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Harrison Ford


film due for release in July 2019. However, on April 25, 2017 Walt Disney Studios announced that the film would be released on July 10, 2020. Ford has been in other films, including "Heroes" (1977), "Force 10 from Navarone" (1978), and "Hanover Street" (1979). Ford also co-starred alongside Gene Wilder in the buddy-Western "The Frisco Kid" (1979), playing a bank robber with a heart of gold. He then starred
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The Frisco Kid


The Frisco Kid is a 1979 American western comedy film directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Gene Wilder as Avram Belinski, a Polish rabbi who is traveling to San Francisco, and Harrison Ford as a bank robber who befriends him. Rabbi Avram Belinski (Wilder), newly graduated at the bottom of his class from the yeshiva, arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation's new rabbi. He has with him a Torah scroll for the San Francisco synagogue. Belinski, an innocent,
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The Frisco Kid


for several years, and Aldrich seems to have taken it on as a routine assignment." According to Gene Wilder's autobiography, "Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art", the Tommy Lillard role, played by Harrison Ford, was originally planned for John Wayne. John J. Puccio of Movie Metropolis writes that Wayne was "eager to take it on as a comic follow-up to "True Grit" and "Rooster Cogburn". Salary concerns nixed the idea, though, and it
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Robert Aldrich


" (1977), based on the best selling novel by Joseph Wambaugh which Wambaugh disliked so much he sued to get his name taken off the film. Aldrich's last movies were comedies: "The Frisco Kid" (1979), set in the West with Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford, and "...All the Marbles" (1981), set in the world of female wrestling with Peter Falk. Neither were particularly popular. When the latter film came out Aldrich said "I'm 63 and I've had
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Gene Wilder


but he dropped out and was replaced by Harrison Ford, then an up-and-coming actor. In 1980 Wilder teamed up again with Richard Pryor in "Stir Crazy", directed by Sidney Poitier. Pryor was struggling with a severe cocaine addiction, and filming became difficult, but once the film premiered, it became an international success. "New York" magazine listed "Skip Donahue" (Wilder) and "Harry Monroe" (Pryor) as number nine on their 2007 list of "The Fifteen Most Dynamic
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The Frisco Kid


, Tommy (Harrison Ford), are prisoners of a tribe of Indians, is a good case in point, as is the final shoot-out in the streets of San Francisco... Never a great movie, it's nonetheless a pleasant one — an old-fashioned entertainment that more than gets by on the unforced (albeit unlikely) chemistry of Wilder and Ford." Puccio of Movie Metropolis called the film "humorous and touching" and "uplifting as well": ""The Frisco Kid" is not a
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Harrison Ford


like a bellboy. Ford managed to secure other roles in movies, such as "A Time for Killing (The Long Ride Home)", starring Glenn Ford, George Hamilton, and Inger Stevens. His speaking roles continued next with "Luv" (1967), though he was still uncredited. He was finally credited as "Harrison J. Ford" in the 1967 Western film "A Time for Killing", but the "J" did not stand for anything, since he has no middle name. It was
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John Bleifer


as: the tobacconist in the 1962 comedy "If a Man Answers", starring Bobby Darrin and Sandra Dee; the Steward in "The Hook", starring Kirk Douglas; a small role in "W.C. Fields and Me" (1976), starring Rod Steiger and Valerie Perrine; as Mishka in "F.I.S.T." (1978), starring Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, and Peter Boyle; and as one of the Rabbis in the Robert Aldrich comedy, "The Frisco Kid", starring Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford
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Gene Barge


produce as well as arrange records, including Natalie Cole's early hits. Barge has toured and played with such notables as Fats Domino, Bo Diddley, Big Joe Turner, LaVern Baker, Ray Charles, Chuck Willis, the Rolling Stones and Natalie Cole; and he had roles in major movies starring Gene Hackman, Chuck Norris, Harrison Ford and Steven Seagal. He has also toured in recent years under the pseudonym 'Daddy G.' Barge has also acted in a handful of movies, including "Under Siege" and "
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The Big Show (1936 film)


cowboy. At the Texas Centennial in Dallas, Gene (pretending to be movie star Tom Ford) sings on the radio and becomes a national hit. Studio head Swartz (Charles Judels), hoping to capitalize on the publicity, decides to launch a series of Western musicals starring Tom Ford, even though the real Ford cannot sing a note. When the engagement of Gene (as Tom Ford) and Marion is announced in the newspapers, Ford's real fiancée is infuriated. Meanwhile, gambler Tony Rico (Harry Worth
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William Smith (actor)


-star cast headed by Burt Lancaster and Richard Widmark, a drag-racing legend in "Fast Company" (1979) also co-starring Claudia Jennings and John Saxon, the main character's father in "Conan the Barbarian" (1982) with Arnold Schwarzenegger, bad guy Matt Diggs in "The Frisco Kid" (1979) opposite Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford, and Clint Eastwood's bare-knuckle nemesis Jack Wilson in 1980's "Any Which Way You Can" (a sequel to 1978's "Every
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Michael Elias


first appearance on The Tonight Show in 1967, then played New York nightclubs The Bitter End, Upstairs at the Downstairs, Bon Soir, The Village Gate. After another appearance on the Tonight Show they were seen by Ernest Chambers, a television producer who hired them to come to Hollywood as writers. They gave up the act and wrote for Leslie Ugams, Glen Campbell, and Bill Cosby. They also wrote The Frisco Kid starring Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford. In 1971 Elias and Steve Martin were both staff writers on The
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Harrison Ford


Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor. He gained worldwide fame for his starring roles as Han Solo in the "Star Wars" film series and as the title character of "Indiana Jones" movie series. Five of his movies are within the 30 top-grossing movies of all time at the US box office (when adjusted for inflation). Ford is also known for playing Rick Deckard in the neo-noir dystopian science fiction film "Blade Runner" (1982) and its sequel
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Richard Emory


parts. Dick Emory would act in a variety of movie roles including adventures, comedies, science fiction, Westerns and even musicals. A full third of his artistic output was in the Western genre. These films included "Code of the Silver Sage", "Gene Autry and the Mounties", "Little Big Horn", "Hellgate" and "Perils of the Wilderness."He earned a variety of roles on television. A third of his television output were westerns including roles in "The Cisco Kid", "
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Gene Wilder


novel, "The Woman Who Wouldn't", was released in March 2008. In a 2008 Turner Classic Movies special, "Role Model: Gene Wilder", where Alec Baldwin interviewed Wilder about his career, Wilder said that he was basically retired from acting for good. "I don't like show business, I realized," he explained. "I like show, but I don't like the business." In 2010, Wilder released a collection of stories called "What Is This Thing Called Love?
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Gene Wilder


a film (he appeared in a few cameos before he died in 2005) and also marked Wilder's last appearance in a feature film. His last two movies were not financially successful. Wilder's remaining work consisted of television movies and guest appearances in TV shows. Wilder was inducted into the Wisconsin Performing Arts Hall of Fame, at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Tuesday April 9, 1991. In 1994, Wilder starred in the NBC sitcom "Something Wilder". The show received poor
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The Frisco Kid


most artistic of any director I've ever worked with." Aldrich did not always get on with Harrison Ford during the shoot. "I think every time Aldrich looked at Harrison, he saw John Wayne," said Mace Neufeld, the producer. "Harrison was aware of that, but he was always fun to be around, very funny. " Ford later said "It was fun to work with Gene... [but] every time the director, Robert Aldrich, looked at me, he was thinking about how
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The Big Show (1936 film)


The Big Show is a 1936 American Western musical film directed by Mack V. Wright and starring Gene Autry, Kay Hughes, and Smiley Burnette. Written by Dorrell and Stuart E. McGowan, the film is about a singing cowboy who confuses two girls by being himself and his own stunt double at the Texas Centennial in Dallas. Roy Rogers appears in the film as one of the Sons of the Pioneers. Western movie star Tom Ford (Gene Autry) is scheduled to make a guest appearance at the Texas Centennial celebration in Dallas.
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Yuan-Tsong Chen


by 2 years of age. The drug, eventually named “Myozyme”, was further developed by Genzyme and received the regulatory marketing approval in Europe and USA in 2006. The story of a father searching for a treatment for his two children with Pompe disease and the development of this rug has been adapted to a Hollywood movie entitled “Extraordinary Measures” featured Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser. Later, Chen’s research focus extends to the pharmacogenetics of adverse drug reactions and drug efficacy. His team identified VKORC1 gene variants to play
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Willy Wonka


well received and remains one of his best-known roles. "Time Out Film Guide" called it "Great fun, with Wilder for once giving an impeccably controlled performance as the factory's bizarre candy owner." Critic Jeffrey M. Anderson, of Combustible Celluloid, wrote, "[W]hen the movie does actually reach the factory, and Gene Wilder takes the stage, the movie is saved. Wilder was in the middle of an incredible run of subtle comic performances ... and he was at the height of his powers here
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Gene Wilder


called it "by far the most successful co-starring vehicle for Mr. Pryor and Mr. Wilder", also acknowledging that "this is not elegant movie making, and not all of the gags are equally clever". After starring as a political cartoonist who falls in love in the 1990 film "Funny About Love", Wilder performed in one final movie with Pryor, the 1991 feature "Another You", in which Pryor's physical deterioration from multiple sclerosis was clearly noticeable. It was Pryor's last starring role in
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Gene Wilder


reviews and lasted only one season. He went back to the small screen in 1999, appearing in three television movies, one of which was the NBC adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland". The other two, "Murder in a Small Town" and "The Lady in Question", were mystery movies for A&E TV that were cowritten by Wilder, in which he played a theatre director turned amateur detective. Three years later, Wilder guest-starred on two episodes of NBC's "Will & Grace", winning
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Harrison Ford


the October 1997 issue of Empire Magazine, Ford was ranked no. 1 in "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time". In 1998, People Magazine named Ford the "Sexiest Man Alive". For 3 consecutive years (1998, 1999, and 2000), the Harris Poll named Ford "America's Favorite Movie Star". Ford received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2000. He received an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination for his performance in "Witness", for which he also received "Best
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Gene Wilder


the first film to team Wilder and Pryor. They became Hollywood's first successful interracial movie comedy duo. While filming "Silver Streak", Wilder began working on a script for "The World's Greatest Lover", inspired by Fellini's "The White Sheik". Wilder wrote, produced, and directed "The World's Greatest Lover", which premièred in 1977, but was a critical failure. "The Frisco Kid" (1979) was Wilder's next project. The film was to star John Wayne,
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Gene Autry filmography


. From 1950 to 1955, Autry appeared in 91 episodes of "The Gene Autry Show" television series. Buttram played his sidekick in 83 of the 91 episodes. While his films never achieved the critical recognition given to the films by John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and others, Autry was more popular than John Wayne for nearly a decade. He was voted the top Western movie star for six years in a row, and was named the fourth most popular of all box-office stars in America by film exhibitors in
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Doane Harrison


