45% (3) Children of the Corn 92 min, R, [Horror, Thriller] [Fritz Kiersch] [09 Mar 1984]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 56%, Rotten Tomatoes: 36%, Metacritic: 45%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win & 3 nominations.
Actors: John Franklin, Linda Hamilton, Peter Horton, R.G. Armstrong
Writer: Stephen King (short story), George Goldsmith (screenplay)
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Plot: A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town. A young couple have a murder to report and they go to the nearest town (Gatlin) to seek help but the town seems deserted. They are soon trapped in Gatlin with little chance of getting out alive.
Rotten Tomatoes: Narrator Job (Robby Kiger) relates the tale of Gatlin, NE, where one day the children, led by a boy preacher named Isaac (John Franklin), rose up and slaughtered all the grown-ups. A few years later, Job and his sister, Sarah (Ammemarie McEvoy), help their friend, Joseph (Jonas Marlowe), try to escape through the cornfields of Gatlin. Meanwhile, Burt Stanton (Peter Horton), a commitment-phobic young doctor, and Vicky Baxter (Linda Hamilton), his frustrated girlfriend, travel through the cornfield-lined roads of Nebraska on their way to Burt's new internship in Omaha. Their car hits Joseph, who appears out of nowhere, but upon examining him, Burt realizes the child's throat was slit before he ever wandered out from the corn. Attempting to locate help, Burt and Vicky turn to gas-station owner Diehl (R.G. Armstrong), who urges the couple to go anywhere but nearby Gatlin to report the murder. Several contradictory street signs later, they arrive in Gatlin anyway, and, befriending Sarah and Joseph, attempt to uncover the mystery behind Isaac's cult and its mysterious deity, known only as He Who Walks Behind the Rows. Stephen King cash-ins flooded the market between the successes of Brian DePalma's Carrie (1976) and Rob Reiner's Misery (1990), many of them, like Children of the Corn, based only loosely on the author's fiction. The original short story appeared in the collection Night Shift.
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66% (2) Stay Hungry 102 min, R, [Drama, Comedy] [Bob Rafelson] [10 May 1976]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 57%, Rotten Tomatoes: 75%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 nomination.
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jeff Bridges, R.G. Armstrong, Sally Field
Writer: Charles Gaines (screenplay), Bob Rafelson (screenplay), Charles Gaines (novel)
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Plot: A syndicate wants to buy a whole district to rebuild it. They've bought every house except the small gym "Olympic", where Mr. Austria Joe Santo prepares for the Mr. Universum championships a month ahead. The rich sunny-boy Craig Blake is brought in by the syndicate as a dummy to buy the gym. But then he starts to like the people and falls in love with Joe's friend Marie-Tate.
Rotten Tomatoes: This comedy drama centers on a blue-blooded Southerner's attempt to buy a popular gym as part of a crucial real estate bargain. As he gets to know the gym's patrons, he comes to see them and their working-class existence differently, especially after falling in love with a lower-middle class girl.
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65% (2) The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid 91 min, PG, [Drama, Western] [Philip Kaufman] [14 Jun 1972]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 62%, Rotten Tomatoes: 67%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 nomination.
Actors: Cliff Robertson, Luke Askew, R.G. Armstrong, Robert Duvall
Writer: Philip Kaufman
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, Swedish, German Country: USA
Plot: In 1876, the Missouri legislature issues a pardon and amnesty to the James and Younger gangs despite many people considering them outlaws. The pardon is because they protected the homesteaders of Clay County against the marauding railroaders, who wouldn't let anyone or anything get in their way of building the railroad where they wanted. However, the railroad companies and banks still consider them outlaws and will take matters into their own hands if they come across the gangs. Prior to the pardon, Cole Younger had contemplated robbing the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota - what is considered the largest bank west of the Mississippi - but has now decided against it. Circumstances, including learning that Jesse James and his gang are going ahead with the robbery behind his back, and that the railroaders issuing a war against them which also includes bribing the legislature to revoke the pardon, make Cole change his mind. But right from the start - even during the planning stages - things don't go quite according to script, which may be an omen for things to come.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this western, Jessie James (Robert Duvall), Cole Younger (Cliff Robertson), and their gang of outlaws concoct a plan to rob the biggest bank west of the Mississippi. After a series of mishaps, the group makes it to Northfield, Minnesota, where the bank is located. However, this is only the beginning of their problems, as their carefully-planned scheme slowly starts to unravel.
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44% (2) The Car 96 min, PG, [Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller] [Elliot Silverstein] [13 May 1977]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 61%, Rotten Tomatoes: 27%, External Reviews
Actors: James Brolin, John Marley, Kathleen Lloyd, R.G. Armstrong
Writer: Dennis Shryack (screenplay), Michael Butler (screenplay), Lane Slate (screenplay), Dennis Shryack (story), Michael Butler (story)
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Plot: Near the small desert town of Santa Ynez, a mysterious black car runs down two teenage bicyclers en route to camp, then it hit-and-runs a hitchhiker with local Amos Clements as witness. Sheriff Everett puts his men on alert and plants road blocks in the area to arrest the murderer, but soon he himself falls victim to the car. Sheriff Wade Parent leads the hunt for the vehicle that threatens their town and seems impossible to locate. When his beloved girlfriend, teacher Lauren Humphries, challenges the driver in a cemetery, the car hunts her in her home. Wade realizes he might be dealing with supernatural powers.
Rotten Tomatoes: A killer car, fueled by demonic power, runs amok through the Detroit streets in this horror film.
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75% (1) My Name Is Nobody 116 min, PG, [Comedy, Western] [Tonino Valerii] [17 Jul 1974]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 75%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win.
Actors: Henry Fonda, Jean Martin, R.G. Armstrong, Terence Hill
Writer: Sergio Leone (idea), Fulvio Morsella (story), Ernesto Gastaldi (story), Ernesto Gastaldi (screenplay)
External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: Italian Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Plot: Jack Beauregard, once the greatest gunslinger of the Old West, only wants to move to Europe and retire in peace, but a young gunfighter, known only as "Nobody," idolizes him and wants to see him go out in a blaze of glory. He arranges for Jack to face the 150-man gang known as The Wild Bunch and earn his place in history.
Rotten Tomatoes: A soldier of fortune, Nobody is hired to gun down veteran outlaw Jack Beauregard. Before long, however, Nobody and Beauregard are bosom companions. When Beauregard announces his retirement, Nobody insists that the old man go out in one last, glorious shooting spree and tries to arrange for this to happen.
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66% (1) Red Headed Stranger 105 min, R, [Western] [William D. Wittliff] [31 Oct 1986]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 66%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 nomination.
Actors: Morgan Fairchild, R.G. Armstrong, Royal Dano, Willie Nelson
Writer: William D. Wittliff (screenplay)
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Plot: Revisionist western about fallen preacher Shay, who guns down his wife Raysha for running off with another man. Wandering, he meets single mom Laurie. However, helpless sheriff Scoby wants Shay to help him fight the villainous Clavers.
Rotten Tomatoes: A bible-totin' preacher from out East arrives in wild Montana to spread the Good Word to all. When his wife takes off with another man, he straps on the pistol and extracts his vengeance. Then he must struggle to find his way back to the hallowed life. Willie Nelson plays the preacher and Morgan Fairchild is his inconstant wife.
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