Paul Maslansky

The gathered memories and warm recollections of the cast and crew of the 1985 Walt Disney Pictures film, RETURN TO OZ. For the first time, we get intimate details about the production of the cult classic fantasy, from such names as director Walter Murch, producers Paul Maslansky and Colin Michael Kitchens, the late Gary Kurtz, and actors Fairuza Balk, Emma Ridley, Justin Case, Pons Marr, Deep Roy and Sophie Ward.

A career retrospective of producer Paul Maslansky

Hollywood, the year is 1926. Rudolph Valentino, the Hollywood silent screen icon and first sex symbol, is at the height of his career, promoting his latest film “Son of The Sheik” inNew York. At the hotel room after the premiere, Valentino, abandoned by his wife and friends, suddenly collapses in a fit of sharp abdominal pain. In a hospital, he undergoes the surgery for ruptured appendix and falls into a state of coma. Wandering in the depths of his subconsciousness, he watches his own life as a film projected on the screen of an empty mysterious movie palace - a magical portal between life and eternity, between reality and illusion.

The making of "Police Academy".

The 12th Episode from the "Eurotika" documentary series, made for the UK Channel 4 about European exploitation cinema. This one looks at the films of British director Michael Reeves, who died under mysterious circumstances at age 25. Interviews include TV star and longtime fellow Ian Ogilvy, who starred in all three of Reeves's features, award winning author Iain Sinclair and Paul Maslansky, who produced Reeves's first movie.

Workaholic Thomas Johnson dies in an auto accident and comes back to life as a dog. Remembering some of who he was, he returns to his wife and son to protect them from the man who caused his accident. But, as time goes by, he remembers more of his life, and realizes he wasn't such a good husband and father.

世界で最も無能な警官の集団、ポリスアカデミーのメンバーたち、ラサール校長、効果音男ジョーンズ、ガンマニアのタックルベリー、超セクシーなキャラハン、扁平足のハリスが、新メンバー、新米警官コナーズを加え、モスクワへ出動することになった。彼らの任務はロシア・マフィアのゴッドファーザー、コンスタンティン・コナリを倒す事。コナリはビデオゲームを利用して、地球上のあらゆるコンピュータへアクセスできる方法を見つけ出していた。この方法で世界中のカネを盗むというのだ。ポリスアカデミーのメンバーたちは、モスクワ警察署長レイコフらの協力を得ながら、コナリの現場を抑えようとチェイスを繰り広げる。

When a pint-sized 8-year-old kid witnesses a murder he offers to help the police, if they make him a cop, too. Saddled with this streetwise sidekick, a hardboiled cop is forced to take his new partner seriously as they race the clock to bring the bad guys to justice.

Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.

Pops isn't worried about the renewal of the lease for his ski lodge - the safety record is unblemished in spite of the crew of misfits who make up his ski patrol. But a scheming land developer has other plans and the ski patrol is thrust into a skiing showdown in order to save Pops' mountain.

A honeymooning couple become entangled in a plot to recover plates for counterfeiting US dollars. SHE thinks she's just retired from a government 'dirty jobs' department, but her superiors have other ideas. HE thinks she's a retired travel agent. Set in Spain, there's a constant flow of visual jokes, mainly at the expense of a group of incompetent thieves who are in hot pursuit of the plates. Many of the jokes are predictable, but there's enough to keep almost everyone amused.

3人組の悪党が、宝石泥棒や強盗などの犯罪を重ね、ハイタワーを始めとするポリス・アカデミー卒業生の面々は警備にあたるが、いつも裏をかかれてばかり。どうやら警察内部に、情報を洩らしている人間がいるらしい。面々は上司のハリスの相変わらずの妨害にあいながらも、全市を停電させてパニック状態に陥らせ市政転覆をたくらむ一味をつきとめる。

