Guess the movie from the plot outline

Badtz Maru: Solaris

Correct genre.

raygirvan

Was this… something something Roxy Carmichael?

[sub]Welcome Home, maybe?[/sub]


Eccentric inventor uses his greatest invention to track down infamous criminal, but “lets him escape,” in the end.

Watch Where You’re Pointing That Butt-Plug – ??

It’s an obscure movie, maybe you haven’t heard of it.

Better Than Chocolate?

Bullitt

Skeezix
Was this… something something Roxy Carmichael?

No, but there was a Rox…

*Eccentric inventor uses his greatest invention … *

Time After Time?

Alien 3

Man finds out that he’s dying. and get asks to jump into natural distater.

Clue - one actress plays at least three differnt women in the movie

Joe versus the Volcano?

Joe vs. the Volcano

A decade and a half after seeing his father’s murder, a young man plots the murderer’s eath by gaining his trust and befriending him.

Godfather II?
A guy dies and goes to heaven, then has to go to hell to rescue his wife.

What Dreams May Come?

and i never even saw the movie… just the ads…

Gangs of New York, though I wouldn’t call Priest Vallon’s death a murder… it was in the heat of battle (and in the beggining of the movie, thus no spoiler tags)

Badtzmaru: Alien 3
Yes.

I guess nobody knew these:

  1. Who Done It? (Abbott and Costello; 1942)
  2. Damn Yankees (Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston; 1958)
  3. Fireman Save My Child! (Buddy Hackett, Hugh O’Brian, Spike Jones and His City Slickers; about 1953).
  4. Room Service (Marx Brothers, 1938).
  5. Dragnet (Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Ann Robinson, Stacy Harris, Richard Boone; 1954)
  6. Kid From Left Field (With Dan Dailey, from the early 50s; not the lame TV remake from the late 70s with Gary Coleman).
    Some more:
  7. An escaped convict and his cohorts invade a private home and hold the family hostage.
  8. A movie director, recovering from drink, says nary a word as he and two bumbling friends try to make another movie and coax big-name performers to appear in it.
  9. A kid in high school stumbles on a chemical formula that gives him psychokinetic powers.
  10. Story with strong military-political overtones. A boy in his mid-teens changes into a dog.
  11. Told in flashback; an inmate of a mental institution recounts his experience with a prodigious young musician, with strong connotation of foul play.

That sounds more like Gangs of New York to me.

Oops. LoN already got it. Darn my eyes.

*Originally posted by dougie_monty *

  1. An escaped convict and his cohorts invade a private home and hold the family hostage.
    The Ref

  2. A movie director, recovering from drink, says nary a word as he and two bumbling friends try to make another movie and coax big-name performers to appear in it.
    Silent Movie – ??

  3. A kid in high school stumbles on a chemical formula that gives him psychokinetic powers.
    Zapped – ??

  4. Story with strong military-political overtones. A boy in his mid-teens changes into a dog.
    No clue.

  5. Told in flashback; an inmate of a mental institution recounts his experience with a prodigious young musician, with strong connotation of foul play.
    Amadeus – ??

You’re right, Jack, except that for No. 11 I was thinking of The Desperate Hours, a 1956 movie with humphrey Bogart.

Yup

Godfather II was more like 2 and a half decades, IMHO.