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GAMES YOUR MOTHER NEVER TAUGHT YOU
1982
100 min.
Loretta Swit, Sam Waterston, Eileen Heckart, Ed Grover, Bill Morey, Christopher Allport, Madelyn Rhue. Directed by Lee
Phillips.
Corporate gamesmanship becomes the firt matter of business learned by the first female executive in an all-male office.
So-so romantic comedy adapted from from Betty Lehan Harrigan's book by Liz Coe. Average.

THE GATHERING, PART II
1979
98 min.
Maureen Stapleton, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Jameson Parker, Bruce Davison, Lawrence Pressman, Gail Strickland. Directed by
Charles S. Dublin.
Soapy sequel to 1977's THE GATHERING in which a widow's Christmas reunion with her grown children is marred by the
arrival of a new man in her life. Ed Asner's photograph throughout reminds all how glowing the original was. Average.

GAUGIN THE SAVAGE
1980
125 min.
David Carradine, Lynn Redgrave, Barrie Houghton, Dame Flora Robson, Michael Hordern, Ian Richardson, Carmen Matthews,
Bernard Fox. Directed by Fielder Cook.
Plodding drama about the temperamental French painter who abandoned his wife and children to pursue a life of artistic
freedom in Tahiti. A curiously cast Carradine is far from the Gaugin of Maugham's THE MOON AND SIXPENCE. Script by JP
Miller. Average.

GEMINI MAN
1976
100 min.
Ben Murphy, Katherine Crawford, Richard Dysart, Dana Elcar, Paul Shenar, Cheryl Miller. Directed by Alan Levi.
H.G. Wells' THE INVISIBLE MAN recycled with Murphy as a dare-devil secret agent whose transient invisibility (the
result of a technological accident) makes him the bane of various saboteurs. Predictable spy show with a fantasy element,
later a short-lived TV series. Below average. Retitled CODE NAME: MINUS ONE and cut to 78 min.

THE GENTLEMAN BANDIT
1981
100 min.
Ralph Waite, Julie Bovasso, Jerry Zaks, Estelle Parsons, Joe Grifasi. Directed by Jonathan Kaplan.
A socially concerned Baltimore priest is mistakenly arrested as a stickup man. Based on the true-life experience of
Father Bernard Pagano, played by Waite with compassion. Average.

THE GEORGIA PEACHES
1980
100 min.
Tanya Tucker, Terri Nunn, Lane Smith, Sally Kirkland, Dennis Patrick, Buron Gilliam, Dirk Benedict. Directed by Daniel
Haller.
Roger Corman produced this comedy-action pilot about a trio of unlikely undercover agents: a country singer, her sister
(who runs the family auto-repair shop), and their macho moonshine-running pal. Average.

GETTING AWAY FROM IT ALL
1971
74 min.
Gary Collins, E.J. Peaker, Barbara Feldon, Larry Hagman, Jim Backus, Bergess Meredith. Directed by Lee Philips.
Two middle-aged, middle-class couples sell houses, quit work to find an idyllic "back to nature" existence, and decide
to return to civilization. Contrived and infuriating, with unconvincing performances. Below average.

GETTING MARRIED
1978
100 min.
Richard Thomas, Bess Armstrong, Van Johnson, Katherine Helmond, Mark Harmon, Fabian, Dena Dietrich. Directed by Steven
Hilliard Stern.
Romantic fluff set in a TV newsroom manned by lots of attractive people. Average.

GETTING PHYSICAL
1984
100 min.
Alexandra Paul, Sandahl Bergman, David Naughton, John Aprea, Robert Wagner, Sydney Penny, Franco Columbu. Directed by
Steven Hilliard Stern.
The first drama about women's bodybuilding is just FLASHDANCE with weights, as chunky Paul pumps iron to get her life
together amid much tongue-clucking from family and friends. Endless working-out montages set to disco music lead up to
a ludicrous climax with Paul competing against real-life champs Rachel McLish, Candy Csencsits, and Lisa Lyon. Tries to
be sympathetic, but fails even at that; catch the documentary PUMPING IRON II instead. Below average.

