Howard FastFilmography http://www.fandango.com/
Born: November 11, 1914 Occupation: Screenwriter, Book Author • Sort By: Title Release Date
Masters of Science Fiction: The Awakening Crew: Short Story Author 2007 Actors: Terry O'Quinn, Elisabeth Röhm
Spartacus Crew: Book Author 2004 Actors: Goran Visnjic, Alan Bates, Angus MacFadyen, Rhona Mitra, Ian McNeice Synopsis: This television miniseries tells the familiar story of Spartacus, played in this endeavor by ER regular Goran Visnjic. Spartacus, who was enslaved by the Romans after they murdered his father, leads fellow slaves in an attempt to overthrow the repressive Roman Empire. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Read More
The Crossing Crew: Screenwriter 1999 Actors: Jeff Daniels Synopsis: Adapted by screenwriter Howard Fast from his own fact-based novel, this historical drama tells the story of one of the most unexpected triumphs of the American Revolutionary War. In December 1776, the armies of General George Washington (Jeff Daniels) are near the point of collapse; short on Read More Spartacus (Australian Ballet) Crew: Book Author 1990 Actors: Steven Heathcote, Lisa Pavane, Greg Horsman, Adam Marchant, Robert Marshall Synopsis: Based - as was the 1960 Stanley Kubrick epic of the same name - on Howard Fast's historical novel about the famous 1st century B.C. slave who led a massive revolt against tyrannical Roman oppressors, László Seregi's ballet Spartacus is mounted by The Australian Ballet at Melbourne's Arts Centre in Read More
April Morning Crew: Book Author 1988 Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Urich, Chad Lowe, Susan Blakely, Meredith Salenger Synopsis: The morning invoked by the title of this made-for-TV drama is April 19, 1775. On that day, the "shot heard 'round the world" was fired, signalling the start of the American Revolution. Departing from known history, novelist Howard Fast (who wrote the book on which this film is based) proposes that Read More
Freedom Road Crew: Book Author 1979 Synopsis: Muhammad Ali made his TV-movie dramatic debut in this adaptation of Howard Fast's novel Freedom Road. Though some of the names are changed, the story concerns the true-life efforts of senators Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens to bring political order and racial equality to the post-Civil War Read More The Immigrants Crew: Book Author 1978 Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Howard Fast, the two-part, four-hour miniseries The Immigrants is the saga of Dan Lavetta (Stephen Macht). The son of an impoverished Italian immigrant family, Dan manages to emerge from the rubble of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake (cunningly re-created via Read More
21 Hours at Munich Crew: Screenwriter 1976 Actors: William Holden, Franco Nero Synopsis: 21 Hours at Munich is a grim reenactment of the darkest days of the 1972 Munich Olympics. A gang of eight Arab terrorists storm the Israeli dormitory, killing two and taking hostage nine athletes. The terrorist's demands include the release of 200 Arabs held in Israeli jails; Israel follows its Read More
Jigsaw Crew: Book Author 1968 Actors: Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman, Hope Lange, Pat Hingle, Diana Hyland Synopsis: In this thriller, Jonathan Fields (Bradford Dillman) awakens in a strange apartment and finds a dead woman floating in the bathtub after he suffered an LSD- flashback the night before. Finding blood upon his hand, he can only wonder how he is involved in the woman's death. He hires private Read More Mirage Crew: Screenwriter 1966 Actors: Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau, Kevin McCarthy, Jack Weston Synopsis: A dazed man, David Stillwell (Gregory Peck), wanders down the stairs of a New York skyscraper during a power blackout, only vaguely aware of who he is, where he's been, and why he has this nagging feeling that danger lurks all about him. Stillwell does know that many of the people in the building Read More
Penelope Crew: Screenwriter 1966 Actors: Natalie Wood, Ian Bannen, Dick Shawn, Peter Falk, Jonathan Winters Synopsis: Can armed robbery help save a marriage? These and other questions about modern relationships are pondered in this comedy. Penelope Elcott (Natalie Wood) married James (Ian Bannen) after a very brief courtship, and as his star has begun to rise in the banking business, he spends less and less time Read More
Sylvia Crew: Screenwriter 1965 Actors: Carroll Baker, George Maharis, Joanne Dru, Peter Lawford, Viveca Lindfors Synopsis: Carroll Baker, the Sharon Stone of the sixties, plays another classy-looking blonde with a sordid background in Sylvia. Millionaire Peter Lawford is about to marry the glamorous but secretive Sylvia (Baker). Before taking the plunge, he hires private eye George Maharis to do a background check on Read More Man in the Middle Crew: Book Author 1964 Actors: Robert Mitchum, France Nuyen, Barry Sullivan, Trevor Howard, Keenan Wynn Synopsis: Based on Howard Fast's novel The Winston Affair, this WW II-era crime drama is set in India and chronicles the attempts of an American military attorney to defend a lieutenant who shot a British officer in cold blood. Many witnesses were present and the question the lawyer must answer is whether Read More
Spartacus Crew: Book Author 1960 Actors: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov Synopsis: Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave purchased by Lentulus Batiatus (Peter Ustinov), owner of a school for gladiators. For the entertainment of corrupt Roman senator Marcus Licinius Crassus (Laurence Olivier), Batiatus' gladiators are to stage a fight to the death. On the night before Read More
Rachel and the Stranger Crew: Short Story Author 1948 Actors: Loretta Young, William Holden, Robert Mitchum, Gary Gray, Tom Tully Synopsis: This late-40s western features Robert Mitchum as an Indian scout who happens upon an unlikely family cabined up in the Great Northwest. They're unlikely because the widower settler (William Holden) has "purchased" a wife (Loretta Young as wife Rachel) to help raise his son and do the female chores Read More
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