Showing posts with label Charles Williams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charles Williams. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Born on this day – Charles Williams:


Writer

August 13, 1909 – April 5, 1975

Credits:

Books:

A Touch of Death / aka Mix Yourself a Redhead; based on 1953 novella And Share Alike (1954); Aground (1960); All the Way / aka The Concrete Flamingo (1958); And The Deep Blue Sea (1971); Big City Girl (1951); Dead Calm; based on the novella Pacific Honeymoon (1963); Girl Out Back / aka Operator; based on 1957 novella entitled either Operator or Operation (1958); Go Home, Stranger (1954); Hell Hath No Fury / aka The Hot Spot (1953); Hill Girl (1951); Man on a Leash (1973); Man on the Run / aka Man in Motion (1958); Nothing in Her Way (1953); River Girl / aka The Catfish Tangle (1951); Scorpion Reef / aka Gulf Coast Girl; based on novella Flight to Nowhere (1955); Talk of the Town / aka Stain of Suspicion (1958); The Big Bite (1956); The Diamond Bikini (1956); The Long Saturday Night / aka Confidentially Yours; Finally, Sunday! (1962); The Sailcloth Shroud (1960); The Wrong Venus / aka Don't Just Stand There (1966); Uncle Sagamore and His Girls (1959).

Movies and television:

Banana Peel (1963); Confidentially Yours (1983); Dead Calm (1989); Diamond Bikini (1971); Don't Just Stand There (1968); Folio (1955); Joy House (1964); La fille des collines (1990); Le gros coup (1964); Mieux vaut courir (1989); The 3rd Voice (1960); The Deep (1970); The Dictator's Guns (1965); The Hot Spot (1990); The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1975); The Pink Jungle (1968).


Thursday, October 26, 2023

On this day in movie history - The Hot Spot (1990)


The Hot Spot

directed by Dennis Hopper,

written by Charles Williams and Nona Tyson,

based on the novel Hell Hath No Fury by Charles Williams,

was released in the United States on October 26, 1990.

Music by Jack Nitzsche.


Cast:
Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly, Charles Martin Smith, William Sadler, Jerry Hardin, Barry Corbin, Leon Rippy, Jack Nance, Virgil Frye, John Hawker, Margaret Bowman, Debra Cole, Karen Culley, Cody Haynes, George Haynes, James N. Harrell, Edith Mills, Shannon Quinlan, Roosevelt Williams, Kirk Hunter, Mark Lawyer, Lynn Speier.