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Directed by Martin Scorsese; Screenplay by Paul D. Zimmerman...
WITHOUT A TRACE Directed by Stanley R. Jaffe Screenplay by Beth Gutcheon
...date for the invasion of Poland: Sept. 1. As the series progresses, other events familiar from the history books fly by: the fall of France, the Battle of Britain, the German attack on the Soviet Union and, finally, the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. Wouk, who wrote the screenplay from his 885-page novel, ingeniously invented a witness to these dramatic events, Victor ("Pug") Henry, a commander (later captain) in the U.S. Navy. Sent to Berlin as the American naval attache in the spring of 1939, Henry, played by Robert Mitchum, meets all the top Nazi leaders. Through his prescience...
...produced the Academy Award winning Kramer vs. Kramer, Goodbye Columbus, and Taps--said he was attracted by the human drama in Beth Gutcheon's adaptation of her novel Still Missing, based loosely on the real-life disappearance of Etan Patz. He added that he felt capable of directing this screenplay without worrying about his lack of acting experience because it was straightforward and unpretentious: A middle-class couple, very successful woman and her estranged husband are unexpectedly victimized by their son's disappearance. Instead of making a detective flick in which the main plot focused on the police investigation...
...bright spots in this otherwise dismal production is ex-Monkee Michael Nesmith's snappy, techno-country-Western soundtrack. But Nesmith also co-wrote the juvenile screenplay, and it seems a clear Indication as in where his talents...