On this day in movie history - Machine Gun McCain:

Machine Gun McCain

Italian title: Gli intoccabili

English translation: The Untouchables

directed by Giuliano Montaldo

written by Mino Roli, Israel Horovitz and Giuliano Montaldo,

based on the novel Candyleg by Ovid Demaris,

was released in Italy on April 1, 1969.

Music by Ennio Morricone.

 

Cast:

John Cassavetes, Britt Ekland, Peter Falk, Gabriele Ferzetti, Pierluigi Aprà, Luigi Pistilli, Margherita Guzzinati, Claudio Biava, Steffen Zacharias, James Morrison, Florinda Bolkan, Tony Kendall, Salvo Randone, Gena Rowlands, Maria Mizar, Euplio Moscusu, Mirella Pamphili, Raffaele Triggia, Gaetano Imbró, Silvana Bacci, Franco Riti, Jack Ackerman, Annabella Andreoli, Val Avery, Carla Brait, Nat Bush, Ennanno Consolazione, Carol Doda, Dan Gregory, Tery Hare, Werner Hasselmann, Billy Lee, Giuseppina Quinn, Dennis Sallas, Karen Valenti, Bill Vanders.

On this day in movie history - Opening Night (1977)

Opening Night

directed and written by John Cassavetes,

was released in the United States on December 25, 1977.

Music by Bo Harwood.

Cast:

Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Joan Blondell, Paul Stewart, Zohra Lampert, Laura Johnson, John Tuell, Ray Powers, John Finnegan, Louise Lewis, Fred Draper, Katherine Cassavetes, Lady Rowlands, Carol Warren, Briana Carver, Angelo Grisanti, Meade Roberts, Eleanor Zee, David Rowlands, Sharon Van Ivan, Jimmy Christie, James Karen, Jimmy Joyce, Sherry Bain, Sylvia Davis Shaw, Peter Lampert, Josh Becker, Peter Bogdanovich, Seymour Cassel, Robert Dassanowsky, Peter Falk, Jana Howard, Ronisue Kiser, William Kramer, Patrick Labyorteaux, Robert Leader, Naomi Stevens.

Born on this day – John Cassavetes:

John Cassavetes

Actor

Director

Writer

December 9, 1929 – February 3, 1989

Credits:

A Woman Under the Influence (1974); Affair in Havana (1957); Alcoa Theatre (1958); Alexander the Great (1963); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956); Appointment with Adventure (1956); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1955); Bandits in Rome (1968); Before Opening Night (2010); Big Trouble (1986); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1965–1967); Brass Target (1978); Breaking Point (1963); Burke's Law (1964–1965); Capone (1975); Channing (1963); Climax! (1956); Columbo (1972); Combat! (1965); Crime in the Streets (1956); Danger (1954–1955); Devil's Angels (1967); A Child Is Waiting (1963); Dr. Kildare (1962); Edge of the City (1957); Faces (1968); Flesh & Blood (1979); General Electric Theater (1959); Gloria (1980); Gloria (1999); Goodyear Playhouse (1955); Heroes (1977); Husbands (1970); Johnny Staccato (1959–1960); If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969); King Kongs Faust (1985); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1965); Kraft Theatre (1955–1956); Love Streams (1984); Lux Playhouse (1959); Lux Video Theatre (1951); Machine Gun McCain (1969); Minnie and Moskowitz (1971); Marvin & Tige (1983); Mikey and Nicky (1976); NBC Television Opera Theatre (1954); Nightside (1973); Off to See the Wizard (1968); Omnibus (1954); Opening Night (1977); Our Virgin Island (1958); Playhouse 90 (1957); Ponds Theater (1955); Profiles in Courage (1965); Pursuit (1958); Rawhide (1961); Robert Montgomery Presents (1954); Rosemary's Baby (1968); Saddle the Wind (1958); Shadows (1958); She's So Lovely (1997); Studio One (1958); Taxi (1953); Tempest (1982); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1956); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Dirty Dozen (1967); The Elgin Hour (1955); The Fury (1978); The Haircut (1982); The Incubus (1981); The Killers (1964); The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976); The Legend of Jesse James (1965); The Lloyd Bridges Show (1962–1963); The Long, Hot Summer (1966); The Night Holds Terror (1955); The Virginian (1966); The Webster Boy (1962); Too Late Blues (1961); Two-Minute Warning (1976); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1965); Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981); Woman Under the Influence (2017); You Are There (1953).

