Airport 1970  G, 137 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: George Seaton, Henry Hathaway
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Helen Hayes, Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy, Van Heflin, Maureen Stapleton, Lloyd Nolan, Dana Wynter, Barry Nelson, Barbara Hale, Gary Collins, Jessie Royce Landis, Whit Bissell
Of the five "Airport" films, this first one is the only one worth your time. Based on Arthur Haley's novel by the same name it is filled with suspense as a plane is stuck on the needed runway during a VERY snowy night. Helen Hayes won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar; nominations included Best Picture and Supporting Actress (Maureen Stapleton).
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 Breathless 1960  N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Daniel Boulanger, Henri-Jacques Huet, Jean-Pierre Melville, Liliane Robin, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Louis Richard, Philippe de Broca, Van Doude
In director Jean-Luc Godard's first feature film, the story involves Michel Poiccard's (Jean-Paul Belmondo) run from the police after he kills a policeman and steals a car. His girlfriend is an American student Patricia (Jean Seberg) who joins him on the race against time as Michel tries to collect on a debt that will enable them to escape to Italy. This exciting film introduced the French New Wave to theaters.
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A Fine Madness 1966 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Sean Connery, Jean Seberg, Joanne Woodward, Patrick O'Neal, Colleen Dewhurst, Clive Revill, Werner Peters, John Fiedler, Kay Medford, Jackie Coogan
Samson Shillito (Sean Connery) is a non-conformist poet whose wife, Rhoda (Joanne Woodward), talks him into visiting Dr. West (Patrick O'Neal) for psychiatric treatment to get his life back on track. After bedding down with West's wife (Jean Seberg), the good doctor seeks retaliation through a lobotomy for his patient.
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La Route de Corinthe 1968  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
aka: Who's Got the Black Box?
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Jean Seberg, Maurice Ronet, Christian Marquand, Michel Bouquet, Saro Urzi, Antonio Passalia, Paolo Giusti, Claude Chabrol, Steve Eckhardt, Romain Gary
Mysterious black boxes are jamming American radars in Greece, and one NATO agent has already been killed during the hunt for the boxes. The agent's widow, Shanny (Jean Seberg), is framed for the killing, but her husband's ex-boss gets her released. The romp begins when Shanny teams with her late husband's ex-partner, Dex (Maurice Ronet), to find the boxes.
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Let No Man Write My Epitaph 1960 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Philip Leacock
Cast: Burl Ives, Shelley Winters, James Darren, Jean Seberg, Ricardo Montalban, Ella Fitzgerald, Philip Ober, Sal Mineo, Rodolfo Acosta, Jeanne Cooper
This sequel to "Knock on Any Door" has drug addict, widow Nellie Romano (Shelley Winters), living on skid row on Chicago's South Side and determined to make her son (James Darren) a pianist.
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Lilith 1964  N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Rossen
Cast: Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda, Kim Hunter, Gene Hackman, Anne Meacham, James Patterson, Jessica Walter, Rene Auberjonois, Olympia Dukakis, Robert Reilly, Harvey Jason, Harry Northup, Alice Spivak, Charles Tyner
Vincent Bruce (Warren Beatty) is an occupational therapist in a mental hospital whose life is ruined when he becomes involved with a patient, Lilith (Jean Seberg). They begin a passionate affair, and then Vincent learns that Lilith is also having an affair with a woman (Anne Meacham). Meanwhile, another patient, Stephen (Peter Fonda), commits suicide because Lilith will not pay attention to him. When Vincent realizes that he is in danger of losing his own sanity, he seeks help from psychiatrists. But, will it be too late? This is Gene Hackman's film debut.
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The Mouse That Roared 1959 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jack Arnold
Cast: Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, David Kossoff, William Hartnell, Timothy Bateson, Leo McKern, MacDonald Parke, Monte Landis, Colin Gordon, Bill Nagy
A very small and even more bankrupt country, the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, decides to end its financial woes by declaring war on the United States. The intent is to lose the war and then receive U.S. aid to rebuild. There is much in this funny movie that relates to the world today. Also catch the funny sequel, "The Mouse on the Moon."
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Paint Your Wagon 1969 PG, 166 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance / Western
Director: Joshua Logan
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin, Jean Seberg, John Mitchum, Harve Presnell, Ray Walston, Alan Dexter, William O'Connell, Benny Baker, Alan Baxter, Tom Ligon, Paula Trueman, Robert Eastman, Geoffrey Norman, Terry Jenkins
The loneliness of gold mining in the Sierras abates for prospector Pardner (Clint Eastwood) when his cohort, Ben Rumson (Lee Marvin), agrees to share his wife Elizabeth (Jean Seberg). They live in the town of No Name where Elizabeth is the only woman, and now Ben worries about the other men being interested in her. His solution: kidnap a stagecoach filled with prostitutes. He opens a brothel, and business booms. Ben later gets involved with Mad Jack Duncan (Ray Walston) in creative mining under the town's buildings looking for golddust falling through the floorboards. Not a good idea–the town collapses, and everyone moves on. But, Pardner and Elizabeth remain and try to work out their problems. Lerner and Lowe songs intertwine with the action and include "I Talk to the Trees," "They Call the Wind Mariah," and "Wand'rin Star."
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Saint Joan 1957  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Jean Seberg, Richard Widmark, Richard Todd, Anton Walbrook, John Gielgud, Felix Aylmer, Archie Duncan, Harry Andrews, Finlay Currie, Barry Jones
Jean Seberg became a star following her role of St. Joan in this film for which a nationwide search had ensued for an actress to play the young martyr, Joan of Arch.
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| 1. Airport (1970)
2. Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
3. Breathless (1960)
4. A Fine Madness (1966)
5. Kill! (1971)
aka: Kill! Kill! Kill!
6. La Route de Corinthe (1968)
aka: Who's Got the Black Box?
7. Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)
8. Lilith (1964)
9. The Mouse That Roared (1959)
10. Paint Your Wagon (1969)
11. Saint Joan (1957)
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