Peter Mamakos

Görkem ve şaşaa bakımdan çok az film, Cecil B. De Mille'nin 1956 yapımı destansı "On Emir"iyle karşılaştırılabilir. En büyük film setlerinden biri kurularak Mısır ve Sina Yarımadası'nda çekilen filmde, Firavun'un (Yul Brynner) evinde ayrıcalığı olmasına rağmen insanları özgürlüğe kavuşturmak için bundan vazgeçen Musa'nın (Charlton Heston) hayatı anlatılıyor. Hem de Cecil De Mille'in bizzat kendisinin az rastlanır takdimiyle... Mısır Prensi, Musa, bir Musevi olarak gerçek mirasını ve halkının kurtarıcısı olarak büyük misyonunu öğrenir. Tüm yeni doğan erkek Musevileri ele geçiren Mısır Firavunu 1. Ramses'ten kaçmak için bebek Musa Nil üzerinde kamış sepetle yolculuğuna başlar. Firavunu kızı Bithiah tarafından kurtarılır, evlat edinilir ve erkek kardeşi Firavun Seti'nin sarayında büyütülür. Musa Seti'nin beğenisini ve veliaht prenses Nefertiri'nin sevgisini kazanırken Seti'nin oğlu Rameses'in de nefretini üstüne çeker...

Senaryosunu Frank S. Nugent’ın Alan Le May’in 1954 yılında yazdığı aynı adlı romanından uyarlayıp yazdığı filmin yönetmeni John Ford’dur. Filmde ırkçı bir savaş gazisinin kızılderililerin kaçırdığı yeğenini aramak için yollara düşmesi, yıllar süren bu arayış sırasında onu harekete geçiren amacın gittikçe daha tartışmalı bir hale gelişi konu ediliyor. Film çevrildiği yıl ses getirmediyse de, yıllar geçtikçe prestij kazanarak klasikleşmiştir. Kimilerine göre ise John Ford’un başyapıtıdır. 'The Searchers', Amerika’da 'kültürel, tarihi ve estetik olarak önemli' filmler arasına seçilmiş ve Kongre Kütüphanesi’nin 'Ulusal Film Arşivi'nde korunmasına karar verilmiştir.

Emiliano Zapata, Meksika'nın en saygın ulusal kahramanlarından, çiftçilerle Meksikalı yerlilerin özgürlüklerini ve toprak haklarını aramak için başlayan 1910 devriminin öncülerindendir. Senaryosunu John Steinbeck'in yazdığı bu biyografik filmde Zapata, romantik, idealist, alaycı, inatçı ve karizmatik bir önder olarak tasvir ediliyor. Viva Zapata! 1900'lerden başlayarak Zapata'nın köyde geçen çocukluğunu, erkek kardeşi Eufemio ve silah arkadaşı Pancho Villa ile birlikte dönemin gaddar başkanı Porfirio Diaz'a başkaldırışlarını ve devam eden olayları anlatıyor.

A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.

Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction, balks when he learns what is at stake and helps Leduc out instead.

Genç bir evli çift olan Henrietta ve Pete Robbins, Pete'in Brooklyn, New York’daki taksi şoförü maaşıyla zengin olmaktan çok uzaktır. Pete, borsada para kazanmak için gelen bir ihbarı değerlendirmek ister fakat üç bin dolara ihtiyacı vardır. Hiçbir banka onlara kredi vermediği için tefeciden borç alır. Borsa ile ilgili ihbar asılsız çıkınca Pete, tehlikeli bir tefeciye ciddi şekilde borçlanmıştır.

In Ispahan, Persia, Hajji Baba is leaving his father's shop to seek a greater fortune, while the Princess Fawzia is trying to talk her father, the Caliph into giving her in marriage to Nur-El-Din, a rival prince known far and wide as mean and fickle. Her father intends for Fawzia to marry a friend and ally, and makes plans to send her to him.

In this send-up of the Humphrey Bogart detective films of the 1940s, a man idolizes Bogart so much that he has his features altered to look exactly like him and then opens up a detective agency under the name Sam Marlow.

A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.

Taggart's family is slaughtered by a rival rancher. Taggart mortally wounds the rancher and kills his son. Before he dies the rancher hires three bounty hunters to avenge him with the promise of $5000 as a reward. Taggart must flee into Apache territory to escape the wrath of the trio of hired killers.

Singer is a deaf-mute whose small world brings him in contact with a young girl, Mick, who cherishes a seemingly hopeless dream of becoming a concert pianist. At first hostile, Mick soon becomes friends with Singer, hoping to enlarge his small world. Three other central characters come to Singer for help also, each of them seeing in him a powerful force.

Ruthless Italian-American banker Gino Monetti is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help their father stay out of prison after he's arrested for his questionable business practices. Three of them take over the business but kick their father out. Max, a lawyer, is the only son that remains loyal.

A U.S. Senator is spirited away to a secret New Mexico medical lab after a serious car crash. His injuries are completely healed by a secret organization that has developed advanced medical technology. What does the organization want in exchange for saving his life? Meanwhile, a reporter who witnessed the accident decides to investigate the senator's disappearance.

Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai. Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan.

Rocky and Dan, war buddies, are prowl car cops on night duty. Dan is a cynic who views all lawbreakers as scum; Rocky feels more lenient. Both are attracted to the radio voice of communicator Kate Mallory; but in person, Kate proves reluctant to get involved with men who just might stop a bullet. By lucky chance, Rocky and Dan cause big trouble for murderous racketeer Ritchie Garris; but when he swears vengeance, Kate's fears may prove justified.

