"Discovering the Great Northwest"01 January 1992Factual51 mins
Join Emmy-award winning producer and feature reporter John Yeager (ABC affiliate KXLY-TV, Spokane) on a scenic and musical trip on Amtrak's Empire Builder as it wends it's way from Chicago to Seattle. The 2200-mile route was finished in 1893 by Great Northern Railway Founder James J. Hill. This documentary also chronicles the life and times of people who now work on the train and those whose lives it touches.
William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute.
Based on the character Rika-chan from Takara Tomy's long-running line of girls' toys, this is the third installment in the OVA series "Rika-chan" that aired in the 1990s.
Carolyn Sapp, Miss America 1992 (and a non-actress), plays herself in this drama based on her personal story of abuse and betrayal at the hands of the man she loved, Nu'u Fa'aola, a Samoan pro-football player for the New York Jets.
Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days with painful detachment.
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