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1	The Paper Chase (1973) more movies like this directed by James Bridges featuring Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman, Graham Beckel, Edward Herrmann This filmization of John Jay Osborn Jr.'s novel Paper Chase ended up one of the surprise hits of the 1973-74 movie season. Timothy Bottoms stars as the Minnesotan Hart, a brilliant but naive first-year student at the Harvard Law School. Like most of his fellow aspiring attorneys, Hart is in fearful awe of his demanding, ego-deflating instructor, ... see all copies from £3.43! new only from £5.14!
2	Three Days of the Condor (1975) more movies like this directed by Sydney Pollack featuring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow, John Houseman "His code name is Condor. In the next 24 hours, everyone he trusts will try to kill him." As the ads ominously announced, a low-level spook confronts the unfathomable in Sydney Pollack's 1975 political thriller, adapted from the James Grady novel Six Days of the Condor. CIA researcher Joe Turner (Robert Redford) returns from lunch to find the ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £5.13!
3	My Bodyguard (1980) more movies like this directed by Tony Bill featuring Chris Makepeace, Adam Baldwin, Matt Dillon, Ruth Gordon, John Houseman, Martin Mull This quietly compelling film explores the hardships and anxieties of high school with intelligence, sensitivity, warmth and humor. Chris Makepeace stars as a shy, bookish student who has recently moved to Chicago and begun a new school. There he finds himself the target of a group of punks led by Matt Dillon (ideally cast as the weasel-like bully) ... see all copies from £4.00! new only from £5.14!
4	Ghost Story (1981) more movies like this directed by John Irvin featuring Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., John Houseman, Craig Wasson This 1981 John Irvin picture constitutes an adaptation of Peter Straub's colossal, bestselling novel. The central plot -- shared by both book and film -- revolves around the four elderly members of the Chowder Society (Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and John Houseman), who gather in each other's drawing rooms each winter to ... see all copies from £2.55! new only from £7.56!
5	The Fog (1979) more movies like this directed by John Carpenter featuring Adrienne Barbeau, Hal Holbrook, Janet Leigh, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Houseman Following the phenomenal box-office success of his seminal horror classic Halloween, director John Carpenter teamed up with producer Debra Hill for a second independent horror project, this time in the mode of an old-fashioned ghost story. The end result was The Fog, a spooky romp about a dark secret that returns to haunt the Pacific fishing ... see all copies from £2.04! new only from £4.16!
6	Rollerball (1975) more movies like this directed by Norman Jewison featuring James Caan, John Houseman, Maud Adams, John Beck, Moses Gunn In the year 2018 violence has been outlawed and corporations have replaced government as the ruling party following the demise of politics. With the absence of war or conflict, a forcibly passive population's bloodlust is satisfied by a brutal new sport known as Rollerball. A high-octane melding of the outlawed sports of the past, the worldwide ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £3.37!
7	Murder by Phone (1982) more movies like this directed by Michael Anderson featuring Richard Chamberlain, John Houseman, Sara Botsford, Robin Gammell, Gary Reineke In this shocking chiller an environmentalist, lecturing at a New York City college begins looking for the brutal killer who has been murdering his students. His search leads him to a psycho technician who has been using long-distance telephone calls to do his dirty work. The story is also known as Bells. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide see all copies from £3.16!
8	St. Ives (1976) more movies like this directed by J. Lee Thompson featuring Charles Bronson, John Houseman, Jacqueline Bisset, Maximilian Schell, Harry Guardino Ex-crime reporter turned novelist Raymond St. Ives (Charles Bronson) is drawn back into the world of his former profession by wealthy Abner Procane (John Houseman). St. Ives is hired to locate a stolen set of ledgers that, if made public, could trigger an all-out mob war. Amazingly, St. Ives fails to recognize who his real friends and enemies are ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £5.89!
9	A Christmas Without Snow (1980) more movies like this directed by John Korty featuring John Houseman, Michael Learned, Ramon Bieri, Ruth Nelson, Valerie Curtin A Christmas Without Snow originally premiered December 9, 1980. The title refers to the film's setting: the snowless San Francisco. The story is told from the point of view of newly divorced Michael Learned, who comes to grips with disillusionment with a little help from her friends in the church choir. As the singers prepare for a performance of ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £2.77!
10	The Cheap Detective (1978) more movies like this directed by Robert Moore featuring Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan, Sid Caesar, Stockard Channing, Dom DeLuise, Louise Fletcher, John Houseman, Madeline Kahn, Scatman Crothers Spoofing the entire 1940s detective genre, and his own performances as a bumbling private detective, Peter Falk plays Lou Pekinpaugh, a San Francisco private detective accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress, the partner's wife, Georgia Merkle (Marsha Mason). Police Lieutenant DiMaggio (Vic Tayback) has his eye on Lou ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £4.13!
11 view cover	Gideon's Trumpet (1980) more movies like this directed by Robert E. Collins featuring Henry Fonda, John Houseman, José Ferrer, Fay Wray In the tradition of his earlier work in Grapes of Wrath and Twelve Angry Men, Henry Fonda played another social-protest role in the Hallmark Hall of Fame TV presentation Gideon's Trumpet. Clarence Earl Gideon (Fonda) is a poor, ill-tempered Florida handyman who is arrested for petty larceny in 1961. Unable to afford a lawyer, Gideon is sentenced ... see all copies from £10.49! new only from £10.49!

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