STELLAR FILM LIBRARY

STAR POWER SERIES

52 Pickup Roy Scheider, Ann Margaret A secret fling with between a man and his mistress leads to blackmail and murder.1986 Color 111 Minutes.

A Dangerous Summer Tom Skerrit, James Mason. A Murderer... A Captive Woman ...and a Deranged Arsonist ...in a Deadly Inferno! 1981 COLOR 100 Minutes.

A Doll's House Jane Fonda, Trevor Howard. Ibsen's lead character, Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem. 1973 Color 106 Minutes.

A Gunfight Johnny Cash, Kirk Douglas, Karen Black. In Bajo Rio, they pay to see a man kill a bull. Today, they'll pay to see a man kill another man, was the tag line used to advertise this film. Kirk Douglas ( a retired gunman sick enough of his life ) and Johnny Cash ( a weary gunslinger who knows that even if he wins, he will eventually lose) are two famous, veteran gunfighters who provide their talent as 'the quick & the fast'. The place chosen for the shoot out is a bullfight ring. 1971 Color 89 Minutes.

A Killing Affair Peter Weller, Kathy Baker. A wife helps protect her abusive husband's killer. Color 1986. PG

A Tattered Web Lloyd Bridges, Broderick Crawford, Ellen Corby, Frank Converse, Murray Hamilton. A detective discovers his son-in-law is cheating on his wife. He confronts the other woman and accidentally kills her, then tries to pin the crime on a local derelict. Made for TV Movie on CBS. 1971 Color 90 Minutes

ALL THE KIND STRANGERS Stacey Keach, Samantha Eggar, John Savage, Robbie Bensen. A family of orphans has a grisly plan for finding new parents. They lure people home to replace their dead parents. Candidates who don't measure up disappear forever. 1974 Color 73 minutes

A Time To Kill with Nicholas Cage. From "The Short Cut" a young soldier life takes a terrible turn when he gets lost in Africa and has sex with a native girl.. Color 1991

Abaraxas Guardian of the Universe Guardian of the Universe Jim Belushi, Jesse Ventura, Jerry Levitan. In a distant galaxy, a legion of supermen known as finders are developed to police the universe. It is their vow to defend all life. What happens when one goes wrong is the basis for this science fiction action film. 1991 color 90 Minutes.

Absolution Richard Burton. A boyhood prank goes horribly wrong. A student confesses to a grizzly murder. There is a killing ... but was there one at the time of the confession? And who actually is responsible? Very suspenseful film. Color

Adventures of Heidi Burl Ives, Kathy Kurtzman.. Warm hearted retelling of the family favorite. In this film Heidi leaves the Alps and goes to New York. 1978 COLOR 82 Minutes.

After The Fall of New York George Eastman, Michael Sopkiw, Valentine Monnier. After a nuclear war, society breaks down into two groups, the evil Euraks and the rebel Federation. A mercenary named Parsifal is hired by the Federation to infiltrate New York City, which is controlled by the Euraks, to rescue the only fertile woman left on Earth. 1983 Color 81 Minutes.

Assassin Robert Conrad, Karen Austin, Jonathan Banks. A retired agent from an Intelligence Agency is contacted by the Agency in order to stop an ultra-secret robot who is killing some government officials. That will be not an easy task, because the robot looks human and it was specifically built to be an efficient killer, not to mention that it is almost invulnerable. The retired operative, played by Robert Conrad, trails the cyborg and tries to destroy it. Directed by Sandor Stern. Made for TV 1986 Color 74 Minutes.

Assassination with Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland. Bronson is assigned to protect the President's wife from killers. Cross country pursuit provides plenty of suspense and action in this first rate film. PG

Bailout David Hasselhoff, Linda Blair, Tony Brubaker,Thomas Rosales Jr. Bail bondsman tries to keep witness in drug trial alive to testify. 1989 Color 90 Minutes.

Battle Force Stacey Keach, Henry Fonda, Helmet Burger, Samantha Eggar, Orson Welles. A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war. 1977 Color 90 Minutes

Battle of Commandos Jack Palance, Thomas Hunter. Irish Colonel Charlie McPhearson has just had his platoon of twenty-eight slaughtered by German troops. Angered at his superiors for this suicide mission, he takes convicts on his next, along with fornicating American explosives technician Major Burke, to defuse underwater mines so that a commando squado can prepare for a June 10 invasion to destroy a tank gun. 1969 Color 94 Minutes.

