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Carl Franklin

Carl Franklin

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.

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Dancing with the Devil: Carl Franklin on 'Devil in a Blue Dress' (2020)

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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Hitchcocked! (2006)

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

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Shooting the Police: Cops on Film (2006)

An investigation of the cop movie phenomena with some of Hollywood's most intriguing filmmakers, actors, and personalities. ...

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Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir (1995)

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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In the Heat of Passion (1992)

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 lov ...

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Full Fathom Five (1990)

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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Last Stand at Lang Mei (1989)

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! ...

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Eye of the Eagle 2: Inside the Enemy (1989)

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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Too Good to Be True (1988)

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

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ALF’s Special Christmas (1987)

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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A Smoky Mountain Christmas (1986)

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

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One Cooks, the Other Doesn't (1983)

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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Joshua's World (1980)

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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The Legend of the Golden Gun (1979)

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 l ...

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Loose Change (1978)

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

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It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy (1974)

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 ...

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Five on the Black Hand Side (1973)

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' ...

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Movies Made By Carl Franklin (11)

Bless Me, Ultima (2013)

In a village in New Mexico, the life of young farm boy Antonio is dramatically changed when an old medicine woman joins his household. This affecting coming-of-age tale recounts Antonio's experiences to reveal the spiritual conflict in his community. ...

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Out of Time (2003)

Matt Lee Whitlock, respected chief of police in small Banyan Key, Florida, must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. Matt Lee has to stay a few steps ahead of his own police force and everyone he's trusted in order to fi ...

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High Crimes (2002)

A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer who has been AWOL for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military co ...

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One True Thing (1998)

A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother. ...

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Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)

In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Dap ...

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One False Move (1992)

Following a series of drug deals and murders, three criminals -- Fantasia, Ray Malcolm and Pluto -- travel from Los Angeles to Houston, finally arriving in a small Arkansas town to go into hiding. Two detectives from the LAPD, who are already on the case, ...

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Full Fathom Five (1990)

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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Last Stand at Lang Mei (1989)

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! ...

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Eye of the Eagle 2: Inside the Enemy (1989)

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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Nowhere to Run (1989)

Rural Texas, 1960 -- An age of good times and innocence, when growing up was supposed to be easy. Six high school seniors know the terrible secret that will make the difference in the biggest election in the county's history. Now they must make the most di ...

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Punk (1986)

Dominic is a boy trying to cope with the turmoil surrounding him. His life is about to take a very sharp turn. ...

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