On this day in movie history - Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

directed by Robert Wise,

written by Harold Livingston,

based on a story by Alan Dean Foster,

was released in the United States on December 6, 1979.

Music by Jerry Goldsmith.

Cast:

William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Persis Khambatta, Stephen Collins, Majel Barrett, Grace Lee Whitney, David Gautreaux, Mark Lenard.

On this day in movie history - The Wicker Man (1973)

The Wicker Man

directed by Robin Hardy,

written by Anthony Shaffer,

based on the novel Ritual by David Pinner,

was released in the United Kingdom on December 6, 1973.

Music by Paul Giovanni.

Cast:

Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland, Ingrid Pitt, Lindsay Kemp, Russell Waters, Aubrey Morris, Irene Sunters, Walter Carr, Ian Campbell, Leslie Blackater, Roy Boyd, Peter Brewis, Barbara Rafferty, Juliet Cadzow, Ross Campbell, Penny Cluer, Michael John Cole, Kevin Collins, Gerry Cowper, Ian Cutler, Donald Eccles, Myra Forsyth, John Hallam, Alison Hughes, Charles Kearney, Fiona Kennedy, John McGregor, Jimmy MacKenzie, Lesley Mackie, Jennifer Martin, Bernard Murray, Helen Norman, Lorraine Peters, Tony Roper, John Sharp, Elizabeth Sinclair, Andrew Tompkins, Ian Wilson, Richard Wren, John Young, S. Newton Anderson, Pauline Chamberlain, Mabel Etherington, Paul Giovanni, Robin Hardy, Tina Hart, Aileen Lewis, George Oliver, Ian Selby, Fred Wood.

On this day in movie history - Charter Pilot (1940)

Charter Pilot

directed by Eugene Forde,

written by Stanley Rauh and Lester Ziffren,

based on the story by J. Robert Bren and Norman Houston,

was released in the United States on December 6, 1940.

Music by Emil Newman, Cyril J. Mockridge and Alfred Newman.

 

Cast:
Lloyd Nolan, Lynn Bari, Arleen Whelan, George Montgomery, Hobart Cavanaugh, Henry Victor, Etta McDaniel, Andrew Tombes, Charles C. Wilson, Chick Chandler, James Blaine, George Chandler, Andre Cuyas, William B. Davidson, Mary Field, Sherry Hall, Ethan Laidlaw, Hank Mann, Chris-Pin Martin, Bert Moorhouse, Francisco Moreno, Steve O'Brien, Jack Pennick, Cyril Ring, Henry Roquemore, Hector V. Sarno, Robert Spindola.

On this day in movie history - Whipsaw (1935)

Whipsaw

directed by Sam Wood,

written by Howard Emmett Rogers,

was released in the United States on December 6, 1935.

Based on the story The Whipsaw by James Edward Grant, published in Liberty magazine (1934).

Music by William Axt.

Cast:

Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Harvey Stephens, William Harrigan, Clay Clement, Robert Gleckler, Robert Warwick, Georges Renavent, Paul Stanton, Wade Boteler, Don Rowan, John Qualen, Irene Franklin, Lillian Leighton, J. Anthony Hughes, William Ingersoll, Charles Irwin.

On this day in movie history - Show Them No Mercy! (1935)

 

Show Them No Mercy!

directed by George Marshall,

written by Henry Lehrman and Kubec Glasmon,

based on the story by Kubec Glasmon,

was released in the United States on December 6, 1935.

Music by David Buttolph and Joseph Schober.

Cast:

Rochelle Hudson, Cesar Romero, Bruce Cabot, Edward Norris, Edward Brophy, Warren Hymer, Herbert Rawlinson, Robert Gleckler, Charles C. Wilson, William B. Davidson, Frank Conroy, Edythe Elliott, Orrin Burke, Lynn Bari, William 'Billy' Benedict, Stanley Blystone, Jimmy Butler, Georgie Cooper, Ray Dawe, Lester Dorr, Bud Geary, Grace Goodall, Otto Hoffman, Harry Hollingsworth, Boothe Howard, Edward Keane, Stanley King, Brady Kline, Edward LeSaint, Wilfred Lucas, Paul McVey, Philip Morris, Gregg O'Brien, Charles Schaeffer, Lee Shumway, Phil Tead, Larry Wheat.

Born on this day – Lisa Spoonauer:

Actress

December 6, 1972 – May 20, 2017

Credits:

Clerks (2001); Bartender (1997); Clerks (1994).

Born on this day – Wende Wagner:

Actor

December 6, 1941 – February 26, 1997