Escape to Witch Mountain 1975  G, 94 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Director: John Hough
Cast: Eddie Albert, Donald Pleasence, Ray Milland, Kim Richards, Ike Eisenmann, Walter Barnes, Reta Shaw, Denver Pyle, Alfred Ryder, George Chandler, Lawrence Montaigne, Shepherd Sanders, Don Brodie, Terry Wilson, Dermott Downs
In this Disney film, orphaned adolescents, brother and sister Tony and Tia Malone (Ike Eisenmann and Kim Richards), have unusual psychic powers but suffer from amnesia, which prevents them from being aware that they are space aliens. Evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt (Ray Milland) realizes that Tony and Tia have supernatural powers and tries to exploit them. Aristotle holds them in his mansion against their will–until Jason (Eddie Albert), who is grieving over his wife's death, takes Tony and Tia in his RV on a cross-country trek during which Aristotle is in hot pursuit. After the RV is transformed into a space ship, they arrive at Witch Mountain where long-hidden secrets are revealed.
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Invitation to a Gunfighter 1964 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Richard Wilson
Cast: Yul Brynner, Janice Rule, Brad Dexter, Alfred Ryder, George Segal, Pat Hingle, Mike Kellin, Bert Freed, Strother Martin, Clifton James
Returning home to the New Mexico Territory following action in the Civil War, an ex-Confederate soldier (Yul Brynner) finds he has lost his land. He fights a psychotic gunslinger as the balance of power in his part of the West is at stake.
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Star Trek Original Series, Vol. 3 (Episodes 1&4) 1966  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Adventure
Director: Marc Daniels
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Grace Lee Whitney, Alfred Ryder, Bruce Watson, Jeanne Bal, Michael Zaslow, Vince Howard, Francine Pyne, Majel Barrett, Bruce Hyde
Two episodes (1 and 4) of the original series are presented: "The Man Trap" (aired 9/8/1966, stardate 1513.1)-Though the sixth episode shot, this was the first to be aired in the popular series. When the Enterprise stops at Planet M113 for the annual visit, things turn sour when the resident archeologist and his wife just want to be left alone. Then, the killing of crew members begins, their bodies drained of salt. What is going on? "The Naked Time" (aired 9/29/1966, stardate 1704.2)-Trouble is brewing for the crew of Enterprise as they explore a planet that is about to disintegrate. Intending to pick up a research party, they find that all have died in mysterious ways. Crew members pick up an alien virus that loosens all inhibitions in them, and brings out their basic weaknesses. The virus rapidly spreads throughout the entire crew and as they all run amuck in the Enterprise, the planet is poised to collapse at any moment.
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T-Men 1947 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anthony Mann
Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Alfred Ryder, Mary Meade, Wallace Ford, June Lockhart, Charles McGraw, Jane Randolph, Art Smith, Herbert Heyes, Jack Overman
Told in documentary style, complete with narration, this is the tale of treasury agents, T-Men (Dennis O'Keefe and Alfred Ryder), who go undercover and infiltrate a counterfeit ring to get the goods on the leaders. Exciting, tough film noir.
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Tracks 1976  R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Henry Jaglom
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Taryn Power, Dean Stockwell, Topo Swope, Michael Emil, Zack Norman, Alfred Ryder, Barbara Flood, Cayle Chernin, James Frawley
When a Vietnam veteran (Dennis Hopper) escorts home the dead body of his war buddy, the time spent on the train provides an insightful look at what war can do to the psyche.
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 True Grit 1969  G, 128 min.
Genre: Western / Adventure / Drama
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: John Wayne, Kim Darby, Robert Duvall, Glen Campbell, Strother Martin, Jeremy Slate, Dennis Hopper, Jeff Corey, Donald Woods, Alfred Ryder, Ron Soble, John Fiedler, James Westerfield, John Doucette, Edith Atwater
This movie is the vehicle for John Wayne's Academy Award for Best Actor. Wayne plays the role of a rough old guy "Rooster" Cogburn who helps Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) find her father's killer Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey) deep in Indian territory. They are joined in their search by Texas Ranger La Boeuf (Glen Campbell) who is also on the trail of Chaney.
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W 1974  PG, 95 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
aka: I Want Her Dead
Director: Richard Quine
Cast: Twiggy, Michael Witney, Eugene Roche, Dirk Benedict, John Vernon, Michael Conrad, Alfred Ryder, Carmen Zapata, Dave Morick, Ken Lynch
In this movie, which marks Twiggy's first film appearance, she plays an amnesiac, Katie, who had gained a new identity when she married Ben Lewis (Michael Witney). But now, the couple is threatened by a mysterious person who has left the letter "W" at the scene of three near-death "accidents" that have involved them in the last 24 hours.
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| 1. Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
2. Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964)
3. Star Trek Original Series, Vol. 3 (Episodes 1&4) (1966)
4. T-Men (1947)
5. Tracks (1976)
6. True Grit (1969)
7. W (1974)
aka: I Want Her Dead
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