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Title
The Cannonball Run
Year
1981
     Distributer     
Live Home Video Inc.
Director
Hal Needham
Catagory
Comedy
Country
USA
CAST
Burt Reynolds
Roger Moore
Farrah Fawcett
Dean Martin
Sammy Davis
Jamie Farr
Mel Tillis
Adrienne Barbeau
Dom DeLuise
Running Time
95 mins
Rating
PG
    Summary    
A scientist clones the brain cells of Bruce Lee in order to create new martial arts experts. an all-star cast, the fun continues from coast to coast.

Title
Cannonball Run II
Year
1984
     Distributer     
Warner Home Video, Ltd. (Canada)
Director
Hal Needham Cast:
Catagory
Comedy
Country
USA
CAST
Burt Reynolds
Dean Martin
Sammy Davis
Susan Anton
Marilu Henner
Catherine Bach
Telly Savalas
Shirley MacLaine
Charles Nelson Reilly
Dom DeLuise
Running Time
108 mins
Rating
PG
    Summary    
More than two dozen of today's most popular stars get involved in a comic cross-country car chase in this sequel to "cannonball run."

Title
Carrie
Year
1976
     Distributer     
CBS/Fox Video
Director
Brian De Palma
Catagory
Horror/Suspense
Country
USA
CAST
Sissy Spacek
John Travolta
William Katt
Nancy Allen
Piper Laurie
Amy Irving
Running Time
120 mins
Rating
R
    Summary    
In this enduring horror classic based on a novel by Stephen King, a painfully shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers is the target of her classmates' cruelty. Academy Award Nominations: 2, including Best Actress--Sissy Spacek, Best Supporting Actress--Piper Laurie.

Title
Carry on Cabby
Year
1963
     Distributer     
Director
Gerald Thomas
Catagory
Comedy
Country
UK
CAST
Kenneth Connor
Liz Fraser
Charles Hawtrey
Hattie Jacques
Sidney James
Running Time
91
Rating
-
    Summary    

Title
Carry on Regardless
Year
1963
     Distributer     
Director
Gerald Thomas
Catagory
Comedy
Country
UK
CAST
Kenneth Connor
Liz Fraser
Sidney James
Running Time
87 mins
Rating
-
    Summary    

Title
Carry on Cleo
Year
1964
     Distributer     
HBO (Canada)
Director
Gerald Thomas
Catagory
Comedy
Country
USA
CAST
Amanda Barrie
Sidney James
Kenneth Connor
Charles Hawtrey
Kenneth Williams
Joan Sims
Running Time
92 mins
Rating
NR
    Summary    
A jocular spoof of Shakespeare's "AnTony and Cleopatra," filled with numerous puns, plots, and double-meanings. Ancient history was never so much fun

Title
Carry on Cowboy
Year
1966
     Distributer     
HBO (Canada)
Director
Gerald Thomas
Catagory
Comedy
Country
UK
CAST
Sidney James
Kenneth Williams
Jim Dale
Angela Douglas
Joan Sims
Charles Hawtrey
Running Time
94 mins
Rating
NR
    Summary    
A group of lewd and comic characters take the viewer on a hilarious romp through the bars (and bedrooms) of the old west.

Title
Carry on Cruising
Year
1966
     Distributer     
HBO (Canada)
Director
Gerald Thomas
Catagory
Comedy
Country
UK
CAST
Sidney James
Kenneth Williams
Liz Fraser
Kenneth Connor
Lance Percival
Running Time
89 mins
Rating
NR
    Summary    
The captain of a large passenger ship discovers that his able crew has been replaced by totally inexperienced men - the "Carry On" bunch.

Title
Carry on Screaming
Year
1966
     Distributer     
-
Director
Gerald Thomas
Catagory
Comedy
Country
UK
CAST
Joan Sims
Kenneth Williams
Gerald Thomas
Running Time
97 mins
Rating
NR
    Summary    

Title
Carry on Doctor
Year
1967
     Distributer     
Malofilm Group
Director
Gerald Thomas
Catagory
Comedy
Country
UK
CAST
Frankie Howerd
Sidney James
Kenneth Williams
Jim Dale
Charles Hawtrey
Joan Sims
Frankie Howerd
Barbara Windsor
Running Time
95 mins
Rating
PG
    Summary    
A certain English hospital, bordering on mental institution, is headed up by the slightly crazy medical team of Dr. Kilmore and Dr. Dinkle. Their abnormal patients and love-starved nurses make for a prescription of laughter as the best medicine in this British production.

