Joseph Pevney

Nocturne -- A 9 min Surrealist inspired short film focusing on insomnia and its relation to a disturbed psyche.

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.

Former sheriff Jim Cole (Clint Walker) finds it harder than expected to settle into his newly inherited run-down Wyoming ranch -- he soon winds up fighting off both a greedy neighbor (Keenan Wynn) who wants the land for himself and a ferocious grizzly on a rampage. But when local ranchers put up a reward for whoever manages to take down the destructive bear, Cole decides he's the one to get the job done and earn the money to keep his ranch.

There he is, Navy jet 8255. And there's Trans States 17 converging...head on! A tense air traffic controller knows the sky is full of danger as two aircraft - a Navy jet flying east and an airliner heading west - hurtle toward disaster. The jet's radio is out, the pilot unaware that he's dropped altitude into the path of the other craft. There are only moments for the controller to find some way to communicate with the jet. And even less time for the pilots to react to the emergency, all the while realizing that their dramatic personal stories of faithless wives and alienated children, of guilty secrets and secret dreams, may be ending. Dana Andrews leads a top cast in a tale of two planes on a collision course with each other. And with destiny.