On this day in movie history - Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

directed by John Badham,

written by Reginald Rose,

based on the play by Brian Clark,

was released in the United States on December 2, 1981.

Music by Arthur B. Rubinstein.

Cast:

Richard Dreyfuss, John Cassavetes, Christine Lahti, Bob Balaban, Thomas Carter, Kaki Hunter, Kenneth McMillan, Janet Eilber.

 

On this day in movie history - A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

A Woman Under the Influence

directed and written by John Cassavetes,

was released in the United States on November 18, 1974.

Music by Bo Harwood.

Cast:

Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands, Fred Draper, Lady Rowlands, Katherine Cassavetes, Matthew Labyorteaux, Matthew Cassel, Christina Grisanti, George Dunn, Mario Gallo, Eddie Shaw, Angelo Grisanti, Charles Horvath, James Joyce, John Finnegan, Cliff Carnell, Frank Richards, Hugh Hurd, Leon Wagner, Dominique Davalos, Xan Cassavetes, Pancho Meisenheimer, Sonny Aprile, Ellen Davalos, Joanne Moore Jordan, John Hawker, Sylvester Words, Elizabeth Deering, Jackie Peters, Elsie Ames, N.J. Cassavetes.

On this day in movie history - Gloria (1980)

Gloria

directed and written by John Cassavetes,

was released in the United States on October 1, 1980.

Music by Bill Conti.

Cast:

Gena Rowlands, Julie Carmen, Tony Knesich, Gregory Cleghorne, Buck Henry, John Adames, Lupe Garnica, Jessica Castillo, Tom Noonan, Ronald Maccone, George Yudzevich, Gary Howard Klar, William E. Rice, Frank Belgiorno, J.C. Quinn, Alex Stevens, Sonny Landham, Harry Madsen, Shanton Granger, John Pavelko, Ray Baker, Ross Charap, Irvin Graham, Michael Proscia, T.S. Rosenbaum, Santos Morales, Meta Shaw Stevens, Marilyn Putnam, John Finnegan, Gaetano Lisi, Richard M. Kaye, Steve Lefkowitz, George Poidomani, Lawrence Tierney, Asa Adil Qawee, Vincent Pecorella, Iris Fernandez, Jade Bari, David Resnick, Thomas J. Buckman, Joe Dabenigno, Bill Wiley, John M. Sefakis, Val Avery, Walter Dukes, Janet Ruben, Ferruccio Hrvatin, Edward Wilson, Basilio Franchina, Carl Levy, Warren Selvaggi, Nathan Seril, Vladimir Drazenovic, Edward Jacobs, Brad Johnston, Jerry Jaffe, Chris McCabe Adams, Maja Niles, Jerry Schram, Filomena Spagnuolo.

On this day in television history - Johnny Staccato (1959 - 1960)

Johnny Staccato

a.k.a Staccato

was released in the United States on September 10, 1959,

and ran for two seasons until March 17, 1960.

Music by Elmer Bernstein.

Cast:

John Cassavetes, Warren Berlinger, Geraldine Brooks, Walter Burke, Elisha Cook, Jr., Lloyd, Corrigan, Frank DeKova, Norman Fell, Marianne Gaba, Ingrid Goude, Harry Guardino, Arline Hunter, Martin Landau, Michael Landon, Cloris Leachman, Ruta Lee, Sylvia Lewis, Charles McGraw, John Marley, Elizabeth Montgomery, Mary Tyler Moore, Susan Oliver, J. Pat O'Malley, Gena Rowlands, Vito Scotti, Dean Stockwell, Nita Talbot, Jack Weston.

On this day in movie history - The Night Holds Terror (1955)

The Night Holds Terror

directed and written by Andrew L. Stone,

was released in the United States on July 13, 1955.

Based on the true 1953 Courtier case.

Music by Lucien Cailliet.

Cast:

Jack Kelly, Hildy Parks, Vince Edwards, John Cassavetes, David Cross, Eddie Marr, Jack Kruschen, Joyce McCluskey, Jonathan Hale, Barney Phillips, Roy Neal, Joel Marston, Guy Kingsford, Stanley Andrews, Charles Herbert, Barbara Woodell, William Woodson.