Cry of Battle 1963  N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
aka: To Be a Man
Officers and Men
Director: Irving Lerner
Cast: Van Heflin, Rita Moreno, James MacArthur, Leopoldo Salcedo, Sidney Clute, Marilou Munoz, Oscar Roncal, Liza Moreno, Michael Parsons, Claude Wilson, Oscar Keesee, Jr.
David McVey (James MacArthur) has been spoiled by his family's wealth but now finds himself fighting the Japanese in the Philippines shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. (trivia: This film was playing as part of a double feature at the Texas Theater when Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested there after shooting President Kennedy.)
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Executive Action 1973  PG, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: David Miller
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer, Gilbert Green, John Anderson, Ed Lauter, Sidney Clute, Lloyd Gough, Dick Miller, Walter Brooke
Based on Mark Lane's book "Rush to Judgment," this film utilizes fiction and documentary style to look at reasons behind President John F. Kennedy's assassination. The story revolves around a group of military-industrial leaders (Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, and Will Geer) who conspire to set up the assassination and put the blame on Lee Harvey Oswald.
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I Love You, Alice B. Toklas 1968  R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Hy Averback
Cast: Peter Sellers, Jo Van Fleet, Leigh Taylor-Young, Joyce Van Patten, David Arkin, Herb Edelman, Grady Sutton, Sidney Clute, Roy E. Glenn Sr., Joe Dominguez
During his midlife crisis, a Jewish lawyer (Peter Sellers) becomes a hippie and drops out of society after eating some marijuana-laced treats. Sellers at his very best.
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 Mitchell 1975 R, 97 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast: Joe Don Baker, Martin Balsam, John Saxon, Linda Evans, Merlin Olsen, Morgan Paull, Harold J. Stone, Robert Phillips, Jerry Hardin, Sidney Clute
Action abounds as tough cop Mitchell (Joe Don Baker) closes in on a drug-ring operation. A weak effort.
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Sam Whiskey 1969 PG, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy / Western
Director: Arnold Laven
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Clint Walker, Ossie Davis, Angie Dickinson, Rick Davis, William Schallert, Woodrow Parfrey, Del Reeves, Anthony James, Robert Adler, Chubby Johnson, Sidney Clute
Lovely widow Laura (Angie Dickinson) offers Sam Whiskey (Burt Reynolds) a job to retrieve gold bars (that her late husband stole) and return them to the Denver mint before they are missed. But, the gold is on a sunken ship in the Platte River. No way, you say. The team he puts together to carry out his plan could be thwarted by the bad guys who would love to get rich.
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Spider-Man Strikes Back 1978 TV, 90 min.
Genre: Family / Action / Fantasy
Director: Ron Satlof
Cast: Nicholas Hammond, Robert F. Simon, Chip Fields, Michael Pataki, JoAnna Cameron, Robert Alda, Emil Farkas, Anne Bloom, Lawrence P. Casey, Wil Albert, Sidney Clute, Gino Ardito, Leigh Kavanaugh, Ron Hajek, David Somerville
Here comes the second TV production of the Marvel comics superhero, again starring Nicholas Hammond as Peter Parker a.k.a. Spider-Man. University students get their hands on all they need to create an atomic bomb. While Spider-Man deals with side issues, the wealthy, but bad, Mr. White (Robert Alda) attempts to get the bomb in order to threaten the world. Will our hero come through?
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| 1. Cry of Battle (1963)
aka: To Be a Man
aka: Officers and Men
2. Executive Action (1973)
3. I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968)
4. Mitchell (1975)
5. Sam Whiskey (1969)
6. Spider-Man Strikes Back (1978)
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