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Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Nightmare in Badham County (1976)


































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Deborah Raffin and Lynne Moody (Scream, Blacula, Scream) stars as two young attractive college students who become enmeshed in a trap of local prejudice and greed when their car breaks down outside a small, sleep town. Insulted by the girls' rejection of his amorous advances, the local sheriff (Chuck Connors), arrests them for trespassing and prostitution. After a mockery of a "trail," they are sentenced to a womens' prison farm run by brutal guards and a sex-crazed superintendent. Cut off from contact with friends and family, the girls realize that they are at the mercy of a corrupt criminal justice "system," designed to supply the local farms with cheap prison labor. Their only hope is to escape this nightmare, at the risk of their lives. Nightmare in Badham County exposes the terror and corruption of a vicious tyranny that actually exist in certain communities where "justice" is no more than a charade for greed. It offers a behind-the-scenes-look at life on a womens' prison farm that is as realistic as it is shocking. The result is gripping action, drama, and suspense.   

The Greatest Thing That Almost Happned (1977)

























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In the 1950s a teenage athlete learns that he has leukemia, and his winning spirit is threatened as he faces a major basketball tournament just before Christmas, while his dad's struggle to maintain his own self-respect often blinds him to his son's emotional needs. 

Top Secret (1978)






















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Bill Cosby, an undercover agent for the United States, travels to Italy in search of dangerous international thieves. There he meets his outspoken partner, actress Tracy Reed. Together they must suppress the threat of a future nuclear crisis. The investigation heats up when the team gets caught in a deadly game of murder and kidnap. As the close in on the final piece of evidence, the enemy lurks in the shadows ready to destroy everything they have accomplished.