Jesse Adelman - Turner Classic Movies

Filmography

Read More

Photos & Videos

View All

Super Cops, The (1974) -- (Movie Clip) Instruments Of Death

Escape From Alcatraz (1979) -- (Original Trailer)

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Life Events

Videos

Super Cops, The (1974) -- (Movie Clip) Instruments Of Death Opening featuring news footage of the real life heroes (David Greenberg, Robert Hantz), director Gordon Parks introduces leads Ron Leibman and David Selby taking their oath, in The Super Cops, 1974.

Brief History Of Time, A (1992) -- (Movie Clip) Which Came First? Opening with narration from the author and subject Stephen Hawking, then his mother Isobel, in Errol Morris’ acclaimed documentary made for British TV, A Brief History Of Time, 1992.

Brief History Of Time, A (1992) -- (Movie Clip) Before The 20th Century Physicist Stephen Hawking, subject of the documentary and writer of the book on which it’s based, narrates an early segment using his voice synthesizer, with further comments from his sister Mary, mother Isobel, and family friend Basil King, in Errol Morris’ A Brief History Of Time, 1992.

Babette's Feast (1987) -- (Movie Clip) The Two Sisters Had A French Maid Danish-born French director Gabriel Axel's opening to his 1987 adaptation of the story by Danish writer Isak Dinesen, introducing sisters Martine (Birgitte Federspiel) and Filippa (Bodil Kjer) and their maid, the title character, Stephane Audran, opening Babette's Feast, 1987.

Two Rode Together (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Guthrie McCabe Introducing James Stewart as the evidently legendary "Guthrie McCabe," and his army pal Richard Widmark as "Jim Gary," arriving in not-fictional Tascosa, with Andy Devine, opening John Ford's Two Rode Together, 1961, from a Will Cook novel.

Champagne Murders, The (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Why Should People Have To Answer Bells? Vineyard owner Christine (Yvonne Furneaux) gives a tour to her buyers (Henry Jones lawyering for George Skaff), who are concerned that she doesn’t own the name, Stephane Audran her assistant, Maurice Ronet the playboy friend who does own it, Anthony Perkins her quirky husband, in Claude Chabrol’s The Champagne Murders, 1967.

Escape From Alcatraz (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Rotten Eggs The warden (Patrick McGoohan) delivers his well-practiced welcome speech to mostly non-responsive new inmate Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood), in an early scene from director Don Siegel's Escape From Alcatraz, 1979.

Escape From Alcatraz (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Welcome To Alcatraz Clint Eastwood (as inmate Frank Morris) gets checked in old-style at "The Rock," one of many hypnotic location sequences by director Don Siegel in the 1979 hit Escape From Alcatraz.

Escape From Alcatraz (1979) -- (Movie Clip) King Of The Mountain New inmate Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood) crosses racial lines and uses nasty language, visiting his powerful new friend English (Paul Benjamin), in an early scene from director Don Siegel's Escape From Alcatraz, 1979.

Stage Fright (1950) -- (Movie Clip) You And Captain Kidd Aspiring actress Eve (Jane Wyman) with her somewhat dissolute sailor father (Alistair Sim), to whom she's fled with almost-boyfriend Jonathan (Richard Todd), a possible suspect in his lover's husband's murder, in Hitchcock's Stage Fright, 1950.

Persuasion (1995) -- (Movie Clip) You Must Retrench Director Roger Michell cuts between events opening his adaptation of Jane Austen’s last novel, the end of the Napoleonic wars for Admiral Croft (John Woodvine), and Sir Walter (Corin Redgrave) being advised (finally by Susan Fleetwood as Lady Russell) to rent out his estate, in Persuasion, 1995.

Les Cousins (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Go Learn To Read Paris party mayhem from New Wave pioneer Claude Chabrol, blonde Francoise is the director's wife Stephane Audran, as visiting Charles (Gerard Blain) and cousin Paul (Jean-Claude Brialy) are more interested in ethereal Florence (Juliette Mayniel) than a boozy Italian count (Corrado Guarducci), in Les Cousins, 1959.

Escape From Alcatraz (1979) -- (Original Trailer) Original trailer for the last collaboration between director Don Siegel and star Clint Eastwood, the 1979 hit Escape From Alcatraz, with Fred Ward, Jack Thibeau and Patrick McGoohan.

Enter The Dragon - (Original Trailer) Three agents (Bruce Lee, Jim Kelly, John Saxon) go after an international super-villain in the martial-arts spectacular Enter The Dragon (1973).

Bibliography

By using this site, you agree to our updated Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use