On this day in movie history - Hell or High Water (2016):

Hell or High Water,

directed by David Mackenzie,

written by Taylor Sheridan,

was released in the United States on August 12, 2016.
Music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

Cast:
Ben Foster, Chris Pine, William Sterchi, Buck Taylor, Kristin K. Berg, Jeff Bridges, Dale Dickey, Gil Birmingham, Keith Meriweather, Jackamoe Buzzell, Katy Mixon, Amber Midthunder, Joe Berryman, Taylor Sheridan, Howard Ferguson Jr., Debrianna Mansini, Paul Howard Smith, Nathaniel Augustson, Ariel Holmes, Marie A.K. McMaster, Jim Burleson, Gregory Cruz, Melanie Papalia, Kim Gleason, Alma Sisneros, Kevin Rankin, Margaret Bowman, Ivan Brutsche, Marin Ireland, John-Paul Howard, Kevin Wiggins, Dylan Kenin, Nicole Brady, Richard Christie, Heidi Sulzman, Christopher W. Garcia, Rick Anglada, Brian Barela, Richard Beal, Brian Bolman, Mary Bowman, Marika Day, Lyle DeRose, Melissa-Lou Ellis, Michael Fletcher, Crystal Gonzales, Karen M. Hudson, Darlene Kellum, James E. Lane, Ricky Lee, Jameson Macmillan, Lora Martinez-Cunningham, Gustavo Montes, Martin Palmer, Terry Dale Parks, Francisco Peramos, Daniel Pimentel, Jack T. Silliman, J. Nathan Simmons, Michael E. Stogner, Aaron Templeton, Art Westgate, Kathie Westgate, Danny Winn, Julian Wondolowski.

On this day in movie history - Anthropoid (2016):

Anthropoid,

directed by Sean Ellis,

written by Sean Ellis and Anthony Frewin,

was released in the United States on August 12, 2016.
Music by Robin Foster.

Cast:
Jamie Dornan, Cillian Murphy, Brian Caspe, Karel Hermánek Jr., Sára Arnsteinová, Hana Frejková, Sean Mahon, Jan Hájek, Marcin Dorocinski, Toby Jones, Alena Mihulová, Bill Milner, Charlotte Le Bon, Pavel Reznícek, Anna Geislerová, Vaclav Marek and his Blue Star, Justin Svoboda, Harry Lloyd, Václav Neuzil, Jirí Simek, Detlef Bothe.

On this day in music history - Close Your Eyes, by Amy Lauren (2011):

The album Close Your Eyes,

by Amy Lauren,

was released on August 12, 2011.

On this day in music history - Crossing the Stone, by Catrin Finch (2003):

The album Crossing the Stone,

by Catrin Finch,

was released on August 12, 2003.

On this day in movie history - Young Guns (1988):

Young Guns,

directed by Christopher Cain,

written by John Fusco,

was released in the United States on August 12, 1988.

Music by Anthony Marinelli and Brian Banks.

Cast:
Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney, Casey Siemaszko, Terence Stamp, Jack Palance, Terry O'Quinn, Sharon Thomas Cain, Geoffrey Blake, Alice Carter, Brian Keith, Thomas Callaway, Patrick Wayne, Lisa Banes, Sam Gauny, Cody Palance, Gadeek, Victor Izay, Allen Keller, Craig Erickson, Jeremy Lepard, Danny Kamin, Richela Renkun, Pat Finn-Lee, Gary Kanin, Forrest Broadley, Alan Tobin, Joey Hamlin, Loyd Lee Brown, Elena Parres, Tom Cruise, Tomas Moore, John Pattison, W. Thomas Snyder, Lee Sollenberger, Randy Travis.

On this day in movie history - Darker Than Amber (1970):

Darker Than Amber,

directed by Robert Clouse,

written by Ed Waters,

based on the novel by John D. MacDonald,

was released in the United States on August 12, 1970.

