Fear Strikes Out 1957  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Mulligan
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Karl Malden, Norma Moore, Adam Williams, Perry Wilson, Edd Byrnes, Bart Burns, Bing Russell, Peter J. Votrian, Don Brodie, Richard Bull, June Jocelyn, George Pembroke, Jeffrey Sayre, Gary Vinson
Boston Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall (Anthony Perkins) suffered from mental illness that led to a nervous breakdown. This is the story of how his desire to please his pugnacious father, John (Karl Malden), brought on the breakdown and how Jimmy fights to overcome adversity and return to baseball.
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 High Plains Drifter 1973  R, 105 min.
Genre: Western / Drama / Romance
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Billy Curtis, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Mitch Ryan, Jack Ging, Stefan Gierasch, Geoffrey Lewis, Walter Barnes, Paul Brinegar, Ted Hartley, Richard Bull, Robert Donner, John Hillerman
Clint Eastwood plays a cowboy known only as "the Stranger" who drifts into the town of Lagos that contains more dishonest citizens than one could count. As a matter of fact, it is hard for "the Stranger" to keep track of the good guys and the bad guys when the townsfolk hire him for protection from outlaws.
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Man and Boy 1972  G, 98 min.
Genre: Western
Director: E.W. Swackhamer
Cast: Bill Cosby, Gloria Foster, Leif Erickson, George Spell, Douglas Turner Ward, John Anderson, Henry Silva, Dub Taylor, Yaphet Kotto, Shelley Morrison, Richard Bull
Caleb (Bill Cosby) obtains a homestead in Arizona and plans to settle down. But when his horses are stolen, he and his son (George Spell) take off across the Southwest in pursuit, encountering bigotry and other hardships along the way. Cosby's feature film debut.
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Normal 2003  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jane Anderson
Cast: Jessica Lange, Tom Wilkinson, Hayden Panettiere, Clancy Brown, Joseph Sikora, Randall Arney, Richard Bull, Mary Seibel, Rick Touhy
The current state of affairs has become too difficult for Roy (Tom Wilkinson), so he tells his wife of 25 years, Irma (Jessica Lange), and his pastor that he feels he is a woman locked inside a man's body. Furthermore, he has decided he wants a sex-change operation. Thus begins the story of how he, his family, co-workers, and friends deal with the issue.
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Operation Mad Ball 1957  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Richard Quine
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Mickey Rooney, Kathryn Grant, Ernie Kovacs, Arthur O'Connell, James Darren, Roger Smith, Dick York, L.Q. Jones, William Leslie, Sheridan Comerate, Jeanne Manet, Richard Bull, William Hickey, Paul Picerni
As a way to raise morale, World War II American soldiers stationed in France plan a big blast of a party and invite the nurses who they work with. But, the nurses are officers, and the soldiers are enlisted men, and they are not allowed to fraternize. Their commanding officer, Capt. Locke (Ernie Kovacs) sticks by the rules, so Pvt. Hogan (Jack Lemmon), with help from Sgt. Yancy Skibo (Mickey Rooney), sneaks around and arranges for the party to be held at a local hotel managed by Mme. LaFour (Jeanne Manet). One of the nurses, Betty Bixby (Kathryn Grant), is Hogan's love interest, and she is not sure that the scheme will work.
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The Secret Life of an American Wife 1968 R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: George Axelrod
Cast: Walter Matthau, Anne Jackson, Patrick O'Neal, Edy Williams, Richard Bull, Paul Napier, Gary Brown, Albert Carrier, Cristy Hall, Todd Baron
When Victoria Layton (Anne Jackson) feels she has turned into a bored and dowdy housewife, she decides to create excitement in her life by becoming a call girl. As luck would have it, her first customer is a movie star (Walter Matthau) who is also the friend and client of her husband, Tom (Patrick O'Neal).
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The Stalking Moon 1968  G, 109 min.
Genre: Western / Romance
Director: Robert Mulligan
Cast: Gregory Peck, Eva Marie Saint, Robert Forster, Noland Clay, Nathaniel Narcisco, Russell Thorson, Frank Silvera, Lonny Chapman, Lou Frizzell, Henry Beckman, Charles Tyner, Richard Bull, Boyd "Red" Morgan, Joaquine Martinez, Sandy Brown Wyeth
After escaping from years of being held captive by Indians, Sarah Carver (Eva Marie Saint) and her son (Noland Clay) are taken in by Sam Varner (Gregory Peck). Trouble looms when Sarah's Indian mate, Salvaje (Nathaniel Narcisco) determines to recapture his "squaw."
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Ulzana's Raid 1972 R, 103 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Jorge Luke, Bruce Davison, Richard Jaeckel, Joaquin Martinez, Lloyd Bouchner, Karl Swenson, John Pearce, Gladys Holland, Richard Bull
Seeking to gain revenge for an Apache attack, the U.S. Army tries to capture renegade Indians in this powerful film–one of Burt's best.
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Witless Protection 2008 PG-13, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Robert Carner
Cast: Larry the Cable Guy, Richard Bull, Ivana Milicevic, Will Clinger, Omar Dykes, Reno Collier, Jenny McCarthy, Yaphet Kotto, J. David Moeller, Dan Waller, Sean Bridgers, Gerry Bednob
Larry is a small-town sheriff (Larry the Cable Guy) who believes he has seen a kidnapping and rescues the "victim," Madeleine Dimkowski (Ivana Milicevic) from her kidnappers. But, there is a problem: her "kidnappers" are FBI agents assigned to protect her from villains plotting to kill her. Now, a team of FBI agents, led by Alonzo Mosely (Yaphet Kotto), are on the trail of Larry and Madeleine who are racing to reach Chicago where Larry plans to solve the case by himself.
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| 1. Fear Strikes Out (1957)
2. High Plains Drifter (1973)
3. Man and Boy (1972)
4. Normal (2003)
5. Operation Mad Ball (1957)
6. The Secret Life of an American Wife (1968)
7. The Stalking Moon (1968)
8. Ulzana's Raid (1972)
9. Witless Protection (2008)
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