GHOST DANCING
1983
100 min.
Dorothy McGuire, Bruce Davison, Bo Hopkins, Richard Farnsworth, Bill Erwin, Wings Hauser, Victoria Racimo. Directed by
David Greene.
McGuire shines in a rare latter-day performance as a widowed farmer-turned-activist, launching a one-woman war against
the power company that has damned up her valley's water supply. Phil Pennigroth's original story won the annual "ABC
Theatre Award." Above average.

THE GHOST OF FLIGHT 401
1978
100 min.
Ernest Borgnine, Gary Lockwood, Tina Chen, Kim Basinger, Eugene Roche, Beverly Todd. Directed by Steven Hilliard Stern.
Supernatural mystery about the ghost (Borgnine) of the pilot of the plane that crashed in the Florida Everglades around
Christmas of 1972 and the legend of its presence in the cockpit of later flights. Taken from John C. Fuller's intriguing
book. Average.

GIDEON'S TRUMPET
1980
104 min.
Henry Fonda, Jose Ferrer, Dean Jagger, Nicholas Pryor, William Prince, Dolph Sweet, Ford Rainey. Directed by Robert
Collins.
Fonda is superb in the true story of a semiliterate Florida convict who changed the course of American legal history;
Ferrer is equally fine as his powerful attorney, Abe Fortas. Script by David Rintels, from Anthony Lewis's book;
produced by John Houseman. Above average.

GIDGET GETS MARRIED
1972
73 min.
Michael Burns, Monie Ellis, Don Ameche, Joan Bennett, Macdonald Cary, Corrine Camacho. Directed by E.W. Swackhammer.
Boring situation comedy (minus laugh track) featuring Burns and Ellis as young newlyweds in Glossop, Maryland; he an
engineer, she a dissatisfied housewife. Tame humor, unbelievable plot. Below average.

GIDGET GROWS UP
1970
75 min.
Karen Valentine, Edward Mulhare, Paul Peterson, Nina Foch, Paul Lynde. Directed by James Sheldon.
Moving to N.Y.C. after a short return to surfing life, Gidget takes a job as a U.N. guide, and becomes involved in her
"first adult love affair." Romance never more unbelievable, nor dialogue more naive. Only Lynde has good material.
Average.

THE GIFT
1979
100 min.
Glenn Ford, Gary Frank, Julie Harris, Allison Argo, Maggie Cooper, Tom Clancy. Directed by Don Taylor.
Poignant period piece (the '50s) about a sailor who returns to his old Brooklyn neighborhood on Christmas leave. Ford's
eye-opening performance as his hard-drinking, Irish-brogued, peg-legged father makes this one shine. Based on Pete
Hamill's autobiographical novella. Above average.

THE GIFT OF LIFE
1982
100 min.
Susan Dey, Paul LeMat, Edward Herrmann, Cassie Yates, Caroline McWilliams, Priscilla Pointer, Art Lund, Michael
Alldredge. Directed by Jerry London.
A wife with two children becomes a surrogate mother, and faces family and social pressures, then has second thoughts
about surrendering her baby to the adoptive parents. Similar to TOMORROW'S CHILD, which premiered at the same time.
Average.

THE GIFT OF LOVE
1978
100 min.
Marie Osmond, Timothy Bottoms, Bethel Leslie, June Lockhart, Donald Moffat, David Wayne. Directed by Don Chaffey.
Sticky-sweet adaptation of O. Henry's THE GIFT OF THE MAGI as a costume vehicle for Marie Osmond's acting debut. Veteran
David Wayne is on hand to narrate in the guise of O. Henry. Average.

