Throwback: Favorite Cinema Center Film
by jalapenoman | created - 22 Jan 2015 | updated - 27 Feb 2015 | PublicCinema Center Films was a division of CBS that produced 30 theatrical films between 1968 and 1972. Which film made during their brief existence was your favorite?
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1. Snoopy Come Home (1972)
G | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
When Snoopy receives a letter from a girl named Lila, who's in a hospital, he goes on a journey with Woodstock to see her.
Director: Bill Melendez | Stars: Chad Webber, Robin Kohn, Stephen Shea, David Carey
Votes: 5,177 | Gross: $0.19M
2. Prime Cut (1972)
R | 88 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A vicious Kansas City slaughterhouse owner and his hick family are having a bloody "beef" with the Chicago crime syndicate over profits from their joint illegal operations. Top enforcer Nick Devlin is sent to straighten things out.
Director: Michael Ritchie | Stars: Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek, Angel Tompkins
Votes: 5,847 | Gross: $0.52M
3. The Revengers (1972)
PG | 106 min | Drama, Western
When a rancher's family is massacred by a gang of outlaws, he assembles a mean team of convicts as his posse to pursue the killers.
Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Woody Strode, Roger Hanin
Votes: 1,376
4. The War Between Men and Women (1972)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
A sarcastic, near-sighted cartoonist averse to commitment, falls for an eye-catching brunette single mother of three, the only woman who can stand his strong anti-feminist opinions, and eventually moves in with her and proposes.
Director: Melville Shavelson | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Barbara Harris, Jason Robards, Herb Edelman
Votes: 832 | Gross: $1.40M
5. The Little Ark (1972)
G | 100 min | Adventure, Family
Two children are trapped in the tower of a church during a flood. Local fishermen attempt to rescue them.
Director: James B. Clark | Stars: Theodore Bikel, Geneviève Ambas, Philip Frame, Max Croiset
Votes: 133
6. Something Big (1971)
PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Western
A man kidnaps the wife of a cavalry commander in order to exchange her for a Gatling gun that's being sold by a gun runner.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Dean Martin, Brian Keith, Carol White, Honor Blackman
Votes: 1,071
7. The Christian Licorice Store (1971)
R | 90 min | Drama, Comedy
A tennis champion falls in with the Hollywood crowd. He soon finds himself being corrupted by the life in the fast lane.
Director: James Frawley | Stars: Beau Bridges, Maud Adams, Gilbert Roland, Allan Arbus
Votes: 135
8. The African Elephant (1971)
G | 92 min | Documentary
A profile of African wildlife with an emphasis on the peculiar habits of elephants.
Director: Simon Trevor | Star: David Wayne
Votes: 43
9. Le Mans (1971)
G | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Two car racing champions, an American and a German, face off on the world's hardest endurance course: Le Mans in France.
Directors: Lee H. Katzin, John Sturges | Stars: Steve McQueen, Siegfried Rauch, Elga Andersen, Ronald Leigh-Hunt
Votes: 11,840 | Gross: $0.71M
10. Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama
Georgie Soloway, a pop hit love song writer who cannot love, himself, or others. He spends his days with various women flying his plane, and dropping in to the world around him.
Director: Ulu Grosbard | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Barbara Harris, Jack Warden, David Burns
Votes: 1,069 | Gross: $0.23M
11. Big Jake (1971)
PG-13 | 110 min | Drama, Western
In 1909, when John Fain's gang kidnaps Jacob McCandles' grandson and holds him for ransom, Big Jake sets out to rescue the boy.
Directors: George Sherman, John Wayne | Stars: John Wayne, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne
Votes: 14,384 | Gross: $16.35M
12. Blue Water, White Death (1971)
G | 99 min | Documentary
Documentary focusing on great white sharks.
Directors: Peter Gimbel, James Lipscomb | Stars: Tom Chapin, Phil Clarkson, Stuart Cody, Peter Lake
Votes: 437 | Gross: $0.54M
13. Rio Lobo (1970)
G | 114 min | Drama, War, Western
After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the two traitors whose treachery caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill, Jack Elam
Votes: 13,636 | Gross: $9.27M
14. Little Big Man (1970)
PG-13 | 139 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.
Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George, Martin Balsam
Votes: 37,864 | Gross: $31.56M
15. Homer (1970)
PG | 91 min | Drama
A high school graduate, named Homer, experiences the pains of the generation gap and the Vietnam War in the late 1960's, while growing up in Schomberg, Wisconsin.
