Jack Smight

Jack Smight

Total Credits at Criticker: 27 (Director)

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    Midway
    A dramatization of the battle that turned out to be the turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II. (imdb)
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    The Secret War of Harry Frigg
    When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WW II, it is a propaganda nightmare for the Allies. The generals are all 1 star and refuse to take orders from each other in order to plan an escape. Harry Frigg is a private who has escaped from the guard house dozens of times. He is promoted to Major General (2 stars) and ordered to get the generals out once he is captured. Harry is willing to escape, but then he meets the countess ... (imdb)
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    Frankenstein: The True Story
    A more psychological telling of the Mary Shelley story has a different kind of monster... (imdb)
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    The Illustrated Man
    A man, whose body is almost completely covered in tattoos, is looking for the woman who drew all the intricate designs on him. Each tattoo hides a futuristic story, which you experience when you stare at it. (imdb)
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    Harper
    Paul Newman IS Harper, a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby (Lauren Bacall) hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring. (imdb)
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    Kaleidoscope
    An American playboy/card-shark is forced to capture a narcotics smuggler or go to jail. (Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide)
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    Columbo
    Columbo (1971) - TV Series
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    Airport 1975
    A 747 in flight collides with a small plane, and is rendered pilotless. Somehow the control tower must get a pilot aboard so the jet can land. (IMDb)
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    Damnation Alley
    A small group of survivors at a military installation who survived World War 3 attempt to drive across the desolate wasteland to where they hope more survivors are living. Hopefully their specially built vehicles will protect them against the freakish weather mutated plant and animal life and other dangers along the way. (imdb)
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    No Way to Treat a Lady
    A crafty serial killer plays a game of cat-and-mouse with a harried police detective trying to track him down. (imdb)
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    I\
    An updated remake of It Started With Eve (1941). A young heiress is summoned to the bedside of her dying grandfather. The man's last wish is to meet her fiancée, but problems arise when the fiancée is delayed and a young chemical engineer is persuaded to take his place. When the grandfather suddenly (and secretly) recovers, he uses the situation to his advantage - playing matchmaker in an attempt to ensure his granddaughter's happiness. (imdb)
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    The Traveling Executioner
    Keach plays Jonas Candide, a former carnival showman who roams the southern U.S. in 1918 with a portable electric chair. He offers his services as a freelance executioner for $100 a pop. He takes a job in a prison in Alabama, where he is supposed to execute a young woman named Gundred Herzallerliebst and her brother. He electrocutes the brother first. On the night before she is scheduled to die, Gundred seduces Jonas and he falls for her. (allmovie.com)
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    Fast Break
    A New York delicatessen worker talks his way into a position as head basketball coach at a Nevada college. He accepts the job on the condition that he can bring his street-wise New York City players with him. The players are standouts on the court but lost in the classroom which leads to trouble. (Rotten Tomatoes)
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    The Third Day
    This quirky melodrama opens with an automobile crash. The driver, Steve Mallory, comes out of unconsciousness with amnesia. As his memory slowly returns, he learns that he is a wealthy manufacturer of table china. His wife Alexandria wants to leave him, and his cousin Oliver Parsons wants Steve to sell him the family business. He also learns that the passenger in his car, a cocktail waitress named Holly Mitchell, was killed in the accident... (allmovie.com)
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    Number One with a Bullet
    A pair of detectives is assigned to investigate a murder, and discover a trail of corruption and criminal activity that leads right back to their own police department. (imdb)
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    The Screaming Woman
    A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman coming from underneath the ground who has been buried alive. Her family, however, refuses to believe her story, and sees the incident as an opportunity to prove the woman's mind has snapped so they can take control of her money. (imdb)
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    The Sound of Miles Davis
    Miles Davis live.
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    Loving Couples
    Why do they call it "adultery," when it makes them act like children? (imdb)
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    Double Indemnity
    A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping murder her husband and then declare it an accident. The investigator's boss, not knowing his man is involved in it, suspects murder and sets out to prove it. (imdb)
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    Intimate Power
    At the dawn of the 19th century, a young French woman is kidnapped and forced into a sultan's harem in Turkey. Fiercely independent, she resists, but must make choices in order to survive. She begins to influence the sultan toward more fair manners of solving his conflicts, but finds herself at odds with another of his wives, who wants her son Mustafa to become the new sultan. (imdb)
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    The Longest Night
    Daughter of a wealthy family is kidnapped and imprisoned underground in a coffin, while her family and the police search for her. (imdb)
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    Remembrance of Love
    Joe Rabin is a Holocaust survivor. After the war he went to America, married someone and had a family. Today, he is on his way to Israel for a reunion of Holocaust survivors. It seems that he has another reason for going. It seems like during the war, he had a girlfriend and they were separated and she was pregnant. He has never found out what happened to her, or their baby, he hopes to find out now.
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    Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
    With the land to hold them together, nothing can tear the Logans apart. Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year- the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she is black- to show Cassie that having a place of their own is the Logan family's lifeblood.
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    Rabbit, Run
    A crude man is stuck in a loveless marriage. One day he decides to run away from his life and family. First he finds a mistress, but just because a man runs away from one disappointment, doesn't mean he won't run into another one. (imdb)
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    The Twilight Zone
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    Kraft Suspense Theatre
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    The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
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