THE GIFT OF LOVE: A CHRISTMAS STORY
1983
100 min.
Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury, Polly Holliday, Joseph Warren, Michael Higgins, Hark Hulswit. Directed by Delbert Mann.
Maudlin drama about one family's Christmas crisis that even Remick and Lansbury (as the put-upon lady and her mother)
are hard-pressed to energize. Earl Hamner based his script on the short story THE SILENT STARS GO BY by Bess Streeter
Aldrich. Average.

THE GIRL CALLED HATTER FOX
1977
100 min.
Ronny Cox, Joanelle Romero, Conchata Ferrell, John Durren, Donald Hotten. Directed by George Schaefer.
Drama plotting medical science against witchcraft in an attempt to salvage a teen-aged Indian girl's life. Average.

THE GIRL ON THE LATE, LATE SHOW
1974
78 min.
Don Murray, Laraine Stephens, Bert Convy, Yvone DeCarlo, Gloria Grahame, Van Johnson, Ralph Meeker, Cameron Mitchell,
Mary Ann Mobley, Joe Santos, John Irleand, Walter Pidgeon, Sherry Jackson. Directed by Gary Nelson.
Movieland murders follow TV producer Murray in his search for 50s film queen Grahame, who mysteriously vanished at the
height of her career. Nostalgia buffs will fin this a feast while detective nuts will spot the baddie early on. Average.

A GIRL NAMED SOONER
1975
115 min.
Lee Remick, Richard Crenna, Don Murray, Anne Francis, Cloris Leachman, Susan Deer. Directed by Delbert Mann.
An eight-year-old girl, raised by an eccentric woman in the backwoods of Indiana, becomes the ward of a childless couple
whose lives she enriches. Touching family entertainment, adapted from Suzanne Clauser's 1972 novel, and well nigh
stolen by Leachman as Old Mam, the feisty crone. Above average.

THE GIRL, THE GOLD WATCH & DYNAMITE
1981
100 min.
Lee Purcell, Philip MacHale, Burton Gilliam, Zohra Lampert, Jack Elam, Gary Lockwood, Jerry Mathers, Richie Havens,
Barney Phillips, Carol Lawrence, Tom Poston, Gene Barry, Morgan Fairchild. Directed by Hy Averback.
Pedestrian sequel to THE GIRL, THE GOLD WATCH & EVERYTHING, with the further misadventures of the square heir to a
foundering business and a time-stopping watch. Average.

THE GIRL, THE GOLD WATCH & EVERYTHING
1980
100 min.
Robert Hays, Paw Dawber, Zohra Lampert, Ed Nelson, Maurice Evans, Peter Brown, Macdonald Carey, Jill Ireland. Directed
by William Wiard.
John D. MacDonald's fantasy about an unassuming fellow who inherits a gold watch with time-stopping powers is
translated into a standard sitcom. Average.

THE GIRL WHO CAME GIFT-WRAPPED
1974
78 min.
Karen Valentine, Richard Long, Tom Bosley, Farrah Fawcett, Dave Madden, Louise Sorel. Directed by Bruce Bilson.
Country cutie Karen comes to the big city looking for a husband and setting her sights on bachelor Long, decides to
give herself to him as a birthday present. Comic tale with large doses of leering sex and suggestive poses, but Karen
looks great bikini-clad. Average.

THE GIRLS IN THE OFFICE
1979
97 min.
Susan St. James, Barbara Eden, Tony Roberts, David Wayne, Penny Peyser, Joe Penny. Directed by Ted Post.
Four women working in a Houston department store must choose between love and success in this standard romantic comedy.
Average.

THE GIRLS OF HUNTINGTON HOUSE
1973
73 min.
Shirley Jones, Mercedes McCambridge, Sissy Spacek, William Windom, Pamela Sue Martin, Darrell Larson. Directed by Alf
Kjellin.
This weak melodrama takes place in a school for unwed mothers where an unmarried teacher finds herself drawn more to
the students' individual problems. Conceived from the kids' point of view, but unmemorable dialogue and anticlimax
helped the film become quickly forgotten. Average.

