On this day in movie history - The Survivor (2021):

The Survivor

directed by Barry Levinson,

written by Justine Juel Gillmer,

was released in the United States on April 27, 2022.
Based on the book Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano, by Alan Scott Haft.
Also, the graphic novel The Boxer: The True Story of Holocaust Survivor Harry Haft, by Reinhard Kleist.
Music by Hans Zimmer.

Cast:

Ben Foster, Billy Magnussen, Vicky Krieps, Peter Sarsgaard, Saro Emirze, Danny DeVito, John Leguizamo, Dar Zuzovsky, Laurent Papot, Paul Bates, Svetlana Kundish, Sonya Cullingford, Michael Epp, Erik Contzius, Kingston Vernes, Sophie Knapp, Zachary Golinger, Charles Brice, Scott Alexander Young, John Guerrasio, Pablo Raybould, Amalina Ace, Bálint Magyar, Márk Szekulesz, Aaron Serotsky, Miklós Kapácsy, Andrew Hefler, Kristóf Widder, Patrick McCullough, Peter Linka, Hans Peterson, Katia Bokor, Stephen Saracco, Björn Freiberg, Nikos Brisco, Alan Jouban, Adam Zambryzcki, András Kovács, Gábor Czap, Anthony Molinari, Zsolt Erdei, Zach Anderson, Árpád Antolik, Attila Arpa, Marc Alan Austen, Jeff Burhans, Sandy Burhans, Christian Carrigan, Jim Cleary, Karim Ghajji, Emerson Henley, Roderick Hill, Ken Holmes, Zámbó István, Colton Langan, Perla Middleton, Robert Myers, Cailyn Peddle, Peter Schueller, Marc Schöttner, Ferenc Iván Szabó, Balázs Veres, Conor William Wright, Lauren Yaffe.

On this day in music history - Diamond Baby Blues, by Lee Aaron (2018):

Diamond Baby Blues

Album by Lee Aaron,

released April 27, 2018.

Track list:

Diamond Baby Blues; Mistreated; American High; I’m A Woman; Mercy; The Best Thing; Black Cat; Hard Road; In The Bedroom; Cut Way Back; You’re No Good; My Babe.

On this day in television history - Justified (2010 & 2011):

Justified

Season 1. Episode 7.

Episode entitled: Blind Spot.

Released April 27, 2010.

Directed by Michael Watkins.

Written by Graham Yost, Wendy Calhoun and Chris Provenzano.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, M.C. Gainey, Linda Gehringer, James Immekus, Ray McKinnon, David Meunier, Brent Sexton, Walton Goggins, Blake Adams, Jack Nathan Harding, Howard S. Miller, Keith Talley, Kevin ‘Repo’ Thomas.

Justified

Season 2. Episode 12.

Episode entitled: Reckoning.

Released April 27, 2011.

Directed by Adam Arkin.

Written by Graham Yost, Dave Andron, Benjamin Cavell and VJ Boyd.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Walton Goggins, Margo Martindale, Jeremy Davies, Kaitlyn Dever, David Meunier, Peter Murnik, Kevin Rankin, Richard Speight Jr., Joseph Lyle Taylor, Raymond J. Barry, Kacey Camp, Sean Donnellan, Tonja Kahlens, Savannah McReynolds, Abby Miller, Ryan Smith, Nick Warnock, Jeremy Timmins.

On this day in movie history - The Raven (2012):

The Raven

directed by James McTeigue,

written by Ben Livingston and Hannah Shakespeare,

was released in the United States on April 27, 2012.
Inspired by the poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1845.
Music by Lucas Vidal.

Cast:

John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson, Kevin McNally, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Jimmy Yuill, Sam Hazeldine, Pam Ferris, Brendan Coyle, Adrian Rawlins, Aidan Feore, Dave Legeno, Michael Cronin, Michael Poole, Michael Shannon, Ian Virgo, Michael J. Fourticq, Jasmina Ilic, Teodora Uveric, Kristof Farkas, Luka Mijatovic, József Tálos, Matt Devere, Sergej Trifunovic, Milos Djuricic, Mike Kelly, Bojan Peric, Ana Sofrenovic, Steve Agnew, Malina Nikolic, Miklós Kapácsy, Andrew Hefler, Pierre Boris Jaurdin, Tamara Krcunovic, Jason Ryan, Antal Publik, László Konter, Mark C. Phelan, Krisztián Peer, Annamaria Ordog, Ádám Földi, Dejan Cubrilov, Máté Haumann, Péter Fancsikai, Sava Rapic, Charity Wakefield, John Warnaby, Matt Slack.

