Scared to Death (1947) starring Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Nat Pendleton, Douglas Fowley
Scared to Death is primarily remembered as the answer to a trivia question. What is the only color film with Bela Lugosi in a starring role? And sadly, that’s all it deserves to be remembered for. It’s a good example of a waste of a perfectly good cast.
Starflight One (1983) starring Lee Majors, Hal Linden, Lauren Hutton, Ray Milland
The celebrity-laden Starflight One, aka. Starflight: the Plane that Couldn’t Land, was the last of the disaster movies. Only with a bit of science fiction thrown in. The basic story has the first hypersonic transport being prepared for a media-covered inaugural flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia, a planned two-hour flight. The passengers and crew, as is normal for these types of movies, bring their own baggage, and we’re not talking luggage:
Enemy of the State (1998), starring Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight
Enemy of the State is a frightening movie. An out-of-control government tracks our every move. They listen to our phone calls, read our emails, and track our movements by tracking retail purchases. Not to mention looking at us through surveillance cameras. What’s truly frightening is that, from the time this movie was made to the present … The government is now admitting that yes, all of those things are being done … For our “protection”, of course.
In Konga – a doctor returns from Uganda with a carnivorous plant that he can use to enlarge animals – Konga, the chimpanzee, that he turns into a gorilla — and his own personal tool for murder.
Destination Moon (1950), starring John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson, based on a script by Robert Heinlein
Although I’d heard of Destination Moon years ago, I only saw it for the first time last night. It was enjoyable, but with a strange feeling of nostalgia. Released in 1950, it was an attempt at a look into the future — man’s first landing on the moon.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005), starring Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel
Here’s the absolutely hysterical, wonderfully wild, cosmic adventure comedy THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY. Based on Douglas Adams’ worldwide best-selling novel, and starring an outrageous intergalactic cast. This is one ride you don’t want to miss. Seconds before Earth is destroyed to make way for a new hyperspace express route, mild-mannered Arthur Dent is whisked into space by his best friend. He’san alien posing as an out-of-work actor. And so the misadventures begin. He and fellow travelers, including the cool but dim-witted President of the Galaxy, the Earth girl Trillian, and Marvin the paranoid android, search for answers to the mystery of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
Laura (1944) starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price
Laura is a different kind of murder mystery; it begins with the title character, Laura Hunt (played by Gene Tierney) having been murdered, and Detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) investigating her death — and life.
Walt Disney’s Aladdin(1992), starring Scott Weinger, Linda Larkin, Robin Williams, Jonathan Freeman, Gilbert Gottfried
“A diamond … in the rough“. In short, Walt Disney’s Aladdin can be summarized in that one sentence. It’s the story of a poor young man, Aladdin (Scott Weinger). He’s a street rat, who knows that he can be more. He lives by his wits on the streets. He commits petty larceny to eat. With the help of his only friend, the monkey Abu. But who’s still soft-hearted enough to give away his purloined meal to younger children, even hungrier than he is.