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Director: Don Sharp    More Info
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Parkins, Lawrence Dane

 This film adaptation of Alistair MacLean's excellent novel is an insult to the book as it ineptly tells the story of the search for gold and ensuing murder from cold-blooded greed.

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

 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 by 45 minutes to better reflect Fuller's desired product. This version is the one to get.

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 (Christopher Atkins) and Emmeline (Brooke Shields) who are marooned on a deserted island, fall in love, and become parents.

Director: Aleksandr Mitta    More Info
Starring: Georgi Zhzhyonov, Anatoli Vasilyev, Leonid Filatov, Aleksandra Yakovleva, Irina Akulova, Yekaterina 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, Sandra Alexander, Allan Miller, Antonio Fargas, Colleen Dewhurst, Vincent Schiavelli, Miguel Angel Suarez

 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: 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: 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

 Jack London (Jeff East) heads for the Klondike in search of gold and rescues a mistreated sled dog. In the process, he 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: 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: 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

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

Director: John Boorman    More Info
Starring: Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, Nicholas Clay, Cherie Lunghi, Paul Geoffrey, Nicol Williamson, Liam Neeson, Corin Redgrave, Gabriel Byrne, Patrick Stewart

 This entertaining film about King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table adds new dimensions to the legend by providing an adult version starring Nigel Terry as King Arthur.

Director: Roy Ward Baker    More Info
Starring: Hayley Mills, David Robb, Holly Aird, Nicholas Jones, Sharon Maughan, Ben Cross, William Morgan Sheppard, David Bradley, John Nettleton, Carol MacReady

 Based on Elspeth Huxley's book, this made-for-TV miniseries relates the joys and struggles of young Elspeth Grant (Holly Aird) and her parents–Tilly and Robin (Hayley Mills and David Robb)–as they begin work on a Kenya coffee plantation in 1913.

Director: Gerald Potterton    More Info
Starring: John Candy, Jackie Burroughs, Joe Flaherty, Harold Ramis, Richard Romanus, John Vernon, Eugene Levy, Don Francks, Caroline Semple, Al Waxman

 This animated film is based on the magazine, "Heavy Metal." The plot involves a series of adventures in which everyday people enter the realm of the Lochmnar–a fluorescent green ball that embodies evil.

Director: Jeff Lieberman    More Info
Starring: George Kennedy, Mike Kellin, Chris Lemmon, Gregg Henry, Deborah Benson, Ralph Seymour, Katie Powell, John Hunsaker, Charles Bartlett, Jamie Rose

 Forest Ranger McLean (George Kennedy) warns the camping party who arrive that a crazed man, with machete in hand, has been terrorizing the mountains. After the warning, campers start disappearing, one-by-one.

Director: George A. Romero    More Info
Starring: Ed Harris, Gary Lahti, Tom Savini, Amy Ingersoll, Patricia Tallman, Martin Ferrero, Stephen King, Christine Forrest, Warner Shook, Brother Blue

 "King" Billy (Ed Harris) leads a group of motorcyclists who dress in medieval regalia while performing great jousting stunts and selling crafts at local fairs. All goes well–for awhile. But, when financial problems, mean cops, and dealing with near-fame take a toll on the troupe, will Billy be able to keep them together?

Director: William A. Fraker    More Info
Starring: Klinton Spilsbury, Michael Horse, Christopher Lloyd, Matt Clark, Jason Robards, John Hart, Richard Farnsworth, Juanin Clay, John Bennett Perry, David Hayward

 John Ried (Klinton Spilsbury) is the sole survivor of an ambush by Butch Cavendish (Christopher Lloyd) and his gang. John is rescued by his childhood friend Tonto (Michael Horse) and nursed back to health. John assumes the name of the Lone Ranger–after his Ranger brother who was killed in the ambush–and is determined to bring the Cavendish gang to justice. He dons his mask and riding his horse Silver sets out with Tonto to save President Ulysses S. Grant (Jason Robards) who the Cavendish gang has abducted.

Director: Moustapha Akkad    More Info
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger, John Gielgud, Irene Papas, Raf Vallone, Gastone Moschin, Andrew Keir, Robert Brown, Ewen Solon

 Set between the years 1929 and 1931, this is the story of the leader of a rebel band, Omar Mukhtar (Anthony Quinn), who stands in the way of Mussolini's (Rod Steiger) efforts to take over Libya.