Peter Brown
1979 (44 года)Since then, he has authored and illustrated numerous award-winning books, including The Wild Robot and its sequels, which have become bestsellers. His accolades include multiple E.B. White Awards, Horn Book Awards, and recognition as a New York Times Best Illustrated Book. In 2024, an animated film adaptation of The Wild Robot was released.
Brown's notable works also include Children Make Terrible Pets, Mr. Tiger Goes Wild, and My Teacher Is a Monster!, all of which have earned various accolades and are recognized as Junior Library Guild selections.
Top of the Hill
Walter Grauman
Wayne Rogers, Elke Sommer
Michael Stone is a rising company executive who decides to chuck his career and marriage to fulfill a fantasy to be a member of the U.S. Olympic bobsled team and partake in the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid.
The Top of the Hill
Gateways to the Mind
Owen Crump
Frank Baxter, Hadley Cantrell
The film presents how the human body recognizes and becomes aware of its surroundings. The various information pathways to the brain such as sight, sound, smell, taste and touch are explored in a accurate but simple manner via human impression and cartoon characters!
Gateways to the Mind
Summer Magic
James Neilson
Hayley Mills, Dorothy McGuire
Mother Carey, a Bostonian widow, and her three children move to Maine. Postmaster Osh Popham helps them move into a run-down old house and fixes it up for them. It's not entirely uninhabited, though; the owner, Mr. Hamilton, is a mysterious character away in Europe, but Osh assures them he won't mind their living there, since he won't be coming home for a long time yet. The children and a cousin who comes to live with them have various adventures before an unexpected visitor shows up
Summer Magic
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything
William Wiard
Robert Hays, Pam Dawber
After inheriting a magical gold watch from his multimillionaire uncle's estate, Robert Hays and his girlfriend, Pam Dawber, soon discover not only that he can stop time with the watch, but also that it holds the secret to his late uncle's fortune -- a secret that others fall over themselves trying to steal.
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything
Merrill's Marauders
Samuel Fuller
Jeff Chandler, Ty Hardin
Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), aka "Merrill's Marauders", behind Japanese lines across Burma to Myitkyina, pushing beyond their limits and fighting pitched battles at every strong-point.
Merrill's Marauders
Darby's Rangers
William A. Wellman
James Garner, Etchika Choureau
Stationed in Scotland, Maj. William Darby and the men under his command are trained by British commandos, becoming the U.S. Army's 1st Ranger Battalion. Their drilling period is rigorous, but the men find time to romance local women before being deployed to fight the Nazis. U.S. forces battle from French North Africa to Italy, but when a surprise attack decimates the 1st and 3rd Battalions at the Battle of Cisterna, Darby and the 4th Battalion must come to their aid.
Darby's Rangers
Marjorie Morningstar
Irving Rapper
Natalie Wood, Gene Kelly
While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew, but has fallen away from his roots, and Marjorie's parents object among other things to his lack of a suitable profession. Noel himself warns Marjorie repeatedly that she's much too naive and conventional for him, but they nonetheless fall in love.
Marjorie Morningstar
My Christmas Dream
James Head
Danica McKellar, David Haydn-Jones
A department store manager sets out to create an amazing holiday display window to impress the owner. She asks a recently-fired employee to help her make the display, and as they work together, they start to fall in love.
My Christmas Dream
A Tiger Walks
Norman Tokar
Brian Keith, Vera Miles
A tiger escapes from a circus truck as it passes by a small town, and hides itself in the surrounding woods. This throws the town into a panic and everyone wants the animal killed immediately, except for the daughter of the sheriff. She wants to capture the tiger and put it in a zoo, thereby saving the tiger's life. Her determination starts a nationwide campaign among children to raise the money to buy the tiger from the circus, but first, she, her father and an Indian tiger trainer must find the tiger before the National Guard do, who have orders to kill it on sight.
A Tiger Walks
