Calvin Acord


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Bound For Glory (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Oklahoma Hills Musician and union activist Ozark (Ronny Cox) rescues new pal Woody Guthrie (David Carradine) as the strike breakers descend on a California farm labor camp, then introduces him to a radio producer (John Lehne), in Hal Ashby's Bound For Glory, 1976.
Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, For Childhood Katie (Dorothy McGuire), Francie (Peggy Ann Garner) and Keeley (Ted Donaldson) Nolan are introduced immediately after the opening credits in Elia Kazan's debut feature, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1945.
Wise Blood (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Jesus Don't Exist! On his first day in Taulkinham (really Macon, Georgia) Hazel Motes (Brad Dourif), with new sidekick Enoch (Dan Shor), confronts preacher Hawks (Harry Dean Stanton) and daughter Lily (Amy Wright), in John Huston's Wise Blood, 1979.
Wise Blood (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Before I Met The Prophet The relatively normal scam-artist preacher Hoover Shoates (Ned Beatty) extends professional courtesy to firebrand Hazel Motes (Brad Dourif), who isn't having any, in Wise Blood, 1979, directed by John Huston from the Flannery O'Connor novel.
Wise Blood (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Gone To Become An Angle Discharged veteran Hazel Motes (Brad Dourif) finds the grave of his grandfather (played by director John Huston), at the family farm, then decides to go to town, early in Wise Blood, 1979, from the Flannery O'Connor novel.
Executive Action (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Lee Harvey Oswald Colby Chester as Tim, part of the Dallas operations team, watching film and coaching James MacColl, who’s been hired to impersonate Lee Harvey Oswald, the designated fall-guy, in the JFK assassination conspiracy thriller Executive Action, 1973, with Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan.
Executive Action (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Much Of This Film Is Fiction Opening credits with unusual content and attribution, from the 1973 John F. Kennedy assassination drama, written by the leading conspiracy theorist Mark Lane, with Donald Freed and Dalton Trumbo, Executive Action, starring Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan and Will Geer.
Executive Action (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Labor, Negroes, Jews, Liberals Robert Ryan, who would die of lung cancer four months before the film was released, is the host, with fellow Hollywood liberals Will Geer, hearing the pitch, and Burt Lancaster in the background, Gilbert Green the professor, with Walter Brooke and John Anderson, opening the JFK-assassination thriller, Executive Action, 1973.
Executive Action (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Our Presidents Are Killed By Madmen Burt Lancaster is Farrington, presumably ex-CIA, taking the lead now in convincing Will Geer, as tycoon Ferguson, to support the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Robert Ryan, Walter Brooke and John Anderson backing him up, in the speculative thriller Executive Action, 1973.

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