Wilder and Harrison. After leaving Paramount, Harrison became the associate producer for Wilder's first independent film, "The Seven Year Itch" (1955), and was credited as a producer in all of Wilder's films through "The Fortune Cookie". Harrison's and Wilder's notable director-editor collaboration had extended over ten films, from "The Major and the Minor" (1942) through "Sabrina" (1954). Harrison was subsequently credited as a producer on ten more of Wilder's films, from
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Haunted Honeymoon


% of the movie. Since I didn't wear a gown when Gene and I got married, I asked the 'Haunted Honeymoon' photographer to make me a wedding album!" Radner said. Wilder says his aim was to "make a 1930s movie for 1986." He and the cinematographer used no primary colours and lit the film darkly. "It's black and white in color," said Wilder. "The fat lady in Akron, Ohio, doesn't have to know that. But she should feel
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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes


"disappointingly lacking in bite and sophistication", that it "begins promisingly enough" but that "before the movie is 20 minutes old, Wilder has settled for simply telling a Sherlock Holmes adventure". Gene Siskel gave the film one-and-a-half stars out of four and called it "a conventional and not very well written mystery" that seemed as though "Wilder had enough of an idea for a television variety show skit but unfortunately saw fit to expand it into a movie". Charles Champlin of
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Western (genre)


examples (e.g. the later Westerns of John Ford or Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven", about an old hired killer) are more morally ambiguous. Westerns often stress the harshness and isolation of the wilderness and frequently set the action in an arid, desolate landscape. Western films generally have specific settings such as isolated ranches, Native American villages, or small frontier towns with a saloon. Oftentimes, these settings appear deserted and without much structure. Apart from the wilderness, it is usually the saloon that emphasizes that this is the
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Audley Harrison


coming by way of knockout [27–0–0]. Wilder had not been beyond 4 rounds in his professional career. The bout only lasted a mere 70 seconds of the first round. Wilder landed a right hand which wobbled Harrison, Wilder then rushed in with a flurry of wild punches. Harrison was knocked down but managed to beat the count. However, the referee then stopped the bout, deeming Harrison unable to continue. Wilder won via TKO, his 28th consecutive knockout. On 1 May 2013, Harrison announced his retirement from
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Deontay Wilder


Showtime in USA, was headlined by Amir Khan's return in the UK against Julio Díaz. Harrison informed the boxing world that he would retire if he lost. Wilder knocked out Harrison in round 1. Wilder found an opening 49 seconds into the opening round and caught Harrison with a big right hand that rocked him back into the ropes. A follow up barrage from Wilder sent Harrison into the corner, crumpling onto the floor. Harrison used the ropes to get to his feet at the count of eight, but referee Terry
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Lash LaRue


Alfred "Lash" LaRue (June 15, 1917 – May 21, 1996) was a popular western motion picture star of the 1940s and 1950s. He had exceptional skill with the bullwhip and taught Harrison Ford how to use it for the Indiana Jones movies. LaRue was one of the first recipients of the Golden Boot Awards in 1983. Born Alfred LaRue in Gretna, Louisiana in 1917, he was reared in various towns throughout Louisiana, but in his teens the family moved to Los Angeles, California, where he attended
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Doane Harrison


"Remember the Night" (1940). Harrison is probably best known for his long association with Billy Wilder. As a new immigrant to the United States in the 1930s, Wilder had found work as a screenwriter for Paramount, where Harrison was also working as an editor. Wilder and Harrison both worked on "Midnight" in 1939, and again on "Hold Back the Dawn" in 1941. By 1942 Wilder had persuaded the management at Paramount to assign him as the director of the comedy "The Major and the
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A Time for Killing


A Time for Killing is a 1967 Western film directed originally by Roger Corman but finished by Phil Karlson. Filmed in Panavision and Pathécolor, it stars Glenn Ford, George Hamilton, Inger Stevens, and Harrison Ford (credited as Harrison J. Ford) in his first credited film role. It was also known as The Long Ride Home. During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison and head for the Mexican border. Along the way, they kill a Union courier bearing the news that the war is over
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Murder in a Small Town


Murder in a Small Town is 1999 American made-for-television mystery crime-thriller film produced and broadcast by A&E. The period mystery stars Gene Wilder as Larry "Cash" Carter, a stage director, theater manager, former actor, and unofficial consulting detective for the police department in 1930s Stamford, Connecticut. Wilder also co-wrote the screenplay for the telefilm, which was the first A&E Original Movie. High ratings led A&E to plan a Cash Carter TV movie franchise, but only one sequel, "The Lady
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Jackson County, North Carolina


east and Cherokee, Andrews and Murphy in the west. North Carolina State Highway 107 connects Sylva and Western Carolina University to Cashiers in the south. U.S. Highway 64 traverses east-west across the southern part of the county connecting Cashiers to Brevard in the east and Highlands in the west. Several movies have been filmed in the county including the 1993 blockbuster action-adventure "The Fugitive" starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones, the 1972 drama "Deliverance", and the 1996 comedy "My Fellow Americans" starring Jack
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Harrison Ford


; however, it was subsequently announced, via a casting call, that Ford would return in some capacity as Han Solo in "Episode VIII". In February 2016, when the cast for "Episode VIII" was confirmed, it was indicated that Ford would not reprise his role in the film. When Ford was asked if his character could come back in "some form", he replied, "Anything is possible in space." A Han Solo spin-off movie, "", was released in May
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Indiana Jones (franchise)


character next time and have Harrison Ford come back like Sean Connery did in the last movie." At the time "Last Crusade" was filmed, Connery was only 58 years old. Lucas also said that age need not be a factor, as Ford was "65 and did everything in this movie. The old chemistry is there, and it's not like he's an old man. He's incredibly agile; he looks even better than he did 20 years ago, if you ask me." In August
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Witness (1985 film)


