Tagline:The inspiring true-life adventure of a courageous young rebel who defied the odds...and won.
Plot:This is the story of Sonora Webster, a teenage runaway during the Depression. Her life's ambition is to travel to Atlantic City, where "all your dreams come true." After leaving home she accepts a job from Dr. Carver and his girl-and-horse high diving act. Starting out as a stable hand her goal is to become a real diving girl. Dr. Carver's son, Al, helps her in her quest by helping her tame a wild horse she's named Lightning. Their early morning practices lead not only to Sonora being put into training as a diving girl, but also for Al's emotions for Sonora to begin to surface. Al leaves after an argument with his father and the diver girl, Marie, is injured in a practice. Sonora finally takes her place and becomes a real diving girl. The act is thriving but fairgrounds are suffering hard times and the show is closed. Al comes back with the surprise revelation of getting the act booked in Atlantic City. Dr. Carver passes away en route to New Jersey and Al takes over. He asks Sonora to marry him before her first jump in her dream city. She accepts but then has an accident in the dive that leaves her permanently blind. Al will not let her do the show and brings Marie back to take her place. Sonora does not want to sit on the sidelines anymore and takes matters into her own hands. Practicing all day to finally make it back up the ladder, she has Marie locked in her trailer while she makes the jump to prove to everyone and herself that she can do it and without the audience ever knowing that she is blind.
CAST
Gabrielle Anwar... Sonora Webster
Michael Schoeffling... Al Carver
Cliff Robertson... Doctor Carver
Dylan Kussman... Clifford
Kathleen York... Marie
Frank Renzulli... Mr. Slater
Nancy Moore Atchison... Arnette
Lisa Norman... Aunt Helen
Lorianne Collins... Clarabelle
Elizabeth Hayes... Miss Simpson
Laura Lee Norton... Mrs. Ellis
Michael J. Matusiak... Photographer
Jeff Woodward... Reporter #1
David Massry... Reporter #2
Cheri Brown... Attractive Girl
Genre:Comedy | Family | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Tagline:A sixth century space adventure!
Plot:A NASA spacecraft proves Einstein right when, travelling faster than light, it ends up near King Arthur's Camelot. On board are big-hearted Tom Trimble and Hermes, the look-alike robot he built. Tom immediately makes friends with pretty Alisande and enemies with the awful knight Sir Nordred. It seems Nordred is out to oust Arthur, while Alisande's father is not the goose she believes him to be but is also a victim of Nordred's schemes. It's as well the Americans have arrived.
CAST
Dennis Dugan... Tom Trimble
Jim Dale ... Sir Mordred
Ron Moody... Merlin
Kenneth More... King Arthur
John Le Mesurier... Sir Gawain
Rodney Bewes... Clarence
Sheila White... Alisande
Robert Beatty... Senator Milburn
Cyril Shaps... Dr. Zimmerman
Kevin Brennan... Winston
Ewen Solon... Watkins
Pat Roach ... Oaf
Reg Lye... Prisoner
Tagline:If you could choose to live forever, would you?
Plot Outline:Tuck Everlasting is the story of a girl named Winnie and a family who she meets, the Tucks. The Tucks have a secret, they're immortal.They drank water from a spring that was actually a fountain of youth. Till the end of time, they will stay that way. Winnie falls inlove with one of the Tucks, Jesse, a "17" year old boy who shares the same feelings for her. Scared of death, Winnie must choose between being immortal and being with Jesse or following the circle of life and dying someday. The Tucks try to teach her how she shouldn't fear death, how they would give anything to die. It teaches the importance and understanding of life and death.It shows that you should not fear death, but to fear an unlived life.
Awards:Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 6 nominations
Director:Steven Lisberger
Genre:Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Tagline:The Electronic Gladiator
Plot Outline:Computer Classic, one of the first computer generated movies. A hacker is split into molecules and is transported into a computer. In this computer a mean program called Master Control behaves like a dictator. The hacker, who programmed a number of features of the environment he got into, teams up with a book keeping program and his girl-friend and together they try to replace Master Control with Tron. Tron is an honest safety system.
Plot Summary:Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.
Plot:Eighteen-year-old Rudi Matt (James MacArthur) dreams of climbing the mountains that loom dominantly around his Swiss town. For now, the young man keeps his feet firmly on the ground, working as a dishwasher in a hotel. Somehow, Rudi's aspirations must be realized, and he takes any opportunity he can to secretly frolic at high altitudes. His mother (Nora Swinburne) and uncle Franz Lerner (James Donald) have understandable reservations about allowing Rudi to climb. After all, his father died in the mountains.
That was sixteen years ago, and Josef Matt's reputation lives on as one of the finest climbers Switzerland has known. While the land remains active with climbers, no one dares attempt to conquer The Citadel, the largest peak around and the site of Rudi's father's death.
One day, while peacefully scaling the towering landscapes, Rudi barely notices a man calling for help. After Rudi successfully pulls off a heroic rescue, the English man he saved introduces himself as Captain John Winter. Winter (Michael Rennie) himself has a reputation for being one of the most proficient climbers around. Grateful to Rudi, and surprised to learn that the legendary Matt's son spends his day scrubbing plates, Winter offers for Rudi to go up on a climb with him and Uncle Franz.
