The Amazing Spider-Man 1977  TV, 92 min.
Genre: Action
aka: Spider-Man
Director: E.W. Swackhamer
Cast: Nicholas Hammond, Thayer David, David White, Michael Pataki, Lisa Eilbacher, Jeff Donnell, Hilly Hicks, Dick Balduzzi, Ivor Francis, Barry Cutler, Robert Hastings, Carmelita Pope, Norman Rice, Len Lesser, Ivan Bonar
Based on the Marvel comics superhero, this film was the pilot for a TV series. After being bitten by a radioactive spider, Peter Parker (Nicholas Hammond) becomes super-strong and is able to climb vertical structures with ease, as well as perform other feats–just what one needs to become a super crime fighter. This being his daytime job, he works as a photographer for the newspaper by night. His major task at the moment is saving the world from a mad scientist who blackmails the city by threatening to unleash people programmed to blow themselves up.
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The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox 1976  PG, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy / Western
Director: Melvin Frank
Cast: Goldie Hawn, George Segal, Conrad Janis, Thayer David, Roy Jenson, Robert F. Hoy, Jennifer Lee, Sid Gould, Richard Farnsworth, Jerry Willis
An unlikely couple–the Duchess (Goldie Hawn) and the Dirtwater Fox (George Segal)–make off with $40,000 stolen from bank robbers. The robbers follow in pursuit as the couple joins a wagon train of Mormons on their way to Salt Lake City. This film has some funny moments.
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The Eiger Sanction 1975  R, 128 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller / Romance
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Jack Cassidy, Thayer David, Vonetta McGee, Heidi Bruhl, Reiner Schone, Michael Grimm, Jean-Pierre Bernard, Brenda Venus, Gregory Walcott, Candice Rialson, Elaine Shore, Dan Howard, Jack Kosslyn
Dr. Jonathan Hemlock (Clint Eastwood) is a college professor who just happens to be a government secret intelligence agent during his off-hours. It seems there is a problem in the Swiss Alps, and Hemlock, hoping that this will be his last mission, is sent into training for his assassination assignment. Hemlock's victim will be one of three men attempting to climb the Eiger mountain range in the Swiss Alps, and he joins their expedition.
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House Calls 1978  PG, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Howard Zieff
Cast: Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Art Carney, Richard Benjamin, Candice Azzara, Dick O'Neill, Thayer David, Anthony Holland, Brad Dexter, Lloyd Gough
A middle-aged surgeon (Walter Matthau), newly widowed, thinks of himself as a "great catch." Complications arise in the form of a divorcee (Glenda Jackson) who has her own ideas of what makes good relationships. Art Carney, as usual, is great.
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 Journey to the Center of the Earth 1959  N/R, 132 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Henry Levin
Cast: Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Diane Baker, Peter Ronson, Thayer David, Robert Adler, Alan Napier, Ben Wright, Molly Roden, Ivan Triesault, Red West, Edith Evanson
Scottish Professor Lindenbrook (James Mason) and his student Alec McEwen (Pat Boone) travel to Iceland at the beginning of their journey to the center of Earth. Along with Carla, whose geologist husband was killed when he attempted the same journey, and their guide Hans (Peter Ronson), they journey through an extinct volcano into Earth's core. On the trek, they encounter floods, winds, and treacherous areas of heat and cold–along with prehistoric beasts and Count Saknussemm (Thayer David) who killed Carla's husband and has been striving to be the first person to reach the center of Earth. Special effects are what earn this film its three stars.
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Peeper 1975 PG, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy / Mystery
aka: Fat Chance
Director: Peter Hyams
Cast: Michael Caine, Natalie Wood, Kitty Winn, Michael Constantine, Thayer David, Timothy Carey, Dorothy Adams, Liam Dunn, Don Calfa, Robert Ito, Snag Werris, Gary Combs
In this spoof on 1940s' detective films, private detective Leslie C. Tucker (Michael Caine) is hired by Anglich (Michael Constantine) to find his long-missing daughter. The trail leads to the Prendergast family and their two daughters Ellen (Natalie Wood) and Mianne (Kitty Winn)–one of whom just might be Anglich's missing daughter.
