Films with: Overton, Frank

Fail safe /

The unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States military's chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union.

DVD 13314

Twilight zone.

Whole truth: A peculiar Model A automobile compels a used car dealer to tell only the truth. Consequently, he can't sell a single vehicle until he comes up with an unusual marketing scheme. Mute: a 12-yr.-old girl who lost her parents in a fire doesn't speak because she has grown up in a telepathic community. The couple who takes her in and her teacher are determined to help her adapt to their society, no matter the cost. Queen of the Nile: a young handsome columnist learns that a famous movie star is just as lovely and youthful as when she starred in the 1940's Queen of the Nile film. Intrigued, he investigates ... and soon learns a terrifying secret.

DVD 1094

Twilight zone.

In Kick the can, a children's game somehow offers rejuvenative powers to an old man. In Steel, Lee Marvin's boxing robot breaks so he must enter the fight disguised as his own robot. In Game of pool, a young pool player finds himself playing against a long-dead master pool shark, with his life as the stakes. In Walking distance, an advertising agent visits his home town and slips thirty years into his childhood.

DVD 1107

Wild river

A Tennessee Valley Authority administrator must deal with the racial politics of hiring African American workers. He also must evict an old woman from her home, but then he falls in love with her granddaughter.

DVD 10003