Born on this day – Andy Whitfield:

Andy Whitfield

Actor

October 17, 1971 – September 11, 2011

Credits:

18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2012); All Saints (2004); Be Here Now (2015); Chelsea Lately (2010); Gabriel (2007); Gabriel: Behind the Madness (2008); Infini (2015); McLeod's Daughters (2008); Out of the Blue (2008); Packed to the Rafters (2008); Project: Comic-Con (2010); Red Eye w/Tom Shillue (2010); Spartacus (2010); Special Collector's Edition (2011); The 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards (2011); The Clinic (2010); The Osiris Child: Virtual Sets (2017); The Strip (2008).

On this day in movie history - The French Connection (1971):

The French Connection

directed by William Friedkin,

written by Ernest Tidyman,

based on the book by Robin Moore,

was released in the United States on October 9, 1971.
Music by Don Ellis.

Cast:

Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel Bozzuffi, Frédéric de Pasquale, Bill Hickman, Ann Rebbot, Harold Gary, Arlene Farber, Eddie Egan, André Ernotte, Sonny Grosso, Benny Marino, Patrick McDermott, Alan Weeks, Al Fann, Irving Abrahams, Randy Jurgensen, William Coke, The Three Degrees, Frank Adonis, Gilda Albertoni, Robert Dahdah, Frank Durk, Rhina Ferrari, Sarina C. Grant, Joe Lo Grippo, Melonie Haller, Eric Jones, Gladys Lane, Jean Luisi, Doris McCarthy, Charles McGregor, Lora Mitchell, Maureen Mooney, Santos Morales, Silvano Nolemi, Burt Richards, Willy Switkes, Fat Thomas, Robert Weil.

Born on this day – Dolores O'Riordan:

Dolores O'Riordan

Singer

Musician

Songwriter

September 6, 1971 – January 15, 2018

On this day in movie history - Play Misty for Me (1971 movie & novel):

Play Misty for Me

directed by Clint Eastwood,

written by Jo Heims and Dean Riesner,

based on a story by Jo Heims,

was released in the United States on August 4, 1971.
Music by Dee Barton.

Cast:

Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills, John Larch, Jack Ging, Irene Hervey, James McEachin, Clarice Taylor, Don Siegel, Duke Everts, George Fargo, Mervin W. Frates, Tim Frawley, Otis Kadani, Britt Lind, Paul E. Lippman, Jack Kosslyn, Ginna Patterson, Malcolm Moran, Cannonball Adderley, Boyd Cabeen, Barbara Chrysler, Don Hamilton, William J. Hanzelka, Robert S. Holman, Johnny Otis, James Rodriguez, Walter Scott, Walter Spear, William Tomlinson.

Recommended reading:

Play Misty for Me

By Paul J. Gillette.

Novelization of the movie Play Misty for Me (1971), directed by Clint Eastwood,

written by Jo Heims and Dean Riesner, based on a story by Jo Heims.

Published by Star Books.

Published 1978.

ISBN-10: 0352302739

ISBN-13: 9780352302731

Description:

A Hitchcockian psychological thriller. – Evening Standard.

The trap is baited …

A beautiful, lonely, possessive girl; a successful, popular disc-jockey.

The trap is set …

A night of casual lust – no complications, no strings attached.

The trap begins to close …

Jealousy and revenge boil over in a nightmare of terror.

Born on this day – Amanda Peterson:

Amanda Peterson

Actress

July 8, 1971 – July 3, 2015

Credits:

A Year in the Life (1986–1988); And the Children Shall Lead (1985); Annie (1982); Best Kept Secrets (1984); Boone (1983–1984); Can't Buy Me Love (1987); Carly Mills (1986); Doogie Howser, M.D. (1990); E! True Hollywood Story (2007); Entertainment Tonight (2015); Explorers (1985); Fatal Charm (1990); Father Murphy (1982); Hell Hath No Fury (1991); Jack's Place (1993); Listen to Me (1989); Love and Betrayal (1989); Posing: Inspired by Three Real Stories (1991); Silver Spoons (1982); TCM Remembers 2015 (2015); The Doctors (2015); The Lawless Land (1988); Windrunner (1994).

