Just like the Jeopardy category Before & After.
The answer is a combination of two movie titles.
First one...
Matthew McConaughey is a lawyer who teams up with Uma Thurman to exact vengeance.
BullSchmidt had our inaugural correct answer with...A Time to Kill Bill
A veteran NFL player's individuality and refusal to become part of the team family is bitterly resented by his disciplinarian coaches, leading him to quit the team and team up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
shareNorth Dallas 48 Hours, You continue to creatively find ways to overcome numbers in the title. Nick recently turned 80 and his autobiography is a good cheap quick read, $3 on Ebay.
shareYou got it!
Thanks for the compliment. I'm really having trouble coming up with new ideas at this point. I've tried to avoid using the same movie in two different puzzles but I'm pretty sure I slipped up and did it once, pairing it with two different titles.
Is the book Rebel: My Life Outside The Lines? I looked on Amazon, and there are used copies for as little as a buck plus change -- $5+ once you add in the $4 they always charge for shipping and handling. I might get it as an audiobook instead, though. I've been doing those lately, as a change of pace. I've got an Audible.com subscription, and get one free book per month that way.
Yep. It's a interesting read and a lesson in perseverance as Nolte worked in community theater for over ten years.
shareNolte himself narrates part of the audiobook. That oughta be a hoot!
The movie North Dallas Forty was based on a novel with the same title, by pro football player Peter Gent. It's a good book but somewhat dated, in the 1960s. It's got a more depressing ending than the movie, though: https://www.amazon.com/North-Dallas-Forty-Peter-Gent/dp/1892129892
A recently released jailbird gets back to his routine of stealing and whore mongering while another released jailbird sees the light and tries to go straight.
shareRobin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to help two caped crusaders stop Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from freezing Gotham City. Stars Audrey Hepburn as "The Terminator."
shareA rebellious student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of lesbianism and kills a couple of men of the Clanton gang in a fight. In revenge, Clanton's thugs kill the Marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday. Stars Audrey Hepburn as Jim Rockford, Private Eye.
shareThis one is a slight cheat, the before/after words don't exactly match. It's singular in one title, plural in the other.
Norman Bates, a young man in the jungles of Venezuela meets a strange girl of the forest and falls in love with her, while removing the eyes of abducted people in hopes of performing transplants on his daughter who lost her own in a car accident he caused. Stars Audrey Hepburn as Phoenix diner owner Mel Sharples.
EDIT: It's been a full day now, so in accordance with my usual practice I'll put the answer under a spoiler cover.
The two movies are:
Green Mansions (1959)
Mansion of the Doomed (1976)
And so ... Green Mansions of the Doomed.
A private detective takes on a case that involves a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union and their quest for a priceless statuette.
shareThe Maltese Falcon & the Snowman ;)
Saw the first one for the first time recently. Was surprised by how long the ending scene went on. Sooooo much exposition.