https://shotonwhat.com/1984 The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:42:50 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/the-terminator-1984 Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:16:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-terminator-1984
Director: James Cameron
Cinematographer: Adam Greenberg
A seemingly indestructible robot is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a young waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against sentient machines, while a human soldier from the same war is sent to protect her at all costs. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-killing-fields-1984 Fri, 24 May 2024 01:54:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-killing-fields-1984
Director: Roland Joffé
Cinematographer: Chris Menges
A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/razorback-1984 Sat, 09 Dec 2023 23:42:36 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/razorback-1984
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Cinematographer: Dean Semler
As a vicious wild boar terrorizes the Australian outback, the husband of one of the victims is joined by a hunter and a farmer in a search for the beast. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/miami-vice-2-1984 Tue, 29 Nov 2022 19:54:46 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/miami-vice-2-1984
Director: John Nicolella, Richard Compton, Leon Ichaso, Vern Gillum, Don Johnson, Jim Johnston, David Jackson, Colin Bucksey, Virgil W. Vogel, Paul Michael Glaser, Rob Cohen, Jan Eliasberg, Aaron Lipstadt, James Quinn, Georg Stanford Brown, Lee H. Katzin, David Anspaugh, Abel Ferrara, Michael O'Herlihy, Mario DiLeo, Gabrielle Beaumont, Paul Krasny, George Mendeluk, Michelle Manning, Russ Mayberry, Alan Myerson, Thomas Carter, Richard A. Colla, Stan Lathan, Alan J. Levi, John Llewellyn Moxey, Bobby Roth, David Soul, Harry Mastrogeorge, Edward James Olmos, Tim Zinnemann, Daniel Attias, Craig Bolotin, Christopher Crowe, Dick Miller, Fred Walton, Ate de Jong, Tony Wharmby, Bill Duke, Donald L. Gold, Randy Roberts, Chip Chalmers, James A. Contner, Eugene Corr, Michael B. Hoggan, Robert Iscove
Cinematographer: Oliver Wood, Tom Priestley Jr., Duke Callaghan, James A. Contner, Michael McGowan, Robert E. Collins, William Cronjager, Victor Hammer
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Director: Charles Band
Cinematographer: Mac Ahlberg
Jack Deth is a kind of cop/bounty hunter in the bleak Los Angeles of the future. He's become obssessed with chasing Whistler -- an evil criminal who uses powerful hypnotic powers to ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-shadow-of-the-hawke-1984 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:38:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-shadow-of-the-hawke-1984
Director: Donald P. Bellisario
Cinematographer: Howard Schwartz
While demonstrating the capabilities of the new prototype supercopter codenamed 'Airwolf', Dr. Charles Moffet goes rogue, steals the chopper and kills almost all of the observers. At least ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-bite-of-the-jackal-1984 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:38:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-bite-of-the-jackal-1984
Director: Alan J. Levi
Cinematographer: Robert B. Hauser
An ambitious executive at the Firm makes a subversive play for Archangel's job. A bomb is planted aboard a vintage helicopter owned by Dominic Santini and he's forced to crash land. When ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-daddys-gone-a-huntn-1984 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:37:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-daddys-gone-a-huntn-1984
Director: Virgil W. Vogel
Cinematographer: Howard Schwartz
Hawke and Dom must stop a suspected traitor from turning an advanced military fighter over to the Russians in exchange for his son who was born in Vietnam. Things get complicated, though, ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-proof-through-the-night-1984 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:37:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-proof-through-the-night-1984
Director: Harvey S. Laidman
Cinematographer: Howard Schwartz
A Russian mole discovers that scientists in the U.S.S.R. have developed a lethal serum that instantly kills anyone exposed to it. He steals a vial of the serum and contacts his friend ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-one-way-express-1984 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:37:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-one-way-express-1984
Director: Alan J. Levi
Cinematographer: Stan Lazan
A movie producer hires Santini Air for a dangerous stunt involving the landing of a helicopter onto the roof of a moving semi. Dom and String nearly come to blows, however, when String ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-echoes-from-the-past-1984 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:37:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-echoes-from-the-past-1984
Director: Harvey S. Laidman
Cinematographer: Stan Lazan
Hawke meets a mercenary who claims to have information regarding his missing brother. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-fight-like-a-dove-1984 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:37:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-fight-like-a-dove-1984
Director: Stephen Dollinger
Cinematographer: Howard Schwartz
An Israeli war crimes hunter is killed by a suspected Nazi named Hans Daubert in France. His daughter vows revenge and seeks the help of String and Dom, along with Airwolf, to bring him to ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-mind-of-the-machine-1984 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:37:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-mind-of-the-machine-1984
Director: Ivan Dixon
Cinematographer: Howard Schwartz
Dr. Robert Winchester is a brilliant researcher and a former test pilot who helped design Airwolf. Now, he's asking for Hawke's help in test flying a simulator that he's designed to enable ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-and-they-are-us-1984 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:36:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-and-they-are-us-1984
Director: Nicholas Corea
Cinematographer: Stan Lazan
North and South Limbawe are in conflict over oil and a despotic General plans to overthrow his own government in South Limbawe and attacks his neighbors to the North. String and Dom are ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-mad-over-miami-1984 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:36:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-mad-over-miami-1984
Director: David Hemmings
Cinematographer: Stan Lazan