Director: John Trent | Stars: Don Scardino, Alex Nicol, Tisa Farrow, Lenka Peterson
Votes: 48
16. Scrooge (1970)
G | 113 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
A musical retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about an old bitter miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans, Kenneth More
Votes: 12,584 | Gross: $3.70M
17. Monte Walsh (1970)
PG-13 | 106 min | Western
An aging cowboy realizes that the West he knew and loved will soon be no more--and that there will be no room for him, either.
Director: William A. Fraker | Stars: Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Palance, Mitchell Ryan
Votes: 3,030
18. Adam at Six A.M. (1970)
R | 100 min | Drama
After a relative dies, a professor goes to the funeral, gets himself a job there working with power lines, and soon sees his entire life changing before his eyes.
Director: Robert Scheerer | Stars: Michael Douglas, Lee Purcell, Joe Don Baker, Louise Latham
Votes: 427
19. Darker Than Amber (1970)
PG | 96 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
Professional beach bum and 'knight errant' Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder Terry Bartell. McGee pulls out all the stops when he joins a Caribbean cruise to bring the killer to justice.
Director: Robert Clouse | Stars: Rod Taylor, Theodore Bikel, Suzy Kendall, Ahna Capri
Votes: 606
20. Something for Everyone (1970)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In post-war Austria, young, handsome country lad Konrad Ludwig (Michael York) charms his way into a butler position at the castle of the widowed (and destitute) Countess von Ornstein (... See full summary »
Director: Harold Prince | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Michael York, Anthony Higgins, Heidelinde Weis
Votes: 1,074 | Gross: $0.30M
21. A Man Called Horse (1970)
R | 114 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
In 1825, an English aristocrat is captured by Native Americans. He lives with them and begins to understand their way of life. Eventually, he is accepted as part of the tribe and aspires to become their leader.
Director: Elliot Silverstein | Stars: Richard Harris, Judith Anderson, Jean Gascon, Manu Tupou
Votes: 9,354 | Gross: $1.94M
22. The Boys in the Band (1970)
R | 118 min | Drama
Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual accidentally intrudes on a homosexual party.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Kenneth Nelson, Peter White, Leonard Frey, Frederick Combs
Votes: 5,881 | Gross: $7.63M
23. The Reivers (1969)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.
Director: Mark Rydell | Stars: Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Ruth White, Michael Constantine
Votes: 3,288 | Gross: $18.70M
24. A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969)
G | 86 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
Charlie Brown makes his way to the national spelling bee finals.
Director: Bill Melendez | Stars: Peter Robbins, Pamelyn Ferdin, Glenn Gilger, Andy Pforsich
Votes: 5,630 | Gross: $13.08M
25. The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)
G | 118 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1532, Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro leads an expedition into the heart of the Inca Empire and captures the Incan Emperor Atahualpa and claims Peru for Spain.
Director: Irving Lerner | Stars: Robert Shaw, Christopher Plummer, Nigel Davenport, Leonard Whiting
Votes: 798
26. Hail, Hero! (1969)
M | 100 min | Drama
A disillusioned man can't decide whether to join the army or to become a hippie.
Director: David Miller | Stars: Arthur Kennedy, Teresa Wright, Michael Douglas, John Larch
Votes: 237
27. Me, Natalie (1969)
M/PG | 111 min | Comedy, Drama
A young woman struggles for independence.
Director: Fred Coe | Stars: Patty Duke, James Farentino, Martin Balsam, Elsa Lanchester
Votes: 1,159 | Gross: $1.07M
28. The April Fools (1969)
M | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A married man enters his boss' apartment to sign papers for a promotion and finds a party of 200 instead. He doesn't fit in, leaves with a woman, spends all night with her, falls in love with her--and finds out she's his boss' wife.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Catherine Deneuve, Peter Lawford, Jack Weston
Votes: 1,579 | Gross: $5.00M
29. A Fine Pair (1968)
PG | 113 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A detective gets involved with the beautiful daughter of an old friend. The daughter turns out to be a jewel thief, who in turn gets the detective involved in a caper in Austria.
Director: Francesco Maselli | Stars: Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Tomas Milian, Leon Askin
Votes: 528
30. With Six You Get Eggroll (1968)
G | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Two widowed people fall in love and marry, unprepared for the hostile reactions of their children.
Director: Howard Morris | Stars: Doris Day, Brian Keith, Pat Carroll, Barbara Hershey
Votes: 3,034 | Gross: $10.10M
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