Highest rated movie: Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau (2014)
Lowest rated movie: The General's Daughter (1999)
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Movies starring John Frankenheimer have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 67%.
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau - released in 2014 - is John Frankenheimer's highest rated movie, with a score of 75% based on 29 reviews.
The lowest rated film from John Frankenheimer is The General's Daughter - released in 1999 - with a score of 53% based on 377 reviews.
John Michael Frankenheimer (February 19, 1930 – July 6, 2002) what is an American film and television director known for social dramas. He won four consecutive Emmy Awards in the 1990s for the television movies Against the Wall, The Burning Season, Andersonville and George Wallace, which also received a Golden Globe award. He was considered one of the last remaining directors who insisted on having complete control over all elements of production, making his style unique in Hollywood.
His 30 feature films and over 50 plays for television were notable for their influence on contemporary thought. He became a pioneer of the "modern-day political thriller," having begun his career at the peak of the Cold war. Many of his films were noted for creating "psychological dilemmas" for his male protagonists along with having a strong "sense of environment," similar in style to films by director Sidney Lumet, for whom he had earlier worked as assistant director. He developed a "tremendous propensity for exploring political situations" which would ensnare his characters.
Movie critic Leonard Maltin writes that "in his time [1960s]... Frankenheimer worked with the top writers, producers and actors in a series of films that dealt with issues that were just on top-of-the-moment—things that were facing us all." Among his credits were The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Birdman of Alcatraz (so, 1962), The Train, (1964), Seven Days in May (i.e., 1964) and Ronin (1998).
John Frankenheimer has acted in films with James Woods, Roman Polanski, Edward R. Pressman and John Travolta.
John Frankenheimer has worked with these film directors: Simon West, David Gregory, Mark Hartley and Gabriel Clarke.
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