Avalanche Express 1979  PG, 88 min.
Genre: Mystery / Action / Thriller
Director: Mark Robson
Cast: Lee Marvin, Robert Shaw, Linda Evans, Maximilian Schell, Joe Namath, Mike Connors, Horst Buchholz, Claudio Cassinelli, Kristina Nel, David Hess, Gunter Meisner, Sylva Langova, Cyril Shaps, Vladek Sheybal, Arthur Brauss
In this spy thriller, a CIA agent (Lee Marvin) works to get a KGB leader (Robert Shaw) to safety after he announces his intent to defect during a train ride.
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 Beach Blanket Bingo 1965  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance
Director: William Asher
Cast: Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Deborah Walley, Harvey Lembeck, John Ashley, Jody McCrea, Marta Kristen, Linda Evans, Don Rickles, Buster Keaton, Donna Loren, Timothy Carey, Donna Michelle, Michael Nader, Patti Chandler
Frankie Avalon is back in one of the more popular of the "Beach Party" entries–this being the fifth one. Singing, surfing, partying, parachuting, and a host of other goings on–even a mermaid joins the silly fun. Good comedy skits by Don Rickles, Buster Keaton, and Paul Lynde add to the festivities.
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The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw 1991 TV, 180 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Dick Lowry
Cast: Kenny Rogers, Rick Rossovich, Reba McEntire, Jere Burns, Juliana Donald, Gene Barry, Linda Evans, Brian Keith, Claude Akins, Paul Brinegar, David Carradine, Chuck Connors, Dion Anderson, Johnny Crawford, James Drury
Kenny Rogers is back as gambler Brady Hawkes. This time the year is 1906, and he is preparing to play one last poker game in San Francisco before the government bans gambling. In order to play the last poker game, Brady must pay $100,000 to enter the competition, and saloon girl Burgundy Jones (Reba McEntire) tells him that she has the money if he competes first in a poker game in Dodge City. Brady agrees and wins the game, but the trip West to the poker table in San Francisco will prove very difficult.
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Kenny Rogers as The Gambler: The Adventure Continues 1983 TV, 195 min.
Genre: Western
aka: The Gambler: The Adventure Continues
Director: Dick Lowry
Cast: Kenny Rogers, Bruce Boxleitner, Linda Evans, Johnny Crawford, Charles Fields, Cameron Mitchell, Gregory Sierra, David Hedison, Brion James, Robert F. Hoy, Ken Swofford, Harold Gould, Paul Koslo, Mitch Ryan, Macon McCalman
Kenny Rogers as Brady Hawkes, "The Gambler," is back for a second made-for-TV effort in a two-part episode. Brady, Billy (Bruce Boxleitner), and young Jeremiah (Charles Field) are riding the train to a major gambling event when the train is taken over by killers in search of money. After they take Jeremiah hostage for ransom, Brady and Billy form their own gang–including bounty hunter Kate (Linda Evans)–to rescue Jeremiah.
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The Klansman 1974  R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
aka: The Burning Cross
KKK
Director: Terence Young
Cast: Lee Marvin, Richard Burton, Cameron Mitchell, Lola Falana, Linda Evans, O.J. Simpson, Hoke Howell, David Ladd, Luciana Paluzzi, David Huddleston, Ed Call, John Alderson, John Pearce, Spence Wil-Dee, Vic Perrin
After Nancy Poteet (Linda Evans) is raped in Atoka County, Alabama, the White men place the blame on Black man Garth (O.J. Simpson), and the Ku Klux Klan, led by Butt Cutt Bates (Cameron Mitchell), searches for Garth in order to perform his lynching. Meanwhile, Sheriff Bascomb (Lee Marvin) and townsman Breck Stancill (Richard Burton) battle against the Ku Klux Klan as the county goes to war.
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 Mitchell 1975  R, 97 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast: Joe Don Baker, Martin Balsam, John Saxon, Linda Evans, Merlin Olsen, Morgan Paull, Harold J. Stone, Robert Phillips, Jerry Hardin, Sidney Clute
Action abounds as tough cop Mitchell (Joe Don Baker) closes in on a drug-ring operation. A weak effort.
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Those Calloways 1965  N/R, 132 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Norman Tokar
Cast: Brian Keith, Vera Miles, Brandon DeWilde, Walter Brennan, Ed Wynn, Linda Evans, Philip Abbott, Parley Baer, Tom Skerritt, John Larkin
The Calloways are Vermonters who seek to provide a bird sanctuary for wild geese despite resistance from local residents. Disney.
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Tom Horn 1980 R, 98 min.
Genre: Western
Director: William Wiard
Cast: Steve McQueen, Richard Farnsworth, Linda Evans, Billy Green Bush, Slim Pickens, Elisha Cook Jr., Peter Canon, Roy Jenson, James Kline, Geoffrey Lewis
The last days of one of the Wild-West's legends is portrayed by Steve McQueen as Tom Horn, bounty hunter.
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| 1. Avalanche Express (1979)
2. Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
3. The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw (1991)
4. Kenny Rogers as The Gambler: The Adventure Continues (1983)
aka: The Gambler: The Adventure Continues
5. The Klansman (1974)
aka: The Burning Cross
aka: KKK
6. Mitchell (1975)
7. Those Calloways (1965)
8. Tom Horn (1980)
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