On this day in movie history – Q&A (1990 movie & novel):

Q&A

directed and written by Sidney Lumet,

based on the novel by Edwin Torres,

was released in the United States on April 27, 1990.
Music by Rubén Blades.

Cast:

Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante, Patrick O'Neal, Lee Richardson, Luis Guzmán, Charles S. Dutton, Jenny Lumet, Paul Calderon, International Chrysis, Dominic Chianese, Leonardo Cimino, Fyvush Finkel, Gustavo Brens, Martin E. Brens, Maurice Schell, Thomas Mikal Ford, John Capodice, Frederick Rolf, Hal Lehrman, Gloria Irizarry, Brian Neill, Susan Mitchell, Drew Eliot, Frank Raiter, Harry Madsen, Jerry Ciauri, George Kodisch, Burtt Harris, Michael A. Joseph, Cynthia O'Neal, Victor Colicchio, Anibal O. Lleras, José Rafael Arango, David Dill, Alex Ruiz, Richard Solchik, Edward Rogers III, Junior Perez, Javier Ríos, June Stein, Rod Rodriguez, Sonny Vito, Olga Merediz, Peter Gumeny, Edward Rowan, Danny Darrow, José Collazo, José Alvarez, G.W. Bailey, Janis Corsair, David Hummel.

Recommended reading:

Q&A

By Edwin Torres.

Filmed as Q&A (1990), directed by Sidney Lumet.

Published by Avon Books.

First published 1977.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0380018624

ISBN-13: 978-0380018628

Description:

The basis for the hit film "Q & A" directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Nick Nolte. Written by Edwin Torres, the author of After Hours which was the basis for the hit film "Carlito's Way" starring Al Pacino and Sean Penn.

The minute he steps down the alleyway, Tony Roman knows it’s a setup. The first bullet tears through his cheekbone; the second pierces his brain. The big man is dead before he hits the ground. When the crowd pours out of the nightclub to see what happened, the killer flashes a badge. He’s the NYPD’s Lt. Brennan, and he plans to get away with murder.

Assistant District Attorney Al Reilly is called in to investigate the shooting. Everyone in the department expects Reilly, an ex-cop whose father was killed in the line of duty, to support Brennan’s claim of self-defense. But the evidence doesn’t add up. As Reilly digs deeper into the events of that snowy night in the darkened alley, he finds that in the NYPD, there is no crime worse than investigating a crooked cop.

On this day in movie history - Law of the Underworld (1938):

Law of the Underworld

directed by Lew Landers,

written by Bert Granet and Edmund L. Hartmann,

based on the story The Lost Game and the play Crime by John B. Hymer and Samuel Shipman,

was released in the United States on April 27, 1938.

Music by Nathaniel Shilkret and Roy Webb.

Cast:

Chester Morris, Anne Shirley, Eduardo Ciannelli, Walter Abel, Richard Bond, Lee Patrick, Paul Guilfoyle, Frank M. Thomas, Eddie Acuff, Vinton Hayworth, Jack Carson, Paul Stanton, Joseph E. Bernard, Stanley Blystone, Richard Cramer, Bud Geary, Chuck Hamilton, Cecil Kellaway, Florence Lake, Richard Parker, George Shelley, Wyndham Standing, Larry Steers, Anthony Warde, Bryant Washburn.

Born on this day – Rachel Caine:

Rachel Caine

Writer

April 27, 1962 – November 1, 2020

Credits:

Books:

