Alan Webb

Rough Cut -- Documentary or Narrative? Film School or Real Life? Tom (and the audience) needs to figure this out.

Set in a WWII Japanese POW camp, this adaptation of the James Clavell novel is about an American corporal who operates a number of lucrative rackets within the camp's confines. Chief among these is the sale of rats to his fellow prisoners to supplement their meager food rations.

A fascinating look at the last, tragic Russian monarchs; the kindly, indecisive Czar Nicholas and his reclusive, fear-haunted Czarina. The story follows their problems from the onset through the introduction of Rasputin to the Russian Court, to the Czar's abdication and the family's execution at Ekaterinburg on July 16, 1918.

This sophisticated comedy caper centers around Burt Reynolds as a gentleman thief. He comes out of semi-retirement to plan a spectacular heist of $30 million in uncut diamonds. Reynolds teams with beautiful and mysterious Lesly-Anne Down in and effort to outwit Scotland Yard inspector David Niven, whose great ambition is to trap the elusive jewel thief. Glamorous locations in and around London add to the texture of this immensely enjoyable film.