GIRLS OF THE WHITE ORCHID
1983
100 min.
Jennifer Jason Laugh, Ann Jillian, Thomas Byrd, Mako, Carolyn Seymour, Richard Narita, Soon-Teck Oh. Directed by
Jonathan Kaplan.
If it didn't take itself so seriously, this sleazy tale of young-girl-in-white-slavery-by-yellow-peril could have been
a delicious send-up of those Monogram B movies of the late '30s. Average.

THE GLITTER DOME
1984
100 min.
James Garner, Margot Kidder, John Lithgow, Colleen Dewhurst, John Marley. Directed by Stuart Margolin.
Joseph Wambaugh's bleak police novel about child pornography listlessly adapted into a film that shows all of the
story's melodramatic weaknesses. Garner and Kidder are the mystifyingly mismatched leads, but Dewhurst is funny in a
couple of scenes, and Lithgow makes a heroic effort with his cop character. Stuart Margolin (Angel on THE ROCKFORD
FILES), in addition to directing, produced, wrote the music, and played a small role. Average.

GOLD OF THE AMAZON WOMEN
1979
100 min.
Bo Svenson, Anita Ekberg, Donald Pleasance, Richard Romanus, Maggie Jean Smith. Directed by Mark Lester.
Two fortune hunters stumble upon a tribe of Amazon ladies and make such an impression on the girls that they chase
the lucky guys all the way back to the Big Apple. Occasionally enjoyable, but silly with lots of inane dialogue.
Below average.

GO WEST, YOUNG GIRL
1978
74 min.
Karen Valentine, Sandra Will, Stuart Whitman, Richard Jaeckel, David Dukes, John Payne. Directed by Alan J. Levi.
Lighthearted Western pits East and a cavalry officer's widow against gamblers, bounty hunters, and leering lawmen as
they go in search of Billy the Kid. Average.

THE GODCHILD
1974
78 min.
Jack Palance, Jack Warden, Keith Carradine, Ed Lauter, Jose Perez, Fionnuala Flanagan, Bill McKinney. Directed by John
Badham.
Seventh version (at least) of THE THREE GODFATHERS, with three Civil War prisoners, fleeing both Confederates and
Apaches, risking their freedom to become guardians of the baby they deliver for a dying woman in the desert. Peter B.
Kyne's Western classic is starkly recreated for TV, but John Ford's 1948 version still casts a mighty long shadow.
Average.

GOLD OF THE AMAZON WOMEN
1979
100 min.
Bo Svenson, Anita Ekberg, Donald Pleasence, Richard Romanus, Maggie Jean Smith. Directed by Mark L. Lester.
Two fortune hunters stumble upon a society of modern-day Amazons who follow the pair out of the jungle to downtown
Manhattan. Silly B-minus movie stuff that brought '50s sex queen Ekberg out of obscurity. Below average.

GOLDEN GATE
1981
100 min.
Jean Simmons, Richard Kiley, Perry King, Robyn Douglass, Mary Crosby, John Saxon, Melanie Griffith, Maggie Blye, Peter
Donat. Directed by Paul Wendkos.
Slick soap-opera pilot about a publishing empire and the struggle to keep it out of an unscrupulous investor's hands.
Written by Stirling Silliphant and acted by rote. Average.

THE GOLDEN GATE MURDERS
1979
100 min.
David Janssen, Susannah York, Tim O'Connor, Lloyd Bochner, Kim Hunter, Richard O'Brien. Directed by Walter Grauman.
A gruff detective and a pretty nun join forces to prove that a priest who fell from the Golden Gate Bridge was murdered
and not a suicide. Accept the initial premise of the cop/nun relationship, ignore the terrible studio recreation of the
San Francisco landmark and you might have some fun. Shown theatrically as SPECTER ON THE BRIDGE. Average.