Ash and Quill (2017); Bite Club (2011); Bitter Blood (2012); Bitter Falls (2020); Black Dawn (2012); Bridge of Shadows (1998); Cape Storm (2009); Carniepunk (2013); Carpe Corpus (2009); Chicks Kick Butt (2011); Chill Factor (2005); Copper Moon (1997); Daylighters (2013); Dead Air: The Complete Season 1 (2018); Dead Girl's Dance (2007); Devil's Bargain (2005); Devil's Due (2006); Exile, Texas (2003); Fade Out (2009); Fall of Night (2013); Feast of Fools (2008); Firestorm (2006); Gale Force (2008); Ghost Town (2010); Glass Houses (2006); Glass Houses / Dead Girls' Dance / Midnight Alley (2010); Heartbreak Bay (2021); Heat Stroke (2004); Honor Among Thieves (2018); Honor Bound (2019); Honor Lost (2020); Ill Wind (2003); Ink and Bone (2015); Killman Creek (2017); Kiss of Death (2010); Kolchak: The Night Stalker / The Night Stalker Casebook (2006); Last Breath (2011); Line Of Sight (2007); Lord of Misrule (2008); Marion, Missing (2016); Midnight Alley (2007); Midnight Bites (2016); Morganville Vampires Series 1 and 2 (2017); Paper and Fire (2016); Prince of Shadows (2014); Shiny (2011); Smoke and Iron (2018); Stargate SG-1: Sacrifice Moon (2004); Stargate SG-1: Stepping Through the Stargate (2004); Stillhouse Lake (2017); Sword and Pen (2019); Terminated (2013); The Cold Girl (2014); The Morganville Vampires (2009); The Morganville Vampires Collection (2013); The Morganville Vampires, Volume 3 (2011); The Morganville Vampires, Volume 4 (2011); The Morganville Vampires: Collection 1-8 (2010); The Morganville Vampires: Volume 2 (2010); Thin Air (2007); Total Eclipse (2010); Trapper Road (2022); Two Weeks Notice (2012); Unbroken (2012); Undone (2009); Unknown (2010); Unseen (2011); Windfall (2005); Wolfhunter River (2019); Working Stiff (2011).

Television and radio:

Dead Air (2021); Morganville: The Series (2014); Rêves et Cris (2012).

Born on this day – Doug Sheehan:

Doug Sheehan

Actor

April 27, 1949 – June 29, 2024

Credits:

10 (1979); A Mom for Christmas (1990); Alice (1983); Battle of the Network Stars XVI (1984); Battle of the Network Stars XVII (1984); Charlie's Angels (1978); Cheers (1983); Clueless (1997–1999); Columbo (1993); Cops n Roberts (1995); Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501 (1990); Day by Day (1988–1989); Day by Day (1988–1989); Dear John (1980); Diagnosis Murder (2000); Dynasty (1982); Family Feud (1982); General Hospital (1979–1982); Heavens to Betsy (1995); In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I. Murders (1988); Just Men! (1983); Kaz (1979); Knots Landing (1983–1988); Knots Landing Reunion: Together Again (2005); MacGyver (1990); Passions (2002); Promised Land (1997); Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1999–2003); Stranger in My Bed (1987); Style & Substance (1998); That Was Then (2002); The $10,000 Pyramid (1983); The $25,000 Pyramid (1983); The Arsenio Hall Show (1989); The Knots Landing Block Party (1993); The Magical World of Disney (1990); The Merv Griffin Show (1980–1985); The Regis Philbin Show (1982); What I Like About You (2003).

Born on this day – August Wilson:

August Wilson

Writer

April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005

Credits:

Written work:

Black Bart and the Sacred Hills; Fences; Fullerton Street; Gem of the Ocean; How I Learned What I Learned; Jitney!; Joe Turner's Come and Gone; King Hedley II; Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; Placebo; Profiles in Science: One Man and One Woman / William Harvey; Radio Golf; Recycle; Seven Guitars; The Coldest Day of the Year; The Ground on Which I Stand; The Homecoming; The Janitor; The Piano Lesson; Two Trains Running.

Movies, video and television:

60 Minutes / Viola / August Wilson (2002–2021); American Masters (2015); Charlie Rose (1998); Ebony/Jet Showcase (1990); Fences (2012); Fences (2016); Literary Visions (1992); Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020); On Broadway (2019); PBS NewsHour (2020–2024); The 41st Annual Tony Awards (1987); The 43rd Annual Tony Awards (1989); The 55th Annual Tony Awards (2001); The Naked Proof (2003); The Piano Lesson (1995); Working in the Theatre (1987–2001).

