The Adventures of Nellie Bly 1981  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Henning Schellerup
Cast: Linda Purl, Gene Barry, Ray Buktenica, J.D. Cannon, John Randolph, Cliff Osmond, Michael Ruud, Fran Ryan, Milton Selzer
Nellie Bly, the adventuresome and crusading journalist, is brought to life in this TV film with Linda Purl as Nellie.
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Jigsaw 1972  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Man on the Move
Director: William A. Graham
Cast: Richard Kiley, James Wainwright, Vera Miles, Andrew Duggan, Edmond O'Brien, Marsha Hunt, Irene Dailey, Gene Andrusco, Milton Selzer, Elliott Street, Ken Lynch, Pamela Rodgers, Jenifer Shaw, Claudia Bryar, Felton Perry
This was the pilot for a crime series in which a detective Lt. Frank Dain (James Wainwright) is on the run after being framed in the murder case of a diplomat. Dain's problems begin when he awakens in the hospital after he was found unconscious in the apartment of the murder victim. Dane specializes in missing person cases and uses his expertise as he sets out in search of the answers to the crime and to clear his name.
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 Lady Sings the Blues 1972  R, 144 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Cast: Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, James T. Callahan, Sid Melton, Virginia Capers, Scatman Crothers, Milton Selzer, Ned Glass, Paul Hampton
Diana Ross makes her film debut as Singer Billy "Lady Day" Holliday in this biography of Holliday's rise and ultimate fall. Diana Ross received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her work in this movie.
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The Legend of Lylah Clare 1968  N/R, 130 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Kim Novak, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine, Milton Selzer, Ellen Corby, Michael Fox, Queenie Smith, Sidney Skolsky, Lee Meriwether, Valentina Cortese
Lewis Zarkan (Peter Finch) is a Hollywood director obsessed with his deceased wife, Lylah Clare (Kim Novak). He hires Elsa Brinkman (Kim Novak) to play his wife in a film biography, and Elsa becomes more and more like Lylah during the filming.
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National Lampoon's Last Resort 1994  PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Rafal Zielinski
Cast: Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, Maureen Flannigan, Demetra Hampton, Robert Mandan, Geoffrey Lewis, Milton Selzer, Michael Ralph, Jack Carter, Roger Clinton
Sam (Corey Feldman) and Dave (Corey Haim) head for Sam's Uncle Rex's (Geoffrey Lewis) island where their mission is to save Rex's Treasure Island theme park from the evil clutches of Hemlock (Robert Mandan). Hemlock believes the island holds a real buried treasure and is set to retrieve it. While the plot sounds good, don't be fooled by this loser.
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The Young Savages 1961 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Frankenheimer
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Shelley Winters, Edward Andrews, Telly Savalas, Pilar Seurat, Milton Selzer, Larry Gates, Vivian Nathan, Jody Fair, Roberta Shore, Robert Burton, John Davis Chandler, Neil Nephew, Stanley Kristien
District Attorney Hank Bell (Burt Lancaster) deals with ghetto gangs from Harlem, where he grew up, while trying to solve the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy. The teenage gang members (John Davis Chandler, Neil Nephew, and Stanley Kristien) have been caught, and Bell is assigned the case as prosecutor. The case appears to be easy–until Bell realizes that there is more to it than meets the eye. In fact, one of the defendants is the son of Bell's ex-lover, Mary di Pace (Shelley Winters), and his wife, Karen (Dina Merrill), is turning against him because of his past. Now the question is: As more secrets come to the fore, will Bell be able to keep his principles intact?
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| 1. The Adventures of Nellie Bly (1981)
2. Jigsaw (1972)
aka: Man on the Move
3. Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
4. The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
5. National Lampoon's Last Resort (1994)
6. The Young Savages (1961)
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