BIRD ON A WIRE (1990)

Plot.- Mel plays a former 1960s radical living a secret life as a government-protected witness after blowing the whistle on two corrupt drug-enforcement agents. Goldie is his former girlfriend who accidentally rediscovers him. So do the bad guys. They chase Mel and Goldie through a zoo.

Anecdotes.- Mel maintains a sense of humour about this film, which did well at the box office, "Bird on a Wire was one of my finest work. Oscar caliber."

Director.- John Badham

Producer.- Rob Cohen

Screenplay.- David Seltzer, Louis Venosta, Eric Lerner

Editor.- Frank Morris, Dallas Puett

Photography.- Robert Primes

Music.- Dave Grusin

Cast.- Mel Gibson, Goldie Hawn, David Carradine, Joan Severance

USA 1990

AIR AMERICA (1990)

Plot.- Air America was the covert airline which the CIA ran out of Laos during the Vietnam War. Basically Air America would fly literally anything across the area if they thought it would combat the spread of Communism. Mel portrays an Air America pilot.

Anecdotes.- Danger lurked close to the set, since the area was under the control of an important drug dailer, Khun Sa, but fears over him were quelled where it emerged that Khun was a "Mad Max" fan, so Melīs autograph promoted peace for the duration of the shoot.

Director.- Roger Spottiswood

Producer.- Daniel Melnick

Screenplay.- John Eskow, Richard Rush

Editor.- John Bloom

Photography.- Roger Deakins

Music.- Becky Mancuso, Tim Sexton

Cast.- Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr, Nancy Travis, Burt Kwouk, Art la Fleur, David Marshall Grant.

USA 1990

HAMLET (1990)

Plot.- Mel Gibson stars as the tortured Prince battling with his sanity and his conscience to avenge his fatherīs death.

Anecdotes.- Once again, he tried to give up somoking so during shooting he replaced cigarettes with mouthfuls of nicotine chewing gum that he would only remove when actually speaking his lines.

Director.- Franco Zeffirelli

Producer.- Dyson Lovell

Photography.- David Watkin

editor.- Richard Marden

Music.- Ennio Morricone

Cast.- Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates, Ian Holm, Helena Bonham-Carter.

Drama

Color

UK 1991

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LETHAL WEAPONL 3. (1991)

Plot.- Roger Murtaugh in on the eve of his retirement from the police force, when he and Riggs are caught up in a plot involving a cop-turned-illegal firearms dealer.

Anecdotes.- Melīs company produced a Home Box Office documentary for TV on the making of Lethal Weapon 3, with the actor playing host and singing a dreadfully out-of-tune verson of "King in the Road".

Director.- Richard Donner

Producers.- Richard Donner and Joel Silver

Screenplay.- Jeffrey Boam y Robert Mark Kamen

Photography.- Jan De Bont

Editor.- Robert Brown y Battle Davis

Music.- Eric Clapton

Cast.- Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Helen Buday, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo

USA 1992

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FOREVER YOUNG (1994)

Plot.- Forever Young is the story of a heartbroken pilot (Gibson) who volunteers to undergo cryogenic freezing when his fiancée, injured in an accident, falls into coma. More than fifty years later, he is accidentally reawakened by a couple of young boys.

Anecdotes.- Forever Young featured Melīs naked rear, running through a building protected only by a childīs jacket. That provoked countless newspaper articles speculating on how much his nude bottom might add to the box office takings. The film made a fair amount at the box office- $35 million in the United States and $100 million worldwide. Because of Melīs bottom? I donīt know.

Director.- Steve Miner

Producer.- Bruce Davey

Screenplay.- Jeffrey Abrams

Editor.- Jon Poll

Music.- Jerry Goldsmith

Cast.- Mel Gibson, Elijah Wood, Jamie Lee Curtis, Isabel Glasser, George Wendt.

USA 1994

THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE (1988)

Plot.- Former teacher Justin McLeod, a recluse horribly disfigured in an accident, develops a special bond with a fatherless boy, to the suspicion of the familyīs boy and the townspeople who think the manīs motives may be less than fatherly.

Anecdotes.- Directing and acting in the movie sometimes became too much to bear, and Mel was rumored. to occasionally fall asleep in midsentence during shooting.

Director.- Mel Gibson

Producer.- Bruce Davey

Screenplay.- Malcolm MacRury

Editor.- Tony Gibbs

Photography.- Donald M. McAlpine

Music.- James Horner

Cast.- Mel Gibson, Nick Stahl, Margaret Whitton, Fay Masterson

USA 1993

MAVERICK (1994)

Plot.- The film is based on the TV series in the sixties. The story revolves round the attempts of gambler Bret Maverick and Annabelle Bransford to raise money to enter a gambling competition.

Anecdotes.- One of Melīs most enduring friendship started on the set of this picture. Mel and Jodie Foster (Annabelle) are very good friends.

Director.- Richard Donner

Producer.- Bruce Davey, Jim Van Wyck

Photography.- Vilmos Zsigmond

editor.- Stuart Baird

Music.- Randy Newman

Cast.- Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner, Graham Greene, James Coburn.

USA 1994