Is the movie "The Fugitive" based on a true story?
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Yes, it is based on the murder believed to be commited by Sam Sheppard in 1954. It became a TV show later in 1963 after Sheppard was released from prison.
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The Fugitive...."I did not kill my wife."
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yep.....\n\nhttp://www.killermovies.com/m/manonfire/articles/2123.html
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Ok. I am a huge Jodie Foster fan, so here it is: "The Accused" is about Sarah Tobias, a woman who goes to a bar, gets somewhat drunk, smokes pot, and then gets gang raped on a pinball machine. Her quest for justice finds her with Katheryn Murphy (Kelly McGillis) and helps her along the way. Really she sold her out and tells the media that she never got raped. But, then she finds a dude that saw the whole rape and testifies. The three men who raped her are sentenced to prison. The guy that saw the rape, Kenneth Joyce, tells his story, which matches to Sarah's, and then shows her getting raped by three men.Great movie, but I cried during the whole movie.
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Greed (1924) \nMiner-turned-dentist McTeague wins young Trina Sieppe away from her cousin Marcus, McTeague's friend. When Trina wins five thousand dollars in a lottery, Marcus accuses McTeague of marrying her for her money. Trina becomes more and more obsessed with money, refusing to spend any of her winnings even though she and her husband are forced into dire straits. When Marcus informs the authorities that McTeague is not licensed as a dentist, thus depriving him of his meagre living, the friendship and the marriage are destroyed. At last murder intrudes, leaving no one unscathed.\nThis is a classic full of shocking moments. Gibson Gowland, ZaSu Pitts, and Jean Hersholt are wonderful in their brutally realistic performances. Von Stroheim's most famous work.\nBrutal. Nobody makes stuff like this anymore...and never will again\nLook for the revamped version with many minutes added back to the butchered theatrical release....on IFC or the Sundance film channel. Not out on DVD yet...I think.
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Joaquin Murrieta: Literary Fiction or Historical Fact?\nBy William Mero\n\nThe popular legend of Joaquin Murrieta is that of a peace loving man driven to seek revenge when he and his brother were falsely accused of stealing a mule. His brother was hung and Joaquin horsewhipped. His young wife was gang raped and in one version she died in Joaquin’s arms. Swearing revenge, Joaquin hunted down all who had violated his sweetheart. He embarked on a short but violent career that brought death to his Anglo tormentors. The state of California then offered a reward of up to $5000 for Joaquin "dead or alive." In the end Joaquin was hunted down, killed and mutilated by a drunken brute of a man, Harry Love. \n\nThis is the tale that a sometimes newspaperman and poet, John Rollin Ridge, wrote in 1854, a year after Joaquin’s death. John Ridge was a part Cherokee Indian who fled to California after killing a man in Arkansas. Borrowing from newspaper reports from the gold camps, he created a romantic story of lust and revenge starring the recently dead bandit, Joaquin Murrieta, as the victim of biased society. \n\nAfter Ridge’s book was published, it was rumored that Joaquin had not been killed but returned to Mexico. Even more fantastic was the story that he returned mortally wounded to Niles Canyon (part of Contra Costa County in 1853) where he died and was buried beneath the family adobe. In 1986 the adobe floor was even excavated in an unsuccessful attempt to find Murrieta’s bones. \n\nOn one hand we have the popular belief exemplified by the famous histories of Hubert Howe Bancroft who legitimized the Ridge version of Joaquin as a daring Mexican Robin Hood. We also have modern historians who charge that the real Murrieta was a vicious killer and thug. \n\nWhat can we make of all this? Can we find a general consensus after examining the known facts? Joseph Henry Jackson in his book, Bad Company (1949), carefully traced the evolution and growth of the Joaquin Murrieta legend around the world. Later researchers including Frank Latta, William B. Secrest, Remi Nadeau, James F. Varley and John Boessenecker uncovered original source materials that clarified this violent chapter in California history. \n\n\nThe Known Historical Record\nInteresting historical parallels exist between the Murrieta – Feliz family and the James – Younger gang. In both cases close relatives formed the core of the outlaw gangs. Both bands were spawned in the economic and political upheaval of a society disrupted by war. The gangs were sheltered and protected by citizens who were threatened by the new economic and social order. Strangely, in both cases, it was also newspapermen who built these outlaws into sympathic victims of an unjust society. \n\nWhat are the generally accepted and verified historical facts about Joaquin Murrieta? We know from Church records that Joaquin was born in the southern part of the Mexican state of Sonora in 1830 to Joaquin and Rosalia Murrieta. His mother had been previously married to a man named Carrillo. In later years Joaquin sometimes called himself Joaquin Carrillo, which led to much confusion and helped create the "many Joaquins" theory. The young Joaquin eventually married Rosa Feliz of Vayoreca. They, along with Jesus Murrieta and Rosa’s three brothers, went to California upon news of the gold strike. Rosa’s brother, Claudio Feliz, began gold mining with Anglo partners near Sonora while Joaquin and his bride eventually moved to Niles Canyon, then part of Contra Costa County. In these early years there is evidence that Joaquin worked as a vaquero near Oakley and Brentwood in 1850 and as a mestenero (mustang catcher). \n\nFrom court records and newspaper accounts, the first we hear of the Murrieta - Feliz clan’s brush with the law was in 1849 when Claudio was arrested for stealing another miner’s gold. The evidence of his guilt proved overwhelming. However Claudio was able to escape from the St
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Hope this is it.\n\nhttp://www.manhunt.com/reviews/html/702.html
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It appears as though it is a work of fiction, below are a couple links, one of them is supposed to be from the author of the book, which was made into the movie\n\nQ. Is Creasy based on a real character?\nA. Creasy was based on a mixture of characters that I knew in the sixties and seventies in Africa and Vietnam.\n\nQ. Some people have commented that the movie seemed to imply that it was based on a real event, is that impression correct?\nA. Yes, the story was based on an actual event in Italy in '75.