Santini makes an unauthorized flight to Cuba in order to rescue two political prisoners who are being ransomed for $2 million. However, while there, the exchange site is attacked and the ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-to-snare-a-wolf-1984 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:36:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-to-snare-a-wolf-1984
Director: Alan J. Levi
Cinematographer: Stan Lazan
Archangel warns String about a zealous government bureaucrat named D.G. Bogard who will stop at nothing until he finds Airwolf. Dom and Hawke take time out from shooting a military training... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-sweet-britches-1984 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:36:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-sweet-britches-1984
Director: Alan J. Levi
Cinematographer: Stan Lazan
String and Dom investigate a small town where a friend of theirs has disappeared. What they discover there is a little fiefdom controlled by an unfriendly sheriff named Bogan who doesn't ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-firestorm-1984 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:36:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-firestorm-1984
Director: Ray Austin
Cinematographer: Stan Lazan
When Eddie, a chronically drunk friend of Dom's, spouts off about UFO-type lights he's been seeing near his desert trailer, everyone writes him off as a crackpot until one night while ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-moffetts-ghost-1984 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:35:53 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-moffetts-ghost-1984
Director: Donald A. Baer
Cinematographer: Stan Lazan
The Firm asks String to covertly shuttle a renowned researcher and diplomat, Dr. Roger Burton, to Russia for a secret meeting since Airwolf can get past the Russian defenses without being ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-the-truth-about-holly-1984 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:35:42 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-the-truth-about-holly-1984
Director: Alan J. Levi
Cinematographer: Stan Lazan
String and Dom rescue Dom's niece from her abusive boyfriend and return her to the U.S. Unfortunately, the boyfriend hasn't given up on her yet and sends his goons in search of her. Caitlin... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-the-hunted-1984 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:35:36 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-the-hunted-1984
Director: Sutton Roley
Cinematographer: Stan Lazan
A rich corporate industrialist, Carter Anderson III, hires Santini and Hawke to ensure his safe transportation needs when it becomes evident that he might be targeted for a hit. Anderson is... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-sins-of-the-past-1984 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:35:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-sins-of-the-past-1984
Director: Donald A. Baer
Cinematographer: Stan Lazan
Dom and String return to Dom's birthplace when Dom learns that his daughter has died of a drug overdose. After attending the funeral, they return to California where Dom is arrested on ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-hx-1-1984 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:35:11 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-hx-1-1984
Director: Gerald Mayer
Cinematographer: Stan Lazan
A helicopter prototype that may rival Airwolf is stolen. String thinks his brother St. John is involved. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-fallen-angel-1984 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:35:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-fallen-angel-1984
Director: Sutton Roley
Cinematographer: Stan Lazan
Marella unofficially asks String and Dom to attempt a rescue mission when Archangel is captured by rival agents and his wing of the Firm is disavowed. Archangel had embarked on a rescue ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-flight-093-is-missing-1984 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:34:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-flight-093-is-missing-1984
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Cinematographer: Stan Lazan
Caitlin plans to fly home to attend her sister's wedding but her plane is hijacked and crashed into the sea and a ransom demand is issued to the airline. Meanwhile, String and Dom mount ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-once-a-hero-1984 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:34:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-once-a-hero-1984
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Cinematographer: Stan Lazan
String learns that Saint John may be held captive in a POW camp in Laos. Together with Dom, he recruits a couple of Vietnam veterans, one a daredevil, the other an up-and-coming politician,... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-random-target-1984 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:34:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/airwolf-random-target-1984
Director: Virgil W. Vogel
Cinematographer: Stan Lazan
When String and Dom agree to shoot some incidental film footage for a friendly rival, they accidentally stumble across a reputed mobster hiding out in the desert with plans for a secret ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-bostonians-1984 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:48:11 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-bostonians-1984
Director: James Ivory
Cinematographer: Walter Lassally
A Boston feminist and a conservative Southern lawyer contend for the heart and mind of a beautiful and bright girl unsure of her future. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/combat-shock-1984 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:47:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/combat-shock-1984
Director: Buddy Giovinazzo
Cinematographer: Stella Varveris
A dangerously disturbed Vietnam veteran struggles with life 15 years after his return home, and slowly falls into insanity from his gritty urban lifestyle. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/to-kill-a-bird-of-prey-1984 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:28:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/to-kill-a-bird-of-prey-1984
Director: Iosif Demian
Cinematographer: Alexandru David
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/c-h-u-d-1984 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 23:19:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/c-h-u-d-1984
Director: Douglas Cheek
Cinematographer: Peter Stein
A bizarre series of sudden disappearances on the streets of New York City seems to point toward something unsavory living in the sewers. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/carmen-1984 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:44:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/carmen-1984
Director: Francesco Rosi
Cinematographer: Pasqualino De Santis
