William Smith

Maverick -- A riverboat poker tourney promises a winner-take-all $500,000...and Bret Maverick aims to be the winner who does the taking!

American Me -- Edward James Olmos sets the screen ablaze in this powerful epic about a youth from the streets of East LA who becomes the leader of the Mexican Mafia from behind the gates of Folsom Prison.

Michael Douglas stars in this story of a young music student who faces a crisis when he's called up to serve in the Vietnam war. His parents try to understand their son, but can't bridge the generation gap. The father talks him out of fleeing to Canada, but their values are refuted by news of the boy's death in Vietnam.

Richard Harris ("Unforgiven," "Camelot") is a small-town sheriff on a path of vengeance, searching for the outlaws who killed his wife and son. The classic Western theme of the peaceable man pushed to violence is well treated in this Lukas Heller ("The Dirty Dozen") script.