Thriller
Rod Lott
Val Kilmer’s stab at resurrecting The Saint as a film franchise bombed big in 1997 (I liked it, FWIW), but in Hollywood’s Golden Age, there were no such troubles.

Comedy
Rod Lott
In my tween days, 1981’s “The Cannonball Run” played HBO so often, one would think the cable channel had been taken over by Dom DeLuise. My brothers and I watched it with seemingly every airing.