Ruth, A reporter for the women's section of the newspaper, participates in a weight-loss course with a hidden secret behind it.
Stars: Julia Foster, Dinah Sheridan, Richard Pearson, Norman Bird, George Innes and James Cosmo Writer: Jeremy Burnham (screenplay) Director: Peter Sasdy
HD quality. The most definitive, factually accurate film on the sinking of the Titanic. If you haven't seen this then I highly recommend that you do. It is an excellent film.
A Night to Remember is a 1958 British docudrama film based on the eponymous 1955 book by Walter Lord. The film and book recount the final night of RMS Titanic, which on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and then sank in the early morning hours of Monday, 15 April 1912.
Stars: Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres, Honor Blackman, Anthony Bushell and Michael Goodliffe
Writers: Walter Lord (from the book by) • Eric Ambler (screenplay)
Director: Roy Ward Baker
American tv movie in the style of a breaking news bulletin. Two reporters cover the story of three fragments broken off from an enormous asteroid crashing into the Northern Hemisphere, hitting the United States, France and China. At first, it seems like a natural event, but after interviews with scientists and eye-witnesses it appears that it is not. More are coming, and the various Earth governments combine forces to try to stop them.
Stars: Sander Vanocur, Jane Kaczmarek and Bree Walker
Writers: Jeremy Thorn, Walon Green and Peter Lance (story)
Director: Robert Iscove
The original Fail Safe movie. A technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. Can all-out war be averted?
Stars: Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver, Dan O'Herlihy, Frank Overton, Edward Binns and Larry Hagman
Writers: Walter Bernstein (screenplay) • Eugene Burdick (from the novel by) • Harvey Wheeler (from the novel by)
Director: Sidney Lumet
The movie that made beach goers everywhere, too afraid to go in the water!
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Long Island, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton and Carl Gottlieb
Writers: Peter Benchley (screenplay) • Carl Gottlieb (screenplay)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Anthology horror produced by Amicus. Aboard a British train, mysterious fortune teller Dr. Schreck uses tarot cards to read the futures of five fellow passengers.
Stars: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Neil McCallum, Roy Castle, Donald Sutherland and Alan Freeman
Writer: Milton Subotsky (screenplay)
Director: Freddie Francis
Vincent Price at his sinister best, in this gruesome comedy horror. A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
Stars: Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne, Robert Coote, Jack Hawkins, Michael Hordern, Arthur Lowe and Robert Morley
Writers: Anthony Greville-Bell (screenplay) • Stanley Mann (idea) • John Kohn (idea)
Director: Douglas Hickox
Based on a novel by Stephen King.
When Thad Beaumont was a child, he had an operation to remove a tumour from his brain. During the operation, it was discovered that far from being a tumor, the growth was a twin brother of Thad's that never developed. Years later, Thad is a successful author, writing his serious books under his own name, and his pulp money-makers under the pseudonum "George Stark". When blackmailed by someone who has discovered his secret, Thad publically "buries" George Stark. From that point on, Thad increasingly becomes the prime suspect in a series of gruesome murders.
Stars: Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Michael Rooker, Julie Harris, Robert Joy, Kent Broadhurst and Beth Grant
Writers: Stephen King (novel) • George A. Romero (screenplay)
Director: George A. Romero
Creepy Hammer horror film. A wheelchair-bound young woman returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.
Stars: Susan Strasberg, Ann Todd, Ronald Lewis, Christopher Lee, John Serret and Leonard Sachs
Writer: Jimmy Sangster
Director: Seth Holt
Shocing horror based on the novel by Stephen King. Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
Stars: Sissy Spacek • Piper Laurie • Amy Irving
Writers: Stephen King (novel) • Lawrence D. Cohen (screenplay)
Director: Brian De Palma