On this day in movie history - First Blood (1982):

First Blood

directed by Ted Kotcheff,

written by Michael Kozoll, William Sackheim and Sylvester Stallone,

based on the novel by David Morrell,

was released in the United States on October 22, 1982.
Music by Jerry Goldsmith.

Cast:

Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy, Bill McKinney, Jack Starrett, Michael Talbott, Chris Mulkey, John McLiam, Alf Humphreys, David Caruso, David L. Crowley, Don MacKay, Charles A. Tamburro, David Petersen, Craig Huston, Patrick Stack, Stephen E. Miller, Raimund Stamm, Robert Metcalfe, Stephen Dimopoulos, Bruce Greenwood, Earl Klein, Danny Wozna, Peter Lonstrup, Mike Winlaw, Donald Adams, David Menzies, Frank Richter, Grahman L. Galativk, Ian Hutchinson, Amy Alexander, Gary Hetherington, Alex Kliner, R.G. Miller, Stephen Chang, Suzee Pai, Robert Prowse, Jack Rigg.

On this day in movie history - I, the Jury (1982):

I, the Jury

directed by Richard T. Heffron,

written by Larry Cohen,

based on the novel by Mickey Spillane,

was released in the United States on October 9, 1982.
Music by Bill Conti.

Cast:

Armand Assante, Barbara Carrera, Laurene Landon, Alan King, Geoffrey Lewis, Paul Sorvino, Judson Scott, Barry Snider, Julia Barr, Jessica James, Frederick Downs Jr., Mary Margaret Amato, F.J. O'Neil, William G. Schilling, Robert Sevra, Don Pike, Timothy Meyers, Leigh Harris, Lynette Harris, Gwyn / Gwynn Gillis, Mike Miller, Alex Stevens, Bobbie Burns, M. Sharon Madigan, Richard Russell Ramos, Norman Blankenship, Daniel Faraldo, H. Richard Greene, Felicity Adler, Jodi Douglas, Lee H. Doyle, Cheryl Henry, Michael Fiorello, Herb Peterson, Richard Dahlia, Aaron Barsky, Ernest Harada, Larry Pine, Joe Farago, Alan Dellay, Jack Davidson, Loring Pickering, Corinne Bohrer, Bobby Astyr, Roger Caine, Michael Cullum, Samantha Fox, Linda Hamil, David Lauren, Candida Royalle, Marlene Willoughby.

On this day in movie history - Split Image (1982):

Split Image

aka Captured,

directed by Ted Kotcheff,

written by Scott Spencer, Robert Kaufman and Robert Mark Kamen,

based on a story by Scott Spencer,

was released in the United States on October 3, 1982.
Music by Bill Conti.

Cast:

Michael O'Keefe, Karen Allen, Peter Fonda, James Woods, Elizabeth Ashley, Brian Dennehy, Ronnie Scribner, Pamela Ludwig, John Dukakis, Lee Montgomery, Michael Sacks, Deborah Rush, Peter Horton, Ken Farmer, Cliff Stephens, Brian Henson, David Wysocki, Kenneth Barry, Robert A. Cowan, Herbert Kirkpatrick, Chris McCarty, Lee Ritchey, Lynette Walden, Robert Hibbard, Scott Campbell, Melanie Strange, Dave Tanner, Tom Rayhall, Jeanne Evans, Irma P. Hall, Bill Engvall, Peter Hans Sprague, John Carroll, Haley McLane, Kelly Wimberly, James Healy Jr., Charles Assiff, Tad Black, Julie Elizabeth Knell, Michael Minton, Tom Romero, David Sawyer, Mark-Brian Sonna, Ben Stephenson.

On this day in movie history - The Entity (1982):

The Entity

directed by Sidney J. Furie,

written by Frank De Felitta,

based on the novel by Frank De Felitta,

was released in the United Kingdom on September 30, 1982.
Music by Charles Bernstein.

