Friday, May 16, 2025

On this day in movie history - Night Falls on Manhattan (1996):


Night Falls on Manhattan

directed and written by Sidney Lumet,
based on the novel Tainted Evidence by Robert Daley,
was released in the United States on May 16, 1997.
Music by Mark Isham.


Cast:

Andy Garcia, Ian Holm, James Gandolfini, Lena Olin, Shiek Mahmud-Bey, Colm Feore, Ron Leibman, Richard Dreyfuss, Dominic Chianese, Paul Guilfoyle, Bonnie Rose, Norman Matlock, Sidney Armus, James Murtaugh, Melba Martinez, Santo Fazio, Anthony Alessandro, David Fonteno, John Seitz, Stephen Beach, Nafisah Sayyed, Robert Sean Miller, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Jude Ciccolella, John Randolph Jones, Chuck Pfeiffer, Clark D. Williams, Bill Boggs, Tamara Phillips, Louis Guss, Richard Bright, Ronald von Klaussen, John Di Benedetto, Kevin Ramsey, Kermit Frazier, Veronica Hall, Vic Noto, Jim Moody, Socorro Santiago, Fran Anthony, Donna Hanover, Jack Cafferty, Kaity Tong, Allen Collodow, Dennis Paladino, Mike Cammallere, Jim Mauro, Salvatore Paul Piro, Mike Sheehan, Joseph Mosso, Teddy Coluca, Roslyn Cohn, Elliot Cuker, Yvette Mercedes, Kristina Lear, Joe Drago, Catherine Schreiber, Bobby Cannavale, Marshall Dancing Elk Lucas, Adam Alexi-Malle, Debbie Benitez, Barry Bradford, Ray Campbell, Vernon Campbell, Lisa Collins, Patrick Coleman Duncan, Arthur K. Flam, Nathan George, Mark Robert Gordon, Chandler Hill, Michael Luggio, Takeo Matsushita, Dale Resteghini, James Rosin, John Rowe Jr., Anthony Sinopoli, Leonard Tepper, Bebie Waller, J.D. Walters, David Watkin, Ted West.

On this day in movie history - Scene of the Crime (1986):


Scene of the Crime

French title: Le Lieu du crime,
directed by André Téchiné,
written by André Téchiné, Pascal Bonitzer and Olivier Assayas,
was released in France on May 16, 1986.
Music by Philippe Sarde.


Cast:

Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Wadeck Stanczak, Nicolas Giraudi, Jean-Claude Adelin, Jean Bousquet, Michel Grimaud, Philippe Landoulsi, Claire Nebout, Jacques Nolot, Victor Lanoux, Christine Paolini.

On this day in movie history - The Exterminating Angel (1962):


The Exterminating Angel

directed and written by Luis Buñuel,
based on the story Los Náufragos de la Calle de la Providencia by Luis Alcoriza and Luis Buñuel,
was released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 16, 1962.
Music by Raúl Lavista.

Cast:

Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, José Baviera, Augusto Benedico, Luis Beristáin, Antonio Bravo, Claudio Brook, César del Campo, Rosa Elena Durgel, Lucy Gallardo, Enrique García Álvarez, Ofelia Guilmáin, Nadia Haro Oliva, Tito Junco, Xavier Loyá, Xavier Massé, Ofelia Montesco, Patricia Morán, Patricia de Morelos, Bertha Moss, Enrique Rambal, Pancho Córdova, Ángel Merino, Luis Lomelí, Guillermo Álvarez Bianchi, Elodia Hernández, Florencio Castelló, Eric del Castillo, Chel López, David Hayat, Janet Alcoriza, Daniel Arroyo, Victorio Blanco, Arturo Cobo, Ángel Di Stefani, Juan Antonio Edwards, Jesús Gómez Murguía, Jaime Hayward, Rita Macedo, Roberto Meyer, Rubén Márquez, Fernando Yapur.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1958):


M Squad

Season 1. Episode 34.
Episode entitled: The $20 Plates.
Released May 16, 1958.
Directed by Allen H. Miner.
Written by Merwin Gerard.
Music by Stanley Wilson.


Cast:

Lee Marvin, Lynette Bernay, Logan Field, Joel Smith, Sara Taft, Paul Newlan, Charles Seel, Theodore Newton, Arthur Kendall, Joseph J. Greene, Jeanne Dante.

On this day in movie history - The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956):


The Man Who Knew Too Much

directed by Alfred Hitchcock,
written by John Michael Hayes,
based on a story by Charles Bennett and D. B. Wyndham-Lewis,
was released in the United States on May 16, 1956.
Music by Bernard Herrmann.
Song: Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be), performed by Doris Day.


Cast:

Doris Day, James Stewart, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Miles, Ralph Truman, Daniel Gélin, Mogens Wieth, Alan Mowbray, Hillary Brooke, Christopher Olsen, Reggie Nalder, Richard Wattis, Noel Willman, Alix Talton, Yves Brainville, Carolyn Jones, London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Herrmann, Covent Garden Chorus, Barbara Howitt, Patrick Aherne, Frank Albertson, Frank Atkinson, Walter Bacon, Frank Baker, John Barrard, Betty Baskcomb, Hyma Beckley, Paul Beradi, Eumenio Blanco, Arline Bletcher, Alexis Bobrinskoy, Lovyss Bradley, Janet Bruce, Naida Buckingham, Clifford Buckton, Barbara Burke, Nora Bush, Peter Camlin, Albert Carrier, Jimmy Charters, Abdelhaq Chraibi, Oliver Cross, Pauline Farr, Harry Fine, Alex Frazer, Wolf Frees, Milton Frome, Leo Gordon, Walter Gotell, Victor Harrington, Sam Harris, George Hilsdon, Alfred Hitchcock, Gladys Holland, Jimmie Horan, George Howe, Allen Jaffe, Philip Johns, Barbara Jones, Harold Kasket, Barry Keegan, Lou Krugman, Anne Kunde, Lloyd Lamble, Anthony Lang, Donald Lawton, Marion Lessing, Carl M. Leviness, Enid Lindsey, Mayne Lynton, Janet Macfarlane, Edward Manouk, Richard Marner, John Marshall, Lewis Martin, Louis Mercier, Lee Miller, Lola Morice, Ralph Neff, Leslie Newport, John O'Malley, Elsa Palmer, Liddell Peddieson, Jean Ransome, Arthur Ridley, Lucile Sewall, Alma Taylor.