Music by John Carl Parker.

Cast:

Rod Taylor, Theodore Bikel, Suzy Kendall, Ahna Capri, William Smith, Janet MacLachlan, Robert Phillips, Jane Russell, James Booth, Oswaldo Calvo, Sherry Faber, Marcia Knight, James H. Frysinger, Harry A. Wood, Jack Nagle, Judy Wallace, Michael DeBeausset, Jeff Gillen, Chris Robinson, Warren Bauer, Wayne Bauer, Don Schoff, Ted Swanson.

Born on this day – John Cazale:

John Cazale

Actor

August 12, 1935 – March 13, 1978

Credits:

Al Pacino, le Bronx et la fureur (2022); Based on a True Story (2004); Dog Day Afternoon (1975); 'Dog Day Afternoon': The Story (2006); I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (2009); Lumet: Film Maker (1975); N.Y.P.D. (1968); Premio Donostia a Meryl Streep (2008); The American Way (1962); The Box (1969); The Conversation (1974); The Deer Hunter (1978); The Freshman (1990); The Godfather (1972); The Godfather (2006); The Godfather and the Mob (2006); The Godfather Family: A Look Inside (1990); The Godfather Part II (1974); The Godfather Part III (1990); The Godfather Saga (1977); The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992); The Godfather: Behind the Scenes (1971); The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't (2008).

Born on this day – William Goldman:

William Goldman

Writer

August 12, 1931 – November 16, 2018

Credits:

Books:

Absolute Power (1997); Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983); Blood Sweat and Stanley Poole (1962); Boys and Girls Together (1969); Brothers (1986); Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (1969); Control (1982); Father's Day (1971); Five Screenplays with Essays (1984); Four Screenplays with Essays (1994); Heat / aka Edged Weapons (1985); Hype and Glory (1990); Magic (1976); Marathon Man (1974); No Way to Treat A Lady (1964); Soldier in the Rain (1963); The Best of All Possible Worlds (1980); The Big Picture (2000); The Color of Light (1984); The Great Waldo Pepper (1975); The Princess Bride (1973); The Season (1969); The Silent Gondoliers (1983); The Temple of Gold (1957); The Thing of It Is... (1967); Tinsel (1979); Wait Till Next Year (1988); Which Lie Did I Tell? (2000); Wigger (1974); Your Turn to Curtsy, My Turn to Bow (1958).

Movies and television:

5 Minutes (2018); A Bridge Too Far (1977); A Cinematic Life: The Art & Influence of Conrad Hall (2010); A Few Good Men (1992); Absolute Power (1997); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes: America's Greatest Quips, Comebacks and Catchphrases (2005); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies (1998); All Aboard: Riding the Rails of American Film (1993); All of What Follows Is True: The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (2006); All the President's Men (1976); Amateur (2005); American Experience (2002); American Masters (2000); Animaniacs (2020–2023); Arena (2000); As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride' (2001); Be Water / 30 for 30 (2014); Biography (1995–2000); Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979); Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969); Chaplin (1992); Charlie Rose (1997); Checkpoint Echo (2006); Da Vinci (1996); Dateline NBC (2006); Dolores Claiborne (1995); Dreamcatcher (2003); Fierce Creatures (1997); Film Genre (2002); Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light (2006); Fry's Planet Word (2011); Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man' (2001); Good Will Hunting (1997); Harper (1966); HBO First Look (2003); Hearts in Atlantis (2001); Heat (1986); History vs. Hollywood (2001); Hollywood Insider (2021); Home Movie: The Princess Bride (2020); Inside the Actors Studio (1994); Last Action Hero (1993); Magic (1978); Malice (1993); Marathon Man (1976); Masquerade (1965); Maverick (1994); Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992); Minty Comedic Arts (2019); Miracles and Mystery: Creating 'the Green Mile' (2006); Misery (1990); Misery Loves Company (2002); Movie Night Extravaganza (2022); Moving Pictures (1990); Mr. Horn (1979); NBA 100 Greatest Plays (1999); No Way to Treat a Lady (1968); On Location with 'Gunga Din' (2004); Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat (2006); Papillon (1973); Pierrot the Fool / Cannes Film Festival (1988); Richard Attenborough: A Life (2014); Screenwriters: Word Into Image (1982); Screenwriting for Dummies (2006); ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007); Soldier in the Rain (1963); Tales from the Script (2009); Talking Pictures (1988); TCM Remembers 2018 (2018); Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of 'All the President's Men' (2006); The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973); The 49th Annual Academy Awards (1977); The Chamber (1996); The Garden's Defining Moments (2015); The General's Daughter (1999); The Ghost and the Darkness (1996); The Gospel According to Bill (2010); The Great Waldo Pepper (1975); The Hot Rock (1972); The Human Face (2001); The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (1970); The Oscars (2019); The Princess Bride (1987 / 1999 / 2012); The Princess Bride Making Of (1987); The South Bank Show (1990–2009); The Stepford Wives (1975); The War of the Roses (1989); True Love: The Princess Bride Phenomenon - Entering the Zeitgeist (2012); Twins (1988); Under Suspicion (2000); Wild Card (2015); Year of the Comet (1992).