Cast:

Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, David Labiosa, George Coe, Margaret Blye, Jacqueline Brookes, Richard Brestoff, Michael Alldredge, Raymond Singer, Allan Rich, Natasha Ryan, Melanie Gaffin, Alex Rocco, Sully Boyar, Tom Stern, Curt Lowens, Paula Victor, Lee Wilkof, Deborah Stevenson, Mark Weiner, Lisa Marie Gurley, Chris Howell, John Branagan, Daniel Furie, Amy Kirkpatrick, Todd Kutches, Pauline Lomas, Renee Neimark, Don Ramey Logan.

On this day in movie history - Dead Ringer (1982):

Dead Ringer

directed by Allan F. Nicholls,

written by Al Dellentash, Meat Loaf and David Sonenberg,

was released at the Montréal World Film Festival, in Canada, on August 27, 1982.
Music by Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf.

Cast:

Meat Loaf, Josh Mostel, Alan H. Braunstein, Leah Ayres, Frederick Coffin, Burton Collins, Terry Williams, Davey Williams, Sandy Alexander, Nicole Brandon, Steve Buslowe, Cher, MacIntyre Dixon, Mark Doyle, Paul Jacobs, Davey Johnstone, Bert Kittel, Philip Kramer, John LoFranco, Brendan Manning, George Meyer, Pamela Moore, Ted Neeley, Frankie Perrone, Don Picard, Eric Troyer, Howie Weisbrod, Chuck Zito.

Recommended reading - Ham on Rye (1982):

Ham on Rye

By Charles Bukowski.

Published by Ecco.

Published 1982.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 006117758X

ISBN-13: 978-0061177583

Description:

In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, women, and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D.H. Lawrence, Ham on Rye offers a crude, brutal, and savagely funny portrait of an outcast's coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression.

On this day in movie history - An Officer and a Gentleman (1982):

An Officer and a Gentleman

directed by Taylor Hackford,

written by Douglas Day Stewart,

was released in the United States on July 28, 1982.
Music by Jack Nitzsche.
Song Up Where We Belong performed by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes.

Cast:

Richard Gere, Debra Winger, David Keith, Robert Loggia, Lisa Blount, Lisa Eilbacher, Louis Gossett Jr., Tony Plana, Harold Sylvester, David Caruso, Victor French, Grace Zabriskie, Tommy Petersen, Mara Scott-Wood, David Greenfield, Dennis Rucker, Jane Wilbur, Buck Welcher, Vern Taylor, Elizabeth Rogers, David R. Marshall, Gary C. Stillwell, Tee Dennard, Norbert M. Murray, Daniel Tyler, William S. Graves, Brian D. Ford, Michael C. Pavey, Keith J. Haar, Pia Boyer, Danna Kiesel, Marvin Goatcher, John Laughlin, Jeffrey P. Rondeau, Michael Lee Bolger, Mark L. Graves, Meleesa Wyatt, Jo Anna Keane, Ed Begley Jr., Bradley James Bernard, Shannon Grimes, Raymond Kohn, Marc Kramer, Bernard Madrid, Tom Ricciardelli, Randy Tat.

On this day in movie history - The Grey Fox (1982):

The Grey Fox

directed by Phillip Borsos,

written by John Hunter,

was released at the Taormina Film Festival, in Italy, on July 24, 1982.
Based on the true story of Bill Miner (1847–1913).
Music by Michael Conway Baker.

Cast:

Richard Farnsworth, Jackie Burroughs, Ken Pogue, Wayne Robson, Timothy Webber, Gary Reineke, David Petersen, Don MacKay, Samantha Langevin, Tom Heaton, Jim McLarty, George Dawson, Ray Michal, Stephen E. Miller, David L. Crowley, David McCulley, Garry Chalk, Jack Leaf, Isaac Hislop, Sean Sullivan, Bill Murdoch, Jack Ackroyd, Nicholas Rice, Frank C. Turner, Bill Meilen, David Raines, Paul Coeur, Mel Tuck, Peter John, Paul Whitney, David Ackridge, Murray Ord, Tom Glass, Antony Holland, Jon York, John Owen, Lisa Westman, Robert Milicevic.