"rural movies". Feldman sent the screenplay to Harrison Ford's agent Phil Gersh, who contacted the producer four days later and advised him his client was willing to commit to the film. Certain the attachment of a major star would change Wizan's mind, Feldman approached him once again, but Wizan insisted that as much as the studio liked Ford, they still weren't interested in making a "rural movie." Feldman sent the screenplay to numerous studios and was rejected by all of them, until Paramount Pictures finally
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Lone Pine, California


used as a filming location for Western movies. Since the early years of filmmaking, directors and their production units have used the Lone Pine area to represent the iconic American West. Approaching the 100th anniversary of "The Roundup" (1920), the first documented film produced in the area, Lone Pine has played host to hundreds of the industry's best known directors and actors, among them directors William Wyler, John Ford, George Stevens, and William Wellman, and actors John Wayne, Bing Crosby, Gene Autry,
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Republic Pictures


Republic Pictures Corporation was an American motion picture production-distribution corporation in operation from 1935 to 1967, that was based in Los Angeles, California. It had studio facilities in Studio City and a movie ranch in Encino. It was best known for specializing in Westerns, serials and B films emphasizing mystery and action. Republic was also notable for developing the careers of John Wayne, Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. It was also responsible for the financing and distribution of several John Ford-directed films during the 1940s and early 1950s
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Warren Beatty


the director, Arthur Penn. Beatty selected most of the cast, including Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Gene Wilder and Michael J. Pollard. Beatty also oversaw the script and spearheaded the delivery of the film. Gene Hackman was chosen because Beatty had acted with him in "Lilith" in 1964 and felt he was a "great" actor. Upon completion of the film, he credited Hackman with giving the "most authentic performance in the movie, so textured and so moving," recalls Dunaway. He
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Doane Harrison


The Fortune Cookie" (1966); their unusually close collaboration involved Harrison in filming as well as editing. Harrison was the principal credited editor for the next five films that Wilder directed, through "A Foreign Affair" (1948). Arthur P. Schmidt joined with Harrison to edit "Sunset Boulevard" (1950), and Harrison began to assume additional producing duties on Wilder's films. Harrison was credited as an "editorial consultant" on "Sabrina" (1954), which was the last film at Paramount for
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Harrison Ford


known role was an uncredited one as a bellhop in "Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round" (1966). There is little record of his non-speaking roles (or "extra" work) in film. Ford was at the bottom of the hiring list, having offended producer Jerry Tokovsky after he played a bellboy in the feature. He was told by Tokovsky that when actor Tony Curtis delivered a bag of groceries, he did it like a movie star; Ford felt his job was to act
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Young Pioneers (film)


Young Pioneers is a 1976 American made-for-television Western film movie which aired in March 1976 on ABC. Elements of novels "Let the Hurricane Roar" and "Free Land" by Rose Wilder Lane (daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder) were used as the basis for the movie, with Roger Kern and Linda Purl starring as the focal characters David and Molly Beaton. Although produced as a TV series pilot by ABC Circle Films and ranked #7 in the Nielsen ratings for the week it aired, the movie was
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Buffalo River Trail


-October to early November. In 1986 Kenneth L. Smith began his work as coordinator for development of the Buffalo River Trail. The gap between the Western and Eastern Section is due to The Wilderness and Backcountry Management Plan released by the park service in 1994 which restricted development in areas designated as wilderness. Construction began on the Western Section in 1980 and by 1994 half of the 37 miles were completed. The Woolum Ford to Tyler Bend segment was completed in 1991 and the South Maumee to Hwy 14/Dillards Ferry segment was completed
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Harrison Ford


landed him his first starring film role, when he was hired by Lucas to read lines for actors auditioning for roles in his then-upcoming film "Star Wars" (1977). Lucas was eventually won over by Ford's performance during these line reads and cast him as Han Solo. "Star Wars" became one of the most successful movies of all time and established Ford as a superstar. He went on to star in the similarly successful "Star Wars" sequels, "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980
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Harrison Ford


provides reports on those affected by, and seeking solutions to, climate change. Like his parents, Ford is a lifelong Democrat. On September 7, 1995, Ford testified before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee in support of the Dalai Lama and an independent Tibet. In 2007, he narrated the documentary "Dalai Lama Renaissance". In 2003, he publicly condemned the Iraq War and called for "regime change" in the United States. He also criticized Hollywood for making movies which were "more akin to video games
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Gene Wilder


". His third novel, "Something to Remember You By: A Perilous Romance", was released in April 2013. When asked in a 2013 "Time Out New York" magazine interview whether he would act again if a suitable film project came his way, Wilder responded, "I'm tired of watching the bombing, shooting, killing, swearing and 3-D. I get 52 movies a year sent to me, and maybe there are three good [ones]. That's why I went into writing. It's
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Doane Harrison


Harrison taught Wilder how to preplan each shot as part of a total editing scheme. The results: Time and money saved, and few protection shots required. (The term "protection shot", also called coverage, refers to footage shot from various setups and angles that may be needed for editing a sequence in the cutting room.)" "The Major and the Minor" was successful, and launched Wilder's directing career. Harrison worked on all the films directed by Wilder for the next 25 years, through "
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The Conversation