Born on this day – Olympe Bradna:

Olympe Bradna

Actress

Dancer

August 12, 1920 – November 5, 2012

Credits:

Meet the Stars #5: Hollywood Meets the Navy (1941); International Squadron (1941); Highway West (1941); Knockout (1941); South of Pago Pago (1940); The Night of Nights (1939); Say It in French (1938); Stolen Heaven (1938); Souls at Sea (1937); The Last Train from Madrid (1937); College Holiday (1936); Three Cheers for Love (1936); Flofloche (1934); Roger la Honte (1933).

Born on this day – Marjorie Reynolds:

Marjorie Reynolds

Actress

August 12, 1917 – February 1, 1997

Born on this day – Ralph Nelson:

Ralph Nelson

Director

Producer

Writer

Actor

August 12, 1916 – December 21, 1987

Born on this day – Samuel Fuller:

Samuel Fuller

Director

Writer

Actor

World War II veteran

August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997

Born on this day – Jane Wyatt:

Jane Wyatt

Actress

August 12, 1910 – October 20, 2006

Born on this day – Gladys Bentley:

Gladys Bentley

Blues singer

Pianist

August 12, 1907 – January 18, 1960

Born on this day – Cecil B. DeMille:

Cecil B. DeMille

Director

Producer

Actor

August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959

Credits:

A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics (2009); A Romance of the Redwoods (1917); A Trip to Paramountown (1922); Adam's Rib (1923); After Five (1915); Air Force: The Radio Play (1943); All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011); All-Time Movie Greats (1988); America in Color (2018); American Experience (1996); American Masters (1993); An Informal Conversation with Billy Wilder (2018); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (1996); Betty to the Rescue (1917); Biography (2005); Braveheart (1925); Brewster's Millions (1914); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); California's Golden Beginning (1948); Carmen (1915); Castles for Two (1917); Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic (2004); Central Casting (2000); Changing Husbands (1924); Charlton Heston, la démesure d'un géant (2023); Chicago (1927); Chimmie Fadden (1915); Chimmie Fadden Out West (1915); Cinépanorama (1957); Cleopatra (1934); Coming Attractions: The History of the Movie Trailer (2009); Compression (2023); Don't Change Your Husband (1919); Dynamite (1929); Estrellados (1930); Eve's Leaves (1926); Extraordinary Women (2011); Fascination: An Unauthorized Tribute to Marilyn Monroe (2011); Feet of Clay (1924); Fighting Love (1927); Fool's Paradise (1921); For Better, for Worse (1919); Forbidden Film: The Production Code Era (2009); Forbidden Fruit (1921); Forfaiture (1937); Four Frightened People (1934); Free and Easy (1930); Gladiateur, glaive et fantasmes (2018); Glamour Boy (1941); Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984); Her Man o' War (1926); History Brought to Life (1950); Hold 'Em Yale (1928); Hollywood (1923 / 1980); Hollywood Extra Girl (1935); Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 (1933); Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); Hooray for Hollywood (1982); Jens Mansson in America (1947); Joan the Woman (1916); John Ford: The Man Who Invented America (2019); Kindling (1915); KTLA Premiere (1947); Land of Liberty (1939); Les années Hollywood de François Chalais (2019); Les mille et une vies de Yul Brynner (2020); Let 'Er Go Gallegher (1927); Life in Hollywood No. 1 (1927); Life in Hollywood No. 4 (1927); Lord Chumley (1914); Lost and Won (1917); Madam Satan (1930); Made for Love (1926); Male and Female (1919); Manslaughter (1922); Maria Rosa (1916); Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies (2008); Nan of Music Mountain (1917); Nihon eiga no hyaku nen / Century of Cinema (1995); North West Mounted Police (1940); Old Wives for New (1918); Reap the Wild Wind (1942); Red Dice (1926); Rose of the Rancho (1914); Samson and Delilah (1949); Saturday Night (1922); Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 6 (1931); Screen Snapshots Series 22, No 10 (1942); Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 1: 25th Anniversary (1945); Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 1-F (1921); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 1 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 19 (1923); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 23 (1923); Screen Snapshots, Series 4, No. 7 (1923); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Night Life (1952); Screen Snapshots: The Great Director (1951); Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003); Showbiz Ballyhoo (1982); Silence (1926); Social Security in Action (1958–1968); Something to Think About (1920); Son of Paleface (1952); Spécial cinéma (1982); Star Spangled Rhythm (1942); Sunset Boulevard (1950); Surf and Sail (1929); Tal der Träumer (2004); Temptation (1915); The 25th Annual Academy Awards (1953); The Affairs of Anatol (1921); The Angel of Broadway (1927); The Arab (1915); The Best of Hollywood (1998); The Best of Hollywood (2017); The Bible According to Hollywood (1994); The Buccaneer (1938 / 1958); The Buster Keaton Story (1957); The Call of the North (1914); The Captive (1915); The Casting Couch (1995); The Cheat (1915); The Circus Man (1914); The ComicWeb: Old Time Radio Programs (2020); The Coming of Amos (1925); The Cruise of the Jasper B (1926); The Crusades (1935); The DeMille Dynasty (1998); The Devil-Stone (1917); The Dream Girl (1916); The Dressmaker from Paris (1925); The Ed Sullivan Show (1957); The Fallbrook Story (1952); The Fighting Eagle (1927); The Ghost Breaker (1914); The Girl of the Golden West (1915); The Godless Girl (1928); The Golden Bed (1925); The Golden Chance (1915); The Greatest Show on Earth (1952); The Heart of Nora Flynn (1916); The Heart of Show Business (1957); The Hollywood You Never See (1934); The Ken Murray Show (1952); The King of Kings (1927); The Little American (1917); The Lonely Gunfighter: The Legacy of Cheyenne (2006); The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille (2016); The Love Mask (1916); The Man from Home (1914); The Man on the Box (1914); The Master Mind (1914); The Movies March On (1939); The Night Club (1925); The Only Son (1914); The Plainsman (1936); The Road to Yesterday (1925); The Secret Game (1917); The Secret Sin (1915); The Sign of the Cross (1932); The Squaw Man (1914 / 1918 / 1931); The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944); The Ten Commandments (1923 / 1956); The Ten Commandments: Making Miracles (2011); The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1916); The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022); The Unafraid (1915); The Virginian (1914); The Volga Boatman (1926); The War of the Worlds (1953); The Warrens of Virginia (1915); The Wedding Song (1925); The Whispering Chorus (1918); The Wild Goose Chase (1915); The Woman God Forgot (1917); The Yankee Clipper (1927); This Day and Age (1933); This Is Your Life (1957); Three Faces East (1926); Till I Come Back to You (1918); Triumph (1924); Unconquered (1947); Union Pacific (1939); V.I.P.-Schaukel (1973); Vanity (1927); Variety Girl (1947); Walking Back (1928); Walt Disney Academy Awards: 26th Annual, 1954 / The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954); We Can't Have Everything (1918); What's His Name (1914); What's My Line? (1952); When Worlds Collide (1951); Whispering Smith (1926); White Gold (1927); Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007); Why Change Your Wife? (1920); Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood (2000); Young Romance (1915).

