The Big Mouth 1967 N/R, 107 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: Jerry Lewis Cast: Jerry Lewis, Harold J. Stone, Susan Bay, Buddy Lester, Del Moore, Frank Devol, Paul Lambert, Leonard Stone, Charlie Callas, Vern Rowe
Gerald Clamson (Jerry Lewis) holds the treasure map leading to a cache of diamonds, and it isn't long before mobsters are after Clamson to obtain the map.
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Errors, Freaks & Oddities 2002 N/R, 89 min. Genre: Comedy aka: Crooks
Director: Paul Battista Cast: Jim Norton, Mike Marino, Terry Gillespie, Charlie Callas, Viola Harris, Peter Linari, Irma St. Paule, Glenn Wein, Mark Ellmore, Carmine Battista, Rozie Bacchi, Jessica Alexander
While drinking one night, postman Sol Solzberg (Charlie Callas) tells bartender Nicky (Mike Marino) that he has plans to steal valuable stamps from the post office. Soon after, Sol suffers a heart attack and dies, which signals Nicky to set out with his good friend Paul (Jim Norton) and a moronic group of accomplices to carry out the heist.
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High Anxiety 1977 PG, 92 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: Mel Brooks Cast: Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Dick Van Patten, Ron Carey, Howard Morris, Barry Levinson, Jack Riley, Charlie Callas
This satirical look at Alfred Hitchcock films takes place in a San Francisco sanitarium: Psycho-neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous. A new director, Richard Thorndyke (Mel Brooks), arrives on the scene and tries to help Victoria Brisbane (Madeline Kahn) whose father is being detained at the mental hospital.
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Pete's Dragon 1977 G, 128 min. Genre: Family
Director: Don Chaffey Cast: Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Mickey Rooney, Red Buttons, Sean Marshall, Jim Backus, Shelley Winters, Jeff Conaway, Charlie Callas, Robert Foulk, Jane Kean, Charles Tyner, Gary Morgan, Cal Bartlett, Walter Barnes
Pete (Sean Marshall) is a nine year-old, orphaned boy in Maine who runs away from his foster family. Along the way, Pete encounters a 12-foot tall dragon named Elliott (voice of Charlie Callas), and they become friends. Elliot is visible only to Pete, and they arrive in the ocean-front town of Passamaquaddy where problems arise. Nora (Helen Reddy) takes Pete to her home in the lighthouse where her father, Lampie (Mickey Rooney), invites him to live with them, and they form a "new" family–despite problems from con artist Dr. Terminus (Jim Dale).
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Switch 1975 TV, 78 min. Genre: Mystery
Director: Robert Day Cast: Robert Wagner, Eddie Albert, Charles Durning, Sharon Gless, Ken Swofford, Charlie Callas, Jaclyn Smith, Marc Lawrence, Alan Manson, Anne Schedeen
An ex-con (Robert Wagner) joins forces with an ex-cop (Eddie Albert) and is determined to prove that a dishonest policeman engineered a diamond robbery. This film prompted a popular TV series.
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| 1. The Big Mouth (1967)
2. Errors, Freaks & Oddities (2002) aka: Crooks
3. High Anxiety (1977)
4. Pete's Dragon (1977)
5. Switch (1975)
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