On this day in movie history - Tron (1982):

Tron

directed by Steven Lisberger,

written by Steven Lisberger, Bonnie MacBird,

was released in the United States on July 9, 1982.

Music by Wendy Carlos.

Cast:

Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan, Barnard Hughes, Dan Shor, Peter Jurasik, Stuart Thomas / Tony Stephano, Craig Chudy, Vince Deadrick, Sam Schatz, Jackson Bostwick, David S. Cass Sr., Gerald Berns, Bob Neill, Ted White, Mark Stewart, Michael Sax, Tony Brubaker, Charlie Picerni, Pierre Vuilleumier, Erik Cord, Loyd Catlett, Michael Dudikoff, Richard Bruce Friedman, Rick Feck, John Kenworthy, Lisette Kremer, Jerry Maren.

On this day in movie history - Blade Runner (1982 movie & books):

Blade Runner

directed by Ridley Scott,

written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples,

based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick,

was released in the United States on June 25, 1982.
Music by Vangelis.

Cast:

Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah, William Sanderson, Brion James, Joe Turkel, Joanna Cassidy, James Hong, Morgan Paull, Hy Pyke.

Recommended reading:

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

By Philip K. Dick.

Filmed as Blade Runner (1982), directed by Ridley Scott.

ASIN: 0586036059

Published by Voyager.

First published 1968.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0006482805

ISBN-13: 978-0586036051

Description:

21st Century Bounty Hunter.

Through the mean streets of a grim 21st century megalopolis, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, searching out the renegade replicants who were his prey. But this assignment involved Nexus-6 targets and as a result Deckard quickly found himself involved in a nightmare kaleidoscope of violence and subterfuge – and the threat of death for the hunter rather than the hunted…

“A marvelous and complex book, simply written but leaving all kinds of resonance in the mind.” – Brian W. Aldiss.

Future Noir:

The Making of Blade Runner

by Paul M. Sammon.

Revised & Updated Edition.

ISBN-10: 0062699466

ISBN-13: 978-0062699466

Description from back cover:

The ultimate guide to Ridley Scott’s transformative sci-fi classic Blade Runner.

Ridley Scott’s 2007 “Final Cut” confirmed the international film cognoscenti’s judgment: Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick’s brilliant and troubling science fiction masterpiece Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, is among the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential science fiction films ever made. Future Noir Revised & Updated Edition offers a deeper understanding of this cinematic phenomenon that is storytelling and visual filmmaking at its best.

In this intensive, intimate, and anything-but-glamorous behind-the-scenes account, film insider and cinephile Paul M. Sammon explores how Ridley Scott purposefully used his creative genius to transform the work of science fiction’s most uncompromising author into a critical sensation and cult classic that would reinvent the genre. Sammon reveals how the making of the original Blade Runner was a seven-year odyssey that would test the stamina and the imagination of writers, producers, special effects wizards, and the most innovative art directors and set designers in the industry at the time it was made. This revised and expanded edition of Future Noir includes:

An overview of Blade Runner’s impact on moviemaking and its acknowledged significance in popular culture since the book’s original 1996 publication.

An exploration of the history of Blade Runner: The Final Cut and its theatrical release in 2007.

A look at its long-awaited sequel, Blade Runner 2049.

The longest interview Harrison Ford has ever granted about Blade Runner.

Exclusive new interviews with Rutger Hauer and Sean Young.

A fascinating look at the ever-shifting interface between commerce and art, illustrated with production photos and stills, Future Noir provides an eye-opening and enduring look at modern moviemaking, the business of Hollywood, and one of the greatest films of all time.

Blade Runner:

The Inside Story

By Don Shay.

Published by Titan Books.

Published 2003.

