True Confessions (film), the Glossary
True Confessions is a 1981 American neo-noir crime drama film directed by Ulu Grosbard and starring Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall as the brothers Spellacy, a priest and police detective.[1]
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52 relations: Alain Silver, Alverno Heights Academy, American Film Institute, Bagman, Bill Conti, Black Dahlia, Box Office Mojo, Burgess Meredith, Charles Durning, Chicago Sun-Times, Crime film, Cyril Cusack, Dan Hedaya, Echo Park, Ed Flanders, Georges Delerue, Irwin Winkler, James Hong, Jeanette Nolan, Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne, John Judis, Kenneth McMillan (actor), List of Playboy Playmates of 1979, Los Angeles Police Department, Lynzee Klingman, Metacritic, Monsignor, National Review, Neo-noir, Owen Roizman, Pat Corley, Paul Salamunovich, Paul Schrader, Raging Bull, Richard Foronjy, Robert Chartoff, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Roger Ebert, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Rose Gregorio, Rotten Tomatoes, The Overlook Press, Thomas Hill (actor), True Confessions (novel), Turner Classic Movies, Ulu Grosbard, Union Station (Los Angeles), United Artists, ... Expand index (2 more) »
- 1981 crime drama films
- Films directed by Ulu Grosbard
- Films produced by Robert Chartoff
Alain Silver
Alain Silver is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter; music producer; film critic, film historian, DVD commentator, author and editor of books and essays on film topics, especially film noir, the samurai film, and horror films.
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Alverno Heights Academy
Alverno Heights Academy is an independent progressive Catholic TK-8th grade elementary and middle school located in Sierra Madre, California.
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American Film Institute
The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.
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Bagman
The term bagman (or bag man) has different meanings in different countries.
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Bill Conti
William Conti (born April 13, 1942) is an American composer and conductor, best known for his film scores, including Rocky (1976), Rocky II (1979), Rocky III (1982), Rocky V (1990), Rocky Balboa (2006), The Karate Kid I (1984), The Karate Kid, Part II (1986), The Karate Kid Part III (1989), The Next Karate Kid (1994), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Dynasty (and its sequel The Colbys), and The Right Stuff (1983), which earned him an Academy Award for Best Original Score.
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Black Dahlia
Elizabeth Short (July 29, 1924 –, 1947), known as the Black Dahlia, was an American woman found murdered in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on January 15, 1947.
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Box Office Mojo
Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way.
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Burgess Meredith
Burgess Oliver Meredith (November 16, 1907 – September 9, 1997) was an American actor and filmmaker whose career encompassed radio, theatre, film and television.
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Charles Durning
Charles Edward Durning (February 28, 1923 – December 24, 2012) was an American actor who appeared in over 200 movies, television shows and plays.
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Chicago Sun-Times
The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily nonprofit newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Crime film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre.
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Cyril Cusack
Cyril James Cusack (26 November 1910 – 7 October 1993) was an Irish stage and screen actor with a career that spanned more than 70 years.
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Dan Hedaya
Dan Hedaya (born July 24, 1940) is an American actor.
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Echo Park
Echo Park is a neighborhood in the east-central region of Los Angeles, California.
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Ed Flanders
Edward Paul Flanders (December 29, 1934 – February 22, 1995) was an American actor.
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Georges Delerue
Georges Delerue (12 March 1925 – 20 March 1992) was a French composer who composed over 350 scores for cinema and television.
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Irwin Winkler
Irwin Winkler (born May 28, 1931) is an American film producer and director.
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James Hong
James Hong (born February 22, 1929) is an American actor, producer and director.
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Jeanette Nolan
Jeanette Nolan (December 30, 1911 – June 5, 1998) was an American actress.
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Joan Didion
Joan Didion (December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer and journalist.
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John Gregory Dunne
John Gregory Dunne (May 25, 1932 – December 30, 2003) was an American writer.
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John Judis
John B. Judis is an author and American journalist, an editor-at-large at Talking Points Memo, a former senior writer at the National Journal and a former senior editor at The New Republic.
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Kenneth McMillan (actor)
Kenneth McMillan (July 2, 1932 – January 8, 1989) was an American actor.
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List of Playboy Playmates of 1979
The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1979, the 25th anniversary year of the publication.
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Los Angeles Police Department
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), officially known as the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the primary law enforcement agency of Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Lynzee Klingman
Lynzee Klingman (born December 31, 1943) is an American film editor known for her work on films like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (for which she was nominated for an Oscar, along with Richard Chew and Sheldon Kahn) and A River Runs Through It.
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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books.
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Monsignor
Monsignor (monsignore) is a form of address or title for certain members of the clergy in the Catholic Church.
