https://shotonwhat.com/1978 The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:57:04 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/autumn-sonata-1978 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 21:23:52 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/autumn-sonata-1978
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist
A married daughter who longs for her mother's love is visited by the latter, a successful concert pianist. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/filming-othello-1978 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:39:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/filming-othello-1978
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Gary Graver
Essay film shot for TV including Orson Welles reflections on Othello close to the Moviola, a chat with Hilton Edwards and Micheál MacLiammóir and fragments of a conversation with the audience in Boston after a screening of the film. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/days-of-heaven-1978 Fri, 24 May 2024 17:14:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/days-of-heaven-1978
Director: Terrence Malick
Cinematographer: Néstor Almendros
A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-deer-hunter-1978 Tue, 09 Apr 2024 21:55:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-deer-hunter-1978
Director: Michael Cimino
Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/halloween-2-1978 Fri, 04 Nov 2022 23:16:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/halloween-2-1978
Director: John Carpenter
Cinematographer: Dean Cundey
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Director: Richard Donner
Cinematographer: Geoffrey Unsworth
An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-winning-is-for-losers-1978 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 21:53:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-winning-is-for-losers-1978
Director: Cliff Bole
Cinematographer: Richard L. Rawlings
Several attempts are made on the life of golf pro Linda Frey, who is an old friend of Kris. The Angels investigate suspects in and around the tournament, while Linda's manager Bill Montclair tries to woo Kelly. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-game-set-death-1978 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 03:35:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-game-set-death-1978
Director: Georg Stanford Brown
Cinematographer: Richard L. Rawlings
At the La Hermosa Women's Tennis Match, player Sandy Keller almost dies when someone tampers with the shower door. This is one of several incidents plaguing women's tennis tourneys, so Bosley and the angels investigate. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-hours-of-desperation-1978 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 03:34:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-hours-of-desperation-1978
Director: Cliff Bole
Cinematographer: Richard L. Rawlings
Three men rob a jewelry house and make off with some valuable gems. One of them grabs the jewels and tries to make a break for it. The other two show up at the office and pulls their guns ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-diamond-in-the-rough-1978 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 03:34:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-diamond-in-the-rough-1978
Director: Ronald Austin
Cinematographer: Richard L. Rawlings
Past associates of ex-jewel thief Freddie Brander think he stole a valuable gem, but he knows that Faris Salim has it in his Caribbean home. So Freddie, Bosley, and the angels go there to get it, but Freddie's former associates follow. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-angels-in-the-backfield-1978 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 03:34:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-angels-in-the-backfield-1978
Director: Georg Stanford Brown
Cinematographer: Richard L. Rawlings
When one member of the Ducks female football team is attacked by masked bikers, quarterback Amy Jarvis recruits the Angels to join the team and solve the mystery. Could members of the rival Panthers team be guilty? ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-the-sandcastle-murders-1978 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 03:34:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-the-sandcastle-murders-1978
Director: George McCowan
Cinematographer: Richard L. Rawlings
The seaside community where Kris lives is menaced by a strangler who buries his victims in the sand. The investigating officer Lieutenant Francona is a longtime rival of Charlie Townsend. Bosley and the Angels are on the case. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-angel-blues-1978 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 03:34:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-angel-blues-1978
Director: Georg Stanford Brown
Cinematographer: Richard L. Rawlings
A singer who had a breakdown while performing then walked off and disappeared for a few hours. She would then call her father telling him, she's on her way home. But after calling him, some... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-little-angels-of-the-night-1978 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 03:33:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-little-angels-of-the-night-1978
Director: Georg Stanford Brown
Cinematographer: Richard L. Rawlings
In an apartment building where many of the tenants are prostitutes, someone is killing them, so the owner calls Charlie. Kris and Kelly move in and they have their eye on the creepy guy who... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-mother-goose-is-running-for-his-life-1978 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 03:33:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-mother-goose-is-running-for-his-life-1978
Director: George McCowan
Cinematographer: Richard L. Rawlings
When a toymaker has a few close calls, he calls Charlie who then has the girls on it. Sabrina pretends to be the daughter of a foreign toymaker who wants to go into business with the ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-angels-in-the-stretch-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:58:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-angels-in-the-stretch-1978
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Cinematographer: Richard M. Rawlings Jr.
Gambler Les Ferrar is murdered while investigating peculiar activity in regards to a horse race on which he had money. The Angels research the case and find that someone manipulated the winning horse. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-angels-belong-in-heaven-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:58:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-angels-belong-in-heaven-1978
Director: Paul Stanley
Cinematographer: Richard L. Rawlings
A guy who knows Charlie calls him to tell him that someone he knows took out a contract on one of the girls but before he could say anything the men he's with finds him and kills him. So ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-angel-on-my-mind-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:58:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-angel-on-my-mind-1978
Director: Curtis Harrington
Cinematographer: Richard L. Rawlings
The Angels must work together to locate Kris who is suffering from amnesia after being struck by a vehicle in a parking lot of a restaurant, where she had the misfortune of witnessing the owner get robbed & murdered. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-mother-angel-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:58:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-mother-angel-1978
Director: Don Chaffey
Cinematographer: Richard M. Rawlings Jr.
