The Amazing Howard Hughes 1977  TV, 215 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William A. Graham
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, James Hampton, Tovah Feldshuh, Lee Purcell, Jim Antonio, Howard Hesseman, Sorrell Booke, Arthur Franz, Ed Harris
Ambitious but often dull, this is the story of the life of the famous millionaire recluse, both the great achievements and strange downhill spiral.
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Bank Shot 1974  PG, 83 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gower Champion
Cast: George C. Scott, Joanna Cassidy, Sorrell Booke, Clifton James, Bob Balaban, Frank McRae, Harvey Adams, G. Wood, Don Calfa, Jack Riley, Bibi Osterwald, Harvey Evans, Hank Stohl, Pat Zurica, Harvey J. Goldenberg
Irving (Harvey Adams) plots a bank robbery with a twist–he plans to rob the entire mobile home in which the bank funds are temporarily housed. This is one nutty comedy.
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Fail-Safe 1964 N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Ed Binns, Fritz Weaver, Henry Fonda, Larry Hagman, Dom DeLuise, William Hansen, Sorrell Booke
The premise for this story is that the United States has accidentally dropped the hydrogen bomb on Russia. The ensuing events evolve as the leaders of both countries work to prevent total world annihilation. Good, tense attention-keeper.
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 Freaky Friday 1976 G, 97 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Gary Nelson
Cast: Jodie Foster, Barbara Harris, John Astin, Patsy Kelly, Ruth Buzzi, Vicki Schreck, Dick Van Patten, Sorrell Booke, Kaye Ballard, Marie Windsor
Mother and daughter change roles in this delightful Disney film.
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Gone Are the Days 1963 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
aka: Purlie Victorious
The Man from C.O.T.T.O.N.
Director: Nicholas Webster
Cast: Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Sorrell Booke, Godfrey Cambridge, Hilda Haynes, Alan Alda, Beah Richards, Charles Welch, Ralph Roberts
A self-ordained minister, the Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson (Ossie Davis), returns home to rural Georgia with his wife, Lutiebelle (Ruby Dee). The Reverend wants to purchase an old barn and turn it into a church. With help from the liberal son, Charlie (Alan Alda), of the racially intolerant plantation owner, Ol'Cap' Stonewall Jackson Cotchipee (Sorrell Booke), the barn is purchased and turned into a church. This film captures the theme of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
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The Iceman Cometh 1973 PG, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Frankenheimer
Cast: Lee Marvin, Fredric March, Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges, Bradford Dillman, Sorrell Booke, Hildy Brooks, Martyn Green, Moses Gunn, Clifton James, Juno Dawson, Evans Evans, John McLiam, Stephen Pearlman, Tom Pedi
Based on Eugene O'Neill's play, this is an excellent film about the men who meet at Harry Hope's (Fredric March) bar in 1912 to listen to funny tales told by Hickey (Lee Marvin).
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The Iceman Cometh 1960 TV, 210 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Jason Robards, Myron McCormick, Tom Pedi, James Broderick, Farrell Pelly, Robert Redford, Ronald Radd, Roland Winters, Michael Strong, Sorrell Booke, Harrison Dowd, Maxwell Glanville, Charles White, Walter Klavun, Hilda Brawner
Eugene O'Neill's classic story was brought to TV with Jason Robards as the perfect Theodore "Hickey" Hickman, the hero of the Last Chance Saloon. Well done. Young Robert Redford takes on the role of the traitor Don Parritt. Originally shown in two segments.
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The Last Angry Man 1974  TV, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jerrold Freedman
Cast: Pat Hingle, Lynn Carlin, Paul Jabara, Tracy Bogart, Sorrell Booke, Penny Santon, Titos Vandis, Pepe Serna, Andrew Duggan, Ann Doran
Set in Brooklyn in the 1930s, this made-for-TV remake of the 1959 film tells the story of a Jewish doctor (Pat Hingle) who has spent a lifetime helping others.
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Mastermind 1976 G, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy / Thriller
Director: Alex March
Cast: Zero Mostel, Keiko Kishi, Gawn Grainger, Bradford Dillman, Jules Munshin, Frankie Sakai, Sorrell Booke, Felix Silla, Zaldy Zshornack, Phil Leeds, Kichi Taki, Tetsu Nakamura
This is an enjoyable spoof of Charlie Chan movies as the very funny Zero Mostel plays Inspector Hoku Ichihara who tries to protect a "special" robot from foreign efforts to capture it. Good car/motorcycle chase scene, complete with sidecar.
