A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
December 19, 1980
Original Title:
The Formula
Genres:
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Production Companies:
CIP Filmproduktion GmbH
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Countries:
Germany | United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
US: R
Runtime: 117
While investigating the death of a friend and fellow cop, Los Angeles police officer Barney Caine stumbles across evidence that Nazis created a synthetic alternative to gasoline during World War II. This revelation has the potential to end the established global oil industry, making the formula a very valuable and dangerous piece of information. Eventually, Caine must contend with oil tycoon Adam Steiffel, who clearly has his own agenda regarding the formula.
Click each video panel to show or hide.
Although TheMovieDB might provide a key to a YouTube video, there is no guarantee that the video might be present at YouTube.
Associate Producer:
Ken Swor
Casting:
Caro Jones
Costume Design:
Bill Thomas
Director:
John G. Avildsen
Director of Photography:
James Crabe
Editor:
John Carter
Hairstylist:
Jo McCarthy
Makeup & Hair:
Evelyn Döhring
Makeup Artist:
Hasso von Hugo
Del Acevedo
Novel:
Steve Shagan
Original Music Composer:
Bill Conti
Producer:
Steve Shagan
Production Design:
Herman A. Blumenthal
Screenplay:
Steve Shagan
Set Decoration:
Lee Poll
Stunts:
Charlie Picerni
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.