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John Milius
Writer 82 years old

John Milius

St. Louis, Missouri, USA

John Frederick Milius is an American filmmaker. He was one of the writers for the first two Dirty Harry films, received an Academy Award nomination as screenwriter of Apocalypse Now, and wrote and directed The Wind and the Lion, Conan the Barbarian and Red Dawn. He wrote a... Read full bio →

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15 titles
Rough Riders

Rough Riders

1997 1h 32m

Explores the journey of the cavalry group led by Theodore Roosevelt in a charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War.

Clear and Present Danger

Clear and Present Danger

Phillip Noyce 1994 2h 21m 6.8

CIA analyst Jack Ryan investigates a murdered businessman tied to Colombian cartels, uncovering a widening crisis where political pressure, criminal power, and national security interests collide.

Geronimo: An American Legend

Geronimo: An American Legend

Walter Hill 1993 1h 55m 6.0

The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless.

Extreme Prejudice

Extreme Prejudice

Walter Hill 1987 1h 45m 7.0

A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries.

Red Dawn

Red Dawn

John Milius 1984 1h 54m 6.3

A group of teenagers look to save their town from an invasion of North Korean soldiers.

Conan the Barbarian

Conan the Barbarian

John Milius 1982 2h 10m 7.4

The epic tale of child sold into slavery who grows into a man who seeks revenge against the warlord who massacred his tribe.

Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now

Francis Ford Coppola 1979 2h 27m 8.7

During the Vietnam War, the assigned mission of Captain Willard take him through some strange and seemingly impossible scenarios in the jungle of Vietnam. Little by little Willard forgets his mission’s purpose as he becomes more and more hallucinatory and starts to lose sense of reality.

1941

1941

Steven Spielberg 1979 1h 58m 6.3

In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

Big Wednesday

Big Wednesday

John Milius 1978 2h 8.7

'Big Wednesday' is a gentle rites-of-passage movie that covers many years in the lives of three friends as they grow up but never entirely grow apart. Both touching and humorous, the film authentically recreates the spirit of 60s and 70s America, looking at the big issues of the time through the eyes of three ordinary young men.

The Wind and the Lion

The Wind and the Lion

John Milius 1975 1h 59m 7.0
Magnum Force

Magnum Force

Ted Post 1973 2h 4m 7.3

"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When shady characters are murdered one after another in grisly fashion, only Dirty Harry can stop them.

Dillinger

Dillinger

John Milius 1973 1h 47m 7.3

The life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934.

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

John Huston 1972 2h 7.3

A no account outlaw establishes his own particular brand of law and order and builds a town on the edges of civilization in this farcical western. With the aid of an old law text and unpredictable notions Roy Bean distinguishes between lawbreakers and lawgivers by way of his pistols

Jeremiah Johnson

Jeremiah Johnson

Sydney Pollack 1972 1h 48m 8.1
Evel Knievel

Evel Knievel

Marvin J. Chomsky 1971 1h 28m 5.0

Biography of the famed motorcycle daredevil, much of which was filmed in his home town of Butte, Montana. The film depicts Knievel reflecting on major events in his life just before a big jump.

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