Jamie Abbott - Turner Classic Movies

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Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)

Little Spies (1986)

Back To The Future (1985)

Micki & Maude (1984)

Testament (1983)

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Across 110th Street (1972) -- (Movie Clip) They Took Our Bank

Blume In Love (1973) -- (Movie Clip) I Hope The Plane Crashes!

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Filmography

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Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)

Little Spies (1986)

Back To The Future (1985)

Micki & Maude (1984)

Testament (1983)

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Across 110th Street (1972) -- (Movie Clip) They Took Our Bank After a grisly shooting in the heist of tons of mob cash in Harlem, word reaches Anthony Franciosa as kingpin Nick D’Salvo, at a party shot in some upper-floor on Central Park South, taken aside by a senior boss (Frank Macetta) who, with nasty language, shares the news, in Across 110th Street, 1972.

Blume In Love (1973) -- (Movie Clip) I Hope The Plane Crashes! Susan Anspach as Nina, wife of the divorce-lawyer title character (George Segal), in her job at the California welfare office, in writer-director Paul Mazursky’s non-linear narrative, meeting Kris Kristofferson as Elmo, then a clever edit to Shelley Winters as an aggrieved client, early in Blume In Love, 1973.

Blume In Love (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Venice Brings Out The Love Writer-director Paul Mazursky’s opening, with the familiar tune by the Milanese composer Ponchielli, with George Segal the title character, narrating his thoughts over shots of Venice’s Piazza San Maro, Susan Anspach as his ex-wife introduced near the end, in Blume In Love, 1973, co-starring Kris Kristofferson and Marsha Mason.

Blume In Love (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Do You Know What You Are To Me? Writer-director Paul Mazursky as Kurt, L-A divorce-law partner of the title character George Segal, suddenly facing his own divorce after being caught in an affair with his secretary Gloria (Annazette Chase), in his acclaimed comic-drama Blume In Love, also starring Susan Anspach and Kris Kristofferson.

Sparkle (1976) -- (Movie Clip) She's Bustin' At The Seams Neat two opening scenes, introducing Phillip Michael Thomas and Dorian Harewood on the front steps, with Lonette McKee, Irene Cara and Dwan Smith as “Sister,” Sparkle and Delores, Mary Alice their mom, Beatrice Winde the neighbor, Sam O’Steen directing, in the cult hit (re-made by Whitney Houston in 2012), Sparkle, 1976.

Sparkle (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Hooked On Your Love Among the reasons for buzz about Lonette McKee, singing the lead as eldest sister “Sister,” backed up by 16 year-old Irene Cara (title character) and Dwan Smith (as Delores), with a Curtis Mayfield original, certainly more in the contemporary style than that of the setting, Harlem ca. 1958, in the fictional show-biz drama Sparkle, 1976.

Sparkle (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Jump (Curtis Mayfield Composition) The first musical number, an original from Curtis Mayfield, not to be confused with the Pointer Sisters’ 1984 hit, the fictional Williams sisters (Lonette McKee, Irene Cara and Dwan Smith), with Philip Michael Thomas and Dorian Harewood, all doing their own vocals, performing at a Harlem amateur show, in Sparkle, 1976.

Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The -- (Movie Clip) Fiorello LaGuardia Warren the deputy mayor (Tony Roberts) takes charge as Al the mayor (Lee Wallace) and his wife (Doris Roberts) consider whether to pay ransom in Joseph Sargent's The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, 1974.

Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Little Josey Opening sequence finds star and director Clint Eastwood a mild-mannered Missouri farmer in the fields with his son, about to be given cause for vengeance in The Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976.

Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Be Comin' With You Title character and director Clint Eastwood has just seen his family killed and farm burned by Yankee bandits in Missouri, so he joins up with Confederate stragglers, led by John Russell, cueing the credit sequence, in The Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976.

Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Whooped 'em Again! After escaping a slaughter by lawless Union troops in post-Civil War Missouri, a textbook horseback conversation from director and title character Clint Eastwood, with Sam Bottoms as his frightened protegè Jamie, preceding their horse-tackling stunt to avoid capture, in The Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976.

Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976) -- (Movie Clip) I've Got Nothing Better To Do Jamie (Sam Bottoms), alone among surrendering Missouri post-Civil War rebels, senses a trap, nasty Senator Lane (Frank Schofield) and turncoat Fletcher (John Vernon) behind it, and director and title character Clint Eastwood turning the tables, big-ly, in The Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976.

Escape From Alcatraz (1979) -- (Original Trailer) Original trailer for the last collaboration between director Don Siegel and star Clint Eastwood, the 1979 hit Escape From Alcatraz, with Fred Ward, Jack Thibeau and Patrick McGoohan.

Night Moves (1975) -- (Original Trailer) Original trailer for Arthur Penn’s highly-regarded private-eye drama Night Moves, 1975, starring Gene Hackman and Jennifer Warren, from an original screenplay by Alan Sharp.

Risky Business - (Original Trailer) A high school student (Tom Cruise) practices his business skills by turning his suburban home into a bordello in Risky Business (1983).

High Plains Drifter - (Original Trailer) A man with no name (Clint Eastwood) sets out to protect a town from bandits...by any means necessary in High Plains Drifter (1973).

Two Mules For Sister Sara - (Pan-and-scan Trailer) Clint Eastwood, pretending to be a simple cowboy, leads Shirley MacLaine, pretending to be a nun, through revolutionary Mexico in Two Mules For Sister Sara (1970).

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