Behave Yourself Shelly Winters, Lon Chaney Jr., Elisha Cook, Jr. Farley Granger. a cute Welsh terrier follows Bill Denny home, little does he know that all gangland has its eye on that dog. Who will be bumbling Bill's undoing - the gangsters, the cops, or his suspicious mother-in-law? 1951 Color 81 Minutes

Beneath 12 Mile Reef Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Richard Boone and Peter Graves. It's "Romeo and Juliet" among the risk taking sponge divers of the Florida coast. Wagner and Moore are young lovers who come from rival diving families. Excellent under water scenes including a battle with an octopus highlight the drama. 1953 Color 101 minutes

Blood Tide James Earl Jones, Jose Ferrer, Mary Louise Weller. An American treasure hunter (James Earl Jones) awakens an ancient sea creature who has been resting for centuries near the shores of a Greek island. It's up to the island's lifelong residence to stop the creature from executing it's wrath on humanity. One man in particular (Jose Ferrer) has been studying the history of the monster, and now his knowledge is nothing less than imperative to the villager's survival. 1982 Color 82 Minutes

Blunt, The Fourth Man Anthony Hopkins, Ian Richardson. Based on true saga of four British Spies at Cambridge (Blunt, Burgess, Maclean, Philby and Cairncross) and their impact on world history. 1985 Color

Boy In The Plastic Bubble John Travolta. Glyniss O'Conner, Robert Reed, Ralph Bellamy, Dianna Hyland, Karren Morrow. Based on a true story, Tod Lubitch is born with a deficient immune system (not unlike being born with AIDS). As such, he must spend the rest of his life in a completely sterile environment. His room is completely hermetically sealed against bacteria and virii, his food is specially prepared, and his only human contact comes in the form of gloved hands. The movie follows his life into a teenager. Produced by Arron Spelling ABC Television. 1976 Color 100 Minutes

Broken Harvest Colan Lane, Joe Jefers, Marian Quinn, Darren McHugh,Joy Florish. A moving and dramatic story set in Ireland and New York; This film traces an old feud between two neighbors through seventy years of Irish history. Aurthur O'Leary and his neighbor, fought each other in the Irish Civil War and fought for the love of Catherine. In the 1950s the old wounds are reopened unwittingly by Arthur's son.. The eruption that follows threatens the stability of the whole community with clear echoes of the Northern Ireland conflict. 1994 Color 98 Minutes Rated PG

Callie & Son with Lindsey Wagner, Dabney Coleman and Michelle Pfeiffer. An unwed mother forced to give up her child and is cheated by a phony private investigator. Later she marries a wealthy publisher and continues her search for her child. 1981 Color 142 Minutes PG

Guns Of Diablo with Charges Bronson. He was the fastest gun alive. PG

In This House of Breede Dianna Rigg. A well-to-do London businesswoman gives up her comfortable life, including the man who loves her, to become a cloistered Benedictine nun. 1975 color 105 min.

In Search of America Jeff Bridges, Carl Betz, Vera Miles and Sal Mineo. Directed by Paul Bogart. The late 60's was a different and frightening time and place. Adolescents and adults alike were questioning who they were, why they existed, and whether these gosh-darned flower children kids might just have something. This groovy time capsule movie shows all that as suburban Dad, Carl Betz, flower child Jeff Bridges, loose-as-a-goose grandma Ruth McDevitt take off for the road in search of America.1971 Color

Joe (An American Original) Peter Boyle, Susan Sarandon.Bill, A wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend; in the ensuing argument, Bill kills him. Panic-stricken, he wanders the streets and eventually stops at a bar. There he runs into a drunken factory worker named Joe, who hates hippies, blacks, and anyone who is "different", and would like to kill one himself. The two start talking, and Bill reveals his secret to Joe. Tragic and bloody complications ensue. 1970 Color (rated R)

Joe Panther Brian Keith, Ricardo Montoblan, Cliff Osmond, Ray Tracy. A young Seminole Indian boy comes of age outside the Florida Everglades by trying to enter the establishment ( white man's world ). He gets work as crew member on ( Brian Keith's ) fishing boat, hunts for alligators and has cathartic encounters with bad guys trying to bring illegal aliens into Florida on fishing boats. 1976 Color 120 Minutes

