Who was the producer of a kidnapping film starred in by an actress whose brother was a bohemian surrealist?
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The Tree (1969 film) The Tree is a 1969 American film that was written, produced, and directed, by Robert Guenette. A psychological drama revolving around the kidnapping of a young child, the film stars Jordan Christopher, Eileen Heckart, Alan Landers, Gale Dixon, James Broderick, Kathy Ryan, Ruth Ford, and George Rose.
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Ruth Ford (actress) Ruth Ford (July 7, 1911, Brookhaven, Mississippi – August 12, 2009, New York City) was an American model and stage and film actress. Her brother was the bohemian surrealist Charles Henri Ford. Their parents managed the Tennessee Hotel in Clarksville, Tennessee.
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Menculik Miyabi Menculik Miyabi (Indonesian for "Kidnapping Miyabi") is a 2010 Indonesian comedy film directed by Findo Purwono HW and produced by Ody Mulya Hidayat. Starring Sabrina Pai and Nicky Tirta, the film follows a young man who is obsessed with AV idol Maria Ozawa and, in an attempt to kidnap her, accidentally kidnaps a Taiwanese tourist. After the film was announced it was protested heavily by the Islamic Defenders Front, which resulted in Ozawa's role being cut almost entirely. Critical reception was unfavourable.
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Theodore Zichy Count Theodore Béla Rudolf Zichy de Zich et Vásonkeő (Hungarian: "Zichi és Vásonkeői gróf Zichy Tivadar Béla Rudolf" ; 13 June 1908 – December 1987) was a British actor, photographer, film director, producer and playboy of Hungarian descent.
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Brother (1997 film) Brother (Russian: Брат , translit. "Brat") is a 1997 Russian crime film directed by Aleksei Balabanov. The film stars Sergei Bodrov Jr. as Danila Bagrov, a young Russian ex-conscript. The character of Danila is considered by many in Russia to be an icon of the early post-Soviet period. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. After its release on VHS in June 1997, "Brother" unexpectedly became one of the most commercially successful Russian films released in the 1990s and quickly became a cult film throughout Russia. Due to the film's popularity and fan demand, a sequel, "Brother 2", was released in 2000. "Brother 2" is notable for having a significantly higher budget, more emphasis on action sequences, and taking place in Moscow and Chicago.
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The Bohemian Girl (1936 film) The Bohemian Girl is a 1936 comedic feature film version of the opera "The Bohemian Girl" by Michael William Balfe. It was produced at the Hal Roach Studios, and stars Laurel and Hardy and Thelma Todd in her last role before her death. This was also the only appearance of Darla Hood in a full-length feature produced by Hal Roach.
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Abduction of Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee The abduction of Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee was an abduction which occurred in North Korea between 1978 and 1986. Shin Sang-ok was a famous South Korean film director married to actress Choi Eun-hee. Together, they established Shin Film and made many films through the 1960s which garnered recognition for South Korea at various film festivals. In 1978 Choi was abducted and taken to North Korea to meet North Korea's soon-to-be dictator Kim Jong-il. Six months later, Shin was abducted.
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Don Castle Don Castle (September 29, 1917 - May 26, 1966) was an American film actor of the 1930s and 1940s. Castle was born in Beaumont, Texas. He started his acting career as a stage actor, then moved to films. The actor, who resembled Clark Gable, became close friends with "The Guilty" co-star Bonita Granville and her husband Jack Wrather who was a successful businessman and film producer. The relationship eventually led the actor to become a television producer for Wrather's "Lassie" television program. After a traffic accident in 1966, Don Castle died of a medication overdose, aged 48.
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Lynn Loring Lynn Loring (born Lynn Zimring; July 14, 1944) is an American actress and television and film producer.
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Eden Cale Eden Myfanwy Cale (born July 14, 1985) is an American actress and filmmaker. She is the daughter of Risé Irushalmi Cale and Velvet Underground founding member John Cale.
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Serial Mom Serial Mom is a 1994 American crime film written and directed by John Waters, and starring Kathleen Turner as the title character, Sam Waterston as her husband, and Ricki Lake and Matthew Lillard as her children. Patty Hearst, Suzanne Somers, Joan Rivers, Traci Lords, and Brigid Berlin make cameo appearances in the film.
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Mia Riverton Mia Riverton is an American film actress and producer, best known for her role in the 2005 film "Red Doors".
