The Traveling Executioner

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In 38 seconds he'll send you on your way to the Fields of Ambrosia, sizzling; like a piece of Bacon. Stacy Keach electrifies in this starling black comedy about an itinerant electrocutioner. It's 1918, and Jonas Candide travels the South with a portable electric chair. Offering up his services to various authorities at a price of $100 a jolt, the ex-Carney tends to his charges with his own brand of tender loving care. Dispensing his own philosophy and consolation, he assures the prisoners that the Fields of Ambrosia await them on the other side of their ordeal. And then he throws the switch. Jonas' life of lethal loquacity becomes undone after he is contracted to bring his ministrations to a pair of siblings and he finds himself drawn to one of them. Bud Cort also excels in this too rarely seen dark jewel of a film, playing Jonas' bumbling assistant.


Kaleidoscope (1966)

Jack Smight

A handsome young American sits at a Monte Carlo gaming table. The crowd around him watches in awe as each deal of the cards grows his chip piles. How can this cool gambler play so brilliantly? Easy. He cheats. Warren Beatty and Susannah York star in this delightful caper which speeds from the Riviera to Geneva to swinging London at the turn of a card...or unraveling of a clue. Twist Kaleidoscope one way and it's a taut suspense tale with Scotland Yard inspectors, a ruthless drug kingpin and a breathless break-in at a playing card factory. Twisted another way it's a sparkling love story between the suave cardsharp (Beatty) and a kooky dress designer (York) whose father (Clive Revill) is a detective. In Time's words, it's "just about the trickiest piece of flimflam since the jewel job in Topkapi.


Airport 1975

Jack Smight

"Something hit us...the crew is dead...help us, please, please help us!" With these terrifying words, 22 of Hollywood's greatest stars find themselves aboard a pilotless jumbo jet headed on a collision course with destruction in the nerve chilling sequel to the greatest disaster movie ever made. Charlton Heston is in the cockpit for this incredible adventure as the only man who can save the 747 and its passengers when it's hit in midair by a private plane. Karen Black is the chief stewardess who must act as the blinded pilot's hands and eyes to take control of the plane or die trying. Myrna Loy, Helen Reddy, Linda Blair, Dana Andrews, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Gloria Swanson, Sid Caesar and George Kennedy, recreating his acclaimed Airport role, are also aboard trying to survive the deadly skies of this high flying thriller.


Harper

Jack Smight

This fast-paced, sophisticated mystery stars Academy Award, Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Paul Newman (TV's "Empire Falls" miniseries, "The Color of Money") as a private eye hired by Academy Award and Emmy-nominee and Golden Globe-winner Lauren Bacall ("The Big Sleep," "The Mirror Has Two Faces") to investigate her husband's disappearance. An all-star cast includes Academy Award-nominee and Golden Globe-winner Janet Leigh ("Psycho," "The Manchurian Candidate"), Academy Award, Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Shelley Winters (TV's "Roseanne," "The Poseidon Adventure"), Academy Award-nominee and Emmy-winner Julie Harris (TV's "Knots Landing," "East of Eden") and Golden Globe-nominee Robert Wagner (TV's "Hart to Hart," the "Austin Powers" features). Screenplay by Academy Award-winner William Goldman ("The General's Daughter," "All the President's Men"), based on a novel by best-selling mystery writer Ross Macdonald.


Damnation Alley

Jack Smight

A rag-tag band of survivors of a nuclear holocaust head for Albany, New York, the only city in America spared in the apocalypse. Tanner, Denton and Keegan are co-workers at an underground military facility. They find themselves an all-terrain vehicle and set out for the (now) wilds of up-state New York. Along the way they pick up a number of survivors, including a surly and incorrigible teenager. On the way to their destination, they find themselves fighting not just mutant insects and the savage landscape, but themselves as they try to forge bonds to survive.


Rabbit, Run

Jack Smight

Oscar and Golden Globe-nominee James Caan ("Misery," "The Godfather") stars as a one-time basketball star who finds the realities of life are tougher than those on the playing field. Based on the brilliant novel by John Updike and featuring a superb supporting cast. Co-starring Oscar and Emmy-winner Jack Albertson ("Chico and the Man"), Arthur Hill ("The Champ"), Oscar-nominee Carrie Snodgrass ("Diary of a Mad Housewife"), and Ken Kercheval ("Dallas").


The Illustrated Man

Jack Smight

Rod Steiger plays the tattoo-covered title role in this fascinating vision of doom and danger based on the classic short story collection by futurist Ray Bradbury. Robert Drivas portrays a good-natured drifter who can't tear his eyes from Steiger's freakish illustrations. And Claire Bloom is the mysterious seductress who created the "art" that curses its bearer - and comes to life in a nightmarish trio of tales. Two spoiled children turn playtime into slay time (from The Veldt). Shipwrecked astronauts wander across a planet cursed by The Long Rain. And loving parents choose their children's fate when the end nears (from The Last Night of the World). Every one of The Illustrated Man's pictures tells a story. And every story ends in terror.


Intimate Power

Jack Smight

Based on the true story of Aimee Dubucq De Rivery, beautiful high spirited Aimee (Amber O'Shea) is sold into white slavery and loses her innocence to the most powerful man in the east- the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. The aging sultan (F. Murray Abraham) falls hopelessly in love with this opinionated French schoolgirl who is horrified by the cruelty of the Turkish society. After she bears his son, the Sultan is killed during a revolt, leaving the empire in turmoil. When the new Sultan takes the reigns of power, Aimee embraces the opportunity to seize power within his kingdom, implementing changes and leaving her eternal mark on this exotic land.


Fast Break

Jack Smight

A New York delicatessen worker talks his way into a position as head basketball coach at a Nevada college. He accepts the job on the condition that he can bring his street-wise New York City players with him. The players are standouts on the court but lost in the classroom which leads to trouble.