1978 movies

Thirty Nine Steps, The (1978)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Powell, Robert | Warner, David | Porter, Eric | Dotrice, Karen | Mills, John | Baker, George | Pickup, Ronald | Pickering, Donald | West, Timothy | Anderson, Miles | Keir, Andrew | Flemyng, Robert | Squire, William | McDowell, Paul | Collings, David
Directors: Sharp, Don
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The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel Scudder, bursts into his rooms one night and tells him a story that Prussian ’sleeper’ agents are planning to pre-start World War I by murdering a visiting foreign minister. However, Scudder is murdered and Hannay is framed for the death by the ’sleepers’. Fleeing to Scotland Hannay attempts to clear his name and to stop the agents with the aid of Alex Mackenzie but not only is he is chased by Chief Supt Lomas for Scudder’s death but by the agents who is headed by Appleton who has managed to hide himself in a high-placed position in the British Government…

Force 10 from Navarone (1978)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Action | War
Countries: UK
Actors: Shaw, Robert | Ford, Harrison | Bach, Barbara | Fox, Edward | Nero, Franco | Weathers, Carl | Kiel, Richard | Alan Badel | Byrne, Michael | Latham, Philip | MacInnes, Angus | Sheard, Michael | Buntic, Petar | Schofield, Leslie | Langdon, Anthony
Directors: Hamilton, Guy
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In the darkest days of World War II, Hitler’s armies are storming through Europe, annihilating all opposition in their path. But U.S. Colonel Barnsby (Ford) plots to strike a crippling blow to the brutal Nazi forces. To succeed, he’ll need the help of the most skilled and lethal soldiers in the world: the Force 10 squad, fresh from its triumphant mission at Navarone. But when the team’s plan goes awry in a firestorm of blistering battles, Barnsby and the squad’s hard-driving Major Mallory (Shaw) are forced to devise a new and even more dangerous scheme to attack the Nazi war machine . . . or risk losing the rest of Europe to its awesome, destructive power.

Up in Smoke (1978)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Marin, Cheech | Chong, Tommy | Martin, Strother | Adams, Edie | Fong, Harold | Novo, Richard | Moder, Jane | Bille, Pam | Roberts, Arthur | Beeler, Marian | Hotton, Donald | Jacobs, John Ian | Joy, Christopher | Vitte, Ray | Caldwell, Michael
Directors: Adler, Lou
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Two directionless musicans, a Chicano guitarist (Cheech Marin) and a White drummer (Tommy Chong), meet up in a chance encounter and embark on a series of odd adventures, including being the unwitting partcipants of a bizarre marijuana smuggling plot.

Grease (1978)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Travolta, John | Olivia Newton-John | Channing, Stockard | Conaway, Jeff | Pearl, Barry | Tucci, Michael | Ward, Kelly | Conn, Didi | Donnelly, Jamie | Manoff, Dinah | Arden, Eve | Avalon, Frankie | Blondell, Joan | Byrnes, Edd | Caesar, Sid
Directors: Kleiser, Randal
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What, you haven’t seen it? Danny is the ‘coolest’ of the T Birds, a group of High School guys, they hang out with the Pink Ladies. Danny met Sandy during the summer holiday and now she’s moved to the area and to his school, Rydell High. Sandy doesn’t fit in with the ‘cool’ scene, and the Pink ladies, “Look at me I’m Sandra Dee, Blessed with my virginity” sings Rizzo, the Pink Ladies leader. A rival gang Scorpians want to race the T Birds car (”Go Greased Lightening …”). Also there’s a National Dance TV show coming to Rydall High … There are a couple of rival suitors to Sandy and Danny, to liven the relationship up. And ‘oh yes’ - Graduation.