JORY Robby Bensen, John Marley, Anne Lockhart and B.J. Thomas (Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head) A teen is forced to become a man, when he is left orphaned in the old west. Songster, B.J. Thomas, was effective as the expert gun handler who was unable to fire at another human even to protect himself. This is regarded Bensen's finest screen appearance. Directed by Jon Fons. 1972 Color 96 minutes (Violent)

KATHERINE Sissy Spacek, Art Carney, Henry Winkler, Jane Wyatt. A harrowing look at the 60s and early 70s through the eyes of Katherine Alman, a wealthy debutante who slowly, but inexorably spirals down into a fight for the causes that shook a nation, leading a path to the underground life. 1975 Color 125 Minutes.

Kill Cruise Elizabeth Hurley, Jurgen Pronchnow, Paty Kenset. A washed-out German sailor, in a drunken state, agrees to take two British women from Gibraltar to the West Indies in his sail boat. Early into the voyage, they realize that it's not going to be plain sailing. 1990 COLOR 98 MIN

LADY AND THE HIGHWAYMAN Hugh Grant, Oliver Reed, Michael York, John Mills, Emma Sands, Gordon Jackson, Claire Bloom. Based on Barbara Cartland's romance novel. The young lady Panthea Vyne falls in love with the handsome highwayman who saves her from her brutal husband. He kills him in a fair duel. Later on when Charles the 2nd is reinstated as King of England she attends the royal court. But here she becomes the enemy of the kings former mistress and the plot against her thickens. Gainsborough Pictures. Directed by John Hough/ 1989 Color 100 Minutes

LITTLE LADIES OF THE NIGHT David Soul, Lou Gossett Jr., Carolyn Jones, Vic Tayback, Linda Purl. The sister of ex-pimp and current Los Angeles Police detective Kyle York (David Soul) was murdered working the streets a few years ago. Since his reform, he has teamed with Officer Russ Garfield (Louis Gossett Jr.) to clear the streets of under-age girls working in prostitution. Pretty, young runaway Hailey Atkins (Linda Purl) has been turned out. Down deep she wants to go straight but has had great difficultly escaping her pimp and doesn't even have a place to go. York and Garfield go out on a limb to try and help. Made for TV Arron Spelling Production for ABC. 1977 Color 120 Minutes

Night of the Shark Treat Williams. John SteinerJanet Agren. , Under sea adventure and betrayal. David must fight for his life against the gangsters who killed his brother for a CD filled with proof of their illegal activities. When David gets possession of the CD they go down to Mexico where David lives as a shark hunter. Who will get David first, the gangsters or the shark? Color 1987 PG

Pancho Villa Telly Savalas. Clint Walker, Chuck Connors. Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa is double-crossed in an arms deal planned by his comrade Scotty. Villa and Scotty plot a raid on a U.S. cavalry fort in retaliation. Based on the historical character's real story. 1972 Color

Street Fighter Sonny Chibua. Terry is a tough, mercenary, master of martial arts. When an important business magnate dies, leaving billions to his daughter. 1974 Color 91 Minutes

Subway Christopher Lambert, Isabelle Adjani. Fred is living in the Paris Metro system. He is blackmailing Helena, whose safe he has robbed. Fred has various 'friends' all living in this surreal setting. The Roller is a roller skating bag snatcher and Big Bill is a 'strongman'. The blackmail and Fred's relationship with Helena and her heavies make up the bulk of the plot but on the side are Fred's attempts to start a band using buskers from the Metro. 1985 COLOR 104 Made in France

The Affair with Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood. It was love at first sight for Marcus Simon an attorney when he saw Courtney Patterson a 32 year old composer crippled by polio. Marcus tries to slowly and gently remove the emotion barriers Courtney built around herself and give them both a chance at love and happiness. 1973 Color 74 Minutes PG

The Agency Robert Mitchem, Lee Majors, Valerie Prine. Subliminal messages buried in TV commercials rig elections. Color 1981

The Ballad of Andy Crockett Lee Majors, Joey Heatherton, Pat Hingle. A returning Vietnam veteran finds out that his girlfriend has been forced into marrying someone else, his small business is in ruins and friends are in short supply. Anti war demonstrators branded these returning heroes as child murders, rapists and war criminals. And, how was your war? 1970 Color 80 minutes.

