Maximilian Raoul "Max" Steiner (May 10, 1888 – December 28, 1971) was an Austrian-born American composer of music for theatre and films. He was a child prodigy who conducted his first operetta when he was twelve and became a full-time professional, either composing, arranging or conducting, when he was fifteen.
He worked in England, then Broadway, and moved to Hollywood in 1929 where he became one of the first composers to write music scores for films. Steiner is referred to as "the father of film music" and is considered one of the greatest film score composers in the history of cinema. Along with such composers as Dimitri Tiomkin, Franz Waxman, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alfred Newman, Bernard Herrmann, and Miklós Rózsa, Steiner played a major part in creating the tradition of writing music for films.
Steiner composed over 300 film scores with RKO and Warner Brothers, and was nominated for 24 Academy Awards, winning three: The Informer (1935), Now, Voyager (1942), and Since You Went Away (1944). Besides his Oscar-winning scores, some of Steiner's popular works include King Kong (1933), Little Women (1933), Jezebel (1938), Casablanca (1942), The Searchers (1956), A Summer Place (1959), and the film score for which he is possibly best known, Gone with the Wind (1939).
Actors: Bruno F. Apitz (actor), Karl Kranzkowski (actor), Stefan Gärtner (producer), Herbert Knaup (actor), Jan-Gregor Kremp (actor), Frederick Lau (actor), Matthias Koeberlin (actor), Henning Peker (actor), Matthias Brenner (actor), David C. Bunners (actor), René Schönenberger (actor), Franz Dinda (actor), Christian Rohde (producer), Inka Friedrich (actress), Sergej Moya (actor),
Plot: East-Germany, 1984: Frank Korbach is looking forward to attending drama school, while his rebellious best friend Thomas is refusing to do military service. Together with the adventurous but naive Alex, Thomas plans to make a desperate attempt to escape to the West. Knowing that he might never see them again, Frank accompanies Thomas and Alex to the frontier. Suddenly, they are confronted by a special unit of the Stasi, the East German secret police. Although the boys manage to avoid capture, Frank's old life is gone forever - he has now become a fugitive. Frank's father Kurt Korbach is stunned by the escape. Unknown to his son, Kurt is a Major in the Stasi. Convinced that Frank is innocent, he persuades his superiors that he alone can bring his son back. Together with the suspicious Colonel Frey - a time bomb waiting to explode - Kurt sets off to track down the runaway boys.
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama,Actors: Horst Buchholz (actor), James Faulkner (actor), Andrew L. Stone (producer), Rossano Brazzi (actor), Andrew L. Stone (writer), Andrew L. Stone (director), Guido Wieland (actor), Nigel Patrick (actor), Helmut Janatsch (actor), Willard Parker (actor), Marty Allen (actor), Ernest Walter (editor), Yvonne Mitchell (actress), Trudy von Trotha (miscellaneous crew), Paola Loew (actress),
Genres: Biography, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance,Actors: Kay Walsh (actress), Charles Regnier (actor), Christiane Maybach (actress), Judi Dench (actress), Frank Finlay (actor), Anthony Quayle (actor), Peter Carsten (actor), Donald Houston (actor), Corin Redgrave (actor), Jeremy Lloyd (actor), Robert Morley (actor), John Neville (actor), Herman Cohen (actor), Barbara Windsor (actress), Cecil Parker (actor),
Plot: When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start its merciless method of elimination after observation of every apparently meaningless detail. He guesses right the victims must be street whores, and doesn't need long to work his way trough a pawn shop, an aristocratic family's stately home, a hospital and of course the potential suspects and (even unknowing) witnesses who are the cast of the gradually unraveled story of the murderer and his motive.
Keywords: 1880s, 19th-century, abattoir, alternative-history, aristocrat, based-on-novel, blackmail, british-mystery, brothel, burning-houseActors: Henry Kulky (actor), Colin Kenny (actor), Richard Anderson (actor), Edward Binns (actor), Peter Brocco (actor), Kenner G. Kemp (actor), Russ Bender (actor), Harry Carter (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Frank Conroy (actor), Bradford Dillman (actor), Ben Frommer (actor), Wilton Graff (actor), Robert Burton (actor), Mike Lally (actor),
Plot: In 1924 Chicago, Artie Strauss and Judd Steiner are friends and fellow law students who both come from wealthy backgrounds. They have few true friends as they believe all their contemporaries are intellectually inferior. Within their relationship, Artie is the dominant and Judd the submissive who says he will do whatever Artie tells him. Although Judd acts intellectually arrogant to others, he also shows signs of weakness and reticence most evident to Artie. Part of their goal in life is to experience how it feels to do everything. As such, they plot to commit what they consider the perfect crime - a kidnapping and murder - not only so that they can experience the sense of killing for killing's sake, but also taunt the law with the knowledge of it and their superiority after the fact. They believe their crime is above the law. Their murder of young Paulie Kessler is not so perfect, with evidence at the scene uncovered by one of their law school colleagues, Sid Brooks, who also works for the Globe newspaper. As Artie and Judd try to manipulate their way out of how the evidence may implicate them, their manipulation ultimately backfires and they are charged with the murder. The most famed trial lawyer in town, Jonathan Wilk, is hired to defend the pair despite his atheism being against the families' sensibilities. Jonathan, renowned for his ability to manipulate juries, has to decide how best to defend his clients in the overwhelming face of evidence against them. The testimony of Ruth Evans, Sid's girlfriend, may have some impact on the trial's outcome.
Keywords: 1920s, alibi, attempted-rape, based-on-novel, based-on-play, capital-punishment, child-murder, clarence-darrow, college-professor, college-student