Title
Carry On...Up the Khyber
Year
1968
     Distributer     
Director
Gerald Thomas
Catagory
Comedy
Country
UK
CAST
Sidney James
Joan Sims
Kenneth Williams
Running Time
97 mins
Rating
-
    Summary    
Title
Carry on Again, Doctor
Year
1970
     Distributer     
Director
Gerald Thomas
Catagory
Comedy
Country
UK
CAST
Charles Hawtrey
Sidney James
Kenneth Williams
Running Time
88 mins
Rating
-
    Summary    

Title
Carry on Camping
Year
1970
     Distributer     
Palm Beach Entertainment
Director
Gerald Thomas
Catagory
Comedy
Country
UK
CAST
Sidney James
Kenneth Williams
Joan Sims
Barbara Windsor
Running Time
88 mins
Rating
R
    Summary    
The "Carry On" boys try to win their girlfriend's hearts by taking them on a camping trip to a nudist camp of all places!

Title
Carry on Loving
Year
1970
     Distributer     
-
Director
Gerald Thomas
Catagory
Comedy
Country
UK
CAST
Charles Hawtrey
Sidney James
Kenneth Williams
Running Time
89 mins
Rating
NR
    Summary    
-

Title
Carry on Up the Jungle
Year
1970
     Distributer     
Director
Gerald Thomas
Catagory
Comedy
Country
UK
CAST
Kenneth Connor
Charles Hawtrey
Frankie Howerd
Sidney James
Joan Sims
Terry Scott
Running Time
90 mins
Rating
-
    Summary    

Title
Carry on 'Round the Bend
Year
1972
     Distributer     
Director
Gerald Thomas
Catagory
Comedy
Country
UK
CAST
Charles Hawtrey
Sidney James
Joan Sims
Kenneth Williams
Running Time
89 mins
Rating
-
    Summary    

Title
Carry on Girls
Year
1973
     Distributer     
Palm Beach Entertainment
Director
Gerald Thomas
Catagory
Comedy
Country
UK
CAST
Sidney James
Kenneth Williams
Joan Sims
Kenneth Connor
Bernard Bresslaw
Barbara Windsor
June Whitfield
Running Time
88 mins
Rating
NR
    Summary    
The gang returns with Sidney Fiddler conning the local council into running a beauty pageant to promote their community. He's thrilled with the prospect of entertaining all the lovely young contestants but his girlfriend has a different plan in mind.

Title
Carry on Matron
Year
1973
     Distributer     
Director
Gerald Thomas
Catagory
Comedy
Country
UK
CAST
Hattie Jacques
Sidney James
Kenneth Williams
Running Time
89 mins
Rating
-
    Summary    

Title
Carry on At Your Convenience
Year
1973
     Distributer     
Palm Beach Entertainment
Director
Gerald Thomas
Catagory
Comedy
Country
UK
CAST
Sidney James
Kenneth Williams
Charles Hawtrey
Joan Sims
Hattie Jacques
Running Time
87 mins
Rating
PG
    Summary    
The bawdy British "Carry On" troupe star in this tale of a toiletware manufacturer trying to cope with a workers' stoppage.

Title
Carry on Dick
Year
1974
     Distributer     
Director
Gerald Thomas
Catagory
Comedy
Country
UK
CAST
Hattie Jacques
Sidney James
Joan Sims
Kenneth Williams
Bernard Bresslaw
Barbara Windsor
Running Time
91 mins
Rating
-
    Summary    

Title
Carry on Behind
Year
1975
     Distributer     
New Line Home Video
Director
Gerald Thomas
Catagory
Comedy
Country
UK
CAST
Elke Sommer
Kenneth Williams
Sidney James
Joan Sims
Running Time
90 mins
Rating
NR
    Summary    
The uproariously funny "Carry On" series continues in this installment in which an archeological dig becomes a giant mishap. While sharing the digging site with a group of holiday caravaners, the archeologists engage in an abundance of comical adventures.

Title
Christine
Year
1983
     Distributer     
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Director
John Carpenter
Catagory
Horror/Suspense
Country
USA
CAST
Keith Gordon
John Stockwell
Harry Dean Stanton
Alexandra Paul
Christine Belford
Robert Prosky
Kelly Preston
Running Time
111 mins
Rating
R
    Summary    
After a student purchases a 1958 Plymouth Fury, he discovers that the car possesses a number of unique features. Deep within its chassis there lives an unholy presence. Based on Stephen King's bestseller.

Title
A Christmas Story
Year
1983
     Distributer     
MGM Home Entertainment
Director
Bob Clark
Catagory
Comedy
Country
USA
CAST
Peter Billingsley
Darren McGavin
Melinda Dillon
Ian Petrella
Scott Schwartz
Running Time
93 mins
Rating
PG
    Summary    
Deliciously warped and winsome boyhood memories of Christmas are told by a typical American man revisiting his native Indiana during the 1940's. Among other childish pursuits, his overriding obsession to finally own a genuine Red Ryder BB gun consumes his feverish imagination. Based on Jean Shepherd's novel, "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash."