The Black Brigade Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, Robert Hooks, Moses Gunn, Rossevelt Grier Glynn Turman. A redneck officer is put in charge of a squad of black troops charged with taking an important bridge from the Nazis. Made for TV by Arron Spelling who also shared the writing credits with David Kidd. (ABC Television) The best friend twosome of Pryor and Grier is formidable.1970 Color 90 Minutes.

The Black Godfather Rod Perry, Damu King, Don Chastain.There's A New Godfather In Town... ...and everybody wants his body - The F.B.I. ... some very foxy chicks... and the Mafia! 1974 COLOR 80 MIN

The Boy Who Had Everything Jason Connery, Diane Cilento, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Ian Gilmour. College boy deals with hazing in Australian school in 1965 and alcoholic mother.Australian Playwright Michael Gow makes a rare screen appearance. 1984 Color 94 Minutes

The Con Artists Anthony Quinn, Adriano Celentano. It is not The Sting, it is in a way better, less elaborated and more amusing. Two con artists (Celentano and Quinn) bluff each other and anybody who happens to come across out of money and out of jail. Color 1976 105 minutes. Color 1976 88 minutes.

The Firing Line Shanon Tweed, Reb Brown. Action and politics mix in this fast moving thriller. Reb Brown plays a military adviser who changes side and helps out the rebel when the rebel leader was killed without trial. Now he is on run with an innocent lady (Shannon Tweed) and teams up with the rebels to fight violent battles in this standard action film.1991 Color 93 Minutes,

The Girl That Came Gift Wrapper Farrah Faucett, Karen Valentine, Richard Long, Tom Bosley. A small-town beauty queen is hired, as a joke, as a "birthday present" for a magazine publisher. Spelling- Goldberg Production. Made for TV (ABC) 1977 Color 74 minutes

The Glass House Alan Alda, Billy Dee Williams, Dean Jagger, Vic Morrow, Clu Gulagher, A young guard and a college professor convicted of manslaughter both start their first day in prison. Color 1972 aka "Truman Capote's the Glass House".

THE JACKALS Vincent Price, David Waye, DIane Avarson. This western type action is actually set in South Africa. Six robbers gang up on a grizzled old prospector and his daughter. Directed by Robert Webb 1967 Color 105 Minutes

The Ratings Game with Danny Devito, Rhea Perlman, Barry Corbin. Cameo appearances by Jerry Seinfeld,"Kramer" and Norm from "Cheers". Huntz Hall of the Dead End Kids plays a faded TV star. Devito, with a little help from the mob, rigs the ratings to become America's hottest TV star. (a.k.a. "The Mogul") Directed by Devito. Color 1984.

The Room Upstairs Strockard Channing, Sam Waterston Linda Hunt, Joan Allen, Clancy Brown, Sarah Jessica Parker. Stockard Channing shines yet again in The Room Upstairs, a sweet, heartbreaking little flick about Leah Lazenby, a landlady and special needs teacher who feels something is missing in her life. The final piece of the puzzle come in the shape of Travis Coles, a cello player portrayed by Sam Waterston. The Room Upstairs is notable for a dazzling performance by Stockard Channing, a strange little role for Sarah Jessica Parker (she has about four lines maximum) and an early glimpse of Joan Allen. It's a nice film that deserves a bit of recognition. 1987 Color 97 minutes.

The Seniors Dennis Quaid, Jeffery Byron, Gary Imhoff. Ben, Larry, Alan, and Steve are about to graduate from college. They are terrified of the prospect of actually having to work hard for a living, so they come up with a plan to support themselves as graduate research students by getting a foundation grant to study sexuality in college-age women. But despite their success at getting paid to bed down pretty girls, the work-load becomes too great, so they open the "study" to businessmen who pay to participate. 1978 COLOR Jeffery Byron, Gary Imhoff.

The Shooting Jack Nicholson, Millie Perkins, Warren Oates. Jack Nicholson and Monte Hellman went into the Utah desert to shoot two westerns, The Shooting and Ride In The Whirlwind, which have since become cult classics. Written by Adrien Joyce (Five Easy Pieces,) The Shooting tells the story of a former bounty-hunter turned gold miner (Warren Oates) whose partner is killed. He then, along with Will Hutchins, Millie Perkins and eventually Jack Nicholson, sets out on a manhunt that builds gradually to an existential, tragic, almost surreal ending. 1966 color 82 minutes.

