ghost, graffiti, horseActors: Michel Piccoli (actor), Honoré de Balzac (writer), José Nieto (composer), Nicolas Gaster (editor), Jamil Dehlavi (producer), Stuart St. Paul (miscellaneous crew), Alton Walpole (producer), Puneet Sira (miscellaneous crew), Ben Daniels (actor), Kenneth Collard (actor), Jane Jackson (miscellaneous crew), Gerard Naprous (miscellaneous crew), Daniel Naprous (miscellaneous crew), Shuna Harwood (costume designer), Luis Miguel Cobo (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Napoleon sent de Paradis to record Egypt's great monuments and temples that are destroyed by French soldiers in acts of barbarism. During combat, Augustin and Jean-Michel are separated from their regiment, and they start wandering through the desert fighting for their life. In one of the canyons Augustin meets a leopard he names Simoom and a strange bond between them appears.
Keywords: 1790s, animal, animal-attack, ant, antelope, arab, arm-amputation, army, army-officer, artistActors: Burton Sharp (miscellaneous crew), C. Ransom Walrod (miscellaneous crew), Don Carmody (producer), Joel McNeely (composer), Julian Richings (actor), Paul Dupont (miscellaneous crew), Alex Norton (actor), Stuart Pankin (actor), Don Carmody (actor), Michael Gambon (actor), Adam Beach (actor), Mark Margolis (actor), Mandy Patinkin (actor), E. Andrew Pecs (miscellaneous crew), John Dunn-Hill (actor),
Plot: Squanto is a high-born Indian warrior from a tribe on the Atlantic coast of North America which devotes its life to hunting and rivalry with a neighboring tribe. Everything changes forever after a ship arrives from England, prospecting the region's commercial potential for the rich Sir George, who uses all his wealth and influence only for ever greater profit. When it returns, several Indians find themselves captives on board, including Squanto. The arrogant Christians consider themselves utterly superior to the 'heathen savages' and treat them as brutally as they do beasts. Squanto fights a bear in a circus, not understanding how men can be so cruel to that creature either, and manages a spectacular escape, but where must he go? He finds shelter and help in a rural monastery, where it takes his protector some effort to prevent the others considering the unknown as diabolical. In time sir George's men come looking for him most brutally, but he escapes again, now determined to find a way back home, across the ocean...
Keywords: 1620s, abduction, american-indian, arena-theatre, arrowhead, arson, atlantic-ocean, barter, battle, beachActors: Richard Hale (actor), Kenner G. Kemp (actor), Frank Gerstle (actor), James Griffith (actor), Willis Bouchey (actor), Danny Borzage (actor), Rodolfo Acosta (actor), Charles Bronson (actor), Anthony Caruso (actor), Elisha Cook Jr. (actor), Richard H. Cutting (actor), Oliver Blake (actor), Frank DeKova (actor), Frank Ferguson (actor), Alan Ladd (actor),
Plot: President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy Meek to the home of her aunt and uncle. After Modoc renegade Captain Jack engages in ambush and other atrocities, MacKay must fight him one-on-one with guns, knives and fists.
Keywords: ambush, american-indian, american-president, based-on-true-story, battle, battlefield, bow-and-arrow, captain, carbine, cliffActors: Crane Whitley (actor), Charles Soldani (actor), Anne Bancroft (actress), Paul Bryar (actor), Alphonse Martell (actor), House Peters (actor), Cornel Wilde (actor), Robert Blake (actor), Leo G. Carroll (actor), Tudor Owen (actor), Harry Cording (actor), Ernest Borgnine (actor), Finlay Currie (actor), George Macready (actor), Edna Holland (actress),
Plot: Jean-Paul rebels against his bondage to his uncle, the Marquis de St. Malo, and journeys to the far-off Mayan hills of Guatemala seeking a hidden treasure. He is the rightful heir to his uncle's title and lands, and goes to Guatemala to win his fortune and come back and claim his heritage.
Keywords: 18th-century, based-on-novel, bondage, cave, central-america, condor, deceit, fortune, france, frenchmanActors: Art Miles (actor), Jerry Frank (actor), Ted Mapes (actor), Tom Chatterton (actor), Bruce Bennett (actor), Art Felix (actor), Noble Johnson (actor), Bruce Bennett (actor), Chief John Big Tree (actor), Iron Eyes Cody (actor), Monte Blue (actor), James Dime (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), George Eldredge (actor), George Montgomery (actor),
Genres: Adventure,Actors: Reed Howes (actor), Herman Hack (actor), Chief John Big Tree (actor), Iron Eyes Cody (actor), Budd Buster (actor), Ted Adams (actor), Creighton Hale (actor), Ken Cooper (actor), William Desmond (actor), Ted Adams (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), William Farnum (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Barney Furey (actor), Walter James (actor),
Plot: A mystical medicine arrow, the key to a lost gold treasure, is lost in one of many Indian attacks. It is recovered by the only two survivors, a Major and his daughter, who become the targets of those who wish to possess it. General George Armstrong Custer and army scout Kid Cardigan attempt to stop the ensuing war over the arrow, but fail in their efforts, which becomes the historic Custer's Last Stand. Many historical figures and western stars of the time appeared in cameos in the feature, including Calamity Jane (Helen Gibson), Elizabeth Custer (Ruth Mix), Buffalo Bill Cody (Ted Adams), Sitting Bull (Howling Wolf), Wild Bill Hickock (Allen Greer), Chief Crazy Horse (High Eagle). A fun, if not historically accurate, wild western tale.
Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, archive-footage, battle-of-little-big-horn, character-name-in-title, corporal, epic-battle, feature-version-of-serial, indian-war, lieutenant, main-character-diesActors: George C. Hull (writer), Lawford Davidson (actor), Clarence Geldart (actor), Tim McCoy (actor), Frank Rice (actor), Chief John Big Tree (actor), William LeVanway (editor), Harry Sinclair Drago (writer), Lucia Coulter (costume designer), Ward Wing (writer), John Waters (director), Edward J. Meagher (writer), Dorothy King (actress),
Genres: Western,Actors: Joseph Singleton (actor), Red Wing (actress), William Elmer (actor), Edgar Lewis (actor), Gordon Sackville (actor), Slim Whitaker (actor), Fred Montague (actor), Art Acord (actor), Hal Roach (actor), Cecil B. DeMille (actor), Tex Driscoll (actor), Raymond Hatton (actor), Dick La Reno (actor), Jesse L. Lasky (producer), Cecil B. DeMille (producer),
Plot: Captain Wynnegate leaves England, accepting the blame for embezzling charity funds though knowing that his cousin Sir Henry is guilty. Out West he and the Indian girl Nat-U-Rich save each other from the evil cattle rustler Cash Hawkins and marry. Lady Diana shows up to announce Sir Henry's death. After Nat-U-Rich's suicide Wynnegate takes his half-breed son and Lady Diana back to England as the new Earl of Kerhill.
Keywords: accidental-death, alcoholic, alps, aunt, based-on-play, chivalry, confession-of-crime, constable, cousin-cousin-relationship, drunken-indian