Coming up on Saturday at the Described Movies: Breakfast at Tiffany's, and The Sons of Katie Elder.
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From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 6pm Saturday in NZ, 4pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies Breakfast at Tiffany's from 1961, and The Sons of Katie Elder from 1965.
Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic comedy film directed by Blake Edwards, written by George Axelrod, adapted from Truman Capote's 1958 novella of the same name, and starring Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, a naïve, eccentric café society girl who falls in love with a struggling writer while attempting to marry for money.
It was theatrically released by Paramount Pictures on 5 October 1961, to critical and commercial success.
Nominated for five Academy Awards (winning two), with the music (including " Moon River") nominated for six Grammy Awards (winning five), the film was selected in 2012 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".
Directed by: Blake Edwards.
Screenplay by: George Axelrod.
Based on: Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote.
Produced by: Martin Jurow, and Richard Shepherd.
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, and Mickey Rooney.
Cinematography: Franz F. Planer.
Edited by: Howard Smith.
Music by: Henry Mancini.
Production companies: Jurow-Shepherd, and Spinel Entertainment.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures.
Release date: 5 October 1961.
File Length: 116 minutes.
Country: United States.
Languages: English, and Portuguese.
Budget: $2.5 million.
Box office: $14 million.
The Sons of Katie Elder is a 1965 American Western film in Panavision, directed by Henry Hathaway and starring John Wayne and Dean Martin.
Ranch owner Katie Elder's four sons determine to avenge the murder of their father and the swindling of their mother.
It was filmed principally in Mexico.
Directed by: Henry Hathaway.
Written by: William H. Wright, Allan Weiss, and Harry Essex.
Based on: Story by Talbot Jennings.
Produced by: Paul Nathan, and Hal B. Wallis.
Starring: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Martha Hyer, Michael Anderson Jr., Earl Holliman, George Kennedy, Paul Fix, Jeremy Slate, James Gregory, and Dennis Hopper.
Cinematography: Lucien Ballard.
Edited by: Warren Low.
Music by: Elmer Bernstein.
Colour process: Technicolor.
Production Company: Wallis-Hazen.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures.
Release date: 24 June 1965.
File Length: 116 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $6.5 million.
Box office: $23 million.
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