ISBN-10: 1840232102

ISBN-13: 9781840232103

Description:

In 1982, to coincide with Blade Runner's original release, Cinefex, the respected magazine devoted to movie design and special effects devoted an entire, extended issue to Ridley Scott's sci-fi masterpiece. That issue has been out of print since then, but in constant demand – copies now sell on the collector's market for over $100. Titan Books is proud to bring this classic back into print, in a remastered hardcover edition.

Described as 'the single most comprehensive examination of Blade Runner's special effects', this must-have book contains scores of images not available elsewhere, as well as authoritative text, containing in-depth, exclusive interviews with director Ridley Scott and the legendary designer Syd Mead.

On this day in movie history - The Thing (1982 movie & novella):

The Thing

directed by John Carpenter,

written by Bill Lancaster,

based on the novella Frozen Hell aka Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell,

was released in the United States on June 25, 1982.
Music by Ennio Morricone.

Cast:

Kurt Russell, A. Wilford Brimley, T. K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David, Richard Dysart, Charles Hallahan, Peter Maloney, Richard Masur, Donald Moffat, Joel Polis, Thomas Waites.

Recommended reading:

Frozen Hell

By John W. Campbell Jr.

Published 2019.

Published by Wildside Press.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1479442828

ISBN-13: 978-1479442829

Description:

In 1938, acclaimed science fiction author John W. Campbell published the novella Who Goes There?, about a team of scientists in Antarctica who discover and are terrorized by a monstrous, shape-shifting alien entity. The story would later be adapted into John Carpenter’s iconic movie The Thing (following an earlier film adaptation in 1951). The published novella was actually an abridged version of Campbell’s original story, called Frozen Hell, which had to be shortened for publication.

The Frozen Hell manuscript remained unknown and unpublished for decades, and it was only recently rediscovered. Frozen Hell expands the Thing story dramatically, giving vital backstory and context to an already incredible tale. We are pleased and honored to offer Frozen Hell to you now, as Campbell intended it. You will be among the first people to ever read this completed version of the story.

On this day in music history - Mirage, by Fleetwood Mac (1982):

Mirage

Album by Fleetwood Mac,

released June 18, 1982.

Track list:

Love in Store (2016 Remaster); Can’t Go Back (2016 Remaster); That’s Alright (2016 Remaster); Book of Love (2016 Remaster); Gypsy (2016 Remaster); Only over You (2016 Remaster); Empire State (2016 Remaster); Straight Back (2016 Remaster); Hold Me (2016 Remaster); Oh Diane (2016 Remaster); Eyes of the World (2016 Remaster); Wish You Were Here (2016 Remaster); Love in Store (Early Version) [2016 Remaster]; Suma’s Walk a.k.a. Can’t Go Back (Outtake) [2016 Remaster]; That’s Alright (Alternate Take) [2016 Remaster]; Book of Love (Early Version) [2016 Remaster]; Gypsy (Early Version) [2016 Remaster]; Only over You (Alternate Version) [2016 Remaster]; Empire State (Early Version); If You Were My Love (Outtake) [2016 Remaster]; Hold Me (Early Version) [2016 Remaster]; Oh Diane (Early Version) [2016 Remaster]; Smile at You (Outtake) [2016 Remaster]; Goodbye Angel (Original Outtake) [2016 Remaster]; Eyes of the World (Alternate Early Version) [2016 Remaster]; Straight Back (2016 Remaster); Wish You Were Here (Alternate Version) [2016 Remaster]; Cool Water (2016 Remaster); Gypsy (2016 Remaster); Put a Candle in the Window (2016 Remaster); Teen Beat (Outtake) [2016 Remaster]; Blue Monday (Jam) [2016 Remaster].

On this day in movie history - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982):

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

directed by Nicholas Meyer,

written by Jack B. Sowards,

based on a story by Harve Bennett and Jack B. Sowards,

was released in the United States on June 4, 1982.

Music by James Horner.

Cast:

William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Bibi Besch, Merritt Butrick, Paul Winfield, Kirstie Alley, Ricardo Montalbán.