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American Gothic (1988)
When six friends fly off on a weekend getaway and are suddenly plagued by engine trouble, they’re forced to land on a remote island. Looking for shelter, they’re grateful to encounter Ma and Pa and their children – an eccentric family living in the island’s backwoods. But what begins as simple hospitality turns into a terrifying race for survival as the friends start disappearing one by one … and turning up dead.
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Catch the Heat (1987)
Gorgeous Checkers Goldberg, a police detective, goes undercover as a stripper in order to stop a ruthless kingpin who has been using unsuspecting starlets in order to smuggle drugs into the United States. With her hot looks, street smarts and martial arts prowess, Goldberg seems to have everything she needs to catch this violent criminal — and will stop at nothing to get the job done.
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The Glory Boys
Set in London, this three-part British miniseries was adapted by Gerald Seymour from his own novel. A visiting Israeli scientist was targeted for assassination by two different terrorist organizations: one Irish, one Arab. After working at cross-purposes for an extended length of time, the hired killers from both factions decided to join forces to carry out their murderous assignment.
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The Naked Face (1984)
Chicago psychiatrist Judd Stevens (Roger Moore) is suspected of murdering one of his patients when the man turns up stabbed to death in the middle of the city. After repeated attempts to convince cops Rod Steiger and Elliott Gould of his innocence, Dr.Stevens is forced to go after the real villains himself, and he finds himself up against one of the city’s most notorious Mafia kingpins.
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Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole (1983)
Cook and Peary: The Race to the Pole is an unabashedly biased recreation of the controversy concerning the “conquering” of the North Pole. Robert E. Peary (Rod Steiger), a US Navy commander and shameless self-promoter, sets out through Arctic wastes in 1909 to discover the Pole, an expedition that many others have attempted but failed to complete. His principal rival is Dr. Frederick A. Cook (Richard Chamberlain), who insists that he’d already reached the Pole in 1908. Though the experts (and the US Congress) conclude that Perry was first, public opinion is firmly in Cook’s corner–as is this TV movie.
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Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1981)
Cattle Annie and Little Britches is a 1981 American film[1] starring Burt Lancaster, Rod Steiger, Diane Lane, and Amanda Plummer, based on the lives of two adolescent girls in the late 19th century Oklahoma Territory, who became infatuated with the Western outlaws that they had read about in Ned Buntline’s stories and left their homes to join the criminals. It was scripted by David Eyre and Robert Ward from Robert Ward’s book and directed by Lamont Johnson.
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Lion of the Desert (1981)
This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.
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Wolf Lake (1980)
Canadian film where in ex-marine Steiger, unhinged by the death of his son in Vietnam, terrorizes a young couple
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The Amityville Horror (1979)
George Lutz and his wife Kathleen, move into their Long Island dream house with their children only for their lives to be turned into a hellish nightmare. The legacy of a murder committed in the house gradually affects the family and a priest is brought in to try and exorcise the demonic presence from their home.
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Breakthrough (1979)
Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner’s platoon fails in its mission by coming up against a Russian tank. Steiner then takes a furlough to Paris just as the Allies launch their invasion of Normandy.
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Love and Bullets (1979)
Charles Bronson is out for revenge in this action drama. Jackie Pruit (Jill Ireland) is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa (Rod Steiger). When it looks as if Jackie’s life is being threatened by Bomposa’s goons, the FBI moves in to protect her, in hopes that she’ll have incriminating evidence that the Bureau can use against Bomposa in court. Veteran agent Charlie Congers (Bronson) is assigned to watch over Jackie, and while it soon becomes obvious that she knows almost nothing about Bomposa that would be of any use to the FBI, he also falls in love with her. However, Bomposa decides that it would be a lot more convenient to have Jackie out of the way, and he orders her to be executed. Bomposa’s henchmen manage to slip through FBI security and murder her, but now they have to answer to the angry and vengeful Congers.
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