After a precocious girl, Samantha, witnesses her neighbor murdering a man, Charlie asks the Angels to look into the case, and despite the angels disbelief in the little girl's story, her "... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-angels-ahoy-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:58:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-angels-ahoy-1978
Director: Allen Baron
Cinematographer: Richard M. Rawlings Jr.
On a cruise ship, one of the passengers recognizes another passenger as a man who killed his wife, but originally disappeared. Later the passenger is found dead. The owner then calls ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-pom-pom-angels-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:58:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-pom-pom-angels-1978
Director: Cliff Bole
Cinematographer: Richard M. Rawlings Jr.
Three Cheerleaders, mysteriously disappeared after receiving religious notes from religious fanatics. The Angels, go undercover as cheerleaders to find the missing girls, at a cult where ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-haunted-angels-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:57:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-haunted-angels-1978
Director: Ronald Austin
Cinematographer: Richard L. Rawlings
Bosley's bridge partner Claire Rossmore donated her estate to a local Institute for Psychic Research so that she could contact her dead nephew Martin. Bosley thinks she's being swindled, so he and the Angels investigate. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-angels-in-springtime-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:56:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-angels-in-springtime-1978
Director: Larry Stewart
Cinematographer: Richard L. Rawlings
When famous actress Eve LeDeux is electrocuted at an exclusive women's spa, the Angels go undercover to capture the killer and find the missing manuscript of Eve's memoirs, which may reveal information some would rather be forgotten. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-angel-on-high-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:56:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-angel-on-high-1978
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Cinematographer: Richard L. Rawlings
A man learns that a woman he knew years ago died in an accident. He also learns that she has a son, whom he believes could be his. So he hires the girls to find out. Kelly finds him and ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-angel-come-home-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:56:17 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-angel-come-home-1978
Director: Paul Stanley
Cinematographer: Richard L. Rawlings
Jill Munroe's friend Paul Ferrino wants her to drive his new car in the Grand Prix, but it's vandalized right after he shows it to her. Could Jill's fiancé Steve Carmody be the culprit? ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-angels-in-vegas-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:56:02 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-angels-in-vegas-1978
Director: Bob Kelljan
Cinematographer: Richard L. Rawlings
Tropicana Casino owner Frank Howell (a non-singing Dean Martin) calls Bosley and the Angels to Las Vegas to investigate some suspicious deaths that he believes are part of a plot to gaslight him. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-antique-angels-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:55:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-antique-angels-1978
Director: Leon Carrere
Cinematographer: Richard L. Rawlings
An antique car rally serves as the backdrop when a company is raided by criminals masquerading as a film crew to steal fuel cores and try to smuggle them out of the country. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-angels-on-the-run-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:55:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-angels-on-the-run-1978
Director: Bob Kelljan
Cinematographer: Richard L. Rawlings
Kelly is chloroformed by diamond thieves who mistake her for another man's wife. Kris and Sabrina have to rescue Kelly before the thieves discover they've drugged the wrong woman and decide not to keep her alive. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-the-jade-trap-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:55:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/charlies-angels-the-jade-trap-1978
Director: George McCowan
Cinematographer: Richard L. Rawlings
When a wealthy resident of a high class apartment building is killed, suspicion falls on the cat burglar who's been plaguing the building for years. So the owner calls Charlie for help. ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-white-on-white-and-nearly-perfect-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:58:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-white-on-white-and-nearly-perfect-1978
Director: Stephen J. Cannell
Cinematographer: Andrew Jackson
Handsome, charmed PI Lance White (Tom Selleck) may speak lines that sound like they're from a 1940s B movie, but everyone is so attracted to him they hang on his every word. That is, everyone except Jim. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-the-jersey-bounce-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:58:01 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-the-jersey-bounce-1978
Director: William Wiard
Cinematographer: Andrew Jackson
Wrongly accused of beating a man to death, Jim discovers the best legal advice he can find is from disbarred lawyer John Cooper. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-rosendahl-and-gilda-stern-are-dead-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:57:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-rosendahl-and-gilda-stern-are-dead-1978
Director: William Wiard
Cinematographer: Andrew Jackson
A doctor's murder has direct connections to the Mob, and Jim comes to the assistance of hooker friend Rita Capcovik (Rita Moreno) when she finds herself entangled in it. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-heartaches-of-a-fool-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:57:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-heartaches-of-a-fool-1978
Director: William Wiard
Cinematographer: Andrew Jackson
Jim finds that a country music star, corrupt union boss and Chinese triad all have one thing in common with why Rocky ended in hospital after his rig was forced off the road: sausages. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-the-house-on-willis-avenue-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:57:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-the-house-on-willis-avenue-1978
