Offering: Rare, Old and Hard to Find Movies on DVD
Fool's Parade 1971
James Stewart stars as Mattie Appleyard, a former convict who is trying to go straight and open a business with two other reformed jailbirds. However, a onetime prison guard with a grudge against Appleyard is determined to make this difficult for him. Mattie is also having troubles with a check he was given by a banker who handled his savings during his 40 years in the stir.
Burt Reynolds stars in this fast paced "road" picture as W.W. Bright, a 1950s Southern con man. He takes over the Dixie Dancekings, a two-bit country western act headed by Dixie (Conny Van Dyke). Bright wheels and deals to get the Dancekings into the Grand Ole Opry. Meanwhile, he robs the gas stations of an oil company which he thinks has cheated him, and is pursued by Bible-thumping lawman Deacon Gore (Art Carney). W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings is highlighted by musical renditions from Conny Van Dyke, Jerry Reed and Furry Lewis- and from Ned Beatty, playing an image conscious, Porter Wagoner type.
A small but hardy band of survivors traverse a post-apocalypse American landscape in this sci-fi thriller. A horrific nuclear assault leaves only three survivors at an underground military facility, so Tanner (Jan-Michael Vincent), Denton (George Peppard) and Keegan (Paul Winfield) commandeer a special all terrain land cruiser and head for Albany, NY, the only American city to be spared in the attack. As they travel through the post-nuke wastelands, the soldiers pick up a beautiful woman (Dominique Sanda) and an incorrigible teenager (Jackie Earle Haley), as they battle huge mutant insects, packs of survivors turned violent and feral and brutal electrical storms that savage the already barren plains. Damnation Alley was based on a novel by award-winning speculative fiction author, Roger Zelazny.
