From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:35 PM

Kirk Douglas produced, directed, and starred in this cynical western concerning Howard Nightingale (Kirk Douglas) a United States marshal who uses the pursuit of an outlaw to further his political career. Nightingale organizes a posse to track down Jack Strawhorn (Bruce Dern), a notorious bank r...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:35 PM

In this Western based loosely on actual events and people, Emilio Estevez stars as William H. Bonney (aka Billy the Kid). Sought for a petty crime in Lincoln County, Billy is taken in by John Tunstall (Terence Stamp), a British ranch owner seeking to make it in the cattle business. Tunstall empl...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:35 PM

Jerry Paris’s Star Spangled Girl (1971), based on Neil Simon's play (a notorious Broadway flop), never made much of an impression in theaters, which is understandable with a cheap, overlit television look to most of it and Davy Jones singing the song "Girl" over the main titles (which got a...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:35 PM

George Pal’s now-quaint science fiction odyssey concerns a multi-national group on the first space flight to Mars. Pal pulls out all stops in the special effects department, creating "The Wheel" (a earth-orbiting circular space station), rocket launches into space, and a breathtaking near-collis...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:35 PM

Director Phil Karlson harks back to the no-nonsense, no-thrills directness of his 1950s "B" pictures in Framed. Joe Don Baker, Karlson’s star in Walking Tall, plays Ron, a high-rolling gambler with a streak of integrity. Framed by the film's villains--including a cartel of corrupt cops--Ron...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:35 PM

Julian Sands oozes maleficence as a warlock of the 1600s cast forth to 1980s Los Angeles, where he continues to work his deviltry. The story begins in 1691 Boston when a warlock is condemned to die. Calling for Satan’s help, the warlock is sent forward in time to contemporary Los Angeles, where ...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:33 PM

There’s little that happens in On Golden Pond that isn't thoroughly predictable from the start, but the film is blessed with so much star power, charm and honest sentiment that everyone in the audience is willing to ignore the cliches and go the distance. In his last film, Henry Fonda plays...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:33 PM

This is director Frank Capra’s classic bittersweet comedy/drama about George Bailey (James Stewart), the eternally-in-debt guiding force of a bank in the typical American small town of Bedford Falls. As the film opens, it's Christmas Eve, 1946, and George, who has long considered himself a ...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:33 PM

Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum play deadly adversaries in this curious mixture of the western and mystery genres. During a poker game in Rincon, Colorado, a stranger in the game is lynched for cheating. One of the gamblers, Van Morgan (Dean Martin), tries to prevent the lynching but is rebuffed ...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:33 PM

Based on the best-selling novel by George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle chronicles the last days of a weary Boston-based weapons dealer. Eddie Coyle (Robert Mitchum) doesn’t want to serve a life sentence in prison, so he becomes an informant for both the police and the treasury departme...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:33 PM

The year is 1947. Aspiring southern author Stingo (Peter MacNichol) heads to New York to seek his fortune. Moving into a dingy Brooklyn boarding house, Stingo strikes up a friendship with research chemist Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline) and Nathan’s girlfriend, Polish refugee Sophie Zawistowska (Osc...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:32 PM

In Sergio Leone’s epic Western, shot partly in Monument Valley, a revenge story becomes an epic contemplation of the Western past. To get his hands on prime railroad land in Sweetwater, crippled railroad baron Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti) hires killers, led by blue-eyed sadist Frank (Henry Fonda),...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:32 PM

The sixth entry in Hammer Films' Frankenstein series, this film finds Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) in charge of a lunatic asylum. When young doctor Simon Helder (Shane Bryant) is institutionalized for attempting to create synthetic life, Frankenstein is delighted: now he’ll have an as...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:32 PM

Often described as "Ship of Fools with a conscience," Voyage of the Damned is based on a true story. In 1939, the Nazis ostentatiously loaded a luxury liner with hundred of Jewish refugees from all walks of life. The ship then tried to drop anchor in Havana, Cuba-only to have its passengers refu...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:31 PM

Robert Montgomery plays saxophone-playing boxer Joe Pendleton, who insists upon piloting his own plane, much to the consternation of his manager Max Corkle (James Gleason). Just before a championship bout, Joe’s plane crashes. When he revives, he finds he has been whisked away to Heaven by the o...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:30 PM

Born Free is the heartwarming true story of a British couple who teach their pet lioness how to survive in the wilds of the African jungles. Joy and George Adamson (portrayed by real-life married couple Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers) involuntarily domesticate several lions while living in Ken...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:26 PM

Steven Spielberg followed Jaws (1975), his first major box-office success, with this epic science fiction adventure about a disparate group of people who attempt to contact alien intelligence. Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) is an electrical lineman who, while sent out on emergency repairs, witness...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:25 PM

George Sidney’s adaptation of the satiric Broadway musical smash by Michael Stewart, Charles Strouse, and Lee Adams — about an Elvis Presley-inspired rock star, who is drafted into the army and who creates a near-riot in a small Midwestern town when he stops there for one last publicity ju...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:23 PM

The sophomore outing for writer/director/actress Troy Beyer, Love Don’t Cost a Thing is a romantic teen comedy based on the screenplay for the 1987 Partick Dempsey film Can't Buy Me Love. Nick Cannon stars as Alvin, a brilliant but awkward teenager — and budding engineer -- who seizes...

From: Blockbuster on Mon, Mar 14 2011 5:21 PM

John Wayne — showing off a darker side to his screen persona than we’d previously seen -- portrays Thomas Dunson, a frontiersman who, with his longtime partner Nadine Groot (Walter Brennan), abandons a westbound wagon train in 1851 to make his future as a rancher in Texas. Doing so forces ...