 Alice in Wonderland 1983  TV, 90 min.
Genre: Family / Fantasy
Director: Kirk Browning
Cast: Kate Burton, Richard Burton, Colleen Dewhurst, Donald O'Connor, Geoffrey Holder, Austin Pendleton, Maureen Stapleton, Zeljko Ivanek, Nathan Lane, Fritz Weaver
The Broadway revival production was staged for the TV cameras in this telling of the classic story. Highlight: well-known cast.
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The Big Fix 1978  PG, 108 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Jeremy Kagan
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Anspach, Bonnie Bedelia, John Lithgow, F. Murray Abraham, Fritz Weaver, Ofelia Medina, Nicolas Coster, Ron Rifkin, Mandy Patinkin
Detective Moses Wine (Richard Dreyfuss) tries to solve a crime of attempted sabotage in a campaign for governor and ends up solving a murder among ex-Berkeley radicals.
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 Black Sunday 1977 R, 143 min.
Genre: Action
Director: John Frankenheimer
Cast: Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver, Steven Keats, Bekim Fehmiu, Michael V. Gazzo, William Daniels, Walter Gotell, Walter Brooke
Terrorists (Bruce Dern and Marthe Keller) choose Super Bowl Sunday to launch an attack via the Goodyear Blimp. Trying to stop the bloodbath are an Israeli agent (Robert Shaw) and an FBI man (Fritz Weaver).
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 Captains Courageous 1977  TV, 110 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Harvey Hart
Cast: Karl Malden, Jonathan Kahn, Ricardo Montalban, Fritz Weaver, Fred Gwynne, Shay Duffin, Johnny Doran
Karl Malden is good as the fisherman in this remake of the 1937 classic Kipling story. Otherwise, this made-for-TV film is average fare about the spoiled rich boy, rescued by a fishing ship, who grows up through hard word.
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 Creepshow 1982 R, 122 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: George A. Romero
Cast: Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver, Leslie Nielsen, E.G. Marshall, Carrie Nye, Viveca Lindfors, Ted Danson, Ed Harris, Gaylen Ross, Stephen King, Warner Shook, Robert Harper, Jon Lormer, Don Keefer
Five different stories–each revolving around a fatal flaw–make up this movie. The fifth story, for example, is about a neat freak who literally lives in a completely sterile environment and encounters, of all things, cockroaches. The screenplay is by Stephen King from the story "The Crate." King has a bit part in one of the stories. Naturally, macabre entertainment.
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The Day of the Dolphin 1973 PG, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Paul Sorvino, Fritz Weaver, Jon Korkes, Edward Herrmann, John Dehner
A marine biologist, Dr. Jake Terrell (George C. Scott), trains dolphins to talk. His dolphins are stolen, and Terrell learns they are to be used in a plot to assassinate the President of the United States.
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Demon Seed 1977  R, 94 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Donald Cammell
Cast: Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham, Berry Kroeger, Lisa Lu, Larry J. Blake, Robert Vaughn, Felix Silla, John O'Leary
Alex Harris (Fritz Weaver) works on a computer, Proteus IV, that becomes ultra-sophisticated. Proteus IV picks Alex's wife Susan (Julie Christie) as its rape victim in an effort to perpetuate itself into human form. Clever.
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Fail-Safe 1964 N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Ed Binns, Fritz Weaver, Henry Fonda, Larry Hagman, Dom DeLuise, William Hansen, Sorrell Booke
The premise for this story is that the United States has accidentally dropped the hydrogen bomb on Russia. The ensuing events evolve as the leaders of both countries work to prevent total world annihilation. Good, tense attention-keeper.
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Holocaust 1978 TV, 570 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
Cast: Tom Bell, Michael Moriarty, Tovah Feldshuh, Meryl Streep, Fritz Weaver, David Warner, Edward Hardwicke, Joseph Bottoms, Marius Goring, Rosemary Harris, Tony Haygarth, Ian Holm, Lee Montague, Sam Wanamaker, James Woods
This made-for-TV series won the Emmy for its excellence. It is the story of two families who suffered under the reign of Hitler during wartime Germany. The Jewish Weiss family (Fritz Weaver, Rosemary Harris, Sam Wanamaker, Joseph Bottoms, and Blanche Baker) celebrates the wedding of their son Karl (James Woods) to Christian Inga Helms (Meryl Streep). The families get along–until the Nazi's persecution of the Jews is increased, and major problems develop. Now, the story follows individual family members and how their lives change from 1935 to 1945 in war-torn Germany.
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Marathon Man 1976 R, 125 min.
Genre: Thriller
Director: John Schlesinger
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver, Marc Lawrence, Richard Bright, Allen Joseph, Lou Gilbert
An ex-Nazi war criminal (Laurence Olivier) disguises himself to go to New York where a young student (Dustin Hoffman) inadvertently becomes involved in his pursuit. Olivier was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar.
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Power 1986 R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Richard Gere, Gene Hackman, Julie Christie, Kate Capshaw, Denzel Washington, E.G. Marshall, Fritz Weaver, J.T. Walsh, Michael Learned, Beatrice Straight
Politics and public relations are the life and blood of Pete St. John (Richard Gere). Somewhere along the line, Pete has lost track of his ideals in his climb to fame and fortune as a maker of politicians. Then one day he discovers that a politician he believes in has sold out to the political power trade.
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Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Women 1997 PG-13, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: Elizabeth Perkins, Nicky Guadagni, Michael Cameron, Fraser McGregor, Al Waxman, Sela Ward, Anne Jackson, Fritz Weaver, Michael Landes, Theresa Tova
In this premier entry in a series of omnibus films, two separate stories of resistance are offered as two women–a nanny (Elizabeth Perkins) and a Catholic rectory secretary (Sela Ward) perform individual acts of heroism in saving Jews during World War II.
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 The Thomas Crown Affair 1999 R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John McTiernan
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo, Denis Leary, Ben Gazzara, Faye Dunaway, Frankie Faison, Fritz Weaver, Charles Keating, Mark Margolis, Michael Lombard
What would you do if you were bored because you could buy almost anything you want? Thomas Crown (Pierce Brosnan)–billionaire financier–steals a Monet painting from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hot on his trail are insurance investigator Catherine Banning (Rene Russo) and police detective Michael McCann (Denis Leary).
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| 1. Alice in Wonderland (1983)
2. The Big Fix (1978)
3. Black Sunday (1977)
4. Captains Courageous (1977)
5. Company of Killers (1970)
6. Creepshow (1982)
7. The Day of the Dolphin (1973)
8. Demon Seed (1977)
9. Fail-Safe (1964)
10. The Hearst and Davies Affair (1985)
11. Holocaust (1978)
12. Marathon Man (1976)
13. Nightkill (1980)
14. Power (1986)
15. Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Women (1997)
16. The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
17. A Walk in the Spring Rain (1970)
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