March 1982 (Exact date not known)

Sorceress (1982)

Stars: Leigh Harris, Lynette Harris, Roberto Nelson

Director: Jack Hill (as Brian Stuart)

Writer: Jim Wynorski

Genre: Action/Fantasy/Adventure

Corporación Nacional Cinematográfica (CONACINE), New World Pictures

Time: 83 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

To maintain his powers, the evil wizard Traigon must sacrifice his firstborn child to the god Caligara. His wife, however, has other ideas and runs away after giving birth with her twin daughters. Before dying, she hands the girls over to the warrior Krona who promises to raise them as great soldiers. Twenty years later, Traigon returns and begins hunting down his daughters once again. Will the twins, with the help of the Barbarian Erlik and the Viking Baldar, be able to defeat their father?

Ten Violent Women (1982)

Director: Ted V. Mikels

Writers: James Gordon White, Ted V. Mikels

Stars: Sherri Vernon, Dixie Lauren, Sally Alice Gamble

Genre: Action/Drama

Cinema Features

Time: 97 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

A group of women miners get fed up with their lifestyle and decide to try crime. After successfully pulling off a jewelry store robbery, they fail to sell the jewelry and are forced to trade the jewels for cocaine. Soon they are busted by undercover cops when they try to sell the drugs, sending four of the women to a prison where a butch head guard uses the prisoners for her own deviant pleasures. Eventually they break out and split up. A Shah, who lost his priceless Scarab ring in the original robbery, tracks it to the two remaining women and offers them an employment opportunity. Director Ted Mikels appears as Leo the Fence, who is killed by one of the women who stomps him repeatedly with her spiked heel.

Cold River (1982)

Stars: Suzanne Weber, Pat Petersen, Richard Jaeckel

Director: Fred G. Sullivan

Writers: William Judson (novel), Fred G. Sullivan

Genre: Adventure

Cold River

Time: 94 min

Rating: PG

Plot

Based on the novel Winterkill, by William Judson, Cold River is the story of an Adirondack guide who takes his young daughter and step-son on a long camping trip in the fall of 1932. When winter strikes unexpectedly early (a natural phenomenon known as a 'winterkill' - so named because the animals are totally unprepared for a sudden, early winter, and many freeze or starve to death), he suffers a fatal heart attack, leaving his two children to find their own way home without food, or protection from the elements. Rated PG for mild violence and language.

Movie Releases – 26 March 1982

I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982)

Stars: Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Dinah Manoff

Director: Herbert Ross

Writers: Neil Simon (play), Neil Simon (screenplay)

Genre: Comedy/Drama

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Time: 108 min

Rating: PG

Plot

Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter. Grandmother has been in a New York cemetery for six years and Dad has been out of Libby's life for 16 of her 19 years. Libby arrives in LA on a Tuesday and phones Dad the one night that Stephanie, who does Jane Fonda's hair, stays over. Stephanie is there the next morning when Libby decides she needs to tell her story face-to-face.

The Beach Girls (1982) (Limited - Bismarck, North Dakota)

Stars: Debra Blee, Val Kline, Jeana Keough

Director: Bud Townsend (as Pat Townsend)

Writers: Patrick Sheane Duncan (screenplay), Phil Groves (additional material)

Genre: Comedy

Marimark Productions, Marimark Productions

Time: 91 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

School is out, and three girls head to the beach for vacation. Two of the girls are world-wise party-goers who attempt to loosen up their naive, virginal friend, whose uncle has allowed the girls to stay at his beach house. When the near-sighted, drug smuggling Captain Bly dumps his cargo of marijuana, the bales wash up on shore. The two party girls, Ginger and Ducky, quickly stuff the dope into giant bags and spirit it back to the beach house, where it fuels a party with assorted misfits, delivery persons, and passersby.

Movie Releases – 24 March 1982

Eating Raoul (1982)

Stars: Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, Robert Beltran

Director: Paul Bartel

Writers: Paul Bartel, Richard Blackburn

Genre: Comedy/Horror

Bartel, Films Incorporated, Quartet

Time: 90 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

When a Paul enters his apartment to find Mary fighting off a swinger who has gotten into the wrong apartment (and thinks that Mary is just playing hard to get) he hits the man with a frying pan, killing him. Their dreams of running a small restaurant seem to be in jeopardy until they decide to dispose of the body, keep the wallet, and to advertise for other sexually oriented visitors who are summarily killed, bagged, robbed and disposed of. This goes along quite well until one night a burglar named Raoul breaks in and cuts himself in for a piece of the action.