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National Review
National Review is an American conservative editorial magazine, focusing on news and commentary pieces on political, social, and cultural affairs.
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Neo-noir
Neo-noir is a revival of film noir, a genre that had originally flourished during and after World War II in the United Statesroughly from 1940 to 1960.
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Owen Roizman
Owen Roizman (September 22, 1936 – January 6, 2023) was an American cinematographer.
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Pat Corley
Pat Corley (June 1, 1930 – September 11, 2006), born "Cleo Pat Corley," was an American actor who portrayed bar owner Phil on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown from 1988 to 1996.
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Paul Salamunovich
Paul Salamunovich KCSG (June 7, 1927April 3, 2014) was a Grammy-nominated, American conductor and educator.
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Paul Schrader
Paul Joseph Schrader (born July 22, 1946) is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic.
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Raging Bull
Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical sports drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, Theresa Saldana, Frank Vincent, and Nicholas Colasanto in his final film role. True Confessions (film) and Raging Bull are films produced by Irwin Winkler, films produced by Robert Chartoff and films set in 1947.
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Richard Foronjy
Richard Edward Foronjy (August 3, 1937 – May 19, 2024) was an American film and television actor.
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Robert Chartoff
Robert Irwin Chartoff (August 26, 1933 – June 10, 2015) was an American film producer and philanthropist.
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Robert De Niro
Robert Anthony De Niro (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor and film producer.
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Robert Duvall
Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an American actor and filmmaker.
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Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author.
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles (Archidiœcesis Angelorum in California, Arquidiócesis de Los Ángeles) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of California.
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Rose Gregorio
Rose Gregorio (October 17, 1925 – August 17, 2023) was an American actress.
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Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.
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The Overlook Press
The Overlook Press is an American publishing house based in New York, New York which considers itself "a home for distinguished books that had been 'overlooked' by larger houses".
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Thomas Hill (actor)
Thomas Newton Hill, Jr. (June 2, 1927 – April 20, 2009) was an Indian-born American character actor and director on stage for decades before starting in film in the mid-1960s and on television in the 1980s.
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True Confessions (novel)
True Confessions is a noir novel by John Gregory Dunne and published in 1977.
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Turner Classic Movies
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Ulu Grosbard
Israel "Ulu" Grosbard (January 9, 1929 – March 19, 2012) was a Belgian-born, naturalized American theater and film director and film producer.
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Union Station (Los Angeles)
Los Angeles Union Station is the main train station in Los Angeles, California, and the largest passenger rail terminal in the Western United States.
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United Artists
United Artists (UA) is an American film production company owned by Amazon MGM Studios.
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Vincent Canby
Vincent Canby (July 27, 1924 – October 15, 2000) was an American film and theatre critic who served as the chief film critic for The New York Times from 1969 until the early 1990s, then its chief theatre critic from 1994 until his death in 2000.
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William F. Buckley Jr.
William Frank Buckley Jr. (born William Francis Buckley; November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American conservative writer, public intellectual, and political commentator.
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See also
1981 crime drama films
- Absence of Malice
- Fort Apache, The Bronx
- Hellinger's Law
- McClain's Law (film)
- Merry-Go-Round (1981 film)
- Prince of the City
- Rhythm of a Crime
- Sentimental (film)
- Stark Raving Mad (1981 film)
- The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981 film)
- The Professional (1981 film)
- Thee (1981 film)
- Time for Revenge
- True Confessions (film)
- Willful Murder
Films directed by Ulu Grosbard
- Falling in Love (1984 film)
- Georgia (1995 film)
- Straight Time
- The Deep End of the Ocean (film)
- The Subject Was Roses (film)
- True Confessions (film)
- Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
Films produced by Robert Chartoff
- Beer (film)
- Believe in Me (1971 film)
- Breakout (1975 film)
- Busting
- Creed (film)
- Ender's Game (film)
- In My Country (2004 film)
- Leo the Last
- New York, New York (1977 film)
- Nickelodeon (film)
- Peeper (film)
- Point Blank (1967 film)
- Raging Bull
- Rocky
- Rocky II
- Rocky III
- Rocky IV
- Rocky V
- S*P*Y*S
- Straight Talk
- The Gambler (1974 film)
- The Gambler (2014 film)
- The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
- The Mechanic (1972 film)
- The Mechanic (2011 film)
- The New Centurions
- The Right Stuff (film)
- The Split (film)
- The Strawberry Statement (film)
- The Tempest (2010 film)
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (film)
- Thumb Tripping
- True Confessions (film)
- Uncle Joe Shannon
- Up the Sandbox
- Valentino (1977 film)