                                        

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THE GOLDEN MOMENT: AN OLYMPIC LOVE STORY 1980 200 min. Stephanie Zimablist, David Keith, Richard Lawson, VIctor French, Merlin Olsen, Jack Palance, James Earl Jones, Nancy Marchand, Ed McMahon, Salome Jens. Directed by Richard Sarafian. An American athelete falls for a pretty Russian gymnast at the 1980 Olympics. Obviously made to be tied in with the 1980 Olympic games -- from which the U.S. withdrew! The cliche-ridden love-at-first-sight script further dooms it. Below average. GOLDIE AND THE BOXER GO TO HOLLYWOOD 1981 100 min. O.J. Simpson, Milissa Michaelsen, Roger Bowen, Reb Brown, Jack Gilford, James Gregory, Stubby Kaye, Sheila MacRae, Robert Mandan. Directed by David Miller. Follow-up to the 1979 movie about a heavyweight champion and the 11-year-old girl who becomes his manager, and no better than the original. Below average. GOLIATH AWAITS 1981 200 min. Mark Harmon, Christopher Lee, Eddie Albert, John Carradine, Alex Cord, Robert Forster, Frank Gorshin, Jean Marsh, John McIntire, Jeannette Nolan, Emma Samms. Directed by Kevin Connor. A colony of survivors, trapped for over 40 years in the wreckage of an ocean liner torpedoed by a U-boat, is uncovered by oceanographer Harmon in this credibility-stretching tale. Originally shown in two parts. Average. GOOD AGAINST EVIL 1977 78 min. Dack Rambo, Dan O'Herlihy, Elyssa Davalos, Richard Lynch, John Harkins, Jenny O'Hara, Lelia Goldoni. Directed by Paul Wendkos. An itinerant writer writer falls for a woman chosen by a Satanic cult to bear the devil's child. O'Herlihy has a flamboyant role as a priest called upon to perform a traditional exorcism in this silly supernatural thriller. Below average. A GOOD SPORT 1984 100 min. Lee Remick, Ralph Waite, Sam Gray, Richard Hamilton, Dan Frazier, Antonio Fargas. Directed by Lou Antonio. Lee and Ralph go the Tracy-Hepburn route in this amiable (uncredited) update of WOMAN OF THE YEAR. She's a chic fashion editor; he's a boozing sports columnist; together they form an unlikely mutual admiration society and swear off any hanky panky -- at least till the fadeout. Average. GOODBYE, RAGGEDY ANN 1971 73 min. Mia Farrow, Hal Holbrook, John Colicos, Martin Sheen, Marlene Warfield. Directed by Fielder Cook. This tear-jerker fluctuates between convincing scenes and unintentional comedy. An overly sensitive Hollywood starlet on the brink of suicide must change her notions of success. Average. GOODNIGHT, MY LOVE 1972 73 min. RIchard Boone, Barbara Bain, Michael Dunn, Victor Buono, Gianni Russo. Directed by Peter Hyams. A down-and-out detective team have a visit from a seemingly innocent blonde who wants her fiance found. Not quite THE MALTESE FALCON takeoff as claimed, the film (also written by Hyams) has an offbeat point of view with a timeless atmosphere, excellent direction. Above average. THE GOSSIP COLUMNIST 1979 100 min. Kim Cattrall, Bobby Vinton, Robert Vaughn, Dick Sargent, Conrad Janis, Joe Penny, Martha Raye, Bobby Sherman, Sylvia Sydney, Lyle Waggoner, Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows, Jack Carter, Jim Backus. Directed by James Sheldon. An idealistic political journalist is assigned to replace a legendary news-hen. Slickly done but strictly ho-hum, despite the shine from Raye's turn as a faded night-club singer. Average. GRACE KELLY 1983 100 min. Cheryl Ladd, Lloyd Bridges, Diane Ladd, Alejandro Rey, Ian McShane, William Schallert, Marta DuBois, Salome Jens. Directed by Anthony Page. A cardboard valentine to Princess Grace that reportedly was given her blessing shortly before her death in late 1982. Ladd