Truly one of the classic horror films

Movie Releases – 19 March 1982

Victor Victoria (1982) (Limited-New York City, New York))

General Release: 2 April 1982

Stars: Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston

Director: Blake Edwards

Writers: Blake Edwards (screenplay), Hans Hoemburg (concept)

Genre: Comedy/Music/Musica

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Peerford Ltd., Artista Management

Time: 132 min

Rating: PG

Plot

In 1934 Paris, trained coloratura soprano Victoria Grant, a native Brit, can't get a job as a singer and is having trouble making ends meet. She doesn't even have enough money for the basics of food and shelter. Gay cabaret singer Carole 'Toddy' Todd may befall the same fate as Victoria as he was just fired from his singing gig at a second rate club named Chez Lui. To solve both their problems, Toddy comes up with what he considers an inspired idea: with Toddy as her manager, Victoria, pretending to be a man, get a job singing as a female impersonator. If they pull this scheme off, Toddy vows Victoria, as her male alter ego, will be the toast of Paris and as such be extremely wealthy. That alter ego they decide is Polish Count Victor Grazinski, Toddy's ex-lover who was disowned by his family when they found out he was gay. The Count auditions for the city's leading agent, Andre Cassell, who, impressed, gets him a gig performing in the city's best nightclub. In the audience on the ...

Deathtrap (1982)

Stars: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon

Director: Sidney Lumet

Writers: Ira Levin (play), Jay Presson Allen (screenplay)

Genre: Comedy/Crime/Mystery

Warner Bros.

Time: 116 min

Rating: PG

Plot

To make Sidney's slump all the more painful, Clifford Anderson, a student of one of Sidney's writing seminars, has recently sent his mentor a copy of his first attempt at playwrighting for Sidney's review and advice. The play, "Deathtrap," is a five character, two act thriller so perfect in its construction that, as Sidney says, "A gifted director couldn't even hurt it." Using his penchant for plot, and out of his desperate desire to once again be the toast of Broadway, Sidney, along with Myra, cook up an almost unthinkable scheme: They'll lure the would-be playwright to the Bruhl home, kill him, and market the sure-fire script as Sidney's own. But shortly after Clifford arrives, it's clear that things are not what they seem! Indeed, even Helga Ten Dorp, a nosey psychic from next door, and Porter Milgram, Sidney's observant attorney, can only speculate where the line between truth and deception lies.

Porky's (1982)

Stars: Dan Monahan, Mark Herrier, Wyatt Knight

Director: Bob Clark

Writer: Bob Clark

Genre: Comedy

Melvin Simon Productions, Astral Bellevue Pathé

Time: 94 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

1954. The sexual hijinks of a group of mid-teen male students of Angel Beach High School in Florida are presented. Their main goal is to lose their collective virginity. In the process, they embark on games of sexual innuendo with their female classmates, as witnessed by the activities of Billy, Tommy and Pee Wee in their secret surveillance. Pee Wee is the most desperate, that desperation which gets him into one predicament after another, especially as he is the butt of many a prank. A side issue for Tim, basically a good guy, is dealing with his learned racism, which comes to the surface with the arrival to their school of new student, Jewish Brian Schwartz. The sexual pursuits at the school are not limited to the student body as new boys Phys Ed coach, Roy Brackett, has a mutual attraction with cheer-leading coach, Miss Lynn Honeywell, who doesn't want to go all the way; Coach Brackett's goal is to find out why Coach Warren has nicknamed Miss Honeywell "Lassie". All these goings-on...

Movie Releases – 12 March 1982

Missing (1982)

Stars: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron

Director: Costa-Gavras

Writers: Costa-Gavras (screenplay), Donald Stewart (screenplay)

Genre: Drama/History/Mystery

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Universal Pictures

Time: 122 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

In September1973, in Chile, the American journalist Charles Horman arrives in Valparaiso with his friend Terry Simon to meet his wife Beth and bring her back to New York with him. However, they are surprised by the military coup d'état sponsored by the US Government to replace President Salvador Allende and Charles is arrested by the military force. His father Ed Horman, a conservative businessman from New York, arrives in Chile to seek out his missing son with Beth. He goes to the American Consulate to meet the Consul that promises the best efforts to find Charles while the skeptical Beth does not trust on the word of the American authorities. The nationalism and confidence of Ed in his government changes when he finds the truth about what happened with his beloved son.

Parasite (1982)

Stars: Robert Glaudini, Demi Moore, Luca Bercovici

Director: Charles Band

Writers: Alan J. Adler, Michael Shoob,

Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi

Embassy Pictures

Time: 85 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find away to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus and his rednecks and an evil government agent named Merchant.

