The Border 1982 R, 107 min. Genre: Action
Director: Tony Richardson Cast: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine, Warren Oates, Elpidia Carrillo, Shannon Wilcox, Jeff Morris, Lonny Chapman, Alan Fudge, William Russ
U.S. Border Patrolman Charlie (Jack Nicholson) rebels against the corruption and physical violence he encounters in his chosen profession.
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Brainstorm 1983 PG, 106 min. Genre: Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Douglas Trumbull Cast: Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher, Cliff Robertson, Alan Fudge, Georgianne Walken, Bill Morey, Joe Dorsey, Jason Lively, Jordan Christopher, Donald Hotton, Darrell Larson, Lou Walker, John Hugh, Stacey Kuhne-Adams
Special effects are outstanding in this sci-fi story about what happens when an invention that sends sensory inputs into the brain ends up in the wrong hands. Scientists Lillian Reynolds and Michael Brace (Louise Fletcher and Christopher Walken) have been experimenting with their invention that can record sights, sounds, and feelings after the brain receives sensory messages. Michael uses the invention to get closer to his estranged wife Karen (Natalie Wood), and others begin to abuse it. Representing the government, Alex Terson (Cliff Robertson) steps in to take over the project. Problems ensue, and, after one worker tapes the experience of his own death, Michael is determined to play back the tape to honor his memory.
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Breaking In 1989 R, 91 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: Bill Forsyth Cast: Burt Reynolds, Casey Siemaszko, Sheila Kelley, Lorraine Toussaint, Albert Salmi, Harry Carey Jr., Maury Chaykin, Stephen Tobolowsky, Alan Fudge
Burt Reynolds does a great job as a veteran safe-cracker who encounters a young hoodlum while robbing a wealthy home and decides to teach him his art. The two form a partnership of sorts and plan on stealing the Fourth of July take of an amusement park. A clever, well done film.
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Bug 1975 PG, 99 min. Genre: Sci-Fi / Mystery / Horror / Thriller
Director: Jeannot Szwarc Cast: Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles, Richard Gilliland, Jamie Smith-Jackson, Alan Fudge, Jesse Vint, Patty McCormack, Brendan Dillon, Frederic Downs, James Greene, Sam Jarvis, Jim Poyner, Bard Stevens, Karoly Fogassy, William Castle
An earthquake releases mutant cockroaches that have the unique ability to start fires and thus wreak havoc on a nearby town. Professor James Parmiter (Bradford Dillman) takes an interest in the creatures after his wife is killed by them, begins to cross-breed them, and finds that they have intelligence. Sounds like a problem is developing.
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Capricorn One 1978 PG, 124 min. Genre: Drama / Thriller / Sci-Fi
Director: Peter Hyams Cast: Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro, Sam Waterston, O.J. Simpson, Hal Holbrook, Karen Black, Telly Savalas, David Huddleston, James Sikking, David Doyle, Lee Bryant, Denise Nicholas, Alan Fudge, Robert Walden
There is a flaw in the design of the spaceship, and as a means of protecting the reputation of NASA, mission controller Dr. James Kelloway (Hal Holbrook) stages a Mars landing that is never meant to take place. The astronauts–(James Brolin, O.J. Simpson, and Sam Waterston)–are removed from the spaceship before it is launched and taken to a studio where they must pretend to be on the journey to Mars. But, journalist Robert Caulfield (Elliott Gould) becomes suspicious and investigates the conspiracy, which will go so far as to end the astronauts' lives as the means of keeping the hoax a secret.
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Chiller 1985 TV, 100 min. Genre: Horror / Thriller aka: Wes Craven's Chiller
Director: Wes Craven Cast: Michael Beck, Beatrice Straight, Laura Johnson, Dick O'Neill, Alan Fudge, Craig Richard Nelson, Paul Sorvino, Jill Schoelen, Anne Seymour, Russ Marin, Jerry Lacy, Ned Wertimer
Young, successful businessman Miles Creighton (Michael Beck) dies, and his body is frozen in hopes that science will allow him to be brought back to life in the future. Ten years later, a computer problem results in a thaw, and, surprisingly, Miles lives, but, alas, without a soul. Those around him realize that he is bent on destruction, and his mother (Beatrice Straight) must bite the bullet and take the lead in his destruction. Made for TV.
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Kiss Me, Kill Me 1976 TV, 80 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Michael O'Herlihy Cast: Stella Stevens, Pat O'Brien, Bruce Boxleitner, Robert Vaughn, Michael Anderson Jr., Tisha Sterling, Claude Akins, Dabney Coleman, Carroll Baker, Bruce Glover, George Eastman, Alan Fudge
This made-for-TV film stars Stella Stevens in the roll of Stella, an investigator for the L.A. District Attorney's office, whose current case is to find the killer of a young, respected schoolteacher. But her straightforward case becomes more complicated when she learns the truth about the victim.
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Two People 1973 R, 100 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Wise Cast: Peter Fonda, Lindsay Wagner, Estelle Parsons, Alan Fudge, Philippe March, Frances Sternhagen, Geoffrey Horne, Nathalie Baye
On his way home to give himself up as a Vietnam War deserter, Evan Bonner (Peter Fonda) meets and falls in love with a model, Diedre McCluskey (Lindsay Wagner).
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| 1. The Border (1982)
2. Brainstorm (1983)
3. Breaking In (1989)
4. Bug (1975)
5. Capricorn One (1978)
6. Chapter Two (1979)
7. Chiller (1985) aka: Wes Craven's Chiller
8. I Saw What You Did (1988)
9. Kiss Me, Kill Me (1976)
10. Two People (1973)
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