Murder on Flight 502(1974)

Synopsis

After a plane takes off for London, a note is found in the airport saying that some people are going to be killed. And it is not long after that, that someone is killed. The captain tries to keep the passengers calm while the people on the ground do background checks on everyone and they learn that some of the passengers have history with one another. But it seems that there’s a lot more going on.

Director

George McCowan

Cast

Ralph Bellamy – Polly Bergen – Theodore Bikel – Sonny Bono – Dane Clark – Laraine Day – Fernando Lamas

Misc. Info

Genre: Drama – Thriller – Mystery

Runtime: 97 minutes

Cockfighter(1973)

Synopsis

Frank Mansfield (Warren Oates) is a game cock trainer who has taken a vow of silence; he once bragged too loudly about his cockfighting prowess and ended up losing his best fowl in a drunken, late-night match before an important tournament. To regain his pride after such hubris, Frank refuses to utter a word until he wins the coveted “Cockfighter of the Year” medal. Cockfighter follows his ups and downs as he attempts to succeed in the shadowy, barely legal sport.

Director

Monte Hellman

Cast

Warren Oates – Richard B. Shull – Richard B. Shull – Ed Begley Jr. – Harry Dean Stanton – Troy Donahue – Millie Perkins

Misc. Info

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 83 minutes

Last of the Belles(1973)

Synopsis

A semi-fictional account of how writer F. Scott Fitzgerald met his wife while he was in the army and stationed in Alabama in 1919. In a strange blending of reality and fantasy, this is the story of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s use of the creative process to try to work out and ameliorize his own marital difficulties, writing the fictional “The Last of the Belles” while trying to work out his own relationship with Zelda during WWI.

Director

George Schaefer

Cast

Brooke Adams – Norman Barrs – Richard Chamberlain – Blythe Danner – Tom Fitzsimmons – Richard Hatch – David Huffman

Misc. Info

Genre: Drama – Romance – Biography

Runtime: 98 minutes

Cotter(1972)

Synopsis

Cotter is a Sioux Indian whose life takes a tragic turn when his drinking causes him to fail in his job as a rodeo clown and save a rider from an enraged bull. Returning to his birthplace, seeking an old friend, Cotter finds himself faced with despair and depression. Events take a grim turn when a rancher is found dead and the hostile townspeople blame the ‘drunken Indian’. As a lynch mob searches for him, and he tries to get help from his friends, the hunted Cotter learns a grim lesson…

Director

Paul Stanley

Cast

Don Murray – Carol Lynley – Rip Torn – Sherry Jackson – R.G. Armstrong – Lonny Chapman – James McCallion

Misc. Info

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 94 minutes