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Carl Franklin

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Carl Franklin  (born April 11, 1949) is an American actor, screenwriter and film and television director. Franklin is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley and continued his education at the AFI Conservatory, where he graduated with an M.F.A. degree in directing in 1986. Franklin is most noted for Devil in a Blue Dress, which was based on the book by Walter Mosley and starred Denzel Washington and Don Cheadle. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carl Franklin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

11-04-1949

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Richmond, California, USA

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Dancing with the Devil: Carl Franklin on 'Devil in a Blue Dress'

Dancing with the Devil: Carl Franklin on 'Devil in a Blue Dress'

This conversation between director Carl Franklin and film noir historian Eddie Muller was recorded live onstage for a screening of 'Devil in a Blue Dress' at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago on August 17, 2018, as part of the Noir City Film Festival.
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2020

Hitchcocked!

Hitchcocked!

A tribute to the work of Alfred Hitchcock, featuring contemporary filmmakers, writers, performers, and cultural critics.
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2006

Shooting the Police: Cops on Film

Shooting the Police: Cops on Film

Documentary about how police have been portrayed on screen.
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2006

The Directors: The Films of Roger Corman

The Directors: The Films of Roger Corman

Documentary on Roger Corman
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1999

Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir

Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir

One of the first film noir documentaries, made for British Channel Four, and including interviews with Paul Schrader, Robert Wise, John Dahl, Bryan Singer, Edward Dmytryk, Dennis Hopper, John Alton.
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1995

In the Heat of Passion

In the Heat of Passion

A struggling actor lands the part of a rapist in a TV reenactment for a "Crimebusters" segment. He soon meets a beautiful rich woman whom he begins an affair with, even though she is married. Her husband soon finds out and is accidently killed. The two lovers cover up the crime, but the actor begins to wonder if there's more going on than he knows.
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1992

Full Fathom Five

Full Fathom Five

Adapted from the bestselling novel. Navy Captain Peter Mackenzie is sent on his toughest assignment when the Soviet nuclear sub KIROV is stolen and the weapons are aimed at the United States.
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1990

Last Stand at Lang Mei

Last Stand at Lang Mei

Vietnam, 1968. Army Headquarters has written off Captain Fahey's men as Missing In Action after they were fighting deep over enemy lines. Cut off from their platoon, they must fight their way back, or die! A true story of bravery and courage set amidst the chaos of war, and witness the gripping conclusion to the bloodiest day in American war history
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1989

Eye of the Eagle 2: Inside the Enemy

Eye of the Eagle 2: Inside the Enemy

When soldier Anthony Glenn discovers that Mai is missing, he sets out to rescue her from the corrupt Major Sorenson pitting soldier against soldier in a bloody game of honor.
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1989

Too Good to Be True

Too Good to Be True

A self-entitled woman is determined to keep her new man to herself at all costs.
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1988

ALF’s Special Christmas

ALF’s Special Christmas

The Tanners decide to spend Christmas in a cabin in the woods but ALF soon gets trapped in a box of toys going to a children's hospital.
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1987

A Smoky Mountain Christmas

A Smoky Mountain Christmas

A country-western singer on a trip through the Tennessee mountains runs into a reclusive backwoodsman — and a witch.
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1986

One Cooks, the Other Doesn't

One Cooks, the Other Doesn't

A real estate agent has a problem: his ex-wife and son are moving in with him-and his jealous bride.
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1983

Joshua's World

Joshua's World

The pilot story, set in the small town of Strawee, Arkansas in the '30s, follows the experiences of Joshua Torrance, a doctor whose practice is jeopardized by his opposition to racism as he attempts to treat blacks as equals.
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1980

The Legend of the Golden Gun

The Legend of the Golden Gun

In Kansas during the middle of the Civil War, John Golden is left for dead and his family has been killed by the ruthless Confederate outlaw William Quantrill. Rescued by runaway slave Joshua Brown, Golden is determined to get revenge. With the help of a legendary gunfighter and a special gun, Golden must not only deal with Quantrill and his men, but has to dodge General Custer and his army, as well.
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1979

Loose Change

Loose Change

Three girlfriends -- an author, an artist, and a political activist -- mature and change during the turbulent 1960s.
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1978

The Fantastic Journey

The Fantastic Journey

1 hour 55 minute edited "movie" version comprised of primarily episodes 1 and 2 of TV series of same name available on Tubi. Travelers are stranded in the Bermuda Triangle. On an island, they meet Varian, a man from the future, and Liana, an Atlantean. Together, they journey through different worlds, in hopes of returning home.
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1977

It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy

It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy

When Harry Walters runs out of gas, he gets picked up by a beautiful young woman. But when she pulls a gun on him and orders him to take his clothes off, Harry puts up no resistance and is sexually assaulted. He reports the incident to the authorities, but they either don't believe him, or, if they do, can't understand why he would consider it a crime - a reaction he also gets from his friends and family.
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1974

Five on the Black Hand Side

Five on the Black Hand Side

Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.
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1973