Jack Smight
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The director who struck gold with such 1970s box-office hits as Airport 1975 (1974) and Midway, Jack Smight's story is an example of a man utilizing his true-life experiences to craft a successful film career, with his wartime experiences offering... more
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Cast: Jack Smight F. Murray Abraham Maud Adams   
Tags: Docudrama Drama 
Length: 104min
Based on a true story, this drama stars Amber O'Shea as Aimee Dubuca De Rivery, a French girl sold into slavery, where she is purchased by the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

Number One with a Bullet (1987)
Cast: Peter Graves Robert Carradine Billy Dee Williams Jack Smight Mykelti Williamson   
Tags: Drama Crime Police Detective Film 
Length: 103min
Detective Berzak (Robert Carradine) and his suave partner Hazeltine (Billy Dee Williams) combine forces to track down a notorious drug lord in this routine action feature. Captain Ferris (Peter Graves) monitors the progress of the decidedly different...

Cast: Laurence Fishburne Jack Smight Bert Remsen Gabe Kaplan Stephen Friedman   
Tags: Comedy Sports Drama Sports Comedy 
Length: 107min
Hot on the heels of his Welcome Back Kotter success, Gabe Kaplan starred in this hastily assembled theatrical feature. Kaplan plays David Greene, the coach of a Nevada collegiate basketball team. Inasmuch as the local talent is pretty pathetic, Greene...

Holocaust Survivors... Remembrance of Love (1983)
Cast: Kirk Douglas Jack Smight Pam Dawber   
Tags: Romantic Drama Romance 
Length: 100min
In this made-for-television drama, a widower travels to Israel for the 1981 World Gathering of Holocaust Survivors in order to search for the woman he once loved when they were interred in a Nazi concentration camp. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

Cast: Shirley MacLaine Susan Sarandon James Coburn Jack Smight Stephen Collins   
Tags: Sex Comedy Comedy 
Length: 120min
Susan Sarandon gives a sprightly performance in this sex farce involving couples swapping mates. Shirley MacLaine is Evelyn, a doctor, who is spending some quality time horseback riding when she is spotted by Greg (Stephen Collins), who is driving his...

Cast: Jerry Goldsmith George Peppard Dominique Sanda Paul Winfield Jack Smight   
Tags: Road Movie Sci-Fi Disaster Film Action Adventure Science Fiction 
Length: 95min
A small but hardy band of survivors traverses a post-apocalypse American landscape in this sci-fi hriller. A horrific nuclear assault leaves only three survivors at an underground military facility, so Tanner (Jan-Michael Vincent), Denton (George...

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1978)
Cast: Jack Smight Morgan Freeman Fred Karlin Janet MacLachlan Claudia McNeil   
Tags: Drama Family Drama 
Length: 110min
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry was a TV pilot film in the form of a three-part miniseries. Set in 1933 Mississippi, the story focuses on the Logans, a closely knit, fiercely independent African-American family. In Part One, the Logans spearhead a...

Frankenstein: The True Story (1973)
Cast: James Mason John Gielgud Michael Sarrazin Jack Smight Ralph Richardson   
Tags: Period Film Costume Horror Science Fiction Horror Sci-Fi Horror 
Length: 200min
Per its title, Jack Smight's Frankenstein: The True Story, strives for greater faithfulness to Mary Shelley's novel than prior versions. Thus, as in the book, Dr. Frankenstein's (Leonard Whiting) creation is no monster, but a handsome young man of...

Cast: Myrna Loy Charlton Heston Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. Gloria Swanson George Kennedy   
Tags: Disaster Film Action Drama Ensemble Film 
Length: 106min
In the wake of the 45-million-dollar gross of the original Airport (1970), Universal was all but required by an act of Congress to produce Airport '75. Charlton Heston heads the all-star cast as Alan Murdock, the former test pilot who must keep a...

Cast: Henry Fonda James Coburn Charlton Heston Robert Mitchum Toshiro Mifune   
Tags: Combat Films War Epic War 
Length: 132min
An expensive war epic, Midway emulates The Longest Day and Tora! Tora! Tora! in attempting to re-create a famous World War II battle from both the American and Japanese viewpoints. The 1942 battle of Midway was the turning point of the War in the...

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