Conceived out of Disney’s attempts to crack the popular disaster film genre of the time, while incorporating space elements as well, 1979’s The Black Hole became Disney’s first PG film as it followed the crew of the USS Palomino (Robert Forster, Ernest Borgnine, Yvette Mimieux, and Joseph Bottoms) who encounter the long-lost USS Cygnus anchored in the wake of a gigantic black hole.
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1963’s Charade was an attempt to cash-in on a Hitchcock-like thriller with more than a dash of screwball comedy thrown in similar to North by Northwest. It may not match up to one of Hitchcock’s best films, but Charade (despite some murky plot points) succeeds by throwing interpreter Regina Lampert (Audrey Hepburn) into an uncertain world of spies and thieves after the sudden death of her husband who was in possession of something worth killing him, and her, over.
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Made six years after The Love Bug, Herbie Rides Again brings back the willful Volkswagen Beetle, and the setting of the firehouse, but nothing else. With Jim Douglas having left to race in Europe. Herbie has been left in the hands of his landlady Mrs. Steinmetz (Helen Hayes) who he seems to enjoy driving around and who is the last holdout preventing Alonzo A. Hawk (Keenan Wynn) from demolishing the area to build a new skyscraper.
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Released 5 years after the conclusion of the original Star Wars trilogy, and long before any glimmer of new Star Wars films ever being made, with Spaceballs writer/director Mel Brooks lampooned the cultural phenomenon along with countless other sci-fi properties including Star Trek, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien, and others. Although Brooks would go on to do other parodies in a similar vein, arguably learning the wrong lesson from the film, Spaceballs marks the end of the director’s better work which peaked far earlier in the early 1970s.
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You can feel the influence of 1944’s Laura over the years in everything from Twin Peaks to There’s Something About Mary. The film noir stars Gene Tierney in the title role as a woman who falls a bit too easily into love and who men become almost immediately obsessed with, even after her death.
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