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...both Love Story and The Godfather, the studio was working with solidly presold properties, recent bestseller-list books with strong, clearly defined plots. (Love Story, of course, was a screenplay before it was a book. Evans talked Author Erich Segal into writing a novel from his original screenplay, and then spent $10,000-including cash doled out to studio employees to buy it in their local bookstores-to boost the book onto the bestseller lists. Only then did Paramount release the film...
Directed by FRANK PERRY Screenplay by DAVID ZELAG GOODMAN
Directed by CARLO LIZZANI Screenplay by LEWIS JOHN CARLINO...
...Harry Callahan has been criticized for taking the law into his own hands in his first movie. So in gun-toting tyro John Milius's Magnum Force screenplay, Harry is a law abiding liberal--at least in comparison to a uniformed squad of vigilantes, acting under orders of a San Francisco police commissioner. They enjoy killing everyone who is in cahoots with criminals, including innocent party girls. Harry, who still loves his Magnum 44 with the passion Clint Eastwood usually reserves for faithful animals, refuses to go along with them. "Nothing's wrong with shooting as long as the right...
...Screenplay by CALDER WILLINGHAM, JOANTEWKESBURYand ROBERT ALTMAN