Born on this day – Judy Carne:

Judy Carne

Actress

April 27, 1939 – September 3, 2015

Credits:

12 O'Clock High (1964–1966); 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2016); 7 Nights to Remember (1966); A Pair of Briefs (1962); Alias Smith and Jones (1971); All the Right Noises (1970); Beyond Vaudeville (1990); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Blankety Blank (1980); Bloopermania (1987); Bonanza (1963); Cade's County (1972); Danger Man (1961); Dateline: Hollywood (1967); Dead Men Tell No Tales (1971); Dr. Kildare (1964); E! Mysteries & Scandals (1999); Entertainment Tonight (2015–2018); Everybody's Talking (1967); Fair Exchange (1962–1963); Funny Farm (1974); Funny You Should Ask (1968); Get Christie Love! (1975); Gidget (1965); Give Us a Clue (1979); Gunsmoke (1966); Gypsy (1966); Hollywood's Talking (1973); Hour Magazine (1983); I Dream of Jeannie (1966–1969); Ironside (1974); Jack Hylton's Monday Show (1958); Juke Box Jury (1959–1960); Letters to Laugh-in (1969); Love on a Rooftop (1966–1967); Love, American Style / Segments: Love and the Last Joke; Love and the Advice Column; Love and the Single Sister (1969–1973); Match Game (1973); NBC Children's Theatre (1971); On Stage – London (1957); On the Brighter Side (1961); On the Line (1982); Only with Married Men (1974); Out of Order (1981); Pat Boone in Hollywood (1967–1968); Pebble Mill at One (1978); Police Woman (1976); QB VII (1974); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967–1971); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in: 25th Anniversary Reunion (1993); Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In: A Valentine's Day Special (1994); Run for Your Life (1968); Sandler and Young's Kraft Music Hall (1969–1970); Saturday Night at the Mill (1980); Storybook Squares (1969); Stu's Show (2023); The $10,000 Pyramid (1973); The 100 Greatest TV Quotes & Catchphrases (2006); The 67th Primetime Emmy Awards (2015); The ABC Afternoon Playbreak (1974); The Americanization of Emily (1964); The Andy Williams Show (1970–1971); The Baileys of Balboa (1964–1965); The Basil Brush Show (1980); The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show (2022); The Big Valley (1967); The Bob Braun Show (1977); The Cheaters (1962); The Cross-Wits (1976–1977); The David Frost Show (1969–1972); The Dick Cavett Show (1970); The Eamonn Andrews Show (1969); The Ed Sullivan Show (1969–1971); The Farmer's Daughter (1965); The Geraldo Rivera Show (1990); The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour (1969); The Hollywood Palace (1969); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1966–1971); The Howard Stern Show (1990); The Jerry Lewis Show (1968); The Joey Bishop Show (1968–1969); The John Gary Show (1969); The Kraft Music Hall (1969); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1965–1967); The Match Game (1968); The Merv Griffin Show (1969–1974); The Mike Douglas Show (1967–1970); The Patty Duke Show (1966); The Rag Trade (1961); The Sixties (2014); The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1968); The Tim Conway Comedy Hour (1970); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1969–1972); The Woody Woodbury Show (1967–1968); This Is Tom Jones (1969); This Is Your Life (1970); Thriller (1973); TV's 50 Funniest Catch Phrases (2009); U.S. Open Sores (1989); What About Me (1993); Who's Moody? (1960); Win with the Stars (1968–1969); You Don't Say (1968); Zero One (1962).

Born on this day – Anouk Aimée:

Anouk Aimée

Actress

Credits:

1999 Madeleine (1999); 81/2 (1963); 93 Faubourg Saint-Honoré (2003); A Leap in the Dark (1980); A Man and a Woman (1966); A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (1986); À vos amours (1993); Adrienne Mesurat (1953); Agnes Varda: From Here to There (2011); Alfonso Sánchez (1980); Let's Go to the Cinema (1976); Arrivederci e Grazie (1988); Beyond the Screen (1966); Aznavour by Charles (2019); Barbey on Diabolical (2008); Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990); Big Is Beautiful (2012); Billy Baxter Presents Diary of the Cannes Film Festival with Rex Reed (1980); Bouillon de culture (1991–1993); C à vous (2019); Cannes Film Festival (1980–1987); The One I Love (2009); It's Even Better in the Afternoon (1986); Charlie Rose (2012); Ciné regards / Segment: The film of the week (1981); Cinema star (1987); Cinema (1966–1967); Cinema mil (2005); Cinemas (2010); Cinépanorama (1959–1960); Claude Lelouch, on s'aimera (2007); Compression (2024); Contraband Spain (1955); De película (1987); Déjà dimanche (1995); Two of the Wave (2010); From One Film to Another (2011); Footprints (2012); Everybody Wants to Kill Me (1957); Ex Libris (1989); Federico Fellini - Mit den Augen der Anderen (2003); Fellini dice... (2006); Fellini of the Spirits (2020); Festival in Cannes (2001); Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012); Freedom2speak v2.0 (2004); Gilles Jacob: Citizen Cannes (2010); Globos de Ouro 1998 (1999); Golden Salamander (1950); Happily Ever After (2004); Happy New Year (1973); Head Against the Wall (1959); Heart of the Festival (2002); Men, women, how to use it (1996); Horisont (1963); Offside (1961); Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant: Confidences of Three Unforgettable Actors (2022); Hotel Harabati (2006); Hustle (1975); Ich suche dich (1956); Once upon a time... (2009); Il morbidone (1965); Il successo (1963); Il terrorista (1963); Jean-Louis Trintignant - Mysterious and Elusive (2022); Justine (1969); L.A. Without a Map (1998); La Dolce Vita (1960); The Flower of Life (1947), La fuga (1965); The house under The Sea (1947), The Night of the Caesars (1982–2002); The Night of the Molières (1993–1999); The Crossing of the Looking Glass (2009); La vie de château (1984); Love cursed by Leisenbohg (1991); The Concerned Researcher (2014); The Grand Chessboard (1986); The Big Show (2016); The 8 p.m. news (2014); The novel of the Saturday (1980); Legends of World Cinema (2004); The Crimes of Love / Segment 2: The Crimson Curtain (1953); Limelight (2002); Groundhogs (1993); Bad Encounters (1955); Les nouveaux rendez-vous (1981); The Nuits de France Culture (2024); Les rendez-vous du dimanche (1980); The weekly Cinema (2006); L'île bleue (2001); L'imprevisto (1961); The Guest of FR3 (1978); Liolà (1964); Live for Life (1967); Lo scandalo (1966); Lola (1961); Love Letters (2008); Lovers of Paris (1957); L'ultima sequenza (2003); Marcello, una Vita Dolce (2006); Cinema Tuesday (2018); Model Shop (1969); My last dream will be for you (1989); My First Love (1978); Montparnasse 19 (1958); Smithereens Cannes (2021); Napoleon (2002); Nina (1956); Noche de tormenta (1955) Noi Che abbiamo fatto la dolce vita (2009), Nowhere Else (2000); Of Flesh and Blood (1963); We Tried Everything (2006); One Hundred and One Nights (1995); One Night... a Train (1968); ORTF, They Invented Television (2020); Paris Connections (2010); Personal and confidential (2007); Piazza Navona (1988); Portrait (1979); Quai Notre-Dame (1961); What makes David run? (1982); Ready to Wear (1994); RCannes Eflets (1958–196)6); Release (1967); Rheingold Theatre (1953); Rich, beautiful, etc. (1998); Rupture(s) (1993); Sacrée soirée (1993); Screen Two (1993); Seasons of Our Love (1966); Second Chance (1976); Simenon and the Cinema Affair (2020); Sodom and Gomorrah (1962); Solomon (1997); Stranger Than Fiction (2006); Stresemann (1957); Studio Gabriel (1995); Stupefying! (2019); Success Is the Best Revenge (1984); Tell Me Yes... (1995); The 2011 European Film Awards (2011); The 24th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1967); The 39th Annual Academy Awards (1967); The Appointment (1969); The Best Years of a Life (2019); The Birch-Tree Meadow (2003); The Chasers (1959); The Crimson Curtain (1952) The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird (1952); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute To Federico Fellini (1985); The General of the Dead Army (1983); Italian Tea Traveler (1987); The Joker (1960) The Journey (1959) The Last Judgment (1961); The Lovers of Verona (1949); The Paris Express (1952); The Respectful Prostitute (1963); The Shortest Day (1963); The World of Jacques Demy (1995); There Were Days... and Moons (1990); To Each His Own Cinema / Segment: Cinéma de Boulevard (2007); Turning to Live (2016); All the Suns (2011); All Le Monde en parle (2002–2006); Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (1981); Turning Table (1988); A Dream Barely Begins (1984); One for All (1999); V.I.P.-Schaukel (1976); V.O.S.: Lo que NO te cuentan (2021); Victory, or the Women's Pain (2000); Visioni senza tempo - Anna Napoli e il montaggio Cinematografico (2022); Viva la vie (1984); Vivement Dimanche (2000–2019); What War May Bring (2010); White Voices (1964); Zoom su Fellini (1983).