William FriedkinOn Court & OffPhilip d'Antoni, a director/producer just coming off the success of 1968's San Francisco cop flick Bullitt, was the one to bring director William Friedkin on board...

Ernest TidymanCommitted to PrintJournalist Robin Moore wrote more than seventy books of fiction and nonfiction over his long career. Just one of those books was the story of the then-largest heroin...

Twentieth Century FoxTwentieth Century Fox is one of the biggest movie-making machines in the world, a Pepsi or Coke of popcorn experiences. But it started as an indie enterprise, when in 1915, the...

Surveillance NoirThe dusty dimness of a New York winter? Check. Hand-held cameras? Check. Camera fastened to cars on ad-hoc rigs, or on shaky cranes? Check. High-speed film stock to capture every b...

All That Jazz?Composer/jazz musician Don Ellis was responsible for scoring the film, from the opening credits to the closing ones, with rumbling, slow percussion and low, mournful horns. Ellis bega...