Michael Butler (Writing)
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Works
A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry
Filmmakers, social scientists and authors take a provocative look at the moral, political and ethical themes of the Dirty Harry films.
Release Date: 2008-07-23
Character: Self
Vote Count: 2
The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry
An in-depth look at Dirty Harry (1971), featuring interviews with such film artists as Michael Madsen, 'Hal Holbrook', John Milius, 'Shane Black' and John Badham.
Release Date: 2008-07-23
Character: Self
Vote Count: 4
The Evolution of Clint Eastwood
Follow Eastwood's career from television star to matinee idol to Oscar-winning director in this wide-ranging documentary.
Release Date: 2008-06-03
Character: Self
Vote Count: 3
Pronto
Harry Arno is a Miami Beach bookie who finds himself in trouble with his mob bosses for reasons he can't quite figure out. When an assailant attempts to kill him, he decides that it's time to retire, so he relocates to Greece.
Release Date: 1997-06-08
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 6
White Mile
An ad-agency boss (Alan Alda) leads a white-water-rafting trip into danger.
Release Date: 1994-05-21
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 18
Fifty/Fifty
Two bickering mercenaries are hired by the CIA to overthrow a South East Asian dictator.
Release Date: 1993-02-26
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 15
Houston Knights
Houston Knights is an American crime drama set in Houston, Texas. The show ran on CBS from 1987 to 1988 and had 31 episodes. The core of the show was the partnership between two very different cops from two different cultures. Chicago cop Joey LaFiamma, played by Michael Paré, is transferred to Houston after he kills a mobster from a powerful Mafia family and a contract is put out on him. Once there, he is partnered with Levon Lundy, played by Michael Beck, the grandson of a Texas Ranger. Although as different as night and day, and after a rocky beginning they form a successful partnership and become friends. This is aided to a certain extent by an event where a hitman from Chicago who holds the contract to shoot La Fiamma arrives in Houston and is ultimately killed by Lundy. During the series, it is revealed that both La Fiamma and Lundy have their own personal demons; La Fiamma's Chicago police partner had been killed when he went ahead while La Fiamma had waited for backup to arrive. Lundy's wife had been killed by an explosion that was intended to kill him.
Release Date: 1987-03-11
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 3
Pale Rider
A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.
Release Date: 1985-06-28
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1085
Code of Silence
A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
Release Date: 1985-05-03
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 211
Flashpoint
Two Texas border guards find a jeep buried in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. Before they decide whether to keep the money or report it, they privately investigate the clues and unravel a decades old mystery.
Release Date: 1984-04-19
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 47
Murder by Phone
A disgruntled phone company employee develops a device whereby those answering a phone can be murdered, and it's up to Nat Bridger to stop the killer.
Release Date: 1982-12-01
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 21
Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill
The first of three private-eye movies created by Robert Blake about rugged Joe Dancer as the forerunner to a prospective but unrealized series after the retirement of his "Baretta" character. In the initial outing, Blake, as Dancer, follows a trail of bodies through a maze of corruption involving a politically ambitious Beverly Hills family.
Release Date: 1981-01-29
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 2
The Gauntlet
Phoenix cop Ben Shockley is well on his way to becoming a derelict when he is assigned to transport a witness from Las Vegas. The witness turns out to be a belligerent prostitute with mob ties—and incriminating information regarding a high-ranking figure.
Release Date: 1977-12-17
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 535
The Car
The Utah community of Santa Ynez is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the car kills off the town sheriff, Captain Wade Parent is determined to stop the murderous driver.
Release Date: 1977-05-12
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 286
Kate McShane
Kate McShane is an American legal drama television series that aired from September 10 until November 12, 1975. Kate McShane was the first series to feaure a female lawyer in the lead role.
Release Date: 1975-09-10
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
Brannigan
A hard-nosed Chicago cop is sent to London to bring back an American mobster being held for extradition. Brannigan in his Irish-American way brings American law to the people of Scotland Yard but has to contend with a stuffy old London first.
Release Date: 1975-03-21
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 101
Baretta
Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. While popular, Toma received intense criticism at the time for its realistic and frequent depiction of police and criminal violence. When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was retooled as Baretta, with Robert Blake in the title role.
Release Date: 1975-01-17
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 36
Nakia
An American Indian deputy sheriff is caught in the middle of a community dispute when the tribe tries to save an historic mission from a housing developer. This TV pilot film was an ABC Movie of the Week and later became a TV series.
Release Date: 1974-04-17
Department: Writing
Job: Teleplay
The Don Is Dead
After his mistress is murdered, a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues.
Release Date: 1973-11-14
Department: Writing
Job: Adaptation
Vote Count: 25
America America
A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America.
Release Date: 1963-12-15
Department: Camera
Job: Assistant Camera
Vote Count: 88