Gary Cookson

Movies

Wise Guys
Race Track Bettor
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.
National Lampoon's Movie Madness
Jeff Steele ("Success Wanters")
A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories.
The Tenth Level
Lab Technician
Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor's study to determine why people, such as the Nazis, were willing to "just follow orders" and do horrible things to others. Professor Stephen Turner leads students to believe that they are applying increasingly painful electric shocks to other subjects when they fail to perform a task correctly, and is alarmed to see how much pain the students can be convinced to inflict "in the name of science."