The Amazing Spider-Man 1977  TV, 92 min.
Genre: Action
aka: Spider-Man
Director: E.W. Swackhamer
Cast: Nicholas Hammond, Thayer David, David White, Michael Pataki, Lisa Eilbacher, Jeff Donnell, Hilly Hicks, Dick Balduzzi, Ivor Francis, Barry Cutler, Robert Hastings, Carmelita Pope, Norman Rice, Len Lesser, Ivan Bonar
Based on the Marvel comics superhero, this film was the pilot for a TV series. After being bitten by a radioactive spider, Peter Parker (Nicholas Hammond) becomes super-strong and is able to climb vertical structures with ease, as well as perform other feats–just what one needs to become a super crime fighter. This being his daytime job, he works as a photographer for the newspaper by night. His major task at the moment is saving the world from a mad scientist who blackmails the city by threatening to unleash people programmed to blow themselves up.
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 The Apartment 1960  N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, David Lewis, Jack Kruschen, Joan Shawlee, Edie Adams, Joyce Jameson, Willard Waterman, Hope Holiday, Naomi Stevens, David White
Winner of five Oscars including Best Picture and Director, this film tells the story of a clerk, C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) trying to get ahead by lending his apartment to philandering executives. Matters become complicated when he falls in love with his boss Jeff D. Sheldrake's (Fred MacMurray) current lover Fran (Shirley MacLaine). Hilarious satire by the director of "Some Like It Hot." Academy Award nominations included Best Actor (Jack Lemon), Actress (Shirley MacLaine), and Supporting Actor (Jack Kruschen).
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Brewster's Millions 1985 PG, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Walter Hill
Cast: Richard Pryor, John Candy, Lonette McKee, Hume Cronyn, Jerry Orbach, Joe Grifasi, Pat Hingle, Tovah Feldshuh, Stephen Collins, Peter Jason, David White, Jerome Dempsey, David Wohl, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Milt Kogan
This version of George Barr McCutcheon's novel involves baseball player Montgomery Brewster (Richard Pryor) who will inherit $300 million if he can obey the will's stipulations, which include spending all of the money within one month and keeping the inheritance a secret. His friends–baseball catcher Spike Nolan and girlfriend Angela (John Candy and Lonette McKee)–do not understand the reason behind Brewster's spending spree and try to help, but that task proves overwhelming.
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The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington 1977  R, 89 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: William A. Levey
Cast: Joey Heatherton, George Hamilton, Ray Walston, Jack Carter, Phil Foster, Billy Barty, Adam West, David White, Will Hutchins, Joe E. Ross, Louisa Moritz, Larry Storch, Rip Taylor, Harold Sakata, Edy Williams
The happy hooker, Xaviera Hollander (Joey Heatherton), heads for Washington, D.C. where she testifies before Congress to defend her lifestyle and, in the process, becomes involved in CIA intrigue.
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Madison Avenue 1962  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast: Dana Andrews, Howard St. John, Eddie Albert, Eleanor Parker, Jeanne Crain, Henry Daniell, Kathleen Freeman, Grady Sutton, Michael Ford, David White
Executives in the field of advertising, Clint Lorimer (Dana Andrews) and Anne Tremaine (Eleanor Parker), differ in their methods of interacting with others in their cutthroat business world.
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Snowball Express 1972 G, 99 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Norman Tokar
Cast: Dean Jones, Nancy Olson, Harry Morgan, Keenan Wynn, Johnny Whitaker, Michael McGreevey, George Lindsey, Kathleen Cody, Mary Wickes, David White, Dick Van Patten, Alice Backes
New Yorker Johnny Baxter (Dean Jones) inherits a Colorado ski lodge and leaves the big city with his family for a new start in the clean air of Colorado. The lodge is a real fixer-upper to say the least, but the Baxter family works to make a go of it, despite setbacks such as banker Martin (Keenan Wynn) who wants the property himself. Typical Disney family comedy which ends with a wild and wacky snowmobile race.
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| 1. The Amazing Spider-Man (1977)
aka: Spider-Man
2. The Apartment (1960)
3. Brewster's Millions (1985)
4. The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington (1977)
5. Madison Avenue (1962)
6. Snowball Express (1972)
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