The Conversation is a 1974 American mystery thriller film written, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman with supporting roles by John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams, Frederic Forrest, Harrison Ford, Teri Garr and Robert Duvall. The plot revolves around a surveillance expert and the moral dilemma he faces when his recordings reveal a potential murder. Coppola cited the 1966 film "Blowup" as a key influence. However, since the film was released to theaters just a few months before Richard Nixon resigned as President
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Cowboys & Aliens


a lot of humanity and vulnerability to him." In April 2010, Harrison Ford was cast alongside Craig. Favreau had cast Craig and Ford in the film because they were actors who suited the action-adventure roles so the characters would be less seen as comedic. The director compared Ford, in particular, with John Wayne in having "a sense of history" with the actor and the role. Before "Cowboys & Aliens", Ford had previously acted in the Western films "A Time for Killing" (1967
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John Kent Harrison


, which won the CableACE Award for Best Foreign Television Movie of the Year. In the last fifteen years, Mr. Harrison has directed and written numerous other award-winning films. Among these, one of the most memorable is "You Know My Name", a two-hour he wrote and directed for Sam Elliott and TNT. It won the coveted Wrangler Award for Best Western Television Movie of the year at The Cowboy Hall of Fame. John Kent Harrison is a Canadian and American citizen. He presently lives in Portland
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Angie Dickinson


law of Greg Kinnear in the romantic comedy "Sabrina" starring Harrison Ford, a remake of the Billy Wilder classic. She played Burt Reynolds' wife in the thriller "The Maddening" and the mother of Rick Aiello and Robert Cicchini in the "National Lampoon" comedy "The Don's Analyst". In 1997, she seduced old flame Artie (Rip Torn) in an episode of HBO's "The Larry Sanders Show" called "Artie and Angie and Hank and Hercules". Dickinson acted out the alcoholic,
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The Major and the Minor


sent him the script, which Milland liked. Three years later the two men would collaborate on "The Lost Weekend", which would win Oscars for both of them. As a neophyte director, Wilder heavily relied on editor Doane Harrison for guidance. Harrison had edited "Hold Back the Dawn" (1941), which Brackett and Wilder had written. Unusually for an editor, Harrison was on the set for filming as well as working in the cutting room. Wilder later said, "I worked with a very good
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Richard Dimitri


Richard Dimitri (born June 27, 1942) is an American character actor and comedian principally known for his roles as the twin characters of Bertram and Renaldo in the 1975 Mel Brooks-produced television show "When Things Were Rotten" and Roman Troy Moronie in the 1984 movie "Johnny Dangerously". He also had supporting roles in the 1977 movie "The World's Greatest Lover" with Gene Wilder and Carol Kane and the 1989 movie "Let It Ride" with Richard Dreyfuss, as well as numerous appearances on television shows
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Harrison Ford


Many of Ford's major film roles came to him by default through unusual circumstances: he won the role of Han Solo while reading lines for other actors, was cast as Indiana Jones because Tom Selleck was not available, he also took over the role of Jack Ryan supposedly due to Alec Baldwin's fee demands, Baldwin had previously played the role of Ryan in "The Hunt for Red October". Starting in the late 1990s, Ford appeared in several critically derided and/or commercially disappointing movies, including "Six Days, Seven
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Doane Harrison


Minor"; Wilder had previously directed just a single film in France. Wilder asked that Harrison be assigned as the film's editor. Wilder has been quoted as saying about this early assignment, "I worked with a very good cutter, Doane Harrison, from whom I learned a great deal. He was much more of a help to me than the cameraman. When I became a director from a writer my technical knowledge was very meagre." Sam Stagg has described their early collaboration, "In valuable early lessons,
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The Engagement (Seinfeld)


; it irritates Jerry that she eats peas one at a time. George is angry as he and Jerry had a pact to change their lives. Jerry goes to George's apartment and asks if he is ready to go see a movie ("Firestorm" with Harrison Ford), but George tells him Susan wants to see a different movie ("The Muted Heart" with Glenn Close and Sally Field). George is already showing signs of regret about his engagement. At the theater, after the movies, Susan is
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Harrison Ford


", "The F.B.I.", "Love, American Style", and "Kung Fu". He appeared in the western "Journey to Shiloh" (1968) and had an uncredited, non-speaking role in Michelangelo Antonioni's 1970 film "Zabriskie Point" as an arrested student protester. French filmmaker Jacques Demy chose Ford for the lead role of his first American film, "Model Shop" (released in 1969) but the head of Columbia Pictures thought Ford had "no future" in the film business
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List of Indiana Jones characters


of the "Indiana Jones" series, stating "Harrison Ford is Indiana Jones, no Harrison means no Indy". Two 3¾ inch figures of Mutt, a deluxe figure of him on his motorcycle, an Adventures Heroes figurine, and a 12-inch figure were released in 2008. Mutt is available in four Lego Indiana Jones sets based on "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull". In an early script of the movie, Williams was set to fight with Spalko in a real virgin jungle, but the idea was rejected as being
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Sabrina (1995 film)


Sabrina is a 1995 American romantic comedy-drama film adapted by Barbara Benedek and David Rayfiel. It is a remake of the 1954 film "Sabrina" co-written and directed by Billy Wilder that starred Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, and William Holden, which in turn was based upon a play titled "Sabrina Fair". It was directed by Sydney Pollack, and stars Harrison Ford as Linus Larrabee, Julia Ormond as Sabrina and Greg Kinnear (in his first starring film role) as David Larrabee. It also features
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Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time


Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time was a two-hour television special that aired on March 22, 2011, on ABC in the United States. Hosted by Tom Bergeron and Cynthia McFadden, it was a collaboration between ABC News and "People" magazine that gave American film fans the chance to choose their favorite movies of all time. The results were presented on the program, which included interviews with some of the stars and directors of the chosen films including Harrison Ford, Anthony Hopkins, and Olivia Newton
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Sky Cinema