定年を間近に控え、失意の日々を過ごしているラサール校長の姿に見かねたハイタワーたちポリス・アカデミーの卒業生は、永年勤続の表彰をうける校長に同行し、マイアミへ向かうことになった。一行は、ラサール校長の甥である刑事部長ニックに出迎えられるが、空港で校長はトニーを主犯とするダイヤモンド強奪一味と自分のバッグを取り間違えてしまう。宝石を取り戻すため一味は校長を誘拐するが、本人はそれを警察の捜査訓練の一環と思い込み、おまけに校長の後釜をねらってマイアミにやってきたハリス署長がそれにからんできて、事件はてんやわんやの大騒動となる。

パトカーで警備中のマホニーとジョーンズ。ポリス・アカデミーの校長ラサールから、突然の集合命令がかかった。定年近いラサールは、往年の夢である市民の自警団を組織するというのである。ポリアカ・メンバーに課せられた使命は、自警団員の募集だ。タックルベリーとキャラハンは老人ホームヘ、マホニーとジョーンズは札付きの悪童たちを、ゼッドは女性サークルへと、それぞれ勧誘しに行くことになった。集まって来たメンバーを訓練するのが、また、大変。号令には従わないわ、逆に指導員を叩きのめす。先の思いやられることこのうえない。

マホニー、ジョーンズ、ハイタワー、タックルベリーら、ドジなポリス軍団が巣立ったラサール校長をつとめるポリス・アカデミーが、廃校するかもしれないという情報が流れた。以前より署長の座を狙っていたモーザーがもう１つのポリス・アカデミーの校長におさまった。ところが州の緊縮財政により、ラサール校長のものかモーザー側かどちらか1つが閉校しなくてはいけないというのが事の真相だ。教え子たちに助けを求めるラサール校長に応えてＯＢたちがかけつける。州では、両校に優秀性を競わせ、決定は評定委員会にゆだねるという。両校の競争に備え、さっそくラサールのチーム特訓がはじまった。

オズの国から戻ったドロシーはオズの国の事ばかり気になり眠れない。ドロシーが流れ星を見た翌朝、めんどりのビリーナが庭に落ちていた"OZ"の印がある鍵を見つける。エムおばさんはドロシーに最新式の電気治療を受けさせようと病院へ連れて行き入院することになる。 その晩は激しい嵐にで電気治療が始まりかけた時に停電し見知らぬ少女が助けに現れる。ドロシーは病院から脱出するが、2人とも川の濁流に飲まれてしまい翌朝ドロシーが目を覚ますとオズの国に戻っていた。

ダメな新入生を立派な警官に育てることに一所懸命なラサール校長のもとに、弟のラサール署長から電話がかかった。弟のラサールは、全米で最悪の犯罪地区の署長をしている。彼のため、そして、その地区の凶悪な暴走族を一網打尽にするために、校長は、ポリスアカデミーの卒業生の中から特に優秀な警官を選抜する。そこで選ばれたのが、マホニー、怪力超人ハイタワー、拳銃狂タックルベリー、物まね狂、通称人間効果音ラーヴェル、内気なフックス、脱ダメ亭主のダグラスの6人だった。

刑務所行きと引き換えに、警察学校に強制入学させられたチンピラのマホーニー。だが周囲の新入生も、彼に負けず劣らずの型破りな性格で問題行動ばかり起こす。伝統ある警察学校の品位が下がることを恐れた鬼教官のハリスは、彼らを退学させようと激しい嫌がらせをする。しかし、マホーニーたちは厳しい特訓をかわしつつ、せっせとイタズラに精を出す。

It's an extraordinarily touching true-story about Terry Jean Moore, the determined, independent and young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on account of a "five dollar" robbery. In the prison she will be pregnant by a jailer and she has to fight for bear and keep her child.

Madoc County is a quiet and peaceful place until vagrant Kyle Hanson arrives. The people of Madoc County are repelled by his appearance and want to chase him out of the city. Unfortunately for them, Kyle Hanson is a former Vietnam elite soldier and he uses his skills to fight back.

An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a salamander. The policeman begins to suspect these murders are linked to a plot to seize control of the government.

