A Special Day / Una giornata particolare (1977)
Drama
Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.
Starring: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd, Patrizia Basso, Tiziano De Persio
Director: Ettore Scola
Savage Streets (1984)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A teenage vigilante seeks revenge on a group of violent thugs who raped her handicapped sister and killed her best friend.
Starring: Linda Blair, John Vernon, Debra Blee, Linnea Quigley, Marcia Karr, Mitch Carter
Director: Danny Steinmann
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.
Starring: Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Vernon, John Allen Nelson, Royal Dano, Christopher Titus
Director: Stephen Chiodo
Fantastica (1980)
Drama | Musical
In this oddball mix of music and drama, an actress (Carole Laure) in a traveling musical revue is involved with the show's director until she meets and falls for an aging ecological activist. He too is drawn to her, and together they try to stop a factory from being built over an old-growth forest.
Starring: Carole Laure, Lewis Furey, Serge Reggiani, Claudine Auger, John Vernon
Director: Gilles Carle
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)
Drama | Western
Based on true events, Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, tells the story of one of the last Western manhunts, in 1909. Willie Boy, a Native American, kills his girlfriend's father in self defense, and the two go on the run, pursued by a search posse led by Sheriff Christopher Cooper.
Starring: Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Robert Blake, Susan Clark, Barry Sullivan, John Vernon
Director: Abraham Polonsky
Dirty Harry (1971)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is a tough, streetwise San Francisco police detective well known for his vicious take-no-prisoners attitude toward criminals. With the city of San Francisco being terrorized by the psychotic killer known only as Scorpio (Andrew Robinson), Harry is assigned by the mayor (John Vernon) and Lt. Bressler (Harry Guardino) to try to stop him, pairing him with reluctantly accepted new partner Chico (Reni Santoni). Scorpio kidnaps a 14-year-old girl and buries her alive, demanding a $200,000 ransom for her return. Harry is to bring him the money-alone. What follows is one of the most exciting ransom deliveries in film history.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, John Vernon, Andrew Robinson, John Larch
Director: Don Siegel
Sweet Movie (1974)
Comedy | Drama
The intercut story of two women: a nearly-mute beauty queen who descends into withdrawal and madness, and another who captains a ship laden with candy and sugar, luring men and boys aboard for sex, death, and revolutionary talk. The beauty queen passes from a wealthy husband whose honeymoon delight is to urinate on her, to a muscular keeper who punches her, stows her in a suitcase, and ships her to Paris, to a lip-synching rock idol with whom she has a love spasm, to an Austrian commune complete with a banquet of vomit, urine, feces, chopped dildos, and wet nurses. By then she's in a fetal position, until everyone's rescued by reminders that "it's just a movie."
Starring: Carole Laure, Pierre Clémenti, Anna Prucnal, Sami Frey, Jane Mallett, Roy Callender, John Vernon
Director: Dusan Makavejev
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | Western
Josey Wales is a peaceful farmer and devoted family man, until renegade soldiers murder his family and destroy his farm. Fueled by hatred and branded an outlaw, he becomes dedicated to seeking vengeance on the people who took everything he had.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney, John Vernon, Paula Trueman
Director: Clint Eastwood