On this day in movie history - The Last Run (1971):

The Last Run

directed by Richard Fleischer,

written by Alan Sharp,

was released in the United States on July 7, 1971.
Music by Jerry Goldsmith.

Cast:

George C. Scott, Tony Musante, Trish Van Devere, Colleen Dewhurst, Aldo Sambrell, Antonio Tarruella, Robert Coleby, Pat Zurica, Rocky Taylor, Robert Rietty.

On this day in movie history - Carnal Knowledge (1971):

Carnal Knowledge

directed by Mike Nichols,

written by Jules Feiffer,

was released in the United States on June 30, 1971.

Cast:

Jack Nicholson, Candice Bergen, Art Garfunkel, Ann-Margret, Rita Moreno, Cynthia O'Neal, Carol Kane, Ray Cass.

On this day in movie history - Klute (1971):

Klute

directed by Alan J. Pakula,

written by Andy and Dave Lewis,

was released in the United States on June 25, 1971.
Music by Michael Small.

Cast:

Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider, Dorothy Tristan, Rita Gam, Nathan George, Vivian Nathan, Morris Strassberg, Barry Snider, Betty Murray, Jane White, Shirley Stoler, Robert Milli, Anthony Holland, Fred Burrell, Richard B. Shull, Mary Louise Wilson, Marc Malvin, Rosalind Cash, Jean Stapleton, Jan Fielding, Antonia Rey, Robert Ronan, Richard Russell Ramos, Garrett Cassell, Jerome Collamore, Candy Darling, Kevin Dobson, Veronica Hamel, Richard Jordan, Margaret Linn, Tony Major, Harry Reems, Joe Silver, Ellen Stretton, Lee Wallace.

On this day in movie history - The Anderson Tapes (1971 movie & novel):

The Anderson Tapes

directed by Sidney Lumet,

written by Frank Pierson,

based on the novel by Lawrence Sanders,

was released in the United States on June 17, 1971.
Music by Quincy Jones.

Cast:

Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, Ralph Meeker, Alan King, Dick Anthony Williams, Val Avery, Garrett Morris, Stan Gottlieb, Christopher Walken, Conrad Bain, Margaret Hamilton, Anthony Holland, Scott Jacoby, Judith Lowry, Meg Myles, Norman Rose, Max Showalter, Janet Ward, Paul Benjamin, Richard B. Shull.

Recommended reading:

The Anderson Tapes

By Lawrence Sanders.

Filmed as The Anderson Tapes (1971), directed by Sidney Lumet.

Published by DELL PUBL CO.

First published 1970.

ISBN-10: 0440102170

ISBN-13: 9780440102175

Description:

With clockwork precision, Lawrence Sanders outlines the inspiration, planning and execution of an ambitious robbery of an apartment building on New York's Upper East Side in The Anderson Tapes, the best-selling thriller that established him as one of the most popular suspense writers of his generation. The premise is clever – the entire story is told in surveillance tape transcripts and reports from law enforcement agencies, each of which seems to be observing some aspect of the situation in which the robbery takes place.

John "Duke" Anderson was recently paroled from Sing Sing, after serving time on a charge of breaking and entering. A rich woman picks him up one evening and takes him back to her apartment, in a small but elegant building on the Upper East Side. Anderson is intrigued by the situation in the building, seeing it as a possible target for a large-scale robbery. He needs backing, though, and he gets it through his contacts with the underworld. What Anderson does not know is that much of what he is already doing is being captured as evidence through electronic surveillance. The catch is that the different entities doing the surveillance are not communicating with each other. The evidence is assembled and the puzzle solved, after the robbery takes place and ends violently, by NYPD Capt. Edward X. Delaney.

The Anderson Tapes marks the first appearance in a Sanders novel of Delaney, a character who will be central to the author's Deadly Sin series of thrillers. Sanders brilliantly unfolds the story in short, fact-filled chapters constructed as police reports and tape transcripts, some of which are tantalizingly garbled. The Anderson Tapes won for Sanders the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar as the Best First Mystery Novel of 1970.