Direction: Peter Yates

Direction Peter Yates

Cast Steve McQueen · Jacqueline Bisset · Robert Vaughn · Don Gordon

Plot Robert L. Pike's crime novel Mute Witness makes the transition to the big screen in this film from director Peter Yates. In one of his most famous roles, Steve McQueen...

Direction Don Chaffey · Michael Truman · Peter Yates · Quentin Lawrence

Cast Patrick McGoohan · Peter Madden · Earl Cameron · Zia Mohyeddin

Plot Three years after the original "Danger Man" series concluded, it was revamped and continued in a longer format. (1 hour/episode instead of 30 minutes). John Drake was now a Special...

Direction Peter Yates

Cast Albert Finney · Tom Courtenay · Edward Fox · Eileen Atkins

Plot In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star...

Direction Peter Yates

Cast Dennis Christopher · Dennis Quaid · Daniel Stern · Jackie Earle Haley

Plot BREAKING AWAY is a winning coming-of-age story with unusually well drawn characters, smart social commentary, and a terrific ensemble of fresh-faced actors soon to be famous. The rivalry between townies...

Direction Peter Yates

Cast Robert Mitchum · Peter Boyle · Richard Jordan · Steven Keats

Plot In one of the best performances of his legendary career, Robert Mitchum plays small-time gunrunner Eddie “Fingers” Coyle in Peter Yates’s adaptation of George V. Higgins’s acclaimed novel The Friends...

Direction Peter Yates

Cast Stanley Baker · James Booth · Frank Finlay · Joanna Pettet

Plot Dramatization of the true story of the 1963 British Royal Mail robbery.

Direction Leslie Charteris · Leslie Norman · Roy Ward Baker · Jeremy Summers

Cast Roger Moore · Ivor Dean · Leslie Crawford · Justine Lord

Plot TV Series (1962-1969). 6 Seasons. 118 Episodes. Simon Templar is The Saint - adored by women, feared by his adversaries and a constant thorn in the side of police forces...

Direction Peter Yates

Cast Dustin Hoffman · Mia Farrow · Michael Tolan · Sunny Griffin

Plot Dustin Hoffman is John, and Mia Farrow is Mary in this drama about a couple who meet in a singles bar.

Direction Peter Yates

Cast Robert Redford · George Segal · Ron Leibman · Paul Sand

Plot Dr. Amusa approaches Dortmunder about a valuable gem in a museum that is of great signifigance to his people in Africa, stolen during colonial times. Dortmunder assembles a crack team...

Direction Peter Yates

Cast Kate Nelligan · John Malkovich · Linda Hunt · Oliver Cotton

Plot Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother...

Direction Peter Yates

Cast Cher · Dennis Quaid · Liam Neeson · John Mahoney

Plot A judge commits suicide, and his secretary is found murdered. A homeless deaf-mute man, Carl Anderson is arrested for her murder. Public defender Kathleen is assigned by the court as...

Direction Peter Yates

Cast Peter Falk · D.B. Sweeney · Julianne Moore · Ellen Burstyn

Plot Michael Holeczak has a most unusual roommate, his grandfather, Rocky. Now Rocky's a bit strange but loves Michael and only has his best interest. Michael would live with Rocky after...

Direction Peter Yates

Cast Peter O'Toole · Philippe Noiret · Sian Phillips · Horst Janson

Plot Late WWII. Murphys' ship sunk by German U-boat, and survivors are brutally shot up in the water. Murphy is the sole survivor of his crew. He lands on a forgotten...

Direction Peter Yates

Cast Ken Marshall · Freddie Jones · Lysette Anthony · Liam Neeson

Plot Fantasy meets science fiction in this visually spectacular tale of valiant Prince Colwyn (Ken Marshall) and Lyssa (Lysette Anthony), his young bride-to-be, who dwell in the mythical kingdom of Krull....

Direction Peter Yates

Cast Jacqueline Bisset · Nick Nolte · Robert Shaw · Eli Wallach

Plot Peter Benchley, who wrote Jaws, also wrote The Deep. A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a...

Direction Peter Yates

Cast Kelly McGillis · Jeff Daniels · Jessica Tandy · Mandy Patinkin

Plot A romantic thriller about a woman who inadvertantly uncovers a government conspiracy to smuggle Nazi war criminals into the United States six years after World War II has ended.

Direction Peter Yates

Cast Tom Selleck · F. Murray Abraham · Laila Robins · David Rasche

Plot Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot,...

Direction Peter Yates

Cast Sigourney Weaver · William Hurt · James Woods · Christopher Plummer

Plot This taut, twisting thriller stars William Hurt as Darryl Deever, a quiet New york City night janitor who leads a simple, unassuming life while dreaming of the woman of his...

Direction Peter Yates

Cast Barbra Streisand · Michael Sarrazin · Estelle Parsons · Molly Picon

Plot Henrietta Robins works out of her home and her husband Pete drives a cab to try to support her. When Pete gets a tip from one of his fellow drivers...

Direction Peter Yates

Cast James Spader · Michael Caine · Maggie Smith · Polly Walker

Plot Stevenson Lowe (James Spader) and his girlfriend, Julia (Polly Walker), move into a brownstone haunted by an old unhappily married couple (Michael Caine and Maggie Smith). The young woman is...