E.G. Marshall

Absolute Power -- Eastwood directs and stars as a career criminal who witnesses the murder of the U.S. President's mistress by the Secret Service. Escaping with a piece of evidence, he teams up with a young Washington lawyer to reveal the scandal.

Christmas Vacation -- The comic misadventures of the beleaguered Griswold family continue in this latest 'Vacation' outing, the third and most successful of the series.

China, 1947. In a remote province on a violently stormy night, a man in priestly robes - and carrying a gun - stumbles into a Catholic mission, where he is welcomed as "Father O'Shea" by Dr. David Sigman and his wife, Beryl. But the priest is actually Jim Carmody, an American pilot who crash-landed in China during WWII and has been a prisoner of General Yang for several years in his Communist re-education camp. He has just escaped, wearing the robes of the real Father O'Shea, who was murdered in the camp. Carmody quickly finds that he's in a new kind of prison, and since he has been assumed to be the priest, the cynical military man must act like one, and not let the facade slip. The act begins to transform him. He hears confessions never meant for his ears. He absolves people, performs marriages and baptisms and buries the dead. He is, in spirit, becoming a holy man, upholding vows he never even took.  But he is still a man, and finds himself falling in love with the mission's nurse, Anne Scott. Any

More than thirty years before his acclaimed portrayal of a like-minded corporate executive in "Barbarians at the Gate," Academy Award-nominee and Emmy Award-winner James Garner ("Maverick," "The Rockford Files") put in a winning performance as a similarly unreconstructed capitalist in the grip of merger mania. Based on the best-selling novel and co-starring Natalie Wood ("West Side Story," "Splendor in the Grass") as the woman he wants and the daughter of the man whose company he seeks to acquire.

Compulsion, a deeply moving psychological courtroom drama, is one of several re-tellings of the infamous 1924 Leopold and Loeb killings. Artie Straus is the sadistic leader of the duo, and Judd Steiner is Straus' introverted counterpart. Both boys -- gay lovers -- are the products of affluent, privileged upbringings, and both consider themselves above conventional structures of morality. Exercising their overwhelming feelings of superiority, the two students decide to kill a young boy. Rather than repenting for their crime, Steiner and Straus then set out to further the experiment by lending aid to the authorities. Inevitably, the duo is captured and prosecuted for the murder. Defense attorney Jonathan Wilk steps in and attempts to save the boys from execution, despite never receiving any explanation from the young culprits of their crime.

The feisty, domineering cattle baron Matt Devereaux (Spencer Tracy) rules his vast empire with a ruthless hand. Because Matt's greatest love is for his Indian wife, Princess (Katy Jurado) and their son Joe (Robert Wagner), Matt's three sons from a previous marriage deeply resent them. After Joe agrees to go to jail for a crime his father commits, he returns three years later to a different world; his father has died and his vengeful brothers control the land.

A perky young woman is recruited to join an all-male, all-snobby limousine service. Although given the most difficult assignments, she prospers and ultimately wins not only the respect and admiration of the other drivers, but also the love of her toughest assignment....her boss' son!

This is a modernizing of the classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington with the only major exceptions being that it includes a bit of karate and that it bears the undeniable anti-nuke sentiment and even includes much of the original script and original words in full and names of the characters, sometimes borrowing heavily on the original musical score. As with the original, the Hero wishes to build a camp and is wanting to put it in the way of huge power plant being built to fulfill a graft in the home state and in the process is framed for owning the land for the two projects and filibusters to be heard "back home" and pushes for a "national initiative" to get a vote from everyone on every issue instead of a Congressional and Representative Republic.

Eastwood directs and stars as a career criminal who witnesses the murder of the U.S. President's mistress by the Secret Service. Escaping with a piece of evidence, he teams up with a young Washington lawyer to reveal the scandal.

Eastwood directs and stars as a career criminal who witnesses the murder of the U.S. President's mistress by the Secret Service. Escaping with a piece of evidence, he teams up with a young Washington lawyer to reveal the scandal.

He was where he shouldn't have been and saw what he shouldn't have seen. Now, who will believe the word of a career thief and ex-con? Who will trust Luther Whitney when he says he saw a woman killed and that the man responsible for her death is the President of the United States? Clint Eastwood portrays Whitney and directs this crisp, finely acted thriller based on David Baldacci's best-selling novel. A stellar cast which includes Gene Hackman and Ed Harris creates well-rounded characters that intensify constantly spiraling game of cat and mouse between Whitney, local police and the highest levels of White House power. Eastwood is a master at steadily raising the stakes in thrillers. Here his mastery is absolute.

He was where he shouldn't have been and saw what he shouldn't have seen. Now, who will believe the word of a career thief and ex-con who he says he saw a woman killed and that the man responsible for her death is the President of the United States?