Divers Brad and Tony arrive in Jamaica to attempt salvage of the Lady Luck, sunk with all hands and a million in gold. They charter the American Beauty, skippered by attractive Terry, but cannot find the ship. But there's more to the Lady Luck than meets the eye, and undersea skullduggery forms a counterpoint to Brad's romance with Terry, and Tony's with cabaret singer Venita.

Following the Civil War, brothers Dan and Neil Hammond return to Texas, where ambitious Dan turns to rustling and then shady land deals to build an empire. Being held for a murder, he's rescued from a lynch mob by Neil, now the Marshal, but they have an inevitable falling-out.

A discharged army Captain returns home to New Orleans to take revenge on the men who murdered his father.

Eddie Darrow, seeking a mobster's widow in Macao, gets involved in a casino owner's affairs.

The jungle king's cousin tries to get him to help find a diamond treasure.

Ölüm döşeğindeki oğlunu kurtarmak isteyen Yunan asıllı Amerikalı baba, bir umutla onu ata toprakları Yunanistan'a götürmeye karar verir. Temiz havanın çocuğuna şifa olacağını düşünür, ancak yol masrafları için gereken parayı bulmak büyük bir engeldir.

Siamese twins separated at birth retain a psychic link; each feels the other's pain and happiness.

Detective Mike Hammer's investigation of a murder puts him in the middle between warring jewel thieves.

The Lionians, a tribe of lion worshippers, make a desperate attempt to find a cure for the mysterious disease plaguing their village. Their Chief decides to kidnap Jane and Lola, a half-breed nurse, in order to help repopulate his civilization. Tarzan must rescue them while fending off blowgun attacks from people called the Waddies who are disguised as bushes.

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors. Mannix was the last series produced by Desilu Productions.

The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.

Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.

The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly and clever, none of the Mavericks are much for acts of derring do, but they can be courageous when the situation calls for it. Most often, however, they live by their wits and considerable charm.

Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon often calls with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the Batmobile, Batman and Robin must (with the help of their trusty Bat-utility-belt) thwart the efforts of a variety of master criminals, including The Riddler, The Joker, Catwoman, and The Penguin.

Maxwell Smart, a hilariously inept and maladroit secret agent for CONTROL, battles the nefarious—though equally incompetent—KAOS.

Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who turns his back on a gold badge and goes back to patrolling the streets and training recruits. Along with his young partners in blue, Hooker take on Lake City's toughest criminals.

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black-and-white program aired for 229 episodes on ABC from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian in the title role.

Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.

Hava Kurdu teknoloji şahikası son derece modifiye bir helikopter idi. Kızların idollerinden Jan-Michel Vincent, Hava Kurdu'nu uçuran Hawke'ı canlandırırdı, eski meşhur artistlerden Ernest Borgnine de yardımcısı Dominik'i oynardı. Bunlar ne zaman vukuat olsa cihazı sakladıkları mağaradan çıkartır, kötüleri haklarlardı, çünkü bu helikopter maşşallah Yıldız Savaşları'ndaki Millenium Falcon gibiydi, hedefe kilitlendi mi, attığını vururdu. Hedefe kilitlenmek lafı bu diziyle dillerimize pelesenk olmuştur. Dosya şifreleri sezon sonlarında belirtilmiştir.

Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.

A magical island hosted by Mr Roarke and Tattoo where weekly guests learn valuable life lessons in their pursuit of fulfilling their dreams. Not all dreams are fulfilled as expected.

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.

Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.

The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The live-action series initially featured Gerald Mohr as the episode narrator. Fred Foy served as both narrator and announcer of the radio series from 1948 to its finish and became announcer of the television version when story narration was dropped there. This was by far the highest-rated television program on the ABC network in the early 1950s and its first true "hit".

A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.

Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of the small western town of Taos, New Mexico is assigned to the metropolitan New York City Police Department (NYPD) as a special investigator.

Join the crew of the Seaview aboard their super high-tech submarine, where no mission is too dangerous and no threat is too deadly, be it enemy agents, mad scientists, deadly sea creatures, or impending nuclear disaster.

Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone would become a second father to Keller as he learned the rigors and procedures of detective work.

The Texan was a Western television series starring popular B movie actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network from 1958 to 1960.

Set fifteen years in the then-future year 1983, the series tells the tale of the crew and passengers of a sub-orbital transport ship named Spindrift. In the pilot episode, the Spindrift is en route from Los Angeles to London, on an ultra-fast sub-orbital flight. Just beyond Earth's boundary with space, the Spindrift encounters a magnetic space storm, and is dragged through a space warp to a mysterious planet where everything is twelve times larger than on Earth, whose inhabitants the Earthlings nickname "the Giants". The Spindrift crash-lands, and the damage renders it inoperable.

The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. It starred Michael Cole as Pete Cochren, Peggy Lipton as Julie Barnes, Clarence Williams III as Linc Hayes, and Tige Andrews as Captain Adam Greer. The executive producers of the series were Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas. The iconic counter-culture police series earned six Emmy nominations, four Golden Globe nominations plus one win for Peggy Lipton, one Directors Guild of America award, and four Logies. In 1997 the episode "Mother of Sorrow" was ranked #95 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.