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Acting
John Granik
Born December 10, 1930 · Pakan, Alberta, Canada
Died October 29, 2003 · aged 72
No biography available.
Known For
To Catch a Killer · 1992To Catch a Killer
★ 6.81992
MovieCrimeDrama
"To Catch a Killer" tells the true gruesome story of John Wayne Gacy - a good friend and helpful neighbour, a great child entertainer, a respectful businessman, and a violent serial killer who raped and murdered over 30 young boys.
The Cube · 1969The Cube
★ 7.11969
MovieDramaTV Movie
An unnamed character is trapped in a cubical white room where others can enter and leave, but which he himself apparently cannot leave. A stool is brought in covered in strawberry jam, the furniture changes throughout the play. The main character is subjected to an increasingly puzzling and frustrating series of encounters, as a variety of people come through various hidden doors. But, as many remind him, he can only leave through his own door, so he must find it.
In Praise of Older Women · 1978In Praise of Older Women
★ 5.31978
MovieDramaRomance
Andras Vayda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by girls of his age, he meets Maya, a married women in her thirties, who tutors him in the lessons of love and romance. Maya is only the first of many mature women that Andras will meet through his teenage and young adult life.
Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper · 1981Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper
★ 8.01981
MovieHistoryDrama
A dramatized account of how the staff of the Canadian Embassy helped a group of American diplomats escape from Iran during the Iranian Revolution.
Power Play · 1978Power Play
★ 7.21978
MovieThrillerDrama
A group of military officers frustrated by government corruption and brutality attempts a coup.
The Heatwave Lasted Four Days · 1975The Heatwave Lasted Four Days
★ 8.01975
MovieCrimeDrama
A TV news cameraman's appetite for fine wine, fast cars and beautiful women draws him into the grip of a heroin smuggler.
Hot Money · 1983Hot Money
★ 3.81983
MovieComedyCrime
Burt, a clever ex-con, has changed his identity and has managed to land a job as a deputy in small town in upstate New York. On the 4th of July, while the drunken Sheriff Paisley is busy with the local parade and festivities, Burt quietly steals a million dollars in cash from the cellar safe in the local rich old widow's house. Unsuspected, Burt makes plans to live the rest of his life in the lap of luxury in a far off place with his attractive girlfriend, local hash house waitress Jeanette. But when a crisis of conscience hits him like a wave of ice cold water, he starts to think twice about his dastardly deed, and how that purloining of the old lady's money is wrongly affecting his friends as well as innocent locals. But will Burt do the right thing?
Fortune and Men's Eyes · 1971Fortune and Men's Eyes
★ 5.71971
MovieDrama
Smitty, a young man sentenced to six months in prison for marijuana possession eventually becomes the sexual subordinate of another inmate, Rocky.
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