Fritz Weaver

With a string of blockbuster 'screwball' comedies, writer-director Preston Sturges (1898-1959) was Hollywood's wonder boy in the early 1940s. Unhappily, his talent faded by the fifties. This programme paints an entertaining and moving portrait of a genius doomed by his own success, combining the reminiscences of colleagues and friends with rare photos and generous footage from his landmark films.

An homage to 50's horror comics with five tales by Stephen King. Horrormeister King appears in one story.

A malfunction inadvertently sends American planes armed with nuclear warheads to Russia in a blunder of potentially apocalyptic proportions.

Black Sunday is the powerful story of a Black September terrorist group attempting to blow up a Goodyear blimp hovering over the Super Bowl stadium with 80,000 people and the President of the United States in attendance.

An innocent graduate student encounters a fugitive Nazi war criminal searching for a hidden caché of diamonds.