Seconds (1966)
Sci-Fi | Thriller
An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity – one that comes with its own price.
Starring: Rock Hudson, Frank Campanella, John Randolph, Murray Hamilton, Jeff Corey, Will Geer
Director: John Frankenheimer
Napoleon & Samantha (1972)
Adventure | Drama
Two young children (Johnny Whitaker and Jodie Foster) suddenly find themselves in charge of a gentle, aging circus lion. However, when they are threatened with being split up by stern authorities, the trio embarks on a perilous journey across the wilds of the American Northwest. During their adventure-filled odyssey, they seek help in their plight from a sympathetic, free-spirited mountain man (Michael Douglas).
Starring: Michael Douglas, Will Geer, Johnny Whitaker, Jodie Foster, Arch Johnson, Henry Jones
Director: Bernard McEveety
Black Like Me (1964)
Drama
Black Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man. John Horton takes treatments to darken his skin and leaves his home in Texas to travel throughout the South. At one stop, Horton encounters a black shoe shine man, Burt Wilson, who befriends him and shows him how to "act right" so that he can fit more easily into the African American culture. It is through Wilson that Horton learns the art of shining shoes. Most of his encounters with whites are quite degrading and disturb him. As a hitchhiker, John meets several white men who refer to black men and women in disparaging ways which angers John. Throughout the movie, John is harassed and persecuted by whites without reason. In one of his many stops throughout the South, John finds himself on a park bench sitting by a white woman. A white man walks by and says, "You'd better find another place to sit." Even though he had a college degree, menial jobs were all that he could find. John meets…
Starring: James Whitmore, Sorrell Booke, Roscoe Lee Browne, Al Freeman Jr., Will Geer, Robert Gerringer, Clifton James
Director: Carl Lerner
Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
Adventure | Drama | Western
In order to keep from being sent to fight in the Mexican War, an American soldier travels west and begins to live as a hermit. An elderly trapper takes him in and teaches him what he needs to know to survive in the wilderness. He takes a Native American wife and they adopt a child, but their idyllic existence is spoiled when he becomes entangled in a vendetta with the local Crow Indians.
Starring: Robert Redford, Will Geer, Delle Bolton, Josh Albee, Joaquín Martínez
Director: Sydney Pollack
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