The following motion pictures are all copyrighted, as compared to our Classic Movie Library.  The years of production vary from new to older.

RIDING THE RAILS - 90 Minute Feature Film starring Jim Babchak and Jose Zuniga. Produced and Directed by Neil Hollander.

Riding the Rails is a voyage into the growing underworld of American society, where thousands of men and women live on the streets, eat in soup kitchens and travel as hobos on freight trains.

Sam Spencer has been squeezed out of the middle class. Wiped out by a stock market crash and harassed by his creditors, Sam falls through society's net and suddenly finds himself broke on the streets of New York. When a friend offers him a job in California, Sam heads west the only way he can afford, hopping trains. En route he meets Enrique, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, and Enrique's canine companion who together introduce Sam to hobo culture.

Riding the Rails is a graphic chronicle of their journey across the country, a journey of survival that takes them through the human wastelands of America.
 

BIRDS OF PASSAGE—1999--93 Minutes—COLOR.  DIRECTOR:  NEIL HOLLANDER.  CAST:  STACY KEACH, CHARLOTTE DE TURCKHEIM, OSCAR S. TEVEZ, JEFF KRONSON, LOVELY NEIL SAPID, IRENE OCLARIT, JOAN VILLARIN.

A quest for freedom in the South China Sea.  Victims of China’s “One-Child” policy,  100 orphans, all girls, are shepherded by a determined activist, Mrs. Brown (Charlotte De Turckheim) onto a tramp freighter for a harrowing escape from the Chinese authorities.  When the Chinese navy pursues them, Captain Savienko (Stacy Keach) steers his ship into the eye of a storm, hoping to hide in the backwaters of the Philippines.  He is forced to do battle with the navy, who has blocked the entrance to their hiding place. 

On board, Captain Savienko and Mrs. Brown, two forceful personalities, fight another kind of battle, a bitter personal duel that eventually softens into the seeds of mutual respect.  BIRDS OF PASSAGE is a story of survival as a crew of renegades and a cargo of orphans sail towards a brighter future.

TRAMPS---1998—93 Minutes—COLOR.  DIRECTOR:  NEIL HOLLANDER.  CAST:  STACY KEACH, ANTOINE STIP, ERIC NGUYEN, GUS SCHARR, DEAN BADAROU, PATRICK CHAPMAN, OSCAR S. TEVEZ, DAMIR KUKULZ.

A story of survival at sea beyond the law.  Caught in a crossfire between the courts and the mafia, Sam Spencer (Antoine Stip) flees and signs on the ‘ARGO’, a rusted tramp freighter with a cargo of toxic nuclear waste.  Also on board, a crew of criminals and castaways, men without documents and countries.  In command of the ‘ARGO’ is Captain Savienko (Stacy Keach), a master of survival, as ruthless and unpredictable as the seas he plies.  The ship is constantly chased and harassed by a group of environmentalists determined to stop the dumping of the hazardous cargo, while onboard, Captain Savienko must decide what to do with a group of stowaways.

TRAMPS enters the contemporary world of refugees, without a country, on board an authentic tramp steamer.  These vagabonds of the sea still haunt the backwaters of the world, a haven for men who have gone to sea because there was no place else to escape to.

DEATH DRUG—1979—73 Minutes—COLOR.  DIRECTOR:  OSCAR WILLIAMS.  CAST:  PHILIP MICHAEL THOMAS, ROSALIND CASH, FRANKIE CROCKER, VERNEE WATSON. 

Philip Michael Thomas (Miami Vice) stars in this poignant drama of an aspiring and talented singer/musician who gets his big break.  But he risks his career, his friends and his love as he is drawn deeper and deeper into the shadow world of drug abuse.  His struggle to free himself from his habit and to put his life back together is tragically ended as the drug’s lingering chemical legacy returns to destroy him.