Angel Unchained 1970  PG-13, 86 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Lee Madden
Cast: Don Stroud, Luke Askew, Larry Bishop, Tyne Daly, Aldo Ray, Neil Moran, Jean Marie, Bill McKinney, Jordan Rhodes, Peter Lawrence
Motorcycle gang leader Angel (Don Stroud) joins a group of hippies attacked by dune buggy-riding rednecks from a nearby town. Angel and company take on the bad guys in this violent (for the time period) biker action film.
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C.H.O.M.P.S. 1979  G, 89 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Don Chaffey
Cast: Wesley Eure, Valerie Bertinelli, Conrad Bain, Chuck McCann, Red Buttons, Hermione Baddeley, Jim Backus, Larry Bishop, Robert Q. Lewis, Austin Willis
A young inventor (Wesley Eure) comes up with a computer-controlled dog and is immediately beset by business woes. The title is an acronym for "Canine Home Protection System."
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Mad Dog Time 1996  R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Trigger Happy
Director: Larry Bishop
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, Diane Lane, Gregory Hines, Burt Reynolds, Michael J. Pollard, Henry Silva, Angie Everhart
Mad Dog Land is an alternative universe where Vic (Richard Dreyfuss) is a gangster boss who has been released from a mental hospital and wants to regain control of his territory. By the end of the film no one cares WHO controls the crime organization in this pointless plot.
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The Sting II 1983  PG, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jeremy Kagan
Cast: Jackie Gleason, Mac Davis, Teri Garr, Karl Malden, Oliver Reed, Bert Remsen, Ron Rifkin, Jose Perez, Larry Bishop, Monica Lewis
This is nowhere close to being the film that its predecessor was, but there is a little fun here and there. Jackie Gleason and Mac Davis are the heroes (in Paul Newman's and Robert Redford's roles) in this one about fixing a boxing match to get Karl Malden.
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Underworld 1996 R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Thriller
Director: Roger Christian
Cast: Denis Leary, Joe Mantegna, Annabella Sciorra, Larry Bishop, Abe Vigoda, Robert Costanzo, Traci Lords, Jimmie F. Skaggs, James Tolkan, Heidi Schanz, Cristi Conaway, Angela Jones, Amy Moon, Marc Baur, Michael David Simms
In his effort to find out who made an assassination attempt on his father's life seven years before, ex-con Johnny (Denis Leary) abducts mob boss Frank Gavilan (Joe Mantegna). Johnny suspects that Frank might be behind the assassination attempt and uses the psychotherapy degree he earned in prison as the means of uncovering the assassin. He even takes Frank to sex therapist Dr. Diane Leah (Annabella Sciorra) as one of the steps in learning who attacked his father.
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 Wild in the Streets 1968  PG, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Barry Shear
Cast: Shelley Winters, Christopher Jones, Diane Varsi, Hal Holbrook, Millie Perkins, Ed Begley, Richard Pryor, Bert Freed, Kevin Coughlin, Larry Bishop
In this 1960s fantasy, pop singer/drug pusher Max Frost (Christopher Jones) is President of the United States–a position he won after 14(!)-year olds obtained the vote. Now Frost wants to ship all adults to internment camps.
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| 1. Angel Unchained (1970)
2. C.H.O.M.P.S. (1979)
3. Mad Dog Time (1996)
aka: Trigger Happy
4. The Sting II (1983)
5. Underworld (1996)
6. Wild in the Streets (1968)
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