When Sky merged with rival British Satellite Broadcasting, it acquired BSB's The Movie Channel. With the launch of the second Astra satellite (Astra 1B) on 15 April 1991, The Movie Channel become part of the Sky package. The first film shown was 1989’s "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", starring Harrison Ford and Sean Connery. Similarly, Sky Movies was made available to viewers on BSB's old satellite on 8 April 1991, replacing the music channel The Power Station. From the re-launch of
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Staircase (film)


dregs of understanding. He exploits the improbable team of Rex Harrison and Richard Burton as a sideshow attraction." Gene Siskel of the "Chicago Tribune" gave it 3 stars out of 4, calling it "a satisfactory film achievement with a very good story. Richard Burton is marvelous in holding up 'Staircase.' Rex Harrison is more of a broken step ... [he] swishes and preens too much but controls the part as the movie progresses." Charles Champlin of the "Los Angeles Times" wrote, "
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Eastern Wilderness Act


The Eastern Wilderness Areas Act () was signed into law by President Gerald Ford on January 3, 1975. Built upon the 1964 Wilderness Act, which was written by Howard Zahniser of The Wilderness Society and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, the Act designated 16 new wilderness areas in the Eastern United States, including of wilderness on national lands in 13 states. Although it was originally untitled, the bill signed by Ford has come to be known as the Eastern Wilderness Areas Act. While the previous Act created the
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Charles Yale Harrison


Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1917 to fight in World War I. After several months in a reserve battalion in England, Harrison transferred to the Royal Montreal Regiment and was sent to the Western Front. The climax of Harrison's war experience came on 8 August 1918 when he participated in the first day of the Battle of Amiens. Harrison was wounded in the foot and spent the rest of the war recuperating, before returning to Montreal. During the 1920s, Harrison managed a movie theatre before moving to New York City to pursue a career
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The Iron Horse (film)


The Iron Horse is a 1924 American Western silent film directed by John Ford and produced by Fox Film. It was a major milestone in Ford's career, and his lifelong connection to the western movie genre. It was Ford's first major film, in part because the hastily planned production went over budget, as Fox was making a hurried response to the success of another studio's western. In 2011, this film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected
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Gene Wilder


persuaded him to leave the studio and begin studying with Strasberg in his private class. Several months later, Wilder was accepted into the Actors Studio. Feeling that "Jerry Silberman in "Macbeth"" did not have the right ring to it, he adopted a stage name. He chose "Wilder" because it reminded him of "Our Town" author Thornton Wilder, while "Gene" came from the character Eugene Gant in Thomas Wolfe's first novel, "Look Homeward, Angel". He also liked "Gene
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Last Mango in Paris


wrote most of the songs with Will Jennings, Marshall Chapman, and/or Michael Utley. He recorded one song, "Frank and Lola," which he had written with Steve Goodman who died in 1984. Buffett dedicated the album to Goodman and this would be the last Goodman song Buffett would record . "Desperation Samba (Halloween in Tijuana)" features the sound of a whip cracking performed by actor Harrison Ford, a reminder of Ford's use of the whip in the "Indiana Jones" movies. Buffett recorded a live
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Georg Stanford Brown


." In 1980, he starred in the TV movie "The Night the City Screamed", and in "Stir Crazy" opposite Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. Later in 1984 he starred in the TV movie "The Jesse Owens Story" in the role of Lew Gilbert. He then went on to a supporting role in yet another miniseries "North & South" in 1985 as the character Garrison Grady. In 1986, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for directing the final episode
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Miguel Ángel Suárez


Escape', with Timothy Bottoms and Colleen Dewhurst. He then went to Hollywood and in 1980 landed a role in the movie "Stir Crazy", directed by Sidney Poitier starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. He was sometimes credited under the names Miguelángel Suárez and Miguel Suárez . Other movies in which Suárez participated are: "La Gran Fiesta" (1985); "Isabel la Negra" (1978) with Míriam Colón and Raúl Juliá; "Havana" (1990) produced by Sidney Pollack and "Under Suspicion"
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Harrison Ainslie


Ford & Co, the Newland Co, George Knott & Co, Knott, Ainslie & Co, Harrison Ainslie & Co, Harrison Ainslie, Roper & Co, and finally as Harrison Ainslie & Co Ltd. Associated companies were the Hampshire Haematite Iron Co, Melfort Gunpowder Co, Lorn Furnace Co and Barrow & Ulverston Rope Co. Newland Furnace was built in 1747 by Richard Ford, William Ford, Michael Knott and James Backhouse. Richard Ford was born in Middlewich in 1697. He was active in the Furness iron industry from 1722 as
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Harrison Ford


film about the Dalai Lama entitled "Dalai Lama Renaissance". Ford filmed the medical drama "Extraordinary Measures" in 2009 in Portland, Oregon. Released January 22, 2010, the film also starred Brendan Fraser and Alan Ruck. Also in 2010, he co-starred in the film "Morning Glory," along with Patrick Wilson, Rachel McAdams, and Diane Keaton. In July 2011, Ford starred alongside Daniel Craig and Olivia Wilde in the science fiction Western film "Cowboys & Aliens". To promote the film
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The Big Show (1936 film)


