5 Movies Starring Ron Leibman

Where's Poppa?

Where's Poppa?

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1972-01-17

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

82 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (1275 Reviews)

Director:

Carl Reiner

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Klane (screenplay)

Robert Klane (novel)

Fullplot:

When New York attorney Gordon Hocheiser meets Louise Callan, the girl of his dreams, he schemes to eliminate his aging, senile mother, even though he promised his late father that he'd always take care of her. He fears that his batty mom's eccentricities will shortly lead to Louise's departure.

The Hot Rock

The Hot Rock

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1972-01-26

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

GP

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (3587 Reviews)

Director:

Peter Yates

Cast:

Writer:

Donald E. Westlake (novel)

William Goldman (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Dr. Amusa approaches Dortmunder about a valuable gem in a museum that is of great signifigance to his people in Africa, stolen during colonial times. Dortmunder assembles a crack team of cat burglars and hatches an elaborate plan for stealing the gem. Despite their care and experience, circumstances and plain bad luck keep the gem just out of their reach.

Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1972-03-15

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(9004 Reviews)

Director:

George Roy Hill

Cast:

Writer:

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (novel)

Stephen Geller (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Using his own terminology, Billy Pilgrim is "unstuck in time", which means he is moving between different points in his life uncontrollably, although he is aware of it at certain of those points as witnessed by the letter to the editor he writes to the Ilium Daily News about his situation. Primarily, he is moving between three general time periods and locations. The first is his stint as a GI during WWII, when, as a pacifist, he was acting as assistant chaplain for his squad. This time is largely as a POW, where he was in Dresden the day of the bombing, spending it with among others an older compassionate GI named Edgar Derby, and a brash loudmouth GI named Paul Lazzaro. The second is his life as an optometrist in Ilium in upstate New York, eventually married to the wealthy and overbearing Valencia Merble, and having two offspring, Robert, who would spend his teenaged years as a semi-delinquent, and Barbara, who would end up much like her mother. And the third is as an abductee on the planet Tralfamadore, along with his devoted dog Spot, and Hollywood starlet Montana Wildhack - who was not averse to taking off her clothes to further her career - the Tralfamadorians who have put them on display. The more time he spends on Tralfamadore, the more he understands the meaning of what is happening to him.

Norma Rae

Norma Rae

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1979-03-02

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (6957 Reviews)

Director:

Martin Ritt

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Irving Ravetch (screenplay)

Harriet Frank Jr. (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.

Zorro: The Gay Blade

Zorro: The Gay Blade

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1981-07-17

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

93 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

(3118 Reviews)

Director:

Peter Medak

Cast:

Writer:

Hal Dresner (screen story)

Greg Alt (screen story)

Don Moriarty (screen story)

Bob Randall (screen story)

Johnston McCulley (based upon a character created by)

Hal Dresner (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Mexico, 1840s. When the new Spanish Governor begins to grind the peasants under his heel, wealthy landowner Don Diego Vega follows in his late father's footsteps and becomes Zorro, the masked man in black with a sword who rights wrongs and becomes a folk hero to the people of Mexico. When Vega sprains his ankle and cannot figure out how to continue his campaign against the corrupt Captain Esteban, luck stays with Vega when his long-lost twin brother Ramon, who was sent off by their father to the British Royal Navy to make a "man" of him, whom is also flamboyantly gay, and now known as Lt. Bunny Wigglesworth, appears for a visit. 'Bunny' agrees to temporarily take his brother's place as Zorro, but wishes to make some changes. Bunny becomes 'the Gay Blade' in which his new suits are lemon, plum, and scarlet colored, and Bunny insists on using a whip. Bunny also becomes the liaison between Don Vega and the liberal American activist/feminist Charlotte a long-time critic of Captain Esteban's policies, and who has a crush on her masked hero.

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