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The Candy Snatchers The Candy Snatchers is a 1973 exploitation crime cult film directed by Guerdon Trueblood. The film was first released in June 1973 and was unofficially inspired by the kidnapping of Barbara Jane Mackle. It stars Susan Sennett as a teenager who is kidnapped and held for ransom by three amateur criminals. "The Candy Snatchers" received a DVD release in 2005 through Subversive Cinema.
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Josef Šváb-Malostranský Josef Šváb-Malostranský (16 March 1860, Prague – 30 October 1932, Prague) was a Czech actor, writer, director and screenwriter. His niece was actress Zita Kabátová.
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Nancy Montuori Stein Nancy Montuori Stein is a film director and producer, best known for her film "Stealing Innocence" which has received more than 20 film festival awards. In 2009, Stein completed her feature film "All Ages Night" starring the American actress Katherine Carlsberg and the British actor and singer from Nightmare & The Cat, Django Stewart.
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Jules Croiset Jules Croiset (born 9 October 1937) is a Dutch actor. He has appeared in more than 40 films and television shows since 1960. He is also known for having staged his own abduction, in 1987.
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Nina Menkes Nina Menkes is an experimental film maker. Her films include "The Great Sadness of Zohara" (1983), "Magdalena Viraga" (1986), "Queen of Diamonds" (1991), "The Bloody Child" (1996), "Phantom Love" (2007) and "Dissolution" (2010), which was filmed in black and white and is set in Israel. Her sister Tinka appears as an actress in many of them. Menkes teaches at the California Institute of the Arts in Santa Clarita, California. She has donated copies of several of her works to the Academy Film Archive.
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The Kidnapping of the President The Kidnapping of the President is a 1980 Canadian-American political thriller film starring William Shatner, Hal Holbrook, Van Johnson and Ava Gardner. It was produced and directed by George Mendeluk and co-produced by John Ryan from a screenplay by Richard Murphy and Charles Templeton, based on Templeton's novel. The original music was by Nash the Slash and Paul Zaza and the cinematography by Mike Molloy. The film was made by Presidential Films and Sefel Films and distributed by Crown International Pictures.
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Diana Sands Diana Sands (August 22, 1934September 21, 1973) was an American actress, perhaps most famous for her portrayal of Beneatha Younger, the sister of Sidney Poitier's character in the original stage and film versions of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" (1961). She also appeared in a number of dramatic television series in the 1960s and 1970s such as "I Spy", as Davala Unawa in the 1967 "The Fugitive" episode "Dossier on a Diplomat", Dr. Harrison in the "Outer Limits" episode "The Mice", and "Julia". Sands also starred in the 1963 film "An Affair of the Skin" as the narrator and photographer, Janice.
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Aleksei Balabanov Aleksei Oktyabrinovich Balabanov (Russian: Алeксeй Oктябpинoвич Балабанoв ; 25 February 1959 – 18 May 2013) was a Russian film director, screenwriter, and producer, who shot mostly arthouse pictures, but gained mainstream popularity with the crime drama Brat ("Brother") and its more action-oriented sequel, "Brat-2" ("Brother 2"), both of which starred Sergei Bodrov, Jr. as a young hitman. "Brother" was successful both at the box office and in video copies, achieving wide popularity in Russia. Later, however, Balabanov became better known for his films "Cargo 200" (2007) and "Morphine" (2008).
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Dorothy Dean Dorothy Dean (December 22, 1932 – February 13, 1987) was an African American socialite, connected to Andy Warhol's The Factory—for which she appeared in the films "Batman Dracula" (1964), "Space" (1965), "My Hustler" (1965), "Afternoon" (1965), and "Chelsea Girls" (1966)—and Max's Kansas City, where she worked as door person. She also appeared in the documentary film "Superartist" (1967) about Warhol and his films.
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Jacqueline Bisset Winifred Jacqueline Fraser Bisset ( ; born 13 September 1944) is an English actress. She began her film career in 1965 and first came to prominence in 1968 with roles in "The Detective", "Bullitt", and "The Sweet Ride", for which she received a most promising newcomer Golden Globe nomination. In the 1970s, she starred in "Airport" (1970), "Day for Night" (1973) which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974), "The Deep" (1977), and "Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?" (1978), which earned her a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress in a Comedy.