Robert Montgomery

Honey looks to the street for inspiration when she's told her choreography isn't working.

Synopsis: A young man wakes from a nightmare and finds a camera with footage of what appears to be his own death. (Suspense) Actors/Models: Beau Ballinger, Maggie Vandehnberg, Amber Alexander, and Robert S. Wilson. Music: 1) Joselito Sering, original score (dream sequence); and 2) Daniel Peterson, original thematic score. This is a student short film I directed and produced in 2005-2006 which featured my own original music soundtrack along with collaborator Daniel Peterson. It was shot in San Francisco BART Montgomery and Civic Center station during ORANGE ALERT. We were stopped the first day by BART Police and SWAT showed up. We lied and said we applied for a permit and that the TV/Film Liaison department of BART said to 'go ahead' and shoot our 'tech rehearsal.' On the second shoot day, we tricked the new SWAT guys into letting us shoot the rest of our 'tech rehearsal' and name dropped Officer Washington, their commander, so they did. They jumped off their seats when we told them there was a gun involved. The SWAT guys were real accommodating and even offered to guard both ends of the hall to warn the public that it was a 'tech rehearsal' for a student film about what to do when you find suspicious bags lying around. PERFECT! This was the second student film I made with actor Beau Ballinger after talking about writing a story that had no dialogue for the main actor and tell the story with his face. I brainstormed with my team about making an existential movie about the dichotomy between destiny and free will while making a dark suspense thriller. Using the current scare associated with terrorism and bombs, we decided to develop the story around the plot of finding an unattended bag. We used the camera footage plot to twist the existential question and the footage worked as the device for suspense. This film was praised in several international short film festivals and enjoyed a brief but strong run.

Fact-based account of American PT boat captains who took on the Japanese after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Colorized version available.

Synopsis: Set in the 1930s, an American (Sam Rockwell) with a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic must change his ways in order to win back the woman of his dreams. Based on the novel by P.G. Wodehouse. UK - 2004 - TV14

Here Comes Mr. Jordan -- Boxer Joe Pendleton dies 50 years too soon due to a heavenly mistake, and is given a new life as a millionaire playboy.

Trailer for the documentary Chop Suey. Filmmaker Bruce Weber, whose last feature-length documentary was the award-winning Let's Get Lost in 1988 (about jazz great Chet Baker), returns with this fascinating look at his life and career. Starting off as a film about model Peter Johnson, whom Weber snatched from a high school wrestling team and turned into a star for Ralph Lauren and other fashionistas, Chop Suey is a tasty mix of vintage color and black-and-white footage, still photos of everyone from Alfed Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe to Montgomery Clift and Clark Gable, and insightful narration by Weber and Johnson about modeling, family, and the cult of celebrity. The film goes all over the place, but every side adventure is a worthy one. Teri Shepherd, manager and longtime partner of nightclub favorite Frances Faye, shares endearing stories of their exciting relationship; wrestler Rickson Gracie and surfer Christian Fletcher discuss what it was like becoming (homoerotic) sex symbols as seen through Weber's lens; aging explorer Sir Wilfred Thesiger and his book 'Arabian Sands' are featured; and former Vogue editor Diana Vreeland allows Weber in to shoot her fabulously tacky apartment. Other highlights include Robert Mitchum singing a duet with Dr. John and Weber talking about working with Jan Michael Vincent.

Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt (Montgomery Clift) is transferred to Schofield Barracks on the island of Oahu. When Captain Dana Holmes (Philip Ober) learns of his reputation as a talented boxer, he pressures Prewitt to join the regimental boxing club that he heads, but the enlisted man stubbornly refuses. 1st Sergeant Milton Warden (Burt Lancaster) suggests that he try to get Prewitt to change his mind by making life as difficult as possible. He gets the other non-commissioned officers to help. Prewitt is supported only by his friend, Private Angelo Maggio (Frank Sinatra). Behind his commander's back, Warden begins an affair with Holmes' neglected wife Karen (Deborah Kerr). As their relationship develops, she asks him to apply for officer training, so she can divorce Holmes and marry him. When he is finally forced to admit that he doesn't want to be an officer, she sadly ends the affair. Meanwhile, Maggio antagonizes bigoted Staff Sergeant James R. 'Fatso' Judson (Ernest Borgnine). When the undisciplined Maggio goes AWOL, he is sentenced to the stockade, under Judson's charge. Judson takes the opportunity to beat the defiant prisoner repeatedly. Maggio manages to escape and find Prewitt; he tells him of the abuse he endured, then dies. Prewitt finds Judson and kills him in revenge in a knife fight, but suffers a serious wound across the stomach in the process. He then goes into hiding in the apartment of his girl Lorene (Donna Reed), a nightclub 'hostess' with whom he has become acquainted. His wound refuses to heal. When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, Prewitt tries to return to camp, but is shot dead by a sentry. At the end, Lorene and Karen meet on a ship leaving for the mainland. Lorene tells Karen that her fianc was an air force pilot shot down in the attack, but Karen recognizes Prewitt's name.