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Hey,\n\nJack Dawson, Rose deWitt Bukator, Ruth deWitt Bukator, Cal Hockley, their maid Trudy, Brock Lovett, Rose's granddaughter Izzy.... all fictional for the purpose of the film.\n\nJohn Jacob Astor, Benjamin Guggenheim, Sir Cosmo and Lucile Lady Duff Gordon, Molly Brown, Thomas Andrews, Bruce Ismay... all were real people. JJ Astor, Thomas Andrews, and Benjamin Giggenheim perished, Molly Brown was thrown into a lifeboat as it had just started to be lowered (instead of getting in with Ruth in the movie). Bruce Ismay did get into the boat the way he did, and apparently the Gordons bribed the seaman in charge of their boat to row away without more than about 20 people on board. they denied it in the inquiry.\n\ni hope this helped
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Yes, Jurassic Park was a fictional movie but had alot of true fact in it.
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It is a work of FICTION. Why do people think it is REALITY?\n\nThe novel was a superlative work of fiction. (Not as good as Dan Brown's other works, but it was revolutionary nonetheless.)\n\nI don't know about the film... I will go see it, but I'm skeptical as to how well it will come off.
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no its not a true story
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Looks like "Grim Prairie Tales" 1990.\n\nThese kinds of answers are easy to find on your own.  Just go to the Internet Movie DataBase (IMDB.com)  and search James Earl Jones.  I just looked for a title that looked like a western story.
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The movie was based on a book but there is no indication that was a true story.\n\nHere are some sites about the movie:\nhttp://www.lagaan.com/\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagaan\nhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169102/\n\nHere are some sites about Cricket:\nhttp://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/hosking/cricket/explanation.htm\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/sportacademy/hi/sa/cricket/rules/default.stm\nhttp://www.allworldknowledge.com/cricket/
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I think your talkin about "walk the line" which is about jonny cash.  the movie is good, although its pretty long and at times it seems to be repeating itself.  it is the story of his life though and imguessin his life seemed to be cyclical as well which just means its accurate.
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No its not and yes it is....here you can read about it from the author...the book is a work of fiction...it is found in the fiction section....i have placed them in " " the part of the passage that come from the "idea" for the work..... so mainly the answer is no.\n\nJames Dickey's first novel, Deliverance, is an adventure story of a three-day canoe trip  \nDeliverance \nin the rugged wilderness of southern Appalachia, in which four suburbanites are brutalized both by the sheer force of the river and by violent and degenerate mountain men. Although James Dickey, an Atlanta native, never identified Georgia as the book's setting, the city from which the four men come was widely assumed to have been Atlanta. The river where most of the book's action takes place, the Cahulawassee, closely resembles the Chattooga River, which forms the border between Georgia and South Carolina in the former's northeasternmost corner in Rabun County. \n\nOnly a few months after the book's publication in March 1970, a film adaptation confirmed its Georgia setting by filming on location in Rabun County and on the Chattooga.  \nDeliverance \nReleased in 1972, the film became one of the most popular of the year. Both book and movie had much to do with confirming to a national audience the hillbilly stereotypes that had long plagued southern Appalachia. The film, in particular, stands as the most degrading depiction of southern mountaineers ever put on film and led to strong protests both by north Georgians and by Appalachian scholars. \n\nThe Novel\n\n"Dickey, already a well-regarded poet, conceived the idea for the book after his involvement in a traumatic canoe accident on the Coosawattee River in the early 1960s."\n\n His story centers on four middle-aged suburbanites who head north for a weekend of whitewater canoeing on a wild river shortly before the completion of a new dam that would make it inaccessible. Three of the men, including Ed Gentry, who is the narrator and Dickey's alter ego, are inexperienced in the ways of the wilderness, and they defer to Lewis Medlock, a seasoned outdoorsman and survivalist, who plans the trip and leads the group. Once underway the novice adventurers encounter not only a far more physically challenging and dangerous river than they were prepared for but also some equally threatening local inhabitants. The novel's centerpiece is an attack and sexual assault by two mountaineers on the banks of the river that leads to a series of murders, including that of one of the four Atlantans. Their ever-escalating struggle for survival becomes a moral dilemma as well, as the would-be adventurers find themselves forced to cover up their ordeal when they reach the town of Aintry at the river's end. \n\nThe novel has been interpreted in a variety of ways, most of which focus on the tensions wrought when the sensibilities of modern suburbia are pitted against the more elemental values of the natural world or the primitivism of rural mountain life. The four men bring to their adventure different attitudes and assumptions. For Lewis and Ed, in particular, the challenges they face in defending themselves, individually and collectively, serve as a deliverance not only from the hostile forces of man and nature but also from their own mental and psychological shortcomings as the products of a soft, comfortable, materialistic culture. \n\nThe book faced a mixed reception initially. Deliverance was widely acknowledged as a compelling adventure story, but some critics found its violence excessive and its stereotypical portrayal of mountain people demeaning and simplistic. It was an unqualified success commercially and became a best-seller.
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A movie is fiction not fact.