Jaws 2 (1978)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Scheider, Roy | Gary, Lorraine | Hamilton, Murray | Mascolo, Joseph | Kramer, Jeffrey | Dusenberry, Ann | Paxton, Collin Wilcox | Gruner, Mark | Coe, Barry | French, Susan | Springer, Gary | Wilkes, Donna | Dubin, Gary | Dukakis, John | Dunlop, G. Thomas
Directors: Szwarc, Jeannot
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The small island resort town of Amity is trying to bounce back from the financial problems it had after becoming known as the site of shark attacks four years ago. Mayor Larry Vaughn is welcoming developer Len Peterson and his new resort to Amity. Two scuba divers are exploring the area where the Orca sank after police chief Martin Brody killed a huge shark four years ago. A shark shows up and kills the two divers, but not before one of the divers takes a close-up picture of the shark’s eye, and sometime later, while a mother is driving a boat that’s pulling her water-skiing teenage daughter, the shark kills the daughter and causes the mother to accidentally blow up the boat, then a killer whale is found on the shore with a huge bite on it. After Brody sees this, he knows there’s another huge great white shark in Amity’s waters, but Vaughn and Peterson explain these attacks away as non-shark accidents, because the thought of another shark in Amity’s waters would drive tourists away from the new resort and cause the new resort to lose money. It looks like Vaughn is still a mayor who puts money ahead of people’s lives. Brody tips his gun’s hollow point bullets with cyanide and melted candle wax and tells his sons Michael and Sean to stay away from the beaches and tells them to not go sailing with Mike’s friends, who include Vaughn’s son Larry Vaughn Jr. Everyone thinks Brody’s fears are shark trauma-induced paranoia. Brody even tries to call his friend Matt Hooper, who is doing research on a boat in the Antarctic Circle, and Matt will be in the Antarctic Circle for a few more months. While keeping an eye on the waters from the beach’s shark tower, Brody sees a huge dark spot in the water and rings the tower’s alarm bell, but it turns out to be a school of bluefish. Vaughn fires Brody for causing this panic at the beach and scaring tourists and their money away, and even though they were told not to, Michael and Sean go out sailing with Junior Vaughn and their friends, unaware that the shark is trailing them. Brody knows it’s up to him to find them before the shark kills too many of them.

Midnight Express (1978)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Davis, Brad | Miracle, Irene | Hopkins, Bo | Bonacelli, Paolo | Smith, Paul L. | Quaid, Randy | Weisser, Norbert | Hurt, John | Kellin, Mike | Diogene, Franco | Ensign, Michael | Ballista, Gigi | Malikyan, Kevork | Jeffrey, Peter | Boyd, Tony
Directors: Parker, Alan
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Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the “Midnight Express”.

Halloween (1978)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pleasence, Donald | Curtis, Jamie Lee | Soles, P.J. | Cyphers, Charles | Richards, Kyle | Andrews, Brian | Graham, John Michael | Kyes, Nancy | Malet, Arthur | Yablans, Mickey | Le Page, Brent | Hollander, Adam | Phalen, Robert | Moran, Tony
Directors: Carpenter, John
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On Halloween 1963, the small town of Haddonfield is shocked when six-year-old Michael Myers returns from trick-or-treating and for some unknown reason stabs his older sister to death with a big kitchen knife and is found by his parents staring into space with the bloody knife in his hand. Sent to a mental institution, Michael spends the next 15 years just sitting, still staring into space despite the best efforts of his Doctor, Dr. Samuel Loomis. Now, on October 30th 1978, something triggers Michael off and during a storm manages to steal a car from Dr. Loomis and Nurse Marion (who was coming to take Michael to a court to keep him locked up) and goes back to Haddonfield where he steals a white mask. There, Laurie Stode, Micheal’s younger sister, finds that Michael is stalking her during the day (at school, at her home etc - but she doesn’t know who he is.) As Dr. Loomis arrives and with the Sheriff frantically looks for Michael he doesn’t know that Laurie is baby-sitting Lindsey and Tommy and that Laurie’s friends Annie, Lynda and Bob are disappearing one by one…