Born on this day – Mary Roberts Rinehart:

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Writer

August 12, 1876 – September 22, 1958

Credits:

Books:

A Poor Wise Man (1920); Affinities (1920); Alibi for Isabel (1944); American Christmas Stories (2021); Black Cat Weekly #64 (2022); Dangerous Days (1919); Episode of the Wandering Knife (1950); Golden Age Detective Stories (2021); Haunted Lady (1942); K (1915); Kill or Cure / Suspense Stories About the World of Medicine (1989); Love Stories (1919); Married People (1937); Mary Roberts Rinehart's Crime Book (1933); Mind Over Motor (1912); Miss Pinkerton / aka The Double Alibi (1932); More Tish (1921); My Story (1931); Nomad's Land (1926); Salvage (1919); Sight Unseen (1946); Sight Unseen / The Confession (1921); Temperamental People (1924); The After House (1914); The Album (1933); The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry (1911); The Amazing Interlude (1918); The Bat (1920); The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries (2013); The Big Book of Female Detectives (2018); The Book of Tish (1926); The Breaking Point (1922); The Broken Quarantine (1906); The Case of Jennie Brice (1913); The Cave on Thundercloud (1912); The Circular Staircase (1908); The Collected Mysteries of Mary Roberts Rinehart (2010); The Confession (1946); The Confession / Sight Unseen (1959); The Doctor (1936); The Door (1930); The Frightened Wife (1953); The Great Mistake (1940); The Man in Lower Ten (1906); The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories (1996); The Red Lamp / aka The Mystery Lamp (1925); The Romantics (1929); The State Vs Elinor Norton (1933); The Street of Seven Stars (1966); The Swimming Pool (1952); The Truce of God (1920); The Wall (1938); The Wandering Knife (1952); The Web She Weaves (1983); The Window at the White Cat (1910); The Yellow Room (1945); This Strange Adventure (1929); Three of Diamonds / Big Water / Frightened Wife (1953); Tish (1916); Tish Marches On (1937); Tish Plays the Game (1926); Toward the Golden Age / The Stories That Turned Crime to Gold (2016); Two Flights Up (1928); When a Man Marries (1910); Where There's a Will (1912).

Movies and television:

23 1/2 Hours' Leave (1919 / 1937); Acquitted (1916); Affinities (1915 / 1922); Aflame in the Sky (1927); At the Foot of the Hill (1914); Bab's Burglar (1917); Bab's Diary (1917); Bab's Matinee Idol (1917); Broadway Television Theatre (1953); City of Shadows (1927); Climax! (1954–1956); Dangerous Days (1920); Der Spinnenmörder (1978); Dow Hour of Great Mysteries (1960); Elinor Norton (1934); Finders Keepers (1928); Her Country First (1918); Her Love Story (1924); I Take This Woman (1931); It's a Great Life (1920); Jane (1914); K: The Unknown (1924); Long Live the King (1923); Mind Over Motor (1915 / 1923); Miss Pinkerton (1932); Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk (1935); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1951); Person to Person (1956); Robert Montgomery Presents (1952); Se ki, se be (1919); Seven Days (1925); Star Stage (1956); The Bat (1926 / 1959); The Bat Whispers (1930); The Breaking Point (1924); The Cave on Thunder Cloud (1915); The Circular Staircase (1915); The Doctor and the Woman (1918); The Dog in the Orchard (1941); The Ford Television Theatre (1954–1956); The Glorious Fool (1922); The Nurse's Secret (1941); The Papered Door (1915); The Silent Watcher (1924); The Street of Seven Stars (1918); The Unknown (1927); Tish (1942); Tish's Spy (1915); What Happened to Father (1915 / 1927); Your Favorite Story (1953).

