Direction: Peter Yates

Direction Peter Yates

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

Synopsis 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 stars as tough-guy police detective Frank Bullitt. The story begins...

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

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

Synopsis 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 Security Agent for MI9, getting his exotic assignments exclusively from...

Direction Peter Yates

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

Synopsis 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 as the company struggles to carry on during the London...

Direction Peter Yates

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

Synopsis 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 and college kids sets the scene for the story of...

Direction Peter Yates

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

Synopsis 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 of Eddie Coyle. World-weary and living hand to mouth, Coyle...

Direction Peter Yates

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 everywhere. A smooth-talking adventurer, the Saint goes in where angels...

Direction Peter Yates

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 of cat burglars and hatches an elaborate plan for stealing...

Direction Peter Yates

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

Synopsis 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 was killed in the civil war years earlier. In a...

Direction Peter Yates

Cast Cher · Dennis Quaid · Liam Neeson · John Mahoney

Synopsis 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 his lawyer. She sets to find the real killer, and...

Direction Peter Yates

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

Synopsis 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 his parents died. Michael would grow up go to school,...

Direction Peter Yates

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

Synopsis 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 island and begins to plot his vengence. He wishes to...

Direction Peter Yates

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

Synopsis 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. During their wedding ceremony the Beast, a monstrous dark force...

Direction Peter Yates

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

Synopsis 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 deadly wreck in Bermuda waters. Featuring extended underwater sequences and...

Direction Peter Yates

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood...

Direction Peter Yates

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

Synopsis 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 fantasies, Tony (Sigourney Weaver), a beautiful local newscaster. Darryl's life...

Direction Peter Yates

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

Synopsis 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 that a deal will be made by the Americans and...

Direction Peter Yates

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

Synopsis 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 hungry for marriage, but he doesn't want to say "I...