 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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The Balcony 1963  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Strick
Cast: Shelley Winters, Peter Falk, Lee Grant, Peter Brocco, Ruby Dee, Kent Smith, Jeff Corey, Leonard Nimoy, Joyce Jameson, Arnette Jens
This satire on politics and religion takes place in a house of prostitution during a revolution. The police chief (Peter Falk) uses the customers to try to suppress the revolution.
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Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! 1966  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: George Marshall
Cast: Bob Hope, Elke Sommer, Phyllis Diller, Cesare Danova, Marjorie Lord, Harry von Zell, Kelly Thordsen, Benny Baker, Terry Burnham, Joyce Jameson, Kevin Burchett, Keith Taylor
Real estate agent Tom Meade (Bob Hope) connects via telephone with a sexy movie star, Didi (Elke Sommer), who is trying to evade her boyfriend. Now, Tom tries to keep his wife (Marjorie Lord) from finding out about his relationship with Didi
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The Comedy of Terrors 1964 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Horror / Comedy / Thriller
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Joyce Jameson, Joe E. Brown, Beverly Powers, Basil Rathbone, Alan DeWitt, Douglas Williams, Buddy Mason, Linda Rogers, Luree Holmes, Orangey, Paul Barselou
Waldo Trumbull (Vincent Price) runs the funeral parlor that his senile father-in-law Amos Hinchley (Boris Karloff) owns. The funeral parlor needs more customers if it is going to stay in business. Waldo's solution is to kill a few people whose services will then help pay the rent. Now, Waldo and his inept assistant Felix Gillie (Peter Lorre) start sneaking into homes at night and killing people. The plan works–but when they try, again and again, to poison Waldo's father-in-law, he just will not stay dead.
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Good Neighbor Sam 1964 N/R, 130 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Swift
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Romy Schneider, Dorothy Provine, Mike Connors, Louis Nye, Charles(2) Lane, Edward G. Robinson, Anne Seymour, Edward Andrews, Tristram Coffin, Robert Q. Lewis, Joyce Jameson, Linda Watkins, Peter Hobbs, Neil Hamilton
Advertising executive Sam Bissell (Jack Lemmon) is happily married to Minerva (Dorothy Provine) when he helps out his neighbor, Janet (Romy Schneider), by pretending to be her husband so she can inherit $15 million. Janet is married but separated from Howard (Mike Connors) and does not want to share the inheritance with him. Many complications arise when Sam's biggest client, Simon Nurdlinger (Edward G. Robinson), uses Sam and Janet as "the ideal married couple" in an ad campaign and features their pictures on billboards throughout the town.
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 The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 PG, 135 min.
Genre: Action / Western / Drama
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Chief Dan George, John Mitchum, John Russell, Bill McKinney, John Vernon, Sam Bottoms, Woodrow Parfrey, Joyce Jameson, Paula Trueman, Geraldine Keams, Sheb Wooley, Royal Dano, Will Sampson
After the killing of his wife and son by Union soldiers, Missouri farmer Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) sets out on a mission to avenge their deaths. First, he joins Confederate raiders, but after the war ends Josey sets out on his own and is deemed a dangerous outlaw. He is pursued by bounty hunters and U.S. cavalry soldiers, led by Terrill (Bill McKinney) and Fletcher (John Vernon). Along his trek, Josey gains traveling companions Cherokee Lone Watie (Chief Dan George), Laura Lee (Sondra Locke), and her Grandma Sarah (Pauls Trueman) who offers Josey a home in her farmhouse. Just when it looks like Josey will settle down, Terrill appears on the scene.
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Phffft 1954  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Mark Robson
Cast: Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Jack Carson, Kim Novak, Donald Curtis, Luella Gear, Donald Randolph, Merry Anders, Olan Soule, Harry Cheshire, Amy Freeman, Eddie Searles, Eugene Borden, Joyce Jameson, Jimmie Dodd
Nina and Robert Tracy (Judy Holliday and Jack Lemmon) cannot find happiness in their marriage, so they obtain a divorce. Then the fun begins as new romances enter the picture, and confusion reigns as Kim dates Charlie (Jack Carson) and Robert enjoys a fling with Janis (Kim Novak). Throughout their romantic adventures, Tracy and Robert keep running into each other, and happiness results only when they realize that they still love each other and reconcile their differences.
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Run, Simon, Run 1970 PG, 74 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
aka: Savage Run
Director: George McCowan
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Inger Stevens, Royal Dano, James Best, Rodolfo Acosta, Don Dubbins, Ken Lynch, Joyce Jameson, Barney Phillips, Eddie Little Sky
Returning to his Papago Indian tribe after a long prison term for a crime he didn't commit (killing his brother), Simon (Burt Reynolds) sets out to find the real killer. Made for TV.
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The Split 1968 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Gordon Flemyng
Cast: Jim Brown, Diahann Carroll, Julie Harris, Ernest Borgnine, Gene Hackman, Jack Klugman, Warren Oates, James Whitmore, Donald Sutherland, Joyce Jameson
After pulling off a heist at the L.A. Coliseum during a Rams game, McClain (Jim Brown) ends up having his stolen money ripped off by a crooked cop, Walter Brill (Gene Hackman).
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Tales of Terror 1962 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Debra Paget, Maggie Pierce, Edmund Cobb, Joyce Jameson, Wally Campo, Lennie Weinrib, Leona Gage
This compilation of three Edgar Allen Poe stories is presented with Vincent Price in the leading role for each story. Included are "Morella," "The Black Cat," and "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar."
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| 1. The Apartment (1960)
2. The Balcony (1963)
3. Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966)
4. The Comedy of Terrors (1964)
5. Death Race 2000 (1975)
6. Good Neighbor Sam (1964)
7. Hardbodies (1984)
8. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
9. Phffft (1954)
10. Run, Simon, Run (1970)
aka: Savage Run
11. The Split (1968)
12. Tales of Terror (1962)
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