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Why Would I Lie? (1980)

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The Big Doll House (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Long Time Woman

Harlan County U.S.A (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Is Your Job Real Dangerous?

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Why Would I Lie? (1980)

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Death Race 2000 - Pressbook

Here is the campaign book (pressbook) for Roger Corman's Death Race 2000 (1975). Pressbooks were sent to exhibitors and theater owners to aid them in publicizing the film's run in their theater.

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The Big Doll House (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Long Time Woman The song, credited to Les Baxter sideman Hall Daniels and heard frequently in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, is performed by Pam Grier, appearing in her first speaking role (as inmate

Harlan County U.S.A (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Is Your Job Real Dangerous? One of the more remarked-upon segments, director Barbara Kopple's crew has followed coal miners on strike against Duke Power Co., to a 1973 protest on Wall Street in Manhattan, where activist Jerry Johnson gets into a colorful conversation with an unidentified New York cop, in Harlan County U.S.A, 1976.

The Big Doll House (1971) — (Movie Clip) All Men Are Filthy First addict Harrad (Brooke Mills) does a heroin dance, then Sid Haig as low-life Harry (Jerry Franks his sidekick) bartering treats with inmates, extracting nasty compensation from “Grear” (Pam Grier), whom he’s tricked with a letter for Erica (Pat Woodell), Judy Brown and Roberta Collins also in lockup, in Roger Corman’s The Big Doll House, 1971.

Ulee's Gold (1997) -- (Movie Clip) Where Did You Put My Shoes? Florida beekeeper Peter Fonda (title character) returns home with wayward Helen (Christine Dunford), the addicted mother of the two granddaughters (Jessica Biel, Vanessa Zima) he cares for, their tenant, nurse Connie (Patricia Richardson), called on for help, in Victor Nunez’s Ulee’s Gold, 1997.

Ulee's Gold (1997) -- (Movie Clip) She Can Just Stay Gone Title character Peter Fonda, a north-Florida beekeeper and the custodian of two young granddaughters, has been summoned to visit his inmate son (Tom Wood), who has word of their troubled mother, in writer-director Victor Nunez’s Ulee’s Gold, 1997.

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.

Midnight Express (1978) -- (Movie Clip) Will It Ease The Pain? Brad Davis as American Billy Hayes, narrating a letter to his parents, being processed into a Turkish prison for smuggling hashish, early in director Alan Parker's Midnight Express, 1978, from Hayes' book.

Midnight Express (1978) -- (Movie Clip) I've Been Poisoned From the opening scenes, American Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) preparing to smuggle hashish out of Istanbul, then with girlfriend Susan (Irene Miracle) at the airport, from Alan Parker's Midnight Express, 1978.

Midnight Express (1978) -- (Movie Clip) Choose Your Own Death American Jimmy (Randy Quaid), compatriot Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) and Brit Max (John Hurt) considering prospects of breaking out of their Turkish prison, in Midnight Express, 1978, directed by Alan Parker.

F For Fake (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Two Ibizas Still many revelations short of his central topic, director, writer and performer Orson Welles zeroes in on the Spanish island of Ibiza, beginning to explain the relationship between art forger Elmyr de Hory and presumptive journalist Clifford Irving, in F For Fake, 1973.

Ulee's Gold (1997) -- (Movie Clip) The Bees And I From writer-director and Florida State professor Victor Nunez, a brief survey of those around his beekeeper title character (Peter Fonda), Traber Burns the buyer, J. Kenneth Campbell the sheriff, Vanessa Zima as grand-daughter Penny, early in Ulee’s Gold, 1997.

Middle Of Nowhere (2012) -- (Movie Clip) Five Years With Good Time Writer-director Ava DuVernay’s opening, the film which won her the Best Director award at the Sundance Film Festival, Ruby (Emayatzy Corinealdi) from Los Angeles visits husband Derek (Omari Hardwick) at a faraway prison, in Middle Of Nowhere, 2012.

Awakenings - (Original Trailer) A doctor's experiments bring a group of comatose patients back to consciousness in Awakenings (1990), directed by Penny Marshall and starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro.

Day Of The Jackal, The - (Original Trailer) British and French agents join forces to save President De Gaulle from a deadly assassin in The Day Of The Jackal (1973).

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