21 Hours at Munich 1976  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William A. Graham
Cast: William Holden, Franco Nero, Shirley Knight, Richard Basehart, Anthony Quayle, Noel Willman, Georg Marischka, Paul L. Smith, Gunther Maria Halmer, Martin Gilat, Else Quecke, Michael Degen, Walter Kohut, Jan Niklas, Ernest Lenart
This film represents a reenactment of the Munich Olympic Games' tragedy in 1972 when Arab terrorists kidnapped nine and murdered two Israeli athletes.
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Crimewave 1985  PG-13, 83 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Broken Hearts and Noses
The XYZ Murders
Director: Sam Raimi
Cast: Louise Lasser, Paul L. Smith, Brion James, Sheree J. Wilson, Edward R. Pressman, Bruce Campbell, Antonio Fargas, Richard DeManincor, Julius Harris, Richard Bright, Reed Birney, John Hardy, Hamid Dana, Hal Youngblood, Sean Farley
You have to watch closely to have any chance of understanding this one, which involves flashbacks by a Nerd framed for a murder while he sits in the electric chair.
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Dune 1984 PG-13, 140 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Action / Adventure
Director: David Lynch
Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Francesca Annis, Jurgen Prochnow, Jose Ferrer, Brad Dourif, Dean Stockwell, Linda Hunt, Paul L. Smith, Max von Sydow, Silvana Mangano, Leonardo Cimino, Freddie Jones, Richard Jordan, Virginia Madsen, Everett McGill
Based on Frank Herbert's sci-fi novel, this is the story of struggle for control of a distant planet–all for a monopoly of the inter-galactic Spice trade. Rival families–the Atreides and the Harkonnens–fight for control of The Spice, which allows the folding of time, and can only be found on the planet Dune, or Arrakis. The year is 10191, and the universe is ruled by Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV (Jose Ferrer), but Paul Alreides (Kyle MacLachlan) is determined to fight the Emperor Shaddam to liberate Dune.
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Haunted Honeymoon 1986  PG, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gene Wilder
Cast: Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Dom DeLuise, Jonathan Pryce, Paul L. Smith, Peter Vaughan, Bryan Pringle
Wilder takes fiancee, Gilda Radner, to his family's country home just before getting married (contrary to the title, there is no honeymoon in this movie). The family estate is inhabited by a werewolf, and Wilder must now fend for his life. Few laughs are found in this failure of a comedy.
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The In-Laws 1979  PG, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy / Adventure / Drama / Thriller
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Richard Libertini, Nancy Dussault, Penny Peyser, Arlene Golonka, Michael Lembeck, Ed Begley Jr., Eduardo Noriega, James Hong, Paul L. Smith, Carmine Caridi, Barbara Dana, Sammy Smith, Alvaro Carcano
Future fathers-in-law–Vince Ricardo (Peter Falk) and dentist Sheldon Kornpett (Alan Arkin)–are brought together shortly before their children's wedding when Vince, who claims to be a CIA agent, convinces Sheldon to join him on what will turn out to be a wild adventure in General Garcia's (Richard Libertini) South American country. In this very funny story, Sheldon soon finds himself in the middle of international intrigue involving the counterfeit of U.S. currency.
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Maverick 1994 PG, 129 min.
Genre: Western / Adventure / Comedy
Director: Richard Donner
Cast: Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner, Graham Greene, James Coburn, Alfred Molina, Dub Taylor, Geoffrey Lewis, Dan Hedaya, Denver Pyle, Paul L. Smith, Dennis Fimple, Clint Black, Max Perlich, Art LaFleur
In the film version of the popular 1960s' television series, James Garner is back, but this time he is not the gambler Maverick–he is Marshal Zane Cooper. Garner's old role of Maverick is well-performed by Mel Gibson. Maverick needs money to enter a winner-take-all poker game and uses devious means to gain the needed funds, and Annabelle Bransford (Jodie Foster) is always on guard for the chance to take Maverick's money.
