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Director: Herb Freed    More Info
Starring: John Saxon, Lynda Day George, Michael Dante, David Opatoshu, Mario Milano, Anne Marisse, Zitto Kazann, Janice Lynde, Edward Ansara, Beverly Dixon

 Newlyweds Barbara (Lynda Day George) and Larry (John Saxon) move into an island mansion that has been vacant for 100 years. The last occupant, black-magic practitioner Alma (Janice Lynde), had made a pact with the devil and, after being murdered by her husband, came back to deal with him. Now, Alma continues her evil by possessing an occupant of the house.

Director: Samuel Fuller    More Info
Starring: Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby DiCicco, Kelly Ward, Siegfried Rauch, Stephane Audran, Maurice Marsac, Perry Lang, Charles Macaulay

 During World War II, a World War I veteran Sergeant (Lee Marvin) leads his squad in the First Infantry Division in combat from Vichy French Africa, through D-Day at Omaha Beach, and on to Germany. This top-notch adventure looks at war through the eyes of the foot soldiers who exist one day at a time in the dangerous war zone. Director Samuel Fuller, a WWII veteran, was disappointed when his film was cut to 113 minutes. In 2003, film historian Richard Schickel added footage to expand the film to better reflect Fuller's desired product.

Director: Randal Kleiser    More Info
Starring: Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern, William Daniels, Elva Josephson, Glenn Kohan, Alan Hopgood, Gus Mercurio, Jeffrey Kleiser, Gert Jacoby

 This remake of the 1949 film is based on Henry De Vere Stacpoole's novel about young Richard (Glenn Kohan) and Emmeline (Elva Josephson) who are marooned on a deserted island. Years pass, and Richard (now played by Christopher Atkins) and Emmeline (now played by Brooke Shields) fall in love, and become parents.

Director: Clint Eastwood    More Info
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Scatman Crothers, Sam Bottoms, Bill McKinney, Sierra Pecheur, William Prince, Walter Barnes, Woodrow Parfrey

 Bronco Billy (Clint Eastwood) was a New Jersey shoe salesman, but now he is living out his fantasy as the owner of a Wild West show. The show is not doing well, and Bronco Billy is badly in need of money to pay his performers. Along the way, Bronco Billy picks up Antoinette Lily (Sondra Locke), and she becomes his assistant and love interest.

Director: Chuck Workman    More Info
Starring: Stuart Whitman, Robert Vaughn, Woody Strode, Raymond St. Jacques, Albert Salmi, Michael V. Gazzo, Marie-Louise Gassen, Sybil Danning, Caren Kaye, Edward Bell

 Soldier of Fortune Tony Terracino (Stuart Whitman) is pressured to help the CIA in a plot to assassinate Fidel Castro. The CIA has hired professional killers, and Tony is supposed to lead them in the assassination. Double crosses ensue, and Tony learns that he will be considered expendable once the deed is done.

Director: Aleksandr Mitta    More Info
Starring: Georgi Zhzhyonov, Anatoli Vasilyev, Leonid Filatov, Aleksandra Yakovleva-Aasmyae, Irina Akulova, Ekaterina Vasilyeva, Yuri Gorobets, Komaki Kurihara, Aleksandr Pavlov, Galina Gladkova

 This two-part film tells the story of an airplane and its crew. In the first part, the crew members and their lives are brought out; the second part involves the adventure of the plane's damage from an earthquake and the attempt to land it in Moscow.

Director: Robert Michael Lewis    More Info
Starring: Timothy Bottoms, Kay Lenz, Allan Miller, Antonio Fargas, Colleen Dewhurst, Jorge Cervera Jr., Vincent Schiavelli, Miguel Angel Suarez, Elleott Street, Louis Giambalvo

 Based on a true story, Dwight Worker (Timothy Bottoms) is in a Mexican jail for drug smuggling. The story involves the planning and execution of an escape. This story is told better in "Midnight Express."

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen    More Info
Starring: Roger Moore, James Mason, Anthony Perkins, Michael Parks, Faith Brook, Lea Brodie, David Hedison, Jack Watson, George Baker, Jeremy Clyde

 Terrorist Lou Kramer (Anthony Perkins) has captured an oil rig in the North Sea and is threatening to destroy it if the British government does not pay him a ransom. Admiral Brinsden (James Mason) calls on frogman commando James Excaliber ffolkes (Roger Moore) for service, and he leads his team on the dangerous mission.