The Squeeze, Lee Van Cleef, Karen Black, Roberta Alda, Lionel Standler, Edward Albert, challenged plays a retired safeman, who comes back from Mexico to New York to do one job for a friend's kid. Includes most of the cliches one would expect from a "last gig"- film, but redeems itself with nice NY locations, comedy (some intentional) and Lee Van Cleef being in it. 1978 Color 99 Minutes

The Swiss Conspiracy David Jansen, Ray Miland, Santa Berger, Elke Summer, John Ireland, John Saxon. A story set in the glamorous-but-devious world of Swiss banking. When a Swiss bank finds that the confidentiality of some of its more vulnerable customers has been compromised it calls in an American investigator, who soon uncovers a web of deceit and blackmail. With old debts being paid off his own health is soon in danger, but at least he starts to gets to know one of the bank's female customers pretty well. This is a story laden with intrigues, conspiracies and white-collar crimes that turn ugly. Color 1976 90 minutes.

The Teacher Jay North, Angel Thompkins. Stars a teenage Jay North who played Dennis The Menace on TV. This is NOT for kids. Advertising says … Her Best Lessons Were Taught After Class She Corrupted The Youthful Morality of an Entire School! 1974 COLOR 98 MIN

THE WOMAN HUNTER Barbara Eden, Robert Vaughn, Stuart Whitman, Sidney Chaplin, Larry Storch. A woman vacationing with her husband (who married her for her wealth) in Mexico discovers she is the target of an international killer. Made for TV. 1972 Color 90 Minutes

THE WRESTLER Ed Asner, Elaine Giftos, Dusty Rhodes, Lord James Blears, Superstar Billy Graham, Verne Gagne and Odd Job from the James Bond Movies.. An arrow-straight promoter whose once secure stranglehold on the wrestling world is being muscled in on by the mob and its hired henchmen on the mat. 1973 Color 95 Minutes

They Call It Murder Jim Hutton, Ed Asner, Leslie Nielson, Jessica Walter, Lloyd Bouchner. Vic Tayback.. A small-town district attorney is saddled with several major investigations, including a gambler's murder and a possible insurance scam. Based on an Earl Stanley Gardner novel that exercises the grey-matter. Produced by 20th Century Fox and aired on NBC TV. 1972 Color 120 Minutes

This House of Breede Dianna Rigg, Pamela Brown. A well-to-do London businesswoman gives up her comfortable life, including the man who loves her, to become a cloistered Benedictine nun. Color 1975 105 Minutes

Thursday's Game Gene Wilder, Bob Newhart, Rob Reiner, Valerie Harper, Nancy Walker, Ellen Bursten. Norman Fell. Two friends keep seeing each other long after the regular Thursday night card game breaks up. Then the wives find out. Written by James L. Brooks Color 1974

Tim Mel Gibson, Piper Lori. Based on the novel by Colleen McCullough of Thornbirds fame. Tim is a young man with below average intelligence. He works as a builder's labourer, and is often taken advantage of by his fellow workers and other people. Mary asks Tim to work around her yard for a day. The day stretches into a few weekends, and the two soon become good friends. Some people, however, are suspicious of their friendship which seems to be continually strengthening, accusing Mary of taking advantage of Tim's innocence. Will changing circumstances in Tim's family life change his relationship with Mary? 1979 Color 109 Min

Who am I Time with Susan Sarandon and Christopher Walken. As a play within a play (contains scenes from Streetcar Named Desire) it is a showcase for the range of these excellent actors -- Susan Sarandon and Christopher Walken. It is also a sensitive tale of lonely people finding each other and their hearts. Walken plays a hardware store clerk becomes the character he plays in a local little theater group. 1981 Color 60 minutes.

Who Shot Pat? Sandra Bulluck, David Knight, Kevin Otto, Arron Ingram. Directed by Robert Brooks. A 1950s period piece about a working class boy growing up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. Although the film centers on a classic rich-girl-poor boy love story, it also presents a detailed portrait of high school life in the fifties through the emergence of racial tension and gang conflict. 1992 Color 111minutes.