The Boys from Brazil

Franklin J. Schaffner

Barry Kohler, a young Nazi hunter, tracks down a group of former SS officers meeting in Paraguay in the late 1970s. The Nazis, led by Dr. Mengele (Gregory Peck), are planning something. Old Nazi hunter, Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier in an Academy Award-nominated performance), is at first uninterested in Kohler's findings. But when he is told something of their plan, he is eager to find out more. Lieberman visits several homes in Europe and the U. S. in order to uncover the Nazi plot. It is at one of these houses he notices something strange, which turns out to be a horrible discovery. THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL was nominated for three Academy Awards.


Lionheart (1986)

Franklin J. Schaffner

Eric Stoltz stars as Robert Nerra, a young 12th century knight journeying to join King Richard the Lionhearted. But Robert discovers instead the hungry, tattered and forgotten children orphaned by the Crusade ... and the Black Prince (Gabriel Byrne), the ruthless warlord who wants to sell the children into slavery. Where myth and history meet--where good vanquishes evil--the heart of a lion beats in the body of a child in this brave and wondrous tale of long ago.


The Double Man

Franklin J. Schaffner

Academy Award winner Yul Brenner stars in this taut espionage thriller as a CIA agent lured to the Austrian Alps by the death of his teenage son ... only discover that the death was not an accident, but part of a diabolical plot to replace him inside the CIA with a surgically altered Soviet agent--The Double Man.


Papillon

Franklin J. Schaffner

Academy Award-winner Dustin Hoffman ("Rain Man," "Tootsie") and Steve McQueen ("The Getaway," "Bullitt") star in this superb but brutal prison film about two convicts on Devil's Island and one's determination to escape, despite the odds. One of the year's top box-office hits!


Yes, Giorgio

Franklin J. Schaffner

There's no mistaking the grand voice, the outsized personality, the friendly, open face. Stepping outside his traditional operatic canon to star in his only feature film is renowned tenor Luciano Pavarotti. Not that the "King of the High Cs" steps too far outside with this breezy tale of romance. Nor would fans want things any other way. The role of an opera star touring the U.S. provides an ample showcase for Pavarotti's rich vocal artistry in works including Ave Maria, La Donna È Mobile, his signature Nessun Dorma, even I Left My Heart in San Francisco. Franklin J. Schaffner (Patton) directs, with locations including Italy, Boston, New York and the Napa Valley. Bravo, Giorgio! Bravissimo, Luciano!


Patton

Franklin J. Schaffner

A critically acclaimed film that won a total of eight 1970 Academy Awards (Including Best Picture), Patton is a riveting portrait of one of the 20th century's greatest military geniuses. One of it's Oscars went to George Patton, the only Allied general truly feared by the Nazis. Charismatic and Flamboyant, Patton designed his own uniforms, sported ivory-handled six-shooters, and believed he was a warrior in past lives. He outmanuevered Rommel in Africa, and after D-Day led his troops in an unstoppable campaign across Europe. But he was rebellious as well insight and poignancy, his own volatile personality was one enemy he could never defeat.


Sphinx

Franklin J. Schaffner

Someone is hunting tourists out of season in this romantic adventure thriller directed by Franklin J. Schaffner (Planet of the Apes, Patton, Papillon, The Boys From Brazil) and starring Lesley-Anne Down, Frank Langella, and John Gielgud. A beautiful, dedicated Egyptologist finds her life threatened many times while traveling from Cairo to Luxor's Valley of the Kings in search of a mysterious tomb of riches, which also holds great interest for black marketeers. Based on a novel by Robin Cook.


Nicholas and Alexandra

Franklin J. Schaffner

A fascinating look at the last, tragic Russian monarchs; the kindly, indecisive Czar Nicholas and his reclusive, fear-haunted Czarina. The story follows their problems from the onset through the introduction of Rasputin to the Russian Court, to the Czar's abdication and the family's execution at Ekaterinburg on July 16, 1918.


Islands In the Stream

Franklin J. Schaffner

War. Freedom. Loyalty. Love. Manhood. Ernest Hemingway's most powerful themes are gloriously captured in Islands In The Stream. George C. Scott and director Franklin J. Shaffner, who teamed so memorably in Patton, reunite in this compelling version of "Papa" Hemingway's posthumous novel. Scott plays Thomas Hudson, a sculptor whose self-imposed isolation in the Bahamas is ended by two forces: the visit of his sons...and the outbreak of World War II. The film is touching in its details of a father's love- and heroic in its defiance of tyranny. The rich sweep of a literary legend washes over Islands In The Stream.