CAST
Michael Rennie ... Captain John Winter
James MacArthur... Rudi Matt
Janet Munro... Lizbeth Hempel
James Donald... Franz Lerner
Herbert Lom... Emil Saxo
Laurence Naismith... Teo Zurbriggen
Lee Patterson... Klaus Wesselhoft
Walter Fitzgerald... Herr Hempel
Nora Swinburne... Frau Matt
Ferdy Mayne... Andreas
Plot:Coach Archer is has not won anything in any sport that his school has participated during his tenure. Now the head of the Alumni Association, who was one of the people who endorsed him for the job, feels like Archer is making him look bad. He then tells him that this coming season is the last on his contract and will be his "last" unless he turns things around. He and his assistant, Milo go to Africa for a little vacation. While there they discover a man named Nanu, who grew up in the jungle after his missionary parents died, and who is also by all aspects the greatest athlete in the world. And if Archer can get him back to the States, he can save his job. However, Nanu is happy where he is. So Archer tricks him into doing an act by jungle law obligates him to be with Archer. When they arrive Archer gets him into the school and gets him a tutor, Jane. The two of them fall for each other the moment they meet each other. This does not make Leopold, her former boyfriend, very happy, so he schemes to get rid of him. Written
CAST
Tim Conway ... Milo
Jan-Michael Vincent ... Nanu
John Amos... Coach Archer
Roscoe Lee Browne ... Gazenga
Dayle Haddon... Jane
Billy De Wolfe... Dean Maxwell
Nancy Walker... Mrs. Petersen
Danny Goldman... Leopold Maxwell
Don Pedro Colley... Morumba
Vito Scotti ... Games spectator
Liam Dunn... Dr. Winslow
Ivor Francis... Dean Bellamy
Leon Askin... Dr. Gottlieb
Howard Cosell... Announcer
Frank Gifford... Announcer
Tagline:A HAPPY HONEYMOON GOES TO THE DOGS!...When a Great Dane disguised as a Dachsie crashes the party!
Plot:Fran Garrison's all in a tizzy because her prize Dachshund, Danke, is having pups, and she has hopes of one of the pups becoming a champion. But at the vet's, her husband Jim is talked into letting Danke wetnurse a Great Dane pup that's been abandoned by his mother. And Jim wants to keep the Great Dane. But Brutus has this problem: he thinks he's a dachshund and he's too big to be a lapdog. But when Fran ridicules Brutus one too many times, Jim's got a plan to prove to everyone (and Fran) that a great dane can be far more than just an ugly dachshund.
CAST
Dean Jones ... Mark Garrison
Suzanne Pleshette ... Fran Garrison
Charles Ruggles ... Dr. Pruitt (as Charlie Ruggles)
Kelly Thordsen ... Officer Carmody
Parley Baer ... Mel Chadwick
Robert Kino ... Mr. Toyama
Mako ... Kenji
Charles Lane ... Judge
Tagline:I Am Thomasina -A Most Unusual Cat...They Say I'm Enchanted, and I Am!
Plot:A young Scottish girl's cat, Thomasina, apparently dies at the hands of her widowed veterinarian father. The strained relationship between the girl and her father is eventually repaired with the return of Thomasina and the aid of a beautiful and mysterious "witch" who seems to have powers to revive and heal animals.
CAST
Patrick McGoohan ... Andrew McDhui
Susan Hampshire ... Lori MacGregor
Laurence Naismith ... Reverend Angus Peddie
Jean Anderson ... Mrs. MacKenzie
Wilfrid Brambell ... Willie Bannock
Finlay Currie ... Grandpa Stirling
Alex Mackenzie
Vincent Winter ... Hughie Stirling
Denis Gilmore ... Jamie McNab
Charles Carson ... Doctor
Ruth Dunning
Ewan Roberts ... Constable McQuarrie
Oliver Johnston ... Mr. Dobbie
Francis De Wolff ... Targu (as Francis de Wolff)
Nora Nicholson ... Old Lady
Tagline:The biggest dumb-bell on campus... and the secret formula got it off the ground!
Plot:A school laboratory accident mixes one student's vitamin cereal mix with Dexter Riley's chemical experiment. When the kids decide to dispose of the mess to their neighbor's cow, they learn that the cereal gave the cow the super-strength to give a massively vast supply of milk. When they try it out on themselves, they discover that the stuff gives any human superhuman strength for a few minutes. The school sees this as the thing needed to save their school from closure, as the Dean makes a deal with his relative who owns the company that makes the cereal for financial support, unaware that it was Dexter's chemical which was solely responsible for the strength. When her competitor learn of this deal, he hires two criminals to stop it
CAST
Kurt Russell... Dexter Riley
Joe Flynn ... Dean Higgins
Eve Arden ... Harriet
Cesar Romero... A.J. Arno
Phil Silvers... Krinkle
Dick Van Patten... Harry
Harold Gould... Dietz
Michael McGreevey... Schuyler
Richard Bakalyan... Cookie (as Dick Bakalyan)
William Schallert... Quigley
Benson Fong... Ah Fong
James Gregory... Chief Blair
Ann Marshall... Debbie (Student)
Don Carter... Gilbert (Student)
Christina Anderson... Cris (Student)