Director: Don Taylor    More Info
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino, Ron O'Neal, Charles Durning, Victor Mohica, Soon-Tek Oh, James C. Lawrence, Joe Lowry

 The nuclear aircraft carrier U.S.S. Nimitz is time-warped from 1980 back to 6 December, 1941. Captain Matthew Yelland (Kirk Douglas) is faced with the dilemma of altering history by interfering with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Senator Samuel Chapman (Charles Durning) has his ideas about the course of action, while Warren Lasky (Martin Sheen) is very concerned about possible outcomes and their effect on the future. Time is running out, and a decision must be made.

Director: William Sachs    More Info
Starring: Stephen Macht, Dorothy Stratten, J. D. Hinton, Avery Schreiber, Ronald Knight, Lionel Mark Smith, Tad Horino, Herb Kaplowitz, Nancy McCauley, Fred D. Scott

 In the 31st century, the interstellar police are on their way to recover "The Blue Star" jewel. On the way, the crew must fill in the time: a crewmember falls in love with a robot; the captain swallows an egg, which turns out to be an alien; and so it goes. Dorothy Stratten, the Playboy Playmate, plays Galaxina the robot, and Stratten was murdered around the time of this film's premiere.

Director: Vincent McEveety    More Info
Starring: Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Charles Martin Smith, Stephen W. Burns, John Vernon, Richard Jaeckel, Alex Rocco, Fritz Feld, Elyssa Davalos, Joaquin Garay III

 The "Love Bug"–the intelligent Volkswagen, Herbie–is back. Pete (Stephen W.Burns) has inherited Herbie, and he and his friend D.J. (Charles Martin Smith) take Herbie to Brazil for the Grand Primio race. Along the way, Herbie plays the matador in a bull ring, and more complications await as they encounter a smuggling ring. But, Herbie, of course, foils its plans to steal the gold.

Director: Peter Carter    More Info
Starring: Jeff East, Rod Steiger, Angie Dickinson, Lorne Greene, Barry Morse, Robin Gammell, Michael Hogan, Lisa Langlois, Gordon Pinsent, Sharon Lewis

 Jack London (Jeff East) is 21 years old when he leaves San Francisco and heads for the Klondike in search of gold and rescues a mistreated sled dog. In the process, he competes in a dog-sled race and makes friends as well as enemies during his adventures.

Director: Charles Jarrott    More Info
Starring: Elliott Gould, Genevieve Bujold, Rick Schroder, Vincent Gardenia, Tammy Lauren, John Fujioka, Yuki Shimoda, John P. Ryan, Dana Elcar, Ruth Manning

 Following their forced landing on a Pacific island, Noah Dugan (Elliott Gould) is faced with the dilemma of how to survive with two stow-away kids and a cargo of animals. The solution is to convert the plane into a seaworthy vessel and sail home. Fair Disney.

Director: John Quested    More Info
Starring: Albert Finney, Martin Sheen, Susannah York, Colin Blakely, Jonathan Pryce, Robert Morley, Alfred Lynch, Christopher Guard, Tony Doyle, Gwyneth Powell

 Architect Stephen Booker (Martin Sheen), needing extra money when his partner leaves, agrees to help a gang of bank robbers break into a high-security vault inside a London bank.

Director: Jerry Jameson    More Info
Starring: Jason Robards, Richard Jordan, David Selby, Anne Archer, Alec Guinness, J.D. Cannon, M. Emmet Walsh, Bo Brundin, Norman Bartold, Elya Baskin

 Salvage efforts are underway to raise the ill-fated luxury liner and retrieve its sunken treasures.

Director: Stanley Donen    More Info
Starring: Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel, Douglas Lambert, Ed Bishop, Christopher Muncke, Roy Dotrice

 While two scientists, Alex and Adam (Farrah Fawcett and Kirk Douglas), are on a remote base on a moon of Saturn and are working to save Earth. Their world is shattered when an evil visitor, Benson (Harvey Keitel), arrives, and his eight-foot robot interferes with their efforts.

Director: Irvin Kirshner    More Info
Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Frank Oz, Alec Guinness, James Earl Jones, Kenny(2) Baker, David Prowse, Peter Mayhew

 In this second "Star Wars" film, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), Lando (Billy Dee Williams), Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew, Han (Harrison Ford), R2-D2 (Kenny Baker), and C-3P0 (Anthony Daniels), along with the Rebel Alliance are on the ice planet Hoth. Luke travels to a distant planet to become a Jedi knight from Jedi Master Yoda (voice of Frank Oz) in order to do battle with Darth Vader (David Prowse, voice of James Earl Jones). Great special effects and good plot.