When Ford leaves on vacation intending to miss the celebration, his publicity manager Lee Wilson (William Newell) convinces singing cowboy Gene Autry (Gene Autry) to appear in Tom's place. While driving to Dallas from Hollywood, Gene meets Marion Hill (Kay Hughes) when his trailer collides with her wagon. Marion is also on her way to the centennial, intending to enter her show steer in the Texas Centennial Exposition. Watching Gene skillfully retrieve her cattle, Marion is impressed to see a movie star perform like a true
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The Artist (film)


movies throughout history. It was inspired by the work of Hitchcock, Lang, Ford, Lubitsch, Murnau and Wilder. I love Bernard Herrmann and his music has been used in many different films and I’m very pleased to have it in mine. I respect Kim Novak greatly and I’m sorry to hear she disagrees. Hazanavicius also told CNN "I used music from another movie, but it’s not illegal. We paid for that, we asked for that and we had the permission to do it. For me
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Firestone and Ford tire controversy


internationally. On May 22, 2001, Ford announced a voluntary recall of all Wilderness AT tires of 15, 16, and 17 inches installed on all Ford trucks and SUV's. This covered an additional 13 million Firestone tires and cost Ford $3 billion. On October 4, 2001, NHTSA issued a mandatory recall of 3.5 million P235/75R15 and P255/70R16 Wilderness AT tires manufactured prior to May 1998 that were assembled in either the Joliette, Quebec or Wilson, NC factories. This recall removed all remaining Wilderness AT tires that were
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Dustin Ford


Dustin Ford (born June 11, 1978) is the associate head men's basketball coach at the University of Akron. Prior to joining the Zips staff, he served as assistant coach at the University of Illinois, Ohio University and at Western Carolina University. Ford's older brother Geno Ford is currently the head coach at Stony Brook in Stony Brook, New York and his father Gene Ford was a longtime high school head coach in Ohio and the head coach at NCAA Division III Muskingum University in New Concord, Ohio. His
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Harrison Ford filmography


screen: the anti-hero detective Rick Deckard in the neo-noir dystopian science fiction film "Blade Runner" (1982) and its sequel 35 years later "Blade Runner 2049" (2017) and CIA analyst Jack Ryan in the spy thrillers "Patriot Games" (1992) and "Clear and Present Danger" (1994). Ford also appeared in the acclaimed war film "Apocalypse Now" in 1979 before becoming a very high-profile movie star in leading roles throughout the 1980s and 1990s with such films
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Western (genre)


West". Specific settings include ranches, small frontier towns, saloons, railways, wilderness, and isolated military forts of the Wild West. Common plots include: Many Westerns use a stock plot of depicting a crime, then showing the pursuit of the wrongdoer, ending in revenge and retribution, which is often dispensed through a shootout or quick-draw duel. The Western was the most popular Hollywood genre from the early 20th century to the 1960s. Western films first became well-attended in the 1930s. John Ford's
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Rock the Boat (The Hues Corporation song)


5, Big Girls Don't Cry) and (sung in character by Seth MacFarlane as Glenn Quagmire, Patrick Warburton as Joe Swanson, and Mike Henry as Cleveland Brown) the "Family Guy" episode "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas". The song appeared in the 1997 movie "The Devil's Own" with Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt, and a short extract of the refrain ("Love is a ship on the ocean..") in the 2015 movie "The Martian" directed by Ridley
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Arthur P. Schmidt


" (1953)). At Paramount, Schmit began his notable collaboration with director Billy Wilder. With Doane Harrison, he edited "Sunset Boulevard" (1950), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. Harrison had been the editor for all of Wilder's films since his first American film as a director, "The Major and the Minor" (1942); ultimately, the two worked together on films for nearly thirty years. Schmidt edited Wilder's next film, "Ace in the
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Arthur P. Schmidt


Hole" (1951), with Harrison again being credited as "editorial supervisor". Roger Ebert recently commented on this film that, "There's not a wasted shot in Wilder's film, which is single-mindedly economical. Students of Arthur Schmidt's editing could learn from the way every shot does its duty. There's not even a gratuitous reaction shot." Schmidt's third film with Wilder was "Sabrina" (1954), which was Wilder's last film with Paramount. Harrison's credit had changed
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Sela Ward


on "Sisters," for which she received her first Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1994. She portrayed Helen Kimball, the wife of Dr. Richard Kimball (Harrison Ford), in "The Fugitive", one of the top films of 1993. Ward won a CableACE Award for her portrayal of the late television journalist Jessica Savitch in the 1995 TV movie "Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story." "Almost Golden" remains Lifetime's most watched TV movie to date. In 1995,
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Perry King


he has appeared in dozens of feature films, television series and television movies. He auditioned for the role of Han Solo in "Star Wars", but the role ultimately went to Harrison Ford. However, he played the character in the radio adaptations of "Star Wars" and both its sequels. In 1984, King was nominated for a Golden Globe award for his role in the TV movie "The Hasty Heart". That same year, he landed the role of Cody Allen on the series "Riptide".
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You Don't Know Jack (franchise)


. For example, "Star Wars" might be the associated word, and the correct answer fitting "movie stars" could be Harrison Ford. Other possibilities offered might include actors not in that film, or other objects or concepts related to the film but which are not stars of the movie. For each associated subject, several potential matches appear on screen one-at-a-time for only a few seconds each before disappearing, and only one is correct. The topics and/or potential answers are sometimes humorous. Players
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Lancaster County, Pennsylvania


their industry. Harrison Ford, in the 1985 movie "Witness", portrayed a Philadelphia detective who journeys to the Amish community in order to protect an Amish boy who has witnessed a murder in Philadelphia. The detective is attracted to the boy's widowed mother; the movie is less a thriller than a romance about the difficulties faced by an outsider in love with a widow from The Community. The film was nominated for eight Oscars, and won two. However, the real winner was Lancaster County tourism. Once again,
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Soviet submarine K-19


plans remain on hold, and many of "K-19"s survivors have objected to them. In 1969 writer Vasily Aksyonov wrote a play about the nuclear incident. The movie "" (2002), starring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson, is based on the story of the "K-19"s first disaster. The production company attempted in March 2002 to secure access to the boat as a set for its production, but the Russian Navy declined. The nickname "The Widowmaker" referred to by the movie was fictional. The submarine did not
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The Gene Autry Show


