Claude Akins

Falling from Grace -- Pop star John Mellencamp makes his acting and directing debut in this critically acclaimed story ofa country singer who returns to his hometown to celebrate his grandfather's 84th birthday. Caught between the woman he loves and the woman he once loved, Mellencamp must make a decision affecting allof their lives.

A spoof of horror/monster films. After several people and a dog are found dead in their closets a "mild-mannered" reporter, a college professor, her son and a befuddled professor band together to uncover the mystery.

"Wild" Bill Elliott is a cowboy who goes in search of the man who killed his brother, and finds himself in the small town of Bitter Creek.

Two convicts (one white (Robert Urich), one black (Carl Weathers)) serving time on a chain gang in the deep South are accidentally set free. Seething with mutual distrust, they flee into treacherous woodlands and swamps--hunted by helicopter and bloodhounds. Yet, they are bound together by a common cause...escape...and by a 29-inch steel chain.

The past—and the future—close in on a reformed gunslinger. Like Alan Ladd's Shane, Gregory Peck's The Gunfighter and Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, The Lonely Man belongs to that saddlebag full of Westerns about a gunslinger to coming to terms with his infamous past and uncertain future. Jack Palance stars as Jacob Wade, a notorious outlaw trying to ride the trail of respectability. But where Wade goes, his reputation follows. And so does trouble. Fearful citizens are quick to turn him out of their town. Vengeful killers have vowed to stalk him to his grave. And Wade's son (Anthony Perkins), embittered over his father's long absence, cannot quell the pain and hate in his heart. Neville Brand, Lee Van Cleef, Claude Akins and Elisha Cook co-star in this spare, ruggedly entertaining sagebrush saga.

During the early days of World War II, England hastily plans commando raids against the German forces to keep them at bay until the United States finishes massing its forces and starts sending America's troops into battle. In order to tie up the German forces and as a part of England's plan, the Allies create the 1st Special Service Force to prepare and carry out an attack on Norway. Antagonism immediately erupts between Canadian Maj. Alan Crown (Cliff Robertson) and American Maj Cliff Bricker (Vince Edwards) when this commando force, composed of Canadian soldiers and American GIs, is headed by Lt. Col. Robert T. Frederick (William Holden), a paper-pusher given his first field command. Frederick utilizes their mutual dislike as a basis for a rivalry that turns this rag-tag group of misfits into a disciplined fighting force. Frederick receives word that the Norway mission has been canceled after his men finally seem ready to fight. After appealing to Washington for another assignment for the commandos, the brigade is sent on a patrol near the German lines in southern Italy. The brigade captures an enemy-held village and is then given the seemingly impossible task of taking Mt. La Difensa.

Spencer Tracy and Frederic March go head-to-head as opposing attorneys in this blistering courtroom drama about the famed "Scopes Monkey Trial" where a Tennessee teacher must defend himself for teaching Darwinism.

Pop star John Mellencamp makes his acting and directing debut in this critically acclaimed story ofa country singer who returns to his hometown to celebrate his grandfather's 84th birthday. Caught between the woman he loves and the woman he once loved, Mellencamp must make a decision affecting allof their lives.

Pop star John Mellencamp makes his acting and directing debut in this critically acclaimed story ofa country singer who returns to his hometown to celebrate his grandfather's 84th birthday. Caught between the woman he loves and the woman he once loved, Mellencamp must make a decision affecting allof their lives.

Making his acting and directorial debut, singer John Mellencamp stars as Bud Parks in this moving love story about a famous singer's return to his tangled and sometimes incestuous small town roots. When singer Bud (Mellencamp) and his wife Alice (Mariel Hemingway) make a return to his Indiana hometown from Los Angeles to celebrate his grandfather's 80th birthday, old feelings and emotions reignite as Bud slips back into his old wild ways of late nights and heavy drinking. Bud even finds his marriage at stake after he rekindles a love affair with his high school sweetheart PJ (Kay Lenz), now his brother's wife. It's a very telling depiction of the wonderfully close-knit, yet claustrophobic small town life in rural America.

Pop star John Mellencamp makes his acting and directing debut in this critically acclaimed story ofa country singer who returns to his hometown to celebrate his grandfather's 84th birthday. Caught between the woman he loves and the woman he once loved, Mellencamp must make a decision affecting allof their lives.

Paul Dooley, Paul Walker, John Carradine and Henry Gibson head up an all-star cast in this horror-comedy about a murderous but misunderstood monster!