The American Success Company 1980  PG, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: American Success
Success
Good as Gold
Director: William Richert
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Belinda Bauer, Ned Beatty, Steven Keats, Bianca Jagger, John Glover, Mascha Gonska, Michael Durrell, Eva Maria Meineke, Gunter Meisner
In this offbeat satire on big business, Harry (Jeff Bridges) is a low-level corporate loser who decides to get even with the "system," including his rich corporate in-laws. The film was re-edited and rereleased twice under the titles of "American Success" and "Success."
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 Black Sunday 1977  R, 143 min.
Genre: Action
Director: John Frankenheimer
Cast: Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver, Steven Keats, Bekim Fehmiu, Michael V. Gazzo, William Daniels, Walter Gotell, Walter Brooke
Terrorists (Bruce Dern and Marthe Keller) choose Super Bowl Sunday to launch an attack via the Goodyear Blimp. Trying to stop the bloodbath are an Israeli agent (Robert Shaw) and an FBI man (Fritz Weaver).
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 Death Wish 1974 R, 93 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Michael Winner
Cast: Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, Jeff Goldblum, Steven Keats, William Redfield, Stuart Margolin, Stephen Elliott, Olympia Dukakis, Christopher Guest, Kathleen Tolan, Jack Wallace
When a liberal architect's (Charles Bronson) wife (Hope Lange) is murdered and his daughter (Kathleen Tolan) is terrorized into a comatose state by muggers, he takes the law into his own hands and becomes an urban vigilante. A fascinating, almost terrifying, statement about gun control laws.
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Eternity 1989  R, 125 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Steven Paul
Cast: Jon Voight, Armand Assante, Wilford Brimley, Eileen Davidson, Kaye Ballard, Lainie Kazan, Steven Keats, Eugene Roche, John P. Ryan, Steven Paul
Reincarnation is the theme of this film dealing with a man (Jon Voight) who awakens from a dream and finds himself confronted with an allegorical world in the present in which he runs into modern-day characters from his dream.
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The Executioner's Song 1982 TV, 200 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lawrence Schiller
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Rosanna Arquette, Christine Lahti, Eli Wallach, Jordan Clarke, Steven Keats, Richard Venture, Walter Olkewicz, Jenny Wright, Michael LeClair, Pat Corley, Mary Ethel Gregory, John Dennis Johnston, Norris Mailer, Kenneth O'Brien
Tommy Lee Jones takes on the role of convicted killer Gary Gilmore who was the first man executed in the USA after the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. The last nine months of Gilmore's life are the basis for this story. Gilmore is 35 years old when he is released from prison for armed robbery. He tries to go straight and fails. After killing two men during separate robberies, Gilmore is sentenced to death in Utah. Jones won the Emmy for his very believable performance as the villainous Gilmore.
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle 1973  R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Peter Yates
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Steven Keats, Alex Rocco, Joe Santos, Mitch Ryan, Jack Kehoe, Helena Carroll, James Tolkan, Peter MacLean, Kevin O'Morrison, Marvin Lichterman, Carolyn Pickman, Margaret Ladd
Eddie "Fingers" Coyle (Robert Mitchum) is a small-time hood who becomes an informer as the means of escaping a life sentence in prison. When the mob learns that Eddie is informing on his cohorts, they send Eddie's friend Dillon (Peter Boyle) on a mission to kill Eddie. After spending a night on the town together, Dillon plans to take Eddie's life. This is a powerful film, which is realistic in depicting the world of the underworld.
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The Gambler 1974 R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Karel Reisz
Cast: James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton, Jacqueline Brookes, Morris Carnovsky, Burt Young, Stuart Margolin, M. Emmet Walsh, Vic Tayback, James Woods, Carmine Caridi, Steven Keats, London Lee, Allan Rich, Carl W. Crudup
Gambling addict Axel Freed (James Caan), who cannot be convinced that he has an illness, suffers when his family refuses to come to his aid, and he is forced to deal with the vindictive world of loan sharks.
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The Gumball Rally 1976  PG, 107 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Bail
Cast: Michael Sarrazin, Norman Burton, Gary Busey, John Durren, Susan Flannery, Harvey Jason, Steven Keats, Tim McIntire, Raul Julia, Nicholas Pryor
In the first of a string of cross-country car race films, simple-minded people defy the 55 MPH speed limit in a New York-to-California race.
