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Walon Green (born December 15, 1936) is an American documentary film director and screenwriter, for both television and film. Career. Green produced and directed documentaries for National Geographic and David Wolper, including The Hellstrom Chronicle, for which he was accorded the Oscar and the BAFTA in 1972, and The Secret Life of Plants in 1979.
It follows a duo of real-life reporters covering breaking news about three meteor fragments crashing into the Northern Hemisphere. It aired on CBS on October 30, 1994, and is presented as if it were an actual breaking news event, complete with remote reports from reporters.
Sep 27, 2015 · Walon Green (of The Wild Bunch fame) adapted Max Evans’s 1961 novel ‘The Hi-Lo Country’ for the screen and Stephen Frears, English director of My Beautiful Laundrette and The Grifters, did a great job on it. It tells of two young men just back from World War II who try to make a go of running cattle but find that the old ways have gone.
With The Wild Bunch screenwriter Walon ‘Wally’ Green, Friedkin recast the key characters as a Mexican hitman (Francisco Rabal), an Arab terrorist (Amidou), a French businessman (Bruno Cremer) and an American gangster (Roy Scheider).
Peckinpah’s co-writer Walon Green says of the minimalist, terse exchange: “If the movie doesn’t say it, there’s no line in the world that’s gonna help.” Author W.K. Stratton , in his book, The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film , states, “With that, a cloud lifts.
Writer: Walon Green, based on the novel by Max Evans. Starring: Woody Harrelson, Billy Crudup, Patricia Arquette, Cole Hauser, Penlope Cruz, Enrique Castillo, Darren E Burrows, Jacob Vargas, Robert Knott, Sam Elliott. Year: 1998. Runtime: 104 minutes. BBFC: Country: US
Walon Green is one of the executive producers of Dragnet, the remake of the 1950s crime drama set in Los Angeles. The new show revives the fictional detectives Joe Friday and Frank Smith. Green is a veteran producer and writer of other police dramas including Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue, as well as the dramas ER and Law & Order.
