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1 form y separately published work icon Frogkisser! Michael McCullers , United States of America (USA) : 20th Century Fox Blue Sky Studios , 2019 10979147 2019 single work film/TV fantasy
1 form y separately published work icon Sit Down, Shut Up Mitchell Hurwitz , ( dir. Gregg Vanzo et. al. )agent United States of America (USA) : 20th Century Fox , 2009 8284964 2009 series - publisher film/TV humour

A short-lived American animated version of an equally short-lived Australian sit-com, Sit Down, Shut Up focused on the teachers at a somewhat impoverished high school.

For a list of episodes, see Film Details.

1 3 form y separately published work icon Kokoda Alister Grierson , John Lonie , ( dir. Alister Grierson ) Moore Park : 20th Century Fox , 2006 Z1668082 2006 single work film/TV New Guinea, 1942. Australia is at war with Japan. A small platoon of Australian soldiers from the 39th battalion have been set as a forward patrol far outside the perimeter of Isurava, a village on the Kokoda track.
3 11 form y separately published work icon Romeo + Juliet William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet Baz Luhrmann , Craig Pearce , New York (City) : Bantam Books , 1996 Z1367491 1996 single work film/TV

An adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in the contemporary city of Verona Beach.

The Montagues and Capulets are two feuding families whose children meet, fall in love, but hide their relationship from their disapproving parents. There are also other obstacles in the way, such as Juliet's cousin Tybalt and Romeo's friend Mercutio.

1 form y separately published work icon Spearfield's Daughter Jon Cleary , ( dir. Gilbert M. Shilton ) United States of America (USA) Canada Australia : 20th Century Fox Seven Network , 1986 8113196 1986 series - publisher film/TV

An adaptation of Jon Cleary's novel about a politician's daughter trying to carve out a career in journalism.

1 form y separately published work icon Ladyhawke Michael Thomas , ( dir. Richard Donner ) United States of America (USA) : 20th Century Fox Warner Brothers , 1985 7088655 1985 single work film/TV fantasy

'Medieval fantasy telling the story of two young lovers who have fallen under a spell cast by an evil bishop. By day Navarre is a knight who travels with a hawk, at night he is transformed into a wolf, and the hawk becomes the lady Isabeau. Imperius, who once betrayed the lovers to the bishop, helps them to undo the spell.'

Source: BFI (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/258751). (Sighted: 28/2/2014)

1 form y separately published work icon Shock Treatment Jim Sharman , Richard O'Brien , ( dir. Jim Sharman ) United Kingdom (UK) : 20th Century Fox , 1981 Z1864425 1981 single work film/TV science fiction

A loose sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Shock Treatment revisits Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, now somewhat unhappily married. Caught up in the transformation of their town into a single enormous television studio (in which the town's residents act as a studio audience), Brad and Janet face their own personal weaknesses, the dissolution of their marriage, and an unexpected bid for revenge.

1 form y separately published work icon Alien Dan O'Bannon , ( dir. Ridley Scott ) United States of America (USA) : 20th Century Fox , 1979 27370530 1979 series - publisher film/TV
1 2 form y separately published work icon The Rocky Horror Picture Show Jim Sharman , Richard O'Brien , ( dir. Jim Sharman ) United Kingdom (UK) : 20th Century Fox , 1975 Z1864457 1975 single work film/TV science fiction fantasy

A cult favourite, The Rocky Horror Picture Show follows the mis-adventures of newly engaged couple Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, as they're forced, after their car breaks down, to take shelter in the sinister house of Dr Frank-N-Furter.

1 form y separately published work icon Ben Hall Ted Roberts , Eleanor Witcombe , Tony Morphett , Ray Johnson , ( dir. Frank Arnold et. al. )agent United Kingdom (UK) Australia : 20th Century Fox British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1975 6014217 1975 series - publisher film/TV crime historical fiction

A co-production between the ABC and the BBC, 'in association with 20th Century Fox', Ben Hall was a thirteen-part historical drama series about bushranger Ben Hall (1837–1865). Famous as a bushranger who never killed anyone but was nevertheless shot dead by police under the Felons Apprehension Act 1865, Hall was the ideal candidate for a drama series in an era in which Australian television was becoming increasingly fascinated with the dramatic possibilities of its colonial past.

Quoted in 1974, Andrew Osborn (BBC's Head of Drama series) summed up the possibilities as followed:

'The thing that makes Hall so interesting is, he tried to make a go of the land. He married a local landowner's daughter and settled down. But through persistent police persecution, beginning when he was falsely arrested for highway robbery, he was forced into a life of crime. He was a very handsome man, had many sympathisers in the districts where he operated, and was a magnificent horseman. What better story could you have? It's wonderful.' (Australian Women's Weekly, Wed. 27 February 1974, p.10).

The full-page advertisements with which the program was marketed also summed up this approach to the narrative, reading:

'This gang is going to capture a dozen or more police, rob 10 mail coaches and raid 21 towns and homesteads. BEN HALL: From law abiding cattleman of the Weddin Mountains to embittered outlaw. This is the saga of Ben Hall. Tough. Colourful. A desperate period of Australian History.' (See, for example, Australian Women's Weekly, 10 September 1975, p.8).

For a detailed, episode-by-episode synopses, see Film Details.

1 form y separately published work icon Heaven Knows, Mr Allison John Lee Mahin , John Huston , ( dir. John Huston ) United States of America (USA) : 20th Century Fox , 1957 6734765 1957 single work film/TV war literature

Adaptation of Charles Shaw's novel about a marine and a nun trapped on a Japanese-occupied Pacific island during World War II.

1 form y separately published work icon Kangaroo Martin Berkeley , ( dir. Lewis Milestone ) United States of America (USA) : 20th Century Fox , 1952 7862735 1952 single work film/TV

'The story itself is set partly on the Sydney waterfront and partly in South Australia, and the period is the early nine teen-hundreds.

'It is about a young ne'er-do-well who passes himself off as the long-lost son of an elderly and sentimental station-owner.

'The situation is complicated by the fact the young man and his accomplice are fugitives from justice, and by the young man's falling in love with the squatter's daughter–his supposed sister.'

Source:

'Film Previews: "Kangaroo" Is Here', Sydney Morning Herald, 19 June 1952, p.14.

1 form y separately published work icon No Highway No Highway in the Sky Alec Coppel , ( dir. Henry Koster ) United Kingdom (UK) : 20th Century Fox , 1951 6394671 1951 single work film/TV thriller crime

A researcher at the Royal Aircraft Establishment becomes convinced that the 'Reindeer' clas airliners have a fatal flaw that will lead them to crash after a set number of hours.

1 form y separately published work icon The Pied Piper Nunnally Johnson , ( dir. Irving Pichel ) United States of America (USA) : 20th Century Fox , 1942 19534073 1942 single work film/TV An Englishman making his way out of Nazi-occupied France finds himself the protector of a growing number of children.
1 form y separately published work icon Once a Crook Roger Burford , ( dir. Herbert Mason ) United Kingdom (UK) : 20th Century Fox , 1941 11620393 1941 single work film/TV
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