poses prettily as Grace and McShane postures somewhat unsteadily as Rainier, but Bridges (who worked with the real Grace in HIGH NOON) manages to give some dimension to Jack Kelly, her father. Cynthia Mandelberg's script is somewhat pat, but fun can be gathered from watching the parade of Hollywood personalities who are impersonated -- including veteran actress Edith Fellows turning up as famed costume designer Edith Head. Average. GRAMBLING'S WHITE TIGER 1981 100 min. Bruce Jenner, Harry Belafonte, LeVar Burton, Dennis Haysbert, Deborah Pratt, Ray Vitte. Directed by Georg Stanford Brown. The story of Jim Gregory, a California high-school football star quarterback who becomes the only white player on the all-black Grambling College's team. Olympic-athelete Jenner is somewhat miscast as a high-schooler, but Belafonte, in his TV acting debut, is solid as legendary coach Eddie Robinson in this so-so dramatization of Bruce Behrenberg's book MY LITTLE BROTHER IS COMING TOMORROW. Average. THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER OVER THE SEPTIC TANK 1978 100 min. Carol Burnett, Charles Grodin, Alex Rocco, Linda Gray, Robert Sampson, Vicki Belmonte. Directed by Robert Day. The Erma Bombeck book lost some of its humor in this still-amiable translation to the screen, telling of a New York couple who decide to swap the hassle of big city living for suburbia. Originally intended to test the waters as a possible Burnett series. Average. THE GREAT AMERICAN BEAUTY CONTEST 1973 74 min. Eleanor Parker, Bob Cummings, Louis Jordan, Joanna Cameron, Susan Damante, Tracy Reed, Farrah Fawcett. Directed by Robert Day. An offbeat, behind-the-scenes look at a present-day bigtime pageant, complete with sordid intrigues, rumors of rigging, etc., enlivened by a social-commentary point of view. Good performances, especially Parker's. Above average. A GREAT AMERICAN TRAGEDY 1972 73 min. George Kennedy, Vera Miles, William Windom, Hillarie Thompson, Keven McCarthy, James Woods, Tony Dow. Directed by J. Lee Thompson. A family experiences the economic realities of life when an aerospace engineer (Kennedy) gets laid off. Staunch middle- class point of view. OK performances, upbeat ending. Average. THE GREAT CASH GIVEAWAY GETAWAY 1980 105 min. George Hamilton, David Kyle, Elissa Leeds, Albert Salmi, Richard Bull, James Keach, Autrey Totter. Directed by Michael O'Herlihy. Hamilton is a suave heavy who wants to nail the two teenagers who've gone on a spending spree with the quarter-million dollars he gained in a drug-smuggling deal. Sounds like an old Bowery Boys plot recycled. Below average. GREAT EXPECTATIONS 1974 103 min. Michael York, Sarah Miles, James Mason, Margaret Leighton, Robert Morley, Anthony Quayle, Joss Ackland, Rachel Roberts, Heather Sears, Peter Bull. Directed by Joseph Hardy. OK remake of the Dickens classic; originally produced as a musical, but the songs have been deleted. Anyway, OLIVER! it ain't. Average. THE GREAT HOUDINIS 1976 100 min. Paul Michael Glaser, Sally Struthers, Ruch Gordon, Vivian Vance, Adrienne Barbeau, Peter Cushing, Bill Bixby, Jck Carer, Nina Foch, Maureen O'Sullivan, Wilfrid Hyde White, Clive Revill, Geoffrey Lewis. Directed by Melville Shavelson. Drama about the real life and times of the famed illusionist-escape artist whose career masks obsession with the occult. Brisk direction and literate script (both by Shavelson), wonderful performance by Gordon as Houdini's possessive mother. Above average. THE GREAT ICE RIP-OFF 1974 Lee J. Cobb, Gig Young, Grayson Hall, Robert Waldon, Matt Clark, Geoffrey Lewis. Directed by Dan Curtis. Grumpy retired cop Cobb matches wits with jewel thief Young and