Alligator 1980  R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy / Horror
Director: Lewis Teague
Cast: Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo, Dean Jagger, Jack Carter, Perry Lang, Henry Silva, Sue Lyon, Angel Tompkins, Sydney Lassick
In this comedy/horror film, Ramon the alligator was flushed down the toilet when he was a baby. He has grown up in the sewer where he has managed to survive on corpses of laboratory animals. Now, Ramon has evolved into a monster that feeds on the citizens of his Midwestern city.
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Back Roads 1981  R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Martin Ritt
Cast: Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, David Keith, Miriam Colon, M. Emmet Walsh, Michael V. Gazzo, Dan Shor, Nell Carter, Barbara Babcock, Alex Colon, Lee de Broux, Ralph Seymour, Royce D. Applegate, Bruce M. Fischer, John Dennis Johnston
Amy Post (Sally Field) is a prostitute who teams up with unemployed boxer Elmore Pratt (Tommy Lee Jones). The two become traveling companions and leave their dead-end lives in Alabama. They hitchhike to California where they hope to better their lives–and along the trek, they find themselves attracted to each other.
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 Black Sunday 1977  R, 143 min.
Genre: Action
Director: John Frankenheimer
Cast: Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver, Steven Keats, Bekim Fehmiu, Michael V. Gazzo, William Daniels, Walter Gotell, Walter Brooke
Terrorists (Bruce Dern and Marthe Keller) choose Super Bowl Sunday to launch an attack via the Goodyear Blimp. Trying to stop the bloodbath are an Israeli agent (Robert Shaw) and an FBI man (Fritz Weaver).
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The Border 1979  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
aka: Border Cop
Blood Barrier
Director: Christopher Leitch
Cast: Telly Savalas, Eddie Albert, Danny De La Paz, Michael V. Gazzo, Cecilia Camacho, Robin Clarke, Mary McCusker, Maritza Olivares, Herman Blood, Harry Madsen
While assigned to the U.S./Mexico border, patrolman Frank Cooper (Telly Savalas) defeats the efforts of Chico Suarez (Michael V. Gazzo) to exploit illegal aliens by trucking them across the border to perform cheap, day labor.
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Brinks: The Great Robbery 1976 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
Cast: Carl Betz, Stephen Collins, Burr DeBenning, Michael V. Gazzo, Darren McGavin, Leslie Nielsen, Cliff Gorman, Art Metrano, Jenny O'Hara
The "perfect crime" committed in 1950 was the Boston Brinks holdup–"perfect," that is, until the FBI cracked the case.
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 Cookie 1989 R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Susan Seidelman
Cast: Peter Falk, Dianne Wiest, Emily Lloyd, Michael V. Gazzo, Brenda Vaccaro, Lionel Stander, Jerry Lewis, Adrian Pasdar, Bob Gunton, Ricki Lake
Peter Falk stars as a mobster just getting out of prison after 13 years who has a misfit teenage daughter, Cookie (Emily Lloyd), from his mistress. Of course, he also has a wife who doesn't know anything about either one of them. To complicate matters, in trying to form some sort of father-daughter bond, he hires Cookie to act as his chauffeur.
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Cuba Crossing 1980  R, 90 min.
Genre: Action
aka: Assignment: Kill Castro
Kill Castro
The Mercenaries
Director: Chuck Workman
Cast: Stuart Whitman, Robert Vaughn, Woody Strode, Raymond St. Jacques, Albert Salmi, Michael V. Gazzo, Marie-Louise Gassen, Sybil Danning, Caren Kaye, Edward Bell, Bert Williams, Raymond Elmendorf, Carl Williams, Edward Blessington, Haiku Brady
Soldier of Fortune Tony Terracino (Stuart Whitman) is pressured to help the CIA in a plot to assassinate Fidel Castro.
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Fear City 1984  R, 93 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Abel Ferrara
Cast: Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Melanie Griffith, Jack Scalia, Rossano Brazzi, Rae Dawn Chong, Joe Santos, Michael V. Gazzo, Jan Murray, Maria Conchita Alonso
New York prostitutes are being killed, and police try to find the murderer. This film contains plenty of violence and follows the predictable course as good guys try to capture the bad guy. Very good cast wasted.
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Fingers 1978 R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James Toback
Cast: Harvey Keitel, Tisa Farrow, Jim Brown, Michael V. Gazzo, Marian Seldes, Dominic Chianese, Danny Aiello, Ed Marinaro, Tanya Roberts, Zack Norman
In this insightful film, Jimmy Angelilli (Harvey Keitel) is a concert pianist who is torn between the world of mobsters and the more respectable realm through which he enjoys via his music.
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The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh 1979 PG, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gilbert Moses
Cast: Julius Erving, Stockard Channing, Jonathan Winters, Margaret Avery, Jack Kehoe, Meadowlark Lemon, Flip Wilson, M. Emmet Walsh, Nicholas Pryor, Michael V. Gazzo
Astrology is used to turn a hapless Pittsburgh basketball team into championship material. Only those born under the sign of Pisces will be allowed on the team.
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The Godfather DVD Collection 2006  R
Genre: Drama
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Marlon Brando, Talia Shire, James Caan, Robert Duvall, John Cazale, Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Richard Bright, Sterling Hayden, Richard S. Castellano, John Marley, Lee Strasberg, Michael V. Gazzo, Abe Vigoda
The complete offering of "The Godfather;" "The Godfather, Part II;" and The Godfather, Part III is presented in this five DVD collection. Many extras, including the making of the series and deleted scenes.
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The Godfather Part II 1974 R, 201 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, John Cazale, Talia Shire, Robert Duvall, James Caan, Lee Strasberg, Michael V. Gazzo, Richard Bright, G.D. Spradlin, Abe Vigoda, Bruno Kirby, Troy Donahue, John Aprea
In this sequel to "The Godfather," Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) takes over as head of his father's family and modernizes it into a sleek 1920s' New York crime syndicate. Exciting from beginning to end, the movie earned six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Supporting Actor (Robert De Niro). It was nominated for five others, including Best Actor (Pacino), Best Supporting Actor (Michael V. Gazzo and Lee Strasberg) and Best Supporting Actress (Talia Shire).
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King of the Gypsies 1978 R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Pierson
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Shelley Winters, Susan Sarandon, Judd Hirsch, Eric Roberts, Brooke Shields, Annie Potts, Annette O'Toole, Michael V. Gazzo, Antonia Rey
Based on Peter Maas' novel, this story is about Dave (Eric Roberts), the grandson of gypsy King Zharko Stepanowicz (Sterling Hayden). Although he wants to forget his heritage, Dave is forced into a feud over who can claim the gypsy crown.
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| 1. Alligator (1980)
2. Back Roads (1981)
3. Black Sunday (1977)
4. Body and Soul (1981)
5. The Border (1979)
aka: Border Cop
aka: Blood Barrier
6. Brinks: The Great Robbery (1976)
7. Cookie (1989)
8. Cuba Crossing (1980)
aka: Assignment: Kill Castro
aka: Kill Castro
aka: The Mercenaries
9. Fear City (1984)
10. Fingers (1978)
11. The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979)
12. The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971)
13. The Godfather DVD Collection (2006)
14. The Godfather Part II (1974)
15. King of the Gypsies (1978)
16. Love and Bullets (1979)
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