PAYBACK (director/writer: Brian Helgeland; screenwriter: Terry Hayes; cinematographer: Ericson Core; editor: Kevin Stitt; cast: Mel Gibson (Porter) , (Val) Gregg Henry, (Rosie) Maria Bello, (Stegman) David Paymer, (Lynn) Deborah Kara…

BIG HOUSE, THE (director: George W. Hill; screenwriters: Joseph Farnham/Martin Flavin/Frances Marion/Lennox Robinson; cinematographer: Harold Wenstrom; editor: Blanche Sewell; cast: Chester Morris (John Morgan), Wallace Beery (Butch Schmidt), Lewis Stone…

PENTHOUSE (director: W.S. Van Dyke; screenwriters: Frances Goodrich/Albert Hackett/based on the story in Cosmopolitan magazine by Arthur Somers Roche; cinematographers: Lucien Andriot/Harold Rosson; editor: Robert Kern; music: William Axt; cast:…

THE BIG SHAVE (director/writer: Martin Scorsese; cinematographer: Ares Demertzis; cast: Peter Bernuth; Runtime: 7; MPAA Rating: NR; Janus; 1968) "personal statement film." Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz Shot by recent NYU…

PERMANENT MIDNIGHT (director/writer: David Veloz; screenwriter: book by Jerry Stahl; cinematographer: Robert Yeoman; editor: Steven Weisberg, Cara Silverman; music: Daniel Licht; cast: Ben Stiller (Jerry Stahl), Elizabeth Hurley (Sandra), Maria…

BIG WHEEL, THE (director: Edward Ludwig; screenwriter: Robert Smith; cinematographer: Ernest Laszlo; editor: Walter Thompson; music: Nathaniel W. Finston; cast: Mickey Rooney (Billy Coy), Spring Byington (Mary Coy), Lina Romay…

PHAEDRA (director/writer: Jules Dassin; screenwriters: based on Euripedes' Hippolytus/Margarita Liberaki; cinematographer: Jacques Natteau; editor: Roger Dwyre; music: Mikis Theodorakis; cast: Melina Mercouri (Phaedra), Anthony Perkins (Alexis), Raf Vallone (Thanos Kyrilis),…

THE BITCH (director/writer: Gerry O'Hara; screenwriter: Jackie Collins novel; cinematographer: Dennis Lewiston; editor: Eddy Joseph; music: Biddu; cast: Joan Collins (Fontaine Khaled), Michael Coby (Nico Cantafora/Antonio Cantafora), Ian Hendry (Thrush…

PHILADELPHIA STORY, THE (director/writer: George Cukor; screenwriters: from the play by Philip Barry/Donald Ogden Stewart/Waldo Salt- uncredited; cinematographer: Joseph Ruttenberg; editor: Frank Sullivan; music: Franz Waxman; cast: Cary Grant (C.…

BLACK LEGION (director: Archie Mayo; screenwriters: story by Robert Lord, Abem Finkel, William Wister Haines; cinematographer: George Barnes; editor: Owen Marks; music: Bernhard Kaun; cast: Humphrey Bogart (Frank Taylor), Dick…