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.