Cuba (DVD)
Satire about Cuban dictatorships and revolutions. A cynical British mercenary is dispatched to Havana by the Batista government to try and end Castro`s reign. Along the way he meets a number of similarly cynical types as well as an old girlfriend. As the government falls down around them, each realizes a different set of values towards the conflict.R"
Director: Richard Lester
ACTORS: Sean Connery, Brooke Adams, Jack Weston, Hector Elizondo, Denholm Elliott
I`ll Take Manhattan (DVD)
Based on Judith Krantz`s bestseller, I`LL TAKE MANHATTAN follows Maxi Amberville (Valerie Bertinelli from One Day At A Time) from three-time divorcee to dynamic businesswoman. Set in New York`s pressure cooker world of magazine publishing, Maxi finds that she must abandon her life of wealthy leisure to secure her father`s wealth and family business when her mother decides to wed the brother of her dead husband. The brother only wishes to sell the magazine empire to destroy his brother`s name, but Maxi decides to take him on in the name of honor and revenge. Among the actors in this production are numerous people who would later acclaim stardom such as Julianne Moore, Barry Bostwick, Timothy Daly, and Jane Kaczmarek.NR"
Director: Richard Michaels|Douglas Hickox
ACTORS: Valerie Bertinelli, Barry Bostwick, Jane Kaczmarek, Jack Scalia, Timothy Daly
The Scarlet and the Black (DVD)
Fine television drama about a Vatican priest who helped allied P.O.W.`s escape from Nazi-occupied Rome. The priest, monsignor Hugh O`Flaherty, risked his life to help those in desperate need. Based on a real-life story.NR"
Director: Jerry London
ACTORS: Gregory Peck, Christopher Plummer, John Gielgud, Raf Vallone
The Collector (DVD)
Upon winning a sweepstakes prize, Freddie Clegg (Terence Stamp), an inconspicuous and deeply troubled young man, spends his time capturing and cataloging butterflies. Meeting lovely art student Miranda Grey (Samantha Eggar), he has now found another creature he wishes to possess. Exercising maniacal patience, Freddie manages to bag his prey using a handkerchief soaked in chloroform. He brings Miranda to his isolated farmhouse and holds her prisoner, all the while trying to convince her to love him.
This frightening tale of obsessive admiration is one of the key cinematic works in understanding the class and cultural clashes of the 1960s. Samantha Eggar`s liberated woman, open about sex and knowledgeable about art, frustrates Terence Stamp`s repressed captor, adding further tension to the situation. Nearing the end of a brilliant career, director William Wyler made an uncharacteristic choice to adapt John Fowles` disturbing novel as the follow-up to another bold work, his adaptation of THE CHILDREN`S HOUR (1961).NR"
Director: William Wyler
ACTORS: Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar, Mona Washbourne, Maurice Dallimore, William Beckley
The Flamingo Kid (DVD)
Jeffrey Willis, an 18-year-old from a working class family, gets a job as a cabana boy at an exclusive Rockaway beach club in New York. There he experiences a new world of wealth, snobbery, and leisure.PG-13"
Director: Garry Marshall
ACTORS: Matt Dillon, Richard Crenna, Hector Elizondo, Jessica Walter, Fisher Stevens
