Cinderella Liberty 1973  R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mark Rydell
Cast: James Caan, Marsha Mason, Kirk Calloway, Eli Wallach, Dabney Coleman, Burt Young, Bruno Kirby, Sally Kirkland, Allyn Ann McLerie, Don Calfa, Fred Sadoff, Allan Arbus, Jon Korkes, Diane Schenker, Ted D'Arms
A sailor, John Baggs Jr. (James Caan), goes on shore leave and falls in love with prostitute Maggie Paul (Marsha Mason). They marry and manage to work out a myriad of problems.
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 King Lear 1953  TV, 73 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Andrew McCullough
Cast: Orson Welles, Beatrice Straight, Natasha Parry, Arnold Moss, Margaret Phillips, Bramwell Fletcher, David J. Stewart, Alan Badel, Michael MacLiammoir, Frederick Worlock, Scott Forbes, Wesley Addy, Fred Sadoff, Lloyd Bochner, Chris Gampel
This is a good made-for-TV, black-and-white film of the Shakespeare tragedy. Orson Welles plays King Lear who makes the wrong decision concerning the division of his land and power among his daughters Goneril and Regan (Beatrice Straight Margaret Phillips) after he takes away his youngest daughter Cordelia's (Natasha Parry) rights to the kingdom. He bases his decision on their expression of how much each one loves him. The play's subplot about the Duke of Gloucester and his son was deleted in the interest of time.
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 The Poseidon Adventure 1972 PG, 117 min.
Genre: Adventure / Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Ronald Neame
Cast: Gene Hackman, Red Buttons, Roddy McDowall, Shelley Winters, Leslie Nielsen, Arthur O'Connell, Ernest Borgnine, Carol Lynley, Stella Stevens, Jack Albertson, Pamela Sue Martin, Eric Shea, Fred Sadoff, Sheila Allen, Jan Arvan
Their captain (Leslie Nielsen) gives up his life to save the passengers after a tidal wave overturns a luxury cruise ship during New Year's Eve festivities. A small group of survivors–including Mike (Ernest Borgnine), Linda (Stella Stevens), Acres (Roddy McDowall), Belle (Shelley Winters), and Manny (Jack Albertson)–are led by Reverend Frank Scott (Gene Hackman) in a struggle to find safety in their world (ship) that has turned upside down. "The Morning After" won an Academy Award for Best Song. An Oscar was also received for the Visual Effects (Special Achievement Award), and seven other nominations were received, including Best Supporting Actress (Shelley Winters).
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 The Quiet American 1958 N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Romance
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, Claude Dauphin, Giorgia Moll, Bruce Cabot, Richard Loo, Yoko Tani, Sonia Moser, Fred Sadoff, Kerima, Peter Trent, Georges Brehat, Clinton Anderson, Nguyen Long, C. Long Cuong
Told in flashbacks, this film, based on Graham Greene's novel, stars Audie Murphy as the innocent young American who goes to Vietnam with idealistic plans to help the Vietnamese fight the Communists and the French. He meets embittered British reporter Thomas Fowler (Michael Redgrave) who is living with a beautiful woman, Phuong (Giorgia Moll), and the American falls in love with her. Fowler retaliates, and the American ends up as a pawn whose fate is sealed when Fowler tells the Communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.
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 A Streetcar Named Desire 1984 TV, 124 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Erman
Cast: Ann - Margret, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Rafael Campos, Erica Yohn, Ric Mancini, Raphael Sbarge, Fred Sadoff, Elsa Raven, Tina Menard, Dan Owens
Ann-Margret is at her very best in this good TV remake of the 1951 classic. Ann-Margret takes on the role of the Mississippi Southern belle, Blanche DuBois, who visits her pregnant sister Stella (Beverly D'Angelo) and Stella's working-class husband Stanley Kowalski (Treat Williams) in their rundown, New Orleans French Quarter apartment. Frictions flare between Blanche and Stanley, and the battle of wills between the two leads to problems when Stanley discovers that there is more to Blanche than meets the eye.
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| 1. Cinderella Liberty (1973)
2. King Lear (1953)
3. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
4. The Quiet American (1958)
5. A Streetcar Named Desire (1984)
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