his gang during a cross-country bus chase. Light-hearted suspense caper, tossed off by a couple of old pros and, uncharacteristically, occult-horror director Curtis. Above average. THE GREAT MAN'S WHISKERS 1971 100 min. Dennis Weaver, Ann Southern, John McGiver, Harve Presnell, Beth Brickell, Cindy Eilbacher. Directed by Philip Leacock. Weak comedy-drama about President Lincoln rerouting his train tour after receiving a letter from a 10-year-old girl urging him to grow whiskers. The political aspect of the plot doesn't work; historically unbelieveable, too. Below average. THE GREAT NIAGARA 1974 78 min. Richard Boone, Michael Sacks, Randy Quaid, Jennifer Salt, Burt Young. Directed by William Hale. Offbeat outdoor adventure about a bitter, obsessed old cripple (Boone) who endangers his sons' lives by forcing them to challenge Niagara Falls in a barrel to continue a family tradition. An evocative drama, set in the Depression 30s with a generous supply of thrills. Average. THE GREAT WALLENDAS 1978 100 min. Lloyd Bridges, Britt Ekland, Taina Elg, Cathy Rigby, Michael McGuire, John Van Dreelen. Directed by Larry Elikann. Straightforward drama based on the legendary circus family of high-wire artists whose career has been stalked by tragedy. Enthralling when up in the air. Average. THE GREATEST GIFT 1974 100 min. Glenn Ford, Julie Harris, Lance Kerwin, Harris Yulin, Charles Tyner, Dabbs Greer. Directed by Boris Sagal. A rural, poverty-stricken preacher (Ford) battles a ruthless sheriff (Yulin) and restless church deacons in a struggle to support his family in a small Southern town in 1940. Sentimental, homespun, with a violent turn. Adapted by Abby Mann (as "Ben Goodman") from Jack Farris' novel RAMEY. Subsequently it spun off a series, THE FAMILY HOLVAK. Above average. THE GREATEST THING THAT ALMOST HAPPENED 1977 100 min. Jimmie Walker, James Earl Jones, Deborah Allen, Tamu, Kevin Hooks, Suandra Sharp, Valerie Curtin. Directed by Gilbert Moses. Tearjerker involving a high school athelete stricken with leukemia and his insensitive father who never had time for him. Average. GREEN EYES 1976 100 min. Paul Winfield, Rita Tushingham, Jonathan Lippe, Victoria Racimo, Royce Wallace, Claudia Bryar. Directed by John Erman. Disillusioned ex-GI Winfield returns to Vietnam to search for the son he left behind with his common-law prostitute wife. Poignant drama by David Seltzer with a moving performance by Winfield. Above average. GRIDLOCK 1980 100 min. Desi Arnaz, Jr., John Beck, Noah Beery, Rene Enriquez, Shelley Fabares, Phil Foster, James Gregory, Lisa Hartman, Michael Lerner, Rue McClanahan, Ed McMahon, Christopher Norris, Al Molinaro, Allen Sues, Vic Tayback, Abe Vigoda, Lyle Waggoner, Marcia Wallace, Howard Hesseman. Directed by James Frawley. Comic chaos involving a highway full of TV stars as the L.A. freeway system grinds to a halt following a series of freak accidents. Retitled THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAFFIC JAM. Average. GRIFFIN AND PHOENIX: A LOVE STORY 1976 100 min. Peter Falk, Jill Clayburgh, John Lehne, Dorothy Tristan, Ben Hammer, John Harkins. Directed by Daryl Duke. Tearjerker about two doomed people sharing a brief but buoyant affair. The stars do wonders brightening a maudlin tale. Average. THE GUARDIAN 1984 102 min. Martin Sheen, Louis Gosset Jr., Arthur Hill, Tandy Cronyn. Directed by David Greene. Bland, preachy movie dealing with urban safety and apartment security. Gossett is a creepy, threatening security specialist hired to protect a NYC apartment building, and Sheen lounges through his part as a liberal tenant who becomes shocked at Lou's strong-armed methods. A suprise ending