The Gauntlet (1977) (MOD)

The Gauntlet (1977) (MOD)Phoenix cop Ben Shockley's dream of breaking "the big case" has faded over time. His assignment to escort "a nothing witness for a nothing trial" from Las Vegas seems like another meaningless exercise. Until the fireworks start. Clint Eastwood runs The Gauntlet into an explosive movie embodying its title with a vengeance. The witness is a hardened hooker (Sondra Locke) whom everyone including Vegas oddsmakers wants dead. Trapped between both sides of

the competition is frightful at this talent contest as the show is being broadcast from an opera house with a history of horrors and a particularly vengeful phantom that has cursed the show's production

A trouble-loving twosome with a passion for pranks

Romantic melodrama and noirish atmospherics combine in this tale starring Dane Clark

The sheer terror and unearthly beauty of a raging forest fire is breathlessly captured in this compelling Irwin Allen production boasting a big-name cast and enough blazing special effects to turn night into day

trying to spark a romance between her father and her pretty young governess

He knows how to ease his biplane into the air

Bill Bixby

and Tim Burton co-produces this thrill-ride of a movie that thunders along on Batmobile

includes scenes shot on location in Africa

complete with gangsters and fighting priests (and the crime vein continues in the very noir-ey Angels in Disguise)

Hannah wants a home and roots

In this new production starring Laurence Fishburne and Kenneth Branagh