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American Pop (1981)

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Nightwing (1979)

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Hardcore (1979) — (Movie Clip) Bless All Our Missionaries

Hardcore (1979) — (Movie Clip) These Are The Realities

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Filmography

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American Pop (1981)

Executive Producer

Nightwing (1979)

Associate Producer

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Hardcore (1979) — (Movie Clip) Bless All Our Missionaries A Spartan, Calvinist Christmas in Grand Rapids, Michigan (shot on location, and the exact background of writer-director Paul Schrader), George C. Scott as single father furniture-business owner Van Dorn, the head of the family, Dick Sargent a brother-in-law, Ilah Davis his daughter preparing, with a cousin, for a church trip to California, in Hardcore, 1979.

Hardcore (1979) — (Movie Clip) These Are The Realities In Los Angeles after the disappearance of his daughter on a church youth trip, Michigan Calvinist businessman Van Dorn (George C. Scott, with Dick Sargent, his brother-in-law) grapples with an L-A cop then with P-I Mast (Peter Boyle), in the uncompromising early feature by Calvinist-raised Grand Rapids native Paul Schrader, Hardcore, 1979.

Dolls (1987) -- (Movie Clip) Teddy'll Get You For That We’ve just met dad David, daughter Judy, and step-mom Rosemary (Ian Patrick Williams, Carrie Lorraine and Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, the director’s wife), giving up on their car, seeking shelter after an outrageous thunderstorm, the girl’s teddy bear featuring, early in director Stuart Gordon’s shot-in-Italy Dolls, 1987.

From Beyond (1986) -- (Movie Clip) Stimulating The Pineal Gland Shrink Dr. McMichaels (Barbara Crampton) has intervened to get Crawford (Jeffrey Combs), accused of killing his scientist boss in what we know was an experiment gone way wrong, released to the lab to show her what they were trying for, Ken Foree her muscle-assistant Bubba, director Stuart Gordon letting the SFX fly, in From Beyond, 1986.

From Beyond (1986) -- (Movie Clip) The Resonator! Clunky-looking 80’s computer and mad-scientist stuff with Jeffrey Combs as Crawford, shifting to the pretty darn weird, which he rushes to tell colleague Pretorius (Ted Sorel), from then-hot Re-Animator (1985) director Stuart Gordon, working again from H.P. Lovecraft, but shooting in Italy, opening From Beyond, 1986.

Cookie (1989) -- (Movie Clip) Angelo And Vinnie Brought You? Director Susan Seidelman working on location in star Peter Falk’s home town (Sing Sing prison in Osinning, New York) for his first scene, as mobster Dino explaining to his very estranged daughter (Emily Lloyd, title character) why he sent his lawyers to her misdemeanor trial, Tony LaFortezza as goon Angelo, Thomas Quinn driving, in Cookie, 1989.

Cookie (1989) -- (Movie Clip) Like We're A Normal Family After 15 years hard time mobster Dino (Peter Falk) rejoins his nervous mistress Lenore (Dianne Wiest) and their troublesome daughter (Emily Lloyd, title character), in Cookie, 1989, directed by Susan Seidelman from the original script by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen.

Silence Of The Lambs, The (1991) -- (Movie Clip) Somebody Loved Him Examining a victim of the killer Buffalo Bill, trainee agent Starling (Jodie Foster) dictates notes, confers with supervisor Crawford (Scott Glenn), then takes the pupa found in the body to bug scientists (not specified here, but at the Smithsonian, in the Thomas Harris novel) Roden and Pilcher (Dan Butler, Paul Lazar), in The Silence Of The Lambs, 1991.

Yakuza, The (1974) -- (Movie Clip) You Think I'm Too Old? First appearance of top-billed Robert Mitchum, in Los Angeles, as low-energy detective and WWII vet Harry, taking a call from war buddy and Tokyo-based businessman Tanner (Brian Keith), who’s just been threatened by Japanese gangsters, who mentions an old love interest (Keiko Kishi), in The Yakuza, 1974.

Yakuza, The (1974) -- (Movie Clip) Justice, Peace And Humanity Complex exposition by director Sydney Pollack, from the screenplay by Leonard and Paul Schrader and Robert Towne, as Japanese-resident American WWII vet Wheat (Herb Edelman) explains for youngster Dusty (Richard Jordan), the son of another war-buddy, the background of Harry (Robert Mitchum), with whom he’s traveling, and his old-flame Eiko (Keiko Kishi), in The Yakuza, 1974.

Yakuza, The (1974) -- (Movie Clip) Get Rid Of Thinking Director and producer Sydney Pollack introduces the celebrated Japanese actor Ken Takakura, in only his second Hollywood picture and his first substantial role, as Kendo martial arts guru and underworld figure Tanaka Ken, visited in Kyoto by American private eye and WWII vet Harry Kilmer (Robert Mitchum), to whom he owes a profound family debt, in The Yakuza, 1974.

Yakuza, The (1974) -- (Movie Clip) Open, A Losing Number Stylish framing and staging in the opening, compromised maybe by dorky 1970's men's fashion which has, evidently, consumed Tokyo, with Kyosuke Machida as Japanese mob messenger Kato performing a rite (with Akiyama Masaru) in service of chieftan Tono (Eiji Okada), in Sydney Pollack's often-overlooked The Yakuza, 1974, starring Robert Mitchum and Ken Takakura.

Naked Gun: From The Files Of Police Squad, The (1988) -- (Original Trailer) Trailer for the first of the hit Leslie Nielsen features, derived from the failed TV series from the Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker team that made Airplane, (1980), with O.J. Simpson, Priscilla Presley and Ricardo Montalban, The Naked Gun: From The Files Of Police Squad, 1988.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind - (Special Edition Trailer) This is the theatrical trailer for the "Special Edition" of Steven Spielberg's 1977 sci-fi classic starring Richard Dreyfuss and Melinda Dillon.

Roller Boogie - (Original Trailer) "It's Love On Wheels!" as Linda Blair learns how to Roller Boogie (1979).

Back To The Future - (Teaser Trailer) A young man (Michael J. Fox) travels into the past and almost keeps his parents from getting married in Back To The Future (1985).

Hook - (Original Trailer) A grown up Peter Pan tries to prevent the return of the evil Captain Hook in Steven Spielberg's 1991 fantasy Hook starring Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman and Julia Roberts.

Raging Bull -- (Original Trailer) Robert De Niro won an Academy Award® for Best Actor portraying boxer Jake La Motta in Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull (1980).

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