that's mildly surprising. Below average. GUESS WHO'S SLEEPING IN MY BED? 1973 74 min. Barbara Eden, Dean Jones, Kenneth Mars, Susanne Benton, Reta Shaw, Todd Lookinland. Directed by Theodore Flicker. An ex-husband too lazy to work ingratiates his way into his former wife's house, stays there with his family and all but ruins her sex life. Entertaining comedy with likable performances. Above average. A GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED WOMAN 1978 100 min. Cybill Shepherd, Charles Frank, Barbara Feldon, Eve Arden, George Gobel, Bill Dana, John Hillerman, Bonnie Franklin, John Byner, John Beradino, Mary Frances Crosby. Directed by Hy Averback. There's a smile or two to be had as lots of familiar TV faces pop up to help daydreaming housewife Shepherd looking for some innocent romance to spice up her life. A belated, so-so follow-up by writer Frank Tarloff to his very funny A GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN. Average. GUILTY OR INNOCENT: THE SAM SHEPPARD MURDER CASE 1975 150 min. George Peppard, Barnard Hughes, Walter McGinn, William Windon, Nina Van Pallandt, Paul Fix, William Dozier, George Murdock, Claudette Nevins, Kathleen Crawford, John Crawford. Directed by Robert Michael Lewis. Peppard is the famed Cleveland osteopathic surgeon convicted in 1954 of the murder of his wife, then retried twelve years later. Striking performance by McGinn as F. Lee Bailey, the flamboyant lawyer whose defense in the retrial of Sheppard made him a courtroom superstar. Above average. GULAG 1985 - Great Britain 120 min. David Keith, Malcolm McDowell, David Suchet, Warren Clarke, Nancy Paul, Brian Pettifer. Directed by Roger Young. Derivative, ugly made-for-cable movie about an American athelete who is framed by the KGB and tossed into one of the prisons in the Soviet gulag system. There, he attempts to escape with two friends. Liberals will have trouble with the political statement; everyone will have trouble with the phony drama. Below average. THE GUN 1974 78 min. Stephen Elliott, Jean Le Bouvier, Wallace Rooney, David Huffman, Pepe Serna, Edith Diaz. Directed by John Badham. The odyssey of an American handgun -- like the legendary overcoat in TALES OF MANHATTAN -- forms this episodic story sketching the lives of its various owners. An absorbing film with no stars, just sterling character actors, a gripping Richard Levinson-William Link script, and taut direction. Above average. THE GUN AND THE PULPIT 1974 Marjoe Gortner, Slim Pickens, David Huddleston, Geoffrey Lewis, Jeff Corey. Directed by Daniel Petrie. Evangelist-turned-actor Marjoe is a gunslinger who masquerades as a preacher and fights for law and order in both guises. Average. A GUN IN THE HOUSE 1981 100 min. Sally Struthers, David Ackroyd, Dick Anthony Williams, Jeffrey Tambor, Allen Rich, Millie Perkins. Directed by Ivan Nagy. A woman is prosecuted for the handgun murder of an intruder in her house. Average. GUYANA TRAGEDY: THE STORY OF JIM JONES 1980 192 min. Powers Boothe, Ned Beatty, Iren Cara, Veronica Cartwright, Rosalind Cash, Brad Dourif, Meg Foster, Diane Ladd, Randy Quaid, Ron O'Neal, Diana Scarwid, Madge Sinclair, LaVar Burton, James Earl Jones, Colleen Dewhurst. Directed by William A. Graham. Gripping recreation of the late '70s tragedy in which more than 900 cult followers of Rev. Jim Jones (played with magnetism by Boothe) committed mass suicide in a jungle clearing. Kudos to Beatty, as Congressman Leo J. Ryan, to Jones, in a riveting cameo as Father Divine, and to the huge cast. Boothe won an Emmy for his performance. Script by Ernest Tidyman. Above average.

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