• Power Play is a 1978 British-Canadian political thriller film starring Peter O'Toole and David Hemmings, based on the 1968 non-fiction strategy book Coup...
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  • Higgins Power Play (1978 film), a 1978 British-Canadian political thriller film Power Play (2003 film), a 2003 American action film Power Play (2021 film),...
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  • The year 1978 in film involved some significant events. The top ten 1978 released films by box office gross in the United States and Canada are as follows:...
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  • Pretty Baby is a 1978 American historical drama film directed by Louis Malle, written by Polly Platt, and starring Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, and...
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  • The Swarm is a 1978 American natural horror film directed and produced by Irwin Allen and based on Arthur Herzog's 1974 novel. It stars an ensemble cast...
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  • 1978 superhero film based on the DC Comics superhero Superman, played by Christopher Reeve. It is the first of four installments in the Superman film...
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  • Dr. Strange is a 1978 American superhero television film based on the Marvel Comics fictional character of the same name, co-created by Steve Ditko and...
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  • American films released in 1978. The highest-grossing American films released in 1978, by domestic box office gross revenue, are as follows: List of 1978 box...
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  • The Lord of the Rings is a 1978 British-American animated fantasy film directed by Ralph Bakshi from a screenplay by Chris Conkling and Peter S. Beagle...
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  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1978 American science-fiction horror film directed by Philip Kaufman, and starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams...
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    Dürnrohr Power Station was built nearby as a replacement thermal power station. Following the 1978 referendum, no commercial nuclear power plant (built...
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    quartiere of Parioli. Power began trying out for film roles at age 12. She made her screen debut at age 14 in the Italian film Menage all'italiana, starring...
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  • fundamentally similar to the 1978 exploitation flick I Spit on Your Grave "in which a man victimizes a woman for the first half of the film, and then the woman...
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  • A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1978 (see 1978 in film): Star Wars Grease Close Encounters of the Third Kind Saturday Night Fever Revenge...
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    Jay Hernandez (category 1978 births)
    Hernandez (born February 20, 1978) is an American actor. After making his television debut in NBC's Hang Time, he made his film debut opposite Kirsten Dunst...
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    similarly ignored. The film was only picked up by an American distributor in 1991, two years after Cassavetes' death. In 1978, it was entered into the...
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  • Anya Corazon in the Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU) film Madame Web (2024) helped prepare her to play Hawkgirl, though she did not tell the Superman filmmakers...
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    his television debut in 1978 in the serial Will Shakespeare (1978). He also acted in the docudrama Death of a Princess, a film about the execution of Misha'al...
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    a type of play that was neither a comedy nor a tragedy. It is this narrower sense that the film and television industries, along with film studies, adopted...
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  • genre hit its peak between 1978 and 1984 in an era referred to as the "Golden Age" of slasher films. Notable slasher films include The Texas Chain Saw...
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  • The Deer Hunter is a 1978 American epic war drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a trio of Slavic-American steelworkers whose lives...
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  • Play Safe is a series of three public information films (PIFs) directed by David Eady and broadcast in the United Kingdom from 1978 highlighting to children...
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  • John Cazale (category 1978 deaths)
    Holland Cazale (/kəˈzæl/; August 12, 1935 – March 13, 1978) was an American actor. He appeared in five films over seven years: The Godfather (1972), The Conversation...
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  • for Play of the Week episode "The Power and the Glory" Sochurek, Howard (Sept 1961), "Power and Glory of Sir Laurence", Life, issue 29 The Power and the...
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  • The Thirty Nine Steps [sic] is a British 1978 thriller film directed by Don Sharp, with screenplay by British playwright Michael Robson, based on the novel...
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  • Smoke (also referred to as Cheech & Chong's Up in Smoke) is a 1978 American comedy film directed by Lou Adler and starring Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong,...
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    Tower of Power is an American R&B and funk based band and horn section, originating in Oakland, California, that has been performing since 1968. There...
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  • supporting roles played by Laurence Olivier, Daniel Day-Lewis, Liam Neeson, Bernard Hill and Edward Fox. The Bounty began production in late 1978 under director...
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    David Mamet (redirect from Reunion (play))
    adaptation of his play Oleanna (1992). He created and produced the CBS series The Unit (2006–2009). Mamet's books include: On Directing Film (1991), a commentary...
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  • spent several years opening up his stage play-like cerebral mystery to meet the needs of a big budget studio film. When the studio decided to use the name...
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