A couple of films i watched Sat night (cos it was too hot to feckin sleep and the air cooler I ordered on Amazon Prime has gone 'missing'):
The Day After - America's answer to Threads at the height of the cold war. Nuclear armageddon from the viewpoints of various characters living in and around Kansas. As a kid I remember watching it and thinking it was an over-sanitised portrayal of the reality of nuclear war (which to be fair the end credits allude to). Can only think I wasn't allowed to watch all of it because on viewing again it really does pack quite a punch, with a great performance from Jason Robards as the hospital doctor gradually succumbing to radiation sickness. Still the most watched American TV movie ever I think. 7/10
Figures On a Landscape - Forgotten film from 1970, starring Malcolm McDowell and Robert Shaw (who wrote the script). They play 2 fugitives stalked by a black helicopter as they try to reach the border of whatever (ficticious) country they were being imprisoned in. Dialog is a bit ropey but the scenery and cinematography are excellent - it's an odd film, bombed at the box office, but I found it a decent watch. 6.5/10
Of course this pre-dates Shaw's most famous role in Jaws which is all I really remember him for - I was shocked to find out that not only was he not American but British and from Westhoughton. Died far too young too.