 The Hills Have Eyes 1977  R, 89 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Wes Craven
Cast: Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, Virginia Vincent, Dee Wallace, Martin Speer, Russ Grieve, John Steadman, James Whitworth, Lance Gordon, Michael Berryman, Janus Blythe, Cordy Clark, Peter Locke, Brenda Marinoff
Horrible things happen when a middle-class family–the Carters–drive their mobile home through the desert on their way to California. A breakdown of their vehicle, caused when Air Force jets fly over, leaves them stranded in the territory of desert cannibals who find the Carter baby a likely item for their first dinner menu.
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A Killing Affair 1977  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Behind the Badge
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery, O.J. Simpson, Rosalind Cash, Dean Stockwell, Dolph Sweet, Todd Bridges, John P. Ryan, Priscilla Pointer, John Mahon, Charles Robinson, Fred Stuthman, John Steadman
In this made-for-TV cop movie, two detectives sent on an investigation have their work complicated by an interracial love affair that ensues.
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Little House on the Prairie 1974 TV, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Landon
Cast: Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, Karen Grassle, Melissa Sue Anderson, Victor French, Matthew Laborteaux, Dean Butler, Victor Mohica, Marian Beeler, John Steadman, Lindsay Greenbush, Sidney Greenbush
This is the pilot for the long-running TV series. Based on a novel by Laura Ingalls Wilder, it tells the story of a family that moves to the prairies of Minnesota shortly after the Civil War to start a new life.
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 The Longest Yard 1974  R, 123 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Bernadette Peters, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad, James Hampton, Harry Caesar, John Steadman, Charles Tyner, Mike Henry, Jim Nicholson, Pervis Atkins, Tony Cacciotti, Anitra Ford, Michael Fox
Warden Hazen (Eddie Albert) wants a winning football team to represent his prison, and he knows just the person to assure his team of prison guards a victory. He chooses a prisoner who is an ex-pro football player Paul Crewe (Burt Reynolds). To achieve his goal, Warden Hazen makes a deal with Crewe and tells him that if he will put together a team of prisoners and agree to lose to the guards' football team led by Captain Knauer (Ed Lauter), then Crewe will be given parole. The challenge is on, and Crewe forms his team. As game time approaches, will Crewe accept the deal, or will the convicts achieve dignity as winners of the Penitentiary Bowl?
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Things Are Tough All Over 1982 R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Thomas K. Avildsen
Cast: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Shelby Fiddis, Rikki Marin, Evelyn Guerrero, John Steadman, Rip Taylor, Dorothy Neumann, Billy Beck, John Corrona
Cheech and Chong play Chicago car-wash attendants hired to drive a car to Las Vegas. They don't know it, but $5 million of dirty money has been stashed in the upholstery. Once in Las Vegas they make connections with wealthy Arabs as Cheech and Chong take on dual roles of themselves and the Middle Easterners.
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White Lightning 1973 PG, 101 min.
Genre: Action
aka: McKlusky
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty, Bo Hopkins, Matt Clark, Louise Latham, Diane Ladd, R.G. Armstrong, Conlan Carter, Dabbs Greer, John Steadman, Iris Korn
Offered release from prison if he would help catch a moonshine operation gang, moonshiner Gator McKlusky (Burt Reynolds) agrees in order to avenge his brother's death and bring the crooked sheriff (Ned Beatty) to justice. And the rip-roarin' action begins. There is a sequel: "Gator."
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| 1. The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
2. A Killing Affair (1977)
aka: Behind the Badge
3. Little House on the Prairie (1974)
4. The Longest Yard (1974)
5. Things Are Tough All Over (1982)
6. White Lightning (1973)
aka: McKlusky
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