Swordfish (film) Swordfish (film) Swordfish is a 2001 American action crime thriller film directed by Dominic Sena and starring John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Vinnie Jones and Sam Shepard. The film centers on Stanley Jobson, an ex-con and computer hacker who is targeted for recruitment into a bank robbery conspiracy because of his formidable hacking skills. The film was a slight box office success but was negatively received by critics upon release. Stanley Jobson (Hugh Jackman) is a computer hacker that infected the FBI's Carnivore program with a computer virus. His parole forbids use of computers and the internet.
John Berry (film director) to direct the studio's 1946 Alan Ladd spy film "O.S.S." Berry returned to direct the musical "Casbah" (1948) for Tony Martin's production company featuring Martin and Yvonne De Carlo for Universal, "Tension" (1949) for MGM and "He Ran All the Way" (1951) starring John Garfield and Shelley Winters. In 1950, Berry agreed to direct a short documentary on the Hollywood 10, a group of directors and writers who refused to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in their pursuit of supposed Communist Party infiltration within the U.S. film industry. After directing the crime drama "He Ran All the