Duncan Gibbins
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Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Duncan Gibbins (October 13, 1952 - November 3, 1993) was a British film and music video director, as well as a screenwriter. Gibbins was known for his romance and thriller films as well as for the various music videos he directed. Gibbons first break was with the 1986 release of, Fire with Fire, about a young woman who attends a Catholic school and a young man from a nearby prison camp who fall in love with each other and must runaway together to escape the law, the church and their parents. On November 3, 1993, Gibbons died as a result of third degree burns he received from a fire at the home he was renting. He was forty-one years old at the time of his death. Description above from the Wikipedia article Duncan Gibbins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
A tough, street-smart kid serving a sentence in a state youth reformatory meets a beautiful, innocent girl studying at a nearby convent. When forbidden love blossoms between them, they must fight the prison authorities, their parents and the law.
Fire with Fire
Eve is a military robot made to look exactly like her creator, Dr. Eve Simmons. When she is damaged during a bank robbery, the robot becomes an unstoppable killing machine. Colonel Jim McQuade is assigned to stop the robot and with the help from Dr. Simmons they have to predict where she will go next.
Eve of Destruction
Jack Hammett is an aggressive young defence attorney on the rise up the corporate ladder. In the courtroom he's known as the "Hail Mary Kid" for his ability to win the unwinnable cases. When one of the firm's lawyers, Darren Gaines, is murdered and Gaines' wife is charged, Hammett is assigned as her attorney. Hammett asks Kate Weldon, a recently hired lawyer, to assist him. Together they discover some inconsistencies in the case as well as a possible connection to the recent murder of a judge.
A Case for Murder
A down-and-out private eye (Treat Williams) gets too close to the wife (Virginia Madsen) of a rich man (Richard Masur) soon found dead.
Third Degree Burn
Collection of music videos by Jimmy Somerville, both as solo artist as well as with the bands Bronski Beat and The Communards.