Mark Rydell
1) For The Boys
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
A USO singer teams up with a song and dance man to entertain the troops, and For The Boys follows them through 3 wars and 50 years of music and memories.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
True Grit: Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations...
3) The Cowboys
Pub. Date
c1972
Description
A tough rancher, deserted by his regular help, hires 11 schoolboys for a 400 mile cattle drive.
4) The river
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
A farm couple in Tennessee fight against the local power company that wants to flood their land as part of a plan for future power development.
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Val Waxman is a one-time cinematic genius down on his luck. His ex-wife has managed to convince a high-powered studio head to take a chance on Val's "unique vision." Just when the cameras are ready to roll, he's struck with a psychosomatic case of blindness. When efforts to cure him fail, Val contrives a scheme to forge ahead with the picture, for fear of blowing his one last chance at greatness
7) The cowboys
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
When a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers for the gold mines, he (Wayne) is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his drivers in order to cross the 400 treacherous miles to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under his tutelage, however, neither he nor the boys are aware that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.
9) Punch line
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
Lilah, a housewife who wants to be a comedienne, teams up with Steve, a self-centered comic who teaches Lilah how to be funny.
10) The Reivers
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Description
"It's a grand, spectacular "horseless carriage", a shiny, yellow, 1905 Winton Flyer automobille. It's owner is Mississippi plantation owner "Boss" who has left it sitting unattended. But hired hand Boon Hogganbeck decides it would be the ideal vehicle to take him and his buddy, stable hand Ned McCaslin, on a glorious, whirlwind jaunt to distant Memphis. And along for the ride is Boss's earnest 12-year-old grandson, Lucius, who finds himself reluctantly...
11) Even money
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
The lives of nine individuals fate begin to increasingly entwine in a web of addiction and gambling, culminating at one critical moment where their lives will be lost or reclaimed. Struggling writer Kate loses her family's savings at a casino; a washed-up Vegas performer tries to help Kate regain her money; Clyde owes so much money to his dangerous bookie that he asks his NBA-destined nephew to throw a game.
12) The long goodbye
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Private eye Philip Marlowe faces the most bizarre case of his life, when a friend's apparent suicide turns into a double murder involving a sexy blonde, a disturbed gangster, and a suitcase of drug money. But as Marlowe stumbles toward the truth, he soon finds himself lost in a maze of sex and deceit--only to discover that in L.A., if love is dangerous-- friendship is murder.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
A dying doctor refuses to believe that her patient cannot remember the last 25 years of his life. In the middle of a ferocious firefight outside of Baghdad, soldiers discover a mysterious body they can't identify as human. The seventh-richest couple in the world are anthropoids - each containing a few strands of human DNA, grown into a baby and fused with plastics. Despised minorities are adrift in the darkness of outer space and make an ominous pact...
14) The rose
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Rose is one of the biggest rock stars on the planet. Her life of constant sex, drugs and rock and roll, along with constant touring, prove to be too much to handle. Nominated for four Academy Awards
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
In The searchers, a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter.
In Fort Apache, a calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
In Rio Bravo, a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.
In The cowboys, a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers...
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
In The searchers, a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter.
In Fort Apache, a calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
In Rio Bravo, a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.
In The cowboys, a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers...
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
In The searchers, a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter.
In Fort Apache, a calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
In Rio Bravo, a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.
In The cowboys, a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Fort Apache: a cavalry officer's by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
The searchers: a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter.
Rio Bravo: a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.
The cowboys: a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers for the gold...