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Hester Street 1975 PG, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joan Micklin Silver
Cast: Steven Keats, Carol Kane, Mel Howard, Dorrie Kavanaugh, Doris Roberts, Zvee Scooler, Paul Freedman, Martin Garner, Lin Shaye, Mordecai Lawner, Philip Sterling, Joel Wolfe, Ed Crowley, Robert Lesser, Joanna Merlin
Jewish immigrants Gitl (Carol Kane) and her son Yossele (Paul Freedman) arrive in the United States at the turn of the 20th century to join Gitl's husband Jake (Steven Keats). Jake has been in New York for five years and has tried to adapt to the foreign ways of his newly adopted country. Gitl, unlike Jake, clings to her Old World culture, and Jake's effort to modernize her thinking–even trying to change Yoselle's name to Joey–brings problems to their marriage. Kane was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
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Silent Rage 1982  R, 105 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Michael Miller
Cast: Chuck Norris, Ron Silver, Steven Keats, Toni Kalem, William Finley, Brian Libby, Stephen Furst, Stephanie Dunnam, Joyce Ingle, Jay De Plano
Sheriff Dan Stevens (Chuck Norris) deals with a psychopath who was made invincible through medical experiments.
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Sky Riders 1976 PG, 93 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Douglas Hickox
Cast: James Coburn, Susannah York, Robert Culp, Charles Aznavour, Harry Andrews, Kenneth Griffith, Zouzou, Steven Keats, John Beck, Anthony Antypas
Hang-gliding stunts provide the backdrop for this action film involving the rescue of a mother and her children caught up in an international terrorist's kidnapping scheme.
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The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd 1974 TV, 78 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Pretty Boy Floyd
Director: Clyde Ware
Cast: Martin Sheen, Kim Darby, Michael Parks, Ellen Corby, Joe Estevez, Abe Vigoda, Steven Keats, Bill Vint, Ford Rainey, Frank Christi
Bank robber and killer Pretty Boy Floyd is portrayed by Martin Sheen in this insightful film about one of the many gangsters who reigned during the Depression era.
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Turk 182! 1985  PG-13, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bob Clark
Cast: Timothy Hutton, Robert Urich, Robert Culp, Kim Cattrall, Darren McGavin, Peter Boyle, Steven Keats, James Tolkan, Paul Sorvino, Dick O'Neill
When Terry (Robert Urich) loses his pension from the fire department because of an off-duty injury, his younger brother, Jimmy (Timothy Hutton), decides to avenge the injustice.
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Vibrations 1995  R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Paseornek
Cast: James Marshall, Christina Applegate, Faye Grant, Paige Turco, Scott Cohen, Bruce Altman, David Burke, Steven Keats, Virginia Sandifur, Shane Butterworth, Robert Sedgwick, Rob Bogue
Up-and-coming rock star T.J. (James Marshall) has the jolt of a lifetime: he loses both his hands when drunken hoodlums attack him. Unable to deal with his fate, he turns his back on family and girlfriend and becomes a self-pitying, drunken bum. But things change when he meets Anamika (Christina Applegate), who introduces him to a variety of friends who start him on the road to recovery. One of the friends, Geek (David Burke), is a computer whiz and fixes him up with sound-sensitive fingers as well as providing him with a new persona–Cyberstorm. Fame comes quickly, and he is able to not only get revenge on the hoods, but to make up with family and friends. Good premise, but not-so-good execution.
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| 1. The American Success Company (1980)
aka: American Success
aka: Success
aka: Good as Gold
2. Black Sunday (1977)
3. Death Wish (1974)
4. Eternity (1989)
5. The Executioner's Song (1982)
6. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
7. The Gambler (1974)
8. The Gumball Rally (1976)
9. Hangar 18 (1980)
aka: Invasion Force
10. Hester Street (1975)
11. The Ivory Ape (1980)
12. Silent Rage (1982)
13. Sky Riders (1976)
14. The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd (1974)
aka: Pretty Boy Floyd
15. Turk 182! (1985)
16. Vibrations (1995)
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