Movie Releases – 5 March 1982

Making Love (1982)

Stars: Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson, Harry Hamlin

Director: Arthur Hiller

Writers: Barry Sandler (screenplay), A. Scott Berg (story)

Genre: Drama

IndieProd Company Productions, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Time: 113 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

A successful young L.A. doctor and his equally successful television-producer wife find their happily-ever-after life torn assunder when he suddenly confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men. Zach and Claire live a comfortable life secure in their love for one another when Bart, a swinging L.A. novelist, walks into Zach's office and awakens unfamiliar feelings in him. In a move which leaves him wracked with guilt, Zach cancels dinner with his wife in order to go out with Bart. He is inexplicably drawn to this man who seems intent on keeping him at arms distance. Why can't Bart allow their relationship to grow? he wonders. Exasperated, he asks Bart, "Do you snore? Does anybody ever get a chance to find out?" As Zach's absences become more and more frequent, Claire's concern manifests itself in the suspicion that he is having an affair with another woman. Jilted by Bart and feeling alone for the first time in his married life, Zach resolves to tell Claire the truth about ...

Evil Under the Sun (1982)

Stars: Peter Ustinov, James Mason, Maggie Smith

Director: Guy Hamilton

Writer: Anthony Shaffer (screenplay)

Genre: Crime/Drama/Mystery

EMI Films, Titan Productions, Mersham Productions Ltd.

Time: 117 min

Rating: PG

Plot

Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate a case for an insurance company regarding firstly a dead woman's body found on a moor and then a important diamond sent to the company to be insured turns out to be a fake. Poirot discovers that the diamond was bought for Arlena Marshall by Sir Horace Platt and Arlena is on her honeymoon with her husband and step-daughter on a tropical island hotel. He joins them on the island and finds that everybody else starts to hate Arlena for different reasons - refusing to do a stage show, stopping a book, and for having an open affair with Patrick Redfern, another guest, in full view of his shy wife. So it's only a matter of time before Arlena turns up dead, strangled and Poirot must find out who it is...

Diner (1982)

Stars: Steve Guttenberg, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon

Director: Barry Levinson

Writer: Barry Levinson

Genre: Comedy/Drama

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), SLM Production Group

Time: 110 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

Early twenty-something Baltimoreans Eddie, Shrevie, Boogie, Billy, Fenwick and Modell have been friends since they were kids, where the center of their lives has been and still is the Fells Point Diner. It's the last week of 1959. Baltimore Colts fanatic Eddie is scheduled to get married to Elyse on New Year's Eve, but may call off the wedding if Elyse doesn't pass his Colts quiz which he will hold two days before the scheduled wedding. Inexperienced Eddie turns to the only other married one among the bunch, electronics salesman and music aficionado Shrevie, for advice, he who may not be the best person from who to ask advice on marriage since he doesn't yet realize that he probably got married to his wife Beth for the wrong reasons. Indeed, Beth, who has lost her sense of identity, is unhappy in their marriage, and contemplates having an affair with someone who provides what she believes is a sympathetic shoulder. Hairdresser and law school student Boogie is the player of the bunch, ...

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982)

Stars: Jill Clayburgh, Nicol Williamson, Dianne Wiest

Director: Jack Hofsiss

Writers: Barbara Gordon (book), David Rabe

Genre: Biography/Drama

Paramount Pictures

Time: 107 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

A true story about Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Gordon's Valium addiction and her desperate attempts to kick the habit.

Deadly Games (1982) (Limited - Port Arthur, Texas)

Stars: Alexandra Morgan, Jo Ann Harris, Sam Groom

Director: Scott Mansfield

Writer: Scott Mansfield

Genre: Horror/Mystery

Great Plains Films

Time: 92 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

A town is being terrorized by a masked killer who is murdering women. A young woman is attacked by the killer but escapes. She believes the killer to be either the town's policeman or the manager of the local theater, and she devises a plan to find out which is the actual killer.

Movie Releases - 1 March 1982 (USA)

The Comeback Trail (1982)

Stars: Chuck McCann, Buster Crabbe, Robert Staats

Director: Harry Hurwitz

Writers: Irwin Corey (additional material), Roy Frumkes (story)

Genre: Comedy

Rearguard Productions

Time: 76 min

Rating: not known

Plot

Two bumbling "producers" are in danger of losing their company because they're in hock up to their ears. In order to pay off their debts and in the process make some cash for themselves, they get the idea to bring an old cowboy star out of retirement to make a new western, insure him to the hilt, then give him all sorts of dangerous stunts and strenuous activities to do, hoping that the old codger will drop dead and they can collect on the insurance. However, the old codger proves to be a lot more resilient than they thought he was.