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 Rocky 1976 PG, 125 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Romance
Director: John G. Avildsen
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burgess Meredith, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Thayer David, Joe Spinell, Jimmy Gambina, Bill Baldwin, George Memmoli, Al Silvani, Jodi Letizia, Larry Carroll, Diana Lewis, George O'Hanlon
Sylvester Stallone not only starred as the title character, he wrote the original script. This is a fairy-tale story about Philadelphia boxer Rocky Balboa who experiences the American dream when he gets a chance at the World Heavyweight Championship. The movie won three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Director (John G. Avildsen), and Film Editing; it also received seven other nominations, including Best Actor (Stallone), Actress (Talia Shire), and two for Supporting Actor (Burgess Meredith and Burt Young).
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Savages 1972 R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: James Ivory
Cast: Lewis J. Stadlen, Thayer David, Susan Blakely, Russ Thacker, Salome Jens, Margaret Brewster, Neil Fitzgerald, Eva Saleh, Ultra Violet, Kathleen Widdoes, Sam Waterston, Martin Kove
As primitive mud people follow a croquet ball through the forest, the trail ends at a Long Island estate. Although no one is home, the mud people don clothes found on the estate, become civilized, and party as if they were upper-class society. But, civilization isn't far from the savage state as is shown when party-goers follow a croquet ball that is hit back into the forest and they re-enter their primitive world.
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Save the Tiger 1973 R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John G. Avildsen
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Jack Gilford, Laurie Heineman, Norman Burton, Thayer David, Lara Parker, Patricia Smith, William Hansen, Harvey Jason, Liv Lindeland
Jack Lemmon won the Oscar for Best Actor as a troubled businessman who, despite arguments with his partner (Jack Gilford), opts for hiring an arsonist to burn down his factory so that he can collect the insurance. Jack Gilford received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
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The Story of Ruth 1960 N/R, 132 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Henry Koster
Cast: Stuart Whitman, Tom Tryon, Peggy Wood, Viveca Lindfors, Jeff Morrow, Elana Eden, Thayer David, Les Tremayne, Eduard Franz, Leo Fuchs, Lili Valenty, Basil Ruysdael, John Gabriel, Ziva Rodann
This interpretation of Ruth's Biblical story involves the test of Ruth's faith after her husband, Mahlon (Tom Tryon), dies and how her belief in one God prevails and allows her to find a new man, Boaz (Stuart Whitman), with whom she will spend her life.
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A Time to Love and a Time to Die 1958 N/R, 132 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Douglas Sirk
Cast: John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver, Jock Mahoney, Don DeFore, Keenan Wynn, Erich Maria Remarque, Thayer David, Klaus Kinski, Jim Hutton, John Van Dreelen
During World War II, Private Ernst Graeber (John Gavin) finally receives his furlough and leaves the Russian front for a much-anticipated return to his home in Germany. Once there, however, he finds his home has been bombed and his parents are nowhere to be found. But, he meets the beautiful Elizabeth Kruse (Lilo Pulver), and, together, they seek sanity in a world gone mad.
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The Werewolf of Washington 1973  PG, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Horror
Director: Milton Moses Ginsberg
Cast: Dean Stockwell, Katalin Kallay, Biff McGuire, Clifton James, Michael Dunn, Beeson Carroll, Jane House, Barbara Spiegel, Despo Diamantidou, Thayer David, Nancy Andrews, Henry Ferrentino, Jacqueline Brookes
White House Press Secretary Jack Whittier (Dean Stockwell) is bitten by a werewolf while visiting Hungary, returns to Washington, D.C., and turns into a deadly beast at night attacking politicians. Now, the President (Biff McGuire) appears to be his next intended victim.
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| 1. The Amazing Spider-Man (1977)
aka: Spider-Man
2. The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976)
3. The Eiger Sanction (1975)
4. House Calls (1978)
5. Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
6. Peeper (1975)
aka: Fat Chance
7. Rocky (1976)
8. Savages (1972)
9. Save the Tiger (1973)
10. The Story of Ruth (1960)
11. A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
12. The Werewolf of Washington (1973)
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