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Rock-A-Doodle 1991 G, 75 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical
Director: Don Bluth, Dan Kuenster
Cast: Glen Campbell, Eddie Deezen, Sandy Duncan, Charles Nelson Reilly, Ellen Greene, Phil Harris, Christopher Plummer, Toby Scott Ganger, Kathryn Holcomb, Jason Marin, Stan Ivar, Christian Hoff, Will Ryan, Sorrell Booke
In this animated adventure, rain and flood waters threaten the farm, so young farm boy Edmond (voice of Toby Scott Ganger)–who by now has been turned into a cat–gathers together a mouse Snipes (voice of Eddie Deezen), a magpie Peepers (voice of Sandy Duncan), and a dog Patou (voice of Phil Harris) for a trip to the city to bring back their rooster, Chanticleer (voice of Glen Campbell). They believe that Chanticleer's crowing will chase away the clouds and bring back the sun. When they do arrive in the city, the group discovers that because Chanticleer has become a rock star, it is almost impossible to get near him. Never fear, by story's end, Chanticleer is back on the farm, and happiness reigns.
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Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers 1987 TV, 93 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Comedy
Director: Paul Sommer, Carl Urbano
Cast: Don Messick, Casey Kasem, Sorrell Booke, Rob Paulsen, Ronnie Schell, Jerry Houser, Arte Johnson, Victoria Carroll, William Callaway, Michael Rye, June Foray, Hamilton Camp
Shaggy (voice of Casey Kasem) inherits a mansion and he, along with fellow sleuths Scooby and Scrappy (both voice of Don Messick), hit the road for the estate. The estate seems to be haunted, and the spooking begins even before they arrive.
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Slaughterhouse-Five 1972 R, 104 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: George Roy Hill
Cast: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Valerie Perrine, Perry King, Kevin Conway, John Dehner, Roberts Blossom, Sorrell Booke
Kurt Vonnegut's antiwar novel is brought to the screen in this futuristic story of Billy Pilgrim (Michael Sacks) who survives Dresden's World War II fire bombings and now simultaneously lives in the past, present, and future.
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Special Delivery 1976 PG, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Dangerous Break
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: Bo Svenson, Cybill Shepherd, Tom Atkins, Sorrell Booke, Gerrit Graham, Michael C. Gwynne, Jeff Goldblum, Robert Ito, John Quade, Vic Tayback
This comedy-action film involves a bank robbery in which bystanders–including a weird artist (Cybill Shepherd)–try to grab off some of the loot.
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The Take 1974 PG, 91 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: Robert Hartford-Davis
Cast: Billy Dee Williams, Eddie Albert, Frankie Avalon, Sorrell Booke, Albert Salmi, Vic Morrow, A Martinez, James Luisi, Tracy Reed, Kathrine Baumann, Kathleen Hughes, John Davis Chandler, Dick Yarmy
A police officer, Sneed (Billy Dee Williams), is a good cop, BUT his greed gets in the way, and he takes in money under the table through bribes, which he feels justified in doing because of his early childhood traumas. The early years of Sneed's life are shown through flashbacks. Watch for Frankie Avalon as a crook behind bars yelling, "Don't hurt me! Don't hurt me!"
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Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation 1992  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Comedy
Director: Various Directors
Cast: Jonathan Winters, Edie McClurg, Frank Welker, Charles Adler, Don Messick, Joe Alaskey, Tress MacNeille, Cree Summer, Sorrell Booke, Rob Paulsen, Maurice LaMarche, Kath Soucie
School vacation is beginning, and Plucky Duck, Hampton Pig, Babs and Buster Bunny, and Elmira go on their respective holidays in this animated made-for-video feature.
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What's Up, Doc? 1972 G, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Kenneth Mars, Austin Pendleton, Sorrell Booke, Michael Murphy, Mabel Albertson, John Hillerman, M. Emmet Walsh, Madeline Kahn
Four suitcases get mixed up, and their owners' lives are changed forever. During the process of retrieving the correct luggage, Howard Bannister (Ryan O'Neal), a somber musicologist, meets Judy Maxwell (Barbra Streisand), a dizzy student, who keeps popping back into his life.
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| 1. The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977)
2. Bank Shot (1974)
3. Brenda Starr (1976)
4. Fail-Safe (1964)
5. Freaky Friday (1976)
6. Gone Are the Days (1963)
aka: Purlie Victorious
aka: The Man from C.O.T.T.O.N.
7. The Iceman Cometh (1973)
8. The Iceman Cometh (1960)
9. The Last Angry Man (1974)
10. Mastermind (1976)
11. Rock-A-Doodle (1991)
12. Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers (1987)
13. Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
14. Special Delivery (1976)
aka: Dangerous Break
15. The Take (1974)
16. Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation (1992)
17. Up the Down Staircase (1967)
18. What's Up, Doc? (1972)
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