Movies by Jack Smight
As a director:
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Intimate Power (1989)
Cast: Amber O'Shea, F. Murray Abraham, Maud Adams …
Directed by: Jack Smight
Based on a true story, this sweeping docudrama stars Amber O'Shea as French schoolgirl Aimée Dubucq de Rivéry, who's sold into slavery and forced into a sultan's harem in…
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Number One With a Bullet (1987)
Cast: Billy Dee Williams, Robert Carradine, Valerie Bertinelli …
Directed by: Jack Smight
Frustrated by the lack of success their recent undercover operations have produced, detectives Hazeltine (Billy Dee Williams) and Berzak (Robert Carradine) make the unpopular decision to…
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Remembrance of Love (1982)
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Pam Dawber, Robert Clary …
Directed by: Jack Smight
Widower and Auschwitz survivor Joe Rabin (Kirk Douglas, in a rare TV role) reluctantly joins his daughter, Marcy (Pam Dawber), on a trip to the 1981 World Gathering of Holocaust Survivors in…
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Loving Couples (1980)
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, James Coburn, Susan Sarandon …
Directed by: Jack Smight
This witty sex comedy stars Shirley MacLaine and James Coburn as a pair of married doctors who get caught up in tag-team mate swapping. After middle-aged Evelyn (MacLaine) begins a tryst with…
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Fast Break (1979)
Cast: Gabe Kaplan, Harold Sylvester, Michael Warren …
Directed by: Jack Smight
Gabe Kaplan stars as David Greene, a New York deli owner who moonlights as a basketball coach at pickup games around the city. One day, David gets the offer of his dreams: a coaching position…
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Midway (1976)
Cast: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn …
Directed by: Jack Smight
Screen legends Charlton Heston, Toshirô Mifune, Robert Mitchum and Henry Fonda band together for this sprawling war film that depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of…
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Airport 1975 (1974)
Cast: Charlton Heston, Karen Black, Linda Blair …
Directed by: Jack Smight
When a Boeing 747 loses its pilots in a midair collision, lead flight attendant Nancy (Karen Black) is forced to take over its controls. As passengers grow frantic, flight instructor Alan…
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Frankenstein: The True Story (1973)
Cast: James Mason, David McCallum, Agnes Moorehead …
Directed by: Jack Smight
Noteworthy for its faithfulness to Mary Shelley's novel, this version of the Frankenstein tale stars Leonard Whiting as the obsessed doctor who brings to life a creature made of dead…
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Airport / Airport 1975 (1970)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg …
Directed by: George Seaton, Jack Smight
The first Airport film focuses on a 12-hour period at a major airport where manager Mel Bakersfeld (Burt Lancaster) must deal with a powerful blizzard, a blocked runway and a mentally…
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The Illustrated Man (1969)
Cast: Claire Bloom, Rod Steiger, Jason Evers …
Directed by: Jack Smight
Rod Steiger plays the titular character -- a man covered with tattoos -- in this adaptation of Ray Bradbury's tale. When a young drifter (Robert Drivas) encounters "the illustrated man,"…
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No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)
Cast: Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal …
Directed by: Jack Smight
This darkly comic thriller follows Christopher Gill (Rod Steiger), a Broadway producer whose troubled relationship with his mother has transformed him into a killer. Gill, a master of…
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Harper (1966)
Cast: Lauren Bacall, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh …
Directed by: Jack Smight
Paul Newman steps into the hard-boiled tradition of Sam Spade and Phillip Marlowe as Lew Harper, a "new type" of detective -- as he puts it. Lauren Bacall plays the wife of a missing…