Fatso 1980  PG, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Anne Bancroft
Cast: Dom DeLuise, Anne Bancroft, Ron Carey, Candice Azzara, Michael Lombard, Sal Viscuso, Delia Salvi, Robert Costanzo, Estelle Reiner, Richard Karron, Renata Vanni, Paul Zegler, Madeleine Taylor Holmes, Natasha Ryan, David Comfort
Dominick (Dom DeLuise) decides to diet as a direct result of a fat cousin's death. Along the diet path, he falls in love with Lydia (Candice Azzara) who likes him fat–maybe she sees some early life insurance money!
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Lady in White 1988  PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Fantasy Mystery / Horror / Thriller
Director: Frank LaLoggia
Cast: Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco, Katherine Helmond, Jason Presson, Renata Vanni, Angelo Bertolini, Jared Rushton, Gregory Levinson, Joelle Jacobi, Lucy Lee Flippin, Tom Bower, Sydney Lassick, Jack Andreozzi, Rita Zohar
One Halloween night, schoolboy Frankie (Lukas Haas) is locked in a classroom where he witnesses the reenactment of young Amanda's (Katherine Helmond) murder years ago. Then, he and Amanda's ghost work together to solve not only her murder but those of nine other children as well.
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Once Is Not Enough 1975 R, 121 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough
Director: Guy Green
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, David Janssen, George Hamilton, Deborah Raffin, Melina Mercouri, Brenda Vaccaro, Gary Conway, Lillian Randolph, Renata Vanni, Mark Roberts, John Roper, Leonard Sachs, Jim Boles, Ann Marie Moelders
Mike Wayne (Kirk Douglas) is a has-been movie producer whose biggest desire is to please his daughter, January (Deborah Raffin). To keep January living her high lifestyle, Mike marries wealthy Deidre Granger (Alexis Smith) despite the fact that she will not give up her lesbian lover, Karla (Melina Mercouri). Meanwhile, although January is being romanced by playboy David Milford (George Hamilton), she is very attracted to middle-aged alcoholic Tom Colt (David Janssen) who, like her father, has seen better days. Brenda Vaccaro received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her role of Linda Riggs, the editor of a fashion magazine.
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A Patch of Blue 1965  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Guy Green
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman, Wallace Ford, Ivan Dixon, John Qualen, Elisabeth Fraser, Renata Vanni, Debi Storm, Kelly Flynn, Saverio LoMedico, Tom Curtis, Robert Williams, Dorothy Lovett, Gregg Martell
Selina D'Arcy (Elizabeth Hartman) is a blind, White girl who meets a Black man, Gordon Ralfe (Sidney Poitier), at the park and falls in love with him. Although his brother Mark (Ivan Dixon) sternly advises Gordon to tell Salina that he is Black, Gordon refuses to do so. Problems rise to the fore when Selina's selfish mother Rose-Ann (Shelley Winters) learns about Gordon and Selina's relationship and forbids Selina from being with Gordon because he is Black. Despite Rose-Ann's objections, Gordon and Selina remain bonded. Winters won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, and Hartman was nominated for Best Actress.
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Pay or Die 1960 N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Wilson
Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Zohra Lampert, Alan Austin, Renata Vanni, Franco Corsaro, Robert F. Simon, Robert Ellenstein, Paul Birch, Vito Scotti, John Marley
Members of the Mafia-dominated Black Hand are intimidating New York citizens living in the Little Italy sector in the early 1900s. NYPD Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino (Ernest Borgnine) is sent in with fellow officers to clean up the area.
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Strictly Dishonorable 1951 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
Cast: Ezio Pinza, Janet Leigh, Millard Mitchell, Gale Robbins, Maria Palmer, Esther Minciotti, Arthur Franz, Hugh Sanders, Silvio Minciotti, Sandro Giglio, Mario Siletti, William E. Green, James Seay, Wally Maher, Renata Vanni
Based on Preston Sturges' play, this film is a remake of the 1931 film about opera star Count Augustino "Gus" Caraffa (Ezio Pinza) whose actions lead to a public slander campaign that does not help in his courting of the lovely Isabelle Perry (Janet Leigh).
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Westward the Women 1951  N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Western
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, Hope Emerson, John McIntire, Marilyn Erskine, Julie Bishop, Frankie Darro, Renata Vanni, George Chandler, Henry Nakamura
Buck (Robert Taylor) is hired to lead a wagon train of mail-order brides from Chicago to California in this surprisingly good Western.
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| 1. Fatso (1980)
2. Lady in White (1988)
3. Once Is Not Enough (1975)
aka: Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough
4. A Patch of Blue (1965)
5. Pay or Die (1960)
6. Strictly Dishonorable (1951)
7. Westward the Women (1951)
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