The Gene Autry Show is an American western/cowboy television series which aired for 91 episodes on CBS from July 23, 1950 until August 7, 1956, originally sponsored by Wrigley's Doublemint chewing gum. Series star Gene Autry had already established his singing cowboy character on radio and the movies. Now he and his horse Champion were featured in a weekly television series of western adventures. Gene's role changed almost weekly from rancher, to ranch hand, to sheriff, to border agent, etc. Gene's usual comic relief
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The Big Show (1936 film)


with Marion, Gene takes a risk and confesses his true identity over the radio. To his surprise, the audience prefers him to the real Tom Ford. Gene's confession ruins Rico's blackmail attempt, and he and his henchmen escape with the blackmail money by dressing as cowboys and joining the cavalcade act. Gene chases after the outlaws in true western style, eventually arresting them. During the chase, the money is lost in a lagoon by Gene's sidekick, Frog (Smiley Burnette). Sometime later back in Hollywood
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John Ford


Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, Calif., a heavily filmed location ranch most closely associated with serials and B-Westerns, which would become, along with Monument Valley, one of the director's preferred filming locations, and a site to which Ford would return in the next few years for "Stagecoach" and "The Grapes of Wrath". The longer revised version of "Directed by John Ford" shown on Turner Classic Movies in November, 2006 features directors Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, and Martin Scorsese, who suggest
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Hari's on Tour (Express)


played by Sultan Khan, who was one of the fifteen musicians in Shankar's orchestra. The Washington stop was among the highlights of the tour. At the invitation of Jack Ford – son of US president Gerald Ford – Harrison, Shankar, Scott, Preston and others in the entourage visited the White House on 13 December, where Harrison met with President Ford. Surprised at the "good vibes" there so soon after the Watergate hearings, Harrison asked Ford to personally intercede in both John Lennon's struggle to be allowed to
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Dean Winchester


a nod to actor Harrison Ford, as Kripke wanted Dean to have the "devil-may-care swagger of Han Solo." However, there was a Sam Harrison living in Kansas, so the name had to be changed for legal reasons. Combining his interest in the Winchester Mystery House and his desire to give the series the feel of "a modern-day Western," Kripke settled on the surname of "Winchester." Dean and his brother Sam are from Lawrence, Kansas, due to its closeness to
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John Ford


with Erroll Flynn) revitalized the moribund genre, showing that Westerns could be "intelligent, artful, great entertainment—and profitable". It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won two Oscars, for Best Supporting Actor (Thomas Mitchell) and Best Score. "Stagecoach" became the first in the series of seven classic Ford Westerns filmed on location in Monument Valley, with additional footage shot at another of Ford's favorite filming locations, the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, Calif.
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Glenn Ford


Peter playing the record at Glenn Ford's home. In "Interrupted Melody", he starred with Eleanor Parker. The Westerns with which he would always be associated included "Jubal", "The Fastest Gun Alive", "Cowboy", "The Secret of Convict Lake" with Gene Tierney, "", and "Cimarron". Ford's versatility also allowed him to star in a number of popular comedies, almost always as the beleaguered, well-meaning, but nonplussed straight man, set upon by circumstances
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Santa Claus: The Movie


Movie". To this end, they offered the role to Harrison Ford who turned them down. They made offers to Dustin Hoffman, Burt Reynolds and Johnny Carson --- all of whom, for one reason or another, turned the part down. Eventually, John Lithgow was settled on after Salkind watched "Terms of Endearment" and realised that he had a Grinch-type look to him. The role of the Ancient Elf was written with James Cagney in mind; however, with Cagney being very weak in his old age
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I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)


version of the song was released on a 12" single, which is available on the "Grand 12-Inches 7" CD compilation, compiled by Ben Liebrand, and also "Movie Klub 80: Episode 3" compilation CD (4 Ever Music/Warner Music Poland). The song was featured in key moments of the 1988 thriller movie "Frantic", set in Paris, directed by Roman Polanski and starring Harrison Ford. The track however did not make it onto the film's accompanying soundtrack album. It also features in
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Sedalia, Missouri


Wing located at Whiteman Air Force Base. The release of the movie led to a significant (if belated) increase in local community concern about the missiles. Concern remained high until all the missiles were dismantled between 1992 and 1997 as a result of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty between the United States and Russia. Sedalia was featured in two widely seen 1977 films: "Heroes", starring Henry Winkler and Harrison Ford; and the made-for-TV movie "Scott Joplin", starring Billy Dee Williams. Sedalia was
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The Wachowskis


Dostoyevsky, and philosopher Cornel West. In an interview with "Gadfly" in 2004 (after their first movie), the Wachowskis reiterated their influence by or enjoyment of Huston (e.g. "Treasure of the Sierra Madre") and Wilder (e.g., "Sunset Boulevard" and "Lost Weekend"), and added to these the impacts of Alfred Hitchcock (e.g. "Strangers on a Train" and "Psycho"), Roman Polanski (e.g. "Repulsion"), and Francis Ford Coppola (the "Godfather"
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Charles E. Ford


from war-torn China, said to be the first motion picture of the warfare in Shanghai. It showed two major Japanese bombings of the city's streets, in Nanking Road and near the Cathay Hotel. Ford was associate producer of the Roy Rogers films "Billy the Kid Returns" (1938), "Shine On, Harvest Moon" (1938), and "Come on Rangers" (1938). He was associate producer of the Gene Autry movies "Man from Music Mountain" (1938) and "
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