Director: Kinji Fukasaku    More Info
Starring: Sonny Chiba, Chuck Connors, Stephanie Faulkner, Glenn Ford, Olivia Hussey, George Kennedy, Henry Silva, Bo Svenson, Robert Vaughn, Masao Kusakari

 Doctor Yamauchi (Sonny Chiba) wanders the frozen Earth after its near destruction from a deadly virus. In the aftermath, there are only 858 men and eight women left in the world. They are members of international Antarctic research teams of scientists, and the reason they are still alive is that the cold is killing off the germs. The second disaster is nuclear, and now the question is, "Will there be any survivors?"

Director: James Goldstone    More Info
Starring: Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, Edward Albert, Red Buttons, Barbara Carrera, Veronica Hamel, Ernest Borgnine, Alex Karras, Burgess Meredith

 An active volcano is about erupt near Hank's (Paul Newman) oil rig site on a South Pacific resort island. Guests at the island's hotel are unaware of the approaching disaster, but Hank is able to convince some of the people to follow him on a trek across the island as he leads them to a high spot on the island.

Director: Jack B. Hively    More Info
Starring: Kurt Ida, Dan Monahan, Brock Peters, Forrest Tucker, Larry Storch, Lurene Tuttle, Mike Mazurki, Jack Kruschen, Don Haggerty, Helen Kleeb

 In this made-for-TV offering of Mark Twain's story, Tom Sawyer (Dan Monahan) joins his best friend Huckleberry Finn (Kurt Ida) as they help runaway slave Jim (Brock Peters). The trio drifts down the Mississippi River on a raft, and, along the way, they run into con-men "the Duke" (Forrest Tucker) and "the Dauphin" (Larry Storch) and inadvertently become involved in their schemes.

Director: Frank C. Clark    More Info
Starring: Dayton Ka'ne, Maren Jensen, Kathleen Swan, Keahi Farden, David Nakuna, Robert Atamu, Oliverio Maciel Diaz, George Tapare, Bob Spiegel, Maui Temaui

 Beautiful aquatic scenery is the best feature of this film about a South Seas romance between a young boy, Tikoyo (Dayton Ka'ne), who raises a 16-foot tiger shark and a beautiful girl, Diana (Maren Jensen).

Director: Desmond Davis    More Info
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Harry Hamlin, Judi Bowker, Burgess Meredith, Claire Bloom, Maggie Smith, Ursula Andress, Jack Gwillim, Susan Fleetwood, Sian Phillips

 This fantasy film is based on Greek mythology. Perseus (Harry Hamlin) is the mortal son of Zeus who is cast off when his mother angers his father. Once he reaches manhood, he learns that his destiny is to rescue the fair Andromeda by passing several tests, such as taming Pegasus and bringing back the head of Medusa. For now, the gods allowed human courage and daring, but they would be ever alert of the danger of humans' rising above the power of the gods. Great special effects.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen    More Info
Starring: Jurgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge, Bernd Tauber

 The rough and extremely dangerous lives of German U-Boat sailors during World War II is widely known; few of these sailors survived the war. This is a masterful, introspective look–through the eyes of a war correspondent–into the living conditions and mental trials of one submarine crew during a mission.

Director: Peter H. Hunt    More Info
Starring: Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Andrew Stevens, Carl Weathers, Angie Dickinson, Ed Lauter, William Sanderson, Scott Hylands, Henry Beckman, Jon Cedar

 Based on a Canadian Mounted Police case, this story takes place in 1931 and concerns a trapper, Albert Johnson (Charles Bronson), who is accused of murder. He is tracked down by Canadian Mountie Sgt. Edgar Millen (Lee Marvin) on a trek across the Canadian Rockies. As he flees across Canada, Johnson knows the territory well, but Millen uses the Canadian police when he needs help–all of which leads to a deadly climax.

Director: Matthew Robbins    More Info
Starring: Peter MacNicol, Caitlin Clarke, Ralph Richardson, John Hallam, Peter Eyre, Albert Salmi, Sydney Bromley, Chloe Salaman, Ian McDiarmid, Emrys James

 It is the sixth century, and a ferocious dragon is terrorizing the English countryside where the king sacrifices virgins in exchange for peace. The villagers summon wizard Ulrich (Ralph Richardson) to come to their aid. Along with his young apprentice Galen (Peter MacNicol) and beautiful Valerian (Caitlin Clarke), Ulrich sets out to slay the dragon. But, Ulrich's abilities fail him, and it rests on Galen to confront the dragon and enter into a vicious battle. The special effects are great.