An eccentric games inventor dies and leaves behind an inheritance worth hundreds of millions of dollars - which will only be given to the person or team, amongst his family and hired help, who wins a madcap scavenger hunt.

When a police department's burglary task force is facing the possibility of being shut down because of their low conviction rate decides to try a new approach to apprehending their targets. They take over a pawn shop where thieves go to unload their merchandise. They record them as they bring stuff in and get them to tell them where they got it. Eventually they're threatened by the mob.

Handsome Stranger has agreed to escort Charming Jones to collect her inheritance from her father. But Avery Jones wants the money, and hires notorious outlaw Cactus Jack to ambush Charming. However, Cactus Jack is not very good at robbing people.

A drug dealer's car breaks down in a small U.S. town. In turn, the town's people become victim to his unique brand of physical and mental torture.

In a mystical desert kingdom, young martial arts fighter Cord loses a contest to determine who will journey to take the powerful Book of All Knowedge from Zetan, an evil wizard. Despite his lack of a sponsor, Cord's rule-breaking nature leads him to try retrieving the book anyway. Help is offered by a mysterious blind man who gives advice as Cord fights his way through multiple opponents, discovering more about himself as he gets closer to Zetan.

In a mystical desert kingdom, young martial arts fighter Cord loses a contest to determine who will journey to take the powerful Book of All Knowedge from Zetan, an evil wizard. Despite his lack of a sponsor, Cord's rule-breaking nature leads him to try retrieving the book anyway. Help is offered by a mysterious blind man who gives advice as Cord fights his way through multiple opponents, discovering more about himself as he gets closer to Zetan.

Following World War III, four survivors at an desert military installation attempt to drive across the desolate wasteland of America to Albany, where they hope more survivors are living, using a specially built vehicles to protect themselves against the freakish weather, mutated plant and animal life, and other dangers encountered along the way.

A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune. On their journey, they are accompanied by the humanized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, Bread, and other entities.

In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-barred street boxing bouts. They go to New Orleans where Speed borrows money to set up fights for Chaney, but Speed gambles away any winnings.

Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.

Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.

A seventeen-year-old girl is the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon.

In the days of the "Wild West," a gunslinger, with a price on his head, discovers the body of a traveling minister who has been killed in an ambush. Fearing those who are following him, he assumes the dead minister's identity.

When her boyfriend is brutally murdered, after refusing to be shaken down by the local gangsters running their protection racket, Sugar Hill, decides not to get mad, but BAD! Calling upon the help of aged voodoo queen Mama Maitresse, Sugar entreats her to call upon Baron Zamedi, the Lord of the Dead, for help in gaining a gruesome revenge. In exchange for her soul, the Dark Master raises up a zombie army to do her bidding. The bad guys who thought they were getting away clean are about to find out that they're DEAD wrong.

There's something pretty grisly going on under London in the Tube tunnels between Holborn and Russell Square. When a top civil servant becomes the latest to disappear down there Scotland Yard start to take the matter seriously. Helping them are a young couple who get nearer to the horrors underground than they would wish.

A middle-aged truck driver travelling through the desert with his good-for-nothing nephew and a pretty nun, gets stuck and are forced to wait to be rescued.

A boy who cries wolf witnesses a political assassination on the island of Malta. But will anyone other than his granddad believe him?

Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.

A young woman is driving alongside a lake. She has an accident and the car plunges into the water. Her body is then possessed by the spirit of an 18th-century witch who was killed by local villagers, and is bent on avenging herself on them.

Count Drago invites over entertainers to his castle, but what the people don't know is that Drago mummifies animals and humans!

Jason, a fearless sailor and explorer, returns to his home land of Thessaly after a long voyage to claim his rightful throne. He learns, however, that he must first find the magical Golden Fleece. To do so, he must embark on an epic quest fraught with fantastic monsters and terrible perils.

The documentary "The Bridge" is telling the story about the friendship between Americans and Russians and how art can bring people together despite global politics.