Title
Clockwise
Year
1985
     Distributer     
HBO (Canada)
Director
Christopher Morahan
Catagory
Comedy
Country
UK
CAST
John Cleese
Penelope Wilton
Alison Steadman
Stephen Moore
Sharon Maiden
Running Time
94 mins
Rating
PG
    Summary    
Stimpson, a stuffy English teacher obsessed by punctuality, begins a trip to the national headmaster's conference as the newly-appointed chairman and becomes involved in a series of epic disasters, all of which leave him frantically attempting to make up for lost time.

Title
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Year
1977
     Distributer     
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Director
Steven Spielberg
Catagory
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Country
USA
CAST
Richard Dreyfuss
Teri Garr
Melinda Dillon
Francois Truffaut
Bob Balaban
Basil Hoffman
Running Time
134 mins
Rating
PG
    Summary    
After a man witnesses a neon fleet of U.F.O.s he and others are mysteriously drawn to a remote area of Wyoming where aliens may make first contact with the human race. Academy Award nominations: 8, including Best Director. Academy Awards: 2, including Best Cinematography and a Special Achievement Award for Best Sound.

Title
Clash of the Titans
Year
1981
     Distributer     
MGM Home Entertainment
Director
Desmond Davis
Catagory
Sci-Fi/Fanasy
Country
USA
CAST
Laurence Olivier
Ursula Andress
Maggie Smith
Harry Hamlin
Claire Bloom
Burgess Meredith
Running Time
118 mins
Rating
PG
    Summary    
The Olympic Gods toy with the fate of the mythological hero Perseus, putting him up against a snake-haired witch, a two-headed dog and other hideous monsters in his quest for love and power.

Title
Cocoon
Year
1985
     Distributer     
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Director
Ron Howard
Catagory
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Country
USA
CAST
Don Ameche
Hume Cronyn
Jack Gilford
Maureen Stapleton
Jessica Tandy
Gwen Verdon
Steve Guttenberg
Wilford Brimley
Brian Dennehy
Tahnee Welch
Tyrone Power
Running Time
117 mins
Rating
PG-13
    Summary    
A group of senior citizens residing in a rest home find their lives turned upside-down after they are offered the gift of eternal youth by benevolent aliens. A wonderful tribute to the human spirit. Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor--Don Ameche, Best Visual Effects.

Title
Cocoon 2 - The Return
Year
1988
     Distributer     
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Director
Daniel Petrie
Catagory
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Country
USA
CAST
Don Ameche
Hume Cronyn
Jack Gilford
Maureen Stapleton
Jessica Tandy
Gwen Verdon
Steve Guttenberg
Wilford Brimley
Tahnee Welch
Courteney Cox
Running Time
116 mins
Rating
PG
    Summary    
The spacefaring seniors discover the value of human emotion when they return to Earth to visit their families.

Title
Columbo - "Prescription Murder"
Year
1967
     Distributer     
Columbia House Video Library
Director
Richard Irving
Catagory
Action/Adventure
Country
USA
CAST
Peter Falk Gene
Barry Nina
Foch Katherine
Justice William
Windom
Running Time
100 mins
Rating
NR
    Summary    
Feature-length mystery starring Peter Falk as the lovable detective Columbo attempting to get the goods on a philandering psychiatrist who has cleverly prescribed his wife's murder. This was the pilot movie that introduced Columbo.

Title
Columbo - "Murder by the Book"
Year
1971
     Distributer     
Universal Studios Home Video
Director
Steven Spielberg
Catagory
Action/Adventure
Country
USA
CAST
Peter Falk
Jack Cassidy
Martin Milner
Rosemary Forsyth
Running Time
79 mins
Rating
NR
    Summary    
An episode from the television series. A mystery writer commits "the perfect crime" by eliminating his ex-partner and then generously offers to help Columbo solve the murder.

Title
Columbo - "Suitable for Framing"
Year
1971
     Distributer     
Universal Studios Home Video
Director
Hy Averback
Catagory
Action/Adventur
Country
USA
CAST
Peter Falk
Ross Martin
Don Ameche
Kim Hunter
Running Time
76 mins
Rating
NR
    Summary    
An art critic kills his uncle to inherit his art collection, but when he frames his ex-wife Columbo suspects this criminal masterpiece is a forgery.

Title
Columbo - "A Stitch in Crime"
Year
1972
     Distributer     
Universal Studios Home Video
Director
Hy Averback
Catagory
Action/Adventure
Country
USA
CAST
Peter Falk
Leonard Nimoy
Anne Francis
Nita Talbot
Will Geer
Running Time
74 mins
Rating
NR
    Summary    
A heart surgeon becomes the victim of Columbo's second hand cigar smoke when his patients are exposed to something much deadlier: murder.

