Back Roads 1981  R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Martin Ritt
Cast: Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, David Keith, Miriam Colon, M. Emmet Walsh, Michael V. Gazzo, Dan Shor, Nell Carter, Barbara Babcock, Alex Colon, Lee de Broux, Ralph Seymour, Royce D. Applegate, Bruce M. Fischer, John Dennis Johnston
Amy Post (Sally Field) is a prostitute who teams up with unemployed boxer Elmore Pratt (Tommy Lee Jones). The two become traveling companions and leave their dead-end lives in Alabama. They hitchhike to California where they hope to better their lives–and along the trek, they find themselves attracted to each other.
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Baker's Hawk 1976  G, 100 min.
Genre: Family / Western
Director: Lyman Dayton
Cast: Clint Walker, Burl Ives, Diane Baker, Lee Montgomery, Alan Young, Taylor Lacher, Bruce M. Fischer, Cam Clarke, Phil Hoover, Danny Bonaduce, Brian Williams, Dick Haynes, Burt Mustin, Martin Eric, Harold Lee Thompson
After he finds an injured red-tailed hawk, twelve-year-old Billy Baker (Lee Montgomery) takes the hawk to a hermit, Mr. McGraw (Burl Ives), who lives in the hills. Billy and McGraw tame the hawk, but then it attacks a bully who is fighting Billy. When a group of vigilantes decide to take action against McGraw, Billy talks his father, Dan (Clint Walker), into coming to the aid of McGraw and to stand up against the vigilantes. An entertaining Western for the whole family.
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The Gambler 1980  TV, 94 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Dick Lowry
Cast: Kenny Rogers, Bruce Boxleitner, Lee Purcell, Harold Gould, Clu Gulager, Christine Belford, Lance LeGault, Ronnie Scribner, Noble Willingham, Bruce M. Fischer, Lee Paul, Robert Lussier
Gambler Brady Hawkes (Kenny Rogers) takes to the road to visit his son. Along the way, he meets Billy Montana (Bruce Boxleitner), an Easterner who thinks he knows all about cards but learns a few lessons from Brady. Nonetheless, they team up, and their adventures include coming to the aid of a woman (Lee Purcell) in distress as they head to Yuma. Four sequels follow.
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| 1. Back Roads (1981)
2. Baker's Hawk (1976)
3. The Gambler (1980)
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