On this day in movie history - The Gong Show Movie (1980):

The Gong Show Movie

directed by Chuck Barris,

written by Chuck Barris and Robert Downey Sr.,

was released in the United States on May 23, 1980.
Music by Milton Delugg.

Cast:

Chuck Barris, Robin Altman, Brian O’Mullin, Jack Bernardi, Satisfaction (Singing Group), William Tregoe, Harvey Alpert, Mabel King, Lillie Shelton, James B. Douglas, Harvey Lembeck, Ed Marinaro, Murray Langston (The Unknown Comic), Melvin Presar, Steve Garvey, Jamie Farr, Patrick Cranshaw, Cathleen Cordell, James Winburn, Bella Bruck, Starr Hester, David Sheiner, Mae E. Campbell, Kate Howard, Milton Delugg, Mark Z. Stevens, Ray Neapolitan, Bill Neale, Norman Blankenship, Donna Garrett, Phillip Simms, Pat McCormick, Patty Andrews, Jaye P. Morgan, Gene Patton (Gene Gene The Dancing Machine), Gary Mule Deer, Rip Taylor, Darvy Traylor, Ron Carr, The Bait Brothers, Roosevelt Grier, Ed Holland, Pat Francisco, Merry Kay Cote, Della Barris, Bill Bridges, Rod Haase, Augie Tribach, John Monks Jr., Nora Denney, Tony Randall, Cloyce Morrow, Cynthia Szigeti, Suzanne Kent, Phil Hartman, The Vatican Four, Betsy Lynn Thompson, Carol Gwynn Thompson, Kurt Abell, Barry Cutler, H.B. Haggerty, Trixie Dejonge, Danny DeVito, John Dorsey, Bobby Findley, Dana Glover, Joe Howard, Lanny Morgan, Kitten Natividad, Steve Nave, Taylor Negron, Nicki Rae, Larry Spencer, Manny Stevens, USC Trojan Marching Band, Walter Wonderman.

On this day in movie history - The Shining (1980 movie & novel):

The Shining

directed by Stanley Kubrick,

written by Stanley Kubrick and Diane Johnson,

based on the novel by Stephen King,

was released in the United States on May 23, 1980.
Music by Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind.

Cast:

Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson, Philip Stone, Joe Turkel, Anne Jackson, Tony Burton, Lia Beldam, Billie Gibson, Barry Dennen, Lisa Burns, Louise Burns, David Baxt, Manning Redwood, Robin Pappas, Alison Coleridge, Burnell Tucker, Jana Shelden, Kate Phelps, Norman Gay, Pauline Chamberlain, Ina Clare, Maxwell Craig, Paul Desbois, Lynda Fisher, Charlie Gray, Aidan Harrington, Alan Harris, George Holdcroft, Barrie Holland, Vivian Kubrick, Aileen Lewis, Bertha Lynn, Derek Lyons, Peter McNamara, Cathy Munroe, Eddie O'Dea, Jennifer O'Neill, Chris Parsons, Glenn Rinker, Bunny Seaman, Guy Standeven, Reg Thomason, Brian V. Towns.

Recommended reading:

The Shining

By Stephen King.

Filmed as:

The Shining (1980), movie directed by Stanley Kubrick.

The Shining (1997), TV miniseries directed by Mick Garris.

Published by Hodder.

First published 1977.

ISBN 13: 9780340920930

ISBN 10: 0340920939

ASIN: 0340920939

Paperback.

Description:

Danny is only five years old, but he is a 'shiner', aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of an old hotel, his visions grow out of control. Cut off by blizzards, the hotel seems to develop an evil force, and who are the mysterious guests in the supposedly empty hotel?

Somewhere, somehow there is an evil force in the hotel and that too has begun to shine...