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Midnight Express 1978  R, 123 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Alan Parker
Cast: Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Randy Quaid, John Hurt, Bo Hopkins, Paul L. Smith, Mike Kellin, Norbert Weisser, Michael Ensign, Paolo Bonacelli, Franco Diogene, Kevork Malikyan, Peter Jeffrey
This film is based on the true story of Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) who, as an American college student, was arrested for smuggling hashish in Turkey. The story details the suffering Billy endured during his five-year imprisonment and subsequent escape. The film won two Academy Awards (Best Writing and Musical Score), and four nominations were received, including Best Picture, Director, and Supporting Actor (John Hurt).
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Pieces 1983  N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Juan Piquer Simon
Cast: Christopher George, Edmund Purdom, Lynda Day George, Paul L. Smith, Frank Brana, Ian Sera, Jack Taylor, Gerard Tichy, Hilda Fuchs, Isabel Luque, Mary Heatherly, Roxana Nieto, Cristina Cottrelli, Leticia Marfil, Silvia Gambino
Now here's a REAL slasher film! A chainsaw-wielding killer is cutting his way through a college campus, taking selected body parts from his co-ed victims. The purpose: construct a human jigsaw puzzle. But fear not, the good detective Lt. Bracken (Chistopher George) is hot on the trail.
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Popeye 1980 PG, 114 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Musical / Romance
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Ray Walston, Paul Dooley, Paul L. Smith, Wesley Ivan Hurt, Richard Libertini, Linda Hunt, Donald Moffat, MacIntyre Dixon, Roberta Maxwell, Donovan Scott, Allan F. Nicholls, Bill Irwin, Robert Fortier
This financially less-than-successful rendition of the cartoon character who is "strong to the finish because he eats his spinach" is still OK, but slow, fare as Robin Williams plays the "human" version of Popeye the sailorman, and Shelley Duvall plays the light of his life, Olive Oyl. Popeye and Olive Oyl get together, and Popeye adopts Swee'pea (Wesley Ivan Hurt), but problems lie ahead with Bluto (Paul L. Smith).
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Red Sonja 1985 PG-13, 89 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brigitte Nielsen, Sandahl Bergman, Paul L. Smith, Ronald Lacey, Ernie Reyes Jr., Pat Roach, Terry Richards, Janet Agren, Donna Osterbuhr, Lara Naszinsky, Hans Meyer, Tutte Lemkow, Francesca Romana Coluzzi, Sefano Maria Mioni
Superheroine Red Sonja (Brigitte Nielsen) searches for a magic talisman. Unfortunately for her, another "hero," Kalidor (Arnold Schwarzenegger), wants to come to her aid. No matter what she does, he just doesn't catch on to the fact that he is not needed.
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The Salamander 1981  N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Peter Zinner
Cast: Franco Nero, Anthony Quinn, Martin Balsam, Sybil Danning, Christopher Lee, Cleavon Little, Claudia Cardinale, Eli Wallach, Paul L. Smith, John Steiner, Renzo Palmer, Anita Strindberg, Marino Mase, Jacques Herlin, Fortunato Arena
This political-action film is about Carabinieri Colonel Dante Matucci (Franco Nero) who investigates murders in which a drawing of a salamander is left behind at every scene. When he suspects that there is more to the murders, he tries to stop a Fascist coup d'etat in Italy.
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Ten Little Indians 1989 PG, 98 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Thriller
aka: Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians
Director: Alan Birkinshaw
Cast: Donald Pleasence, Frank Stallone, Herbert Lom, Sarah Maur Thorp, Brenda Vaccaro, Warren Berlinger, Yehuda Efroni, Paul L. Smith, Neil McCarthy, Moira Lister
In this film loosely based on the Agatha Christie novel, this version of her story is set on an African safari rather than in an eerie mansion. The invited "guests" are killed off one-by-one by an unseen person.
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| 1. 21 Hours at Munich (1976)
2. Crimewave (1985)
aka: Broken Hearts and Noses
aka: The XYZ Murders
3. Dune (1984)
4. Haunted Honeymoon (1986)
5. The In-Laws (1979)
6. Maverick (1994)
7. Midnight Express (1978)
8. Pieces (1983)
9. Popeye (1980)
10. Red Sonja (1985)
11. The Salamander (1981)
12. Ten Little Indians (1989)
aka: Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians
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