Director: Hy Averback
Cinematographer: Andrew Jackson
When a fellow P.I. is killed on the Ventura freeway, Jim and Richie Brockelman team up to find out if it really was an accident. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-the-prisoner-of-rosemont-hall-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:57:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-the-prisoner-of-rosemont-hall-1978
Director: Ivan Dixon
Cinematographer: Andrew Jackson
When the son of an old friend goes missing, Jim goes to the young man's college to try and find out what happened. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-the-competitive-edge-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:57:04 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-the-competitive-edge-1978
Director: Harry Falk
Cinematographer: Andrew Jackson
Jim winds up in a funny farm when he gets too close to the truth about an elite health club. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-south-by-southeast-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:56:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-south-by-southeast-1978
Director: William Wiard
Cinematographer: Andrew Jackson
Mistaken identity by federal agents has Jim being sent to South America to help them contact a heiress, who has been isolated by her possessive husband. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-dwarf-in-a-helium-hat-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:56:42 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-dwarf-in-a-helium-hat-1978
Director: Reza Badiyi
Cinematographer: Andrew Jackson
A threat to the wrong phone number has Jim scrambling to find out who it was meant for. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-the-paper-palace-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:56:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-the-paper-palace-1978
Director: Richard Crenna
Cinematographer: Andrew Jackson
A prostitute (Rita Moreno) hires Jim to find out who has been sending her death threats. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-kill-the-messenger-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:56:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-kill-the-messenger-1978
Director: Ivan Dixon
Cinematographer: Andrew Jackson
When an already overly stressed Dennis Becker is lumped with the unwelcome task of finding out who murdered Deputy Chief Towne's unfaithful wife, Jim decides to lend a hand in the investigation. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-a-good-clean-bust-with-sequel-rights-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:56:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-a-good-clean-bust-with-sequel-rights-1978
Director: William Wiard
Cinematographer: Andrew Jackson
Jim is forced to babysit Chicago ex-cop, now celebrity, "Frank Falcone," who has a television show and toy line. Falcone isn't easy to babysit, and things get dicey when some old Chicago "friends" of Falcone show up to complicate things. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-three-day-affair-with-a-thirty-day-escrow-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:55:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-three-day-affair-with-a-thirty-day-escrow-1978
Director: Ivan Dixon
Cinematographer: Andrew Jackson
After being strong-armed by an Arab sheik and his goons, and getting no help from the police, Jim decides to track down the two people who caused his trouble: a soft-voiced gigolo and the sheik's naive daughter. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-the-empty-frame-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:55:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-the-empty-frame-1978
Director: Corey Allen
Cinematographer: Andrew Jackson
At a swank party, attended by some of LA's high society and police dept. VIPs, in honor of Angel's brother-in-law, Aaron, being made Chief of Police, a robbery takes place, while Lt. Doug Chapman is in charge of security. Desperate to get back into good graces with his superiors, Chapman swallows his pride and asks Rockford to help him. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-black-mirror-part-1-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:55:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-black-mirror-part-1-1978
Director: Arnold Laven
Cinematographer: Andrew Jackson
A blind psychologist, who is being terrorized by an unknown stalker, turns to Jim for help. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-black-mirror-part-2-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:55:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-black-mirror-part-2-1978
Director: Arnold Laven
Cinematographer: Andrew Jackson
Rockford's investigation of psychologist Megan Dougherty's stalker leads him to one of her patients who may have a split personality - one of which is a paid killer. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-a-fast-count-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:54:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-a-fast-count-1978
Director: Reza Badiyi
Cinematographer: Andrew Jackson
Jim puts up his dukes and steps forward to help a boxing coach who has been framed with bribery and murder. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-local-man-eaten-by-newspaper-1978 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:54:48 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-local-man-eaten-by-newspaper-1978
Director: Meta Rosenberg
Cinematographer: Andrew Jackson
Jim could use some saintly guidance when he goes undercover on a scandal rag that is getting confidential medical information on a doctor's famous, and infamous, patients. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-the-attractive-nuisance-1978 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:42:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-the-attractive-nuisance-1978
Director: Dana Elcar
Cinematographer: Andrew Jackson
An unexplained break-in at Rocky's new diner has connections with the FBI fifty years ago. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-the-gang-at-dons-drive-in-1978 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:42:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-the-gang-at-dons-drive-in-1978
Director: Harry Falk
Cinematographer: Andrew Jackson
An author suffering from writers block tells Jim he thinks he has the next best seller in an old murder case from 1961. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/grease-1978 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:04:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/grease-1978
Director: Randal Kleiser
Cinematographer: Bill Butler
Good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance? ]]>