Recommended reading: The Ninth Configuration (1999):

The Ninth Configuration

By William Peter Blatty.

Commentary by Mark Kermode.

Published by Screenpress Books.

Published in 1999.

Paperback.

Screenplay.

ISBN-10: 1901680207

ISBN-13: 978-1901680201

Description:

“The finest large scale American surrealist film ever made” – People Magazine.

Towards the end of the war in Vietnam, an unusually high percentage of American servicemen suddenly manifested symptoms of psychosis. To investigate this mystery, the US government established a network of covert study centers.

They send the crazies to Center Eighteen. Men who think they can walk through walls. Men who want to stage the complete works of Shakespeare using dogs. Hudson Kane is plagued by nightmares and memories not his own. Only Hudson Kane is not an inmate. Hudson Kane is in charge…

William Peter Blatty – the creator of The Exorcist – directed this self penned script that quickly became a cult classic for its brave philosophic tone, remarkable visuals and endlessly quotable dialogue.

This is the first time that Blatty’s originally screenplay has been published. Fully annotated by acclaimed writer and critic Mark Kermode and illustrated with many previously unpublished stills.

This is the definitive edition of the script that its creator believes to be the true sequel to The Exorcist.

Winner – Best Screenplay Golden Globe Awards.

Recommended reading: The Ninth Configuration (1966):

The Ninth Configuration

aka Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane.

By William Peter Blatty.

Paperback.

Published in 1966.

ISBN-10: 0765337304

ISBN-13: 978-0765337306

Description:

Hidden away in a brooding Gothic manor in the deep woods is Center Eighteen, a secret military "rest camp" currently housing twenty-seven inmates, all officers who have succumbed to a sudden outbreak of mental illness. Have the men truly lost their minds, are they only pretending to be insane to avoid combat, or is some more sinister conspiracy at work?

Desperate for answers, the Pentagon has placed a brilliant Marine psychiatrist in charge of the base and its deranged occupants. A man of deep faith and compassion, Colonel Kane hopes to uncover the root of the men's bizarre obsessions. But as Center Eighteen descends into chaos, Kane finds the greatest challenge may be his own buried demons. . .

Recommended reading - The Beekeeper's Bible: Bees, Honey, Recipes & Other Home Uses (2011):

The Beekeeper's Bible: Bees, Honey, Recipes & Other Home Uses (2011).

By Richard A. Jones and Sharon Sweeney-Lynch.

Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 1584799188

ISBN-13: 978-1584799184

Description:

The Beekeeper’s Bible is the essential and comprehensive handbook for every active or aspiring beekeeper.

Part history book, part handbook, part cookbook, this illustrated tome covers every facet of the ancient hobby of beekeeping, from safe hive management to the culinary, medicinal, cosmetic, and domestic uses of honey, beeswax, and pollen. With stunning illustrations and step-by-step photography, The Beekeeper’s Bible is the indispensable guide to beekeeping.

Complete practical beekeeping.

Bee history, trivia, and lore.

Uses for honey, beeswax, and pollen.

Recipes and craft projects.

Home remedies and beauty products.

Margaret Atwood, on writing:

Writing is alone, but I don't think it's lonely.

Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they're writing their book, and I think they'll say no.

– Margaret Atwood.