All the President's Men 1976  PG, 139 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Cast: Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards, Jane Alexander, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook, Ned Beatty, Meredith Baxter, F. Murray Abraham, Stephen Collins, Penny Fuller, John McMartin, Robert Walden, Frank Wills
Based on the bestseller by Washington journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, this award-winning film tells the story of the Watergate break-in and the investigation that led to President Nixon's resignation. The screenplay adaptation by William Goldman won an Academy Award, as did Jason Robards for Best Supporting Actor. Nominations included Best Picture, Director, and Supporting Actress (Jane Alexander).
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Audrey Rose 1977  PG, 112 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Robert Wise
Cast: Marsha Mason, Anthony Hopkins, John Beck, Susan Swift, Norman Lloyd, John Hillerman, Robert Walden, Philip Sterling
In this too-long horror film, Elliot Hoover (Anthony Hopkins) tries to convince the Templetons–Janice (Marsha Mason) and Bill (John Beck)–that their child is really a reincarnation of his dead daughter, Audrey Rose.
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Bloody Mama 1970  R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Shelley Winters, Don Stroud, Pat Hingle, Robert De Niro, Robert Walden, Diane Varsi, Bruce Dern, Clint Kimbrough, Alex Nicol, Michael Fox, Scatman Crothers, Stacy Harris
Ma Barker (Shelley Winters) leads her gang on a crime spree only to be brought down by the law in this psychodrama of one of America's notorious criminals.
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Blue Sunshine 1976 R, 95 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Jeff Lieberman
Cast: Zalman King, Deborah Winters, Mark Goddard, Robert Walden, Charles Siebert, Ann Cooper, Ray Young, Alice Ghostley, Stefan Gierasch, Richard Crystal
Jerry (Zalman King) is on the run after committing a murder in self defense. He knows that something bad is going on: one-by-one, some of his neighbors in a quiet suburban community lose all their hair and then go into uncontrollable, murderous rages. His investigation leads to a professor at his university 10 years ago who developed an LSD variant "Blue Sunshine" and tested it on students. The drug's affects are now showing up.
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Capricorn One 1978  PG, 124 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Sci-Fi
Director: Peter Hyams
Cast: Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro, Sam Waterston, O.J. Simpson, Hal Holbrook, Karen Black, Telly Savalas, David Huddleston, James Sikking, David Doyle, Lee Bryant, Denise Nicholas, Alan Fudge, Robert Walden
There is a flaw in the design of the spaceship, and as a means of protecting the reputation of NASA, mission controller Dr. James Kelloway (Hal Holbrook) stages a Mars landing that is never meant to take place. The astronauts–(James Brolin, O.J. Simpson, and Sam Waterston)–are removed from the spaceship before it is launched and taken to a studio where they must pretend to be on the journey to Mars. But, journalist Robert Caulfield (Elliott Gould) becomes suspicious and investigates the conspiracy, which will go so far as to end the astronauts' lives as the means of keeping the hoax a secret.
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The Hospital 1971  PG, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: George C. Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes, Richard Dysart, Stephen Elliott, Andrew Duncan, Nancy Marchand, Roberts Blossom, Robert Walden, Frances Sternhagen
Incompetence in a major teaching hospital results in deaths of patients in this film, which won the Academy Award for "Best Script." Scott received an Oscar nomination for his acting.
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| 1. All the President's Men (1976)
2. Audrey Rose (1977)
3. Bloody Mama (1970)
4. Blue Sunshine (1976)
5. Capricorn One (1978)
6. The Hospital (1971)
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