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Stirling Dale Silliphant (January 16, 1918 – April 26, 1996) was an American screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for his screenplay for In the Heat of the Night, for which he won an Academy Award in 1967, and for creating the television series Naked City, Perry Mason, and Route 66. Other features as screenwriter include the Irwin Allen productions The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure.
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26 September 1975
Loosely based on the true story of the killing of Kitty Genovese: A young woman's murder is witnessed by fifteen of her neighbors who do nothing to help and refuse to cooperate with the police.
11 June 1958
In San Francisco, a psychopathic gangster and his mentor retrieve heroin packages carried by unsuspecting travelers.
18 May 1983
Travis McGee is a world-weary private eye trying to help boat skipper friend Van Harder salvage his reputation that sank when his boat ran aground, resulting in a death that might have been faked.
21 May 1958
A firefighter is sent to Venezuela to battle a blazing oil well but still finds time for romance.
13 February 1987
Lincoln Hawk a hard-luck big-rig trucker takes us under the glaring Las Vegas lights for all the boisterous action of the World Armwrestling Championship.
01 December 1972
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.
02 August 1967
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi.
16 December 1976
Dirty Harry Callahan returns again, this time saddled with a rookie female partner. Together, they must stop a terrorist group consisting of angry Vietnam veterans.
14 December 1974
At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
18 September 1953
The life and career of Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, who held the title for 12 years--longer than any other boxer in history--and who had to not only battle opponents inside the ring and racism outside it.
19 September 1969
Mysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother.
16 December 1977
Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.
18 September 1981
Ambitious pilot to a prospective series revolving around a combat cameraman in Vietnam. Carl Danton is in Saigon on assignment at the start of the 1968 Tet offensive with a cynical boss in the local bureau chief.
23 June 1971
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
25 September 1981
A venerable San Francisco publishing family becomes embroiled in a bitter power struggle between the iron-fisted, but ailing, patriarch's son and a ruthless businessman who tries for a takeover.
19 December 1975
Mike Locken is one of the principal members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the CIA, and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee.
23 February 1971
The pilot for the 1971 - 1972 series of the same title. Mike Longstreet, an insurance investigator in New Orleans loses his sight and his wife in an explosion and is determined to track down his wife's killers.
26 June 1978
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason.
17 March 1972
A race car driver and his friend, a motorcycle racer and former POW, join forces to tour the U.S. in search of competition.
16 June 1960
In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant.
20 June 1973
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
23 September 1968
An experiment on a simpleton turns him into a genius. When he discovers what has been done to him he struggles with whether or not what was done to him was right.
09 November 1956
An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
10 June 1955
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
03 March 1973
Time for Love features two stories of love. A businessman has a life style change while a rock singer finds it hard to change his way of life and romance.
28 March 1980
An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.
13 January 1971
Murphy is the sole survivor of his crew, that has been massacred by a German U-Boat in the closing days of World War II.
11 October 1996
Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s.
24 October 1993
A naive young woman arrives in Hollywood to become a star, but after she gets drugged and raped during a shoot, she hardens quickly and catches the eye of a popular womanizing comedian who introduces her to his shady powerful agent.
13 May 1975
A young doctor fresh out of medical school takes a job at a big-city hospital, and on his first day finds himself making life-and-death decisions.
03 August 1972
An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran.
07 March 1994
Action-adventure following a onetime Special Forces Captain in Vietnam turned tour guide in remote parts of Asia, who, while on a trek with two researchers in the Burmese jungle, meets up with a wartime enemy intent on settling an old score.
15 December 1965
Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. One night when at the clinic alone, a woman calls up the number and tells Alan that she needs to talk to someone.
18 March 1970
A successful African American businessman has a quarrel with a white policeman, suspecting that he is having an affair with his wife.
11 August 1959
Retired football player and current P. I. Brock Callahan (Ken Clark) is hired to investigate the death of a decorator.
14 February 1967
A headstrong aviatrix enters an international air race to save her father's foundering business and to soothe the heart of an old flame who returned home with a new wife in tow.
25 July 1978
In a mystical desert kingdom, young martial arts fighter Cord loses a contest to determine who will journey to take the powerful Book of All Knowedge from Zetan, an evil wizard.
08 August 1956
After 14 years in the United States, Greg Dickson returns to his family's plantation in the Philippines to settle his slain father's estate.
22 May 1993
The border of Burma and Thailand is lawless place, where people live and die by the law of the gun. Into this situation comes a young police lieutenant, intent on reforming the rough and rowdy local police force along the Salween River.
17 June 1970
A sophisticated, middle-aged grandmother, wed to a New York law professor, falls in love with a down-to-earth Tennessee farmer.
17 December 1987
The made-for-TV film stars Jack Warden, Lou Diamond Phillips and Stan Shaw as three patients in a Los Angeles-area mental institution.
01 March 1958
Louisiana's governor asks war hero Francis C. Grevemberg to lead the state police against corruption.
01 October 1987
Gorgeous Checkers Goldberg, a police detective, goes undercover as a stripper in order to stop a ruthless kingpin who has been using unsuspecting starlets in order to smuggle drugs into the United States.
27 March 1972
The small town hospital staff is trying to gain the confidence of the local farmers and merchants.
29 May 2017
Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s independence wars, a number of times.
26 October 1962
Route 66 Halloween Special
