Escape to Witch Mountain 1975  G, 94 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Director: John Hough
Cast: Eddie Albert, Donald Pleasence, Ray Milland, Kim Richards, Ike Eisenmann, Walter Barnes, Reta Shaw, Denver Pyle, Alfred Ryder, George Chandler, Lawrence Montaigne, Shepherd Sanders, Don Brodie, Terry Wilson, Dermott Downs
In this Disney film, orphaned adolescents, brother and sister Tony and Tia Malone (Ike Eisenmann and Kim Richards), have unusual psychic powers but suffer from amnesia, which prevents them from being aware that they are space aliens. Evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt (Ray Milland) realizes that Tony and Tia have supernatural powers and tries to exploit them. Aristotle holds them in his mansion against their will–until Jason (Eddie Albert), who is grieving over his wife's death, takes Tony and Tia in his RV on a cross-country trek during which Aristotle is in hot pursuit. After the RV is transformed into a space ship, they arrive at Witch Mountain where long-hidden secrets are revealed.
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 The Ghost and Mr. Chicken 1966 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Mystery / Romance
aka: Running Scared
Director: Alan Rafkin
Cast: Don Knotts, Joan Staley, Liam Redmond, Dick Sargent, Skip Homeier, Reta Shaw, Lurene Tuttle, Philip Ober, Harry Hickox, Charles(2) Lane, Nydia Westman, George Chandler, Jesslyn Fax, Robert Cornthwaite, Jim Begg
Nervous Luther (Don Knotts) is a typesetter at the local newspaper and longs to become a reporter. He gets his chance when, as part of a publicity campaign, he must spend a night in a supposedly haunted house. Fun fare, and Luther even gets the prettiest girl in town, Alma Parker (Joan Staley, a former "Playboy" centerfold).
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The Lady Takes a Flyer 1958  N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jack Arnold
Cast: Lana Turner, Richard Denning, Jeff Chandler, Andra Martin, Chuck Connors, Reta Shaw, Alan Hale Jr., Jerry Paris, Nestor Paiva
Lana Turner and Jeff Chandler are strong-willed pilots who fall in love, marry, and have problems combining their professional and personal lives.
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Made in Paris 1966 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Boris Sagal
Cast: Ann - Margret, Louis Jourdan, Richard Crenna, Edie Adams, Chad Everett, John McGiver, Marcel Dalio, Count Basie, Marcel Hillaire, Reta Shaw
Maggie Scott (Ann-Margret) is a fashion buyer who heads to Paris where she contends with the amorous advances of Marc Fontaine (Louis Jourdan).
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 Mary Poppins 1964  G, 139 min.
Genre: Family / Musical / Comedy / Fantasy
Director: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, Ed Wynn, Elsa Lanchester, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Arthur Treacher, Hermione Baddeley, Reginald Owen, Reta Shaw, Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber, Jane Darwell, Arthur Malet
English children Jane and Michael Banks (Karen Dotrice and Matthew Garber) feel neglected by their parents. They receive a new "magical" nanny, Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews) who takes them on exciting adventures and changes the lives of everyone in the family. Andrews won the Best Actress Oscar for her role, and "Chim Chim Cheree" won for Best Song. There were three other Academy awards as well as eight nominations, including Best Picture and Director. A delightful film that is filled with great songs.
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 The Pajama Game 1957  N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: George Abbott
Cast: Doris Day, John Raitt, Carol Haney, Eddie Foy Jr., Reta Shaw, Barbara Nichols, Ralph Dunn, Thelma Pelish, Jack Straw, Owen Martin
"Seven and a Half Cents" is the song and issue in this musical about Katie "Babe" Williams (Doris Day) and her co-workers who want a pay raise at a local pajama factory. When Babe takes their demands to the shop superintendent Sid Sorokin (John Raitt), a romance blooms, and Sid must deal with his love for Babe amidst the union crisis at the factory.
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Picnic 1955 N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Joshua Logan
Cast: William Holden, Kim Novak, Susan Strasberg, Arthur O'Connell, Cliff Robertson, Rosalind Russell, Betty Field, Verna Felton, Nick Adams, Reta Shaw, Raymond Bailey, Elizabeth Wilson, Phyllis Newman, Henry Pagueo, Don C. Harvey
When drifter Hal Carter (William Holden) wanders into a small Kansas town, his presence greatly affects the citizens as he falls in love with his old friend Alan Benson's (Cliff Robertson) fiancee Madge Owens (Kim Novak). Meanwhile, as he explores the town, Madge's young sister Millie (Susan Strasberg) and spinster schoolteacher Rosemary (Rosalind Russell) fall for him. Matters rise to a head at a picnic, and, after a fight with Alan, Hal hops a freight train to escape the law. But, by story's end, Madge is riding a bus in an effort to find her true love Hal. The film received Oscars for Art Direction/Set Decoration and Film Editing and was nominated for Best Picture, and Director. Arthur O'Connell received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Howard Bevans, the rejected, reliable boyfriend of Rosemary.
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| 1. Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
2. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)
aka: Running Scared
3. The Lady Takes a Flyer (1958)
4. Made in Paris (1966)
5. Mary Poppins (1964)
6. Murder Once Removed (1971)
aka: The Obsessive Doctor
7. The Pajama Game (1957)
8. Picnic (1955)
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