Howard Sackler - Turner Classic Movies

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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1961)

English adapt & Director

Saint Jack (1979)

The Great White Hope (1970)

Fear and Desire (1953)

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Saint Jack (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Always A Good Investment

Saint Jack (1979) -- (Movie Clip) No No, Kong Hong!

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Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1961)

English adapt & Director

Writer (Feature Film)

Saint Jack (1979)

The Great White Hope (1970)

Fear and Desire (1953)

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Saint Jack (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Always A Good Investment Opening with a pan mighty close to 360 degrees, director Peter Bogdanovich, back in the orbit of old friend producer Roger Corman, buys himself a big slice of Singapore, and introduces Ben Gazzara as the title character and his relations with gofer Gopi (Joseph Noël), in Saint Jack, 1979, from Paul Theroux’s novel and screenplay with Bogdanovich and Howard Sackler.

Saint Jack (1979) -- (Movie Clip) No No, Kong Hong! Ben Gazzara (title character who, we’re learning, is an honest pimp with a cleaner legit job) entertains Hong Kong businessman Leigh (Denholm Elliott) with a visit to his Singapore Brit barfly friends, Joss Ackland, James Villiers (as voluble Froggett), Rodney Bewes and Mark Kingston, in Peter Bogdanovich’s Saint Jack, 1979.

Saint Jack (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Good Lover Bad Husband Ben Gazzara (the title character, a benevolent American ex-pat pimp in Singapore) takes care of an older friend helping him finance his own new brothel, then has an interview with a prospective professional (Monika Subramanian), in Peter Bogdanovich’s Saint Jack, 1979, with the popular Louis Armstrong recording of Oscar Peterson’s “Basin Street Blues.”

Saint Jack (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Nothing To Do With The Animal At the Singapore airport Ben Gazzara (title character), executing an errand for his Chinese businessman boss, works his contacts and picks up English Leigh (Denholm Elliott), Andrew Chua driving the cab, Peter Bogdanovich directing from the script he co-wrote with novelist Paul Theroux and Howard Sackler, in Saint Jack, 1979.

Jaws 2 (1978) -- (Movie Clip) -- The Bites Are Big After we’ve seen two shark attack scenes, Chief Brody (Roy Scheider), who’s the only one suspicious so far, brings Dr. Elkins (Collin Wilcox Paxton) to see the killer whale that the kids, including his son Mike (Mark Gruner), found on Amity Island, in the sequel Jaws 2, 1978.

Jaws 2 (1978) -- (Movie Clip) -- Get Out Of The Water! While his wife (Lorraine Gary) who works for developer Peterson (Joseph Mascolo), and the mayor (Murray Hamilton) are showing the beach to prospective buyers, Brody (Roy Scheider), haunted by the last movie and suspecting a shark, overreacts to a shadow in the water, in the sequel Jaws 2, 1978.

Jaws 2 (1978) -- (Movie Clip) -- Everything Is Next Week We viewers know well that there’s another shark in the waters off Amity Island, but there’s no public alarm, as teens Tina and Ed (Ann Dusenberry, Gary Dubin) just miss seeing what really happens to a water-skier and her driver (Jean Coulter), in the sequel Jaws 2, 1978.

Great White Hope, The (1970) -- (Movie Clip) When They Start Hating You More Than That First scene for James Earl Jones as boxer Jack Jefferson, modeled on the real Jack Johnson, and Jane Alexander, in her first movie, as his girlfriend Eleanor, reprising their stage roles, Lou Gilbert as manager Goldie, Joel Fluellen trainer Tick, with crude language, in The Great White Hope, 1970.

Killer's Kiss (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Flashback Having just been rescued by neighbor Davey (Jamie Smith), Gloria (Irene Kane) recounts her assault by gangster Vince (Frank Silvera) in Stanley Kubrick's 1955 thriller Killer's Kiss.

Fear And Desire (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Tell The General! As "The General" (Kenneth Harp) and Mac (Frank Silvera) work on the escape boat, Sidney (Paul Mazursky) grows lecherous guarding the captured girl (Virginia Leith), all stuck behind enemy lines in a nameless war, in Stanley Kubrick's first feature Fear And Desire, 1953.

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