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

Ginger in the Morning(1972)

Synopsis

Veteran art director Gordon Wiles occasionally wielded the directorial megaphone in both films and television with mixed results. Ginger in the Morning is an aggressively “small” picture, its success or failure totally reliant on the rapport between its stars. A young Sissy Spacek plays the title character, a gangly teenaged hitchhiker who thumbs a ride from travelling salesman Joe (Monte Markham). He is drawn to her free-spirited outlook on life. She, in turn, is attracted by his conservative…

Director

Gordon Wiles

Cast

David F. Doyle – Beatrice Kay – Fred Ward – Monte Markham – Mark Miller – Marion Charles

Misc. Info

Genre: Drama – Comedy – Romance

Runtime: 90 minutes