Title
Columbo - "Lovely but Lethal"
Year
1973
     Distributer     
Universal Studios Home Video
Director
Jeannot Szwarc
Catagory
Action/Adventure
Country
USA
CAST
Peter Falk
Vera Miles
Martin Sheen
Sian Barbara
Allen Vincent Price
Running Time
74 mins
Rating
NA
    Summary    
Lt. Columbo must apply a little cold cream to unmask a beautiful cosmetics tycoon guilty of murdering one of her chemists.

Title
Columbo - "Try and Catch Me"
Year
1977
     Distributer     
Universal Studios Home Video
Director
James Frawley
Catagory
Action/Adventure
Country
USA
CAST
Peter Falk
Ruth Gordon
Mariette Hartley
Charles Frank
G.D. Spradlin
Running Time
73 mins
Rating
NR
    Summary    
When a famous mystery writer carries out the perfect murder she never imagined a character like Columbo might come along and unravel her bestselling plot.

Title
Columbo: "Grand Deceptions
Year
1989
     Distributer     
Director
Sam Wanamaker
Catagory
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Country
USA
CAST
Janet Eilber
Stephen Elliott
Peter Falk
Robert Foxworth
Michael McManus
Andy Romano
Running Time
96 mins
Rating
-
    Summary    

Title
Columbo: Caution -- Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
Year
1991
     Distributer     
Director
Catagory
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Country
USA
CAST
Running Time
96 mins
Rating
    Summary    

Title
Columbo: "A Bird in the Hand"
Year
1992
     Distributer     
Director
Catagory
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Country
USA
CAST
Tyne Daly
Greg Evigan
Peter Falk
Steve Forrest
Frank McRae
Running Time
100 mins
Rating
    Summary    

Title
Columbo: "Butterfly in Shades of Grey"
Year
1994
     Distributer     
Director
Dennis Dugan
Catagory
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Country
USA
CAST
Peter Falk
Molly Hagan
William Shatner
Jack Laufer
Running Time
96 mins
Rating
    Summary    

Title
Commando
Year
1985
     Distributer     
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Director
Mark L. Lester
Catagory
Action/Adventure
Country
USA
CAST
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Rae Dawn
Chong Dan
Hedaya David
Patrick Kelly
Alyssa Milano
Vernon Wells
Running Time
90 mins
Rating
R
    Summary    
After his daughter is kidnapped by a South American dictator, a retired Army Colonel who was once the leader of a special commando strike force swings into violent action. Nothing can stop him.

Title
Creepshow
Year
1982
     Distributer     
Facets Video
Director
George A. Romero
Catagory
Horror/Suspense
Country
USA
CAST
Hal Holbrook
Adrienne Barbeau
Fritz Weaver
Leslie Nielsen
E.G. Marshall
Ted Danson
Viveca Lindfors
Ed Harris
Gaylen Ross
Running Time
120 mins
Rating
R
    Summary    
An amusing anthology featuring tales of wry terror from author Stephen King, presented in the style of gruesome comic book episodes.

Title
Creepshow 2
Year
1987
     Distributer     
Director
Michael Gornick
Catagory
Horror/Suspense
Country
USA
CAST
Lois Chiles
George Kennedy
Dorothy Lamour
Page Hannah
Tom Savini
Running Time
92 mins
Rating
R
    Summary    
Join the world of the macabre with these four new tales of terror involving wicked roller coasters, frontier justice, a once harmless swimming party, and a carnivorous garden.

Title
Crocodile Dundee
Year
1986
     Distributer     
Malofilm Group
Director
Peter Faiman Cast:
Catagory
Comedy
Country
USA
CAST
Paul Hogan
Linda Kozlowski
John Meillon
Mark Blum
David Gulpilil
David Gulpill
Michael Lombard
Running Time
97 mins
Rating
PG-13
    Summary    
Includes three separate features - (1) "The Sneetches" - creatures with subtle physical differences teach a lesson on racism. (2) "The Zax" - two stubborn creatures who won't step aside for each other are the 'lesson' on courtesy. (3) "Green Eggs and Ham" - shows children that things they haven't tried aren't necessarily bad. Screenplay.

Title
Crocodile Dundee 2
Year
1988
     Distributer     
Malofilm Group
Director
John Cornell
Catagory
Comedy
Country
USA
CAST
Paul Hogan
Linda Kozlowski
John Meillon
Hechter Ubarry
Juan Fernandez
Charles Dutton
Running Time
109 mins
Rating
PG
    Summary    
Just as Dundee is starting to adjust to his crazy new surroundings in "The Big Apple," he and his beautiful girlfriend find themselves up against a gang of ruthless Columbian drug dealers. So Dundee evens the odds by leading the big city hoods into the rugged Australian outback where they get a fast, funny and deadly lesson in wilderness survival.

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Compiled by D. M Brewer - November 1997