A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful factory worker (Carmen), but she does not reciprocate his feelings. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/tank-1984 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:42:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/tank-1984
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
Cinematographer: Donald H. Birnkrant
Sergeant Major Zack arrives at a new army base with his wife, son and Sherman tank. One night at a bar he "stops" a pimp/deputy from beating a girl. The corrupt sheriff uses Zack's son for revenge and Zack uses his tank. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/cannonball-run-ii-1984 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:31:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/cannonball-run-ii-1984
Director: Hal Needham
Cinematographer: Nick McLean
The original characters from The Cannonball Run (1981) race across the country once more in various cars and trucks. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/johnny-dangerously-1984 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:12:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/johnny-dangerously-1984
Director: Amy Heckerling
Cinematographer: David M. Walsh
Set in the 1930s, an honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/red-dawn-1984 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:55:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/red-dawn-1984
Director: John Milius
Cinematographer: Ric Waite
It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/love-streams-1984 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:28:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/love-streams-1984
Director: John Cassavetes
Cinematographer: Al Ruban
Two closely bound, emotionally wounded souls reunite after years apart. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/anatomy-of-an-illness-1984 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:20:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/anatomy-of-an-illness-1984
Director: Richard T. Heffron
Cinematographer: Stevan Larner
Biopic of Saturday Review editor and political journalist Norman Cousins who developed and promoted a self-made health therapy consisting of intake of large quantities of vitamin C and making oneself laugh as much as possible. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/best-defense-1984 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:17:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/best-defense-1984
Director: Willard Huyck
Cinematographer: Donald Peterman
A military weapons engineer struggles to do his job responsibly, while a hapless tank commander has to live with the consequences in combat years later. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dune-1984 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:57:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dune-1984
Director: David Lynch
Cinematographer: Freddie Francis
A Duke's son leads desert warriors against the galactic emperor and his father's evil nemesis when they assassinate his father and free their desert world from the emperor's rule. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/revenge-of-the-nerds-1984 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:56:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/revenge-of-the-nerds-1984
Director: Jeff Kanew
Cinematographer: King Baggot
At Adams College, a group of bullied outcasts and misfits resolve to fight back for their peace and self-respect. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/choose-me-1984 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:53:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/choose-me-1984
Director: Alan Rudolph
Cinematographer: Jan Kiesser
Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talkback radio relationships counseller, and an itinerant stranger have encounters that expose their contradictions and ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/unfaithfully-yours-1984 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:51:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/unfaithfully-yours-1984
Director: Howard Zieff
Cinematographer: David M. Walsh
A composer suspects his wife of cheating. He plots to kill her and frame it on her lover. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-cartier-affair-1984 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:42:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-cartier-affair-1984
Director: Rod Holcomb
Cinematographer: Hanania Baer
Curt Taylor is a convict and owes Phil Drexler the number 1 convict in the prison. Now to settle his debt Drexler sends Curt to be the secretary for Cartier Rand so that he can steal her ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-vultures-1984 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:38:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-vultures-1984
Director: Henri Verneuil
Cinematographer: Edmond Séchan
In 1943 in Tunisia, a unit of the French Foreign Legion fights the Germans over possession of a bank treasure in gold bars. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/burning-rage-1984 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:15:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/burning-rage-1984
Director: Gilbert Cates
While coal fires burn beneath a depressed mining town a greedy businessman stops at nothing to buy up the mineral rights. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/boggy-creek-ii-and-the-legend-continues-1984 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:04:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/boggy-creek-ii-and-the-legend-continues-1984
Director: Charles B. Pierce
Cinematographer: Shirak Kojayan
A professor and three of his students camp out in the wilderness to find a Bigfoot-type creature. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/firestarter-1984 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:54:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/firestarter-1984
Director: Mark L. Lester
Cinematographer: Giuseppe Ruzzolini
A couple who participated in a potent medical experiment gain telekinetic ability and then have a child who is pyrokinetic. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-cotton-club-1984 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:32:01 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-cotton-club-1984
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cinematographer: Stephen Goldblatt
The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem. The story follows the people who visited the club, those who ran it, and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famous. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-passage-to-india-1984 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:30:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-passage-to-india-1984
Director: David Lean
Cinematographer: Ernest Day
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator. ]]>